It is said that all roads lead to Hell, but it is up to us to choose whether we wish to travel the high road and become as Gods or condescend to follow the herd down the low path into oblivion. There is much talk these days about the "God Part" of the human brain. Admittedly there is something to be said for it, as an inordinate number of individuals seem to follow its signals like lemmings, stampeding mindlessly into the sea. Some querists have postulated that this particular circuitry was genetically programmed into us by our "Creator" who is attendantly portrayed as anything and everything from an alien known as ANU to the Grand Daddy/Momma of all Gods known by whatever name you wish to grant Him/Her/It or whatever. How about the Ever- Present, Grand, Celestial Hermaphrodite?
Well, that's all very nice, but there is only one Force in the All. There has never been more, and there has never been less. In Fact, the Force and the All are interchangeable. You can't have one without the other. However, the Force as revealed by the Ouroborous Worm has many facets and highs and lows and goods and evils and lights and darks and rights and wrongs and twists and turns and angles and shapes. Consider the sine-wave as a variation of the infinite worm. Every potential that exists can be found somewhere upon the surface of such a wave. Take it one step further in the direction of a mobious curve and there is then only one surface to deal with. However, a step further reveals the magic of a Klein Bottle, and then not only is there just one surface on the outside, but it continues on the inside too. "And then out is in, and up is down, and cows don't whinny; but tie two birds together, and even though they have four wings, they cannot fly." Is it then not one truly amalgamated and unified All? Yup, folks, it's all there, and there is something for everybody! Of course, your perception of this Grand Animal greatly depends upon exactly where you grab onto it.
For the sake of example, let us consider the case of an elephant in a room full of blind men. Each grabs a piece of elephant and expounds upon his discovery. The first blind man, as luck would have it, grabbed the elephant's trunk and exclaimed, "Ah, an elephant is like a great fire hose. You can use it to suck up water and then blow out fires." Of course, that brought a cry of anguish from the second blind man who had cleaved hold to one of the elephant's legs, crying, "Oh no, oh no, that is not true at all! An elephant is like a great tree, planted firmly in the ground to give us fruit and shade from the noonday sun." All of this, of course, brought chuckles from the blind man who brought up the rear. "You are both wrong," he touted, stroking the tail. "The elephant is really a serpent who possesses the power of good and of evil," whereupon he attempted to pull the serpent from the tree. Naturally, the elephant, right on que, took a dump on the rearmost blind man while stomping upon the one who cleaved to his leg, and in the process, flicked his first tormentor clear out of sight with his trunk.
Now consider the cases of future blind men who would listen to the tales of the original apostles of the elephant: One considers the elephant as a benign spiritual being. Another considers the elephant as inherently evil and dangerous, while yet one more is desperately trying to find a school that teaches a course in the handling and management of high-pressure hoses. All are equally wrong. None have even the slightest concept of the true nature of the elephant, and until one comes along with eyes to see, the elephant will remain a great mystery. So will the Force.
Now, before anybody travels too far down any primrose paths, it might not hurt to consider your objectives. Do you want to put out fires or seek spiritual greatness? Why not tap into the Force at several places in an effort to find out what works best for you? Just because a blind man comes tromping in from the wilderness, claiming that he has experienced the elephant and can now fly does not mean that you will have the same exact experience. Satan or Lucifer or Elephant, if you will, appears to each of us in a very special and personal way which is just right for each of us. Therefore, each of us will interpret our experience in a way that makes the most sense. Moreover, along our spiritual paths, we will encounter other individuals who have had the same or a very similar experience, and with them, we will form the bonds of understanding. From the others, we will merely learn of their experiences and perceptions, making of them what we will. However, whether we cleave to the trunk or the tail only separates us by one elephant, which in the grand scheam of the cosmos isn't very much at all.
