The wisest question we can ask ourselves is as follows:
Who am I?
We may answer the question by stating our name, but that is just a label, a composition of sounds put together to conveniently identify ourselves and others. We may look beyond this label and answer the question by saying "I am a human body, recycled bits of the universe that have come together to support a living being." But these bodies, these organs, these cells, are constantly dying, reproducing, and changing. Our bodies are in a constant state of change, and your body is not the same as it was one second ago, one minute ago, one year ago. You may think about the unique ego/identity that you use, and say "I am my thoughts." But what "hears" your thoughts, what receives them? Thoughts, conceptualizations, labels, emotions, they are all electrical activity in the brain. What receives all of your thoughts, feelings and emotions? You may look even deeper, and answer the question by saying "I am my mind." But how can you be your mind? Your mind has been shaped by other minds since the day you were born into this world out of your mothers womb. Your mind is the result of interacting with the collective mind throughout your whole life, learning, adapting, conceptualizing. Knowledge physically changes the structure of your brain, and thus your mind. You are not your mind, because your mind is a manifestation of the collective mind formed by all past actions, future aspirations, events, and thoughts. What is it that receives what the mind creates, that pays attention to it?
You keep peeling back the onion, so to speak, until you realize that you are not who you think you are. You realize that you cannot identify yourself with any of these aggregates, as they are in a state of constant change.
Has life stopped coming directly to you? The only thing that hasn’t changed is that you are here now, whoever “you” are.
So, who are you?
The "true self" is beyond labels, but can best be described as Nothingness. Behind your physical body, behind your labels, behind your thoughts, there is the Seer. Awareness. Oneness. You are that. An Infinite Void, filled with life, filled with energy, including the mind. You are a Mirror of Life, a Receiver, a Spirit.
Life is always coming to you from all directions in the Present. At the core of your being, you are a mirror of life. Your mind does not allow you to receive all that is coming to you, because it filters what is coming through your senses. Usually, this includes your sense of sight right in front of you and your thoughts. Evolution has programmed our minds to focus exclusively on these things for our survival, to adapt and to learn about an unfamiliar world. Now, we are familiar with our world. Our minds have shaped our world to suit our desires, to survive. Now, the mind is blocking out life, and we (mirrors of life) still spend most of our time giving life to our minds, getting caught up in our thoughts, and only focusing on what the mind thinks is important. Well, we don't have to miss out on the life that is coming to us anymore. We are not lost on an unfamiliar planet anymore.
The mind is the gatekeeper of life, because it focuses on what is perceived to be important. We know that life is coming from all directions, because we can sense it. We can feel it, smell it, and hear it. You feel the ground beneath your feet, the wind on your back. You hear sounds behind you, beside you, all around you. Life is not just coming to you from where your field of vision can perceive; it is coming to you from above, below, behind, and all around. Life is literally coming directly to you from all directions in the Present.
People don't realize they have two selves. You have a mind-self (false-self, ego/identity), and a spiritual-self (true-self, Mirror of life). Realize that you are the Mirror, a Spirit, Consciousness; this is your True Self. You give life to your mind; you pay attention to it. Your mind is like a valuable tool; when you don't need it, you can put it away, lay it down. Surrender to life. When you are thinking, you are your mind, because your mind is in between you and Life. We don't need to constantly think, worry, conceptualize, and label anymore, because we are missing most of the life that is coming to us right now. This is hard to realize, because evolution has programmed our minds to take control and drive our every action.
We can now see that we are not our minds, because as we receive life, we give life to the mind. We don't have to pay attention to the mind, give life to the mind. We can just let life in and reflect it back out, like a mirror.
When you get angry, it is because you give life to the anger created by the mind. When you worry, it is because you give life to the worry created by the mind. When you hate, it is because you give life to the hate created by the mind. When you are greedy, it is because you give life to the greed created by the mind. When you are sad, it is because you give life to the sadness created by the mind. When you envy, it is because you give life to the jealousy created by the mind. This is all going on between your mind-self and spiritual-self, true self. Life in the present is manipulated by the mind; the mind cannot create anything real. You don't have to pay attention to these negative thoughts, emotions, and feelings, these desires. If the mind creates something, it can stop creating it.
Don't get me wrong; the mind is the most valuable tool we have, as it helps us stay alert, survive, and function. A Spirit/Consciousness (what we are) could not get anything done without a mind.
Friends, it is time to realize that we can control our minds if we realize our true self. We need to put the Spirit in front of the mind, become spiritual beings. The mind has created the world we live in today, but right now, the mind is out of control, and we have become too dangerous for this to continue. We now have the technology to destroy ourselves, and our emotions and impulses are running wild. The mind will continue to do great things if we get it under control. We must see past the mind and embrace Oneness. We each must get control of our own mind, so that it transforms from our boss to our technical consultant, from our controlling overlord to our companion, from The Great Deceiver to our Guardian Angel. A mind in front of the Spirit is deceiving, but a mind serving Spirit is the most productive, most useful tool we have.
It's time to LIVE my friends. Lay down your burden, lay down your mind when it does not need to be active. Stop giving life to the illusions of ego, of false security, of separation. You are a MIRROR OF LIFE. Just let life in from all directions, and reflect it back out, like a mirror. This mirror, this Spirit, is the Unmoving Core of your being.
Life is giving itself to you unconditionally, coming directly to you from all directions, always, in the Present. Your senses are a window to the physical universe through which you receive life. You must become your senses to be fulfilled by life in the present. You are the universe experiencing the universe, receiving life through your senses at your own awareness level, which is filtered and manipulated by your mind. Without the mind blocking life, you receive all of life, and reflect it all back out without any mental intrusions. Being a spotless mirror of life is the ultimate state of consciousness. You must be like Nothing to receive/reflect Everything (Life).
Be aware of your breathing, always happening in the Present, but blocked out by the mind. Taste all the subtle flavors in the foods you eat that are usually ignored by your mind. Smell the aromas that are always there, but filtered by your mind. Feel the ground beneath your feet, the wind on your skin and through your hair, the warmth of the sun. Hear the birds chirp, the leaves rustle, the voices and laughter of humans, the intoxicating sounds of the pick hitting the guitar strings. See all the shades of green from the leaves in the trees to the moss on the ground. See life, listen to life, feel life, smell life, taste life.
All that you sense is in the Present. It is all for you, yet it doesn't belong to you. Life flows through you and all around you, surrounds you, just waiting for you to let it in.
Open up your Present.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Cogito ergo sum: a product of humanity, as are we all
As a response to Eric "the Anonymous":
First and foremost we will always be a part of Nature. This is referring to Nature not simply as instinct, flora/fauna, etc., but the phenomenon of the physical world collectively. This means all things that can be perceived are nature, no matter how synthetic they appear.
By taking everything as phenomenon, one must accept that all in reality is of Nature and that nothing is inseparable from it. Even when a person is in the most manmade of settings they are still fully and completely in Nature, because Nature makes up all that is and known in real life. Being in a human body makes one an animal, as an animal we are of Nature inherently and always.
The day one grows up is the day they realize everything is an illusion. One created by the mind for our own good, for our survival as an animal, at least. This growing up requires a complete surrendering of security. A full letting go. One must give up all they hold dear, un-grasp their clenched hands and accept all things, good, bad, and neutral. That person must give up: Security through money. Security through language. Security through government. Security through self. Security from believing that anything they know is true. The continuous goal of humanity and all creatures is security. Security in a chaotic universe is a wonderful thing, but one is never truly secure, and this is where the problem begins.
So let’s go back… to birth.
When was it that we felt the most secure? It was when we were in our mother’s womb. We felt complete warmth, complete protection, complete contentment. The outside world was far away, all things were provided, and we had not a worry in the world. Then we were thrown out. Out we flew! In seconds we went from complete creature comfort into the world. And there it was in all its cruel glory. Doctors with cold metal objects, bright lights, talking in a language we’d never heard, in voices we couldn’t comprehend. All was new. The counters, the instruments, the ceiling, the floor, the door, the peering eyes. We had been born, a new member of the human race. It was the first day of the rest of our lives on planet Earth. Of course we were too caught up in the moment to realize this. What were these hands and these arms attached to us, once hidden in the darkness of the womb but finally visible by the medical lights above? And what happened to that warmth we’d cherished for an eternity (9 months in human reality)? It was gone and we were left bare and naked, small and ignorant, to live or to die on the drawing room floor.
And so we learned. From the moment we popped out we learned. We don’t know why we did it – it was simply instinct – but we learned, nevertheless. We learned gravity and then touch. Walking and then language. Like a seed blasting upward, we looked up and imitated, absorbed everything. And for what? For survival, in hopes that that said survival would bring the security we’d found in a time drifting further and further off, our former home that is no longer. Religion, money, government, the notions of good and bad, the notion of self and the ego are all born from one large goal: security. A desire to feel the security we did in our first nine months. Drugs, sex, rock and roll… it can all be traced back to that one simple thing.
