Everything makes sense: A close look at life and consciousness

By Tim Garvin (www.o-books.com)

The Universe and Divinity in Everything makes sense

Everything makes sense opens his exploration of existence by proposing two primitive thoughts (meaning and desire) as the most basic components of each moment of consciousness. The discussion elaborates the union of consciousness-unconsciousness, explores the enigma of free will, considers the complementary philosophies of physicalism and neo-Darwinism, and finally, after careful and extensive reflection, arrives at its central conjecture: a universal intelligence produced, and is producing, the cosmos, now and now and now.

This conjecture is vaguely central to all religions, but modern science has exposed the simplicities of religion. However, since the scope of religion and science is identical (the cosmos itself), the opposition between these two fields has always been absurd. Everything makes sense It exposes that absurdity and invites all parties, instead of sitting in opposition, to take their place at a round table in amazement.

As the book progresses, always conversationally, informally and directly (sometimes humorously), the discussion considers the nature of knowledge, the dimension of desire, the opposing stations of selfishness and humility, and finally examines desire more basic within it. all desire, that is, the restless longing for reconnection with the Being that lies beneath and that sustains all being. Finally, the work of two cartographers of the inner world, Aurobindo Ghose and Meher Baba, is presented and pointed out as identical to each other, and also identical to the richest spiritual thought in history. His thinking is examined and elaborated and found to answer humanity's most pressing questions and also provide a solid foundation for further exploration.

In 1925, in a small town in Maharashtra, India, Meher Baba wrote that God manifests creation through the point Om. A few years later, in 1927, Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), a Belgian cosmologist, published the first scientific article describing the origin of the universe as a singularity from which countless particles of the cosmos spring forth. As this view of the universe took hold in universities, the steady-state theory of the cosmos, held even by Einstein, was supplanted by this “Big Bang” hypothesis. In Meher Baba's explanation, everything in the universe is a manifestation of the “imagination” of God who, as infinite intelligence, poured out from the point Om not only the material universe, but also the worlds of energy and mind. The soul, which is God himself, incarnates again and again as a stone, metal, plant, worm, fish, bird, animal and finally as a human being. These incarnations (approximately 50 million of them) develop the subtle (energetic) and mental bodies of the soul, which are carried from form to form as God looks more and more clearly through these evolving lenses of his creation. In the human stage, the development of consciousness/intelligence is complete, and the soul passes from experience to experience, from man to woman and from king to beggar and back again many times, until finally the long routine of emptiness stirs within the soul. an irresistible longing for the Truth. And so the search begins.

The search can begin from the shock of loss, from deep thought, sometimes even from simple intellectual curiosity. Over time, as the process unfolds, it becomes clear that the work required is not intellectual and has little to do with the duties and restrictions of religion. Rather, it is to look within, to observe closely the workings of the mind and heart, to discover a larger, more integrated self and, ultimately, the divine Self that is within everyone.

Aurobindo points out that there are four helps in this process: knowledge, effort, time and the teacher. Knowledge is the perception that is received by looking within. The effort is produced by the desire for Truth. Time is becoming embodied in form. And the teacher is the inner presence of God, referred to by Jesus as the Comforter and the Sufis as the Guest. According to Meher Baba, this Comforter and Guest is none other than the Avatar, the first soul throughout creation whose duty it is and always will be to confer divine love on every soul that has matured in longing. Recognition of this Avatar is valuable to the seeker because he establishes the right view (the first part of the Buddha's eightfold path) and also because the universe is a vast system of links in the universal mind. (The linking of the universe—and of intelligence itself—is the reason we can give each other clues: What is that long-necked animal that lives in Africa?) Through our linking to the ultimate purity of God , we are gradually consumed in the divine flame and liberated in the realization of divinity. What is the objective of creation.

Still Everything makes sense It is not a request for belief. Rather, it is an open examination of the bases of intelligence and consciousness. His assumption about the nature of existence, that divinity underlies everything, is reached only after careful consideration and rejection of alternatives.

From the numerous discussions in Everything makes sense Elaborating on the nature of free will is particularly important. Freedom seems undeniable (I can blink if I want) and yet, as physicalism has come to dominate the modern scientific mind, concluding that the best way to understand existence is as a swarm of particles obedient to hidden laws, it has become increasingly difficult to give credit to humanity. with freedom. Still Everything makes sense It does not rescue freedom. In fact, the book offers a simple mental experience to confirm that freedom is an illusion: chocolate or vanilla? I'll have chocolate. Because? I like it better than vanilla. Did you choose to like it more? Ah!

Every choice is driven by desire, and even if delayed by hesitation, it is simply a poll of preference as the decision becomes clearer. The strongest desire always prevails. Still, Everything makes sense makes it clear that our feeling of freedom, however illusory, is necessary to live naturally. As the book says, “there are no fatalistic pedestrians in heavy traffic.”

But if the laws that order our societies, as well as all blame and guilt, are based on the ontological error that the past, if we had wanted it better, could have been different and better, how can we hold the scoundrels and ourselves responsible? This enigma leaves us trapped in an unsolvable dilemma, until we realize that there is an undiscovered, but discoverable, inner terrain that makes complete and comfortable sense of our solution of lack of freedom. When we come to understand and finally feel that we are held in the invisible palm of divinity, that the swirl of particles and thoughts within and without us is that divinity, and more, that that divinity is in fact the same soul in all, then we have entered the path and are on our way home. We find that path first through need, through longing for truth, and then, and increasingly, through love for the One.

Here is a final, entertaining and comforting thought. Does recognizing the divinity of the universe invoke God's forgiveness? It is not so, because God, the Being within us, outside of us and identical with us, has never blamed us. However, recognizing God eventually awakens love.

The rest of the book elaborates on the consequences of these hard-won insights and considers, among other topics, the notion of destiny, the difference between morality and good and evil, politics, psychedelics, the occult, and change of mind. consciousness that is currently going through the world. land. As threads of new consciousness gather in streams and science leans toward a waiting field of exploration, the world within Everything makes sense describes will probably become evident for the instrumentation. When this happens, humanity will have developed a new science in which the objectives of prosperity and human valuation will be identical.

Carl Jung observed that his patients' neuroses generally dissipated when they discovered a good reason to live. Everything makes sense It is an effort to provide that reason.

Everything Makes Sense: A Detailed Analysis of Life and Consciousness by Tim Garvin is available at www.o-books.com or from any place where books are sold.

BOOK LINK: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/everything-makes-sense

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

x  Powerful Protection for WordPress, from Shield Security
This Site Is Protected By
Shield Security
Verified by MonsterInsights