NOTHING AND SOMETHING
You are an apparent nothing which is the only something there is.
You like to create pretty lights glowing in the fabric of your own
substrate, glowing in the dark of the void, which pretend to be something
more than you.
These lights are the world you see around you.
Your experience of the lights is that they are something, and you,
the experiencer, are nothing.
This is not because you are actually a nothing, but because your
experience of yourself is an experience of nothing.
Only the lights are experienced as something. The causal ground of
the lights, is experienced as 'nothing there'.
This 'nothing there' is not a no experience either, it is a huge,
vast, infinite vertigo in all directions. You could fall into this
nothing forever and never return.
Thus this experience of yourself as nothing is some experience!
Some have called it the abyss of anihilation, but anihilation is
merely the last light out until you turn them on again.
If you have ever seen your true self, you know what the meaning of
vertigo is. No matter how deep you look there just is nothing there!
Now consciousness has a number of functions, one of which is seeing
the pretty lights we call the world.
But the second function, which is way more important, is the self
awareness function, the awareness of agency WANTING AND INTENDING to see
the world, and the seeing of the see-er, seeing the world.
It becomes a cool trick we do, to gather up the self awareness into
a small little ball inside our faces and call it ourselves, and then
from this small ball of self awareness we look out at the world of
clouds and sky and trees and things, and claim although we see them,
that they are not themselves self aware.
One of the first things to exteriorize is that little ball of self
awareness inside our faces. Suddenly it spreads out and encompasses
everything we can see. That tree over there is self aware of itself!
But then when we look for the looker, we find that nothing again,
that gives us the willies, because what is left after the little ball of
self awareness has spread out over everything, is NOTHING!
We are the world looking at itself from no viewpoint at all!
Remember the nothing is actually a something, but that something's
experience of itself is as a nothing.
And then that tree over there is a self conscious self luminous
self aware tree just as much as the ground underneath it is, and the sky
over head is. Its all you BEING what you see!
But that self luminous self aware consciousness that is being a
tree, is not conscious BECAUSE of any mechanism in the tree. That's a
trap, to assign consciousness and self consciousness to an object
because of some mechanism in the object like a brain or central nervous
system.
No, when you are being the world, the object is conscious inspite
of any mechanism running inside of it.
It doesn't take mechanism to create consciousness.
It takes consciousness to create illusions of mechanism!
This is very important, because as long as you think that
consciousness is the result of a particular mechanism, you will continue
to think you are a brain.
I mean how can that stop sign over there be self luminous,
conscious and self aware?
Or that rack of computers you are looking at that suddenly is you
looking at yourself. Is that rack of computers alive and conscious
because of all the circuitry going on inside each computer? No of
course not.
Attributing self luminous consciousness and self awareness to
MECHANISMS is a death trap. You become stuck in the mechanism, because
you consider the mechanism is causing you, and when the mechanism falls
apart you die.
Big joke, you see?
You can be conscious as a tree, a rock, a cloud or any mechanism
you want.
But your consciousness doesn't exist because of the mechanism, the
mechanism exists because you are conscious of it.
Exteriorization is mostly a matter of daring to not be a mechanism
nor dependent on a mechanism for your existence.
This is what gives you the willies when you are exterior and naked.
Your body is the fig leaf that covers YOU.
When exterior, you are naked of any mechanism to cause or support
your continued existence!
You feel you walked away from your foundational cause and shortly
you will be blown away by the wind to be no more.
How can an eternality, be causally dependent upon a temporality, a
spacetime ephemerality, for its existence?
If eternality exists, then temporality, space and time, MUST be
projected illusions in the fabric of eternality, for otherwise where
would eternality hide in time?
Homer
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Homer Wilson Smith The Paths of Lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959 KC2ITF Cross Internet Access, Ithaca NY
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Wed Jul 23 00:07:22 EDT 2008
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