Excerpt from
The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics By William Samuel

ABOUT ACTION AND “GETTING OUR SUBJECTIVISM STRAIGHT”

In all Metadelphia [Editor: the town where all the non-dual absolutists live] there is little written that calls for people to get off their rocking chairs and soft sofas and to journey up the hill of Self-confirmation wherein their work becomes quantum, for the whole world. The honest metaphysical textbooks written to date, correctly address subjectivism, not action in the world.

To really understand the inner nature of things, it is necessary, for a time, to turn from the usual emphasis on worldly action found in the objective studies. Metaphysics is intended to bring its students into a full consciousness of subjectivism, but this isn't happening yet.

Getting one's subjectivism straight is much like learning Einstein's equation. One must learn it—and its precision—if he expects to go out in the world and apply it. If one hasn't understood the rudiments of subjectivism, he can't live it effectively and he simply grinds away from valley to valley.

“Sam, what do you mean by 'getting our subjectivism straight'?”

I answer: Let's say one has a flash of inspiration. He sits down and suddenly intuits something like Einstein's equation. Whammo. There is Light. I have called this the Glimpse and have spoken of that in detail.

Then what are we to do? We set out to build the understructure, the bridge from the intuited Truth to its proof in the world. I call this “getting one's subjectivism straight.” It is quite one thing to catch a glimpse of the “subjective idea” (the inner nature of the world—or the world's connection to the Awareness that sees it) and quite another thing to get it all straight, clarified and understood beyond intellectualism. Einstein struggled with the proofs of arithmetic for many years before he was able to come up with all the illustrations necessary to explain his glimpse. This is part of getting one's subjectivism straight, and this is what I say religionists and metaphysicians (especially) are weak in. We want the Glimpse, but we don't know what to do with it when we get it. The ordinary scientist is most concerned with proofs.

And what next? Then we set out to LIVE our Glimpse. When we see our Glimpse's result in our own world of people, places and things, we have had our CONFIRMATION. This is comparable to Einstein having to wait twenty years before the world's technology could build something that proved his equation was ACTUALLY right in the world—the link between the Glimpse and its application. All of these things are implied when I say that metaphysicians must get their subjectivism straight if they expect to see their world lifted up. Does this answer your question?

Human stasis (getting comfortable in various bends of the river) brings the personal condition to undergo changes that hasten the individual's conscious move toward the Divine Rest. The Equation again. We keep moving spiritually or perish in human unrest. We keep moving onward, and the change is upward—smoothly. We stop moving, and the change forced upon us is enough to push us out of our comfortable places very uncomfortably. That is true at the individual level and equally true at the group, national and world level. The great push at the group level has already begun in the world and in its churchdom of “old theology.” It is soon coming in scientific and metaphysical circles, simply because subjective studies are stuck where they are, without the Child and without the Equation.

Human conditions delineate the Divine Alreadyness, the Rest-beyond-movement. The present unrest in the world is Everyman's approaching Self-discovery of the Child within.

Just as every dream is certain to end in time, so the rediscovery of the Child is an inevitable consequence of the world's having forgotten It.

NON-ACTION IN THE METAPHYSICAL COMMUNITY

Action and non-action are not two separate, opposing ideas; they are complementary sides of the same coin. Together they delineate the Divine Rest.

Metaphysics calls attention to the non-action or rest aspect of this “two that are one” and, thereby, balances the objective view's extreme emphasis on action. But metaphysics, being a way of thinking, just as objectivism is, is subject to similar mis-adventures when it ignores half of its own nature.

Metaphysical imbalance results in turning non-action into NO action, thus enervating the expression of metaphysics in the world, reflecting that state of affairs appearing as the individual metaphysician who does little or nothing for his world in the belief that his world is illusion to be denied.

Oh, what a round-robin of hopelessness and helplessness this is! What is the answer? We live our subjectivism fearlessly in the objective world—and the whole world benefits. (William Samuel)

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