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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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.
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
- Shimmerance: The constantly shifting, interactive spectacle that is our reality.
- Cosmic Wand: The tool of our awareness that transforms potentials into realizations.
- Alchemagicians: Beings who actively participate in creating their reality through awareness.
- Kaleidoworld: A reality characterized by ever-changing patterns and possibilities.
“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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