on humanism and environmental crisis

Worldview Internet Game evolved. I obtained the Provisional Patent , so for 1 year now it has “patent pending” status. I am talking ( with the help of my daughter Sophia) to developers. At this moment you can still put your answers as comments here, also, more convenient, you can ask me for the invitation and I would share with you my Google doc spreadsheet where all answers are browsable, and you can put your answers there.

The rules and the content are the same, there is no “V numbers”- we need to figure out the way to tag the autorship of the answer if it “travels”.

The  new invitation letter emphasises the personal and societal benefits rather than simply “fun”…. oh well, the people do not like it as much as I expected.

The scoring -proposed- includes comments and answer’s length.

My answers

My answers:V13, Tom Voychehovski

I.The stuff changes (sic!) as our language/metaphors and the understanding expands. A mixture of physics, matemathics, probability and the mind?

II.   Its nature, the neurons, their connections, their biochemistry is the same as the rest of the world. We use it to create our experience.

III.  When we’d understand better the concept of Time, the concept of beginning will become less paradoxical. Something like the space between birth and death?

IV.  Miraculously we’ll understand our unity, stop fighting, stop overpopulating, stop wasting resources. We’ll see the Love as the thing between me and you. Then we’ll build better world- piece of cake.

V. Evolution explains how live organisms including humans have become so complex. The evolutionary algorythm includes the evolution of the functions and content of our brain,i.e. our experience.

VI. Hunter-gatherers invented and genetically encoded altruism. Drive to survive evolved into drive to understand. The wisdom (understanding) translates socially into good, true and beautiful.

VII.Animal survival behaviors is natural and sexual selection are parts of nature. Laziness/ignorance (i.e. lack of understanding)  manifest as greed and fear.

VIII. Free will is an attribute of the mind, developed evolutionary for the ethical system to function. My actions matter, so do yours.

IX. Meaning of life is individual and depends on the worldview. For me it is to practice to be able to be happy, be curious and do good.

X. Truth is relative,  “what works”, and the civilisation dependent. It follows evolution and survival, therefore appears to be objective/scientific.

XI.With effort and intention of love, curiosity and gratitude, the results exceed expectations. It is transient, subjective, trainable.

XII. There isn’t any. Intelligence is created, defined and working within evolution on Earth, our evolution. Except for The Little Prince.

XIII.  I plan to train how to know that I am ready and how to happily (for me and for the others) disconnect subjectivity from objectivity.

XIV.I made this list so I think it’s perfect. But… you guys have at it!

Gra swiatopogladowa

Gra swiatyopogladowa.  W przyszlosci  ta strona bedzie miala  mozliwosci przegladania odpowiedzi, i liczenia punktow , wtedy to bedzie gra “the smartest human of the week” Na razie  mozna sie bawic za darmo, umiescic odpowiedzi w “leave a comment”  (max 140 , minimum70  liter), wybrac numer V( stara nazwa gry-Veritas), jedna linijka na imie albo cos podobnego. Pytan jeszcze nie przetlumaczylem na polski, sa one zaadoptowane z artykulu Dr.Vidala “Metaphilosophical criteria for the worldviews comparison”.

V14, The Worldview of My Brother Piotrus in Polish. He is my brother and he is famous so he is not bound by any rules.

I. Są tylko dwie możliwe odpowiedzi – zrobiony z czegoś, (materia, energia) albo z niczego. Pierwsza odpowiedź jest bez sensu – bo jak wyobrazić sobie, że owo “pierwsze coś” nie było już światem? Druga odpowiedź jest już z konieczności metafizyczna – bo jeśli zrobiony z niczego, to jakim prawem? Więc jest Ktoś, kto rozkazuje niebytowi, aby ten stał się Bytem. Przecież takie rozwiązanie nie może być przyjęte przez wszystkich, bo wymaga wiary w Kogoś, kto daje niebytowi takie prawo. Elegancko jest odpowiedzieć, nie wiem, nie będę wiedział, a kto twierdzi, że wie, chyba nie jest dżentelmenem.

