bear with me

"Bear ye one another's burdens" -- Galatians 6:2

What the heck does that mean? On the physical plane it's simple enough. I help carry that stuff you are lugging around. What does it mean in the mental, interpersonal, and energetic realms? It means I lay aside my blabber and listen to your words, a trail of small packets conveying your anxiety, your fear, your anger. I for a short while become you. I take on your burden, your existential trembling under the weight of whatever oppresses you. I truly under stand, stand under the burden that we share.

this whole sectarian thing

Each religious group, political group, and religious-political group is firmly embedded in a set of images it holds as THE TRUTH. Each set of images is different from the other sets of images. Each individual within each of those groups holds a slightly or largely different set of images from the other individuals within the group. Each one has THE TRUTH.

This can lead to hilarity (a cosmic sense of humor is needed) and to tragedy (war and hatred and conflict).

When we let go of these images we so heartily defend, we follow the example of Jesus who emptied himself and became as nothing (Philippians 2:7). This has been called opening to Christ Consciousness. When we open to Christ Consciousness, we are in right and good relationship with all that exists.

We become as nothing. Zero. The circle with no circumference whose center is everywhere. We are born out of imagery into the boundless immediacy of Now.