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This essay, Breakfast With The Master II: Future Open, is the companion piece to | |
It is also the third in the second trilogy Breakfast With The Master: in that order. | The first trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. |
The third trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. | The fourth trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. |
The fifth trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. | The sixth trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. |
The seventh trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. | The eighth trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. |
The ninth trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. | The tenth trilogy Breakfast With The Master is: in that order. |
This essay, Breakfast With The Master II: Future Open, is the prequel to Stepping Into Nothing. |
No, it's worse than that actually. It's much worse. It's pretty soon the future, its drawer erroneously filled with all the information from the past we mis-file in it, starts becoming uncannily like a slo-mo action replay of the past. Common wisdom ie common lore would tell us that the quality of life we have in the present is given by the past ie that the quality of life we have in the present is determined (that is to say is pre-determined) by the past. But what if that proposition is inaccurate? What if the quality of life we have in the present is given by the future not by the past ie that the quality of life we have in the present is determined (that is to say is post-determined) by the future we create ie by the the future we live into? If this is the case, then if we mis-file the past into the future drawer, it would certainly look like the quality of life we have in the present is predetermined by the past. And if I stop mis-filing the past into the future drawer and instead file the past into the past drawer, then the future drawer stays empty and open, allowing me to create into it any future, giving a present not predetermined by the past. All it takes is for this idea to take hold, and my entire vista for my future shifts. What's vividly present for me now is the power of conversation, the power of words, the power of language to shape our experience, indeed the power of language to shape Life itself. Wasn't it Werner Erhard who said ? Yes it was he. If I didn't totally get it before, I get it now. The hallmark of a great conversation is it leaves you with questions, not answers - and I have lots of new questions. I'll live within these questions and see what opens up. For example, what's the place for my family in my future drawer? That's right: what's the place for my family in my future drawer? I don't mean family like a possibility. Family like a possibility, like a space, like a context, like a creation, is certainly filed in the future drawer. That's my entire family and extended family and me, and what and who we could be in the future. No, the question I'm asking refers to my family and our roles of the past. What about my past family? What's their place in my future drawer? Is it even in the realm of what I file in my future drawer? Can it be? Should it be? |
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