¶ Local vs. Comprehensive (2)
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Local vs. Comprehensive:
"away, it becomes more and more concerned with itself; and the big circle gets smaller and smaller, and finally gets to be a little dot above a little eye-- 1-- and then it gets to be a big eye-- I-- and throws away the dot altogether. And from then on its really in trouble.
"The god then takes all the cards and all the rules and the laws and everything and tears them all up in little bits and tries to throw them to smithereens-- and you’ve got to put the Universe together again and find out whether the integrity is really there.
"So we start in in World Game in trying to put it all together again. And this more or less matches the kind of evidence we have as a trial balance of Universe: How much of a mess can you really introduce and still come out of it? And the kind of mess that’s going on right now on our planet is typical: So how do you pull out of this mess?
“The god would periodically, then, reject himself so that we might become part of the great all-knowingness again instead of being separated out as ego.”
¶ Citations
- Tape transcript, p.16; RBF to B. Brooks, 30 Apr’74
