SOME FORERUNNERS
of "TOTOLOGY" n o f
q0et
What have the philosophers of the past
contributed to the advanced thinking of today? In this series of articles, taken fran
the taped lectures of Hardin and Joanna
Walsh in Los Angeles, they point out how the
"Concept of Totality", as they teach it.today, is not entirely new -- except in application. -- The PDITOR.
HIS MONTH we want to talk a little
T about the game of Life. It is important to know there is a game go.
ing on and it is important to know
you are playing in it. It is also important to know the rules of the game.
Georg Wilhelm Frederick Hegel, famous
German philosopher, had the whole game
figured out with elaborate blueprints.
Strangely enough, he was officially recognized by his government -- which made him
the one philosopher of that era -- 17701831 -- with government support. Philosophy,
you might say. reached its peak.
Hegel had the usual conflicts with the
church. He said the task of religion is
to reach and feel the Absolute, in which
all opposites are resolved into unity. In
this, he was a good Totologist, altho he
used the word Absolute where we say Totality. The main difference between our
Totality concept and that which has been
taught down thru the ages is that we say
y o u are Totality. Other teachers and
philosophers have neglected t h i s one
point. They've always maintained that God
was something somewhere else and something
other than yourself. Hegel came a little
closer. He said, "God is a system of relationships, in which all things move and
have their being an d significance, or
meaning."
He also said. "The Truth is like an
electron, an organic unity of opposing
force." But he neglected to say that you
were God. I say it because it is possible
to become aware of this Totality -- that
the part of you that is aware and knows
with certainty is Supreme Intelligence.
We have two areas of existence -- we
have a certain area of knowingness with
certainty, and we have tremendous areas
of unknowingness. This knowingness and
unknowingness are all contained within
your total awareness. In other words, if
you were Totality (and you are), if there
is such a thing as God, or Totality, you
would be totally able, totally aware, and
you would have total ability. But if you
did this, you wouldn't have any game, At
least, you wouldn't have the type of game
that is played on this planet at this time
by the spirits that move within total
awareness and operate bodies.
What kind of a game are we really
playing -- the spirits who live in these
bodies? We are playing a game of limited
awareness; we are playing a game of surprises. This is not knowing; this is increasing the awareness of unknowingness
so we can have surprises.
We also have an agreement among us
that we can focus our attention on only
one thing at a time. Some top-flight business executives reach a point where they
can do two or three things at one time,
which makes them far above the average
individual.
You might say that the game on the
other side of the curtain is that you
know everything, and you get pleasure,
enjoyment, and experience from doing many
things at one time. But on this side of
the curtain, spirits and beings are playing a game of unknowingness, with very
little knowingness.
If all things move within you as Totality, you own them and you are responsible for them; in a way, you are doing
it to yourself. In other words, you as a
spirit, you as Totality, you as a body
are experiencing things on different levels. One part of Totality experiences
things at one level, another part of Totality experiences a different segment of
it, and a part of Totality is known as a
"wall". These are all experiences but on
different levels.
Hegel says that truth is like an electron, that it has organic parts, but this
is not true, either. The ultimate truth
is that this entire thing is operating
within you. As beings, we have chosen
sides -- as children do when they play
baseball. Spirits have chosen to come into this level of experience and get involved in this very strange phenomenon
known as living on this planet. It is an
exciting game, and it can be a very good
one if you know what you're doing -- what
the rules are, and how to play the game.
What are the rules here? We have two
sides, positive and negative. We have the
good side and the bad side; we have hate
on one side and love on the other -- but
love itself is a vibration, composed of
positive and negative flows. It is a kind
of alternating current. You can generate
this and flow it at people.
The vibration of love can be a positive
thing or it can be a negative thing. You
can love with no restraint, freely, with
no compulsions. Or you can get on the
6 The ABERREE APRIL.1958
