The Journey of the I
The beginning
#beg
In the beginning, I am not aware of the end nor that there is even an end.
I come into being not knowing where I came from. Some might say that we came from “nothing”. This nothing(ness) is the same no matter the cosmology. Many today seem to be satisfied with a cosmology that believes in life as an autonomous event — unconnected from anything else that occurred or has occurred. Others believe that we are G-d, blessed be His name, the First Principle, wanting to have a “human” experience. The experience that we all share is that after I depart this world, a spark leaves my physical body, and for those who remain, I, as represented by my physical being, am no longer alive, no longer “animate”…
Was the “spark” of life something that “arose” — from nothing and nowhere — because of a certain combination of material that just happened to come together spontaneously — that is, according to a certain “randomness” that exists in “nature”? A randomness that might challenge all known natural “laws”? Or was it as a consequence of some marvellous event — like a particle or perhaps a wave of a certain energy — that emerged under specific, not fully known, conditions?
We just do not know. Perhaps this “eternal life” that is spoken of, or dreamt of, is the one whereby we will know — and be able to transition. That is, relate to whatever it is we will know in death, that we could not while alive. Perhaps it is only through the experience of death that we can become aware of the greater continuum of existence.
In the end
A miraculous evolution in consciousness is the realisation that I am going to die in the end which immediately puts my story, the I-story, into a greater context. That is, although I live my life, something else — the same something that somehow enabled me to awaken in this “place” — will at some unknown point, remove this particular awareness that I am now expressing (by writing this – for instance).
Position
“The only person to be superior to is your own previous self.”
Every story begins with the one I am, and continues with the one I am becoming. The most effective way to do that is to explore all the I’s that ‘I am not’… yet. For that is the only progression to contemplate — that which brings the I to fully experience its own -ness. As is said,
One thing we know is that there was a time when there was no-one. Though, if there was some thing, then it was the only thing that was. It was ‘no-thing’, or, at very least, ‘no-one’.
Yet somehow the No-One had a need to express it’s manifold self and thus we say a point emerged. That is only because we can only see one single point, for it was not an ordinary point but all points as well.
Just as when I say the number 21, it speaks of all numbers. Once you have “discovered” one number, you realise that all the other numbers exist too, even though some might never manifest.
But because everything begins with One, One decided to give itself a name, and called itself Point. Thus this One can be represented by a point. For a point is single dimensional, having only a single characteristic — that of position.
// because everything begins with One, One decided to give itself a name, and called itself Point. Thus One can be represented by a point. And this Point also only knows one thing about itself—where it is at, here and now. It doesn’t know whether it is moving or not, how fast it is moving, or anything else. It has no size, or shape. In a sense it just is, and it is so infinitesimally small, that if you blink, you will miss it—yet everything big or small, multi-dimensional or not, is made up of points. //