Life's Meaning and Adaptability

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    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    Hi all — a few more thoughts: In the last few papers authored by the revelatory commission (papers 115-118), the authors have a lot to say about two complementary levels of experiential achievement, and actualization:

    1. the level of mind wrestling with matter (NN: meanings?) 2. the level of spirit orchestrating mind (NN: values?)

    The first level (mind-over-matter?) seems to get associated with meanings; the second level (spirit-over-mind?) gets associated with values. In Rick’s “Midwayer” quote, a variable is what the author intends to imply by “life”. Are they referring to the sort of life projected into a time-dependent material arena, where the outworking of purposes and plans requires extraordinary adaptability? If so, then for all this (meaningful) evolutionary effort to have any value, there’d need to be a path along which to progress (i.e. progressability)…

    “Life is an adaptation of the original cosmic causation to the demands and possibilities of universe situations, and it comes into being by the action of the Universal Mind and the activation of the spirit spark of the God who is spirit. The meaning of life is its adaptability; the value of life is its progressability — even to the heights of God-consciousness.” (1434.6, 130:4.7)

    Here’s a paragraph that seems to put “adaptability” and “progressability” side by side:

    “The bestowal of life renders material-energy systems capable of self-perpetuation, self-propagation, and self-adaptation [NN: adaptability?]. The bestowal of personality imparts to living organisms the further prerogatives of self-determination, self-evolution, and self-identification with a fusion spirit of Deity [NN: progressability?].” (1301.3, 118:7.6)

    Are “adaptation” and “progress” the heart and soul of experiential achievement — actualization of the Supreme? Nigel

    Mighty fine meaning/value circular dot connection, Nigel, harmonizing well with Bonita’s earlier comment re reality and life: “…if you define adaptability in this case as the elliptic symmetry of reality and curvature of all relation concepts.”

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    Richard E Warren

    #35330
    Bonita
    Bonita
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    Are “adaptation” and “progress” the heart and soul of experiential achievement — actualization of the Supreme?

    Perhaps that’s another way to describe power personality synthesis?

    #35513
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    Are “adaptation” and “progress” the heart and soul of experiential achievement — actualization of the Supreme?

    Perhaps that’s another way to describe power personality synthesis?

    That phrase, “power personality synthesis” doesn’t appear in the UB, but “personality synthesis” appears twice:

    101:6.6 (1112.2) With man, the eventual fusion and resultant oneness with the indwelling Adjuster—the personality synthesis of man and the essence of God—constitute him, in potential, a living part of the Supreme and insure for such a onetime mortal being the eternal birthright of the endless pursuit of finality of universe service for and with the Supreme.

    118:10.3 (1304.5) It would appear that, in the Supreme Being, all phases of universe activity are being partially reunited by the personality of this experiential Deity. When, therefore, we desire to view the Trinity as one God, and if we limit this concept to the present known and organized grand universe, we discover that the evolving Supreme Being is the partial portraiture of the Paradise Trinity. And we further find that this Supreme Deity is evolving as the personality synthesis of finite matter, mind, and spirit in the grand universe.

    This thread must include the Supreme, seems like, him being the result/consequence of the age-long adaptation of life to the divine mandate of perfection. One might surmise from this the Supreme IS adaptability personified, and the synthesis of divine will and divine ends wrought by infinitely diverse beings.

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    Richard E Warren

    #35514
    Bonita
    Bonita
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    That phrase, “power personality synthesis” doesn’t appear in the UB, but “personality synthesis” appears twice:

    That’s because you forgot the hyphen.

    #35515
    Bonita
    Bonita
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    I remember starting a topic on the subject of power personality synthesis back in 2011.  Guess it didn’t make much of an impact.  I did collect all the quotes at that time so I have them at the ready if you’d like me to post them.

    #35516
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    I remember starting a topic on the subject of power personality synthesis back in 2011. Guess it didn’t make much of an impact. I did collect all the quotes at that time so I have them at the ready if you’d like me to post them.

    Sure, post ’em if you think they bear on this topic.

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    Richard E Warren

    #35517
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    That phrase, “power personality synthesis” doesn’t appear in the UB, but “personality synthesis” appears twice:

    That’s because you forgot the hyphen.

    Busted!

    Paper 106 – Universe Levels of Reality

    … recognition of spirit person, evolutionary power, and power-personality synthesis—the unification of evolutionary power with, and … 106:2.8 (1165.5) Within the completed power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being there will be associated all …

    Paper 117 – God the Supreme

    … Supreme, hence excluding creature participation in the power-personality synthesis of the present universe age. 117:2.8 …

    Foreword

    … an ever-ascending mobilization and perfecting unification (power-personality synthesis) of all phases and values of finite reality, in …

    Paper 56 – Universal Unity

    … can comprehend Deity unity only as it is evolving in this power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being. On any level of existence God … are primarily manifested by the Supreme Being as power-personality synthesis. They are variously shown forth by God the …

    Paper 104 – Growth of the Trinity Concept

    … Ultimate, and Absolute. They appear in the emerging power-personality synthesis of the Supreme Being. And to the time creatures of …

    Paper 14 – The Central and Divine Universe

    … nature of God the Supreme before the beginnings of the power-personality synthesis of the finite reflections of the Paradise Deities …

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    Richard E Warren

    #35518
    Bonita
    Bonita
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    There’s more: 0:7.1; 0:7.7; 0:7.9; 0:7.10; 0:8.9; 0:8.11; 10:5.4; 10:7.3; 14:6.23; 56:6.2; 56:6.3; 56:10.19; 104:5.12; 106:2.2; 106:2.8; 106:3.4; 106:5.2; 106:8.11; 116:1.1; 117:2.7

    #35533
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
    Participant

    There’s more: 0:7.1; 0:7.7; 0:7.9; 0:7.10; 0:8.9; 0:8.11; 10:5.4; 10:7.3; 14:6.23; 56:6.2; 56:6.3; 56:10.19; 104:5.12; 106:2.2; 106:2.8; 106:3.4; 106:5.2; 106:8.11; 116:1.1; 117:2.7

    Wow! Lots to reflect on the subject of ‘power-personality synthesis’, way too much for this thread on life and adaptability.  Thanks, Bonita.

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    Richard E Warren

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