Conference hydra::dejavu

247.0. "Prime Energy Diffusion" by MILRAT::KEEFE () Sat Nov 22 1986 10:46

    [from the book Far Journeys]    
    
    Consider what we call emotion in all forms to be unknowing 
    expressions of our Prime Energy Drive, or the Creative Force 
    inherent in each of us. There are no exceptions. Included are joy, 
    sadness, anger, happiness, hate, friendship, nostalgia, 
    possessiveness, loyalty, ego, greed, guilt, fun, worry, anxiety, 
    among others. Add a few not ordinarily  regarded as such: 
    curiosity, ideas, equality, hope, loneliness - and, of course, 
    love in a nonordinary connotation.
    
    In this context, emotion is the key to and the driving force 
    underlying every thought and action in human existence. The 
    concept of unemotionalism is an illusion. Even the most extreme 
    objectivity covers carefully an emotional agenda. Rationality and 
    emotion go hand in hand when traced back to the source. If a human 
    being is the product of a Creative Force, then being human is 
    totally an emotional expression of such energy.
    
    There has not been a single major act in human history that has 
    not been driven and/or inspired by emotion. Astute politicians now 
    recognize that voters emotionally elect presidents, that simple 
    facts and figures contain emotional coloration. All great leaders 
    throughout mankind's existence have had emotional appeal as their 
    source of power. Motivation is an interim statement of emotion. 
    Many studies, authoritative books, and hundreds of millions of 
    dollars have been dedicated to the application of this concept 
    during recent years - all apparently backing away politely from 
    the fundamental source of the phenomenon, through either ignorance 
    or rejection.
    
    The result is a chaotic mixture of unchecked and misdirected 
    energy that is and has been the human experience. Isolated 
    attempts are made to act and think without emotion, which is an 
    impossibility. Even in the laboratory, it is slowly being 
    determined that any experiment is affected by the observer, 
    inadvertently, unconsciously, and unobtrusively. Thus absolute 
    replication can occur only under identical ambience - again an 
    impossibility, considering the flickering  thought-emotional 
    patterns of the observer-experimenter. For a simple test, try 
    recording each and every thought and emotion you have expressed 
    during the past one minute. Then attempt the same recall for a 
    minute one hour ago.
    
    At the individual level, the generalization becomes specific. In 
    every moment of existence, we are a seething brew of emotional 
    response to both internal and external stimuli. Awake or asleep, 
    the ever changing mosaic of flowing energy continues to surge at 
    assorted amplitudes and frequencies. We place value judgments on 
    each and every portion, as determined by our own experience and 
    impressed upon us by the culture in which we now exist. When the 
    two conflict, we usually choose the latter as a sop to expedience. 
    Thus we attempt to let full expression of the "good" emit from us 
    and try to suppress and repress the "evil," hide it from view. For 
    the vast majority of us, this is the extent of our efforts to 
    control this mighty and most vital energy that is our true 
    heritage. At best, we are only partially successful using an 
    incorrect standard of measurement. 
    
    We make decisions in blind anger and resent the results. We hope 
    and become disappointed. We laugh in joy and become depressed when 
    the moment fades. We hate when a person, place, or thing does not 
    first or meet our concept of what it "ought" to be. We think we 
    "love" and break our hearts when we discover it just isn't so, we 
    were mistaken. The list is endless, and we keep trying because we 
    can't help ourselves and we don't know any better. We ride the 
    waves of our emotions through the peaks and the valleys until some 
    of us become cynics - neatly neglecting the obvious, that cynicism 
    is itself an emotion. The mess gets messier when we do perceive 
    that effective and achieving left-brain decisions are made 
    ultimately by some emotional factor, hidden and disguised as it 
    may be. This propounds the old can't-live-with-it, can't-live-
    without-it syndrome. Free will is no longer free and hasn't much 
    will, buried under a swarm of emotional encumbrances.
    
    By far the largest accumulated heavy load is the emotional mass 
    loosely held as the human ego. Originally a probable sprout from 
    the survival imprint, it requires and consumes constantly immense 
    amounts of reinforcing emotional patterns, all of which  are by 
    their very nature distorted and distorting. Ego exploits the 
    concept that it is needed to exist and achieve, that the emotion 
    of confidence cannot exist without ego support, that happiness is 
    satiated ego. Ego can bring forth hundreds of irrational emotional 
    reasons to justify its existence - sidestepping the fact that 
    emotion and irrationality are not synonymous. It steadfastly 
    maintains that there would be no human personality were it not for 
    the ego.
    
    At least, the ego is correct in one premise. The human is an 
    emotional being. it's simply a question of utilization, of 
    application.
    
    The epoxy that locks the whole load onto the unit and makes orbit 
    decay inevitable: the heavy preponderance of such emotions are 
    directly related or attached to time-space physical matter earth 
    events, things, and relationships; as such, they are not 
    applicable to nor can they exist in any reality other than their 
    point of origin.
    
    There is only one exception. It is the only clear and accurate 
    representation of the original Prime Energy, and cannot be 
    generated at will. It is a synthesis of other emotional thought 
    and action, brought into expression and thenceforth 
    indestructible. Most important, it is not peculiar to the 
    time-space continuum and the existence of it is not contingent 
    upon such environs. As such, it is not part of the load factor. 
    Instead, it is the source of power to obtain lift-off, reach 
    orbit, and establish escape velocity.
    
    The major - if not the only - reasons for attending the human 
    experience school are first, to learn to translate such energy 
    into discernible form, and second, to become a first-order 
    generator thereof. This is no easy task if you don't know what it 
    is, if you don't know how to express it, and if you can't 
    knowingly generate it. How does a person learn to sing if he's 
    never heard a song, doesn't know of words, melody, and pitch; 
    worse, if he doesn't know he has vocal cords or even a voice?
    
    Clues may lie in the common mislabeling and misconstruing of 
    emotions akin to but definitely not the same. To avoid  confusion, 
    call it Super Love (SL). Knowing the difference is the key, as the 
    ident love has been used so broadly as to have lost any 
    significant meaning. Try this crude overlay for starters: SL is 
    indestructible, as stated. Once activated, no subsequent thought, 
    emotion, or event can have any effect upon it. SL is not in any 
    way dependent upon manifestation in physical matter, or activity 
    therein. SL has no object, animate or inanimate, although such may 
    be one of the catalysts to trigger the generation thereof. SL is a 
    continuous radiation, totally nondependent upon like reception of 
    any other form of return whatsoever. SL is.