Advertisers promise it, employers promise it, the government promises it, religion promises it, money promises it, technology promises it, the justice system promises it, knowledge promises it. Nearly every single incentive is born from this notion of finding contentment and control. But there’s one problem: security doesn’t exist and never will. In a universe where entire planets can be absorbed by a black hole in a second, on an Earth where militaries hold the power to obliterate everything we know, in a body that can go haywire at any second, we are never safe. Life is chance. An animal play by play.
Human beings are very much animals. Humans are animals to the core. We’ve simply disguised our motives so beautifully so as to forget our lack of security, that we’ve thought ourselves something better, something above, something… divine. Humans are the most intelligent species on Earth, there’s no disputing that, but we are no less animalistic than the most beastly of beasts. At heart we are our ancestors. As we sit around the T.V., we are cavemen sitting in caves around a fire.
Food: Humans eat like every other species. Sure we don’t graze in fields or chase down animals for food (usually), but in the end we must consume to survive. And in that consuming we find security, another day to live. We have disguised this primitive aspect of ourselves greatly, though. From fast food restaurants to supermarkets, from diners to 5-star brasseries, we have completely separated ourselves from what food truly is. Food has become a pleasure, something to do, an opportunity to socialize, etc., but it is simply one of the most primitive aspects of being an animal. Take lunch away from someone for one afternoon and they’ll complain about being hungry the rest of the day. They’ll demand and suggest food because of that aching phenomenon in their stomach. We’ve turned hunger into a word, food into a thing. In reality hunger is impossible to define and food is survival. We treat it as an art or a profession because admitting it was something far greater would remind us of the brutal fact we’re in a mortal body that must constantly feed like a parasite off a flourishing planet to survive.
Sex: Is everywhere. On magazine covers, on T.V., on the internet, in movies, in books, in art… all forms of media. And once again we’ve de-animalized ourselves from it. By this I don’t mean that people don’t admit that it’s an animal instinct that they feel the need to act on, but that through colloquial language and culture we have turned it into something entirely different than what it actually is. Human beings don’t look at the big picture. We’ve created a sort of pseudo-synthetic culture out of sex. We’ve accepted it as inevitable, as innate, but we’ve never truly come to terms with the fact that the only reason it exists, the only reason there is desire, etc. is because we are mortal, because in our animal minds we must procreate ASAP for reasons we can’t know for sure. By phenomenon; By nature. All we know is we must. It is nature. We are animals. And animals are always at nature’s whim. Sex is there and we act on it, because we are animals, because we are not above it, but of it. Posters on walls of supermodels aren’t posters on walls of supermodels, they’re pieces of printed paper with an animal on it, worshiped by another animal that sees that other animal as the ultimate means of survival, of all that makes up what is, a necessary component to continuing life, consciously and subconsciously.
Shelter: We live in it and we give it names: “home sweet home,” apartment complex, projects, dorm room. In reality they are feebly built natural structures a few levels above the Neanderthal’s cave. They have a lifetime (if lucky) of about 75 or so odd years and then they fall down, or are demolished. We need them to survive yet once again we completely distort the reality of what they are. They become a place we frequent instead of a place necessary for our comfort and ultimate survival. We believe we’ve evolved and come somewhere over all these years, but we’ve come nowhere, we’re still using the Earth – Nature – and thus haven’t made it very far at all. In making them our places of fixation and comfort, we separate ourselves from Nature, but we don’t rise ourselves above it. It is true that living in the woods doesn’t make much sense when we live in a world where we’ve created such rich/comfortable artificial habitats, but I have a feeling we’d feel much closer to Earth, a lot less artificial and nearer to what we truly are if we did live there.
…The list goes on and on, but the simple message is: mankind, through its own creation (government, borders/countries, language, economies, etc., etc., etc.) has created a completely artificial world that is present in every single individual mind, as well as the collective mind-whole that makes up the entire human race. Even physically, the human world is visible all around us, we’ve made the blueprints for a world entirely different from how it was originally presented to us. However, we are still entirely of it, everything we can touch came from Earth, we are made of Earth, entirely and completely. We manipulate it, but if we manipulate it enough, it will destroy us.
And this is where security comes into play again. Our mind seeks survival and in doing so has created a human world that constantly seeks to depersonalize us from what we truly are. Many people claim to know that they are mortal, that they are completely of Earth, natural, organic… but do they truly realize it? I’d say less than one percent of the world truly is aware of their mortality, especially in the Western World. Our minds have created a society that constantly seeks to make us believe in forever, in security.
Promise after promise in the end will not fix the fact that we are all going to be dead in 100 years, that we are simply paving the way for a future generations that will also be dead in 100 years after that and so on and so on. Human beings are not above animals. We have evolved more, at least with regards to intellect, but we are not above. This is a truth. But ask most people and they’d disagree. Why? Because we’ve created a world where we’ve inflated our own importance, where we’ve made ourselves believe that there’s a heaven waiting for us and nothing else on the planet, that our art holds higher significance and is important, that sports games actually matter, that we are unique. That being able to manipulate the world, to destroy it, to kill off its animals and plunder its land means that we are above it. That somehow our intellect makes us superior. But who are we to judge that intellect is what makes a species tried-and-true? Who are we to claim or dominion? We are no more beautiful than a butterfly and its colors. We are no more unique than a dog with all its shades and markings. We are no more powerful than an ant that can carry 50 times its weight, no more mighty than a bird that can fly miles into the sky. We believe we are, because we seek purpose in our lives, because we like to think we’re here for something more. That we mean something. But we don’t. We are beautiful. We are unique. We are powerful. And we are mighty. But we are not above Nature. We are not above other animals. Our minds have told us so, but our minds have deceived us. We’re on an ego trip that’s going to send us crashing down eventually.
Human beings want to believe that the human race is something special, but it is not. We cannot truly understand the social compounds of other species, we can never truly understand what it all means, and yet we think ourselves above it. We think because we can send a plane from continent to continent we’re worth something. But were has it really gotten us? What have governments brought us except war, separation, and death? On top of that very few truly democratic governments exist, most are owned by the rich and by the powerful, not by the people (U.S. included). What has money brought us except luxury for some and complete poverty for others? And what is luxury but temporary security and satisfaction? Language is a great thing, it helps us to communicate and is essential, but it too has harmed us. It has separated us from what we truly are. Most animals live much shorter lives than us, but in those lives they live 10 times longer, because they’re not caught up in numbers and words, worries and superficialities. Humans will destroy themselves through their own institutions, through their own farfetched inventions and ideas that promise them everything but deliver them nothing… in the end, that is, when they’re six feet under. Ask a dead man what years of investing in this and that does for him now.
We are not above other species, but we do have a strong power to reason. And what does this mean? It means that even though such things as ownership and competition are natural, so are feelings of injustice and offense. I’m not simply asking us to shed these things as a country or a community, but as a world, because these things are unfair in the current human structure on our planet. The money system and the current economic set up of the Earth were not developed “naturally” or by some process of evolution. Some places/countries/people were simply at the right place at the right time and had manipulation and power on their side. And now others are paying for this while they soak up the benefits. Why is it that a factory worker puts out 10 times as much physical exertion as say, a CEO, yet gets paid 10 times less money, possibly even less? How is it that a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh makes 10 cents an hour and will never travel outside of her home country, and yet a T.V. show host wearing the clothing she made makes loads of cash traveling the world for a show where he gorges on food and bears a wave and a smile (no offense Andrew Zimmern)? That is not natural, or reflective of some sort of evolutionary imparity, it is the creation of the human mind, and it is wrong, it does not work in accordance with Nature.
There is one thing that seems to think itself better than Nature, and that is the human mind. The human mind is wrong. Want to know the meaning of life? It is this: the human mind is wrong. Wrong. In Nature he who works the hardest gets the most. Everything is of nature, but if anything isn’t, it’s the human mind, the things man creates are of Nature, but those ideas are something flimsy and deceptive. They have the power to form something powerfully beautiful, but are often used to satisfy brutal, animalistic aims. Only Nature is perfect, man seeks to emulate Nature in this respect and by his own devices, but he has forgotten that he is of it, that he cannot create something apart from it that will work effectively. Only it works effectively. And nature knows not capitalism or communism, nation or border, law or currency, language or numbers. Nature knows only harmony and the current system is anything but harmonious. It will fail, and we could take the easy way out and accept this, or we could realize and embrace our potential and live by Nature, harmoniously with it and of it. There needs to be no creating of systems. Embrace Nature and learn from it and equality, justice, and harmony will follow. Guaranteed. There is a reason mankind suffers greatly today. It has always suffered, but there’s a new sense of isolation and angst today, and it is because we’ve fallen to our own devices. Wealthy and fortunate people have an artificial happiness that is deeply rooted in denial. Why is it that depression is so common in the developed world? Poor and less fortunate people are living miserable lives, especially physically. Everyone seems to be unhappy in one way or another.
