Contribution 2: Eating Addictions and Blindness in the World Conscience (Suneidesis)

A Constitutional Crisis

No Darkness

Knowledge of Word shows us that Name (God or Life) is light and in it there is no darkness. Our singularity is light without any darkness itself. But darkness does exist in it through us as individual names if we count blindness as a form of darkness. Physical darkness is a phenomenon in our physical eyes only, for they cannot see Name’s light permeating everywhere. Thus, darkness does not automatically blind us, but when it does, that is where addiction takes place.

Using food addiction as an example, we will trace addiction to blindness to who we are in relation to Name. This can be viewed as an addictive personality, but it is from a completely different approach than psychology.

Be careful that the light that is in you is not darkness. The appearances that our physical eyes form always use a measure of darkness. But together, it is physical light and darkness that veil the light of our singularity, together making this light darkness to us. It happens if we are not careful and choose to love without our singularity. Doing so is giving our agapé to just some in the world conscience (suneidesis).¹ Restricting our agapé to just those in our circle within the world suneidesis,² we create problems that make it too weak for those outside our circle and too weak to see through the darkness of addiction.

Non-singularity blinds us to the truth that we are names of light in the world suneidesis. Step back and picture all of us physically on this miniscule dot in the universe and understanding a world suneidesis, collective co-conscientious awareness between us, becomes practical. Blind to this, we believe that the appearances that our physical eyes form of us are who we are and that they can provide all the agapé that life has to offer. When we cannot control these appearances, we think that we cannot control ourselves, so we unsuccessfully resist them and addiction begins.

What Not to Resist

We are unknowingly resisting bodily blindness in our world suneidesis, while thinking we are resisting ourselves or worse evil. As the knowledge of suneidesis, Word tells us not to resist evil, which is not to resist blindness in ourselves or anyone else. But being blind and not listening, we often believe it is the person who is evilness and that we must resist them AS SUCH, even resisting addiction in our bodily blindness as such. This keeps the light that is in us darkness, making us foolishly resist blindness again and again, all the more foolish when we think we are resisting evil.

For example, if faced with an eating disorder, failing to resist an unnecessary portion of food might be thought of as a failure to resist evil, even bringing judgment. However, even if we do not associate it with evil at all but to something physiological, when we see that the way to resist the food is not to resist bodily blindness in our world suneidesis, we gain a whole new perspective.

Resisting Involuntary Reactions

Among our many physical experiences, involuntary reactions permit us the least control, such as the involuntary reaction of saliva to the smell of certain food. But experiencing it as an inseparable part of addiction, we may blindly try to resist it, thinking it is a part of us, a part we cannot control. We may even conclude that our very nature is blindness (evilness) or that we are physiologically impaired and that we must resist and judge ourselves AS SUCH.

We are unknowingly resisting involuntary reactions through bodily blindness in our world suneidesis. Thinking that such blindness is who we are, we allow addiction in our bodily blindness to usurp the natural experience of our physical body. Thinking this is who we are, we have a negative view of ourselves. And this blinds us as names of light to our whole body in the singularity of Name, which, full of light, can never be usurped by our physical existence.

The provenance of the experience of who we are is Name in the bodily light of our world suneidesis, full of light. It is here, in the visual pattern of agapé names, where we find all the agapé that life has to offer. We are capable of expressing it in part through our physical existence—without addiction—and can get ready to do so when ready to build our own house of knowledge.

Without addiction, the involuntary reaction to the smell of food triggers natural desire for the food. However, experiencing it as a desire of bodily blindness in addiction, we consume food to satisfy our bodily blindness, which can never be satisfied, only put off by the limits of our physical body. Through this misuse of our physical body, we are misusing the desire of our whole body in the singularity of Name in our world suneidesis, full of light.

Fulfilled and Realized Desire

Name is the singularity of our collective whole body, full of permeating agapé names of light, and thus, Name never desires anything for itself. Upholding this, Name never stops using the principle in and as our world suneidesis. In other words, Name makes our singularity in Word more important than itself, the exquisite flow of light in and between all of us individually an collectively. But since we can and do individually leave our singularity through blindness, Name desires us to return.

We can say that Name’s desire is always fulfilled, and yet Name still desires that all of us return, making it unrealized for those who have not. It is not just knowing, on Name’s part, that we need to learn something, for we chose to limit our agapé and must now choose not to. The agapé that Name has for us desires us to make that choice. How could love not desire this?

Name, therefore, has fulfilled desire, which is no desire, and unrealized desire not for itself but for us, on behalf of us. When we are aware again of our singularity, our desire is fulfilled also, meaning we too have no desire. But likewise, we desire everyone else who has left to return, so we have unrealized desire for them, like Name, until they do.

Yet even if they choose not to return, our desire also remains fulfilled in all the agapé that life has to offer in our singularity, which is no desire. It is just that, once we have returned, we know how addictions rob us of will and make the return seem much harder than it is. With understanding though of bodily blindness in the world suneidesis, we can see our return within reach. With this knowledge, we know that the choice not to limit our agapé any longer is simultaneously the act of not resisting blindness and the addiction working in it.

Making such a choice collectively would resolve the Constitutional crisis in our democracy and restore the constitution of our individual bodies as well, in one sense, one in the same. For the democracy in our national and world suneidesis is the wellspring of visions for democracy in every nation of this world, ensuring our physical wellbeing also.

