Stranger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:19 amAbsolutely, and not just a metaphor, but an actuality: our own be-ing it is actually the same as the Cosmic Be-ing. We all are "be-ing" in the same way as the whole Cosmos is "Be-ing".
Ontically, Dasein [Being] is not only close to us - even that which is closest: we are it, each of us, we ourselves.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER, BEING AND TIMEतत्त्वमसि tat tvam asi - you are THAT
Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7.
When I said there are other 'metaphor-forming' beings, I intended to communicate there are Be-ings whose 'metaphorical thinking' doesn't only lead to attuning their understanding to deeper dynamics of their inner activity, as ours does, but leads to the creation and re-absorbtion of physical worlds and beings with life forces and specific soul-constellations.
For vertical spirituality, the question is not whether we are THAT, but where are we THAT? We clearly are not yet THAT on the physical plane - our creative thinking can at best manipulate the mineral kingdom to create new lifeless technologies, but it cannot create new life out of itself (abiogenesis). Yet if we are THAT, then there must be a plane of consciousness on which our creative thinking manifests with Wisdom and Will, i.e. participates in the very structuring of the physical world with all its kingdoms.
So where and how is this taking place? These are questions of vertical spirituality aka spiritual science. Standard evolutionary theory conceives that human beings evolve in response to changing environmental conditions which are independent of their activity, but spiritual science discerns that it's the other way around - human beings use their spiritual activity, in co-operation with yet higher beings, to create the environmental conditions which will allow for their optimal evolution and that of all other living beings through our successive incarnations. How does this happen? Obviously we can't confuse what I just wrote for an actual answer to the 'where/how' questions.
If we feel the answers to these questions are either impossible to find or haven't been found yet, then we haven't yet understood the vertical depth gradient of Time-rhythms in which all activity-modes of Be-ing are superimposed. It's not a matter of answering the questions out of our mechanical trains of sense-based thoughts on the physical plane, but of growing our "I" into the higher planes of thinking Consciousness where we have already answered the questions and turned the answers into World-forming activity.