Elsewhere

Bonezblog is theory. Theory is fiction. Theory is fiction because what it assumes can’t be disproved.

If what theory assumes could be disproved it could become fact. What theory states may be true but “may be true” doesn’t mean “is true.”

Bonezblog is out to create a plausible theory of reality. Theory isn’t fixed fact because its inherent nature is assumed to be flawed, incomplete and changeable. Not knowing makes theory possible.

When the quest for the ubiquitous golden ring of perfection, permanence and wholeness is in play, the merry-go-round attempt to repeatedly grab hold of it can result in cold comfort. A stop gap measure might be to ask, “What if the truth is that everything was out the door before having arrived?”

If things can only become what they already are a cup that’s just fallen off the table is broken before it shatters on the floor. That’s a more radical notion than holding the true nature of reality is that nothing lasts because it attempts to explain why.

If God created lossless emptiness out-of-nothing followed by emptiness contracting down into energy that then gets squeezed down into matter, that alone might put the kibosh on the frantic search for something of lasting value in a world of continuous change built on what gets lost in the compression process.

“If not here then maybe there,” is the voice hot on the trail of golden ring to proudly wear. After all, there’s got to be a way out of this mess. There always is.

Never mind that falling hour glass grains of sand are counting off each step of the quest. Could the reason why nothing lasts be caused by the loss incurred when emptiness contracted to make room for a material universe?

This is the existential predicament. We’re stuck in a moving moment predicated on the continual loss of what just was. Where there’s no going back to what just happened or shot forward to what might be.

Time is running out. A way out might be found. But where?

If what is is becoming what is already is, and what is is as good as isn’t already, “elsewhere” might be just the out-of-predicament card if the predicament is what actually is. (This is a long-winded way of saying theory is suggesting a possible way to beat death at its own game.)

Because if elsewhere begins where here and there leave off, elsewhere could be just the safe house where death can’t win. To make this possible the end would need to start before the beginning because when its all over before the beginning begins, when the end arrives what’s there to loose?

The point being death wins if something can be taken away. When death arrives all that’s found is emptiness. Sorry, no score.

When there’s nothing to loose, death is at a loss. That’s why looking for a way out can’t be found here or there. If elsewhere is where the end comes before the beginning, the game is over before it started.

Who says death gets to call the shots when to be human includes the ability to think theoretically? What if it was possible could stick it to death before it arrives? Starting with taking a pass getting on a merry-go-round trying to grab hold of what’s doomed already?

If the pitched battle with an irrevocable end is realized to be flawed, theory has worked some good magic. By surfacing the reasons why uncovered in a certain set of assumptions called into question to imagine what might be if stood on their head, new possibilities arise.

If so, the way out isn’t to pick a fight with what is. Rather evoke a reversal of fortune.

Linkology

The union of spirit being and body becoming is the soul. The soul houses the self. The self acts like a hub where choices create links between existing alternatives.

We do not have a soul. We are one. Where each individual world is a unique never to be repeated discreet soul.

“I see you.” What just happened?

That “I” as “myself” is the link between seeing another and the other seen. The “I” isn’t an independent observer using the body’s eyes to see another.

The “I” thinks it’s seeing another individual “out there.” What is being seen is a symbolic image that represents an instance of another soul’s experience of this material world.

Not only is the who that thinks it independently exists is trapped in a representative world of its own making but everything encountered is a symbol of what is actually there. Not “out there” or “in here” just there.

What the self is doing is making a connection between seeing and what is seen. The self is the link.

The body’s eyes see. The spirit makes conscious what the eyes see. The soul is the container that enables the self to wire it all together.

What “I see you” means is what the eye sees is paired to what is being seen. That connection between seeing and seen lasts as long as the other is being seen. Once the other drops out of view, that particular connection is broken.

The decision to look at what is being seen can be tacit. An unconscious choice to isolate something out of the entire field of what could be noticed.

If that choice to look rather than not look hadn’t been made the “I” in relation to what is being seen would not have occurred.

Death dissolves the spirit to body link. The moment the marriage between spirit and body ends the world as an individual experience ends.

