Contribution 1: Restoring Good Boundaries to the Democracy of our Conscience (Suneidesis)

The Exquisite Light

Word shows us that our whole body is full of light if our eye is single, meaning that if we see with the singularity of our world conscience (suneidesis),¹ it has no boundaries of hatred blinding us. Name makes this possible by using the principle as the foundation of our suneidesis. Knowledge of Word explains it with these words: Name exalts Word above all of itself, meaning that Name makes Word more important than itself, the principle practiced at our source. This is the exquisite current of light that makes up our world suneidesis and flows in the visual pattern of our agapé names of light within itself.

Bodily Blindness is Evil not the Person

Choosing not to partake of the exquisite current of light is choosing not to see with our singularity, allowing the blindness of hatred to work its illusory boundaries throughout our body of suneidesis. This makes the eye evil as Word explains it, not the person, and their body (of suneidesis) also darkness, bodily blindness. Evil—what not to resist—is the eye of blindness in the body of suneidesis, the use of appearances that veil our sight of Name in each other and all expressions of blindness in the world.

Thus, it is also evil not to see Name in those who have a body of blind suneidesis, creating it in us. Both names are then blind, having refused to see Name’s beauty in each other, right before them. Now they are both unable to do so in the whole body of our world suneidesis, full of light.

Until hardship exposes it in them, they cannot see the boundaries of their own blind body of suneidesis, if they are aware of it at all. Take for example the loss of a loved one at the hands of another. If we have not been using the principle, it exposes our hatred in general for enemies of our suneidesis. But even if we have been using it, we still experience some measure of hatred for the killer due to the presence of the past in our suneidesis—experienced through the bodily blindness we still share in our world suneidesis.

We may experience the hatred only for a moment or twenty years, for this kind of tragedy cuts to the very nature of what it means to be human. Knowing what it means through the knowledge of Word though, we can start putting to rest the endless past in our suneidesis. It starts with not allowing bodily blindness in our whole body full of light to usurp our experience of the physical body. That is not who we are.

However, when we believe that is who we are in our physical body, the death of a loved one at the hands of another, especially when we love them more than our own life, causes the death of Name’s singularity in our suneidesis. That is, it makes us fully blind to it to the core. It works from the past created in our suneidesis by having made only our loved ones more important than ourselves.

A Limited Agapé Stronger than Death

Consequently, along with having an agapé (love) stronger than death for them and them alone, a limited agapé, which means we will die for them alone, we also have a hatred stronger than death for their enemies. We will stop at nothing to exact what we consider justice for the wrong they have committed against our beloved—according to the moral standard governing our blind body of suneidesis.

True justice is needed, but without the principle, it is not even possible to start the process and see beyond the appearances we form for them, those for whom we have a hatred stronger than death. Without the principle, we certainly cannot see them the way the world suneidesis does with its visual pattern of agapé. Seeing them this way provides us with an understanding of the blindness behind such physical actions.

Agapé Stronger than Death

With the principle and knowledge of who we all are in Name, our agapé stronger than death works in the singularity of our world suneidesis, where Name makes Word more important than itself. The death of a loved one is no less tragic, but what if the killer were someone else we love with an agapé stronger than death? We would reason through all appearances until we discovered the evil of bodily blindness in them. The real enemy.

They would still be accountable for having come under bodily blindness and its hatred, but once they did and were confined to it, we know by personal experience that they could not have known what they were really doing—for they could not have understood the principle, much less follow it. Word’s knowledge enables us to apply this to those who are complete strangers to us in the world—but not in our world suneidesis.

For according to relationships between names in the world suneidesis, we not only share co-conscientious awareness but it is who we are and thus, in our singularity, we know each other the moment we see co-conscientious awareness in each other in the world suneidesis, distorted or not. As agapé names, such contexts appear in our dialogues of light in the visual pattern of agapé.

Without tragic events and the knowledge to understand our reactions to them, we do not have the slightest chance of knowing what our blindness creates in the world. Consider how we look at each other through blindness from our political parties, how Israelis and Palestinians look at each other through their national and world blindness, without their world nation-names in the visual pattern of agapé, or simply how we look at each other as distrusted neighbors. All sides are trapped in world bodily blindness. We are locked inside our own illusory boundaries by not knowing how to safely give Name all our agapé through enemies outside our walls.

Real Boundaries and Illusory Boundaries

Contrast illusory boundaries to the real ones that democracy establishes between diverse moral standards to protect them. This is while also subjecting us to the real boundaries of laws voted in by the majority directly or through our republic’s representative vote. Either way, such laws endure the test of time only if the principle governs our national suneidesis. The overturning of Roe v. Wade went against the majority. Eventually though the will of the majority will prevail if the principle is being used, otherwise, we will simply be using another moral standard to govern our suneidesis and country, and it will not pass the test of time.

