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I have tried to make a less paradoxical, more concretely imaginable picture of reality
according to the philosophy of monism — a monism which has to include the plurality of
a myriad of beings if it is to make any sense — by thinking of an immense globe of
undefinable energy-substance. The core of this globe is absolutely homogeneous and
unchanging, yet it is endowed with the mysterious capacity to exteriorize itself without
these exteriorizations ever leaving the globe. A center of consciousness going from the
core of the globe to its circumference would detect different levels of progressive
differentiation of the energy-substance and an increasing multiplicity of activities or
operations. It would be aware of unceasing changes. These could be said to manifest in
cyclic series. Thus time would be implied. However, the ideal observer could also realize
that an activity in one direction is always (instantaneously or in cyclic time) polarized and
balanced by another activity in the opposite direction. Thus the wholeness of the globe
would never be essentially altered. In this sense, change and the activities producing
change could be considered illusions. They would be illusory and without real meaning as
apprehended by the center of the globe, yet they would be real to any section in the
vicinity of the circumference, where indeed tumultuous motion would take place — yet
each motion would be exactly balanced by one of opposite polarity. From the point of
view of a consciousness operating in a vortex of motion near the circumference, the core of
.the globe could be imagined as being either absolutely solid or absolutely void; it would
make no difference as long as the state of being at the center, whatever it is, never changes.
From this central core, power could be imagined to radiate in all directions as a kind of
"superabundance" of being, but (as Plotinus said) "this overflow of the One is intrinsically
nothing but the One," because the whole globe is of one energy-substance. Nothing can
occur that is extraneous to this globe — to this one and only Reality.
According to this picture, a human being would be a microcosm of the whole globe
but would operate at a level not too distant from the circumference. He or she would
operate where the energy-substance of the globe is agitated, thus in a state of change. Yet
because any change experienced there would be balanced by another of opposite polarity,
nothing would actually happen in terms of the unchanging wholeness of the globe. This
compensation of every action by its polar opposite would be the metaphysical meaning of
karma. Once a human being becomes aware of this, he would theoretically cease to be
attached to the results of his or her actions — as Krishna demands of Arjuna in the
Bhagavad Gita.
Because the level of the globe of Reality at which human beings operate is constantly
in motion, a human being cannot avoid moving, that is, being active. But if his or her
consciousness is attuned to the state of being of the core of the globe, that consciousness
"knows" that nothing "really" happens. Astrophysicists now believe that a particle of
antimatter corresponds to every particle of matter; if the two meet they annihilate each
other, releasing an energy which balances the energy required for their prior existence as
separate yet complementary entities. In this context the ideas expressed above should not
be startling.
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