Some Wake-up Juice
On knowing one is the universe.
Whenever I think I have something important to say and find the words to say it, it seems to come out as sanctimonious, naïve dogshit without actual substance. How else am I supposed to say: “You are the universe, but if you don’t wake up and realize that, you’ll be miserable”?
Okay, that may be preachy after all. However, that’s just how I feel toward people. They don’t seem to grasp that they have all the power within themselves to change reality and connect with the cosmos. It’s as if we’re asleep, and only rarely and seldom get hit in the balls with the entire fabric of existence’s force.
Let’s take a step back. What do I mean when I say we are asleep? Well, it means that how we usually relate to our environment is one of what I would call a disintegrated view. It means that we see things and events, even ourselves independent, and, going further, see them as being separate from the rest of their context.
This has the consequence of making us feel isolated and alienated from the environment, and so we come to feel hostile toward it. Because it is definitely not ourselves. This is the reason the general ecosystem of the planet is in utter shambles. Because we feel we are not of the world. Or even a part of it.
However, when a particular field of psychology looked at our conscious attention and noticed how it operates, we knew that how we select information from the totality of experience has a side-effect, which is known as ignorance. And ignorance is a major cause of suffering because of the fear it produces.
As I’ve explained the ignoring of space and our selection feature in other articles, I will save myself some space here. The feeling of being separate is a direct derivative of selection, or measurement. See, when you measure something, divide it into parts. And that is the selection where our conscious attention is concerned.
Now, I want to point out a parallel to this: the disparity that is created from everything we see as an “other”. If I am not you, and you are not me, then you must be another. And this otherness results in two kinds of group-dynamics: actions and reactions.
When we want something, we create an action, which is then reacted to by another member of the group. This keeps the dynamics of social gatherings going, more or less. I would love to dive more into one of my major concepts, called eventuation, properly, but that would turn this post into a thesis.
We know that every feedback-system requires at least signals that are being sent between the system’s parts to each other and then counter-reacted back somehow. And the strength and the efficiency of the signals taken could be called the system’s “cohesion,” or the connectedness of its members.
Besides this, in the physical world, especially at the quantum level, no real disconnection ever occurs between particle-waves. We already know that they can transmit information regardless of distance to each other and connect; This is called entanglement. This is your proper relationship to everything. Because some level of connection always exists, you connect to the rest.
If I have to draw out yet another example, let’s throw chaos theory into the mix. The mathematics can show that even amid the most chaotic, complex systems, there appear what seem to be patterns, repetitions, interconnectedness, and fractals that make the system cohesive.
Let me also remind the reader that we live in a single universe, so it makes no sense to me that everything in it wouldn’t be in constant interaction with itself. However, because we only feel sensitive at the tip of the finger, to use an analogy, we don’t realize the rest of the hand. That, too, is part of who we are.
I think the biggest hurdle most people have when they hear statements like “your real identity is the universe” is the jump one has to make in perspective. “Well, of course I’m not the universe! Otherwise, I would feel EVERYTHING at once!” The thing to see or understand is that just because your fingertip is hurting, doesn’t mean the arm isn’t there.
I do not know. I just like to talk dogshit. In fact, in the 10 years I have tried to tell my readers they are it, it never seems to hit a home running. Nobody is going to believe it at face value, and that is, of course, not only expected, it should be a matter of at least questioning it and experimenting with the possibility that maybe, just maybe, we might be the Eternal.
I can’t really fault people, either. But we’re in deep shit with our planet at this present time. So, I think it’s pretty urgent to see our connectedness with our environment, because otherwise we will destroy ourselves in the process of not knowing we were “it” all along.
L.
