12-17-2016, 12:00 AM
There are allies that we create, or perhaps co-create along with the existing conscious energy around us. We can make a cup into an ally tasked with keeping our coffee warm on a cold day. If we are strong in our intent and intelligent in how we handle that ally, that cup can keep the coffee warm much longer than a simple cup would in the hands of an average man. These are the sorts of allies that I believe you normally write about.
What I'm calling an ally from the show was different than that though. Most viewers would call it a hallucination, as would most probably the show's authors. I'm hypothesizing the idea that it was not. It wasn't something created by his imagination, but a separate inorganic being which he was only able to see due to his oxygen deprived state. In that case, this would be a different kind of ally. One who arrives voluntarily to help. Perhaps he heard Z's soul crying out for assistance or something.
At a higher level, assuming "I am one with the universe" and "I am all" then we could argue that the over-being who was both Z and the Russian, (and everything else), created the Russian as an ally for Z. This would be similar to the way we might do it with a cup to keep our coffee warm. However, we don't normally, (and I've yet to ever), operate from this over-being state so the question remains, is this a good depiction of a potential IOB ally from a perspective of individuated beings? To me it not only looks like a good depiction of it, there are certain things about how the ally acts that "feel right" for what I'd expect from this kind of ally. Has your experiences with these sorts of allies been like this?
BTW - good point about the other sorts of allies.
What I'm calling an ally from the show was different than that though. Most viewers would call it a hallucination, as would most probably the show's authors. I'm hypothesizing the idea that it was not. It wasn't something created by his imagination, but a separate inorganic being which he was only able to see due to his oxygen deprived state. In that case, this would be a different kind of ally. One who arrives voluntarily to help. Perhaps he heard Z's soul crying out for assistance or something.
At a higher level, assuming "I am one with the universe" and "I am all" then we could argue that the over-being who was both Z and the Russian, (and everything else), created the Russian as an ally for Z. This would be similar to the way we might do it with a cup to keep our coffee warm. However, we don't normally, (and I've yet to ever), operate from this over-being state so the question remains, is this a good depiction of a potential IOB ally from a perspective of individuated beings? To me it not only looks like a good depiction of it, there are certain things about how the ally acts that "feel right" for what I'd expect from this kind of ally. Has your experiences with these sorts of allies been like this?
BTW - good point about the other sorts of allies.