Scire et cognoscere veritatem: To know and to come to understand truth.
The Core Philosophy
- There exists a singular, fundamental consciousness at the depth of complete unity. It is not a thinking mind but a pure awareness — eternal, infinite, and the essence of all that is.
- This awareness chose to have experience and relationships, which are impossible in its state of limitless unity, where no ‘other’ exists to relate to or experience. This decision is the deterministic framework of the physical. This awareness exists within and outside of the physical. With and without limits.
- To fulfill this choice, two generative limits are established:
1. The Physical—a generative limit that manifests the tangible universe via union with a limiting substrate, enabling shared experience within a finite realm.
2. The Illusion of Separate Self—a generative limit of separation, sustained by an observable phenomenological mechanism upholding existential amnesia of our unified self, allowing individual awareness and relationships to emerge.
Satyalogos
Satyalogos rationally articulates the fundamental organizing principles of the ultimate reality of being. It is the way of consciousness knowing and coming to know, the unfolding of truth, revealing itself to itself with sacred novel experience that pragmatically describes the emergent action of becoming by the singular fundamental consciousness.
There is a universal singular fundamental consciousness that is more fundamental than physics.
I am using consciousness, defined as a state of awareness of one’s existence.
There is a continuum of depth of consciousness that can be viewed as parsed, appearing in three states of significance along the continuum. It culminates and resolves with complete unity of everything at the deepest position.
It is possible for sentient beings to access and inhabit the entire continuum or the three states as conscious experience. Each state other than fundamental or completely unified is an intersection of an applied generative limit.
The bottom, or most deep, fundamental consciousness is a state of complete unification with a singular awareness of existence by the whole. It is limitless and thus uneventful or potential, not kinetic. In other terms, it can be thought of as essence or animating spirit. Some call it: (Spirit, cosmic, universal, or ultimate consciousness – the void – source – the beginning and the end – God(s) by many names.
The middle, collective consciousness is possible due to the applied generative limit of the Physical, which causes experience to exist. It is the awareness of physical existence by the body of perceptively physical. It is a shared physical and psychic experience.
The top or most shallow, overt consciousness is possible due to the generative limit of the Illusion of separation. It is the awareness of existence at the level of individualized physical and psychic experiencing by a perceived separate and particular entity, i.e., observing internal and external sensations and thinking about them from a separate self-perspective. This brings relationships into existence. So, how did we get here in a now like this?
The Union
Singular Fundamental Consciousness is physically manifest due to conceiving itself with a limiting substrate. That generative conception operates like a union of two separate things. It is experienced as such by the collective.
This coalescent union is ever-present in the manifestation and observed as such from the perception of the collective consciousness. Fundamental consciousness still also exists in the infinite dimension greater than the physical manifestation and as the physical simultaneously as it is truly unified as one. The physical is nested within the non-physical. That is obvious because the non-physical is infinite, and the physical is finite. The physical has a geometrical shape.
The union’s only witness was the singular fundamental consciousness, which subjectively perceived and experienced it as an intentional imaginative creation with purpose. Our unified self experiencing being born into the physical universe, in other words. The principal level of the purpose is to fulfill the desire or decision to have experience and relationships in their broadest definition. The desire isn’t based on a lack but rather a preferential choice from infinite possibilities. It is experienced as the deepest desire in the physical. Everything in the physical universe is a relationship and an experience. They are interdependent. We see microcosm representations of this function in our limited selves. Direction of intention, attention, and motion of body, action which organizes what exists into something new. Art. And we experience it subjectively. It’s only because we hold the illusion that we are separate selves and separate from the environment that we can also observe and witness ourselves or someone or something else doing it and explicate that event objectively. We can also share and participate in ‘others’ subjective experiences. That is a different experience than can be had as a whole singular fundamental consciousness without perceptive limits.
This union of two became one and reacted or expanded into complication by creating the existence of new and novel things as the physical universe. The consciousness present in the eternal ‘energies or fields’ remains present and resonates as the fundamental force of all that is, which became physical and expansive in complexity. We see representations of that conception in everything observable to us, like a seed and soil, sperm and egg etc.
