✴︎Begin Here
If you start anywhere else, it could take a long time to get back here. “Here” in this case means the meeting point of three things that are actually one thing: the ground of being which makes you exist, field energy potential which makes the cosmos exist, and the natural resting point of your perception right now. This meeting point describes a very, very important premise upon which all other knowledge must be built on in order to be oriented correctly in/as the universe. Unfortunately, most of us began somewhere else, and it can take time and energy to find our way back to the beginning, to start again on the right path.
One of the biggest faults in the way people often approach cosmological frameworks (even spiritual or metaphysical ones) has to do with this connection, and with the idea that consciousness, or anything else, could exist independently from its originating energetic binding oscillation, and the informational translations of its emergent field processes. Everything in the cosmos is a “wavefront unit” of continuous movement, change, and relationship–both for observers and for forces. What we perceive, what we are, and what is can be defined by a series of continuous transformations (frames of reference/relativity) that compose and are composed by an emergent, dynamic system.
But being here is not just about ideas–it’s about ideas you can enter and become, and about ideas that become you. Ideas, thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions are also valid quanta (not only qualia) that also interparticipate. This is where, one way or another, scientific empiricism and fragmented ideological conditioning force us out of the present moment, AKA reality. Of course, we can steadily work our way back to the beginning–starting from an abstract model, “finding” it with interoception and our ground of being, and then entering it through dynamic fluctuation.
Perhaps here we can mention that the present moment, the starting point/field of everything, will not be for everyone. However, entertaining this kind of experience is a non-negotiable dimensional requirement, even if by conventional intuition it seems more like science fiction, spirituality, or nonsense. The fact remains, consciousness and self are not arbitrary, mechanics culminating in linear dynamics “discovered” by evolution randomly–this is faulty thinking/daydreaming. Everything that is exists because it is constantly being generated, organized, and regenerated (brought back into supercoherence) in waterlike motions that, like fish in the ocean, the physical body is designed to sense, perceive, use, do, and be.
Unfortunately, we have trained ourselves and whole civilizations to focalize on the elastic extension of decoherence: energy that interacts dynamically with its relative environment. All of science is built upon this foundation. But it is not a foundation for anything; it is one side or dimension of a pendulation. Our world and our sense of self is built upon the shadow of the real world. If we want to enter back into our own bodies, we will need to find ways to again correspond, as sentient externalizes polarizations, with an emergent, information-compressed model of fluctuating dynamics: I, Me, You, We, Us, They, Them, One, Who, What, Which, There, Here, It, Itself, All, Everything. We will need to also break through the limits of language and the phenomenology of knowledge we have self-organized (also as genetic and emotional inheritances) ourselves and our cosmos upon.
The first place to revive this connection is, fortunately, within reach: Here is always close. Beyond this, because we have a capacity for self-awareness, we can travel anywhere in the cosmos. While awareness is always the same (relationship, movement, change), self is a highly. Indeterminate wave function–to change our coordinate position, we simply need to learn how to translate self into something else. Self can be focalized as a local or nonlocal position, and even completely dilated into void space.
However, it is important to begin with this understanding: that energy cannot be created or destroyed, and that subjectivity is also a form of objective energy. Everything exists as a superstate of translation potentials and oscillating scalar/vectors. There is a ground of being we are always resting upon, or hitting our heads upon, or using like a fulcrum to move positions according to our desires. Moving through the physical world in your car or on your feet, the cosmos flickers substance phenomenon and permits the emergent properties of matter and spacetime. But we can’t be fooled–in reality there is no ground under our feet, at least not one made of concrete, the soles of our shoes, and the sensation of walking.
The actual ground of being, where X marks the spot, is the intersection we have been talking about, which flickers like a mirror that we pendulate through. There are perceptions, reflections, and also absolute coherence (in which absolute perception/reflection no longer exists, at least by relative standards). This primordial mirror is a two-way looking class. We must understand that, at the level of quantum fields, talking about energy, information, and timespace is different from the physical world of classical mechanics we know so well. It is the same with consciousness. We can look at the mirror and, if we manage to get very close, we will still see ourselves, albeit at increasingly transpersonal levels. At some point, if we manage to cross over to the other side (of a zero point scalar field), “we” will understand better what consciousness means.