II. Umysł jest niematerialną świadomością materialnego, ewolucyjnie ukształtowanego, fizjologicznie warunkowanego mózgu. Świadomość jednak jest “niematerialna” tylko dla siebie, bowiem objawiać może swoje istnienie innym świadomościom tylko za pośrednictwem materii. Widziałem ostatnio film zawierający liczne relacje ludzi, którzy zachowali świadomość “po śmierci klinicznej” i powrócili. Ich dość do siebie podobne relacje nie zaprzeczają temu, co napisałem o “naturze umysłu”.

III. To wynika z odpowiedzi na pytanie I. Świat mógł się zacząć przypadkiem – skąd jednak to “coś,” co zostało poddane przypadkowości? Nie było już światem? A może świat powstał “na rozkaz, z niczego”? Nie można tak mówić, bo wierzący w materię ateiści obrażą się, gdy będą musieli stawić czoła nienaukowej hipotezie o “Kimś, kto rozkazał”. Elegancko jest odpowiedzieć, nie wiem, nie będę wiedział, a kto twierdzi, że wie, chyba nie jest dżentelmenem.

IV Istnieją dwa sposoby istnienia gatunków zwierząt – ewolucyjne bytowanie, które kończy się, gdy środowisko już nie zapewnia możliwości żerowania i rozrodu. Wtedy gatunek ginie. Drugi sposób to rozwój – jak dotąd tylko człowiek mógł tego próbować. Ten sposób – inicjując postęp technologiczny gwarantuje gatunkowi homo sapiens możliwość zagłady nawet w sytuacji, gdy środowisko będzie jeszcze zapewniało możliwości żerowania i rozrodu. Z drugiej strony rozwój technologiczny mógłby doprowadzić do trwania Ludzkości w jakiś nowy sposób, nawet gdy środowisko już nie będzie zapewniało możliwości żerowania i rozrodu.

V Ewolucja jest związana z fenomenem życia, ukształtowała wszystkie istniejące gatunki, razem z gatunkiem Homo Sapiens. Nie da się jednak udowodnić, że człowieka wytworzyła tylko ewolucja, nic więcej. A pisanie o ewolucji materii nieożywionej jest poszerzaniem definicji ewolucji poza granice nauki w stronę science-fiction. Ale nikomu nie można zabronić, aby takie rzeczy pisał.

VI. Dobroć jest wartością społeczną i wartością duchową. Ukształtowała się niewątpliwie z udziałem ewolucji – biorąc początek z instynktownych postaw opiekuńczych związanych z macierzyństwem. Wielki – a niedoceniony- udział w tej ewolucji mają mechanizmy inercji – trwanie działań, gdy ustają fizjologicznie czy środowiskowo warunkowane przyczyny. Już nie pada, a ja z parasolem.. Inercja leży u podstaw działania mechanizmów ekstrapolacji – chcę, aby dla mnie ludzie byli dobrzy, więc jestem dobry. Nie da się jednak

udowodnić, że ludzką dobroć, a także kulturową akceptację dobroci, wytworzyła tylko ewolucja, nic więcej.

VII. Zło społecznie jest uważane za zagrożenie dla jednostek i wspólnot, jest jednocześnie tajemnicą duchową. Nie jest zło jednolitą mocą czy strukturą, wszystko co rodzi zagrożenie, cierpienie, co grozi zniszczeniem wartości bywa uznane za zło. Jednocześnie trwają kulturowo ukształtowane mechanizmy relatywizacji zła. Każda z religii na swój sposób klasyfikuje zło i próbuje ograniczyć krzywdy, jakie wyrządzają źli. Złem jest nie tylko działanie na czyjąś szkodę dla własnych korzyści, złem jest szerzenie zamętu, atmosfery, w której nie wiadomo, co jest złe a co dobre. Praktyka ludzkiego zła ukształtowała się niewątpliwie z udziałem ewolucji – biorąc początek z walki o udział w żerowaniu, walki samców o samice, walki o dostęp do wodopojów czy pastwisk. Podobnie jak z dobrem, wielki – a niedoceniony- udział

w tej ewolucji mają mechanizmy inercji – trwanie działań, gdy ustają fizjologicznie czy środowiskowo warunkowane przyczyny. Już nie zagraża mi nic od Niemców, ale wolę stół w knajpie, gdzie bliżej do Francuzów i Słowaków. Inercja leży u podstaw działania mechanizmów ekstrapolacji – niechęci do obcych, do dziwnych.