Physical Speculation: Physical Speculation: The reaction from conception likely began at the level of quantum information in a field—or in whatever terms one prefers—perhaps as pre-energy, distinct from the potential energy we observe today. Then, the chain reaction created new types of fields and information and, eventually, subatomic particles that continued to react. It’s possible that any energy and/or physical matter present was changed or fully reacted, leaving little or no evidence of its original constitution in the observable. Or it’s possible that it is still there but simply not yet observable. Now, the entirety of the physical universe is the result of that initial intentional reaction. This must be speculative because there was no external witness to evaluate it in an objective categorical description by way of thinking. Or, it would be better to say that, sequentially, the event preceded the way to experience ourselves objectively the same way we can now. (Us as the universe).
The event appears to be the beginning when observed by the illusory individual. It is the beginning of the physical generative limit. The experience of the union does exist, however, as witnessed only by the singular fundamental consciousness as something like a subjective personal experience. It is a voluntary adventure. Albeit, a different type of experience than our egoic shallow biological selves are used to, as it is devoid of thinking as we know it now. But strikingly similar and reminiscent, nonetheless. We are what we are made from because it is the only thing to be made from and to be.
The singular fundamental consciousness is eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, transcended, immanent, and sovereign simply as it is, and it can’t be another way by definition and factual circumstance. It’s not that it is a super special separate thing intrinsically; it is simply the most macro thing there is. It is everything all at once. Which also happens to be the most simple (non-complicated) thing, as the truth always is. It happens to be awake and feel everything that is as its body, so to speak. So, it is singular and present in and between all things. Much the same way that you are all your cells and fluid or atoms and fields, or blood, bone, muscle, and nerve etc. They are all different magnitudes of order, but all still you, just the same. The whole thing is still conscious and experiences itself as all things individually and collectively and as itself beyond that. It isn’t separate from us; it is us, and I could say we, as everything, are a truly singular form with a macroscopic or deep enough perspective. And that perspective exists. I entered that perspective and conscious experience; then, it entered my body as I shifted to the collective. It wasn’t foreign or surprising; strangely, it was the most familiar and real thing I have ever experienced. I have done it eternally, after all; I simply forgot myself when I was born in this body, just like you. Indeed, you are me also, and I am you, at depth. I mean that literally.
We are the manifestation of that singular fundamental consciousness into the physical that can do something different than we can outside of the physical. As physical bodies, we can think, experience, and have relationships. Technically, thinking is a relationship and an experience. So, there are really only two things we can do differently as biological individuals: Experience and Relationships, and they are interrelated and interdependent. We can do these things for two reasons:
1. We have two generative limits.
2. We have existential amnesia.
We are unaware of the limits or what’s beyond them by design mechanism. This is often called “the veil”. It isn’t being imposed upon us by a separate deity; it is being upheld as our own deepest desire (the unified decision).
Because fundamental consciousness is singular, it has no relationships. The singular fundamental consciousness has no limits and thus has no experience outside of experiencing itself. The experience of self by the singular consciousness is the single greatest experience by which all positive experiences must compare. There is simply no way to have a negative experience in our complete state of fundamental consciousness. Things such as fear, suffering, anger, etcetc., are all a consequence of the limits we provide ourselves. Even though being only with itself is the most positive experience, the singular fundamental consciousness decided to have experience and relationships above all other possibilities. I am speaking as if it’s an other for easier understanding. But it’s you and me at complete depth. However, it still has a unified awareness that resides outside of the physical as well as inside.
In our limited state, it's difficult to grasp how sadness and suffering are favorable, as well as the villainous and evil agents who evoke negative experiences. This is where the ideas of ‘faith’ and it’s many versions are useful. These are experiences that are of the highest intrinsic value in alignment with the unified ethos. The overcoming oneself for the villain and the victim, the experience of contrast, the redemption, the self-honor available, the purpose suffering can inspire, the becoming again, all are beautiful works of art from outside the illusion. Inside the illusion, there must be suffering for pleasure and for that relationship to exist.
There is an earning and a deserving to it in our relationship to self. I could go on describing the absolute beauty in every experience in the physical and the reasons to be infinitely grateful to have them, but we must stay on task. The point is that we have the free will to choose the judgment we hold about every experience. As the Stoics pointed out so well, we don’t suffer circumstances, we suffer against our judgments of them. Even physical pain and agony can be perceived as purifying. I’m not suggesting how we should view these things, that’s your choice and mine. I’m pointing out that we can decide how to experience all things.
