It’s commonly said, “I came into this world”. The fact is, you didn’t come into this world, you came out of it. Just as you could say a tree that makes apples is a tree that apples, you could say, a world that has people, is a world that peoples. You came out of the universe, you did not come into it, as if you are something outside of existence that was mysteriously transported into this world. This seems really Star Treky, but is this not the way we think?
It would be very common for an american child to ask its mother, “how was I made?” Rather for a chinese child, it would be more probable for a child to ask its mother “how did I grow?” These are two very different things you see. I think a lot of us still have this monarchical view of the universe, in which we think we had to be made, hence coming into existence and not coming out of existence. Is this not reflected in our daily speach? We have a nouns and verbs. Nouns are supposed to start processes, but how does a thing put a process into action? Doesn’t the thing have to have the potential of the process already in its make up? Sure you could say, the wind moved the trees, but those atoms in the trees were already in a state of flexible motion, that allowed them to be moved in the first place. Does this make any sense?
So my question is this, are we simply looking at our reality the wrong way? Surely we are just as much a part of nature as the sun or the earth or the galaxies. Does size make a difference? Does the length of time in which we stay around compared to the sun and the earth make a difference in how they are more a part of nature then we are? If it does, then how so? Why do we feel so disconnected from reality? My definition of feeling connected with reality, is the state in which we no longer feel the desire to question the nature of existence. I’m sure someone will say, you can feel perfectly comfortable and at ease in the world and still want to question its nature, but is that really perfectly comfortable and at ease?
In order to come out of the world you’d have to be in it first and you weren’t! One way in, one way out. No, we’re not at ease, not when we have no use outside of coming into this world of nothing and leaving of nothing.
But even if you’re a Christian, and you believe you have an eternal soul, then you still came out of this world. Because God, or Heaven, is still in the universe, if you definition of the universe, is everything that exists, including any extradimensional planes of existence, or whatever you want to call them. /shrug
in the movie “the edukators” a conversation took place roughly like this: Girl: “when i was a child and all my freinds were having fun playing dolls, i could never play, i could never forget that they were just dolls…boy: its the matrix, if you can see it, you cant be a part of it.” i agree with this, i also think that as a defense mechanism our souls dissconnect from reality/ our minds. thats why little kids look enlightened, they are, they arent fake , they aren’t deceptive, their facial expressions line up with their emotions, they are compleatly in the moment… but being around their coke snorting parents, they no longer feel safe giving their love filled answers, so they start constructing answers not from emotion, but instead from memory, they remember what kind of answers their parents want to hear, and they say them. now the ego is born, and the soul is hidden.
As I see it man’s being is dual natured. This means that part of you came out of existence and the other came into existence.
Your animal nature is the result of the lawful mechanical evolutionary process and came out of existence of this world. However, your higher nature came into this world through the process of involution. This means it began at a higher level or world and “involved” down into our world becoming a part of what we know as existence.
We feel disconnected from reality because these two natures reflecting their own connection to reality are in conflict so as we are we are neither here nor there. This is the human condition.
Im kind of tired, but it seems obvious the reason we feel disconnected from reality is because we believe that we are. Our feelings follow our beliefs, not the other way around, period.
So what beliefs do you hold that reinforce the seperation?
When you feel a certain way, theres a belief involved… Make [b]that[b/] connection.
I say beliefs because man do we have a past that was very keen on exploring reality in way that exteriorized reality from ourselves. Applying its ‘cause’ to the exterior world, not to self. a vice versa.
We have been believing we dont create our reality, that someone or something else does. We believe that we are victims of conditions beyond our control, beyond our understanding…etc…you take these beliefs…you hold them, you believe in these ideas…lo and behold you feel powerless…disconnected, seperated, a stranger to creation. And you wonder why you then feel that way, but the feeling will tell you this if you let it. Listening to your feelings will take you to the source of why you feel that way, it will take you to the specific beliefs if you are looking for them.
, you werent raised with ideas supporting the connection to reality. Therefore, you can see the task at hand. Examining the reasons you feel disconnected from reality may lead you to a mountain of beliefs you have acquired reinforcing that experience. …
The act of realizing one is just another “pop or whislte” in the universe seems pretty easy actually. The question then is: What is the function of this universe? It is not our human existence that we now question but existence itself. The universe.
On this tiny “meaningless” earth we see a tree that provides a filter for air, an Ozone that protect us from harmful sun rays and just outside our earth we see how the sun provides us heat. At this simple level we observe function. Why stop there? Lets pull back and try to view the ENTIRE universe. Does it too serve some FANTASTICLY HUGE purpose?
I personally don’t feel disconnected from the universe mostly because I keep pounding into my brain “I am the universe” a product of its complexity, but now that I have made myself “equal” to the universe I still have this question left concerning the function of “it all”, the universe.
pinch paxton, i dissagree. i feel souls are vissable in photographs. peole who are photogenic are their souls, or,- they are their expressions. people with egos are their thoughts, and are dissconeected from their bodies. i think souls even shape the face slightly, i think someone elses soul in my face would make me look like a different person… . . ., .,.
