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Let me start by asking people to listen to this song.
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
You've probably heard the song.
The song is based on the book titled 'Book of Dreams' by Peter Reich. The opening line is 'I still dream of Orgonon'. In the book Peter Reich relates the experiences his father Willheim Reich had and the problems with the authorities in 1930's Austria. Willheim Reich was a student of Freud, a psychiatrist who advocated sexual freedom, believing in the 'orgone', a sort of spiritual energy which existed in all living beings and the atmosphere which could be exploited to bring happiness and pleasure. He developed a machine called The Cloudbuster, a machine which would burst the clouds and release the orgone into the atmosphere.
This is what the song is about.
The thing is, you've probably heard this song before. What is more if you stop and think you will probably be able to remember quite clearly what you were doing at the time, where you were, the people in your life, and will be able to immediately recall your life experiences from that time into conscious thinking.
This is drama.
Now you might think that drama is movies, or theatre, or television programmes. It isn't. That is dramatic art.
Drama is the cognitive thought process which associates creativity with relationships and life experiences and records them into long term or psychic memory. Furthermore drama can be seen as any experience which promotes living existence and the development of the relationship between the physical and metaphysical, or if you prefer, the natural and the spiritual.
I would define life as the coexistence of spiritual energy within biological or anatomical matter existing within the same time and space dimension in the form of a being capable of independent creativity.
Drama can be seen as the driving force or motivating factor behind evolution. Everything in the Universe is in some way relative to everything else. We are individual components of the Universe, existing within the physical and metaphysical dimensions.
This gives three core principles of existence - individuality, binarity, and cyclicity. These principles apply equally to the Universe as a whole, which is constantly evolving, the same can be said of Nature, and the same can be said of Mankind. Anything spontaneously created from spiritual energy is individual, no two people are exactly the same, no two living beings. Creativity cannot take place without some sort of binarity and interaction. No life form can reproduce itself physically without sexual interaction or intercourse, i.e. male and female.
All change and motion is cyclical in nature, each cycle being individual and part of a binary set of characteristics.
Spiritual energy is unique, for unlike natural forms of energy it is incapable of uniform motion or change, and also unlike natural forms of energy it is also capable of spontaneous activity and creativity. Try to throw a ball through the air and each time the cycle of motion and arc produced will be individual and never uniform. Even though the ball each time is carried through the air on kinetic energy and the physical coordination and perception is also based within natural energy but that impulse which produces the coordination of motor nerves and force required to propel the ball through the air comes from spiritual energy.
Basic human nature is preoccupied with creativity and interaction. It is not possible for anything to exist anywhere in the Universe without being a component element of a relationship. The first five years of life are taken up by exploration, investigation, discovery and developing one's perception of the reality which exists around oneself and understanding how one relates to others and the world around them.
However around the age of six a child changes in nature and starts to think and organize all this information into some sort of structure, developing a general objective in life, a Mythos or character (how one perceives oneself and the 'legend' used to explain and define oneself to others) and a strategy for relating to other people. This is based on emotional reasoning, there is no logical thought process, the child is yet to be educated and this process completes itself around the age of seven forming a Life Script, which together with early childhood experiences and parental relationships remains a strong influence determining the outcome of one's life and influencing one's decision making with regard to relationships.
This I believe is evidence of reincarnation, as is that constant need for contact with culture and creativity, with other people, with living experiences. This explains the relationship between dramatic art and creativity and drama itself, we look for things in music, books, films, art which relate to us specifically, we form attachments, build hopes and dreams. This is why most examples of human creativity, whether it be art, photography, music, films or books focus on relationships, thinking, expression and living existence.
The opposite of evolution is involution, which is the breaking down and separation of coexistent elements of life into its constituent parts, and trauma can be seen as the opposite of drama, that which works against the coexistence of the physical and metaphysical, death, illness, relationship breakdowns, decline, stress, fear, and so on.
Sleep is involution, a period of rest where sensory information and that which goes through the mind in conscious thinking can be processed, internalized, sorted and broken down whilst physically further spiritual energy can be drawn from the metaphysical plane to regenerate us for when we wake to greet another day.
I would say this cycle of sleep and wakefulness is relative to that of reincarnation.
The only constant in the Universe is change. I feel that states of permanent unchanging existence and non-existence are both illusions. Einstein himself stated back in 1905 in his Annus Mirabilis papers that 'that what exists cannot later not exist'.
I therefore do not believe that there is such a thing as the start or life, or an end, but see life and death as the binary of existence. There is no beginning and end, there is only transition and transformation, and living existence finds us existing in both the physical plane of existence and the metaphysical.
This I feel would explain the need for evolution and the dramatic cycles of creativity, interaction, and life because evolution and involution are only the two binary halves of change.
You cannot have change without some degree of evolution and involution taking place. Change cannot take place without the critical examination and breaking down of what exists into its constituent parts and the development of intuition, imagination and creativity to arrive at something different or better.
This is why we all need some form of creativity in our lives, because it inspires us, it motivates us to be creative ourselves in our thinking and interaction. This explains the importance of culture and cultural development for each of us and the evolution of society and Mankind as a whole. Culture is the shared awareness, understanding, knowledge and perception between any social group of people. It can exist in a family, a company or organization, a local community, a society or even across different societies. It shapes part of our identity, our thinking and our behaviour, and strongly influences how we interact with others.
Culture is developed by the creative self-expression of human individuality, creativity, diversity and the sharing of ideas and experiences between people. Culture is the benchmark of human evolution, and essential for social and spiritual evolution. When creativity is stifled and our individuality and diversity is inhibited evolution is stifled, as is drama, and involution occurs with the cultural decline and breakdown of society. This can take place when an attempt is made to control culture through a predominant political ideology or organized religious belief or when cultural development is left to market forces. This creates social tension and social division as people generally resent being told what to think and believe.
A prime example of this can be seen in Europe between Eastern and Western Europe where human diversity is generally better tolerated and accepted in the West and where the East, dominated by various totalitarian applications of socialism and organized religion has created a sort of cultural and social time warp where people are only just beginning to embrace diversity with relation to race, ethnicity and sexual orientations.
This was understood by Christ, who can be seen as the central figure of religious thinking, and who understood how involution can pull the human soul into two separate directions towards internal evil and external evil. Christ's message of individuality and non-conformity in spiritual and moral thinking carried a special evolutionary significance for Mankind as a whole. This explains why the core teachings of almost any religion are based on a central Christ-like messianic figure and core principles which advocate creativity and positive social interaction.
This explains the purpose of drama, evolution and living existence, or life, and that is to develop the spiritual awareness, understanding and perception which will enable us to work towards the survival of our existence through the cycle of reincarnation.
I believe it is possible to perceive the metaphysical in terms relative to how we perceive the physical, i.e. in terms of objective reality and in concepts which are accessible to logical understanding. We are part of the Universe and are subject to the same principles and therefore I honestly believe that the capacity for human knowledge and understanding is as infinite as the Universe itself.
We are limited only by limitations of perception but have that same cognitive capacity to learn and increase our awareness, we have the same ability to create and be creative because part of that mass of spiritual energy which drives the evolution of the Universe forward, understood to some in the concept of God, is an essential part of life and is what explains our presence here in the physical plane of existence.
Therefore for me the perceived start of life can be defined as when the metaphysical coexists with the physical to produce a life form capable of independent creativity. Where such a point exists relative to time, space and dimension is something I feel lies still beyond that what can be commonly perceived simply because the objective reality of metaphysical existence is so limited.
Each life form is individual, therefore I'm not entirely sure a common definite point can be established but like death can only remain a concept based on a consensus of experience.
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