Something Deeperism is the General Worldview That …

Something Deeperism is the General Worldview That …

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Something Deeperism is the general worldview that

(1) There is an Absolute Truth.
(2) The Absolute Truth is something like Reality = Love.
(3) Reality = Love shines through everything, including each conscious moment.

(4) We are meaningful to ourselves only to the degree we relate our whole conscious moment meaningfully to Reality = Love.

(5) At least in our day-to-day lives (in all we say and do), our ideas and feelings are fundamental elements of our conscious moment.

(6) We can relate our ideas and feelings to Reality = Love meaningfully, but — as ideas and feelings about the Truth are finite while the Truth is Absolute — we can never relate our ideas and feelings to R = L literally, 1:1, or definitively.

(7) And to the degree we confuse our ideas and feelings for the Truth, we turn away from R = L.

(8) Wisdom is the meaningful — though not literal, perfect, or definitive — relationship between all aspects of a human conscious moment.

That is to say, wisdom is the meaningful relationship between feelings, ideas, et cetera (all the animal aspects of a conscious moment), and Reality = Love (which shines through everything, including each conscious moment).

(9) As we grow in wisdom, we become more meaningful to ourselves.

(10) To grow in wisdom we must get better and better at
(a) organizing the rest of our conscious moment (feelings, ideas, et cetera) around Reality = Love
and
(b) experiencing R = L
and
(c) poetically (imperfectly-but-still-adequately pointing towards the gist-of; rather than precisely, definitively, and/or literally describing) translating Reality = Love into our feeling/thinking/acting
(c1) We can also think of this translation of Reality = Love as syncing up and flowing along with Reality = Love: working always to diminish our distortion and destruction of the loving kindness blaring out through the center of each conscious moment.

[(c1a) We have an unfortunate tendency to co-opt Pure Love and try to make It all about us and/or to look away from Pure Love altogether and try to believe in (intellectually and/or emotionally) a Reality where our own notions are the Truth. Translating Reality = Love into life involves diminishing the self-confusions/-manipulations between R = L and our feeling/thinking/acting.]

(11) Human wisdom (being a relationship of limited faculties to what is unlimited) is never complete and is always liable to self-deceptions.

(12) Wisdom is thus an ongoing process, requiring constant effort.
(a) We must practice constant self-observation, -analysis, -critique, and -adjustment.
(b) We should make use of our inborn guardrails (the universal values, fundamental questions, and standard spiritual practices) to help us stay focused on the dance of relating our ideas and feelings meaningfully to Reality = Love.

[Note:
The universal values are something like:
Aware, clear, honest, accurate, competent, compassionate, loving kind, and joyfully sharing.

The fundamental questions are something like:
What is going on?, what is preferable?, where should I bestow and seek love?, and how can I flow with what is going on towards what is preferable — particularly as regards love?

The universal values and fundamental questions are seeking Absolute, not relative direction. (Deep inside we are not working to figure out what we think, best-guess, or wish might be going on, but what is Really going on.)

Similar to how we cannot be meaningful to ourselves except to the degree that we live in and through and for the Love that is enough for everyone, we cannot be meaningful to ourselves except to the degree we live in accordance with the universal values and meaningfully address the fundamental questions.

In this exposition of Something Deeperism we started with our need for a meaningful relationship with Pure Love, rather than our need to live in accordance with the universal values or our need to address the fundamental questions because connecting with Pure Love is our most fundamental need. Ultimately, we need Pure Love to motivate, justify, and explicate the universal values and fundamental questions. But the universal values and fundamental questions are still an important tool to keep us honest in our quest to better and better organize ourselves around Pure Love: we won’t make much meaningful progress living in and through and for Love if, for example, we are dishonest.

The standard spiritual practices are things like:
Meditation, prayer, contemplation, fellowship, service, studying spiritual works, and practicing humility, loving kindness, and wholesome living.

These standard spiritual practices presuppose (or at least to some degree presuppose and to some degree wager on) Reality = Love.
]

That is to say:

Something Deeperism is the general worldview that the mystics are basically right.

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