Gravity, Freedom

Flight for any creature or entity is especially initially battle for freedom from the force of gravity which is working on one’s weight and drawing all to the earth, and which force is unceasing in its functioning. Gravity doesn’t take a rest every now and then. So the greatest efforts are involved in the initial overcoming of the force of gravity from the earth into flight. This is when the resistance to ‘freedom’ is at its greatest. Once airborne, through for instance the harnessing of air currents and the physical makeup of that which is in flight, with features like wings, then gravity is much less powerful, even apparently not a force at all, though the reality of it will certainly kick in again in full if, for instance an airplane loses a wing in flight. So the airplane, being itself a physical weight-bearing entity, whatever its aerodynamic makeup, is still subject to physical reality, where the earth is exerting a force drawing such physical entities to itself as a natural and unceasing emanation, though even still birds are able to live free of this as ordinarily any real threat to their well-being.

Spirituality is likewise in opposition to the force of gravity exerted by the ordinary self, and particularly itself as identified with body and its egotistical desires or passions. This gravitational pull extends into and from  “the world” as a whole, i.e. the surrounding culture, which is the values of the self, however it is felt to be, extended. So there is great resistance to freedom from these parameters of self, both from one’s own individual nature and the surrounding world, which is this sense of self externalised into cultural norms. During a materialist age, as could be described the west for the last few hundred years, at the engine room level, then obviously the culture is particularly opposed to freedom from values of selfhood, seeing as these are the dominant values of the culture. 

 ‘Sin’ is what especially draws one into the domain of the self, and from which one then has to exert so much effort to get free again. Back down on the earth, back into this density of self, which is where sin drags us, getting airborne again isn’t so easy, and the force won’t give one up to freedom so easily. The worse or more enslaved to sin, whatever kind of addiction, the denser the gravitational pull of the self - and in a sense the temptation to sin is the gravitational pull of ‘the flesh’ towards itself. This resulting density of self is the equivalent of the physical creature’s weight that resists freedom, and so means it is far harder for a swan to become airborne than for instance a robin. ‘The spirit’ is, particularly through humility, freedom from this enslavement. Humility allows one to slip immaterially out of its density - for instance reining in one’s all too normal thought processes that harden one.

Declaring “egolessness” as a magic release from this duality of energies - freedom or imprisonment - is akin to saying gravity doesn’t exist. It doesn’t matter if the ego is labelled real or unreal, it will certainly behave as a reality the moment it is given a chance! It’s not looking to meekly surrender itself, and bask in the glory of weightlessness. Maybe it will just call itself egoless, and be more vain than ever. It’s perfectly willing to adapt to whatever circumstances - calling wallowing in self and its pleasures liberation, and so on. “Hooray, porn is now an embedded part of our mainstream culture. We are liberated from oppression!”

Despite the endlessness of the emanation of the gravitational pull, the very fact of flight shows that here even in this material plane, freedom in the form of flight is more powerful. If not, there wouldn’t be any flight!