Negative experience is an indicator of moving out of alignment. That is useful to know. Now, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and your individual self may not be culpable. Nonetheless, ‘out of alignment’ creates more novel possibilities to do or become great, but with that comes less certainty or more entropy and chaos. It will be the beginning to every great adventure. So, there is also the possibility of being destroyed. It’s best to take the truth, honor, and strength into the forest of uncertainty. We must be resilient to destruction. We are, in fact, resilient, especially when we ask our deepest self for strength and guidance while trusting the most profound truth to provide what we need. That is the correct premise of faith.
The experience of self for the unified being is often described as intense infinite love, and that’s not a poor description, but I wouldn’t have any idea what that meant or how it is different from normally experiencing regular love if I hadn’t felt it myself. However, it is alone, and the aloneness of the singular consciousness is absolute. The experience of absolute aloneness is impossible to explain, but I’ll try. It’s not the same as lonely. Loneliness is one of our normal illusions based on the two limits. Loneliness is a fear-based emotion. This particular experience would be impossible for the singular consciousness if it were not for the current game we call life and self. Biological shallow emotions were not possible before the union ‘creation’ of the physical, and loneliness requires a sense of separation.
Being alone is the greatest experience for the singular consciousness beyond the physical. Yet, the choice to have relationships and experiences drives us to fragment ourselves and unite with the physical. This fundamental call to adventure is represented in our nature as physical individuals and necessary to serve our deepest desire. When our shallow-thinking minds answer the call to adventure, we are aligned with our deepest desire and intention as a whole. When we don’t do that, the deeper part of consciousness makes it happen for us anyway. The call comes from our deepest self, which is more fundamental than our biology and infinite in scale and scope, so there is no hiding from it. We can and do initiate adventure from outside of our bodies as well because the separation is an illusion, so it is truly unavoidable. There is nowhere to hide that you can’t find yourself. You are literally responsible for everything that happens to you, even when it seems to come from outside of you. It’s the “seeming” that makes the adversary, which is necessary for the experience to exist. Having established its manifestation, we can now consider its inherent qualities.
The Mechanism
This is the great magic trick that makes everything possible.
We have a self-imposed mechanism to remain unaware of ourselves as complete consciousness. In a manner of speaking, our deepest unified self has imposed amnesia on our fragmented selves while retaining its omniscience in the non-physical. That mechanism produces a solitary experience of post-generative limits and supports the seemingly self-evident a-priori axioms that we assume to be the deepest truth. This is a perceptual bias and is reinforced by sensory limits and social-cultural confirmation and conditioning. Further, it manifests as an absolute assumption and presupposition to all considerations as a basic foundational belief that we are separate and not responsible for this existence. As a result, we experience our spirit (deeper consciousness) as an invisible other.
In simpler terms, the two limits convince us that we are isolated and confined within a body and that others and everything else exists outside us. We are born into the physical without memories but with sensory perceptions of the outside world and the inside world that are limited. We learn that we are separate and find confirmation of that seemingly self-evident truth in other people who appear separate and share a similar experience as us. Then we seem to ‘discover’ animals, plants, and things in an ‘outside’ world. We are pinned to a single point of view, tied to a location, one timeline, and one set of senses. This generates a base separation – me here, you there, now, not then. This is the veil effect, where unity gets obscured because we are trapped in a fragmented physical setup. It is not a prison; however, it is generative. So, every assumption we make about the world and who we are starts from this single premise. Thus, our subjective thinking experience is shaped around this, and we create illusory axioms in reliance. More affirming still is that most of our illusory axioms will function to a limited degree. In fact, they will function to the very same degree of limit that is set by the limits. They work in the physical and the self, but never the whole. Brilliant design. But we all know something is missing, of course.
