It has often been said:
Without a Vision, the people perish.
Or:
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Or:
Seek first the One Thing, and All these other things will be added unto you.
Or:
_Two cannot walk together unless they are aligned..
Or:
Be not unequally yoked together, for… what communion has Light with Darkness?
The point is simple and pragmatic. In order for us to move and commune together on a Quest, we have to have a shared Vision, Intention, and Goal.
A well-articulated shared Vision, Intention, and Goal implies within itself a coherent and integrated Structure of Value.
The Structure of Value orders the Total Nested Hierarchy of Goods implied by The Goal.
Without this, as we learned before, not only will we be heading in different directions, but the subsets of Reality we Perceive will be different.
In this divided state, we could literally be walking along the same Path and Perceive different realities.
This is because each of the realities we are perceiving are different sub-sets of Reality as it actually is.
For example, if we are heading towards a town, and my Intention is to Love and Serve the people of that town, and I am envisioning Helping them and preparing a feast for them when we arrive, the fruits, nuts, berries, and other forms of sustenance or beauty will manifest themselves to my attention as What Matters, and the sticks and stones will not.
If your Intention, however, is to Exploit and conquer the people of that town, and you are envisioning Harming and subjugating them through force when you arrive, the sticks and stones and other potential weapons will manifest themselves to your attention as What Matters, and the fruits, nuts, and berries will not.
The One Path we are both walking along will manifest to each of us an entirely different subset of its Reality, based on what we perceive as Tools or Anti-Tools in relation to the Vision / Intention / Goal we are holding in Mind and moving towards.
It will look to each of us as if we are walking along entirely different paths, in entirely different states of Mind, Perceiving entirely different things. The abundance or lack of good gifts will be apparent to me, and the abundance or lack of weapons will be apparent to you.
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