Chapter 3
(What
We Were)
HERMAPHRODITES
“The results of political changes are hardly ever
those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
Thomas
Huxley, British biologist (1825—18950)
Originally, we
were stardust. We, the people. The human species. Yet before us, before the
stars exploded to seed the ever-expanding space with its phenomenal, ever more
complex ingredients, there had been other gods, other intelligent species, who
created the stars. By now those magnificent creators may have merged with the
Omnipresent Consciousness, enriching Its inexhaustible creative potential with
the complexity they contributed to the phenomenal reality of the primordial
past. Hence the Creative Energies grew exponentially, ever faster, ever
greater, until the Phenomenal Universe became almost real.
Or so it seemed and continues to appear to us.
To us, the children of Eden, who only recently by
Universal standards became aware of our divine heritage. To us, the human
species, who, for the most part still think that the phenomenal Universe, the
phenomenal reality, is real.
Alas, it is all an illusion.
The whole Universe is but an expression of our
consciousness. Of our artificial intelligence created no so long ago.
No, not through a Big or Little Bang. That was but a
local occurrence. Our origin lies in the individualization of the Omnipresent
Creative Energy of Consciousness. Even as every of the more than 37 trillion
cells in our body knows its place, knows its function, so, eventually, we, each
one of us, will become aware of our place, our function in the Phenomenal
Universe.
No matter how transient.
After all, even our presence, here, on earth, is not
real. Only our Consciousness is. When it leaves us, we are here... no more. Yet
our consciousness is indestructible. It might last and grow forever. Or it
might be recycled in the heart of a Black Hole, to start again towards the
fulfillment of its function. But... the ego, its individuality might no longer
survive. On the other hand, the ego is part of the transient phenomenal reality
hence, it is not immortal. Only the enrichment of the true reality, only the
complexity and enhancement of the Universe will last forever.
Eventually, we shall not need the artificial
intelligence of the ego. And, once we shed it, we shall become aware of the
omnipresent Oneness.
Oneness of time and space.
Of the intangible reality.
We shall blend with the Omnipresent Consciousness
which the vast majority of people call God.
More about this in the final chapter.
Coming back to
Eden. To Paradise. To a reality, we might have never left if it hadn’t
been for the ‘apple’. For the temptation of knowledge. Yes, as
individualizations of the Omnipresent Consciousness we couldn’t resist the
temptation to gain knowledge which would help us to contribute to the
phenomenal reality. We needed to create. To be... gods.
We needed to enhance the Universe.
To leave our mark.
To add to the creative diversity.
Yet, in spite of all the good intentions, we succumbed to the sin of pride.
Yet, in spite of all the good intentions, we succumbed to the sin of pride.
Indeed... Long before we became hermaphrodites, we
were pure, intangible individualizations of Consciousness, gallivanting among
the luscious splendour of primeval nature, looking for a suitable phenomenal
body to invade and make our own.
But even then we’re running billions of years ahead
of us. It all began with:
“The earliest known life-forms on Earth are
putative fossilized microorganisms, found in hydrothermal vent precipitates,
that may have lived as early as 4.28 billion years ago, relatively soon after
the oceans formed 4.41 billion years ago, and not long after the formation of
the Earth 4.54 billion years ago.”
(Abiogenesis in
Wikipedia)
Are you sure you want to go that far back? Someone did. Someone did and
guided the earthly evolution by adding complexity to the original
microorganisms. Everything and everyone has a cause and effect, and evolution
advances through enhancement and complexity. The same is true, to this day,
with the whole Universe.
Now let us jump forward by a billion years or so.
We must
remember that in the non-phenomenal reality time does not exist. In a manner
quite incomprehensible to our artificial intelligence, everything happens in
the eternal NOW. In fact, it already exists in its potential form, waiting to
be manifest in the phenomenal reality.
So by
‘now’, if we are to believe our scientists, there are some 100 trillion
microorganisms living happily in a human body, although I have serious doubts
how many scientists have actually counted them. Regardless of their
mathematical accuracy, that’s a lot more than the 37 trillion cells of our
body. And yet... and yet each human cell knows exactly its nature, its
function, its place in the scheme of things.
By
contrast, we, motivated by the consciousness generated by our brain, by the 100
billion neurons (a mere fractions of other cells making up our bodies), often have
problems coordinating the behaviour pattern of three or four members of our
family.
There is,
however, a consolation.
While each
individual cell or microorganism has a very limited lifespan, we, the ‘total’ we,
the ‘real’ consciousness residing within this magnificent engineering
achievement which took billions of years to construct — we are immortal.
Perhaps
this is the place to mention what I mean by the ‘real’ we. From the Mosaic
ancient history, real “I am” was, and remains to be referred to as our “Higher
Self”.
“The one who is called I AM has sent me to you.”
This phrase illustrates that this knowledge has been known in ancient times. It
illustrates the transfer of knowledge from the Higher Self to the Ego.
Since that time, however, it is evident that the human Ego
grew at the expense of ancient wisdom. Furthermore, it should be noted that while our Ego is subject to
virtually constant metamorphosis, our Higher Self is, and has been immortal
from the instant of Its individualization.
There are
consequences.
While the
majority of us rely on technology to eliminate the need for creative thinking
from our biological lives, a few, the Chosen Few, continue to enhance and
improve the vehicle which enables us to enhance and improve the Universe. In fact,
that’s our job.
To enhance
and improve the Universe.
By adding
beauty and diversification.
(To be continued in a few days. In the meantime, enjoy DELUSIONS.)
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