Saturday 31 March 2018

Make Oneness

Ramnuans "make oneness": they lose themselves in dance, music, chanting, winds and distances until they and the world cease to have names. Then they sleep and awake renewed. This is not what a human being calls "worship" because that:

"...involved a supposed entity dwelling beyond the stars -"
-Poul Anderson, A Stone In Heaven IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 1-188 AT VIII, p. 123.

But worship can also involve recognition of inner oneness.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I'm a bit dubious about this kind of "oneness." It's certainly nothing like the "oneness" achieved by the peculiar, "tri-bodied" Didonians seen in THE REBEL WORLDS.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
The question about any "oneness" is whether it is sub- or trans-rational.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

The Didonian "oneness" seems to be more in the direction of "trans-rationality" because it was formed by the temporary merging of three lesser minds. I would classify the Ramnuan "oneness" as more in the sub-rational category. A true "oneness" should also and always remain self aware. Which is what Christians believe is the case with the blessed in heaven with God.

Sean