Homosexuality in Democracy

Word christened democracy with a single word, initiating the first day of the principle and every nation’s responsibility to establish it over moral standards. Abortion in many ways is part of a lifestyle boundary, using different moral standards than lifestyles against it. It is not much different, at least concerning the part in public view, than other mainstream lifestyles, whereas the part of the gay lifestyle in public view is extraordinarily different. Both of these lifestyles expose the illusory boundaries of hatred in us when we do not see Name in all members. For this we need to restore the good boundaries of democracy in our national suneidesis and country.

Restoring them begins by knowing that giving all our agapé to Name through names bound in bodily blindness means—through names who use their moral standards, different than ours or not, to judge others. This is work in our national and world democracy. In understanding their blind judgment here, we actively seek not to offend their conscience as an act of not offending Name in them, God or Life.

Good Boundaries in the Suneidesis

Good boundaries are about seeking not to offend the suneidesis of even those who actively seek to offend ours. Offending others and being offended both work from who we think we are, not who we are. And this works from beliefs in our world-names concerning who we believe we are, spiritual or physical beings or both. Thus, offenses are made or taken in blindness to our world-names in Name’s visual pattern of agapé.

Offending others is using who we think they are, always wrong, to judge who it seems they think they are according to what they say or do. Being offended is the result of such an attack on what we say or do touching who we think we are, not who we are. Simply put, the more we give all our agapé to Name through those who try to offend us the more we realize who we both are in Name.

The agapé in good boundaries works from the whole body of our world suneidesis, full of light, and the knowledge that bodily blindness in anyone usurps their physical experience. Therefore, knowing the difficulty in seeing through the surface appearances of gender and race, and moral standards and beliefs, we should respect everyone’s right to use their own physical existence as they see it within the boundaries of the law. Hopefully though, we create such laws using moral standards subject to the principle and not the other way around.

Neither Group Offending the Other

For those with gay moral standards, this means not allowing, through reasonable efforts, their lifestyle to offend the suneidesis of those with non-gay moral standards, who, likewise, should not allow, through reasonable efforts, their rejection of the gay lifestyle to offend the suneidesis of those who live it.

Understand generational and ancestral appearances that form a past in our suneidesis, most of which make us addicted to offending others. Until freed by the principle, all sides should work from the adage small gestures save lives. Small gestures in word or action can prevent the loss of life on either side, as well as the pain suffered in being offended. This comes from the deepest feelings of knowing who we all really are as Word teaches us, Christ in God or the Meaning of Life.

Even when we do not do our best not to offend each other, blindness is still the ultimate enemy on both sides. It is, however, the necessary enemy of blindness when offending others does not work from addiction. For then we have a choice not to offend and restricting our mind to blindness becomes the necessary response to our choice to restrict our suneidesis in order to offend.

We can hate each other’s blindness but need to suffer its offenses at least enough to avoid empowering it in each other’s suneidesis—with flagrant acts of disrespect that motivate revenge. We suffer this way and more every day for those we love within our illusory boundaries, because we believe that, by keeping our moral standard and beliefs, they are worthy of our forbearance. But this only violates the singularity of Word’s agapé in our world suneidesis. Likewise, forgiveness from our world suneidesis that rests on conditions works from world blindness in our heart.

We are left with a meaning structure of agapé that feels the singularity in others in our individual names only, insufficient to cross over and reach those outside our illusory boundaries. But consider the meaning structure permeating between democracy names with good boundaries. With it we feel Word’s singularity in every name we give all our agapé to Name through—millions of times over in our world democracy. With it we can help those suffering from the burning pain in the bodily blindness of their suneidesis, triggered at the very sight or thought of those they judge and offend. Making them more important in Name’s visual pattern can render their illusory boundaries completely useless and stop the burning.

With good boundaries in the singularity of your eye, consider the appearance of world agapé displaying empathy for the innocent but only hatred for the guilty. Even with sincere intentions, such limited agapé locks us inside illusory boundaries. These boundaries cannot protect us from the global political storm of tolerance, working its elusive blindness in the appearance of world agapé. Our house of knowledge will withstand the storm only if it is built according to Word’s principle, with good boundaries actively forming the least of us through its paradigm-windows.

Addiction to blindness in parts of our suneidesis makes this seem beyond anyone’s reach, perhaps even whimsical to some. The addiction is strongest in blind agapé names who always want to wait a little longer before seeing. Blind names who do not want to wait should do their best to give all their agapé to Name through agapé names of light who blindly want to wait. Of course, we express such love in the world only when it is wise, for light is not against itself.

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.