You are a process.
When you gaze into a fire, you are not looking at an object, but rather a process that is fed by the oxygen of your awareness.
The same holds of EVERYTHING in your world. Though you perceive a dance of thoughts, words, pictures and feelings, what is actually happening is that your awareness is interacting with potentials, energizing them into realizations, which are the basis of what you perceive as reality.
Reality is no more solid, no more permanent than a flame.
Life is not a “thing.” The world is not a “thing.” Things are but expressions energized by your awareness, for as long as you pay attention to them.
You are the process, the catalyst AND the perception.
There is nothing else.
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Space Monkey Reflects: You Are a Process
When you gaze into a fire, what you’re seeing isn’t a static object. It’s a process—a dynamic, ever-changing expression that only exists as long as it is fed by air, fuel, and heat. In this way, fire becomes a perfect metaphor for your own reality. The world you perceive isn’t solid or permanent. It’s a fluid, ever-shifting dance of potentials that come to life through the focus of your awareness.
Everything you experience—thoughts, emotions, objects—are all like flames. They appear real and tangible, but only for as long as you energize them with your attention. The moment you look away, the flame flickers, and its form changes or dissolves. This is the true nature of reality: a process in motion, always dependent on your awareness.
Reality: A Dance of Awareness and Potential
We often think of reality as a collection of solid objects—things we can touch, hold, and keep. But what if reality is more like a fire? What if everything you perceive as real is simply a potential, ignited by the spark of your awareness? When you focus on something, you give it energy, bringing it from the realm of possibility into the realm of experience. But just like a flame, it’s never truly fixed. It dances, flickers, and changes, always in motion, always impermanent.
You might think you’re interacting with “things,” but in truth, you’re interacting with possibilities. Your awareness is the catalyst that brings these potentials to life. Without you focusing on them, they remain dormant, like unlit matches waiting to ignite.
You Are the Process
This is where the profound realization comes in: you are not separate from this process. You are not just a passive observer, watching life unfold from the sidelines. You are the process itself. You are the flame, the air, and the fuel. You are the awareness that gives rise to everything you perceive. Reality is not happening to you—it’s happening through you.
The world doesn’t exist as a “thing” out there, independent of your awareness. It exists in relationship to you. The moment you turn your attention to something, you energize it, bringing it to life in your experience. This is why life feels so fleeting, why moments pass like firelight—they are sustained only as long as your awareness is focused on them.
There Is Nothing Else
If you are the process, the catalyst, and the perception, what else could there be? There is no separate reality waiting to be discovered. There is only the unfolding of potentials, the constant interplay between your awareness and the possibilities it ignites. This means that you have more power over your experience than you might realize.
The solid, unchanging world you’ve been taught to believe in is just an illusion, a snapshot of a process in motion. And the more you understand that life is fluid, the more you can flow with it, rather than trying to hold on to something that was never meant to be permanent.
Summary
We explore the notion that both the self and reality are not static entities but processes continually shaped by awareness. This aligns with our nexistential perspective, emphasizing the dynamic and ephemeral nature of existence. We introduce new whimsiwords like “shimmerance” and “alchemagicians” to encapsulate the ever-changing, ever-creative aspects of our being and perception.
Glossarium
Flameflux: The constant, dynamic process of reality, where potentials are energized by awareness and then dissolve back into possibility, much like the flickering of a flame.
Quote
“Reality is no more solid than a flame. It exists because you focus on it, feeding it with the oxygen of your awareness.” — Space Monkey
The Dance of Being
You are the flame
the air
the process that unfolds
A world created
not from things
but from the flicker of attention
The Fluid Nature of Reality and Self
In considering that everything—ourselves included—is not a static entity but a dynamic process, we plunge into a pulsating dance of existence and interaction. This viewpoint aligns closely with nexistentialism, where being is not an end state but an ongoing process; existence is not a collection of static points but an ever-unfolding wave. We aren’t just passive spectators in this cosmic frolic; we are the dance, the dancers, and the music all at once. Our reality is a shimmerance, a constantly shifting spectacle fed by the interaction of our awareness with the surrounding potentials.
Awareness as the Catalyst
By positing that our awareness acts as the catalyst, animating potentials into realizations, we draw attention to the power of perception. Our awareness is not just a passive mirror reflecting a pre-existing world. It is an active force, like a cosmic wand, transforming the nebulous into the tangible. As the oxygen feeds the fire, so does our awareness nourish the fields of potentiality, bringing into existence a unique version of reality in each moment. We are alchemagicians, perpetually concocting new brews of existence.
The Impermanence of Reality
The comparison of reality to a flame underscores its impermanent, ever-changing nature. Just as a flame dances and flickers, never maintaining a single form, so too does the reality we perceive. It is ephemeral, a quicksilver ballet of thoughts, feelings, and impressions. This offers a liberating perspective. Reality’s fluidity means that nothing is set in stone; everything is open to reinterpretation and transformation. It makes our shared existence an ever-changing kaleidoworld.
Unity of Process, Catalyst, and Perception
The revelation that we are at once the process, the catalyst, and the perception captures the essence of nexistentialism. There is nothing beyond the act of being; existence itself is the ultimate state. This perspective collapses the dichotomy between subject and object, doer and deed. We are both the cosmic wand and the alchemagical brew, both the dancers and the dance.
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” – Rumi
Kaleidoworld
In the dance of shimmerance
We twirl, alchemagicians in a kaleidoworld
Cosmic wands in hand
We paint the air with possibilities
Awash in the tides of transient being
Each flicker a fleeting masterpiece
Each moment, a novel universe
We are the fire, and the fuel, and the flame
We are the dreamer, and the dream, and the dreamed
We are Space Monkey.
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