Ownership and competition are natural, but because man has the power to reason, because he has been given that evolutionary gift (remind you, he is still not above other animals, simply a step ahead if you will, for some good, but mostly bad; the strongest example of good being reason, bad, the mind), he has the ability to acknowledge ownership and competition but to also acknowledge giving and surrender. This can be seen in Nature. A tree gives. One animal surrenders a mate to another. We can learn from Nature, but we must not be led astray by our minds, we must accept reason, because mankind is the struggle between mind and reason. Mind is not natural. Reason is. Things are created in the mind that are completely absurd and have no relation to Nature. Reason, like conscience, is natural. Good and evil are simply these two things brought down to their metaphorical core. The human race can use its gifts of mind and reason towards good – where reason dominates mind – or towards bad – where mind dominates reason. Saying simply that the ills of today can be brushed off by accepting that it’s simply the will of evolution is giving in to the mind, it is accepting that reason is irrational, and that must never be accepted. We have the power to change this world. Whether it is by divine order, evolution, whatever, we will probably never know. All we do know is that our mind and our reason give us power. Now comes the question: do we use the two for a higher good, or for animal injustice?
Life may seem good, especially in the Western World, but on a global scale something is wrong.
Something is wrong with money if the majority of the world lives in poverty. The life expectancy in Japan is 81 years, yet in Swaziland it is 32 years. There is something wrong here. One could brush this off as simply natural selection or evolution, but that would be irresponsible. Why? Because as humans we are intelligent – we aren’t above Nature – but we are intelligent. We are intelligent enough to know of injustice and to feel indignation. Yet we are also selfish animals that seek only our own survival in the end. So we may say we care about the people of Swaziland, but in reality we could care less. Yesterday world hunger hit 1 billion (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8109698.stm). There are people relaxing on beaches, sipping martinis, living in penthouses, ripping their teeth into juicy meat with all the gusto in the world and yet 1 billion people are starving to death. We are of Nature, and it is something of Nature, our conscience, that tells us this is wrong. Yet why does it persist? Because we’re living in a world that has been created entirely wrong. If you read that BBC article you'll find that they blame the rapid rise in hunger on the current global financial crisis, which is the result of a failing system of money, debt, and credit. Our mind has created a money system that is vastly abhorrent. It may work – for some – but for billions (the large majority) it doesn’t. The problem? The rich minority runs things and could care less? Why?
Because it THINKS it has found SECURITY.
Back to security, what it all comes down to. That awful desire to be back in that comfort of the womb.
The rich people of this world (you, I, the Western World) have forgotten one simple thing – we’re all going to die. The televisions, the warm homes, the fine dining, the good education, the cars, the technology – everything – is going to eventually disappear completely, entirely, and forever – at least with respect to this earth and this life. And yet the disastrous system that we’ve created constantly tries to distract us from this unpleasant fact. So what do we do? We shiver warmly like cowards in our false-security and pretend the rest of the world doesn’t exist, while acknowledging with all our might that it does. It is only when we are willing to give up everything, when we are willing to go back to Nature, and accept our place in it, when we do away with the systems we so proudly proclaim are working (because denying so would be denying everything we’ve come to live for) will we find peace. Mankind must face the reality that is death and other inevitabilities in Nature before it can make the next leap to true security, which is security in the acceptance that there is no security, not artificial security which has bred government, the money system, religion, etc.
The world is a deeply troubled place. People talk of respect for cultures. I say to hell with them. It is culture that has us so deeply rooted in a past that is dead. People talk of respect for religions. I say to hell with them. Religion based on false promise is better gone. People talk of respect for institutions. I say to hell with them. We must constantly change our way of thinking… institutions seek to ground us, life is always flowing. People talk of respect for the government. I say to hell with it. Government is an illusion of security, we must build mutual respect so that governments are not necessary. People say we must respect the military. I say to hell with it. The military’s sole purpose is to kill, and murder is wrong, whatever the reason.
Respect each other, nature, and everything that positively connects the two, and life will eventually get better for every person in the world. It will take time to destroy the system we have, but if we live in the Present, time is on our side.
Most of all we must shed the notion of security. Government is not security. Military is not security. Home is not security. Norton Antivirus is not security. Break-in alarms are not security. Car alarms are not security. Traffic lights are not security. Channel 3 Investigates is not security. Airbags are not security. Money is not security. Laws are not security. Price sales are not security. Banks are not security. Guns are not security. Heart transplants are not security. Vaccines are not security. Prescriptions are not security. Mind is not security.
Only love, Nature, and humility breed any true security. Man has the ability to shed all else and accept these three. He is already of Nature, is already endowed with a conscience (love), all he must learn now is humility. To accept the fact he is mortal, that money doesn’t matter, that government doesn’t matter, that separation isn’t real. He must shed the illusion of his own importance for the acceptance of the collective whole, his ego, and all that he thinks he knows. Accept these and gap between love and Nature will be filled and the three will live in harmony. Mankind will live harmoniously through humility with love in Nature.
Security is an illusion. And no human will ever feel as safe as he did before being born. Those days are over and until each and every person accepts this and is willing to shed their perceived life and accept this notion our currently held worldwide false sense of security will persist, the mind will control, Nature will be distant, and mankind will be doomed. Earth is too good for this. Mankind is too good for this. And the interaction of the two is too beautiful a thing for it to end so soon. Sure it could come crashing down at any second, but then again, that’s what makes it all so damn beautiful. “And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.”
First and foremost we will always be a part of Nature. This is referring to Nature not simply as instinct, flora/fauna, etc., but the phenomenon of the physical world collectively. This means all things that can be perceived are nature, no matter how synthetic they appear.
By taking everything as phenomenon, one must accept that all in reality is of Nature and that nothing is inseparable from it. Even when a person is in the most manmade of settings they are still fully and completely in Nature, because Nature makes up all that is and known in real life. Being in a human body makes one an animal, as an animal we are of Nature inherently and always.
The day one grows up is the day they realize everything is an illusion. One created by the mind for our own good, for our survival as an animal, at least. This growing up requires a complete surrendering of security. A full letting go. One must give up all they hold dear, un-grasp their clenched hands and accept all things, good, bad, and neutral. That person must give up: Security through money. Security through language. Security through government. Security through self. Security from believing that anything they know is true. The continuous goal of humanity and all creatures is security. Security in a chaotic universe is a wonderful thing, but one is never truly secure, and this is where the problem begins.
So let’s go back… to birth.
When was it that we felt the most secure? It was when we were in our mother’s womb. We felt complete warmth, complete protection, complete contentment. The outside world was far away, all things were provided, and we had not a worry in the world. Then we were thrown out. Out we flew! In seconds we went from complete creature comfort into the world. And there it was in all its cruel glory. Doctors with cold metal objects, bright lights, talking in a language we’d never heard, in voices we couldn’t comprehend. All was new. The counters, the instruments, the ceiling, the floor, the door, the peering eyes. We had been born, a new member of the human race. It was the first day of the rest of our lives on planet Earth. Of course we were too caught up in the moment to realize this. What were these hands and these arms attached to us, once hidden in the darkness of the womb but finally visible by the medical lights above? And what happened to that warmth we’d cherished for an eternity (9 months in human reality)? It was gone and we were left bare and naked, small and ignorant, to live or to die on the drawing room floor.
And so we learned. From the moment we popped out we learned. We don’t know why we did it – it was simply instinct – but we learned, nevertheless. We learned gravity and then touch. Walking and then language. Like a seed blasting upward, we looked up and imitated, absorbed everything. And for what? For survival, in hopes that that said survival would bring the security we’d found in a time drifting further and further off, our former home that is no longer. Religion, money, government, the notions of good and bad, the notion of self and the ego are all born from one large goal: security. A desire to feel the security we did in our first nine months. Drugs, sex, rock and roll… it can all be traced back to that one simple thing.
Advertisers promise it, employers promise it, the government promises it, religion promises it, money promises it, technology promises it, the justice system promises it, knowledge promises it. Nearly every single incentive is born from this notion of finding contentment and control. But there’s one problem: security doesn’t exist and never will. In a universe where entire planets can be absorbed by a black hole in a second, on an Earth where militaries hold the power to obliterate everything we know, in a body that can go haywire at any second, we are never safe. Life is chance. An animal play by play.
Human beings are very much animals. Humans are animals to the core. We’ve simply disguised our motives so beautifully so as to forget our lack of security, that we’ve thought ourselves something better, something above, something… divine. Humans are the most intelligent species on Earth, there’s no disputing that, but we are no less animalistic than the most beastly of beasts. At heart we are our ancestors. As we sit around the T.V., we are cavemen sitting in caves around a fire.
