In all likelihood, you first heard about the possibility of
transformation
when someone shared it with you. It's entirely appropriate
transformation,
whose essential nature is a conversation, would
show up
for you for the first time in a conversation. And if you ask the
person who first shared
transformation
with you when they heard about it for the first time, they'll tell you
they first heard about it when someone shared it with them.
If we extrapolate all the way back, we get to the first person to share
transformation:
Werner Erhard, the
source.
You may ask "Yeah, but ... who first shared
transformation
with Werner?". The answer is "No one first shared
transformation
with Werner.". Or, spoken more pertinently, "Nothing first
shared
transformation
with Werner.". Werner Erhard created
transformationout of nothing. So perhaps a more palatable answer to the
question "Yeah, but ... who first shared
transformation
with Werner?" is Werner first shared
transformationwith Werner - that is to say Werner first shared
transformationwith himself. And although it may sound semantically awkward,
it's more accurate to say Werner first shared
transformation
"with his Self" rather than "with himself". Better yet,
Werner's Self ie the Self first shared
transformationwith Werner.
One midweek morning in March of 1971 Werner Erhard got into his Ford
Mustang and drove to work heading south on US Highway 101 from his home
in Corte Madera, toward the
Golden Gate Bridge
to San Francisco.
Werner says the exact moment occurred on the
Golden Gate Bridge
itself. He also says there's nothing particularly
significant about it occurring on the
Golden Gate Bridge
- he just happened to be on the
Golden Gate Bridge
at the time it occurred.
Bill asks Werner "Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?".
That's what happened one midweek morning in March 1971 on the
Golden Gate Bridge.
That's when the fish walked up on the land for the first time, bringing
with it
elephants
and eagles like a possibility.