RE: Concept of the Day: The STATE (Food for thought)
I love etymology. I love difficult questions. And I have pretty much asked all the ones you just posed! I also just got a book on the Disputa by Raphael.... And I often think about the word state (and remind myself of the word polis in politics to try and find some patience with the System of it all.... Cities are ok. At least there is art there and fewer chickens. Well living ones that is. )
Anyway, the word state for me is important in my spiritual research as a non-locum as in "mood". It reminds me how we create our realities (beneath the soles of our feet for the souls in our bodies) by our beliefs. It creates a dimension and this is also a world.
This power, with all its rules, is not to be underestimated and so much more relevant to each and every individual than the veneer of politics. To be honest I sometimes wish I had gone into politics and chosen an easier life.
Thank you for taking some time to read my article, I'm an admirer of your writing! I believe there is no such thing as an easy life. I've seen kids who had it really easy in the material aspect gone dead in the spiritual one. I rather keep my spirit clean and shinny. And since you mention how we create our realities, I have recently begun struggling with the thought of other people being just our creations as well, and it makes me doubt that they even exist. Sometimes I see the political situation in my country and wonder if it's just another projection of struggles I have within myself, and I work hard don fingind them and changing them, but nothing changes outside. This way of understanding the world has got me into a lot of trouble -mentally speaking. I have a son, a very young one, and I ask myself every day what I would answer to questions he might make about reality, god and religion. This is why I begun writing again, so I can clear my head and help him out when the time is due...
Very valid ruminations! And recognisable! I have had a similar line of thinking and it can get a bit scary.... I think this is a hyper-awareness that is renewed by the arrival of an all-seeing soul (fast losing sight and leaving you with fairly impossible questions). The trick is to keep the magic alive. And stay on the fringe, always ready to extract onself from the lie.... Ok, still a bit scary, maybe...!