The Mists of Anthologies

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I've really outdone myself this time. The next few days would surely prove one way or another … where I'm headed with all these post-modernistic humanity perceptions regarding self and the world. I spoke to someone here recently … about a program of learning … to impart knowledge of the evolving faith of man … with emphasis on the human rationale and content of the experience. He's agreed to look into it … and come back to me … with how he can play a role in setting it up.

The plan is to collect a cross-section of my writings … translate into the Tamil language … and put together in a book as an … Anthology of views about the human condition. Thereafter we hope to locate about 10 men … age 60 and above … to go over the material together … and create a consensus on its content. Eventually … the plan calls for the setting up of individual centers by the 10 individuals … for the dissemination of the works on human understanding.

I'm viewing it as an initiative for social organization … in these times … that brings attention and views … onto the growing issues that's gathering like a catharsis on the world's horizon. ' Something has gotta be done ' … is what I'm muttering to myself. A plan is certainly assuring as a way of demonstrating our own responses … and understanding at managing the self help initiatives … for sustainable human and family development.

The fact that such initiatives are peaked … for doing something … was demonstrated by this individual himself … that I spoke to. He's runs an insurance business … and in his spare time … is involved in several Indic temple committees … in the area. I can't say that … he's had a lot of training in faith management issues … and speaks on occasion of the annual fire walking ceremonies … organized by these temples … as the culmination of their efforts at promoting faith.

My proposal must have appeared like something new … and obviously he couldn't stay away from the possibility of involvement. But he is going to realize soon enough that … my proposal represents a departure from the normal … practices of faith currently in place. My proposal would substitute for the experience of God at the center of being … and re-construct the initiative for man at its center. That is a considerable change from existing practices.

I found this to be the case only too often … with plenty of eager enthusiasm … shaping itself for the epiphanic notion of ultimate self management … but sadly they are all lacking in the commitment it takes to accomplish that. Its as if our hopes and ambitions … are so intertwined around the notion … that we are running out of options. It feeds into the desperation … that's the last bastion of the hopeful … and declares itself ready … for the final assault on our lethargies … and to take to something unbelievably true.

Around the 15^th Century … there was an initiative in India … for the propagation of something similar as a philosophy … that addressed the human condition as the personality of Vishnu. It represented itself as the … three universes of Vishnu … in which man views his experiences … as the unconscious … the conscious … and engages the sub-conscious … to act as bridge between the two. It was named after its founder … Sri Rangga. Sadly it was never brought into popular practice … because the common man simply couldn't understand what it was saying!

And so what is it that persuades us we are ready? Its the cream on our egos … that doesn't fall … even when we experience an ego crush. It stays where it is … in the temple of truisms … and waits for the seasons … to bloom again. It leads man … into its promises … and is the very light of mind at birth. But in giving of itself … as the hopes of salvation … it cannot also turn around on itself … to tell man … that he must walk that final mile alone. And that usually happens … when the man realizes that he has committed to faith … but not the basis of faith.

It makes for an unusual experience of the human specie … to find … that they accommodate all views … even when entirely contradictory … in one mind … by the influence of the cream of its ego. And in that state of mind … that we identify as the sub-conscious … it lives out its existence … like a butterfly that moves from flower to flower. And in this condition … as the mists of anthologies … it cultivates a philosophy … that is all encompassing … like stars in the sky.

Obviously that can only be undertaken where the individual … creates a concert not to bring himself to commit to any one thing in life. Its the strange case of the human will … that does not bring itself to do anything. Its therefore incumbent on the world … to bring an initiative to the individual to have him … take a position on issues … and quite often … that's in the nature of a companion of his lifestyle. It pries open the privacy of his being … and exposes its content for influence.

Its here that the man … finds his greatest mystery in the personality of his world companion. Quite often its a world leader in the public media … we grow to admire … or perhaps an artist such as an actor … musician … or author. It represents a mutual relation of personality … much like an alter ego to the man. And then of course … there's the suggestion that it might be God … granted that it might be based on mutual understanding like a friend … or a principled father of divine qualities.

The same sex lifestyle is most certainly indicative of this experience … and it represents a high geared relations. But a male female relations … is largely the norm in these matters … and has been the usual pursuit of our societies for centuries. What does it mean to go into high gear? I guess we might just now be finding out.