"You are part of this universe.....in exactly the same way that a wave is part of the ocean" (Alan W. Watts)
I can't really remember being born, or what happened before that...
At the beginning of my life, I suppose I was forging a mental vocabulary out of shapes and sounds and feelings that I later grew into a perpetual state of inner monologue.
What is the essential information for all human beings? I honestly don't know, but I can describe to you what I think it is...
A gigantic entity of light, heat, energy, and radiant power called the "Sun" is responsible for Day.
Day time is the cosmic play of Earthly life forms. The Sun seems to be somewhat responsible for life forms. What is the relations between the Sun and Earthly life forms?
Day alternates with Night as the Earth rotates and gives all of its regions a shine from the Sun.
A cold, ancient stone orbits the Earth silently, and it is the white glow of the moon. Some say the moon is older than the Earth itself. If the Sun is the nucleus, the Moon must be an electron.
During the Night, the Moon acts as a mirror for the light of the Sun, and some day the Moon is responsible for the tides in the vast oceans of Earth.
Does the surface of the ocean curve with the rest of the Earth's surface? Or does it take the shape of its container? How does water take the shape of its container when it envelops the container? Or is the container actually Space itself?
At the center of the Earth is a living core of liquid fire and energy. At the core of a human body is a heart beating with life and energy.
We remeber the exchanges of night and day, and the memories of you and me, and the ideas of self and other, foreground and background, or space and time. These are all experiences that seem to occur in an area vaguely identical to our visual field. We only see the real universe because we see what our body (part of the real universe/ a small section of the real universe) looks at, experiences, and senses. In other words: as we walk down the hall, the hall walks down us. From this perspective, we form our opinion of what is true and factual. From this single perspective, we create our entire image of what reality "is."
The knowledge we normally credit as being intelligent is verbal and mental, living in our minds. But the non-verbal knowledge that we are born with is expressed in the very structure of our DNA, and the specific form and shape of our physical human body. We didn't design our own body, face, or brain. And yet, everything that is "ours," and our entire image of "self" is accomplished and understood through these pre-manufactured biological items. We are a mystery to our own understanding, but here we are anyway!
The picture of your world that you see with your eyes is only a model of light that you brain creates. This means that if a real world exists, you've never seen it. You've only seen the model that your brain created, based on the configuration of light and energy in the particular area that you are being. Furthermore, it seems that the only ticket into this world is a subjective experience within it. To gaze upon a world is to gaze from somewhere, and in our case, we gaze out into the same system that created us, that became us, that is us. As Nietschze once reportedly said, "As we gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into us."
It is my opinion (based on absolutely no academically respectable knowledge) that all manifestation in the physical universe is also manifested in the spiritual universe of consciousness and awareness. It is weird to assume that humans alone are entitled to this special ability. Consciousness permeates throughout the known, and all is unknown.
Chapter 32: Ultimate Illumination
Or: "Pig-Headed Assumptions Made in a Drunken Stupor While Driving Over the Speed-Limit In A School Zone Without any Regard for the Well-Being of Others"
At the core of this life is a direct experience of the "Oneness" we share with everything. The Whole Being that is and always will be the Entire Universe.
But this oneness is often missed because we think it is somehow "special, holy, or unattainable." These imaginary qualities we attribute to the Oneness are entirely irrelevent and unecessary. The sensation of oneness, or Cosmic Unity, is ever-present, and we do not lack it in any way. Even the common misconception that we are lonely individuals on a lonely planet is a part of this essential unity. Our ability to form opinions in any way whatsoever is purely magical, unexplained, beyond belief, and AT LEAST proof that there is intelligence somewhere else in the universe.
Your ordinary, everyday sense of consciousness is an expression of the divine universal life force. The very quality of being "ordinary" is made possible by the living, divine ACTUAL universe. You lack absolutely nothing, and your very sense of lacking is made possible by your automatic unity with the Ultimate Intelligence.
It isn't about believing in God or anything like that. Our ability to believe anything; our ability to think and feel and experience; these are all qualities of being human that are given to us by something unknown. It doesn't matter what name you give to this unknown intelligence. Simply acknowledge your own existence, your own life. Think of how strange it is that you are here at all; and how much more likely it would be that you never existed at all.
