If you get but one glimpse of truth on the grandest scale possible, you will never be deceived. So let's move on. Here is the fundamental truth: THERE IS ONLY ONE EVERYTHING. Think about it. How could there be more - or less? It may be finite, with limits well beyond the grasp of human perception, or truly infinite, with new realms ever emerging to subsume whatever has become known. But, in either case, it has to be only ONE.
The ONE EVERYTHING axiom endures all. Its simple logic stands above all conditionality, which pervades our local scale of understanding.
It is true not because someone said so, but because it is plain and self-evident, and you can feel it at the very core of your being. If it were false, all logic and mathematics would have to be false as well. So, here is your starting point.
We start with one, but we have two right away. Being-at-large is an ABSOLUTE and all-encompassing outer frame for all that exists. And somewhere within it lies our limited local world – the world of direct perception and empirical knowledge.
Our local world is then an incomplete fragment embedded in a larger context. Clearly, incompleteness cannot stand in the ultimate sense. It implies its necessary complement somewhere beyond our reach.
Discovering the relationship between the local and the Absolute is a step towards liberation. Of course, this relationship is your own: private and individual. Don’t let any authority interfere. You define it for yourself on gut level.
So, chart out for yourself the connection between that which is locally manifest, and that which is logically necessary as the ultimate summation of all things. It will give you an unalterable vertical orientation. Without it, you are just spinning in space with no reference frame, and no direction of your own.
Let’s explore this relationship further. Since the TOTALITY is one, it must have a certain, all-pervasive nature. Something must characterize all things that exist, in the most basic way - simply by the virtue of their belonging to ONE EVERYTHING. But this is also just a logical inference.
Now, form our local human perspective, we may try to ascertain what the primary/ultimate nature of everything is. Like Columbus, we may seek to confirm experientially that which we know to be certain through reason and common sense.
All that we may know empirically can only broaden our sense of vastness and multidimensionality contained within EVERYTHING, but it can never really exhaust it.
All inquiries we make into the surrounding reality, whether individual or collective, whether aided with natural senses or sophisticated scientific tools, always run into a wall of duality, never resolving to anything definite. The further we probe, the more questions we discover – at least so far, perhaps forever.
All facts that may be established empirically rest upon uncertainty about their foundation. Dual interpretations are ever possible. What is known rests upon what is unknown.
Yes, delving into our surroundings armed with intelligence and practical ingenuity does give us more control over our local world. This may be an achievement in its own right. But it is utterly useless in telling us what the ultimate nature of reality really is.
Empirically obtained knowledge is never complete. The more we expand it, the more it becomes intertwined with the unknown context, which surrounds it on all sides. At some point, it simply fades into the unknown, leaving us guessing about things most fundamental.
Let’s consider energy, matter, space, time, and other things accepted as basic facts in our corner of the universe. Do they represent the default condition of being, applying broadly throughout the entire universe, or perhaps, do they constitute just a unique tangle of complex contingencies, which manifest as they do only here and now?
This question can never be answered, because we do not know the true scale of EVERYTHING. We may place the incomplete realm we know by senses and empirical inquiry within whatever larger conceptual context we choose. However, we must be ever ready to revise it, in light of new discoveries, which may well nullify, if not entirely reverse its meaning and significance. And so on, ad infinitum. Thus, judgment must be forever withheld.
Knowing that there MUST BE an ultimate, all-encompassing level of reality is far from knowing what it is. Its existence is an inescapable necessity, but its mode of existence is virtually unknown. And for this simple reason, it represents a full, truly infinite spectrum on possibilities. Based on empirical knowledge, nothing can be ruled out, or nothing can be established beyond doubt, about the supreme level of Existence.
No, outer empiricism is not the way to know the ultimate nature of things. Yet, the individual relationship with respect to Being-at-large must be pursued nevertheless. A better way is to turn within.
We are of the Universe - whatever characterizes it most fundamentally, must also be reflected in our deepest nature. Thus, in absence of any objective indicators, we may well postulate an essential sameness between ourselves, and the all-inclusive EVERYTHING.
We are essentially conscious subjects, receiving a range of experiences of different types and qualities. In fact, we are nothing but a string of conscious experience in time. We experience raw input data, then we judge it, respond to it, analyze it, and interpret it as reality of one kind or another.
While we postulate an external world, it consists of thoughts and concepts in our minds. We make projections, and yet we really cannot step outside of our consciousness. At best (or at worst, perhaps) we can negate its entire regions, calling them an "objective world”, though they are always wholly reducible to thoughts and sensations. In truth, we are consciousness itself.
Yes, in its ignorance, consciousness can grasp onto external forms, presuming them to be primary, and itself to be dependent upon them. This is bad faith - a problem to be corrected.
Yet, if in some hypothetical way consciousness were to be removed from the universe, there would be nothing left at all. It is consciousness that ordains and validates existence. Existence maybe of consequence only to a conscious subject. Conceiving of it outside of consciousness is absurd. The ultimate nature of EVERYTHING must therefore be a Universal Consciousness.
As modern slavery of global scope is taking shape before our very eyes, let’s come to a truly liberating realization:
Nothing has to be the way it is
At any level of Existence, things are the way they are, only because enough of us (conscious beings) agree
that they HAVE TO be this way. This is, of course, particularly true on the familiar to us social level, but also on a much broader metaphysical level.
It is through sharing of basic assumptions that we make reality what it is. A set of assumptions is equivalent to an attitude. It corresponds to a vibration of a certain frequency. Beings who share that frequency tend to gravitate to their corresponding centers. There, they collectively define their environment.
A presumption about the fundamental nature of reality is in some way like a physical posture. When held by countless conscious beings, it defines primary geometry of the physical world. The like assumptions reinforce by aligning and superimposing perfectly, thus cumulatively forming an objective realm, governed by laws that reflect them.
Of course, because the laws of the objective world hold true and remain in effect, they end up reinforcing our faith in their inevitable necessity, which in turn reinforces them further for the purposes of a given local scale.
This mutually reinforcing cycle can last forever. The longer it lasts, the more
established it becomes. But it does not have to. It may be broken and brought down at any time.
Starting out with fresh assumptions, we can trigger a sudden domino effect,
occasioning a vastly different reality. It is we who are agents of change. We
just have to be ready to take the first step.
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