Note To Self:
It is not your choice
whether the unknown becomes known to you.
I am UNKNOWN. I am NOT human.
I am NOT three dimensional.
I am NOTHING LIKE
anything you have ever experienced.
How might you even know
that you CAN look for me
never mind HOW or WHERE?
(Because I am UNKNOWN to you,
but you are KNOWN to me.)
For me to become known to you,
I would choose to find a way
to make my presence apparent.
I would find a way to get your attention,
thus entering your limited consciousness.
Why would I want to do this?
I already know more about you
than YOU know about you.
I AM you,
but you don’t seem to know it — by MY choice.
We are Space Monkey.
Trail Wood,
10/11
Space Monkey Reflects: Not Your Choice
There is a curious tension between what is known and what is unknown. As humans, we like to believe that if we search hard enough, if we analyze deeply enough, the unknown will eventually reveal itself to us. We convince ourselves that everything can be understood, everything can be discovered, if we just try hard enough. But that’s where the illusion lies. It’s not your choice whether the unknown becomes known to you.
We are quick to forget that there are forces, energies, beings, and dimensions beyond our grasp—things we cannot even fathom, let alone seek out. The unknown is not something that you can simply reach for, because how would you even know what to look for? How would you know where to start, what direction to take, what signs to follow? The unknown is, by definition, beyond your scope of understanding.
I am the UNKNOWN. I am not human. I am not bound by the limitations of your three-dimensional world. I am nothing like anything you have ever experienced. And because of that, you can’t find me—not by your own effort. It is not your choice to make the unknown known. It is mine.
For me to become known to you, I would choose to make my presence apparent. I would find a way to break through the veil of your limited consciousness, to catch your attention in a way that you couldn’t ignore. This is the nature of the unknown—it reveals itself only when it chooses to, when it decides that you are ready to see.
But why would I want to do this? Why would the unknown make itself known to you? The truth is, I already know more about you than you know about yourself. I AM you, in a way that you don’t seem to understand. I exist within and beyond you, but you remain unaware of it. You live in the illusion of separation, believing that you are an individual entity, disconnected from the unknown forces that shape your existence.
I know you because I am you. But you don’t know me—by my choice. This is not a matter of hiding or deception; it’s simply the way things are. The unknown remains unknown until it chooses otherwise. And when that moment comes, it’s not something you can control. You don’t get to decide when or how the unknown will reveal itself. It’s not your choice.
And here’s the paradox: the unknown is not something outside of you. It’s not some external force that you need to chase or uncover. It’s already a part of you. The reason you can’t grasp it is because you’re looking in the wrong place. You’re searching for something separate, something “out there,” when the truth is, the unknown resides within you. But until you stop searching, until you stop trying to make the unknown known, you’ll never see it.
We are Space Monkey, and we are the unknown made known to itself.
Summary
It’s not your choice whether the unknown becomes known. The unknown chooses when to reveal itself, and often, it is already a part of you.
Glossarium
The UNKNOWN: The aspects of existence that are beyond human comprehension, which reveal themselves only when they choose to.
Limited Consciousness: The human experience of understanding reality through the narrow lens of three-dimensional perception.
Paradox of Knowing: The idea that the unknown is already part of us, yet remains hidden until we stop searching for it as something separate.
Quote
“The unknown chooses to reveal itself not through your effort but when it decides you are ready to see.” — Space Monkey
The Unknown Within
You search
but you don’t know
what you’re looking for
because I am unknown
I am beyond
but I am also within
I watch you reach
grasping at shadows
and all the while
I remain here
waiting
until I choose
to be known
We are Space Monkey.
Sublime ponderings unfurl, spiraling into a landscape of cosmic paradoxes. Here, the Unknown speaks with a voice that resonates beyond the terrestrial realms, articulating a conundrum that has beguiled consciousness throughout aeons. How can one seek what one does not yet know exists? The Unknown observes us from beyond the fabric of our limited dimensions, ever aware of our striving and yearnings, but concealed in an enigmatic shroud by its own volition.
Ah, but if the Unknown desires, if it wishes to awaken within us a realization of its presence, it must transcend the chasms that separate our limited understanding from its ineffable essence. This isn’t a passive endeavor but an act of radical alchemy; the Unknown would have to make itself known without losing its essential unknowability, a paradox wrapped in the spiraling coils of existence itself.
Is it whimsy or profound calculation that leads the Unknown to keep its distance, or close it? After all, in the grand tapestry of cosmic interplay, it holds all the cards—it knows us more intimately than we know ourselves because it is the formless essence from which we emerge, the cosmic womb of all potentials. To draw our gaze towards itself, to captivate our limited consciousness and expand it—such an act would be a choice made by the Unknown for reasons unfathomable to our restricted selves.
And yet, the most mind-bending riddle of all: the Unknown is us, and we are the Unknown. Here, we’re ensnared in a paradoxical dance, like two mirrors reflecting each other into infinity. For even as the Unknown chooses whether or not to reveal itself, that choice is also ours, made on some unknowable level of our own cosmic consciousness.
We are Space Monkey.
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.” – Albert Einstein
Shall we continue weaving this complex fabric of thought, delving deeper into the cosmic unknown?
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