PART TWO
The living view of light and energy as it is seen through our eyes and minds is united with an Ultimate Subjective Experience (ie. God, Brahman) so complex that it has convinced itself that it contains billions of individual units that are also able to have subjective experiences.
In other words, "What is the result of subtracting the universe from itself?"
In the Physical World, Outer Space is the manifestation of complete darkness, and a Star is the symbol of complete illumination. All of Everything contains this basic relationship to itself.
By "Living View of Light & Energy As Seen & Experienced Through Our Eyes & Mind" we mean the exact experience that you are having right now. This is proof enough of a reality for most people. This is waking consciousness. This is the illusion of separate-ness we have while Being with the All of Everything.
These words may sound spiritual or religious (or just plain bat-shit crazy), but the concept of "Being" here is used as a symbol for waking consciousness, a state of mind that most people admit is somewhat realistic. The words "All of Everything" are used to convey the sense of infinity that we all have in our minds.
Whether or not you actually believe in something called "infinity," you at least have a sense of what it is like. You assume, for example, that the world extends beyond the borders of your own perception instead of simply ending where you cannot see and hear any further. By realizing the finite nature of your own awareness, you consider the infinite possibilities beyond it.
And the closest representation of Infinity that we have is our own mind and its capacity to represent whatever we think of. The nature of thought seems most closely related to the nature of light than anything else. Thoughts change and flow in a way that is different from light, but thoughts have the basic weightlessness and non-being that light has (in the realm of all perceptible objects).
Interestingly enough, all perceptible objects are known first and foremost by their corresponding light-image that we see. Or, if we are blind, their enegetically determined feeling (ie. Hard, Soft, Big, Small, Hot, Cold, Sharp, Dull, etc.)
=Happens All At Once-
"It is now 4 in the Afternoon" is another way of saying, "during its continuous rotation, the Earth was facing the Sun in a way that caused all visible shadows to point in the direction of slightly southeast."
At the core of this life is a direct experience of the "Oneness" we share with everything. The Whole Being that is and always will be the Entire Universe.
But this oneness is often missed because we think it is somehow "special, holy, or unattainable." These imaginary qualities we attribute to the Oneness are entirely irrelevent and unecessary. The sensation of oneness, or Cosmic Unity, is ever-present, and we do not lack it in any way. Even the common misconception that we are lonely individuals on a lonely planet is a part of this essential unity. Our ability to form opinions in any way whatsoever is purely magical, unexplained, beyond belief, and AT LEAST proof that there is intelligence somewhere else in the universe.
Your ordinary, everyday sense of consciousness is an expression of the divine universal life force. The very quality of being "ordinary" is made possible by the living, divine ACTUAL universe. You lack absolutely nothing, and your very sense of lacking is made possible by your automatic unity with the Ultimate Intelligence.
It isn't about believing in God or anything like that. Our ability to believe anything; our ability to think and feel and experience; these are all qualities of being human that are given to us by something unknown. It doesn't matter what name you give to this unknown intelligence. Simply acknowledge your own existence, your own life. Think of how strange it is that you are here at all; and how much more likely it would be that you never existed at all.
PART TWO
The living view of light and energy as it is seen through our eyes and minds is united with an Ultimate Subjective Experience (ie. God, Brahman) so complex that it has convinced itself that it contains billions of individual units that are also able to have subjective experiences.
In other words, "What is the result of subtracting the universe from itself?"
In the Physical World, Outer Space is the manifestation of complete darkness, and a Star is the symbol of complete illumination. All of Everything contains this basic relationship to itself.
By "Living View of Light & Energy As Seen & Experienced Through Our Eyes & Mind" we mean the exact experience that you are having right now. This is proof enough of a reality for most people. This is waking consciousness. This is the illusion of separate-ness we have while Being with the All of Everything.
These words may sound spiritual or religious (or just plain bat-shit crazy), but the concept of "Being" here is used as a symbol for waking consciousness, a state of mind that most people admit is somewhat realistic. The words "All of Everything" are used to convey the sense of infinity that we all have in our minds.
Whether or not you actually believe in something called "infinity," you at least have a sense of what it is like. You assume, for example, that the world extends beyond the borders of your own perception instead of simply ending where you cannot see and hear any further. By realizing the finite nature of your own awareness, you consider the infinite possibilities beyond it.