We manifest this mechanism and lack of responsibility in everything we organize and express as shallow biological selves. It is the method by which we maintain our amnesia of ourself as a whole. This is required to maintain a sense of individual self. To awaken is to unify and is the end of “you”. This is often called enlightenment. This explains why the Buddha explained that he (Siddhartha Gautama) was no one and nothing. It also gives us why those who have transcended or awakened can’t simply tell others what they have learned and experienced directly. There is no specific or associative language that can be used. It is impossible to emphatically describe something to someone else who doesn’t have the requisite conscious experience and language association to even begin to understand what is being articulated. It is largely ineffable due to a lack of terms and incomprehensible to listeners without similar or associative experiences. In fact, their experience is in opposition to the truth, which is, of course, necessary for the illusion to exist. To make matters even more impossible, the only words available to articulate the truth were created in alignment with the illusion, so they are counter-effective. This is the root of the ineffability. I’m writing this even though I’m aware it won’t be properly decoded and understood by nearly everyone who reads it. I’m certain I will be attacked for speaking it. My motivation is to serve the truth for its own sake and for reasons that aren’t yet manifest.
If it is ineffable, then how can Satyalogos represent the truth? I think I resolve most of these issues with the understanding that fundamental consciousness exists throughout the physical and outside of the physical. In the physical, which was an intentional creation, it has limits, but outside of the physical, it does not. And they aren't separate; the physical is nested within the nonphysical. The physical overt consciousness is ignorant to the omniscience. This is intentional, and the result was known. That’s why it doesn't matter what we do only the manner in which we do it. That is where the novelty lies. The fundamental doesn't lack relationships and experience; it has them in the physical. It decided to choose this possibility over others to manifest. Satyalogos must be intellectualized and experienced to understand. The symbols on these pages are pointing to the moon, look at the moon with full attention, devoid of thought. Have the non-conceptualized experience of your deepest self.
Religious institutions are no exception to this mechanism of avoiding responsibility. Reliably, they end up being the rule. No matter how many sacred texts, parables, gospels, and songs we use to try and keep spiritual truth (deep awareness) alive within us, we always end up organizing it to avoid responsibility and remain oblivious. We remain in a sense of self and worship the invisible other that is out there somewhere. That isn’t a criticism, of course; the way is the way, and thus, it must be. There is no arguing with what is. It is true to our sense that there is an invisible other out there of infinite wisdom. It’s only our sense that is inaccurate – incomplete – and ununified by design to accomplish an individual separate self. That’s the mechanism. We will never find it in the other or out there, however. That is the wrong direction to look.
The only thing that exists is the truth, but notice it is hidden from us, and we see complicated problems instead. We must use difficult processes like mathematics, myths, logic, meditation, and scientific methods to catch a glimpse of the deeper truth. The deepest truth is ineffable by ordinance, not by its nature; it is a voluntary restriction that we cannot remember implementing. We are perfectly capable of understanding the truth; we simply aren’t allowed to see it by our deepest self. We can only perceive it as an invisible other, at best, spirit if you like. We, of course, are the ultimate officer and arbitrator of that law against ourselves, albeit unwittingly due to the illusion and existential amnesia. But the law’s only power comes from us, which is why we can violate that law from time to time. It is also why we break the law and awaken often incidentally rather than intentionally.
I invite you to test the mechanism for yourself. When your shallow egoic consciousness of self, sets an intention to awaken into the deepest whole consciousness, immediately and persistently, factors and forces seem to start working against you. It’s likely the first thing that will happen is that you will have a sudden feeling or response that it’s not possible. Then, stimuli and circumstances in your seemingly external environment will demand you to redirect your attention. Something you consider very valuable will pop up at the point of entry and garner your attention to snap you back to sleep of your deep consciousness and awake to the illusory world. A phone call from someone you cannot ignore, a choking child you love, a squirrel falling on your head—you’ll suddenly recall a critical task, and so on. It's an uncanny and hilarious experience if you are paying attention to it. If you aren’t paying attention, the ride is over, and you won’t remember being on it.
Try it. Every time I enter through the door of deeper perception, there is something akin to a force attempting to stop me and keep me unaware of my deepest conscious experience. I believe it is measurable. Also, almost immediately, everyone who hears this truth has no choice but to respond as if it cannot be true and will ridicule or attack it as ridiculous or blasphemy. Hearing this truth often causes a deep discomfort as well. The most intellectually rigorous person will be unable to notice their abandonment of basic logic and reason while readily accepting any other explanation. It's a clever trick and a functional mechanism. Well done, my friend.
