Meditation: Self and others
Star Trek Meditation: Self and others (And the Children Shall Lead)
TYPE: Class consciousness
PURPOSE: This Audio-visual Meditation Narration reminds us that self-being sits on class-being, and class-being of species-being. There is strength in numbers, and you can feel it directly. Knowing you belong, that you have team support, is a formidable power.
CONTEXT:
(Gorgan appears.)
GORGAN: Who has summoned me?
KIRK: I did, Gorgan. My beast is gone. It lost its power in the light of reality. I command again, and I ordered you here.
GORGAN: No, Captain. I command here. My followers are strong and faithful and obedient. That’s why we take what is ours wherever we go.
SPOCK: You take from those who do not know you.
KIRK: And we know you.
GORGAN: Then you know I must win, Captain.
KIRK: Not if we join together to fight you.
GORGON: Foolish. You will be destroyed. I would ask you to join me, but you are gentle, and that is a grave weakness.
KIRK: We’re also very strong.
GORGAN: Ah, but your strength is cancelled by your gentleness. You are full of goodness. Such as you cannot be changed. You are like the parents. You must be eliminated.
KIRK: Children, I have pictures of some of you on Triacus. I’d like to show them to you. Would you like to see them? Mister Spock, the pictures.
GORGAN: I forbid it.
SPOCK: Why should you fear it?
GORGAN: I fear nothing.
KIRK: So we were told. Mister Spock, the pictures. The children are waiting.
METHOD: Listen with your class- or social-being. That self is just as agentive as habit, or hunger.
TIMESTAMP: 43:48