Prejudice and Appearance

These Notions were derived from lucid dreams and are designed to promote thought only

Appearance and Prejudice

When all the colors of the rainbow are added together, they become crystalline. The “All and the Everything” of the concept of color, is no color whatsoever. To have color is to be only a slice of the whole. Thus, to understand the totality of pure light, one must traverse the entirety of the rainbow. Each of us is a color unlike any other; a hue of sparkling irreproducible splendor that glints only for a brief flash in time. We are an irreplaceable piece of the whole… but at the deepest level, we are also the whole itself.

We are all made of the same fundamental and indivisible material and so in the most basic sense we are exactly identical. We are consciousness that has given itself a form and a sense of self…a sense of separateness. Indeed, we are…each other. The only truth possible is that we are exactly equal. To consider another to be “lesser than” or, alternatively, to consider ones own self to be “greater than” is, either way the same, an act of fearfulness; the fear of being alone. The karma of fear tends to manifest the very potential that causes that fear. To be insecure or arrogant and conceited tends to result in the same thing…loneliness.

We are each an expression of every other. The charade of separateness and difference allows for the eruption of the illusion of the “better than”. Extraordinary attractiveness seems a gift on the surface but it is, in truth, a great challenge for the spirit. It is precisely the same as being…”lesser”. It is just another expression of being…different. We all are attracted to the confident, respectful, humble other. But is it not especially true when we see that expression in a being that the immediate environment has defined as extraordinarily beautiful…or…, equally, extraordinarily ”not beautiful”? Either way, whether gorgeous or repellant, it is just…”us” teaching ourselves that we are precisely the same as every other at our core.

The karma of seeing beyond the shell is the thing of truest beauty. Remember, the beautiful person who shunned you is just you when you last shunned someone because they were not attractive to you. The person you found ugly is just you wishing that someone, just some-one, would read your poetry and not pre-judge it by the scars on your face.

Ultimately, it takes many of us to form a rainbow…but it takes all of us, together, to form pure light.

© 2009 Michael Nielson, “A Novel Thought and the Art of Lucid Dreaming”