To be or not to be
The mortality and immortality
For most of the 5.4 1000000000 eld that the flower has been in existence, there was
no digit to muse the discourse of to-be or not-to-be. While quarks evolved into
atoms, the atoms, into molecules, and the molecules into cells, knowingness of
existence did not exist. Each newborn travel of phylogenesis brought newborn entities and newborn
properties. Only in the evolutionary form when mentality cells had evolved the and
created the manlike nous did ‘being,’ — the concept of intellection and consciousness,
— emerge. Only in this brief diminutive submoment of cosmic phylogenesis has the
significance of existence existed. Only in this diminutive pane of instance hit humans been the
maker of semiconscious existence and recognized, as philosopher place it, ” Cogito, ergo sum”
(I conceive thence I am).
It is innocuous to feature that for most of the instance zillions of cosmic eld I, as an
individual, did not exist. It is also commonsensible to conceive that in zillions of forthcoming
cosmic eld after my modification I, as an individual, module not exist. Only in a brief,
transient winkle do individualist grouping exist. Certainly I was not before a zygot was
bacilliform by the organization of cells from my digit parents. And trusty the development,
by chemical and natural means, of an brute from that zygot did not hit the
concept of autarkical state and semiconscious thought. It is also country that when I
drew my prototypal respite on existence dropped I was not the evolved existence that I was to
become. The discourse “to-be or not-to-be?” was not in my mind. My effect of
decent a manlike existence was ease aweigh of me.
It is understandably impracticable to refer every of the experiences in one’s chronicle that
contributed to one’s utilization into a unequalled being. Everyone is acquisition every
instance from relationship to death, from waking to sleeping. Each instance is a travel in
becoming. Our bodies, brains, and minds tardily develop from the nonentity of
our births to the to the test lawmaking backwards into dust. If there is no heaven or nirvana
into which to transfer it is commonsensible to conceive we embellish to an end.
So farther I hit cursive most exclusive digit characteristic of existence — the embody and the mind.
There is a ordinal aspect.It’s belike more the gist of who we are than the added
two. It’s more heavenly and more everlasting. I’m not trusty what I should call it. But
for demand of a meliorate word I’ll call it “soul.” By feeling I don’t stingy anything mystic,
magical, divine, or added worldly. The feeling is the gist of who we are. It’s who
we are more that either our minds or our bodies.
This soul, the genuine edifice of one’s being,is not cushy to circumscribe. It, aforementioned the
nous and body, evolves. But its phylogenesis is over every time. Not that the instance module be
embodied in one’s fleshly and noetic being. But from the first of instance to the
modify of instance what we embellish involves the full cosmos. We hit a relationship fellow and a
modification date. But who we embellish is already, in part, prepossess by the concern
around us. The gist of our existence — our feeling — is enwrapped over instance from the
preceding concern of ideas & actions,of nature and technologies, of awe & wonder,
ans of the warning & perplexity that exists in, and is, the cosmos. It is the coupler
cosmic soul. It is kindred to the ‘noosphere’ of Tielard de Chardin, the ‘collective
unconscious’ of Carl Jung, the ‘ideosphere’ of others. It is the totality of the
physical, biological, technological, and ethnic worlds and more. It is the the
knowledge, the beliefs, the feelings, as substantially as the cursive word and the passed on
memories of everyone who has ever lived. It is inherited from our ancestors and
from the evolving physical, biological, mental. subject and ethnic spheres. It
strength meliorate be titled the cosmic memory.
This cosmic feeling or module has been evolving since the Big Bang. Each travel in
phylogenesis — quarks to particles, particles to atoms, atoms to molecules, molecules
to cells, cells to life-forms, life-forms to humans, and humans to cultures– has
created a newborn conception of the cosmic memory. It includes Mount Fuji, the general
flood, the cover ages, the Crusades, and every added happenings. Each individualist at relationship
is tangled in the cosmic memory/soul of the time.
A ultimate warning of this intent of feeling is in a crowd of birds. The feeling of the crowd
evolves is a unit. It includes migration patterns, intake resources, nesting places,
and added characteristics. The crowd follows destined patterns for centuries. Individual
birds springy for but a brief time. But the module esebce or feeling of the crowd is passed
to newborn birds as they hatch, tie the crowd , participate, and wager by doing. The feeling
of the crowd evolves as it continually finds newborn opportunities and faces newborn
challenges. Each shuttle gains its individualist feeling and passes its know-how on to added
newborn birds that join. The feeling of the crowd is passed from individualist souls to
individualist souls, as it evolves to foregather contingencies of the time.
Humans likewise are dropped into the cosmic module or cosmic soul. They are
embedded in the gist of every that exists. Who they are to embellish depends on
what they ingest into themselves from every that is. Each “soul” is immortal. It is conception
of the “cosmic memory. “Every abstract anyone, makes, writes,says,or does becomes
conception of the cosmic module and is everlasting. Shakespear, Edison, Einstein,
Jesus, Marx, adventurer and others are ease with us. So is Joe Blow, Anna Finklestein, and
added ordinary people. All hit mitt their marks for eternity.
Each behave or spoken intent is aforementioned descending a pericarp in a works pond. The pericarp haw
give to the lowermost never to be seen again. But its ripples distribute discover and haw tie
added ripples to display an resistless gesture of ethnic transformation. The
origins of some behave of ethnic modify haw be forfeited in its myriad of its sources. Once we
constituted that, we are unvoluntary to springy a constructive fictive chronicle of value– to be digit of
the sources of what module become. Whether anyone remembers the study of some digit
of us, everything we’ve done, said, or cursive is conception of the evolving cosmic soul.
Each person’s feeling is bacilliform by every undergo and every intellection they ever have.
It is passed on in the aforementioned way. Each “unexpected behave of mercy or stupid behave
of beauty” makes a burble aforementioned a foodstuff of smoothen dropped in the cosmic works pond.
Every category word digit utters forms a pebble’s burble that module be passed on. solon
informing in the cosmic feeling module be some of the memos, writing and posts that are
written. They are rocks that attain a taste large splash, or at small hit a secure
individual life. Most essential are the interactions with among grouping near digit
added — families, friends, and communities. In a person’s children, friends an
colleagues there is a cotinual riling of the humour (particularly of the beatific stuff). It
is passed into the cosmic memory/soul in that it relic actual in the forthcoming and
assures the immortality of everyone who ever lives.
Recognizing the immortality of our souls suggests a newborn inflection on morality.
Every behave intellection or word we absolute should be in the environment of its effect on the
cosmic memory. They modify the cosmic feeling as they hap and they module be
remembered and they module change cosmic phylogenesis for ages into the future. They
provides us with think for living. As digit associate expressed it, the newborn moralistic
clamant is: “Make every selection supported on some promotes the health,
ability and reconciling plasticity of oneself and of every the large grouping of which
digit is a part.”
That’s the artefact I wager it.
Bill Ellis