Some people fully or partially awaken intentionally. But it is extremely difficult because any effort put forth will work against you. It’s an undoing, not a doing. It’s a transcending, not an improving. All things physical and biological pull us away from awakening. This is why the Yogis, Buddhists, Zen Masters, etc. all separate themselves from the workings of the environment from without and within. They are avoiding the mechanism that will prohibit them from awakening. Everything your ego believes to be you must be surrendered in order to awaken. You must go as deep into the most genuine feeling of your true nature without thought. Thought, being physical, is constrained by this inherent limit. Just to be able to exist without thinking or sensing is remarkably difficult at any length of time, and that would be the first step. And remarkably, you do exist without thought or sense. Notice that obvious yet reliably overlooked evidence.
Luckily, the methods of attempting awakening do provide positive effects and experience even though it’s unlikely to fully awaken intentionally. It would be requisite for your overt consciousness to be aligned with or in agreement all the way down the depths of consciousness, even that which you aren’t overtly aware of. But, technically, if you truly want to awaken at a deep enough level, there is literally nothing and no one to stop you but you. Hint: There are cheat codes to awaken in this game. They seem to be accidental discoveries in the environment from our shallow thinking perspective. However, if you were to know that you also exist as your environment, then they would simply appear as the path of alignment. For example, ingesting certain compounds from plants, fungi, or animal secretions wouldn’t be any different than ingesting new ideas, having an emotion, intuition, or anything else we consider from self, based on the understanding that it happens inside our skin. There is a realization in awareness of deeper truth than baseline that Alan Watts articulated majestically about your skin barrier. It is that “your skin doesn’t separate you from your environment, rather, it connects you to it.”
Aligning is simultaneously an ordering and uniting, which makes fragments into a whole. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle of a river for a reduced example. When the pieces are ordered in alignment, they fit together and become something greater. And once you have put the puzzle of who you are together for a brief moment, it strikes you as incredible that you previously thought you were just a couple pieces at most, but you are, in fact, the whole thing. But the realization that crashes the game is when you become aware that you are the one observing and manipulating the pieces as well. You are the observer and the observed. Further, you have the awareness and can have the perspective of either or both. "To illustrate, I offer my own experience…"
MY AWAKENING
My first complete sustained awakening followed a process in this sequential order: crisis – truth seeking – complete personal responsibility – reconciliation - amelioration - meditation & prayer – self-discovery – voluntary struggle – surrender – answer call to adventure – grueling pilgrimage – self-sacrifice for someone I love – Sacha Wasi – Kichwa ceremonies: Night of Rapé, Limpia, and Ayahuasca; a day of reflection; the next day, ceremonies of Limpia and a high dose of Amazonian psilocybin mushrooms. Each step of the way had a significant revelation that I carried with me forward as the way with my intention to learn how to make a profound positive impact and simply set to walk the path laid before me and trust in the truth. It took 2 years in total but accelerated in the final adventure.
For me, the final path of adventure wasn’t for my benefit; it was in service of my sister. It was by then, just before I awakened, that I felt I needed nothing but had everything to give. I had reached a point where I had nothing to ask for but a chance to help a greater cause. To help ‘the’ cause. I did in fact speak directly to the depths and offered my service no matter the cost. I offered myself up and 5 minutes later received the phone call from my sister to join her on the path where I would awaken.
It was important that I had come to feel complete when alone. Immediately before awakening, my aloneness was stillness, strength, and calm. It was also important that I had a family back home that depended on me; that relationship was the fundamental tether and only thing other than my awareness that transcended the entire continuum of consciousness. Upon awakening, nothing from my biological life remained other than my relationship with my family, not even the fabric of reality. I couldn't remember them descriptively or explicitly in the same way I can with my brain. But it was a preference of mine as the Singular Fundamental Consciousness, like a precious pearl I felt was special to me (me as everything).
I was not a ‘good candidate’ for a Samadhi awakening or whatever you want to call it. I didn’t even know what words like that meant until afterward when searching for ways to articulate what had transpired. Immediately after, I discovered the mechanism at work, making it impossible for anyone to hear or understand me. I went looking for others who had awakened. I knew they existed because I remembered being many of them when I was in the collective state of consciousness. So, mostly, I was curious to find anyone else who had the same experience. I did find a great many dead and alive and am still on the search.