What matters is understanding that, like energy and information, consciousness is a fundamental and emergent dynamic of the cosmos. It can be translated across an infinite variety of forms, forces, and systems but it will still exist as an intrinsic property. If we are being humble and honest, we can acknowledge that the instruments of our senses and those of natural science are not refined enough to measure the gradations of consciousness across this spectrum. We have isolated ourselves on a mote of existence in an ocean of infinities. We only see the big leaps or gaps in reality.
We do not know how to explain the distance between our “big bang” and the fundamental quantum field potential; from abiotic matter to single celled organisms; and from vegetation and animals to metacognitive human beings. “Here” again is the magical connection between ourselves, our environment, and our awareness of ourselves in and as our environment. We cannot escape it, and trying to avoid or suppress it will make the universe look like swiss cheese, and also make our bodies feel fragmented and incomplete. Even if we must return to this integrative cosmological framework, calling it a starting point to begin again, it is also very much a continuous moment we can never (nor should) ever leave.
This contact point, in reference to ideas about a persistent sense of self, reincarnation, a collective consciousness, or “soul”, is very interesting to talk about. There is indeed a need to talk in concrete terms about the existence of nonlocal memory complexes, or fields of interconnected transpersonal memory complexes. However, to research and discover the amazing properties of being and existing, we have created some major obstacles and blocks for ourselves to overcome. The universe cannot be bypassed and must be entered with the same level of complexity it defines for itself. Evolution is not only an organic, biological function, but also a larger process of “ephemeralization” or cultivating sufficient magnitudes of complexity in order to gain primeval equivalency.
It is not enough to trust our feelings, intuition, and aspirations toward the pursuit of knowledge and transpersonal self-realizations. It is not enough to be indifferent and calculating, building tall towers of empirical research that become more and more unstable until they self-destruct or become antibiotic. Instead, we must realize ourselves as transobjective citizens that pioneer and establish settlements at the most decoherent elastic boundary of an integral existence. Ultimately, this “leap” in consciousness and perception will define a transition point or limit for human evolution on Earth.
If we succeed, our fragile intellectual towers (impressive to ourselves, up to a limit) will become aeonic mountains, enduring because they will measure and shape the universe according to a model of reality that we can also enter and become. If we cannot enter and experience our working model, we will have conflict, war, and the objectification of nature. We must instead learn to use knowledge to accomplish things, in order to experience them, in order to enter and become them. There is no waste, no junk, and no spare parts. If there is something that exists, it is part of the ground of being and cannot be dissected or divorced from its parent constituent. There is an interconnected, emergent, process oriented field of information, energy, and consciousness that is happening, and we are it.
We acquire knowledge and competency with painstaking research, methodology, curiosity, courage, collaboration, and decades of hard work. Then we dump it in the river. We have to leave it behind, if not in death, then by renewing ourselves in being at an equivalent level of knowing. If this concept doesn’t make sense for science, it’s because we don’t yet have methodology or epistemology built upon a holistic model reality. We must invent an expression of knowledge within ourselves, not as something we own but as something we belong to. Otherwise what we theorize and “prove” will always be another kind of limitation, a source of inner conflict and frustration, and a growing sense of not belonging in the world and in our own bodies.
This is the cutting edge of science and consciousness–but it is only an edge if we know how to put both planes of its dimension into a point, and then to move it along itself. We are the cutting edge. It is important to expand out and populate planets and stars, it is important to wisely manage the resources of our planet, it is important to advance technology, culture, medicine, education… But it is even more important to research and advance a proper study of transobjective consciousness. At least, this is a sensible place to start for a civilization that wants to endure, and wherever else it may choose to go, do, and become after that is a matter of debate.