The "I" is sacred

Thank you for your observations. Yes, I am far from understanding this well. I think your appreciation that it is a language and a knowledge that is out of time is a good place to start. When we can remember and actualize that part of our selves beyond time we can speak in an objective language but whether we are objective or not, life is objectively affecting us constantly. We might be unconscious of our objectivity but it is as real as our subjectivity: our I is in a constant process of "living", our I is an objective reality even if we are unconscious of it. That is what makes each individual a human being. That is why each life is sacred.

What I wish to bring attention to is the fact that we live in an objective reality and how we interact with it makes us more or less objective. T.V and fast food all day will affect us in a totally different way than exercise and music, company and work. What we “do” helps us become more or less objective and if that is true then we can use our lives and all its reality to become more conscious which is what The Fourth Way is about. It is not like the yogi, monk or fakir, a way in which we separate from regular life and society.

It’s my impression that “unity” “wholeness” in our times, is perceived as some strange higher state in which an individual will suddenly experience unity but “life” has nothing to do with it. What I wonder is why aren’t we establishing the connection of all things precisely in our living reality? Our selves as individuals as much as societies together with the Earth and nature around us? Why discard anything instead of incorporating it and assuming responsibility for it?

It’s interesting that the more “democratic” we become, social hierarchy and authoritarism weaken while each individual has to take far more responsibility for him and her self and the world. As if we were “inverting” the process: In the times of Kings, what made the King "the King" was his ability to “protect” the people. Then Kingship became purely symbolic without objective and now that no one is really willing or able to respond for anyone else, each one has to respond for everything and acquire the consciousness of the king but we are presently like children blowing gurus into kings hoping they’ll tell us that we are no longer children but adults able to take responsibility for our future. But they don’t; they take advantage of our innocence, as lost as their followers. The point is that we cannot be objectively conscious if we can't be objectively conscious of other people as objective realities whether they have worked on themselves or not. We cannot abstract our selves from our times and its nuances, we cannot isolate our selves from each other and pretend that that is objective consciousness. When we "work" on our different "I"s we work on incorporating them within our Real I, we can't just throw them out. Likewise, when we look at other people's realities we can incorporate them rather than discard them. It makes us more human, more conscious. I realize this is long. I hope less confusing. Please feel free to cut it up or erase it if it's not appropriate in this discussion.