VIII. Polityczna poprawność każe nam ukryć to, co czujemy. Ci, co czynią dobro, chętniej przyznają istnienie wolnej woli, bo chcą mieć duchową gratyfikację – sami siebie pochwalić za wybór trudnegodobra, postaw prospołecznych czy charytatywnych. Szubrawcy z lubością krzywdzący ludzi, zakłamani egoiści, łatwo usprawiedliwiający się lenie i kłamcy będą mówili raczej, że wolnej woli nie ma. Czynią, bo muszą, nic w tym ich winy. Wydaje się, że z wolną wolą i deterministyczną przyczynowością jest jak podwójną, falową i korpuskularną naturą światła. Daje się udowodnić jedno i drugie, determinizm bliższy jest “wiedzy o człowieku”, bo politolodzy, socjolodzy, psychologowie mogą udawać, że wiedzą więcej niż wiedzą. Dla kapłanów, polityków i twórców kultury ważniejszy jest człowiek rozporządzający sobą “ten, co sam jest początkiem swoich czynów.”

IX Życie jest darem. Jeśli sądzimy, że nie darem, a przypadkowym znaleziskiem, możemy się łatwo pogodzić z myślą, że zgubimy coś, co znaleźliśmy i na razie używamy. Jeśli sądzimy, że ten wspaniały dar otrzymaliśmy od Kogoś Dobrego, łatwiej nam wierzyć, że nie zażąda się od nas zwrotu, że dostaliśmy to na zawsze.

X. Prawda pochodzi zewsząd – z życiowego doświadczenia, z nauki, z mediów, z internetu, z rozmów z przyjaciółmi, z religijnego objawienia. Życie nauczyło mnie, że prawdę ja sam mieszam ze złudzeniami, z urojeniami, a liczni fałszerze wtykają mi różnego rodzaju nieprawdę. Patrzę więc, czy coś, co wydaje mi się prawdą, rodzi dobro czy zło, nadzieję czy krzywdę. Nie zamartwiam się pomyłkami, bo wszyscy ich doświadczają.

XI. Nie wiem. Przeważnie źródłem szczęścia jest zdrowie i spokój w rodzinie, zachwyt urodą świata, życzliwość przyjaciół, piękno dzieł sztuki. Za tym wszystkim wyczuwam Najlepszego Boga.

XII. Międzyplanetarna inteligencja? Jestem otwarty na propozycje, ale Oni jednak powinni zrobić pierwszy krok, na razie zajmują mnie inteligentne osoby z mojej Planety, mam za mało czasu na kontakty z nimi.

XIII. Moje życie po życiu z zaufaniem powierzam Najlepszemu Bogu. Martwię się, że będzie sporo sprzątania, za dużo papieru zapisałem.

Swiatopoglad profesora fizyki, z Radomia, kolegi Piotr W. Dziekuje. V16.

I. W około 10% ze znanych form materii. Resztę my, fizycy, zbadamy, jeśli starczy czasu.
II. Procesy fizyko – chemiczne.
III. Ze zderzenia dwóch BRAN (M-theory), które są palcami Boga. Nie wiadomo tylko, kto i po co stworzył Boga.
IV. To samo, co z dinozaurami.
V. Całkowicie akceptuję.
VI. Zachowania pozwalające przetrwać gatunkowi, wynikające z ewolucji.
VII. Chęć uszczęśliwienia bliźnich na nasz, jedynie słuszny sposób.
VIII. To są skutki Zasady Nieoznaczoności Heisenberga.
IX. Taki, jaki mu nadamy.
X. Eksperymentalnie.
XI. Unikając nieszczęścia.
XII. Oczywiście, że jest.
XIII. Będzie pogrzeb, a potem stypa.