Food: Humans eat like every other species. Sure we don’t graze in fields or chase down animals for food (usually), but in the end we must consume to survive. And in that consuming we find security, another day to live. We have disguised this primitive aspect of ourselves greatly, though. From fast food restaurants to supermarkets, from diners to 5-star brasseries, we have completely separated ourselves from what food truly is. Food has become a pleasure, something to do, an opportunity to socialize, etc., but it is simply one of the most primitive aspects of being an animal. Take lunch away from someone for one afternoon and they’ll complain about being hungry the rest of the day. They’ll demand and suggest food because of that aching phenomenon in their stomach. We’ve turned hunger into a word, food into a thing. In reality hunger is impossible to define and food is survival. We treat it as an art or a profession because admitting it was something far greater would remind us of the brutal fact we’re in a mortal body that must constantly feed like a parasite off a flourishing planet to survive.
Sex: Is everywhere. On magazine covers, on T.V., on the internet, in movies, in books, in art… all forms of media. And once again we’ve de-animalized ourselves from it. By this I don’t mean that people don’t admit that it’s an animal instinct that they feel the need to act on, but that through colloquial language and culture we have turned it into something entirely different than what it actually is. Human beings don’t look at the big picture. We’ve created a sort of pseudo-synthetic culture out of sex. We’ve accepted it as inevitable, as innate, but we’ve never truly come to terms with the fact that the only reason it exists, the only reason there is desire, etc. is because we are mortal, because in our animal minds we must procreate ASAP for reasons we can’t know for sure. By phenomenon; By nature. All we know is we must. It is nature. We are animals. And animals are always at nature’s whim. Sex is there and we act on it, because we are animals, because we are not above it, but of it. Posters on walls of supermodels aren’t posters on walls of supermodels, they’re pieces of printed paper with an animal on it, worshiped by another animal that sees that other animal as the ultimate means of survival, of all that makes up what is, a necessary component to continuing life, consciously and subconsciously.
Shelter: We live in it and we give it names: “home sweet home,” apartment complex, projects, dorm room. In reality they are feebly built natural structures a few levels above the Neanderthal’s cave. They have a lifetime (if lucky) of about 75 or so odd years and then they fall down, or are demolished. We need them to survive yet once again we completely distort the reality of what they are. They become a place we frequent instead of a place necessary for our comfort and ultimate survival. We believe we’ve evolved and come somewhere over all these years, but we’ve come nowhere, we’re still using the Earth – Nature – and thus haven’t made it very far at all. In making them our places of fixation and comfort, we separate ourselves from Nature, but we don’t rise ourselves above it. It is true that living in the woods doesn’t make much sense when we live in a world where we’ve created such rich/comfortable artificial habitats, but I have a feeling we’d feel much closer to Earth, a lot less artificial and nearer to what we truly are if we did live there.
…The list goes on and on, but the simple message is: mankind, through its own creation (government, borders/countries, language, economies, etc., etc., etc.) has created a completely artificial world that is present in every single individual mind, as well as the collective mind-whole that makes up the entire human race. Even physically, the human world is visible all around us, we’ve made the blueprints for a world entirely different from how it was originally presented to us. However, we are still entirely of it, everything we can touch came from Earth, we are made of Earth, entirely and completely. We manipulate it, but if we manipulate it enough, it will destroy us.
And this is where security comes into play again. Our mind seeks survival and in doing so has created a human world that constantly seeks to depersonalize us from what we truly are. Many people claim to know that they are mortal, that they are completely of Earth, natural, organic… but do they truly realize it? I’d say less than one percent of the world truly is aware of their mortality, especially in the Western World. Our minds have created a society that constantly seeks to make us believe in forever, in security.
Promise after promise in the end will not fix the fact that we are all going to be dead in 100 years, that we are simply paving the way for a future generations that will also be dead in 100 years after that and so on and so on. Human beings are not above animals. We have evolved more, at least with regards to intellect, but we are not above. This is a truth. But ask most people and they’d disagree. Why? Because we’ve created a world where we’ve inflated our own importance, where we’ve made ourselves believe that there’s a heaven waiting for us and nothing else on the planet, that our art holds higher significance and is important, that sports games actually matter, that we are unique. That being able to manipulate the world, to destroy it, to kill off its animals and plunder its land means that we are above it. That somehow our intellect makes us superior. But who are we to judge that intellect is what makes a species tried-and-true? Who are we to claim or dominion? We are no more beautiful than a butterfly and its colors. We are no more unique than a dog with all its shades and markings. We are no more powerful than an ant that can carry 50 times its weight, no more mighty than a bird that can fly miles into the sky. We believe we are, because we seek purpose in our lives, because we like to think we’re here for something more. That we mean something. But we don’t. We are beautiful. We are unique. We are powerful. And we are mighty. But we are not above Nature. We are not above other animals. Our minds have told us so, but our minds have deceived us. We’re on an ego trip that’s going to send us crashing down eventually.
Human beings want to believe that the human race is something special, but it is not. We cannot truly understand the social compounds of other species, we can never truly understand what it all means, and yet we think ourselves above it. We think because we can send a plane from continent to continent we’re worth something. But were has it really gotten us? What have governments brought us except war, separation, and death? On top of that very few truly democratic governments exist, most are owned by the rich and by the powerful, not by the people (U.S. included). What has money brought us except luxury for some and complete poverty for others? And what is luxury but temporary security and satisfaction? Language is a great thing, it helps us to communicate and is essential, but it too has harmed us. It has separated us from what we truly are. Most animals live much shorter lives than us, but in those lives they live 10 times longer, because they’re not caught up in numbers and words, worries and superficialities. Humans will destroy themselves through their own institutions, through their own farfetched inventions and ideas that promise them everything but deliver them nothing… in the end, that is, when they’re six feet under. Ask a dead man what years of investing in this and that does for him now.
We are not above other species, but we do have a strong power to reason. And what does this mean? It means that even though such things as ownership and competition are natural, so are feelings of injustice and offense. I’m not simply asking us to shed these things as a country or a community, but as a world, because these things are unfair in the current human structure on our planet. The money system and the current economic set up of the Earth were not developed “naturally” or by some process of evolution. Some places/countries/people were simply at the right place at the right time and had manipulation and power on their side. And now others are paying for this while they soak up the benefits. Why is it that a factory worker puts out 10 times as much physical exertion as say, a CEO, yet gets paid 10 times less money, possibly even less? How is it that a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh makes 10 cents an hour and will never travel outside of her home country, and yet a T.V. show host wearing the clothing she made makes loads of cash traveling the world for a show where he gorges on food and bears a wave and a smile (no offense Andrew Zimmern)? That is not natural, or reflective of some sort of evolutionary imparity, it is the creation of the human mind, and it is wrong, it does not work in accordance with Nature.
There is one thing that seems to think itself better than Nature, and that is the human mind. The human mind is wrong. Want to know the meaning of life? It is this: the human mind is wrong. Wrong. In Nature he who works the hardest gets the most. Everything is of nature, but if anything isn’t, it’s the human mind, the things man creates are of Nature, but those ideas are something flimsy and deceptive. They have the power to form something powerfully beautiful, but are often used to satisfy brutal, animalistic aims. Only Nature is perfect, man seeks to emulate Nature in this respect and by his own devices, but he has forgotten that he is of it, that he cannot create something apart from it that will work effectively. Only it works effectively. And nature knows not capitalism or communism, nation or border, law or currency, language or numbers. Nature knows only harmony and the current system is anything but harmonious. It will fail, and we could take the easy way out and accept this, or we could realize and embrace our potential and live by Nature, harmoniously with it and of it. There needs to be no creating of systems. Embrace Nature and learn from it and equality, justice, and harmony will follow. Guaranteed. There is a reason mankind suffers greatly today. It has always suffered, but there’s a new sense of isolation and angst today, and it is because we’ve fallen to our own devices. Wealthy and fortunate people have an artificial happiness that is deeply rooted in denial. Why is it that depression is so common in the developed world? Poor and less fortunate people are living miserable lives, especially physically. Everyone seems to be unhappy in one way or another.
Ownership and competition are natural, but because man has the power to reason, because he has been given that evolutionary gift (remind you, he is still not above other animals, simply a step ahead if you will, for some good, but mostly bad; the strongest example of good being reason, bad, the mind), he has the ability to acknowledge ownership and competition but to also acknowledge giving and surrender. This can be seen in Nature. A tree gives. One animal surrenders a mate to another. We can learn from Nature, but we must not be led astray by our minds, we must accept reason, because mankind is the struggle between mind and reason. Mind is not natural. Reason is. Things are created in the mind that are completely absurd and have no relation to Nature. Reason, like conscience, is natural. Good and evil are simply these two things brought down to their metaphorical core. The human race can use its gifts of mind and reason towards good – where reason dominates mind – or towards bad – where mind dominates reason. Saying simply that the ills of today can be brushed off by accepting that it’s simply the will of evolution is giving in to the mind, it is accepting that reason is irrational, and that must never be accepted. We have the power to change this world. Whether it is by divine order, evolution, whatever, we will probably never know. All we do know is that our mind and our reason give us power. Now comes the question: do we use the two for a higher good, or for animal injustice?