This means we aren’t mind-bodies but spirit-bodies. To be a spirit-body is to be a soul. It isn’t until choices are made that we become selves.

For instance to say, “I do” in a marriage ceremony means a link has been made between two souls. An “I” is needed to pull this off. The link can have chosen restrictions like “until death do us part.”

For this reason a marriage ceremony is a magic ritual where the bond formed is based on occult principles. A marriage can be a metaphor for the soul’s spirit-body connection. Divorce likewise can symbolize the spirit-body breakup that occurs at death.

The reason why spirit can be confused with soul is because of the soul’s dual nature. Likewise the self can be confused with soul if the self isn’t assumed to be the soul’s linkages. The self being like a hallway connecting the different rooms of a home.

If spirit is an instance of uncompressed emptiness it wouldn’t be subject to change assuming emptiness is pure being. If spirit is lossless, it can’t die.

If energy and matter are emptiness compressed. The loss that takes place in the compression process means both are subject to change. Without loss there’d be no change.

Without spirit there’d only be a dynamic process. Spirit is like a skeleton in an otherwise amorphous blob of flesh. The soul allows the world to be experienced as a structured process as the place where being and becoming intersect.

The structure is whatever begins must end. While the dynamic process is whatever happens between the start and finish. All of this is needed to create individual worlds of unique souls where choices can be made.

The soul isn’t spirit or body. It’s a standalone third housing the self as the agent for how everything gets done.

Choose

Before a choice is made the self doesn’t exist in relation to what could be chosen. Once a choice is made the self comes into existence in relation to whatever choice is made.

A preference creates the self. To rank something over something else creates an “I” in relation to what is chosen in the form of “I choose this over that.”

Before the preference is made there is no “I” because it is not needed to notice the alternatives to choose from. For instance to say, “I believe this…” creates a self in relation to the belief. Because one belief is now ranked over other possible alternatives.

Whenever a choice is made the way the hierarchy of alternatives is structured creates the nature of the self. Prior to a hierarchy there is no relation of the self to what exists because all possibilities are horizontal.

This makes the self the way the possibilities are stacked in relation to how they are valued. To absolutely rank alternatives one possibility over many must be chosen.

Events can trigger whether or not a choice needs to be made. The decision made determines how one’s life will be played out in relation to future consequences both anticipated and unanticipated.

If the choice is not to choose then circumstances may force one alternative. Choosing not to choose is still a choice because a choice not to choose was preferred over making a choice.

An individual’s value system is revealed in the choices made. They are needed to negotiate the world. They consolidate what is real, known, true, beautiful and good on a self by self basis into a personal worldview.

Is spirit or body more valuable? The question calls for a shift from a horizontal to vertical alignment based on a value system.

Even if what’s material won’t last in a way that what’s spiritual might endure, the question could be answered either way depending on whether matter or spirit is held to be the higher good.

If a higher value is placed on bodily existence over disembodied spiritual existence, body could be ranked over spirit. If the slings and arrows of being embodied are determined to be too overwhelming, then perhaps spirit wins out.

Ranking one over the other, of course, isn’t mutually exclusive. It is possible to happily do spiritwork and have a paycheck.

The issue is which is believed to be of greater value? Spirit or body?

The reason why making such choices is important is because they define the nature of the “who.” The “who” can then determine how the world is to be negotiated. Even before anything gets done.

It’s not the amount of time doing something that makes it the most important. It’s the way things are structured that makes the difference.

Action silently speaks the truth irregardless of whatever else is happening and needs to be done. The choice to act whenever possible sets the stage for the action to happen.

If spiritwork is done in addition to life extension practices the choice to do them both consolidates an individual’s self in relation to spirit and body.  Then doing each endeavor speaks for itself.

The decision to act is made nonverbally because a decision isn’t consolidated in the intent alone. Since the decision to act isn’t what has been decided to do.

If a self is a relation relating to itself, the secret nature of the “who” has been found. That “I” sets the stage for the direction life will take.

Creating a workable daily time-line flow in relation to the choices made. Spirit being and body becoming as two sides of one selfsame coin.