We pay little attention to the air we breathe. It is just there. We are too busy looking at trees to see the forest. It is just there. We are too preoccupied dealing with the parts of reality to become aware of the whole of it. We are so close to our reality that we lose our detached external objectivity relative to things, and just become a part of it. It is just there.
Atoms emit and absorb photons that propagate in a self-perpetuating Electro-magnetic induction field that potentially fills all of space. The photon emitted by one atom may be absorbed by another atom at any distance. At the speed of a photon, any rest mass would become an infinite mass. The photon has no rest mass and exists only in motion. A photon has no stillness in space and instead is still with respect to time. From the photon’s point of view, no time passes during the exchange, and everything is all at one time. To a photon, all things are immediately connected to all other things.
Every individual entity’s existence must have context. A particle alone in a universe would not detect or observe any motion or inertia. An entity exists by the relationship between itself and the rest of the objects in the universe. The existence of every entity proceeds through being harmoniously resonantly reflective and projective. The existence of an entity is in the ‘I’ and the ‘not I’ both reflecting and projecting upon their mutual opposites as real.
Every particle has the potential ability to have exchanges of photons at any distance and occupies virtually all of space. Each particle in the universe is as completely a part of each of us as our own bodies are. Propagation of a photon is across a constructive interference pattern between two atoms’ infinite energy shells. All atoms interfere with all other atoms gravitationally and electro-magnetically. The interference potential between all things binds all things together. All things are one. Still we perceive separation.
In this mortal existence, we are not directly aware of our connection to the whole of all things. The entities of concurrent local existence exist directly as the entities themselves, and indirectly as the universe around the entities. Positive and negative feedback create resonant structures, each perspective through the other. Each entity’s existence is in its interactions with itself and the universe. Each entity has its own level of attention that it pays to the universe, and the collection of all other things as a single entity has its level of attention it pays to the entity. We do not see our connection as part of the whole. Our attention is on ourselves and not ourselves. We seem disconnected from the nameless whole, and are only aware of our connection with the parts. We have all disconnected from ourselves and become lost in a book, a play, or a movie. The greatest athleticism occurs when a player forgets the self, and becomes the game. Disconnecting from the whole world is natural. Being disconnected from the unity is the method by which we create and gain a local perspective to interact from. The disconnection continues and changes in every part of our experience and in each particular focus. Our personal experience of self is a particular disconnected highly reflective perspective of the whole through all its parts.
Even as we remain ourselves, unchanging, our awareness is constantly changing focus, topic, and level. Whatever our attention is on, in reflecting upon it we become that object or idea, and it, to a degree, becomes us. To interact with another entity is to reflect upon a duplicate image of that other entity, both objectively and subjectively.
The structures and processes in our bodies have their own individual actions, and the work of them individually is to achieve their own particular goals. Successes at achieving these goals are synergistic wins on that level of the game of being, allowing greater being. In this sense, we are the things we do. When the players win, the team wins. Higher games exist as games about other games. Everything is a game. The goal is persistence, survival. Consistently winning lower games allows striving for wins at higher games. We even make games more difficult intentionally, just to be challenged by the game, and make the game new again. Thus we create ever-greater levels of tension and release, dissonance and resolve. Whether a game is seen to be a game in its own right or a sub-game to some higher game is just a matter of perspective. Abstractly, all games operate by the same set of rules. Winning at the game of existence is gaining an opportunity to continue to exist. The universe that exists is the one that contains entities to observe and be observed by that universe.
If reality were described in terms that might describe a crystal, the best attempt would be in terms that describe the facets of that crystal. The description of each facet might be quite detailed, but what is more important than the features is knowing that the image is only a tangential description of the higher dimensional reality.
The universe of all things is an indescribable seamless whole without feature or division. The more direct the explanation of the universe, the more indirect the description. The only thing that can be said about the unity is that nothing can be said about it, ironically saying something about the unity.
The unity is without parts, but when parts of the divided whole are observed, both the quantities and the qualities of the parts are relevant to an indirect perspective of the whole. Quality and quantity are complementary objective and subjective parts of the information that indirectly describes a seamless unity.
The universe and all things in it proceed through existence according to the subjective and objective processes of being. Being is the action that occurs continuously, maintaining an active feedback loop of persistence. Being is the action of persisting. We live in a universe of action and interaction. The only constant is change. By continuing to change, an entity continues to exist.
The nature of reality may only be expressed indirectly. Even though surface appearances may show only objective differences between things, indirectly, the abstract similarities in different things may become apparent.
Rene Descartes, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, made major contributions in both the objective and subjective study of reality. He developed the Cartesian coordinate system, providing a framework for quantifying physical measurement. Descartes also said ‘cogito, ergo sum’ (‘I think, therefor I am’), providing a framework for qualifying the subjective existence of consciousness. He believed that the universe, although experienced subjectively, could be described in physical terms. In his eyes, the purpose of science and measurement is to gain verifiable understanding on the patterns of reality that reflect the subjective nature of mankind. To Descartes, studying the physical was the means to the end of understanding the non-physical. He was convinced that all things are related to each other. Since then, science has become an end in its own right, no longer a means to an even higher end. The narrowed view of science now broadens again through the many models of objective reality to show that subjective reality is an equally necessary part of the accurate depiction of this universe.
Every part of everything is related to all the parts of all other things. Just as partial models reflect indirectly upon the whole, so do the ways that the models are created. Our senses interpret the constantly changing feedback of reality into comparable distinctions. We reason, evaluate, feel and decide, all through the higher order feat of reflecting on how each experience is similar to and simultaneously different from all other experiences. Any interaction event represents itself in terms of similarities and differences to other interaction events.
Any directly described relationship of being or action can be seen as a metaphor for a relationship that is not directly describable. Common parallels of description may be seen for very different actions.
As example, consider a heart with blood being pumped in and out over and over with each passing heartbeat. This image parallels a city with freeway arteries allowing cars to come in and out of the city, over and over with each passing day. This analogy runs well. The city is like the heart. Freeways are like arteries and veins, streets are like capillaries, and houses are like individual cells. Even though the two systems are quite different, there are definite similarities. This concrete example proves nothing directly. It is merely an image of the parallels that occur everywhere in existence.
Another analogy of similar concrete structures on different scales is astronomical. Saturn with its moons and rings directly parallels the Sun with its planets and asteroids.
Concrete objectivity shows individual distinctions. Abstract subjectivity shows general similarities. Objectivity is found in the perpendicular, where one line crosses the other. Subjectivity is found in the parallel, where the two lines do not cross. Everything is both objective and subjective. Parallels exist in the most concrete of examples, and differences exist in the most abstract of cases.
The size of an entity does not matter in the abstract similarities of the process of existence. From the smallest scale to the largest, the universal subjective rules of existence are unchanging. The template for the common actions of existence remains the same. As above, so below. The differences in attributes lie only in the particulars of each individual case of existence, and how that case of existence differs from all other cases.
“The whole universe, from Brahma down to a blade of grass is one form or another of Him”