
Locked Into Our Own Caves
Although even modern science suggests that our perception of reality is introverted and completely subjective, we still don’t realize how deeply flawed, unreal the world is that we seemingly see around ourselves.
Due to our inherently self-serving, self-justifying nature our perception of reality serves the completely egocentric “pleasure/pain” calculations. Thus we only gather, consume information, impressions, that are deemed important, useful for those calculations. Anything that is not important for gaining more individual pleasures or escaping individual pain, suffering doesn’t register in our personal computers.
Moreover even the data, information admitted is scanned and evaluated according to our own values, criteria. So whatever is “good vs evil”, “loved vs hated” in our personal Universe depends on our actual states, needs, goals. As a result we don’t have gold standard measurements but our “labels”, outlook on everything and everybody can change wildly depending on changeable, actual conditions.
So the world we perceive is our own personal creation and it has almost no direct connection, equivalence with the actual reality that surrounds us. It is more correct to say that what we perceive from the world around ourselves is the reflections of our own interests, qualities.
Thus it is no surprise that we can’t truly agree with others, we are unable to maintain sustainable, amicable connections with others.
And if one claims that this statement is untrue, based on the “fact” that seemingly humanity agrees on a lot of things, people see a wide range of things similarly, such an opinion ignores the fact that even the “viewpoint”, the “opinion” of others we “see, hear” is distorted, already processed by our own devices. Thus whatever we “hear, see” from others is already “censored” by our egocentric perception of reality and could be completely different from what others truly, actually expressed.
There is no escape, whichever way we try to look at it, or twist it, we are hopelessly locked into our own personal caves.
The Need For Objective Perception
Seemingly this arrangement was satisfactory for humanity for thousands of years. Apart from a few philosophers contemplating different ways of perceiving reality we never made serious attempts to try viewing the world differently.
Today there are more and more people who started to become interested in such alternatives for multiple reasons.
Sciences, especially quantum physics reached a sharp boundary, helplessly pointing at, probing into a “quantum reality” that is incomprehensible, impenetrable with our default, subjective observer point. This “quantum reality” really turned the tables on ask, questioning what kind of reality do we exist in?
Our global Human human society is breaking apart as the individualistic people – all locked into their own caves, trying to succeed at each other’s expense – are unable to find a “common ground”, true interconnections in order to solve problems.
But most importantly the purpose of Human existence – to feel love, receive maximum possible pleasures, reaching infinite happiness – turns out to be impossible through such a limited, superficial, subjective relation to reality. This is why while our desires for love, pleasures keeps growing, general emptiness, depression overcomes humanity.
Thus in order to relate to reality in an unlimited, objective, “quantum” way, to solve problems and receive the desired infinite pleasures, unlimited happiness, we would need to escape our introverted, individualistic bubbles.
We need to find a way of perceiving reality outside of our “selves”.
The Need To Replace The “Body” And Its Sensors
We simply can’t suppress let alone delete our inherent nature and the perception of reality built on it. We have enough experience with different ideologies, religions, spiritual teachings that promised a “correction” to our nature. We already know how much they have all failed to “deliver”.
As long as we remain within our present introverted point of view with our default senses, we will continue to perceive the same individual Universe with the same selfish, egoistic distortions. If we want to see reality “as it is”, in a transparent, objective way, we would need to start observing it with our own eyes, ears, nose and mouth shut, hands tied behind our backs, while obtaining completely new senses that work on different calculations.
Instead of our present “self” with its sensory devices we need a new “body, mind and senses”.
The Limited Inherent Self-Love
The biggest problem with our present paradigm that even the two most important notions known to humans, love and happiness are distorted and available in a very superficial, limited manner only.
We can look at love and happiness as “cause and effect”. Happiness or contentment is the result, consequence of love.
In our default paradigm everything is one directional, towards the self. Whatever we think about love, our default love is inevitably “self-love” as we have no comprehension, devices for anything else.
When we “love” something or someone it is done in order to acquire happiness, contentment for ourselves. The moment we don’t benefit from “love” for ourselves this “love” evaporates.
And our happiness, contentment is limited, fickle, because our vessels, receptive capability for pleasures is very minimal and it depends on so many different factors, ideal conditions.
Purchasing A New Life
In order to solve all the above mentioned problems we need to purchase senses, mind, an outlook on life from others. I would need to close down my own subjective perception, or more precisely I need to acquire the perception, viewpoint of multiple others above, in contrast of my own.
Through the acquired multiple external viewpoints, observing reality outside of myself from the angles, viewpoints of others, we could build a complete, multi-layered picture of reality above, against our original, introverted, “flat” and subjective view.
Moreover through the newly acquired selfless, “extroverted” mutual connections, through the collective network we reveal among others an unprecedented amount of desires can be collected, analyzed and fulfilled. Thus as one starts perceiving reality through the desires, sensors of others one can detect quantitatively and quantitatively greater level of emotional impressions.
Instead of an introverted, “single-cell” life experience one gains the incomparable “multi-cellular” full, conscious bodily, systemic life experience. This endless, mutual flow provides a sense of life that is infinitely greater than one’s own, original, individual life.
How can we “purchase” such external vessels, viewpoints? What emotional state can make one forget about one’s own desires, states and immerse into the desires, viewpoints of others instead?
Only love can transport a person out of one’s own sphere into the other’s desires and viewpoints. Even on our default level of “self-love” in the initial “infatuation” phase one is catapulted out of one’s self, being seemingly ready to sacrifice anything for the lived one.
Thus we can, we have to purchase desires, viewpoints from others through love.
