THE GLASS PYRAMID

William Samuel

       Years ago someone wrote that all the people on earth, if they were assembled in one place standing side by side would occupy only a square mile of land. Well they would certainly cover more land than that today. But let us use that square mile for the sake of an illustration that will make a point.  

Imagine in your mind’s eye that all humanity is brought together into a great glass pyramid whose four corners cover a square mile of earth. Now these people are standing jammed together like young people at a rock concert, inside the great crystal pyramid. And all of them are facing the centre. Well now how would each person describe what he sees as he looks up? Well each one would see the four quadrants of glass coming together at the top. 

Now let us suppose that they can see the stars beyond including Polaris, the North Star whose position remains constant. And these people are asked to give a description of the North Star’s location. Have you got that? Everybody inside a big glass crystal pyramid. They are looking beyond. They look up and they see the North Star and they are asked to describe its location. Well those who stand in the east of the pyramid would make different measurements to plot Polaris than do those who are in the west. As a matter of fact everyone down there, every man, woman and child would have a slightly different version of the North Star’s location relative to the great glass panels that come to a point up above them. Therefore each person within this great glass pyramid represents a unique point of view. 

Now next suppose that certain creeds and dogmas about the star’s location have developed through the centuries. The east side view of things would certainly be different from the west side view. Similar to the differing religious views we have in the world today. Further, most people are too busy with family and other affairs to even look up and measure for themselves so they have grown to accept whatever idea is popular in their own locales. There is an eastern pyramid view of thought. A western, a northern, and a southern view of thought.

 Well now can you not see how religious ideas, all pertaining to the same Polaris, the same God but seen through the eyes of different cultures have developed through the centuries? Well now we have worldwide communication that is linking us up and we are beginning to see these strange differences. That the Muslim has a point of view. That the Christian has a point of view. And the Jew still another point of view.  

Man’s personal views of his relationship to Godhead is not unlike the pyramid, people’s view of their relationship to the North Star. Religious ideas generally refer to the same one. To the same God. To the same ineffable. But each one has its own sets of proofs for validity. And in truth every statement is valid. That is every statement about Godhead is valid so far as its major goals. Is it not strange that some of the world’s religions can perceive these differences and allow for it while others stand like staunch old southern pines in the wind refusing to give any other point of view an inch. Claiming that their own perspective is the only valid perspective of the ineffable.  

Oh my,  just recently a storm blew through here and it twisted so many pines. Tops right off. Staunch unyielding points of view. We see that all eyes pointing to the top, looking up at this pyramid, represent individual points of view. Individual lines of thought.

That is if everybody is looking right up at the point of the pyramid and there is a great eye there at the top looking down. The top-down view includes all of the bottom-up views. The top-down view is quantum. Whereas the bottom-up view is individual.  

Now so let me show in a simple way how powerful subjectivism is. Now the new wave of things happening in the world now is this subjective view. Subjective thinking is the new wave of things that is to come for mankind. Well now just one person down there having learned the top-down method of thinking and comprehending, which is the basis for subjectivism, is like a person in that glass pyramid who has broken away from the masses and he has climbed up to the top of the pyramid. He is up at the very peak. Now his view is like a great eye at the top of the pyramid. And up there he is looking down at everyone who is looking up. The top-down view includes all of the bottom-up views within itself almost simultaneously. That is if everybody is looking right up at the point of the pyramid and there is a great eye there at the top looking down. The top-down view includes all of the bottom-up views. The top-down view is quantum. Whereas the bottom-up view is individual.  

Now this is the advantage of subjectivism and its comprehension that the world exists within awareness. Subjectivism is to human thought what quantum mechanics has become to physics. Today we see the leading edge of science on the brink of discovering the subjective idea. They have found that the experiment is tied to the awareness that observes the experiment. Well that is a start. Today we have science backing into God. Discovering God and afraid to admit. Afraid that their own colleagues will criticize them for admitting that they have backed into a totally new marvelous top-down view of things.  

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Science will discover the power of subjectivism I think before religion does. And certainly before so many of the metaphysicians who claim to know it already but they do not know what to do with it. We guess the scientists will know because his arithmetic will suggest and then insist and cause him to prove. Prove me now herewith.

Well now does the eye at the top quarrel with the opposing views at the bottom? No it understands the basis for the difference of opinions. And it understands the holistic reasons for mankind’s behaviour.

Oh but the top-down view would certainly object if one of the groups along, let us say the eastern or the western wall went to war against its opposite number over on the other side in the name of a creed or a dogma, or holy book.  

Down on the sandy floor of the pyramid extremism in the defense or the promulgation of anyone’s holy book, and or bottom-up view of the ineffable causes man in black to make strange utterances in the name of localized views of God and a call for holy wars that could destroy civilization. 

So what do we do? We discover the Child within ourselves. And that Child takes us more or less quickly to the top of the pyramid. To the view that includes all views within itself. Down on the sandy floor of the pyramid extremism in the defense or the promulgation of anyone’s holy book, and or bottom-up view of the ineffable causes man in black to make strange utterances in the name of localized views of God and a call for holy wars that could destroy civilization. Now on the floor of the pyramid one hopes that will not happen. But from the top one sees that something must happen among the warring unloving throngs to call attention to the Child’s top-down view that understands and forgives.

Well the prophets have all said, to a man, to look up; to look up willingly, or be forced to look up in some kind of a personal anguish, personal Armageddon.  

Two thousand years ago Christianity came along to say let that mind be in us which is also in Christ. Which is the subjective view of things. But just look how Christianity’s dogmatic creeds are warring among themselves.  Not just Christianity but all of the religions. They are all warring among themselves. What ever happened to the Child’s view that Jesus and others gave their lives to tell about? We get the top-down view. And then we live it down on the sandy floor of life right here in the objective view of things.

How do we do that? Well we find the Child within ourselves and we run with it. It is the Child within ourselves that breaks away from the masses and climbs that glass pyramid and says I want to see what everybody is looking at, I want to go up and see it for myself.

We find that Child. It is in us. It is here. Right now. And then we run with it. We publish peace. That is we tell people of our own knowledge of this Child within. Just as we have been admonished to do.

We finally understand the exclusivity and arrogance of unyielding creeds and dogmas that discourage the individual's climb to the top of the pyramid. We see why the objective views have labeled subjectivism silly solipsism. And subjectively from the top we can see that one with God is a majority. And so the world unfolds within. Subjective consciousness within this divine awareness. It is us right here right now. Listening to and being these words.