DICHOTOMIES OF LIFE

RECONCILIATION OF OPPOSITES

Our lives are replete with seemingly opposite truths, the truth of which depending on our perspective.

For instance, we are at a vortex, with energy spiraling counter clockwise downward into the earth, or is this a place of epicenter with energy spiraling upward into space? Fact, it is simultaneously both, depending on our perspective.

Wait, we say the same flow of energy can’t be both clockwise and counter-clockwise at the same time. Sure it can. It IS. Look down at the tree in front of us which is turned by the vortex. Looking down, it spirals counter-clockwise, clearly a vortex. As our view moves upward, at some point we see the opposite. It now is spiraling clockwise.

Wait a minute. Were we wrong in our first view of the direction, or the second. We discover we were observing correctly both times. How is this. As we slowly scan the spiral of the tree upward we discover there is a point where we no longer are looking down but up, the spiral shifts from counter-clockwise to clockwise.

Back and forth we look down then up. When we are looking down, it is clearly, unmistakably counter-clock wise. Vice versa when we look up. Searching for the point of change is an interesting exercise in perspective, when down becomes up.

This reminds of Dante during his journey into the depths of Hell. At some point, down became up. He kept walking, then climbing up a mountain, at the peak of which he discovered his beloved Beatrice, the…