So I'm up at my happy place meditating next to the cactus and the petroglyphs in Tucson that is a relatively short walk up from my parents place. And I'm sitting on a rock facing west and feeling the separation between the sky and the arid desert earth. And I hear the birds. And I notice one of the birds is making a lot of noise. Then I notice that he is trying to keep the other birds from sampling the nectar from the blossoms in a fairly aggressive sort of way. He (notice I'm assuming its a "he") even attacked another bird (with his talons) that was perched on the cactus. It didn't seem necessary. This was a huge cactus with plenty of blossoms to go around. And indeed, the aggressive bird left his perch to travel to the other side of the cactus to evict another bird that had briefly perched there.
And it seems that this bird would never establish any sort of community with this behavior. He would always be alone, attacking other birds until eventually he became old and one of the other birds got rid of him and continued the whole cycle.
Previously I had thought of the dichotomy between forces that unify and bring people together (light) and those energies that bring people apart, or ideas that separate people (luciferian). And sometimes you need division before you can regroup. I'm not necessarily poo-pooing lucifer, just pointing out that human civilization might have evolved because of the propensity of humans to cooperate and work together as a unity, for the common good etc, as opposed to lone bird aggressively guarding his territory. Without cooperation, I don't see that our civilization would progress. We would just be birds, who to my mind do not evolve with this type of behavior and will simply be as they are for the rest of eternity. I'm probably wrong, but go with me on this...lol
Mitch Horowitz is somehow related to this. So I'm in the car listening to his audio book where he rails against belief systems. And the thought occurs to me that in a way I sympathize with this criticism of belief systems and religious establishments. Hell, I probably agree with him. Humans tend to create all sorts of mischief with dogmas. And it takes a little luciferian energy to keep things fresh and moving. Yin and Yang so to speak. But at one level, criticism is somewhat akin to that lone bird, it is the force of separation--tearing people apart. And criticism is itself a separating energy. By criticizing, you separate, dissect, analyze, bring things apart. Its not a force of unity. And it never creates anything. That is a different energy. I suspect Luther either had someone else working for him, or channeled an entirely different form of energy when he got through nailing up the thesis and formed a community.
I think what I mean to say is to criticize my own criticism. My path is not the mind ultimately. It is to unify. Literally and figuratively.