Chapter 31: We Are All Rays From The Same Sun

"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.