This game will evolve into “The smartest human of the week”. But we are starting now at, so to speak “garage” level.

This blog has no capacity for browsing, scoring, chat-rooming and site -navigating  frills.

Please:

1. Pick up your V number which is not taken- check the comments below.

2. describe yourself in 1 line ( name or else)

3. Answer 13 questions describing your worldview – in maximum 140 characters- or twitter size.  Mark them with your number .

Here are the questions. Copy them and Paste in the “Leave a reply” ( They ask you to give name and email . This is embarrassing  but they try to sort out the spam). Write your answers after each question. Click “post comment”.  Put them on the fridge and use every day. This your explicit Worldview.

I .What is the Universe made of?
II.What is the nature of mind?
III.How did the Universe begin?
IV.What is going to happen to the humankind?
V.What is the role of the evolution in your worldview?
VI.What is the origin and the nature of goodness in the world?
VII.What is the origin and the nature of evil in the world?
VIII.Is there free will and can one make a difference?
IX.What is the meaning of life?
X.How do you find the truth?
XI.How do you find happiness?
XII.What about the extraterrestial intelligence?

XIII. What will happen after you die?

There is a dilemma – should it be the minimum length of the response?

If you want to comment, stick your comment  under ” The project and the concepts: ..”, Here we’ll keep just the answers.

The Smartest Human of the Week
The worldview game about the truth.
To get in ,you need to register, get password and pay a little money.
To play you publish  on line your worldview in the standardised form, twitter size, on the special web site,  the answers to 12 or so, basic questions about  the world , the god,  the reality etc.
You can give your own answers or anybody else who published his or her worldview.
Then the computer keeps the score.This game is based on the assumptions:
1. people love to figure things out.
2.people love when their solutions or their truth become popular and adopted by others.
3.people will insist on their own answers in some areas and use others’ answers in other subjects.
4. If it doesn’t work as the game- this would be good browsable depository of different worldviews.Every time your answer is published, you score a point.( if all answers are your own and nobody used your answers, your score is 12)
Most frequent answer is the truth.
Every time you get the truth( i.e. your answer is the most frequent), you score 10 points, 2nd most frequent- 5, 3rd 2 points.
The person with the most points is the winner.Additional rules and comments.
All content is absolutely transparent- you can browse everything all the time.
You can edit and change your answers once a week. But only yours.
You can use anybody’s answer, change it,  and it become yours, unless the computer says; “taken”. It means that you have not changed it enough!
The answer “travels” with the # of the author. eg: Say #VIII question is : “Is there free will and can one make the difference?”. then, if Smith’s is 13 ( V13, for the game’s old name- Veritas) ” #VIII,V13, “Absolutely, no”. You, (Brown ,V14) had published #VIII,V14, “Maybe”. You can edit it and change it to”#VIII, V13 “Absolutely, no” , you lost a point, and he gained one. Actually you could have lost more, because all guys who had  “#VIII,V14, “Maybe”, will have “#VIII, Ghost, “Maybe”, until somebody claims it. It looks like Monopoly, but I am interested in the actual dynamics. Would Dalai Lama win?
The game should come with the chat room to discuss, bargain, create coalitions.Can computer/players account for the “origin” of the answer ( say “this is 80% Vidal, 20% mine),, or it has to be editing/managing human? We know that all the philosophy is the comment on Plato. Maybe you can have somebody’s answer ( or part?) only if you buy it from him? in real or imaginary currency?
Will really smart answer become popular??, will mediocrity or even charlatanism, win?
Will people change answers to more popular or stick to theirs guns? Extra prizes for the originality??
Note: Shortest answers have more chances to be popular , like “Oh, oh!”, but have less meaning, shall we require at least 100 characters?
How (if needed) rules can be modified to encourage “real philosophy” on the top of the” game”?
Will dynamics depend on the number of players?_- small circle of friends vs “viral” millions???
How to protect the site from hate and obscenity?The questions:( Mostly according to Vidal’s Metaphilosophical Worldview Comparison)

I .What is the Universe made of?
II.What is the nature of mind?
III.How did the Universe begin?
IV.What is going to happen to the humankind?
V.What is the role of the evolution in your worldview?
VI.What is the origin and the nature of goodness in the world?
VII.What is the origin and the nature of evil in the world?
VIII.Is there free will and can one make a difference?
IX.What is the meaning of life?
X.How do you find the truth?
XI.How do you find happiness?
XII.What about the extraterrestial intelligence?

