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We, humans, feel that our “self”, our life, our existence is “more”, more than rocks, or vegetation, or animals. We have a “spirit”; they do not.
“Spirituality” originates in the belief that a “God” exists, and that the God is a “Spirit”… and by extension, we, humans, are endowed with a droplet of “divinity”, or, at minimum, a connection to the divine spirit. The “God/ Spirit” is separate from us. And our “spirit” is separate from our body. By being human and by following the words of God we activate in us a “spiritual” effect. The effect: A feeling of oneness with God, a sense of “validated” purpose and meaning of existence… and at a ticket, at end of this existence, to rejoin God in is celestial abode. The “spiritual” effect satisfies our need to be “more”. The problem: There is no God. The exercise is, in the end, imaginary.
Science leaves our sense of being “more” wanting. Science is uncertain as to the nature of the Mind/Force behind creation. Behind the Big-Bang. Behind evolution. Is it a God? Is it a Force. Is there anything there? We are scrutinizing the cosmos further and further backward into time hoping to see behind the veil. While we wait to form a philosophy of existence based on the real nature of who we are, we claim to be as moral, as ethical, as good, as… than the believers! In the end, the “Force/Mind”, which is unknown, is separate from us. Who are we? Are we more than rocks?
There is also an allusion to a steady-state universe. A “matter” world. Un-created. Even. Without Mind. Only a body. This does not do much for our sense of being “more”.
Science abandons spirituality for dry facts and figures. Mind is a physical/matter “construct” that fires synapses. The dryness leaves the “soul” empty. Empty of meaning, empty of purpose. We go get drunk, accumulate trophies, accolades, bank accounts, doctorates, buy more stuff. All of this dispense pleasure, but on a flat line.
Are we out of luck? Are we condemn to wait? Can we fill our emptiness vase:
What do we know for certain?
The Now exists.
And, in the Now, is there the “more” we seek?
The Now has no root-cause, no source-cause. The “Now” is of this instant. The Now is a singular instant. An instant without beginning, therefore eternal… yet, it is always beginning. (And this confuses us, we think that there is a past) An instant without end… yet, it is always ending. (And this confuses us, we think that there is a future.) An instant infinite… everywhere is its center. (And this confuses us, we think that there are distances, edges, heights, tops, bottoms, firsts and lasts.) There are no lesser human, no lesser tree, no lesser grain of sand. (And this truly confuses us.)
Is the Now mind and body? As the Now is a singular instant, it cannot have sequentiality. Essence/mind cannot precede substance/body. Essence has to present itself as substance, mind as matter, thought as body. No separation.
Where religion and science (as we know them) seek to connect/ re-connect “Spirit/Mind” to “body/form” (a connection that gives “more”), the Now makes no such separation. Therefore no reconnection is necessary. But a game is being played, a game of eternity and temporality, of infinity and finality. (This too, we can understand.) For our consciousness has an intensity knob which we can turn up. That is what makes us “more”. The knob is there, but we have to turn it.
Can we feel the cosmic singular/duality propositions of the Now? Can we feel the unfolding and folding of light into darkness, of mind into form. Consciousness like all of creation’s ways is infinite in its depth, in its height, in its reach. It is present everywhere. Can we enter the consciousness of the forms as they manifest consciousness? Knowing and understanding is included in our “matrix”, in our design. The “ways” of our composing Matrix are knowable.
We are not only connected to the ways of the cosmos, we are the ways of existence, of the present. All of that which the Now is is all of what we are. The whole is one. Our intelligence is our (attached to us) cosmic searchlight revealing to our mind/body the universe we are and the universe we are in.
The more we feel the “oneness” in all that exists, the greater our experience of being, of purpose, of meaning.
The “blueprint” is the form.
The “more” is infinite. For our consciousness has a “cosmic” intensity knob which we can turn up. How much we receive is up to us, to you.
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