My response to the article.
There
are two levels: the metaphysical foundation of what are we, i.e. the
machine question and what is reality. I
have written a lot on this subjects, but I wrote this once,
“What we choose is
what we perceive in confluence with all beings.
The choices made by what is perceived to be volition in the forms of a
higher cognitive function mind deliberately choosing, a lower cognitive
function animal operating on what we call instinct, a bacterium replicated, a
virus attacking a cell or a photon taking both particle and wave, these are
iterations of what possibility is. This
is the universe. Reality is the
subsection of this confluence our perception is limited to digest in this current
form.”
The
what are we question…
I
think the ego wants to be touched the way a mother touches child in all the
iterated physical, emotional, and mental forms to correlate with evolutionary
instructions of survival, but reality is not touch. True reality is an absolute
interconnectedness that our human form hinders.
The pinnacles of the human experiences are when we are shedding this
restriction when we express love, presence, deep personal conversations and
acts of sublimating our ego for this greater idea of what we are, we feel most
alive when we are letting go of our ego.
The ego to me is the evolutionary pilot of the machine of our brain that
spiritual reality needs to be a person, but does not need the ego to be what we
really are. We meaning the collective
entire universe we.
The
ego and sensory perceptions of the body coddling the ego perceive a biased
image of reality based on evolution through the filters we employ inside the
human paradigm. A dog does not see a
piece of fruit the way a human sees a piece of fruit. A human does not smell that piece of fruit
the way a deer smells. Reality is a
function of the observer. This is the
evolutionary advantage Hoffman describes that it is advantageous for an evolved
organism to perceive reality in a distorted form.
What
the universe is: human, plant, mineral, plasma, etc. is of a common thread
beyond the atomic. Once you take atoms
and time out of the paradigm of existence and you contemplate the metaphysical
what are we, what is this, the big crayon type questions, I tend to get back to
this idea that tangible reality perceived inside this human form is yes like
the article alludes, subjective to the observer. Reality is like a film strip where each
member of the audience has a different camera angle and lens pointed at the
same universe.
The
kindness and hurt that our volition elects to engage is not consequence-based
beyond space-time. True reality is not evolving,
saving, or damning the self in a paradigm outside the now. The ego wants perpetuation in death, not
annihilation so it creates tethers of consequence. The ego is an illusion of the brain and to me
has nothing to do with that metaphysical spiritual equation. The ego wants the “you did a good job, bad
job” thing. The ego wants a personal
purpose and to make a difference, to participate in the great big jello to see
it giggling reverberating the good we did in the world and take some kind of
solace in the wave’s vibration.
The
waves and the good we do or do not create are not about us or just us creating
them. The true basis of reality is
interconnected, all of it. So to think
on the platform of time and claim “I did good or I did bad” is to segregate
self and other, living and non-living, environmental setting from actors, it is
to postulate a stage exists. There is no
stage. There is only stimuli to our
sensorial intake-devices interpreting physical reality in a manner comfortable
to the ego in our brain.
The
quantum level of reality informs us that a particle will take two forms at
once. This quote from my book might help
to explain, what I think that means
“Why did an atom go
where it went? Not because it chose to
go left instead of right or to operate as a particle rather than a wave. The atom went where it went because it
simultaneously went and is all ways. It
went all possibilities. Our brains may
struggle to conceptualize this, because we perceive it went left. The atom participated in forming this
organized thing we call a star because we perceived it. We perceive the light created from the star. We perceive the energy moving into our skin
supplying us with vitamins to survive.
However our observation in the platform of the now only truncated all
the other possibilities of what it is also doing in the rest of that jar of
space time called possibility (the realm of might).
All that potential
exists so that the definition of what is the barrier that separates one being
from another, one nation, one planet, one galaxy, one nebula to the entire
boundless or bound universe to a yactometer on a quark operating on a quantum
scale, the largest is comprised of the smallest. These rules of mathematics active in a
particular universe as part of a multiverse serve to expose the flow of the
whole shifting inside itself.
In this we see that what
we are is not a self, we are not a summation of particles, but we are
possibility itself. We are
potential. Volition is the paint brush
of the potential that we perceive; it is not the determination of what we are,
will be, or were. We are always all
things. The past and future are only
illusions. We are always the is, as all
possibility itself.”
This
idea of we are possibility, we are the is, I am not me metaphysical popcorn gets
back to this if it is all an illusion then what is the point, why are we here
sort of deal. Does being good or bad
matter? The short answer in my
interpretation of reality is that first we are not the identities we perceive,
so take of the I or the we mask and with it the human mask, or the Earth mask
or the evolved organism mask. We are not
limited to any of those parameters. Then
for me I take off the god illusion that there is theistic master puppeteer or
genesis engine or voyeur. To me we are
it, all of it. We perceive ourselves as
spliced, but that segmentation is an illusion.
These ideas of conversing to another, the idea of other and self are
illusions in a paradigm of individuality beholden to the ego.
