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The universe is dreaming... and our lives are its dreams. Completely transitory, impermanent, destined to leave no trace whatsoever. There is no past or future, they are illusions, there is only the Eternal Now. And the Eternal Now is just too damn hard to pin down. When we die, we are only dreams fading away, but we will be new dreams.
But what about nothingness? A complete absence of anything. Surely that is what happens when we die?
Like going into a deep sleep and never waking up? Just nothingness... well, what was it like to be born? Was it not like waking up after never having gone to sleep? So surely after this perceived existence ends there can only be more of the same, maybe somewhat different, but similar. You won't remember it, but it would be kind of a drag if you did. You'd get bored. You might have a night packed full of dreams, but it's normally only the very last dream or two before you wake which you remember. Occasionally, you get snippets of other dreams, perhaps you woke at some point and recorded it a little bit better than normal and recalled it. Like past lives, perhaps? Our lives are not so dissimilar to dreams.
Nature was pretty much balanced before humans exercised their stronghold on things. Balanced and acting as one entity. A unitive world. Individual cells in our bodies may be singular, and countable, but they all add up to one human person. Similarly, we all add up to one entity, and it is a myth that we are truly individuals. If the Big Bang is correct, then we are all the same matter now, the exact same matter that exploded outwards back then. One entity then, still one entity now. Our perceived 'ego' is a lie, our consciousness can not be found somewhere in our heads or hearts, but it comes from outside. From the universe - and our individual bodies are just vessels capable of experiencing the consciousness of the universe. This is the only thing close to a 'God' and it's in all of us. We are all God.
The philosopher Alan Watts said long ago "If you say 'I am God' in a western country they call you insane or a blasphemer, in Hindu culture they'd say 'Congratulations! At last you found out!'". We can find it in each other, because it's sometimes easier as humans to look outwards. We're uncomfortable looking directly into each other's eyes too much, though. It's weird and rude, staring like that. But when you fall in love with someone and embarrassment goes out the window, and they use the corny expression ' getting lost in each others eyes'. You see the universe in that person's eyes. And the universe looks back at you, and you realise you're both actually one entity. A unitive world.
The Hindus have something called a kalpa. It's an extraordinarily long measure of time, millions of years, and they say that in each kalpa the universe plays hide-and-seek with itself. For one kalpa it remains asleep and dreaming, hidden to itself, going through every kind of experience until finally it wakes up. And it spends another kalpa awake, before going back into the dreamworld. From the plasma and dust and nebulae floating in space, to the plasma and cells inside our flesh and blood, we are the universe. Our lives are its dreams, and they're pretty hard to pin down, so let's just go with it...
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