The Sphinx Speaks

Meeting the Sphinx

The courage to ask all the right questions is an important attribute of the mind. The Egyptians represented such an attitude by the … symbol of the Sphinx. With the body of the lion and the head of a man … it represented the reliance … man continued to make with anima qualities. Such a reliance … produced the effect of ignoring human needs … and its normal bias … and made for some excruciating dismissal of human appeals … in favor of something that was completely machine like.

It was attitudes such as these … that cultivated views of the human condition … as we applied it to politics … and economic theories. It took a while before scientist … produced the alternative theories of … the humanity approach. Today we bring a great deal of emphasis to the humanities and the arts … and attempt to re-shape … human society by the acceptance of human needs … as norm … in the way that we … ask the most transparent inquiries … about human thought and behavior.

This has had the effect of changing … our views of the laws … religion … racial profiles … ethics … and the all important common understanding we undertake … about each other. In applying such a view to the different cultural backgrounds of the human race … we realize that … it is a matter of all humanity put together that defines man … not a specific racial profile. Hence in attempting to define the human condition … we are faced with a peculiar problem. Since all such inquiries … commence from the individual in a specific racial profile … we are obliged to account for the objectivity of our views.

And so it was … that when I commenced my inquiry into the definitions of norm in the human condition … a storm started unexpectedly … and the lightning seemed to reach my front door. I was visited by the Sphinx … and for the next 3 months filled my hours with questions … into the nature of my views about the norm in man. When it was over … it was intimated to me … that the questions had totaled 1000. In the wake of the session … I came away with an utmost clarity in my mind … about the nature of man. And then someone very strange … from the center of the clarity … appeared to take over the session.

The communication was telepathic … but it conveyed a concern that was pure and virtuous. The inquiry was a simple one. Granted all the resources … in the universe … were we right in manifesting man … in the form … physiology … and mind? Was it the most optimal manner in which we could have undertaken the creation plan? Does it maximize the specie experience of creation … produce the best possible satisfaction … and satisfy the demands of its origin … in the dreams … as to its achievement?

I was simply taken back by the inquiry. I was facing any number of possibilities that creation could have taken in its directions and for a moment was completely … stumped by the possibility of an informed response. But I did the best I could. I responded by saying that any definition of man … would be influenced by the parameters of the earth experience completely. And within such a limitation we need to achieve the best possible about man … that would satisfy the ideal for achievement in creation's plans. And certainly as man … I can only respond … within the parameters of such an experience.

I had sensed then that my response … confined itself to an experience of man in his individual nature … in what may possibly be viewed as one unit in all of creation. It implied a familiarity with only the human experience … and certainly produced possible doubts about my objectivity. But I had figured that someone better than man … would be in a better position to respond to that. The inquiry raised the most awkward sensation in me about the possibility of other life forms in the universe … and the way we seem to be producing the seed and qualities … that would finally go to create the most perfect specie.

To another question … I had responded with … the comment that … man carries a quality of self adoration … that probably originates in the primal qualities of the creative energies themselves. In the weeks that followed … I was somehow … expecting something to fall from the sky … or maybe get sucked up by a black hole. I couldn't be certain that my responses … were somehow adequate. But 10 years later today … I'm inclined to think … that my responses create a leading suggestion about the possibilities of creation … and its desire to be entirely optimized in its efforts.

It produces a curious sensation in my passions … whose span of experience … is obviously greater than the conscious mind. A practice of objectivity must satisfy … the mind's independent observation and not be influenced by any willfulness … we may have about past notions. In that … the passions act as assessor … to the mind's function … and any limitations experienced by the mind … whether its earth conditions or otherwise … is thereafter revealed by the passions in subsequent experiences. That would indeed be quite significant where the specie is birthed in a new planet elsewhere in the universe.

It raised some strong doubts in me … about the way we have collated the names of the stars and constellations … from past cultures … and continue to represent that as the identity of the universe. Wouldn't the universe have simply laid out the plan for the evolution of life and specie … until its final perfection. What else would it have planned? Obviously we named them in the times and periods … that best suited the temperament of man at that time. But we ought to wonder whether … we have inadvertently hidden the creation plan … from our study … due to that. Isn't there a possibility … the constellations connect with one another?

Our desires are unlimited … but to allow its freeflow of will … inhibits the orderly development of mind. Man has learnt to limit the desires … and postponed its other impulses to a later time. But that doesn't stop the desire from asking inquiries such as … ' How do you know your choice of career has been the best?' … ' You are believing in what others say … don't you want to know yourself?' To all these we apply a rational response … ultimately founded on the confines of the earth and the definition of human. Man is obliged to do that. In the wide expanse of the passions … it defines us as … earthlings.

Reviews

[Riddhi]

Hey!!!That was really a nice work...How broad are your horizons of knowledge!!!!! I really liked it..Keep it up and thanks for sharing...

[A. Amos]

Thank you for sharing such a deep insight and regarding choice of career...I agree all we need is to know ourselves first. Thought provoking read!