Life may seem good, especially in the Western World, but on a global scale something is wrong.
Something is wrong with money if the majority of the world lives in poverty. The life expectancy in Japan is 81 years, yet in Swaziland it is 32 years. There is something wrong here. One could brush this off as simply natural selection or evolution, but that would be irresponsible. Why? Because as humans we are intelligent – we aren’t above Nature – but we are intelligent. We are intelligent enough to know of injustice and to feel indignation. Yet we are also selfish animals that seek only our own survival in the end. So we may say we care about the people of Swaziland, but in reality we could care less. Yesterday world hunger hit 1 billion (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8109698.stm). There are people relaxing on beaches, sipping martinis, living in penthouses, ripping their teeth into juicy meat with all the gusto in the world and yet 1 billion people are starving to death. We are of Nature, and it is something of Nature, our conscience, that tells us this is wrong. Yet why does it persist? Because we’re living in a world that has been created entirely wrong. If you read that BBC article you'll find that they blame the rapid rise in hunger on the current global financial crisis, which is the result of a failing system of money, debt, and credit. Our mind has created a money system that is vastly abhorrent. It may work – for some – but for billions (the large majority) it doesn’t. The problem? The rich minority runs things and could care less? Why?
Because it THINKS it has found SECURITY.
Back to security, what it all comes down to. That awful desire to be back in that comfort of the womb.
The rich people of this world (you, I, the Western World) have forgotten one simple thing – we’re all going to die. The televisions, the warm homes, the fine dining, the good education, the cars, the technology – everything – is going to eventually disappear completely, entirely, and forever – at least with respect to this earth and this life. And yet the disastrous system that we’ve created constantly tries to distract us from this unpleasant fact. So what do we do? We shiver warmly like cowards in our false-security and pretend the rest of the world doesn’t exist, while acknowledging with all our might that it does. It is only when we are willing to give up everything, when we are willing to go back to Nature, and accept our place in it, when we do away with the systems we so proudly proclaim are working (because denying so would be denying everything we’ve come to live for) will we find peace. Mankind must face the reality that is death and other inevitabilities in Nature before it can make the next leap to true security, which is security in the acceptance that there is no security, not artificial security which has bred government, the money system, religion, etc.
The world is a deeply troubled place. People talk of respect for cultures. I say to hell with them. It is culture that has us so deeply rooted in a past that is dead. People talk of respect for religions. I say to hell with them. Religion based on false promise is better gone. People talk of respect for institutions. I say to hell with them. We must constantly change our way of thinking… institutions seek to ground us, life is always flowing. People talk of respect for the government. I say to hell with it. Government is an illusion of security, we must build mutual respect so that governments are not necessary. People say we must respect the military. I say to hell with it. The military’s sole purpose is to kill, and murder is wrong, whatever the reason.
Respect each other, nature, and everything that positively connects the two, and life will eventually get better for every person in the world. It will take time to destroy the system we have, but if we live in the Present, time is on our side.
Most of all we must shed the notion of security. Government is not security. Military is not security. Home is not security. Norton Antivirus is not security. Break-in alarms are not security. Car alarms are not security. Traffic lights are not security. Channel 3 Investigates is not security. Airbags are not security. Money is not security. Laws are not security. Price sales are not security. Banks are not security. Guns are not security. Heart transplants are not security. Vaccines are not security. Prescriptions are not security. Mind is not security.
Only love, Nature, and humility breed any true security. Man has the ability to shed all else and accept these three. He is already of Nature, is already endowed with a conscience (love), all he must learn now is humility. To accept the fact he is mortal, that money doesn’t matter, that government doesn’t matter, that separation isn’t real. He must shed the illusion of his own importance for the acceptance of the collective whole, his ego, and all that he thinks he knows. Accept these and gap between love and Nature will be filled and the three will live in harmony. Mankind will live harmoniously through humility with love in Nature.
Security is an illusion. And no human will ever feel as safe as he did before being born. Those days are over and until each and every person accepts this and is willing to shed their perceived life and accept this notion our currently held worldwide false sense of security will persist, the mind will control, Nature will be distant, and mankind will be doomed. Earth is too good for this. Mankind is too good for this. And the interaction of the two is too beautiful a thing for it to end so soon. Sure it could come crashing down at any second, but then again, that’s what makes it all so damn beautiful. “And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.”
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Clinton's got the idea
Bill Clinton: Global cooperation needed for mankind's survival
By Greg Clary
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton urged people to accept themselves and others in a world system that is "unstable, unequal and unsustainable."
Clinton gave the keynote address Saturday to members of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington. The organization gave the 42nd U.S. president its global leadership award.
The world is an "interdependent" system where an event in one country, such as an economic collapse, can affect the entire globe, Clinton said.
The former president said recent events such as the swine flu outbreak prove the system is unstable. Inequalities in health care worldwide show the system is unequal and recent trends in global warming show it is unsustainable, Clinton said.
Global cooperation is crucial for the survival of mankind, he added.
"If we have a chance, it has to begin by people accepting that they can be proud of who they are without despising who someone else is," Clinton said.
To foster this cooperation, people should focus on their similarities because we are genetically "99.5 percent" the same, the former president said.
"From time immemorial, people have fought over identity rooted in that (half percent)," Clinton said. "We should have spent more time thinking about that other 99.5 percent of ourselves."
Clinton also urged the audience to embrace who they are.
"You teach your children their ethnic heritage; their religious heritage; their cultural heritage with no negative reference to anyone else because it's the only shot we've got to make the most of our interdependent world," he said.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was founded in 1980 to protect the civil rights of Arabs.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/14/clinton.speech/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By Greg Clary
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton urged people to accept themselves and others in a world system that is "unstable, unequal and unsustainable."
Clinton gave the keynote address Saturday to members of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington. The organization gave the 42nd U.S. president its global leadership award.
The world is an "interdependent" system where an event in one country, such as an economic collapse, can affect the entire globe, Clinton said.
The former president said recent events such as the swine flu outbreak prove the system is unstable. Inequalities in health care worldwide show the system is unequal and recent trends in global warming show it is unsustainable, Clinton said.
Global cooperation is crucial for the survival of mankind, he added.
"If we have a chance, it has to begin by people accepting that they can be proud of who they are without despising who someone else is," Clinton said.
To foster this cooperation, people should focus on their similarities because we are genetically "99.5 percent" the same, the former president said.
"From time immemorial, people have fought over identity rooted in that (half percent)," Clinton said. "We should have spent more time thinking about that other 99.5 percent of ourselves."
Clinton also urged the audience to embrace who they are.
"You teach your children their ethnic heritage; their religious heritage; their cultural heritage with no negative reference to anyone else because it's the only shot we've got to make the most of our interdependent world," he said.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was founded in 1980 to protect the civil rights of Arabs.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/14/clinton.speech/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Spread the Truth
We are at a vital point right now, nearing a cusp. We have been separated for so long by our borders, our governments, our religions, our institutions, the mass media, etc. The time has come to embrace unity, embrace Oneness. It is now or never; this is our window of opportunity.
We have been conditioned by the aforementioned organizations into blind acceptance of society, and we are starting to realize it. More and more people are seeing the truth. This is because communication technology has advanced to the point where the masses can be reached in the blink of an eye. The Internet is an incredible network, where we can share and access our collective knowledge.
As of now, most of the Internet is used for games, shopping, and pornography, along with other misleading distractions. The true purpose of the Internet is to define and spread the truth so that the masses can wake up in the blink of an eye.
It's time to stop believing and blindly accepting what anyone says. We will have people preaching and promoting myths and lies until we see the truth for ourselves. We can’t blame these people, because they do not know what they are doing. None of us knows what we’re doing until we learn the truth. Once the truth is revealed, these false preachers and corrupt leaders must accept it, unless they want to stick to their blind, deceptive teachings and policies. What could be more irresponsible than telling someone something is true without knowing beyond a reasonable doubt that it is true? We must think for ourselves; there is no other option.
That said, don’t believe or blindly accept anything or anyone. Don’t believe your government, the media, your teachers, conspiracy theorists, your preachers, your gurus, your parents, your kids, or your friends. Be wary. Be skeptical. Question all of your existing beliefs.
Don't believe what we say on this site.
Don’t believe anything or anyone until you check what is said for yourself.
You have the ability to think critically and reason. USE IT.
It's time to fight the deception that is ever so prevalent in this world. It's time to wake ourselves up, wake others up, and start working together as the human race on planet Earth.
We have to see the truth while we can. It is a common misconception that the word "apocalypse" means "the end of the world." The word "apocalypse" means "unveiling." The apocalypse is happening right now; the veil is lifting. The truth is being revealed right now. Read The Present at The Truth Contest.