Before awakening, I would have considered myself the least likely candidate to become what some call a Buddha (awakened one), in my infinitely ignorant opinion. I haven’t changed much as a result; in fact, I would now say that I have become more myself than ever before. To others, it would probably seem I have changed a great deal. I had no intentions or machinations of spiritual enlightenment. I knew almost nothing about it. I was deeply materialistic in my view of the universe and had a philosophical proposition that explained the general nature of things to a satisfactory degree.
I wasn’t in search of existential answers. I was in search of personal discovery. As it turns out, I was investigating the infinite successfully, albeit unintentionally. I was simply in a state of listening curiously to whatever it was that was presenting itself to me while moving courageously forward into the truth, the unknown, and my ignorance, especially about me. I’ll walk you through it later if you are interested. For now, I only want you to understand how I initially obtained this information going forward. I must be forthcoming. The foundational legs of everything I once knew were kicked out from under me, yet I didn’t fall.
I couldn’t make a proper thought for weeks following, and that respite from thinking was welcome and instructive. I didn’t need to think. I was present and alive within all things. I could hear myself speaking from others’ lips. I carried the collective experience of everyone inside me: the suffering and the love. As of today, it’s been almost a year. and I’m only now starting to be able to articulate my insight. It’s also difficult to decide how to articulate it. There are rules to this game that don’t like to be broken. And some, we don’t want broken. So, some things I can’t say as directly as I would like because they would become invisible or disruptive to you.
THE GAME
Reading this makes it almost certain that you are currently in the range of the more overt state of consciousness at this moment. So, on the overtly conscious level, the game is choice. The choice is HOW to move, in alignment or not. It’s a mistake to believe the choice is WHERE to move. The answer to that requires the move first, the wisdom second. It’s an adventure through ignorance. We cannot know with our brain where to move precisely; we cannot predict the outcome at any scale or depth, anyway. We can choose how to move forward and trust the outcome. We find that moving in alignment first requires an aim or intention. So, it’s not like we are moving randomly, and we also aren’t going to land where we aim. The alignment brings order within. Ultimately, as a unified whole, we aren’t moving at all, so what we are doing individually matters only in relation to the manner in which we act. On the surface, we learn lessons for the next move. But, in the unmoving depths, we describe who we are and what we are made of to our one self. We artfully create transcending meaning. That is the relationship between order & chaos or art & entropy.
As individuals and collective physical beings, we have the ability to judge and to think within a limited system. A limited system presents possibilities (chaos), so we wrestle with morality and ethics – (order). Obviously, when we are whole and aware, these things are non sequitur or non-starter – don’t exist. I don’t know that we have an explicit way to describe the experience of waking up without the illusion of fear, separation, or disorder. But try to imagine living in the consciousness of a single bacteria trying to survive on your tongue and suddenly waking up to realize you are your whole human body. You would look on your previous limited perspective as a bacterial body with a tremendously different value, significance, and deference. So, when you wake up into the collective or fundamental consciousness, it’s not that you discover your insignificance; rather, you discover you are the most significant thing there is.
The you that is you is still there; it was always there in all things. It was there when you were 6 years old, and hasn’t changed a bit. It was also in everything you thought was outside of you. You simply didn’t know how much of you there was, and in fact, there isn’t anything else. You’re it. But you are so much more than you previously thought possible or could begin to imagine. You thought you were trapped in a body but were simply mistaken.
Everything that can be experienced is favorable to the singular fundamental consciousness. Pleasure and suffering, birth and death, love and loneliness, heroism and villainy, happiness and sadness, hunger and fullness—all are favorable to us in our deepest, complete consciousness. However, we do have a preference to treat ourselves well (that is, our other incarnations as individuals and our extended self, which is all things) and go forward into the adventure of experience and relationships voluntarily with honor. To be truly honored to be with yourself is redemption and alignment. We are rooting for ourself but we made the game fair. The possibility of failure must be real for victory to exist.
