now we come here right at the start to
an extremely important principle which
is the different points of view you get
when you change your level of
magnification that is to say you can
look at something with a microscope and
see it a certain way you can look at it
with the naked eye and see it in a
certain way you look at it with a
telescope and you see it in another way
now which level of magnification is the
correct one but obviously they're all
correct
they're just different points of view
you can for example look at a newspaper
photograph under a magnifying glass and
wear with the naked eye you will see a
human face with a magnifying glass you
will just see a profusion of dots rather
meaninglessly scattered but as you stand
away from that collection of dots which
all seem to be separate and apart from
each other they suddenly arrange
themselves into a pattern and you see
that these individual dots add up to
some kind of sense now you'll see at
once from this illustration that maybe
you when you take a myopic view of
yourself as most of us do but you may
add up to some kind of sense that is not
apparent to you in your ordinary
consciousness when we examine our blood
streams under a microscope we see
there's one hell of a fight going on all
sorts of microorganisms are chewing each
other up and if we got it overly
fascinated with our view of our own
blood streams in the microscope we
should start taking sides which would be
fatal because the health of our organism
depends on the continuance of this
battle what is in other words conflict
at one level of magnification is harmony
at a higher level now could it possibly
be therefore that we with all our
problems conflicts neuroses sicknesses
political outrages Wars tortures and
everything that goes on in human life
are a state of conflict which can be see
larger perspective as a situation of
harmony of will it is claimed you see
that some human beings have broken
through to that vision that they slipped
somehow or other into states of
consciousness where they see the
apparent disintegration and
disorganization
of everyday life as the functioning of a
totality which at its level is
completely harmonious and you could say
aha at last I see I got the point
I've seen how all this makes sense but
what this insight depended upon was
you're overcoming the illusion that
space separates things that is to say
the space the interval between your body
and mine the interval created by birth
at one end and death at the other and
then after somebody's death then
somebody else's birth these are events
with intervals between them and normally
we regard these intervals in time these
intervals in space as having no
importance no function we tend to see
the universe itself as really consisting
in all the stars and galaxies
that's what it is that's what we notice
about the space in which all this
happens is sort of written off as
something that isn't really there but
what one has to realize is that the
space is an essential function of the
things in the space after all you can't
have separate stars unless there is a
space around them the eliminate the
space and you will see you couldn't have
this phenomenon at all and vice-versa
you couldn't have the space they
wouldn't be there in any sense
whatsoever if there weren't the bodies
in it so the bodies in the space and the
space are two aspect to the single
continuum they're related together in
exactly the same way as a back and a
front and you just don't get one without
the other so the moment you see that
intervals that space is connective you
can understand at once how you are not
just to be exclusively defined as a
flash of consciousness that occurs
between to eternal darkness --is which
is the popular common sense view which
Western man has of his own life