Please comment on the idea, the rules, the software requirements, on the questions selection,
and on the meaning of life…no complains about your medical condition please. I know it is serious. I hurt too.
Note: there is no question “ what will happen after I die?”  Shall we add it as #13?
Hurry up, answer, you realize that early bird…. you might be forever famous owner of the “#VIII: Fuck off” answer!
Every player will get the number, then you can refer this “V#” to your blog or website or a flag. I would reserve first 12 for the famous potential players, we need a meeting of interested “grandfathers/grandmothers” to set it up!.

My answers:

I.Matter. Mater defined as the content of human perception. The perception which evolved  in richness, but its nature still reflects animal’s experience, stored in the brain as “the world”.

II. Evolution has made the function of human brain subjectively experienced as the mind. Its nature, the neurons, their connections, their biochemistry is the same as the rest of the world.

III.Time is one of our dimensions used to understand the cosmos and to communicate this understanding. Time events like Big Bang, etc are then whithin this process of understanding.

IV. Miraculously we’ll understand our condition and unity, stop fighting, stop overpopulating, stop overconsuming resources and start learning how to love and have fun….

V. Evolution explains how live organisms including humans have become so complex. This complexity includes the functions of our brain, which is trying to understand itself.

VI. Humans are supersocial . Hunter-gatherers invented and genetically encoded altruism. Rising children, learning and cooperation requires socially based ethical and moral behavior system.

VII.Animal survival behaviors and the competition in natural and sexual selection are parts of human nature. Greed, fear and laziness/ignorance are the manifestations of this.

VIII. Free will is a subjectivity produced by the brain, required for the ethical system to function. My actions make the difference between “a patch” of happiness or misery.

IX. We evolved to fight entropy, to improve function, be more complex. Subjectively, we are trying to figure out the way for better life, more useful, more exciting, more harmonious.

X. Truth is relative,  “what works”, civilisation- and -genetic dependent. The metaphor of the wise person combines scientific, spiritual and social dimensions of truth.

XI.When  with the effort and intention of love, curiosity and gratitude, the results exceed expectations. A transient subjective metaphor produced by well trained nervous system.

XII.Concepts of extraterrestial intelligence, like god, is man invented. They are within the human , evolution -made, understanding system. We are in the center of the Universe.

XIII. I will cease to exist.  The human existence  occurs in the rich world of multiple dimensions of perception (including time). Awareness of them fluctuates and peters out close to death. And  I will be done, more or less.

I need new blog equipped with password, etc.

You will be able visit a lot without participating:
Welcome page:
Origins of the game
Who we are
Rules and FAQs
Comments
Questions
This week true answers

The “portfolios”  of the winners, the famous, the infamous…

Glossary

Evolutionary objectivity is the description of my worldview.

As I read it 1 year after it was written, I still like it. Some concepts , though, requires  clarification.

Before doing that , lets talk about the concept of concepts!

Let’s line them up! Which is the most difficult to define, most basic, most important,  most inclusive and elemental?

1. My vote goes to “god”.It also has the most names, most controversy, is most elusive.  “The creator, the one, the force,  the all-compassionate, omnipotent, all-pervading-‘ etc, etc. In some cultures it has more specific names, but the meaning is interchangeable ( Jesus, Christ, Alllah, Mohamed, Jahve, Buddha, Zeus, Sun-god, Eagle-god etc.) We argue about everything about the “god”- its name, nature, existence, action, values, history, you name it.

