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Subject: Re: And Yes to you too

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Date Posted: 09:56:41 01/29/03 Wed
In reply to: Cassandra 's message, "And Yes to you too" on 13:50:28 01/28/03 Tue

To quote Ted:
"...to do proper justice to who and what we are, perhaps we should also look at humans as unique lenses on Being, not just as filters. The word filter suggests that something is being excluded, so that a much smaller subset of experience remains. While this is true, one could just as well say that each human being is a unique lens designed to amplify certain aspects of Being. In other words, we are each designed to specifically include certain kinds of experience.

Not only is each body a unique lens or filter, but each body has a unique set of conditionings which create "holes" in our capacity to view life as we were designed. The enneagram maps these holes, but says nothing about the person beneath them. This is because nothing can be said about who anyone actually is without meeting and getting to know them. So, in a sense, there are no categories of who we are, but only of who we are not."

Cassandra, perhaps I'm "boxing" you too much here, but you feel like as your "holes" disappear, the unique filter of you becomes more clear and you are beginning to feel multiplicity and are more and more in touch with this Mystery.

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Re: And Yes to you too	Cassandra	13:20:11 01/29/03 Wed