And the closest representation of Infinity that we have is our own mind and its capacity to represent whatever we think of. The nature of thought seems most closely related to the nature of light than anything else. Thoughts change and flow in a way that is different from light, but thoughts have the basic weightlessness and non-being that light has (in the realm of all perceptible objects).
Interestingly enough, all perceptible objects are known first and foremost by their corresponding light-image that we see. Or, if we are blind, their enegetically determined feeling (ie. Hard, Soft, Big, Small, Hot, Cold, Sharp, Dull, etc.)
=Happens All At Once-
"It is now 4 in the Afternoon" is another way of saying, "during its continuous rotation, the Earth was facing the Sun in a way that caused all visible shadows to point in the direction of slightly southeast."
Chapter 33: The Biggest Things That Aren't Real
Why do people read and write?
This may sound like a stupid question, and it probably is, but that doesn't make it any easier to answer.
I suppose the obvious answer is "they read and write in order to COMMUNICATE."
You see, I wrote the word COMMUNICATE in capital letters so that you would notice it.
So why do people communicate?
I suppose there are as many answers to that question as there are possible things that one can COMMUNICATE. In other words, people communicate because: INFINITY.
INFINITY is the number of things you can possibly communicate. Communication is limited only by expression and comprehension: EVERYTHING that there is.
EVERYTHING is exactly what it means: EVERY THING. Not just some THINGS, but ALL THINGS.
A THING is harder to define. A THING is single and individual, but it can be made up of many smaller THINGS. For example, a spring is a THING, but it is composed of smaller THINGS called molecules, and each molecule is a THING made up of still smaller THINGS called atoms, which are made of still smaller THINGS called protons, neutrons, electrons and nuclei!!!
Eventually, we're going to discover that THINGS aren't really THINGS.
They're WORDS.
NOW, is a WORD a THING?
or is a THING a WORD?
I suppose a THING is technically a WORD because it's something you can say, write, and use as a part of LANGUAGE...sometimes. There are also THINGS that can't be put into WORDS.
But a WORD is also a THING because it's a single unit, in a very vague sense.
This is much too confusing. LANGUAGE is too wobbly a platform to discern items upon.
Lets use MATH!!!
THING=1
EVERYTHING=Ω
INFINITY=∞
This may sound like a stupid question, and it probably is, but that doesn't make it any easier to answer.
I suppose the obvious answer is "they read and write in order to COMMUNICATE."
You see, I wrote the word COMMUNICATE in capital letters so that you would notice it.
So why do people communicate?
I suppose there are as many answers to that question as there are possible things that one can COMMUNICATE. In other words, people communicate because: INFINITY.
INFINITY is the number of things you can possibly communicate. Communication is limited only by expression and comprehension: EVERYTHING that there is.
EVERYTHING is exactly what it means: EVERY THING. Not just some THINGS, but ALL THINGS.
A THING is harder to define. A THING is single and individual, but it can be made up of many smaller THINGS. For example, a spring is a THING, but it is composed of smaller THINGS called molecules, and each molecule is a THING made up of still smaller THINGS called atoms, which are made of still smaller THINGS called protons, neutrons, electrons and nuclei!!!
Eventually, we're going to discover that THINGS aren't really THINGS.
They're WORDS.
NOW, is a WORD a THING?
or is a THING a WORD?
I suppose a THING is technically a WORD because it's something you can say, write, and use as a part of LANGUAGE...sometimes. There are also THINGS that can't be put into WORDS.
But a WORD is also a THING because it's a single unit, in a very vague sense.
This is much too confusing. LANGUAGE is too wobbly a platform to discern items upon.
Lets use MATH!!!
THING=1
EVERYTHING=Ω
INFINITY=∞
Chapter 34: A Rainbow of Happiness
If you have a theory or any idea about anything, this shows that you admit the possibility of a universe existing. If you simply deny the existence of anything, you have taken the easy way out, and you may now continue living in a state of total bliss and radiance.