We need to stop watching useless, distracting TV programs. We need to stop playing video games all day long. We need to stop immersing ourselves in a fantasy world. We need to embrace reality and seek the truth. Nothing is more important right now than learning the truth for ourselves and spreading it to others. The truth is what will bring us together, so that we may live for today, live life in peace, and share all the world.
It's really easy right now to spread the truth, because it is being revealed, and we have the Internet. You can sit comfortably behind a screen spreading the truth to the masses in minutes anonymously, as to avoid violent reactions from fools. The prophets of the past didn't have the Internet to spread the truth, thus it couldn't reach the masses. Prophets of the past were beaten down and violently opposed while trying to fight for the truth. We must become modern prophets and spread the truth on the Internet, so that the masses realize the truth at the same time, and we will wake up in the twinkling of an eye. The apocalypse (unveiling) is happening NOW.
Help by posting links to http://www.truthcontest.com and http://www.embraceoneness.com anywhere you can.
SPREAD THE TRUTH.
For yourself, for your family, for your friends, for all of humanity.
The time to wake up is now.
Seek the truth, and spread the word.
Embrace Oneness
We have been conditioned by the aforementioned organizations into blind acceptance of society, and we are starting to realize it. More and more people are seeing the truth. This is because communication technology has advanced to the point where the masses can be reached in the blink of an eye. The Internet is an incredible network, where we can share and access our collective knowledge.
As of now, most of the Internet is used for games, shopping, and pornography, along with other misleading distractions. The true purpose of the Internet is to define and spread the truth so that the masses can wake up in the blink of an eye.
It's time to stop believing and blindly accepting what anyone says. We will have people preaching and promoting myths and lies until we see the truth for ourselves. We can’t blame these people, because they do not know what they are doing. None of us knows what we’re doing until we learn the truth. Once the truth is revealed, these false preachers and corrupt leaders must accept it, unless they want to stick to their blind, deceptive teachings and policies. What could be more irresponsible than telling someone something is true without knowing beyond a reasonable doubt that it is true? We must think for ourselves; there is no other option.
That said, don’t believe or blindly accept anything or anyone. Don’t believe your government, the media, your teachers, conspiracy theorists, your preachers, your gurus, your parents, your kids, or your friends. Be wary. Be skeptical. Question all of your existing beliefs.
Don't believe what we say on this site.
Don’t believe anything or anyone until you check what is said for yourself.
You have the ability to think critically and reason. USE IT.
It's time to fight the deception that is ever so prevalent in this world. It's time to wake ourselves up, wake others up, and start working together as the human race on planet Earth.
We have to see the truth while we can. It is a common misconception that the word "apocalypse" means "the end of the world." The word "apocalypse" means "unveiling." The apocalypse is happening right now; the veil is lifting. The truth is being revealed right now. Read The Present at The Truth Contest.
We need to stop watching useless, distracting TV programs. We need to stop playing video games all day long. We need to stop immersing ourselves in a fantasy world. We need to embrace reality and seek the truth. Nothing is more important right now than learning the truth for ourselves and spreading it to others. The truth is what will bring us together, so that we may live for today, live life in peace, and share all the world.
It's really easy right now to spread the truth, because it is being revealed, and we have the Internet. You can sit comfortably behind a screen spreading the truth to the masses in minutes anonymously, as to avoid violent reactions from fools. The prophets of the past didn't have the Internet to spread the truth, thus it couldn't reach the masses. Prophets of the past were beaten down and violently opposed while trying to fight for the truth. We must become modern prophets and spread the truth on the Internet, so that the masses realize the truth at the same time, and we will wake up in the twinkling of an eye. The apocalypse (unveiling) is happening NOW.
Help by posting links to http://www.truthcontest.com and http://www.embraceoneness.com anywhere you can.
SPREAD THE TRUTH.
For yourself, for your family, for your friends, for all of humanity.
The time to wake up is now.
Seek the truth, and spread the word.
Embrace Oneness
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
the church of Authentic Future
Mankind is at a crossroads. Too long have we periled each other and our Earth. Generations before us fell to ignorance, overrun by the promises of tomorrow. Today’s world is the product of unnecessary separation brought about by superficial incentives. It is up to current and subsequent generations to change this.
We now have the power to know that the truth is more than a deity in the sky. It is in each and every one of us. One can see it in the vastness of galaxies and the subtlety of granules or petals. Like our eyes, the world is round. Like the grass, our hair rises to the whims of the wind. Like a tree on its stump, we stand tall and mighty with knowledge. And yet we’ve overlooked these things so apparent. That the truth is not to be discovered nor created, that it is always here amongst us, before us, within us. There is no further proof man needs of this ultimate phenomenon than to simply live it. To know it and to know it well. To be its master, but to fall before it like the leaves to a winter’s gale.
In Nature, Emerson writes: “The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.”
All beings are childish at heart. There remains magic, absurdity, and benign sarcasm in all things. The universe is both wondrous and amusing, serious and insane. Nothing is subjective or objective, and yet everything is.
The true vastness of that infinity strewn before us is incomprehensible and yet entirely known. At heart there is something in each and every one of us (termed the collective unconscious in The Present) that pushes us forward. It is known at birth, visible at death, and in attendance throughout life, no matter how discreet. It is why animal chases animal, wave pushes wave, cloud touches cloud. The order of things is in fact ordered, although not by God in the common sense of the word. See it as rather a collective energy that makes itself seen in life and all that is made up of it. Even a chair or a table has life. Energy rustles in each and every inanimate object, and animate, as well. We, as individuals, are forms, brought forth out of a universe filled with chaos and disruption. Earth is at a perfect point, so ideal that living things burst out of each and every one of its seams. We are the product of a conscious forming of energy to reflect a living thing, which contains a soul. Your structure is not coincidental, and yet it is.
So why is it that we find ourselves divided? In each direction conceivable, for hundreds of thousands of miles, there is nothing. We are alone, and yet we continue to quarrel. It is not only unwarranted, it is unacceptable. Violence, suffering, and hardship are pervasive on this Earth, and yet they don’t have to be. Somehow we’ve let the instinctual animal, innate in all of us, take over. This animal is controlled by our minds and it has led us astray. It was a necessary commodity for our survival and evolution – for us to get where we are today – but is no longer needed. We’ve reached a point in which we must lay down the animal side of us and embrace the spiritual, so that we are ready to pass from this world to the next with open arms when that time comes.
What is meant by the next world is unclear, as there are certain things unknowable. It is impossible to discern exactly what happens after death, but by looking at nature and its workings, one finds it far more simple and wonderful than ever imaginable. In fact, there is a very high chance there are no answers after death, only continuous life, for infinite existence would be made colorless if we knew the entire truth behind it. Once again our curious mind has tried to know those things indiscernible.
Our brains have thrown in the concepts of good and bad, heaven and hell, black and white. In reality these things do not exist. There is only the now, being in an infinite void of consciousness (spirit) and energy (life). Your immediate surroundings – what your five senses pick up and that sense of presence that is your soul – are all there is. Multiply that by infinite perspectives, beings, and frames of reference, and you find reality. An interlocking existence in space. Living for living’s sake.
The universe as we know it is infinite. Theories exist that claim numerous universes are present, showing the truly vast and immeasurable size and depth of the place we call home. Truth, stability, and safety never exist in this home, as everything is bound to chance, but when living in the Present one does not worry about tomorrow and thus this fact is made void. To truly be a child of nature and the universe, one must give up all that they hold dear – even their own identity and sense of “I” – for the larger experience. Think of lives as days, days as lives. You will soon pass from this one into a new one. More people, places, and discoveries are to be found there. Reality is the universe experiencing itself. You are a traveler on an endless journey, where the destination is now. To truly let go. To not think or judge. To simply listen, smell, see, taste, and touch. That is to simply live. And to live simply is to live entirely.
Which brings us to the age we’re now living in; the opposite of these supposed truths. We live for objects and possessions, superficiality and fame. We are a “give me/I want/mine” collective that is self-absorbed and passé. We look at others as objects to sell, destroy, and defeat. We call ourselves individuals and see entire populations as insignificant. But when one person suffers, even if it be on the other end of the world, we all suffer, for we are all intricately linked. You may be in comfort now, but in a universe built on balance, things are bound to even out. Only by living for today, selfless and un-proud, can one truly sleep at night and rest peacefully when death is upon them.
It is said that we only truly live in the moments before our death. What we must do is spread those minutes across our lives, only then will we see the beauty of it all. The sole sin is boredom and indifference in a world so miraculous as our own. You will soon leave this place and may never return again (if so, as another being, be it a bird, a flower, or another human - or something entirely inconceivable). Cherish your time here as you, but never forget that you are not who you think you are. You belong to nature, each and every part of you, but nature is incomplete without you. It built you out of promise, and that’s where your significance lies. From the simplicity of a glass of water to the power of a rushing waterfall, one must see the beauty in all things big and small, before they find peace in their own heart. We must become one in every way possible. There can no longer be favoritism or prejudice.
