In the
beginning was the “Word”; the “Alpha” and “Omega”; the Idea…of God/Love. Then, there was the ‘receptor’ (lat.: re-again;
capio/ere- capture); the container; the concept.
If the
first idea is God/Love, the conceptual containers are ‘Mothers. This
stem-source of Ideas and their manifestations
(or better said ‘woman-ifestations’),
through concepts, is then divided and subdivided into ‘mesh-words,’ that state
shared positions, opinions and stances. Families
would be these existential ‘position-statements’. As ideas continue their
fissions and fusions into the multiple interpretations among families, we
create communities of
inter-relatedness. They all require understanding in a common code.
This Spring
break, my sisters and I spent time with our Mother, who is still the conceptual
mold within our family. If ideas are liquid, she is the container that
determines their shape. I confirmed, that the beliefs and meaning that she has
given to her ideas, have molded the vessels of understanding in our homes, their
rules and the interpretation we all assign, to Love. It would seem that ideas conceived and spelt
out by our Mothers, are the ones that give families their conceptual alphabet.
My Mother taught my sisters and me to speak, to listen and to understand both
inner and outer dialogue. It is her definitions that give us understanding of
life. Even as I teach, I repeat such molding. Thus, mothers are the direct
first-line-meaning that we give to words.
During our
visit, my Mother urged us to teach our children to read.
“The new
generations aren’t reading” she said. “We must insist that they read, so that
they can develop the capacity to re-create images and project them in the
imagination”.
Reading,
undeniably, stimulates neural activity and opens mental maps to new ideas. But
I would add…we must teach children to think..to question…to want to ‘know
more’; ‘why’; ‘what for’… We must teach them to read ‘vertically’ between the
lines, to see what is unseen, to intuit. We must teach them to contemplate and
meditate so that they can ‘read meaning’ into their lives and not just read
words. We must teach them to contact ideas first-handedly so that they can
appropriate their meaning and make concepts of their own.
‘Re-cognizance’
comes when we break out of the molds that define ideas with the concepts
created by mothers, and reach out to ideas, first-handedly. When we develop
introspection and explore our own understanding, reassigning personal meaning to
the ideas we contact, we create new concepts. Blogs allow for such liberal exploration. They
set the matrix for ‘re-presentation’ of ideas, their shared understanding and
the possibility or re-creating joint meaning through interactive synergy. On
internet, this networking through the ‘web’ creates cohesive bonding within communities of
shared understanding.
Although
‘Ideas’ are absolutes, their
experiencing is relative and
individuated. Blogging gives us each, the opportunity to broaden our outlook to
conceive a fuller Truth, through shared
kaleidoscopic ‘realities’. Thus, ideas become more important, even, than
ourselves. You and I, and others like us, are all re-creating ideas through our
imagination, our subjective interpretation and our personal experiencing, as we
fill in the cells of this conceptual ‘Mother Matrix’, in the web. Finding and
assigning new meaning to ideas is the revolutionary way to transcend both the literal
‘here and now’ and the local ‘me’. On the blogger, I cease to worry about the
roles I have to play and the ‘persona’ I have to be, for acceptance….When I
blog, I feel more authentic, because of the freedom to express my ideas.
The meaning
we each give these transcendental ideas,
will allow us to re-create concepts and network through bridges of significance,
to reach others. Shared understanding is the cohesive link that will transform
the world.
