Desire

Desire drives the process of Splicing and Knotting, whereas Humility drives the Untying.

Humility allows the slack needed to untie the knots. The Knotting is the creation of the Hyperreality. It is the coming together of various components and splicing or knotting them into a network which reflects the reality of our desires. It creates the sets for the movie of Desire's Hyperreality. The Untying strikes the sets of the movie.

I have previously recounted that when I gave up the notion of a God that was close to mankind and interested in a personal way in our individual doings, I was amazed to see that God was there. The God that was there was no longer the God of my juvenile imagination. How so? Well, God would not change the world just for my benefit. However, God would change the world. It may or may not be for my benefit. It depends upon how I see; whether I see with the eyes of Desire or the eyes of Humility.

The eyes of Desire have their own blueprints. If God can't change the world according to these blueprints, God is a problem. The eyes of Humility just see...and see and see...a long way. The Hyperreality of Desire is the Illusion. It is Maya. The Hyperreality of Desire is Simon Peter cutting the ear of a servant...a fisherman as a soldier! The Hyperreality of Desire is the wealthy of Mecca troubled for their Idols and thereby driving the prophet and his followers out.

The desperate hours of the Crucifixion drove Simon Peter to the emptiness of the world wherein he grasped at Humility and thus was able to see. The years of warfare and emnity placed the men of Mecca in that zone where statues no longer spoke, where ancient dreams vanished, and the whole of the reality of Allah rushed into the vacuum of the Jahiliyya like a rainstorm over the desert. Meditation is the door to Humility. It teaches us to be quiet. By being quiet, we begin to untie the knots of illusion. Even the Yaqui Don Juan told us to quell that internal dialogue of Self chatting with Desire.