The Mysterious Self – The Inevitable “I”

Inadvertently, John Lennon and The Beatles announced the truth to the world musically decades ago. Probably because they’d been hanging out with Eastern mystics where a glimpse into ancient insights was possible.

"I Am The Walrus."

The ancients who appeared in nature long before Buddhists or Christians or Muslims realized where they were from. They thought of it as a form of Self that might also be considered “God” or The Universe. They knew that this was their origin and the beginning and end of all things.

Since then, many religions have been invented – maybe even by species other than humans – but they are primarily fixated on interpersonal behavior and personal submission. They casually and sparsely refer to the origin of things or the nature of “Allah,” “God,” “Odin” or “Ra.” For the most part they brush aside probing questions by declaring some Prime Mover to be “unfathomable.” Yet they speak right up on Its behalf proclaiming how we should live, traits that highlight the disingenuous reality of institutionalized spirituality for the uninitiated.

Scientists can’t seem to grasp “consciousness.” We all know what it is. It’s “I.” Being Me. Certainly you know that you are. It’s the part of you that feels like it ought to be able to go on even after all of the teeth, and hair and body parts have fallen away into dust. But scientists can’t measure it, describe it or even study it much. So deep inside, most scientists think that your mind is some chemical formula that simply remains to be figured out. Or that “consciousness” is Out There and our brains are transmitter-receivers that tap into it and give feedback.

You may not get this. If not, it’s understandable. Often the most obvious things are the most difficult to comprehend.

This will be confusing at first and may sound like double-talk. Try to get past that. This is so straightforward that you simply may not be able to accept it.

This will call for imagination. Sadly, imagination is not everyone’s thing. Actually, I’d venture (in an unscientific observation) that imagination is weak in the majority of human beings. Holding on to too many of your assumptions and premises may block your “getting” this.

Okay, here it is:

I am you. You are me. We are each other and everyone else. Oddly, “one day” you will be sitting here at my desk typing this. And I’ll be sitting wherever you are, reading it.

Consciousness was the first “thing” but it was alone. Its only force was imagination, and through its imagination it created others. But these others were inert, until some consciousness was imparted into each. And so, consciousness continues to divide and expand, the universe expanding with it.

Literally.

Recommended Reading: There is an excellent post on this topic by The Naked Professor

www.soulcast.com/post/show/11314/The-Infinity-Thread

- Hole