The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dependency \De*pend"en*cy\, n.; pl. Dependencies.
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State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other.
--Sir J. Reynolds.So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England.
--Bacon. A thing hanging down; a dependence.
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That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.
This earth and its dependencies.
--T. Burnet.Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances.
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A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.
Note: Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in meaning to 3 and 4.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"territories subordinate to another nation," 1680s; see dependency.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of dependency English)
Usage examples of "dependencies".
It is said that these "personalities" are perhaps moods, or individual dramas, or "roles" (more labels), however they are usually turbulent among themselves and because of the dependencies of the human form, humans tend to "hang onto" these labels as a form of self identity: the "I am" statements.
As the internal dramas play out and manifest themselves from an individual, the "who is" (label applied to another) often changes as their human form dependency dictates that it must, and since this process is unthinkingly reflexive, owed to the turbulence within of conflicting dependencies, the decision "who/what is" another, is also an illusion.
That "struggle" is often formed between the various personalities representing the various role-plays that the human form has dependencies upon, and their interpretations about: he/she versus me.
When the body dies, or for that matter when the full consciousness leaves the body and travels into the third attention, body death or not, dependencies must be lost.
Freedom from the Eagle means loosing the human form of dependencies so that the being can be intact, coherent, and can then travel through space and time.
I see my attachment to the human form dependencies, I see that that is all I have allowed myself to be: an expression of those dependencies and a "rattling on" about them.
M: Anyone can "slip" off of "the way of knowledge" of course, because dependencies that most tenaciously (sometimes desperately, based on fear) hang on to, are quite pervasive.
M: When the human form (of dependencies and negatives) is lost, we are automatically "at peace" because there is no internal conflict with the various internal "personality roles" that humans carry around within themselves.
With "peace" a given in our systemic structure, what is then gained is the ability to u n c o n d I t I o n a l l y love oneself, without dependencies or condition in the absolute sense.
The "let go", of course, means the dependencies of the human form - BUT - there are precursors that can jump-start the process.
In order to have sufficient intent, it is necessary to loose all dependencies or the energy will "scatter" into the universe from which it was derived, and it might be said that this is to dissipate into oblivion: Eagle snacks.
M: The challenge is learning to leave dependencies behind, and the negative implications that these carry.
The Yaqui Indians (who descended from the Toltecs) say that this process is "loosing the human form", which consists of dependencies on many structures, both external to an individual and internal to an individual (in the form of imprints and distortions, most of which are initially established in childhood).
The process requires a high sense of self, in the best form that Ayn Rand's work suggests (in her works, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged), so that there are no dependencies on others, on egotism, on self deprecations, on anger, et al.
When the Yaquis state that "freedom is the eagles' gift", they mean through the metaphor of "the eagle" that the dependencies on the negative elements of the human form have been lost so that the consciousness will not be inhibited by the body or any other dependencies, so that it can continue into infinity - just the way an electromagnetic field propagates when is set free into space.