Initiating A Love Tsunami
This “purchasing” unfolds in a unique, mutually committed and specifically organized circle of people. They all commit to make efforts in liberating one another from “self-love”, “self-concern” by providing unceasing, extraordinary support, inspiration, positive example to each other regardless of how they actually feel.
In principle they try to generate such a mutual “tsunami” of perfect, unconditional, immediate fulfillment, support of one another, that they simply don’t have time and reason to focus on themselves any longer, thus making instinctive self-concern, self-protection and self-service obsolete.
And since one by nature needs to search for pleasures, fulfilment otherwise one doesn’t feel existence, doesn’t feel life flowing, one whose personal necessities are perfectly fulfilled has no other option but to start caring, searching for fulfillment for others.
The unique process in this circle starts artificially, the members play acting, “faking” such perfect, unconditional mutual support, thus starting the flow. Actually this fake service of others is not even complicated. Even in “normal life” we constantly, seemingly serve others, give to others, but only in order to receive some reward for it.
The true difficulty arises from opening the heart, as the real danger for the ego is unconditionally accepting, welcoming that service, love streaming from those others. The selfish ego knows very well that such a “letting down the shields” can result in the above mentioned “liberation”, when one is catapulted out of one’s own cocoon, and being forced to start unconditionally serving others.
Still by following the appropriate, purposeful and practical method, by maintaining their 100% commitment, covenant toward one another, the pioneering members of this unique circle can sooner or later wash each other out of themselves.
After a tense standoff, finally subduing the resistance of their egos through the mutual support, aspiration, importance of the common goal they generate, they are washed out of their selfish cocoons finding themselves in a completely unprecedented “twilight zone”.
In The Twilight Zone
Even before the breakthrough they already understand that the reward they want to achieve, the breakthrough into the new state is something completely different than what they previously expected or imagined when they started the process.
Instead of any obvious selfish, egoistic reward the true rewards they expect and yearn for is the actual capability to continue their “game of love”, continue serving, loving others truly selflessly, altruistically, unconditionally without anything in return. Only without such selfish, egoistic anchors can they stay outside the subjective cocoons, perceiving reality objectively.
So after breaking through into that new selfless perception outside of their initial cocoons after a while they start to feel as if they entered a grey cloud, a sort of a twilight zone. It feels like a murky dream, a state where they don’t feel any taste, any obvious excitement, nothing to selfishly tempting to pull them forward.
They can’t take a step forward or backwards. There’s is no way back to their previous state, but seemingly nothing draws them forward in relation to their original egoistic software.
Still they notice that they can continue their committed daily routine, they can continue serving, supporting the others. They keep playing the “game of love” like “lifeless zombies”, puppets manipulated, animated by some external force.
At first they don’t realize, they can’t imagine that they actually made the breakthrough and they already exist in another dimension. It takes a while until they stabilize their new senses and start appreciating the “miracle” that they become clothed into the capability of selfless, altruistic, unconditional service of others.
Since this new state doesn’t offer any taste, reward, attraction to their selfish ego, they don’t find it attractive, pleasant at first. Only when they gradually stabilize this state and can examine, scrutinize it do they realize the actual reward they received.
The new reward is the actual work, the fact that without any selfish, egoistic reward, in that twilight zone they can continue serving each other. Moreover they also received the capability to stop short of judging, criticising one another. They reached a state “not doing to others what they themselves hate”.
Tasting True Love Of Others
This stage of “not harming” but instead hoping for selflessly serving each other is already a state of “true love”. This is already a huge, upside down shift from “self-love” to “love of others”.
They can’t actually actively love one another, they can’t take each other’s desires and fulfill them yet, but they can already avoid harming one another.
This is not a passive state. It is a very fragile and tense state they need to contractually balance. They enter one another like brain or cardio-thoracic surgeons, having all the desires, thoughts, viewpoints of others displayed on a “map” in front of them. They can start roaming, experiencing a much wider, multi-layered world as a result.
But they don’t dare to touch, they simply observe each other as they continue their mutual work, learning how to overcome their constantly arising, bursting, instinctive urges to exploit, criticise or harm one another.
They continue their original mutual work in order to stay with “eyes shut”. Their original, subjective, self-serving perception continues to show them a broken world with undeserving, unsuitable friends surrounding them. Only with the new ability of staying with eyes shut, mind closed, sensing others outside of themselves can they stay within each other’s spheres without causing harm.
The contrast, difference in between the two opposing perceptions, the desire, insatiable yearning to receive the ability of staying with eyes shut, above individual logic constantly grows, intensifies.
As a result of this contrast they start sensing the benevolent, altruistic, merciful flow, “circle of life” in nature. They become like other living elements of the system that are instinctively integrated with one another and nature.
But contrary to other elements, living creatures they have full awareness of this state on the merit of the contrast they balance within. This state continues until they continue to open up, reveal their mutual connections, mutual desires without harming them, securing their network against the constant disturbances, challenges from their initial nature.
Tasting The Love Of The Source
Human beings have a higher purpose than “simply” integrating into the natural system sensing its flow. We are supposed to reveal the source of this flow, facilitating it, becoming partners in the active “love” beyond “not causing harm”.
After they reached a state where they gained confidence to stay using each others desires for actively fulfilling them, reviving the originally selfish desires for pleasures but with the intention to draw pleasures for each other, a completely different kind of energy, “love” starts streaming in their mutual network.
This love had a very different, “fuller taste” then the fearful love of not harming others. This is active, unbounded love, wanting to sacrifice, give, pass on everything to others in a “crazy”, unconditional, self-nullifying manner. This is the love that wants to create, sustain and nurture life.
The Love they start sensing through this intention is the primordial love of the initial source that brought the natural Universe to existence. And our Human purpose is attaining, sharing this love through similarity of action with the source.