But for those of us who enjoy the challenge of attempting to explain things, understanding the nature of the universe is a fascinating problem. In fact it is The Most fascinating problem of all! Knowing at least something about the universe seems to be imperative to survival, especially to an individual living inside of it. Logically, there is no reason for anything to exist, and logic can only exist after existence exists; so it appears there is no rhyme or reason as to why anything is anything or anywhere anytime at all, ever. The whole thing we call the universe is endlessly mysterious, puzzling and astonishing. And while you might think you're safe reading about it as a subject to "consider" at your leisure; it's right here in front of you. You are the universe being yourself, and your enviornment, and everyone you know, and the sky, and everything you could ever know, right now.
Most human beings today have almost no capacity to be fascinated and entranced by the mere state of existence. Experience has to come with some bonus features in order to be interesting; a stroke of good luck, perhaps. Maybe a twenty-dollar bill in the sewer grate or a rainbow of happiness. The cheerful exclamation of: "It's amazing to be alive!" has been replaced by the newer, more cynical adage: "life sucks and then you die."
Life has evolved to the point where being alive isn't enough. We want to be alive; while on the world's largest roller-coaster, listening to music, eating pretzels and having hardcore sex. We want three scoops of ice cream and four-hundred million dollars! We want nice weather every day! We want to laugh and drink and fuck all morning day and night! After all, what's the use of having sense organs if they can't be in a perpetual state of total satisfaction? Boredom is annoying and stupid.
The Infinite Universe is a huge organic clockwork of light and form and colour. If we so much as turn our head slightly to the left, the Entire Substance of Infinity seems to shift slightly to the right, visually speaking. I suppose this is because light from the world is pouring into our eyes and minds all the time, and we see it all from the very specific perspective of our own head. Using this basic information, along with the other sensory apparatus and our conscious imagination, we co-create our personal self-image and explain to ourself how we relate to the Whole Thing. But the actual experience of a body within a universe is all I ever remember feeling. Through my senses, the world seems too huge for my small body and mind to ever understand. But this state of being is how I define myself, and it is the only thing I know. The Self and The Other combine to make up the Whole Thing.
In other words, everything is simultaneously 100% subjective and 100% objective.
*****
If the world is the result of One All-Encompassing Ultimate Source, then we would say this is the Macrocosm. The corresponding Microcosm would be the human ego: a focal point of spiritual energy that is the beginningless beginning of a life narrative.
The Microcosm is an exact replica of the Macrocosm
*****
All human thought seems to emerge from the universe itself, for the simple reason that human beings seem to emerge from the universe. So any serious inquiry into the nature of the universe has a certain amount of absurdity to it, like a dog chasing his own tail.
But for those of us who enjoy the challenge of attempting to explain things, understanding the nature of the universe is a fascinating problem. In fact it is The Most fascinating problem of all! Knowing at least something about the universe seems to be imperative to survival, especially to an individual living inside of it. Logically, there is no reason for anything to exist, and logic can only exist after existence exists; so it appears there is no rhyme or reason as to why anything is anything or anywhere anytime at all, ever. The whole thing we call the universe is endlessly mysterious, puzzling and astonishing. And while you might think you're safe reading about it as a subject to "consider" at your leisure; it's right here in front of you. You are the universe being yourself, and your enviornment, and everyone you know, and the sky, and everything you could ever know, right now.
Most human beings today have almost no capacity to be fascinated and entranced by the mere state of existence. Experience has to come with some bonus features in order to be interesting; a stroke of good luck, perhaps. Maybe a twenty-dollar bill in the sewer grate or a rainbow of happiness. The cheerful exclamation of: "It's amazing to be alive!" has been replaced by the newer, more cynical adage: "life sucks and then you die."
Life has evolved to the point where being alive isn't enough. We want to be alive; while on the world's largest roller-coaster, listening to music, eating pretzels and having hardcore sex. We want three scoops of ice cream and four-hundred million dollars! We want nice weather every day! We want to laugh and drink and fuck all morning day and night! After all, what's the use of having sense organs if they can't be in a perpetual state of total satisfaction? Boredom is annoying and stupid.