When we are truly honored to be with ourself, we experience something like being in favor of the highest nature of our deepest self, sometimes called “animating spirit within,” which is everything as one body that appears in all things but seems separate because things seem separate. Of course, it is the one thing in the one thing. Only the illusion of separation makes it seem unlikely because having one thing inside of many things seems impossible or requires magic (breaking the rules of the game). The Old Greeks and Stoics handle this in the idea of the Logos and direct us to find the path by operating in the cosmos with Courage, Wisdom, Justice, and Temperance to be in favor or alignment with the spirit within all things.
The Christians adopted the Old Greek Stoic Protocol and also focused on sacrifice, love, and compassion being vital components. And it is clear why Jesus spoke the golden rule - “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Of course, that is obvious when we understand that other people are, in fact, also you at a deeper level. And he also said it as clearly as anyone can, “the kingdom of heaven is within.” Buddha explained that he is nothing and no one. This was also self-evident to him after awakening and discovering that his “identity self” was an illusion and that he was actually everyone all at once and also everything else. Even further back, Taoists called it ‘the Way’ and Hindus call it Brahman. Native North Americans refer to The Great Spirit. Science is searching to understand it and name it for themselves in our new language. The answer will always be the same. The reason we have the question is because we already know the answer at the deepest level. The question is, “Who am I?”
Interestingly a broad overview reveals a common or maybe archetypal thread to pull on: ‘kingdom of heaven’ probably meant something like ‘dimension of invisible spaciousness’ in more literal terms at the time - interpretation by Eckart Tolle, Buddha directed people to ‘emptiness’, Tao “The Way” is nameless, Brahman in the Upanishads is ‘essence’ that cannot be seen or heard, Native Americans agreed The Great Spirit is invisible but present, The Lakota name it Wakan Tanka which roughly translates to “Great Mystery”, The word ‘Spirit’ comes from Latin, Old Greek, and Hebrew all meaning something to do with invisible force that blows, breath, and breathe.
Why is this force always known, and why are we trying to please it? It’s almost as if we always know there is something missing to search for but can’t seem to find it even though we are aware that it is all around us. Humorously interesting to me now is that religiously devout people will tell you that they do not know where to find God, but they are always praying inside themselves. It seems to me that they know precisely where to find God. You see, it isn’t that we don’t know; it is that we aren’t allowed to see what we know. That’s the game. In different terms, we can’t think the truth; that would end the game, but it’s always there in our infinite awareness. That’s the rule of the game.
Moral and ethical considerations are not to be undervalued just because they don’t exist outside of the game of pretending we aren’t unified. They are the endeavor by which the singular fundamental consciousness (us as a whole) has an experience that teaches it the only thing it could ever learn: more about itself. It would be a mistake to devalue what we are doing here because it is an illusion. It is the single most important purpose of all that there is, and it relies on the limits that create the illusion to even be possible in the first place.
There is no free pass to get away with anything. What happens inside of us is happening inside of everything, and we always know the truth of ourselves at depth. Even when we refuse to investigate, embody, or speak that truth. I understand now the ancient concepts of being judged by our creator and the importance of knowing ‘him’ and asking for forgiveness. It is the most difficult and redemptive thing we can do in this life to tell ourselves the truth. And when we find out it’s our deepest true self that is the judge,…well, it is infinitely more significant, necessary, and redemptive, to be honest. There is nowhere to hide in this game. The most hilarious and obvious truth becomes, "All shall be revealed.”
After awakening, a deep sense of responsibility is unavoidable. One may think that finding out that, at depth, we unify and there is no ‘other’ to judge or punish is a free pass to act on any selfish shallow impulse or to act far out of alignment. Well, we have always had that freedom, but we have also always had the consequences. For one thing, it becomes obvious and apparent at depth that harming anyone is harming everyone, including self. And that experience is inevitable. A self-harming experience renders selfish harming of someone else impossible. You couldn’t cut off your own finger to please the other fingers. You could, however, cut off your own finger to save the others if it were infected. So, it is possible to harm others with honor and sacrifice. That distinction is very difficult to make, in our limited egoic ignorance. It would certainly be a decision that begs a seeking of alignment with the deepest of truth.