A tree bears its fruit for each and every one of us equally. But it expects us to take only the amount we need. So why is it that parts of the world live in gluttony, greed, and materialism, while others cannot even find a meal? We say we care, but do we really? If we did there would not longer be hunger. Thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children would no longer suffer and die for no reason other than that the rest of the world would not share with them the love and relaxation they themselves cherish so much. Until the trivial concerns of this society are done away with, the world will continue to suffer. Until we realize we are not owed a large car and house, or seconds at dinner, or fortune, or fame, or piles of money atop money, we will never be content. Why is it that so many people in the riches and most fortunate part of the world still suffer at heart? It’s because they know they’re living unjustly, and that animal/mind side of them has taken over and told them it was okay.
They have sacrificed true universal contentment for the shallow desires and comforts of beasts. Life is not easy, but it does not have to be as hard as it is. When we come together as one we will see this. When borders and other forms of separations are forfeited we will find international happiness. When license plates say “Earth,” and when we truly live for today and for each other, that is when euphoria and bliss, beauty and pleasure immeasurable, are found.
Wars are never necessary. No matter what rhetoric or propaganda is used to defend them, they are always a means of separation – a way to keep one party safe and the other submissive. There must be debate and negotiations. Humbleness and humility are the only ways towards peace. Anything else fought is a losing battle. Fire can never destroy fire, this is evident by the fact man has been fighting man for millennia and still does so to this day. Why is it that so many nations spend so much of their GDP on their military?
All militaries are unnecessary, from the U.S. to Pakistan, France to Venezuela, Russia to North Korea. They serve only to separate, kill, and destroy. They are not made up of evil people, but as a whole form something savage and destructive. We all long for peace and harmony on the personal level, so why not on the global level, too? Why is it that our military develops and evolves time and time again, yet schoolchildren can’t get proper education and much of the world is still illiterate? Why are hundreds of thousands of people blown to pieces (quite literally) and yet schools crumble after years of neglect? This is pointless, foolish, immature, and quite frankly, outrageous. We are currently embracing all the negative aspects of our childhood - most notably ignorance - when we should be embracing the positive, such as a clean and clear look at the world, and an unconditional appreciation for all things, similar or not.
We are currently destroying ourselves and our world. We must become one. Harmony is nonexistent in our current practice towards Earth. We rape the land, never thinking of tomorrow’s consequences. Our planet is big to us, but small and fragile on the grand scale of things. If we continue to treat it as we do, we will fall. When Mother Nature bites back, she bites back hard. If we don’t destroy ourselves first, be it by some sort of nuclear ambition or self-inflicted plague, the enormous effect of our foolish treatment of Earth certainly will.
Only ignorance is to blame for the current state of society and man. People escape the realities of today with the promises of tomorrow. Yet tomorrow does not exist. It may never come. There is no heaven in the accepted sense. Heaven is now. It is the ability to experience a reality with five immersive senses and a spiritual consciousness. To interact with fellow souls on their journey through life. We no longer have the excuse of ignorance. We can no longer be bound by foolish pride. Things must change or mankind will cease to exist, and mankind is too promising a species for that. The world is too marvelous a place to let such a thing happen. Inside the heart of everyman lies reason and a conscience. When we embrace our most subtle inclinations and see ourselves for the truly unique, collective, and equal beings that we are, we will find true happiness on a global scale.
Think of it this way. If you were an extraterrestrial being – or better yet, a baby being born into this world – would you rather emerge into things as they are, or a planet much better? If you could choose to live on this planet from the beginning would you? Keep in mind that you could end up anywhere on Earth, in the poorest slums of Africa or in the throws of war and conflict somewhere far off and unknown to you.
We have to make a place that living things – spirits – would want to be born into. We must build a world that identifies itself as one beautiful, semi-stable mass in an uncontrollable universe.
Envision a world without smokestacks, where clean energy that is renewable and plentiful (think solar, wind, etc.) defeats the self-serving money grabbers of yesterday and today.
Envision a world where people are no longer separated by foolish beliefs in an afterlife that doesn’t exist. What if you find yourself reborn into this world, stuck with the same problems as now? People must live for today and see this world as the heaven they so actively (and needlessly) pursue.
Envision a world where the selfish no longer role around in their own greed and money, and where all people, regardless of monetary gain, are equal. Money does not exist. In the end it is only numbers, paper, and interest. It is our belief in it that helps it survive. It must be done away with. No person should have any more than another. Just as a tree bears its fruit for all, we must live so that each person gets their fare share. One day it may be you in the unlucky seat.
Envision a world where nature is respected and all recognize themselves as a part of it. Man is not above nor below it. Man is of it, as are all plants and animals. The belief that man can have dominion over other animals in the animal kingdom is a farce. One day you may come back as the piglet bound for the slaughterer. Animals are conscious as we are. You know it as does everyone else. Now accept it.
Envision a world where God did not create earth, but is of it, for all the good and ill.
Envision a world where we see ourselves as one. We all have hands and feet, brains and eyes, noses and tongues, ears and hearts. And most of all, we are all conscious and feel. There is no separation except false separation.
Envision a world that faces reality. One that quits hiding behind false falsettos. Until we acknowledge that our similarities run far more deep than our differences, will we truly find equality and happiness for all. Also, we must come to terms with the fact that is death. Living in a dream world will not change things. Remember that the infinitude of life is seen everywhere in nature. You have been before and will come back again, forever. It will not be in a fake heaven where you live in gluttony and pleasure, but in the vast, fair, universal phenomenon right before your eyes.
Envision a world where truth, knowledge, and harmony are international realities.
Next: Spread the Truth
We now have the power to know that the truth is more than a deity in the sky. It is in each and every one of us. One can see it in the vastness of galaxies and the subtlety of granules or petals. Like our eyes, the world is round. Like the grass, our hair rises to the whims of the wind. Like a tree on its stump, we stand tall and mighty with knowledge. And yet we’ve overlooked these things so apparent. That the truth is not to be discovered nor created, that it is always here amongst us, before us, within us. There is no further proof man needs of this ultimate phenomenon than to simply live it. To know it and to know it well. To be its master, but to fall before it like the leaves to a winter’s gale.
In Nature, Emerson writes: “The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.”
All beings are childish at heart. There remains magic, absurdity, and benign sarcasm in all things. The universe is both wondrous and amusing, serious and insane. Nothing is subjective or objective, and yet everything is.
The true vastness of that infinity strewn before us is incomprehensible and yet entirely known. At heart there is something in each and every one of us (termed the collective unconscious in The Present) that pushes us forward. It is known at birth, visible at death, and in attendance throughout life, no matter how discreet. It is why animal chases animal, wave pushes wave, cloud touches cloud. The order of things is in fact ordered, although not by God in the common sense of the word. See it as rather a collective energy that makes itself seen in life and all that is made up of it. Even a chair or a table has life. Energy rustles in each and every inanimate object, and animate, as well. We, as individuals, are forms, brought forth out of a universe filled with chaos and disruption. Earth is at a perfect point, so ideal that living things burst out of each and every one of its seams. We are the product of a conscious forming of energy to reflect a living thing, which contains a soul. Your structure is not coincidental, and yet it is.
So why is it that we find ourselves divided? In each direction conceivable, for hundreds of thousands of miles, there is nothing. We are alone, and yet we continue to quarrel. It is not only unwarranted, it is unacceptable. Violence, suffering, and hardship are pervasive on this Earth, and yet they don’t have to be. Somehow we’ve let the instinctual animal, innate in all of us, take over. This animal is controlled by our minds and it has led us astray. It was a necessary commodity for our survival and evolution – for us to get where we are today – but is no longer needed. We’ve reached a point in which we must lay down the animal side of us and embrace the spiritual, so that we are ready to pass from this world to the next with open arms when that time comes.
What is meant by the next world is unclear, as there are certain things unknowable. It is impossible to discern exactly what happens after death, but by looking at nature and its workings, one finds it far more simple and wonderful than ever imaginable. In fact, there is a very high chance there are no answers after death, only continuous life, for infinite existence would be made colorless if we knew the entire truth behind it. Once again our curious mind has tried to know those things indiscernible.
Our brains have thrown in the concepts of good and bad, heaven and hell, black and white. In reality these things do not exist. There is only the now, being in an infinite void of consciousness (spirit) and energy (life). Your immediate surroundings – what your five senses pick up and that sense of presence that is your soul – are all there is. Multiply that by infinite perspectives, beings, and frames of reference, and you find reality. An interlocking existence in space. Living for living’s sake.
