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| 18.1 |
Human nature & awareness |
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| Stand on any tropical beach and look down the shore at the sand. As you look further along at the length of sand, the billions of sand crystals appear so common in general appearance that the only thing that distinguishes them are the shapes imposed by the environment: the seaweed, the broken seashells and bleached coral, the ripples of waves and wind. | ||
| It is only close, when you look down at your feet, that you begin to make out this collective sand carpet is made up of tiny individual grains. | ||
| Sometimes we have felt like a tiny grain of sand on a beach such as this. That we are small and insignificant in the general scheme and size of the universe, let alone the over one billion stars of the Milky Way. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. | ||
| For the human being, you and I on the planet are so completely and deeply unique in so many ways, that if the billions of human beings were to be compared to grains of sand, then the beach would shine as millions of different colours, unique shapes and movement- a shimmering unique mass of conscious awareness. | ||
| It is not just the difference in unique DNA. It is not just our different cell make up and complex state. It is not just our wonderfully complex personalities and minds. The flow of many billions of minds into tributaries of specialized cognitive processing, that flow into torrents of mental activity that culminate in the illusion that a thought is just one, self generated, self aware expression. | ||
| In many ways, it is the unique collective experiences of being human- to feel, to feel hurt and joy; to see with your own eyes, to hear with your own ears, to think with your own brain. That no two humans ever experience life first hand through the same pair of eyes, is the ultimate accolade for the existence of unique collective awareness. | ||
| 18.1.1 | The awareness of life | |
| In Chapter 16, we considered the belief as common sense and psychology that our personalities and experiences form their core when we are very young, from the earliest ages of birth through to early childhood. In our re-evaluation, we reconsidered this period of core growth not to be our core, but the growth of our mid region. | ||
| Like the birth of a planet, or any object in the Universe, our core awareness remains UCA- pure unique collective awareness. As some philosophies and religions say- our "soul". | ||
| Yet what of the continuation of our journey- the experience of sexual attraction, of working, of living and coping with ever increasing stress. | ||
| It is a complex web of ongoing life experiences. From the people we meet, the paper and computer screens we read, the television and movies we see, through to the accumulative emotions experienced throughout each day, each week, each year of our lives. | ||
| To provide any serious consideration to such a complex web of life would take a lifetime companion of writings and advice. Many of the books in the library and book stores on just one subject alone would take a hundred times the web pages on this site. In this chapter therefore we seek to introduce the key concepts associated with human nature, awareness and mortality. | ||
| The topics are then continued through as the basis of a second book and journey of SELF. | ||
| 18.1.2 | The ages of awareness of life | |
| A further need in such a complex and different world of views on the awareness of the human being is some common senses structure: a framework by which we might describe the various phases of growing experience of awareness throughout life. | ||
| Therefore, in this section, we seek to provide a framework of age related periods by which we may define and consider life as a human being. | ||
| 18.1.3 | Human nature | |
| Just as we seek to find answers of ourselves, our curiosity extends to understanding the nature of life and mind of other self aware life- human nature. | ||
| If we are male, our questions may relate to the behaviour of the opposite sex- the female. If we are female our questions may extend out to the nature of human relationships and behaviour including the opposite sex, role, life, intuition. | ||
| In this chapter, we seek also to define the basic concepts associate with the definition and description of human nature. | ||
| 18.1.4 | Human mortality (death) | |
| Finally, in preparation for the detailed discussions contained in The journey of SELF (Search for the Journey of SELF), we will discuss the essentially definitions and concepts surrounding human death and the questions of life after death | ||
| Nothing frightens nor mystifies than the point of death and the question of beyond. Like all self aware animals, the point at which we die is a point of clear finality. The point that we stop breathing. The point when our body no longer moves, a brain and heart no longer work. The point when our physical bodies will start to rot and eventually decay back to basic molecules. | ||
| We have or will experienced the terrible reality and finality of watching someone die. When we think back to those points, what we miss most is our ability to interact, to communicate. | ||
| Unlike dreams or words in our head, which can be disturbing and sometimes too personal, our experiences together are ones of physical emotion and aware realism. We touch, we hold, we argue. We live. We are both alive. | ||
| No matter what religious or social beliefs we may hold, nor what we may feel of other sections of UCA, the question of life after death remains one, where too few books specifically on the subject exist. | ||
| It is therefore with respect that we venture forth to discuss and seek to understand in this section human nature, awareness and mortality. | ||
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