I think it's one of those mythical things - like anything else with spirituality really - which is much more about truth than about fact. Big chunky metaphor has a strength and validity of its own after all.
There's a batch of other stuff I can't coherently explain right now, but I think there's a lot of really interesting things with ego, and how retaining ego differs from person to person, and through experience within the same person. So one person's view of reality is challenged to the point of rejecting it by the idea that Fred over there is sure he's a wolf. Fred, over there, is suddenly building ego into the idea that yeah, wolf, so his reality is challenged to the point of rejection with the idea that his lupinity isn't some unshakeable physical reality to the universe. Just this whole really weird little interconnection.
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Date: 2012-07-05 05:14 pm (UTC)There's a batch of other stuff I can't coherently explain right now, but I think there's a lot of really interesting things with ego, and how retaining ego differs from person to person, and through experience within the same person. So one person's view of reality is challenged to the point of rejecting it by the idea that Fred over there is sure he's a wolf. Fred, over there, is suddenly building ego into the idea that yeah, wolf, so his reality is challenged to the point of rejection with the idea that his lupinity isn't some unshakeable physical reality to the universe. Just this whole really weird little interconnection.