The universe as we know it is infinite. Theories exist that claim numerous universes are present, showing the truly vast and immeasurable size and depth of the place we call home. Truth, stability, and safety never exist in this home, as everything is bound to chance, but when living in the Present one does not worry about tomorrow and thus this fact is made void. To truly be a child of nature and the universe, one must give up all that they hold dear – even their own identity and sense of “I” – for the larger experience. Think of lives as days, days as lives. You will soon pass from this one into a new one. More people, places, and discoveries are to be found there. Reality is the universe experiencing itself. You are a traveler on an endless journey, where the destination is now. To truly let go. To not think or judge. To simply listen, smell, see, taste, and touch. That is to simply live. And to live simply is to live entirely.
Which brings us to the age we’re now living in; the opposite of these supposed truths. We live for objects and possessions, superficiality and fame. We are a “give me/I want/mine” collective that is self-absorbed and passé. We look at others as objects to sell, destroy, and defeat. We call ourselves individuals and see entire populations as insignificant. But when one person suffers, even if it be on the other end of the world, we all suffer, for we are all intricately linked. You may be in comfort now, but in a universe built on balance, things are bound to even out. Only by living for today, selfless and un-proud, can one truly sleep at night and rest peacefully when death is upon them.
It is said that we only truly live in the moments before our death. What we must do is spread those minutes across our lives, only then will we see the beauty of it all. The sole sin is boredom and indifference in a world so miraculous as our own. You will soon leave this place and may never return again (if so, as another being, be it a bird, a flower, or another human - or something entirely inconceivable). Cherish your time here as you, but never forget that you are not who you think you are. You belong to nature, each and every part of you, but nature is incomplete without you. It built you out of promise, and that’s where your significance lies. From the simplicity of a glass of water to the power of a rushing waterfall, one must see the beauty in all things big and small, before they find peace in their own heart. We must become one in every way possible. There can no longer be favoritism or prejudice.
A tree bears its fruit for each and every one of us equally. But it expects us to take only the amount we need. So why is it that parts of the world live in gluttony, greed, and materialism, while others cannot even find a meal? We say we care, but do we really? If we did there would not longer be hunger. Thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children would no longer suffer and die for no reason other than that the rest of the world would not share with them the love and relaxation they themselves cherish so much. Until the trivial concerns of this society are done away with, the world will continue to suffer. Until we realize we are not owed a large car and house, or seconds at dinner, or fortune, or fame, or piles of money atop money, we will never be content. Why is it that so many people in the riches and most fortunate part of the world still suffer at heart? It’s because they know they’re living unjustly, and that animal/mind side of them has taken over and told them it was okay.
They have sacrificed true universal contentment for the shallow desires and comforts of beasts. Life is not easy, but it does not have to be as hard as it is. When we come together as one we will see this. When borders and other forms of separations are forfeited we will find international happiness. When license plates say “Earth,” and when we truly live for today and for each other, that is when euphoria and bliss, beauty and pleasure immeasurable, are found.
Wars are never necessary. No matter what rhetoric or propaganda is used to defend them, they are always a means of separation – a way to keep one party safe and the other submissive. There must be debate and negotiations. Humbleness and humility are the only ways towards peace. Anything else fought is a losing battle. Fire can never destroy fire, this is evident by the fact man has been fighting man for millennia and still does so to this day. Why is it that so many nations spend so much of their GDP on their military?
All militaries are unnecessary, from the U.S. to Pakistan, France to Venezuela, Russia to North Korea. They serve only to separate, kill, and destroy. They are not made up of evil people, but as a whole form something savage and destructive. We all long for peace and harmony on the personal level, so why not on the global level, too? Why is it that our military develops and evolves time and time again, yet schoolchildren can’t get proper education and much of the world is still illiterate? Why are hundreds of thousands of people blown to pieces (quite literally) and yet schools crumble after years of neglect? This is pointless, foolish, immature, and quite frankly, outrageous. We are currently embracing all the negative aspects of our childhood - most notably ignorance - when we should be embracing the positive, such as a clean and clear look at the world, and an unconditional appreciation for all things, similar or not.
We are currently destroying ourselves and our world. We must become one. Harmony is nonexistent in our current practice towards Earth. We rape the land, never thinking of tomorrow’s consequences. Our planet is big to us, but small and fragile on the grand scale of things. If we continue to treat it as we do, we will fall. When Mother Nature bites back, she bites back hard. If we don’t destroy ourselves first, be it by some sort of nuclear ambition or self-inflicted plague, the enormous effect of our foolish treatment of Earth certainly will.
Only ignorance is to blame for the current state of society and man. People escape the realities of today with the promises of tomorrow. Yet tomorrow does not exist. It may never come. There is no heaven in the accepted sense. Heaven is now. It is the ability to experience a reality with five immersive senses and a spiritual consciousness. To interact with fellow souls on their journey through life. We no longer have the excuse of ignorance. We can no longer be bound by foolish pride. Things must change or mankind will cease to exist, and mankind is too promising a species for that. The world is too marvelous a place to let such a thing happen. Inside the heart of everyman lies reason and a conscience. When we embrace our most subtle inclinations and see ourselves for the truly unique, collective, and equal beings that we are, we will find true happiness on a global scale.
Think of it this way. If you were an extraterrestrial being – or better yet, a baby being born into this world – would you rather emerge into things as they are, or a planet much better? If you could choose to live on this planet from the beginning would you? Keep in mind that you could end up anywhere on Earth, in the poorest slums of Africa or in the throws of war and conflict somewhere far off and unknown to you.
We have to make a place that living things – spirits – would want to be born into. We must build a world that identifies itself as one beautiful, semi-stable mass in an uncontrollable universe.
Envision a world without smokestacks, where clean energy that is renewable and plentiful (think solar, wind, etc.) defeats the self-serving money grabbers of yesterday and today.
Envision a world where people are no longer separated by foolish beliefs in an afterlife that doesn’t exist. What if you find yourself reborn into this world, stuck with the same problems as now? People must live for today and see this world as the heaven they so actively (and needlessly) pursue.
Envision a world where the selfish no longer role around in their own greed and money, and where all people, regardless of monetary gain, are equal. Money does not exist. In the end it is only numbers, paper, and interest. It is our belief in it that helps it survive. It must be done away with. No person should have any more than another. Just as a tree bears its fruit for all, we must live so that each person gets their fare share. One day it may be you in the unlucky seat.
Envision a world where nature is respected and all recognize themselves as a part of it. Man is not above nor below it. Man is of it, as are all plants and animals. The belief that man can have dominion over other animals in the animal kingdom is a farce. One day you may come back as the piglet bound for the slaughterer. Animals are conscious as we are. You know it as does everyone else. Now accept it.
Envision a world where God did not create earth, but is of it, for all the good and ill.
Envision a world where we see ourselves as one. We all have hands and feet, brains and eyes, noses and tongues, ears and hearts. And most of all, we are all conscious and feel. There is no separation except false separation.
Envision a world that faces reality. One that quits hiding behind false falsettos. Until we acknowledge that our similarities run far more deep than our differences, will we truly find equality and happiness for all. Also, we must come to terms with the fact that is death. Living in a dream world will not change things. Remember that the infinitude of life is seen everywhere in nature. You have been before and will come back again, forever. It will not be in a fake heaven where you live in gluttony and pleasure, but in the vast, fair, universal phenomenon right before your eyes.
Envision a world where truth, knowledge, and harmony are international realities.
Next: Spread the Truth
Oneness
There is one thing we must realize, and it’s not that hard to do. We are all living on this giant globe, this giant rock that we call Earth, floating around the Sun, surrounded by empty space. Do you realize we’re floating in space?
We are the human race on planet Earth.
So the question is, why the separation? No matter what color our skin is, no matter what country we live in, no matter what our religion is, no matter what our political values are, no matter what culture we’re raised in, no matter what our perspective is...when it comes down to it, we are all human beings on planet Earth.
In realizing this, we begin to see that we’re all the same in the end. We are all born, we all die, we all look up at the stars, we all breathe the air, we are all nourished by the fruits of the Earth and kept warm by the Sun. We’re all sharing this Earth, trying to survive, trying to be fulfilled. We’re all one.
Embrace Oneness with an open heart, and let us work in harmony with each other and with nature to put an end to the unnecessary suffering on Earth, the planet that we all share.
Equality under the Sun. Togetherness on Earth. Oneness in spirit.
Next: Authentic Future
We are the human race on planet Earth.
So the question is, why the separation? No matter what color our skin is, no matter what country we live in, no matter what our religion is, no matter what our political values are, no matter what culture we’re raised in, no matter what our perspective is...when it comes down to it, we are all human beings on planet Earth.
In realizing this, we begin to see that we’re all the same in the end. We are all born, we all die, we all look up at the stars, we all breathe the air, we are all nourished by the fruits of the Earth and kept warm by the Sun. We’re all sharing this Earth, trying to survive, trying to be fulfilled. We’re all one.
Embrace Oneness with an open heart, and let us work in harmony with each other and with nature to put an end to the unnecessary suffering on Earth, the planet that we all share.
Equality under the Sun. Togetherness on Earth. Oneness in spirit.
Next: Authentic Future
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