The Desire of the Soul

Knowledge of Word shows us that the desire of our soul is for Name and its memory. The word soul here refers to ‘God or Life’s primary ability to experience working WITHIN US.’ That is, our soul’s ability to experience naturally desires to experience Name’s presence in the present and in the past, Name’s memory. This is what fulfills our desire in the singularity of our world suneidesis. It is realized more and more as we witness others see and experience it again through the paradigm-windows of our house (windows that provide a view of the inside of our house as well as a view of the permeational outside).

Practicing the principle with fulfilled desire, we experience Name’s memory of our own past. Knowledge of Word reveals that, under such conditions, Name no longer remembers any of our wrongdoing, since, under the principle, our suneidesis is “reborn”. That is, it is no longer subject to limited agapé or addicted to blindness and its addictions.

In its natural state, our suneidesis has no desire to offend or harm others, making our past wrongdoings foreign to us. No longer attracted to the illusory desires of bodily blindness, we are free to start learning how to control our reactions to involuntary reactions. To learn this, we need to distinguish between the power of Name’s agapé for us in the present and the power of Name’s agapé for us in its memory—both in the Now of Word.

The Now of Word

As discussed, the Now of Word does not distinguish events of the past as distinct from the present in the world suneidesis, described as follows in Word’s own words:

“Before Abraham was, I am.” John 8:58. At that time, Abraham lived some 2,000 years earlier than Jesus. Aside from beliefs in Jesus being Divine, this refers to another dimension in time (space-time for some) that his teaching reveals is part of our suneidesis.

This explains the nature of Word’s suneidesis in us, while Name’s memory of the world does distinguish past and present events in but not of Word’s suneidesis. Name’s agapé for all of us in the present and in its memory is unconditional, whether our love for it has progressed from the past to the present or has digressed. It is also unconditional in the Now of Word, where the same events are not distinguished as occurring in the past or present, not indicating whether we are progressing or digressing in love for Name. They are simply part of the names of light in the flawless singularity of Name.

Seeing Name’s agapé for us both ways heals us from the harm addiction caused our world suneidesis, in our awareness of the past and present and in the Now of Word. They show us the power of eternity in Name’s agapé for us. This includes healing those of us who were under addiction and now have memories of having acting upon limited agapé stronger than death. Its hatred stronger than death made us believe that the power of eternity is hatred, which would have turned us against ourselves through addiction had we not chosen Name’s agapé in the principle. That freed us from being made to join then resist the illusory hatred of bodily blindness in our world suneidesis.

Seeing things in the Now of Word, we know now that, under limited agapé and illusory hatred, we had no other choice but to hold on to some form of addiction. Trapped in these illusory boundaries without any good boundaries, we thought we were experiencing enemies trying to crash through them, into our inner sanctuary of self. It was Word’s unlimited agapé and fulfilled desire in someone loving us from the singularity of our world suneidesis.

We kept holding on because we believed that, by bearing the occasional pain, we could still possess the sensual pleasure we were convinced could not be surpassed, the experience of our limited agapé through our physical bodies. Convinced that our attachment to food, sex, money and so forth were not addictions but natural, we could not see that it was the source of our experience that was natural—our whole bodily light in Word permeating each other in the singularity of Name’s world suneidesis.

The Diamond Light of Bodily Blindness

In the first article, I said that we would learn how to build our own house of knowledge—one that would empower us to love the enemies of suneidesis and, by necessity, free us from the addictive thinking found in prejudice on all levels. We have introduced the paradigm-windows of the house, the visual pattern of agapé names inside and outside the house, and the dialogues of light seen through its windows, all working from the principle of suneidesis. Here, we will briefly discuss how bodily blindness appears as diamond light in the Now of Word in and through our house of knowledge.

Seeing Name in and from our house works from the Now of Word, so blindness to Name starts with blindness to Word. The agapé light of Name does not change when we are blind to it, but since our agapé names permeate it, the misperception of it in our suneidesis displays it with additional reflections akin to facets of a diamond. The facets indicate our blindness to Agapé Name and Agapé Word and their light-dialogues manifest on all levels of our agapé names. The key points of discussion in the diamond light of bodily blindness are the reflections of the global politics of toleration.

Eating Addictions in Diamond Bodily Blindness

Addiction to eating or any other physical addiction is rooted in addictive thinking unable to break through the boundaries of diamond bodily blindness. Part of its facets just reflect involuntary reactions, readily permeated when we understand memory in the suneidesis. The choice not to limit our agapé any longer is simultaneously the act of not resisting blindness, for necessary blindness is now unnecessary. The choice is also simultaneously the act of not resisting the illusion of addiction in blindness, thereby refusing to give it life any longer.

In the singularity of our house of knowledge, the visual pattern of agapé reveals all the agapé of Agapé Name and Agapé Word. Take it all in. Give Name your share of it through those suffering from addiction and those addicted to making others suffer. Name is light in them both, and in the singularity they are part of, there is no darkness.

Question: Can we save our democracy? (Index)

1. Suneidesis is pronounced soon-eye-day-sis. After reading the link explaining it, you will see how central it is to this teaching. Using this foreign word regularly in discussions helps us get accustomed to experiencing something new and positive in our awareness. When the word conscience is used, it will refer to the aspect of suneidesis that involves right and wrong, but this aspect cannot be separated from our co-conscientious awareness of all things.

If I understand that my awareness of something as simple as a cup includes co-conscientiousness, I do not allow myself to get blinded by the cup alone but know it as part of all creation at the hands of the Creator or the universe, depending on one’s beliefs. I can easily picture people like Jesus doing that all the time and believe that suneidesis reveals that we all have the same potential.

2. The repetition of suneidesis is meant to challenge you to consider this dimension in your awareness. Apologies, but it will only be a necessary annoyance until it becomes natural.