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Prior unity is the light of that sacred fire, the guiding source for all rightening in the future. Such rightening is (necessarily) based on humankind existing as a totality—all at once. All forms of “difference” have now effectively been cancelled by the fact that everybody has come into the same room.
Everyone is play-acting this collection of characteristics of “self”-imagery, this objectified persona that each one tends to identify with. When someone says “I”, that persona is who they mean. However, if everyone is part of humankind first, that universal context becomes the basis for examining everything, and it cools all “self”-imagery discourse.
The world-culture of humankind as a whole needs to become re-oriented now—away from its “meditation” on the downward spiral into darkness and the myths of “end-time”, and profoundly toward the disposition that would transcend all limitations.
Vibratory Participation There is a human necessity for a kind of resonation of vibratory participation in Reality (Itself, and altogether), and Truth (Itself, and altogether), and Beauty (or the Beautiful, Itself, and altogether)— beyond conventional “yes” and “no”, beyond conventional “beauty” and conventional “ugliness”, beyond conventional “realism”, and beyond egoity altogether. Such human profundity is a great and necessary purpose, which true culture and right civilization should and must serve.
Everything in the sacred domain is about ecstasy. Everything in the social (or secular) domain is about control of ecstasy and using the principal human faculties (of body, emotion, mind, and breath) for other (generally, non-ecstatic—or ego-based) business in the moment. The basic taboos of the secular social domain are against sex (or bodily pleasure altogether), laughter (or genuine humor, and mental freedom), and Real-God-Realization (or Ecstatic Identification with the Divine Reality).
Sex, laughter, and Real-God-Realization have their place in the sacred domain, at the center of life. The secular (or public) dimension of human existence should be economized, kept in its proper place, not allowed to take over the entirety of your life. There must be a sacred core of life, a culture at that core. And everything that has to do with ecstasy should be in that sphere, not in the secular (or public) sphere.
Giving people the means and the opportunity to be focused in the sacred domain is very basic to the creation of truly cooperative human community.
If human beings collectively (as everybody-all-at-once) realize that they are (always already) in a condition of prior unity—and, therefore, of necessary co-existence and mutuality—with one another, and if, on that basis, they stand firm together, then they will be in a position to directly righten the world-situation. The collective of all the billions of people can—and, indeed, must—refuse to go on with the current chaos.
Therefore, the egoless everybody-all-at-once must open their eyes, see for real, relinquish their helplessness, and take direct responsibility for the human world-event. The egoless everybody-all-at-once must renounce its illusions and “come out of the closet” as the only “we” of planet Earth.
It will not be the role-playing of “virtuous speaking” that brings about the necessary fundamental change. Calling everybody to change does not cause them to change. Those who are already moved to do right do not need to be told to do so—and, no matter how much advice and admonition they are given, those who are not inclined to do right are not going to “change their act”. If there is going to be fundamental all-rightening change, something has to require change. Therefore, the world as a whole must be enabled to require change. It is an acausal matter—not a causal matter.
AI Summary
Prior Unity by The World-Friend Adi Da presents key insights from the Adi Da tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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