Humpty Dumpty (II)

Express your individuality by ensuring the totality of "genesis", more efficiently exploring the dimension of the meaning of life.

In his brief speech to Alice, Humpty Dumpty outlines the future of the peoples’ hopes and offers the clue for our salvation: to become the masters of the words we utter, to make language answer our needs. Humpty Dumpty was a prophet, a man who told truths for which the world was not yet ready.

- A man?

- Excuse me. A verbal slip. I meant an egg. But the slip is very educational and helps me prove my point. For all men are eggs, given the right circumstances. We all exist, but we have not yet reached that form that is our destiny. We are potential in the purest state, an example of about-to-be. Since man is a fallen being – we know this from Genesis.

Humpty Dumpty is also a fallen being. He falls from his wall, and no one can put him back together again – not even the king, not even the king’s horses nor his people. But it is exactly this we must strive to do now. It is our duty as human beings: to put together the pieces of the egg. For each of us is a Humpty Dumpty. And by helping him, we are in fact, helping ourselves. *

Can you give birth to a vision of a different type of man through an act of knowledge translated into a concrete experience, so that you put together the pieces that constitute the plausible image of a Self that assumes its specificity?

Leadership derives its enormous power of human knowledge, oriented towards the inner or outer world, according to the meaning given to existence crossed through climbs and descents. Such leadership, directed towards an increasingly higher level of complexity, is based on the idea that each individual is a closed suitcase, crowded with the thoughts, deeds and experiences tested over a period of time, which can be taken as long as it doesn’t exceed a certain size. It is that dimension of the meaning of life, freed from the ephemeral condition of intangible values, which cannot be evaluated or coordinated.

Leadership can only create effects over the existential dimension and can only give birth to a vision of a different type of man, through an act of knowledge translated into a concrete experience. This is where the Self of Man comes into the picture, the image that you form about yourself in the unforeseen nature of events, but in such a way as to give coherence to a destiny that is an un-happening coincidence. The self is like an egg: it may have a strong or soft consistency, but once you have abandoned it, it can no longer excel in taste, quality and freshness.

To question existence, this temporary channel through which we achieve the transition towards the fullness of knowledge and wisdom that only the use of "measure" can control (dominating appearance), actually means to engage in a completely exceptional intellectual effort, which involves a battle on two fronts.

A front of the dedication towards new beginnings, towards a revival of the being and of the personality that hides, at times, the risk of facing your own consciousness, doubts, failures or remorse due to the fact that you didn’t do everything for yourself or for a noble cause, because of certain limitations. And a front of the inclinations towards fragmentalism, towards the diversity of truths that lead to the right path of your duties as a superior being, ensuring the alternation between the accumulations and transformations of the meanings attributed to the experiences of life.

Can you divide the image of yourself into pieces that are like a symbol of creation designed to transcend the original perimeter of its nature?

The egg is not only the symbol of fertility, it also represents the likely image of a creation considered a solitary phenomenon. Just as man's self vibrates with spiritual momentum: he is never abandoned by divine force, even in times of denial and doubt, but cannot form a world without first increasing its content.

The egg is the self that experiences a new birth, changing its aggregation status and existence parameters with increasing awareness of the need to be more than a meaningless entity. Thus, reactions to what is temporary will lose some of their intensity.

To find a flaw in the aspects of life appreciated as extensions of the self in a multitude of uses, actually means to find a crack in the egg shell. Meaning, to discover a certain significance in the confusion produced by personal reinvention, rather than to accept a "making" that excludes consciousness’ ability to discern between truth and falsehood.

"Genesis", synonymous with the search period, updating and optimization of a new identity, based on the successes and failures of lived experiences, involves the follow words: To turn man into your likeness – aiming thus a bringing together of all opposites that make him up, as appropriate as possible for your hypostasis as an exponent of superiority. You can help yourself in becoming a leader, only if you manage to embrace all these opposites, analyzing the life lessons everyone around has to offer.

A self that assumes its specificity is the image of a spiritual development that starts from an ultrasensitive existence and continues with the expression of a singular creative consciousness that seeks answers at a profound existential level, beyond the visible surface of the events themselves.

Humpty Dumpty is an expression that highlights that region of man’s existence to which is specific the ratio between conscience and belief, clarifying through the exploration of the world the meaning attributed to the knowledge underpinning his own becoming.

Before you create a vision for yourself that will differentiate you from the rest of the world, first try to express your individuality by ensuring the totality of "genesis", more efficiently exploring the dimension of the meaning of others’ lives. To do this you need a lot of life experience and a developed spirit of anticipation.

* Note: Paul Auster - New York Trilogy, Publishing House Univers, 2007.