So
this gets us to the second question, what is reality…
The
true nature of reality is. Reality just
is, without form or atomic matter or time, it is not hot or cold, or feeling
good or bad, reality is a constant balance and does not require joy or anger,
or want, reality is. The human in us
wants some kind of mathematical conclusion to the play, to explain, to be
earned, it wants to feel, we may crave this eternal peace, and consciousness of
all atomic reality, being ubiquitous and present.
The
human in us contemplates this idea of being and may think, “The idea of just
being would be boring or sad or not happy at all. Life cannot be that drab or dark.” We may contemplate the idea as darkness as if
there is something to sense to be seen as if we are missing the living and
forlorn we are not reunited with the dead.
However this would be ego-talk, we were never us. Time does not exist. Time is an illusion like space is inside the
paradigm of the atomic. Space-time is an
illusion of perception we manifested to participate. I think that is part of what Hoffman is
getting at when talking about how quantum physicists can teach neurologists
about the walls neurologist’s are running into in research.
Our
true spiritual nature simply exists.
Atomic reality is a paradigm of segmentation allowing consciousness in
order for a paradigm of perception to exist.
Hoffman talks about how in brain surgery segmenting the right form the
left hemisphere takes one consciousness and splits it into two. I think this is an apt analogy for how the
atomic universe works.
To
me humans operate on three levels: a base spiritual reality of what we are as a
foundation, on top of that is a layer of consciousness where we occasionally
are aware of aspects of our spiritual nature, and a perception of space-time reality
which serves as both barrier and corridor to access the other two.
In
the spiritual sense there is no way to perceive, no before or after or during,
there is only now. So there is no way to
look or hear or think etc. In atomic
reality what we see is relative to the viewer, (i.e. the theory of relativity
and viewing a star that no longer exists in the light trailing in from the
night sky or the way a baseball batter will see the ball where her or his brain
projects the ball to be based on the frame of reference of the pitcher’s
release hand and not where the ball actually is at that point in time of
perception.) So if there is a basic
question of why do we exist evolved in this form of reality that is not true reality
the answer to me is because it is a paradigm in which perception is possible.
We
are simultaneously in both states. We
are in that state of being connected as everything and we are also here segmented
in this biological illusion of a human self.
The us that is in that state of being: one has no physical distance from
our atomic self, because the spiritual component does not take up physical
space and two does not contemplate the idea of us or consider we are us. The spiritual component does not think. It merely is.
The we “there” is not a piece of a finite whole. There is no boundary or space-time.
I
think the greatest misunderstanding of life is that it is a journey. There is no journey to travel to reveal what
we are and how we grow to see that best.
We thin the veil through art, kindness, interconnection, love, music,
mercy, yoga, empathy. This is why these
acts are the truly pertinent endeavors of being human. We thin that veil by removing or dampening the
obstacle of ego and self we created.
Animals, plants, stars, operate in the same mathematics. Only there is no mind or is a less biologically-evolved
mind to even include the ego.
One
can see the beauty in a rock in this way.
Entire groups of atoms just are.
They are just being a rock, not fretting when will the universe end or
when will this planet get hit by a meteor so I can quit being a rock. There is none of that. There was no beginning to the atomic
universe. It simply always has been,
just like the spiritual component we participate always has been.
The
atoms in us transpose and have been and will be parts of other nonliving and
living illusions of segmentation in the atomic universe. This gets back to the quantum scale of
thinking Hoffman discusses. To attach a
status of living to a human being is to ignore the ideas on a quantum level of:
“Am I what I have always been and will be?
Am I a machine? Does the idea of
I am exist? In biological death what
changes and in what paradigms?”
To
me I find the following two ideas complete the puzzle. Perception is the point of atomic life. Being simply is. These are the balancing weights on the scale
of existence.
Maybe
ideas like that are reasons we may look at the Dali Lama and think whatever he
is doing he is on to something. We look
at someone being at a musical concert alive in that moment playing guitar or
spouting poetry alive sharing, those people are on to something.
There
is also a seesaw of balance with work to keep the species afloat to meet the
basic human needs of food, shelter, housing, healthcare, etc. to maintain the
vehicle of our bodies and the societal environment our biological life requires
to function. This physical balance facilitates
access to the spiritual reality of being.
There is love in acts of work.
There is empathy and presence. Our species behaves like a grand nest in which
we are twigs.
The
grand mistake is to think there is some great prize of a lifetime attained with
stacked decades of wisdom as if we are climbing a mountain and being young one
cannot see or contemplate it. The nature
of true reality is always here. Most of
society is trying to thicken the veil, while a minority is trying to thin the
veil. It is in this consciousness the
fate of our species balances extinction and presence. If we fail or succeed for what length of time
is not the point. The point is how
conscious we are in the present moment as we perceive the strip crossing the
projector of our sensorial bodies in the illusionary platform of space-time we
stand. That is atomic life; that’s the
deal. The rest of atomic life is past,
future, and illusion. Atomic life
balances with being. The two together
are the answer I go with, but what do I know.
I will never be done reading and thinking about these basics, but this
is about where I am now as explained in a few pages.
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