2. The second concept is for me: “mind”. (soul, brain function, I, me, self, consciousness, mind-heart, being etc)

3. The third is “universe”( the reality, world, everything, etc)

I bet not many people would argue about the first three, but next????

My candidate for #4 is “dimension”. I understand that this is not a very popular  candidate!

This hierarchy of abstractness might look like an idle musing of the philosopher obsessed with abstract thinking. It is not. It is the reflexion of my desperate attempts to understand the way my brain is working.

Now back to the glossary “proper”.

Dimension.- special type of Metaphor.

Metaphor – special type of the information package( cluster)

Information- organisms’ relationship with unevenness( granularity)

Granularity-physical expression of mathematical term of probability or randomness or both. Things for Me could had been anything but they are this not any of other possibilities.

Bootstrapping- jumping metaphors to avoid  being stuck in the circular argument.

Worldview- the opinion about the world, everything person knows. Can be explicit- expressed in language, or implicit- expressed by action or just by living.

Worldsense- the same as worldview , but including non human beings, nervous system based information system responsible for animal’s (or anything actually which has behavior) behavior.

 

 Towards evolutionary objectivity.
There is Kardashev scale- it classifies civilizations according to the consumption of the energy.
There is Barrow’s scale- it classifies civilizations according to the size dimensions they manipulate- how far into macro and microcosm they penetrate.
But maybe the civilizations are just external props allowing humanity its progress into understanding itself.
This sound awfully like “Purpose” or “new Age”. No.No.No. These are the metaphors. It looks for us like “trying to understand” or ” trying to figure out”. More biological/evolutionary sounding metaphor would be “behaviors” or “winning behaviors” .
We are still just buying time , so we can figure out what are we doing and why. The process of figuring out(in the dimension of civilizations and in the personal) seems to be a primordial faculty of living things, it is fun and there is always enough things to figure out – see the scales  above.
Or, may be we need another scale- measuring how much a civilisation figured out- in bits of information?
.Carlos Gershenson said “all ontological statements are ultimately epistemic”. Initially I thought- great, yes, this is the confirmation of my subjective approach to the reality. But , well, no, what about the things we are making statements about? Surely, some of the things at close inspection turn out to be actually somebody else’s statements( may be far in the past, like fish’s statements about the large moving objects with the dorsal triangular fins…), but are they all? Are all things the ontological statements?The reason the science demands objectivity is that the scientists( and everybody else who uses “scientific” thinking, which means everybody)  do not like nor trust each other. When people will get enlightened, they will love and trust everybody, and what you ( a general you) say will be more important than what is   ( parenthetically, and between you and me, what is , is what somebody , sometime , somewhere saw or felt or said or wrote).

As I understood it, Stephen Hawking in his latest “synthesis “ book gives up on the philosophy and the nature of reality dilemma. “Lets make sense of the observations which we (humanity) have made.”
This is Grand.
The arrow of time orients all events from earlier to later.
The arrow of complexity orients all events from simpler to more complex.
The arrow of the II law of thermodynamics orients all events from hotter to cooler.
Instead of the heroic metaphor of “arrow” we can call them all  “dimensions”.
We can add 3 more “arrows”/”dimensions” describing space- they followed or better coexisted with the first three : Space Dimension I- Measure of density or concentration- in the “embryonic “form present with the most primitive form of life.
Space Dimension II- this is rather theoretical one- when the organism has two receptors of density communicating- the perception of plane’
Space Dimension III – with more receptors – gets the depth, tridimensional world.
But I think that all of the above are secondary and subservient and derivatives of the mother of dimensions: the birth and death dimension.
The nervous system operates within this framework -the birth is good, we need more of that ,and it happens before death which is bad we need less of it or delay it and it happens at the end. It originates concept of time, of the behavior, of the intent.

