Towards a New Synthesis

My E-Prime Day

This title appears to request selection and recording of a partially random series of keystrokes in the curious attempt to describe experience without definitive statements of being and without a particular point of view. What fun! It seems possible. However, as I appear to struggle with the beginning, most thoughts seem to appear to include statements which slip outside the described parameters.

The morning seems nice and arrives somewhat early in the day. There appear to be requirements made of the organism. It looks like familiarity with these demands motivates the organism, for it appears to respond to them. Some elements outside the organism appear to disappear within it, while other elements seem to wrap it from neck to foot. The organism appears to leave its place of origin and wanders, apparently satisfying other external or internal requirements made upon it. What other reason for these behaviors might exist? Eventually, the organism appears to return from whence it came. The day's poor play, some might paraphrase, appears over. But who might know?

Can I synthesize East and West?

On a good day, with a quiet mind, rested and fed; yes. East and West are synthesized primarily by realizing that the basic qualities we ascribe to East and West are initially not really separated after all. It takes us some time to realize this, perhaps, and we always express surprise when what we originally think to be in opposition turns into the overlapped or complimentary. People everywhere are basically the same; it is only the externals which appear to make us separate. And there are some really strong powers which are invested in the development and maintenance of these separating externals. As we all have, I have felt the cultural and societal pressures of many of these externals of the West, but never felt particularly invested in some of them; they never "worked" for me. Some of the externals, of course, I must assume I remain blind to; to varying degrees we all still wear our cultural blinders. But the lack of investiture in some externals of the West, coupled with the known hypocrisy of some of their manifestations, has certainly kept me open to the possibility of new syntheses.