The Infinite Universe is a huge organic clockwork of light and form and colour. If we so much as turn our head slightly to the left, the Entire Substance of Infinity seems to shift slightly to the right, visually speaking. I suppose this is because light from the world is pouring into our eyes and minds all the time, and we see it all from the very specific perspective of our own head. Using this basic information, along with the other sensory apparatus and our conscious imagination, we co-create our personal self-image and explain to ourself how we relate to the Whole Thing. But the actual experience of a body within a universe is all I ever remember feeling. Through my senses, the world seems too huge for my small body and mind to ever understand. But this state of being is how I define myself, and it is the only thing I know. The Self and The Other combine to make up the Whole Thing.
In other words, everything is simultaneously 100% subjective and 100% objective.
*****
If the world is the result of One All-Encompassing Ultimate Source, then we would say this is the Macrocosm. The corresponding Microcosm would be the human ego: a focal point of spiritual energy that is the beginningless beginning of a life narrative.
The Microcosm is an exact replica of the Macrocosm
*****
All human thought seems to emerge from the universe itself, for the simple reason that human beings seem to emerge from the universe. So any serious inquiry into the nature of the universe has a certain amount of absurdity to it, like a dog chasing his own tail.
Chapter 35: Synchroincidence
By looking at someone's face (with your face) can you tell what they are thinking (using your thoughts)? Is it reasonable to assume that basic categories of human thought and emotion have corresponding facial expressions? Do thoughts cost money, or weigh anything? Sometimes. Which conveys more information: the human face or the words we use?
What is the difference between "looking" and "seeing" (besides their audio and grammatical differences)? Are you looking at what I'm seeing? Do you really see what you're looking at? Does seeing involve more thinking, or does looking?
You see what I mean? Look....
I see you looking at me!!
(About Cities):
In a modern HUMAN city, we have buildings and streets. Buildings are geometrical entities. They are often rectanglish. Other times not, but often. Streets are geometrical entities masquerading as two-dimensional symbols [they don't fool me]. We drive on streets, they take us places. Is the car moving along the street? Or does the street move unto each car?
INTERIOR: Inside the buildings we have rooms and hallways. Often we see electronic lights illuminating rooms [and hallways] at night. Doors are the gateways or valves between separate rooms or glands.
........
(IMPORTANT EQUATIONS TO PONDER):
a=a
((IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANALOGIES TO TELL YOUR FAT KIDS)):
Hallway is to Room as Street is to Building
City is to Wilderness as Fish is to Water.
The humans will always be the only ones who call them humans. Until they're not!
Bubbles are wholly the shape same our as planet.
eight
88888888888888888888888888888888888888
many eights
......
The buildings in a city are either public or private. But you can see them, exterior. [Do not unauthorizedly enter my private building. I built it! Paid for it! Live in it! Privacy dammit!!!!]
Private buildings are usually homes and houses. Public buildings are categorized by the mode of human conduct expected in that building. In a store, you are expected to act like a customer. If you act like a knife wielding maniac, or a confused stupid person, you will not be acting in accord with the rules of that establishment, and you will be asked to leave. If you foolishly persist in your folly, you many wind up in the ample arms of law enforcement entities.
Have you ever met a remarkably stylish grandpa? Of course you have.
Apart from buildings and streets, what is human society?
A bunch of humans?
Doing what?
When did it happen?
Who was there?
What did they do, walk around?
They walk around all of their lives?
To what end? What is the meaning of life beyond life itself?
Besides death? Ask anyone! Has it been figured out yet? Does the drama stop here? Is the cosmic performance over? Curtain call? Is the cast party nearing its end? Have the archetypes all met underneath their superficial guises? Our personalities are ancient variations on the ideas of the real gods and goddesses of Nature, RNA/DNA.
You guise!!! Hey, you guise!!!!
Is an anthill distinct from the surrounding sand? Is a tree distinct from the forest? Some people think so. What do other animals think? Do trees think? I think they do.
(winning numbahs: 37, 23, 44, 56, 69, 70, 82, 91, 105, 113)
000
Opening your eyes is a physical trick that most of us can do while blinking & waking. Is this as awake as you can get? is it possible to become more awake without the aid of a chemical stimulant?
The thoughts you have in your mind are not at all like the hands you have on your arms, and vice-versa (you're almost twelve, you should know that by now).
In the early morning hours, any city can be seen as coherent with the whole spectrum of nature. It takes a little practice during the day.
