Drawn Together

What is it that draws us together? Surely our individuality and competing interests, our dependence upon the same sources for need fulfilment, our natural character and tendency would at or during our interface with each other, separate us through greed in fear or at best diffugient and alone. But no, partly by resource concentration, are we physically drawn to the same space. Other than resource availability, and need fulfilment, what determines our common arrivals and departures. Coincidence?

Who is it that feeds at the same time we do? Kindred Spirits? Competing interests? Happenstance common arrivals? Predisposed entities? Whoever it is, the fact of their presence in a want satisfying resource rich zone, means that they have, or are, or will probably partake of the same resource we partake.

The common arena, the condition of common want fulfillment, the tendency to arrive in common and individually at places which contain the substance for which our physicality strives in necessity, forces our behavior toward each other at this common site to be defined as consensus. Consensus, even cooperation, in their broadest understanding, propose a dichotomy: amity in all its various forms vs animus in its distinctive manifestations; a dichotomy which helps us to place a handle on this topic of the esoteric community. The dichotomous approach gives us a pendulur reference by which to arrange our awareness into a communication that leads to consensus, "Do I stay and feed?(Comfortably?, Warily?)", "Do I aid and inform others?(sincerely, in subterfuge", "Do I flee?(as quickly as possible, slowly and ceremoniously)", "Do I stay and fight?(briefly, to the death)", and the capitalist "Shall I profit?(what no parenthetical?)".

This is the context in which we find spirit a part of life. Not to be so anxious as to accept that there is spirit without first investigating the facts, we might simply, though, consider the reference throughout much of history to spirit as an indication of its vernacular presence there. Then, to hear today of the ‘team spirit’, the ‘spirit of cooperation’, the ‘spirit of meanness’, the ‘spirit of the law’, and the ‘spirit of life’, as non exhaustive examples of its broad acceptance in current vernacular. Even in the words such as amiable and animus is hidden the thought of a spirit which precepts and contains and projects the definition of those words. These understandings of spirit, then, give us descriptions of a tangible spirit. There are tomes and traditions of culture, rooted in antiquity and verdant yet today, where ‘Spirit’ is understood as more than feeling, sense, emotion, or intuition, rather as encompassing and an entity, a being, a person, even a god.