This is when the question of subjectivity comes in.
Looking from outside , especially when looking at the primitive life forms makes things simpler, we can see how these behaviors become the favorite currency of the evolution.  By Golly, few synaptic connections and the fish navigates better, remembers enemies,  survival galore. These behaviors are inherited by genetics, epigenetics , and niche characteristics. For the subject they feel like the objective reality: sharks, coral reef, escape, safety, hiding. ? No it is how we humans antropomorphisise it. Fish ain’t a geographer or a story teller. It has synaptic connections which are winners. These synaptic connections correspond to behaviors , perceptive input, memory, executive functions, actions. We think about the behaviors as a property of the organism. Try the opposite: the organism as a property of the behavior. Some behaviors are associated with just group of cells or organs , some group of organisms( like a family or a tribe), a society or a species.

Meditation

Meditation is an important part of my intellectual journey these days. Is it also a spiritual journey?

I am not sure. I think spirituality involves the relationship  with somebody non-material.

I do not think I am there yet…

I do daily sitting, breathing , trying to be mindful and curious. This is very interesting and I wish everybody would do it.

Meditation (me and you)

I sit quietly. I sigh. Then I listen and observe my breathing. In-breath, out-breath, in breath, out-breath. It is almost automatic, but it is so easy to make it intentional.  Then , when I breathe in, I can feel cool air entering my nostrils. I imagine molecules of oxygen spreading furiously through my whole body, like advancing troops searching for the King in the deserted Castle. Where is he? They are finding Me everywhere. My chest is expanding, there is more and more Me. Forward! This is manly, heroic time. This is Yang. Here I am. My intent meeting my awareness. And it happens everywhere, in every cell of my body. There are No worries, no past, no future, just Me. Here and now, but it is really beyond an eastern guru’s cliche’. I am closer then here, closer than my brain or heart, beyond the dimension of space, everywhere, beyond the borders. Time? I am breathing in, this is more than now. Now is, but i am becoming! What a moment of Truth….
Almost. Deeply down, I always knew, this is not a whole truth… So I breathe in harder, desperate. The diamonds change  into ashes. The expansion into abyss. Where am I really? Nowhere?
And then You come.
I breathe out. An Escape, I am safe again. Did I lose, or is it just “letting go”?
The Mystery of Me was solved just as I was giving it up. The body relaxes in the luxurious exhalation. This is the Yin phase, accepting and female. This is the time of harvest. I will think of what made me, of the ancestors and of causes. Yes,yes the solution of the puzzle is You. You have millions of faces. There is you philosophical, where the subjectivists see the nature of the Universe as a relationship between people, the religious You, of course, you of the compassion and the you of the jealousy…
And there is the simplest You: my Mother and my Father, literally my origin and my cause, also their Mothers and Fathers, endless generations..  My teachers and my teachers’ teachers, my creators and the creators’ creators, literally and metaphorically , I am through them, by them , I see through their eyes their world.
Everything which is not Me is You, my body, the memories, the brain is made of you.
I breathe out and feel my body, the whole body. My senses talk to me about my maybe sore muscle,  they feel through my skin, I hear sounds, I think thoughts.  You, different you’s  are responsible for the nature of these experiences. As the causes, as goals, as people I love and as people I am grateful for everything I have. And as Me had no borders,no history, now You can also be raw and huge. You are in my skin and my brain and farther and farther…wherever I look – only You, you, you.
I am gone, lost.  So I am wallowing in the nothingness and ask “what is this for” and “why’. Nihilism. I am breathing out and out and into despair.
And in the last moment- like the Big Bang- Inhalation! I am found, again.

Well, as usual in my writings there is the nonchalance mixed with seriousness. My new blog is http://www.Evolutionandmeandyou.com . Me and You is the structure of my daily meditation, it feels natural, often I drop the words but I keep the meaning – me and you. I believe that  this metaphor- me and you, in my every breath, has several layers of meaning. Probably the most important is that if we want to survive this crazy times , it would help if we notice that Me and You are inseparable as breathing in and breathing out. Also, as in this meditation,  our relationship and the nature of me and of you are ultimately same.  We need to see people one by one as the single You, like I am single Me. Instead, when we see US, automatically, we create THEM and it is so difficult to reach across this divide…
So I breathe in- Me, and breathe -out, You….
Yes, You.