When we are speaking in reference to life in terms of fluidity, disorientation of open space or the chaos at the entrance or exit doors, or enchantment by ghosts and spirits: we are often sensing and indirectly describing group temperament as well; ie.: being in the waters and the turbulence of it as opposed to the friction felt by the obstructive matter, and the invisible others or a single divine oarsman (intelligent design). Speaking from an appreciation for aesthetics we are accustomed to speaking of the waters; scientifically speaking we fix our placement in the moving cosmos by defining the forces (4 of them at least) as being a supple matrix of manifolds outside Euclidean geometry (such that light for example swims around objects in space). Speaking from a religious point of view we are conventionally coddled and consoled by a divine purpose or we are visited by and enamored of a multitude of spirits or angels which appear to escort us like dante's Virgil, or we are frightened by ghosts which appear to dart at and against us like hungry sharks.
This brings to mind visually that we observe and confuse two tangents of being and flow. We can and do look at an event both ways almost as if to say we view with both a parallactic and a panoramic intent.
Consider a flock of birds that in migration each is both following their individual magnetized path while at the same time expelled as a group by the cold front (the unidirectional impetus of self preservation v. the wave form of being driven by an external constrictive force ).
We as humans either feel more compelled at times to cross the river, expressing an individual and spirited force within ourselves; or at other times are engaged in and caught up by the force of the river, and even find ourselves relenting to its massive flow and become one with it (a case in point is Mishima's River of Action and the founding of his Shield Society). These then are instances which can be seen to correlate with the two implications of the Greek/Latin morpheme "meta-" (as a paradigm shift). We either advance together, beside each other, or we confront each other head on and place our tropaeum conspicuously along the dividing line. Our flags, symbols of unity, thus become symbols of our greater surrender to separateness.
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