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June 24, 2004

Bernard Henri-Levy

The French philosopher, Henri-Levy, authour of War, Evil, and the End of History, will be on Charlie Rose this evening.

Posted by kkukla at June 24, 2004 2:27 PM

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saw the show (c rose) and mr levy for the first time...had never heard of him before.
i was very impressed by his passion and concerns of where the world is headed and why.
especially the idea of "two peoples". i have had that concern for some time about the philosophy of man...thinking really, because the common man is not a philosopher, rarely even a thinker, just a reactor. that common man category includes most all leaders of our major institutions and nations.
they and the bulk of their followers are all dualists and becoming ever more polarized in their arguement between right and wrong. that is leading ever closer to a final conflict of catastrophic proportion called armegedon in one book.
man needs to wake up to the transcendance of trinitarianism as related to the current dualism of thinking. in trinitary matters the commonality of all is that third aspect. this is called spirit and is the agent of that called god or what god would represent if anyone would believe in such possibility. that spirit is the active binding agent of our universe, subjective to objective thinking of the exoteric and thus of little value from that perspective. yet, to the esoteric thinkers such subjectivity may have the priority. especially in the case of myself where i have transcended duality via the experience of personal communication (internal) with that said spirit. since that time my inquiry about that experience has led me to the understanding that when man becomes truly enlightened he becomes a member of the universe realizing only then the true differance between that and his former "fallen" state of dualism expressed in "world" thinking.
dualism is about +/- while trinitarianism is about +=- note the replacement of the divisional / with the nuetral = equal sign that unites. uniting as opposed to dividing is as is creation to distruction.
the dualist has only one goal, the pursuit of the good which at the extreme he calls perfection. there is where his god supposedly awaits. in that scenario all others that think otherwise are of the opposition and headed for hell. winners and losers with the losers deserving their destruction by self choice involving life decision making. these thoughts play out in the common mind even of the majority of the world s religious. especially detrimentally there because it is so powerfully expressed by those believing themselves so righteous as terroistic martyers and even superpower presidents who think themselves on gods mission.
god is nuetral, has no agenda, is expressed via spirit by the third party of that trinity that alone can transcend duality because it alone is cosistant with both sides where one can never know nor appreciate the other without spirit.
to look outside of yourself is to seek answers from others. others are fellow objective beings and brothers of the exoteric realm of physicality limited to those five related senses. to transcend to the higher real of esoteriscism one has to seek inside where spirit is found as the personal truth that sets one truly free as an individual....an individual connected to and related to all others and all other thru that spirit as it relates to the one god and all of creation.
i have found by personal experience that such is the truth. the truth that all seek because it is already within us calling to us. we have but to only go within and humbly seek it. the problem for most though is that their ego is still in charge and ego will deny anything above or beyond itself.
that is why so many of the rare few that are able to truly transcend, do so only after having experienced severe depression and failure to the point of complete surrender of the old ways of thinking, only the becoming open to the new and higher that leads to true wisdom. that truth is best expressed logically as +=- emotionally as unconditional love where one comes to know that god accepts all who truly repent in favour of at-one-ment (atonement).
icould say more..and someday hope to write a book in doing so....few will understand but those few may better help another few who can in turn help another few...someday enough may learn to really make a noticeable difference in a lost world.
i had hoped to find a way to converse with bhl about this...maybe someone out there can get my message to him..i know he would understand. j.

Posted by: j. at June 28, 2004 9:56 AM