The entire image of what you see with open eyes is, if you really notice, entirely determined by YOU. Your location in space controls the contents of your visual field (ie. you will probably see sand if you are in the desert, and you will most likely see walls in the room). Your perspective determines the size and shape of all you see, since distance seems to decrease size, visually speaking. And so forth. The actual substance and being of anything you lay eyes on is mysterious. We cannot [comment on it] at this date. The actual being and substance of the self you think you are is similarly mysterious and unknown [variable blank blank blank] and so we have a complete mystery gazing out into a complete mystery and that is all that I know and suspect that there is.
The feeling of certainty is only a feeling and, I feel that it's [real]ly real!!
What is the difference between "looking" and "seeing" (besides their audio and grammatical differences)? Are you looking at what I'm seeing? Do you really see what you're looking at? Does seeing involve more thinking, or does looking?
You see what I mean? Look....
I see you looking at me!!
(About Cities):
In a modern HUMAN city, we have buildings and streets. Buildings are geometrical entities. They are often rectanglish. Other times not, but often. Streets are geometrical entities masquerading as two-dimensional symbols [they don't fool me]. We drive on streets, they take us places. Is the car moving along the street? Or does the street move unto each car?
INTERIOR: Inside the buildings we have rooms and hallways. Often we see electronic lights illuminating rooms [and hallways] at night. Doors are the gateways or valves between separate rooms or glands.
........
(IMPORTANT EQUATIONS TO PONDER):
a=a
((IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANALOGIES TO TELL YOUR FAT KIDS)):
Hallway is to Room as Street is to Building
City is to Wilderness as Fish is to Water.
The humans will always be the only ones who call them humans. Until they're not!
Bubbles are wholly the shape same our as planet.
eight
88888888888888888888888888888888888888
many eights
......
The buildings in a city are either public or private. But you can see them, exterior. [Do not unauthorizedly enter my private building. I built it! Paid for it! Live in it! Privacy dammit!!!!]
Private buildings are usually homes and houses. Public buildings are categorized by the mode of human conduct expected in that building. In a store, you are expected to act like a customer. If you act like a knife wielding maniac, or a confused stupid person, you will not be acting in accord with the rules of that establishment, and you will be asked to leave. If you foolishly persist in your folly, you many wind up in the ample arms of law enforcement entities.
Have you ever met a remarkably stylish grandpa? Of course you have.
Apart from buildings and streets, what is human society?
A bunch of humans?
Doing what?
When did it happen?
Who was there?
What did they do, walk around?
They walk around all of their lives?
To what end? What is the meaning of life beyond life itself?
Besides death? Ask anyone! Has it been figured out yet? Does the drama stop here? Is the cosmic performance over? Curtain call? Is the cast party nearing its end? Have the archetypes all met underneath their superficial guises? Our personalities are ancient variations on the ideas of the real gods and goddesses of Nature, RNA/DNA.
You guise!!! Hey, you guise!!!!
Is an anthill distinct from the surrounding sand? Is a tree distinct from the forest? Some people think so. What do other animals think? Do trees think? I think they do.
(winning numbahs: 37, 23, 44, 56, 69, 70, 82, 91, 105, 113)
000
Opening your eyes is a physical trick that most of us can do while blinking & waking. Is this as awake as you can get? is it possible to become more awake without the aid of a chemical stimulant?
The thoughts you have in your mind are not at all like the hands you have on your arms, and vice-versa (you're almost twelve, you should know that by now).
In the early morning hours, any city can be seen as coherent with the whole spectrum of nature. It takes a little practice during the day.
The entire image of what you see with open eyes is, if you really notice, entirely determined by YOU. Your location in space controls the contents of your visual field (ie. you will probably see sand if you are in the desert, and you will most likely see walls in the room). Your perspective determines the size and shape of all you see, since distance seems to decrease size, visually speaking. And so forth. The actual substance and being of anything you lay eyes on is mysterious. We cannot [comment on it] at this date. The actual being and substance of the self you think you are is similarly mysterious and unknown [variable blank blank blank] and so we have a complete mystery gazing out into a complete mystery and that is all that I know and suspect that there is.
The feeling of certainty is only a feeling and, I feel that it's [real]ly real!!
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