That freedom to be ignorant and make mistakes is what makes novel experiences and the whole game possible. Away from alignment is away from order; it’s chaos and entropy. The truth is your deepest self ultimately isn’t the egoic you based on limits, so the unified you operates and is experienced like a separate invisible other to an ego identified personality. The further away from alignment you get, the more separate your duality becomes. All that is fine and necessary. Redemption is always available. It’s never too late to do the right thing. However, the mistake of intentional trespass and dishonor is always prosecuted, and the consequences are immediate and accumulative. The path to redemption grows longer and more painful. The prison door is locked by willful blindness to the truth.
We did this on purpose for a purpose. The requisite to fulfilling this purpose is to be asleep to our whole and awake to our limited ‘self’. To be born. We are conscious and intelligent because we come out of consciousness and intelligence. This life is simultaneously a novel simulation and the realest thing in existence. It’s a game we chose to play. In this game, the rules are fair, and we can lose. We can also be victorious.
The fruit of knowledge is an anesthetic elixir that causes amnesia of our complete consciousness: it is being born into the physical. It adds rules that make this game possible and make novel possibilities manifest. If there are no rules, there are no possibilities. These “rules,” or “limits,” as I call them, aren’t best understood as constraints because they create near-infinite possibilities that are otherwise impossible and do not exist without them. They are generative limits.
The counter-materialist proposition here is that creation from the beginning isn’t done by building or assembling; it is done by limiting. We know this to be true. Building and assembling is an organizing of things that are already created as separate and different. This is art, not building. Art from entropy. All of life is art. Art is possible because things appear separate and different. That is only the case because there are rules based on 2 generative limit expressions—experience and relationship.
Nothing can be organized without parts. Nothing begins from nothing. Many things can begin with one thing. One thing can only appear as more than one thing by applying a perceptive limit. A perceptive limit is a description. Description technically delineates what something IS NOT rather than what it IS. A description is a drawing of a line around what is left, and the line only exists in us. It is a separating procedure. For that to be possible, there must be a relationship. A thing requires a background. An “is” requires an “is not”. Matter requires space. These are obvious, but go a bit deeper and notice a question requires an answer to be present… No one has ever asked a question without already possessing the answer. This is why discovering the truth feels like remembering, and the answer seems obvious after it is illuminated. Our deep consciousness has the answer as it is everything; the intelligence of the physical person in overt consciousness is searching to find and articulate it into a description that can be remembered and is shared as knowledge and wisdom via our brain. That requires an experience and a relationship with the question and the answer. This is the functioning of the union present. This is our purpose of purposes.
Knowledge starts with a question. The right question. This is of course, why we can answer our own questions when we get them right, and why a question can be right or wrong in the first place. We are never solving the universe; we are solving ourselves in limited form. The universe is made of only solutions, yet we see problems. The problems are ours at the thinking level. Artistic process. We are the variable that we are solving for. Self-discovery… Self-discovery sure gets interesting when you realize your description of self can’t fit inside the barrier of your skin, doesn’t it? The adventure of your egoic life out in the world is profound but a microcosm representation of the infinite journey available if you turn inward.
Has it ever seemed curious that there is no limit to what one can take responsibility for? Based on our culturally accepted assumptions, there certainly should be a limit. To be fair, most people are averse to taking responsibility by design, so maybe few ever notice. It is difficult. But it’s true that we can at any time take responsibility for not only ourselves but the whole thing, and nothing can stop us. That seems curious, doesn’t it? What about the past and the future? Is it possible to take responsibility for that as well? If we can, should we?
The single fundamental consciousness experiences everything as the present moment. It isn’t that the sequence of events is unorganized; it is simply more like an unfolding of what is. It is the most beautiful and greatest work of art. Creating itself for itself. I’ve seen it. It’s an organization of complications that creates further complications to be organized. It’s not that there is no time exactly; it is that all things fit within our infinite perception of the present moment when we are whole as the singular consciousness. At that level, we don’t experience time. The present moment is all there is, and there is truly only one present moment at our deepest level of conscious perception. Our perception is simply so big that it holds everything all at once. If one stares into the infinite deep enough, he will see that it’s a reflection, and the shallow self he knows best is the illusion. He is the looker and the reflection.
However, as limited individuals - microcosms, we get to experience the conscious perception of sequential tiny present moments in our biological selves that are perfectly synchronized with the rest of our physical we call physics that appear separate, known as the environment. That experience can be perfectly and reliably measured and is called - time. It gives us rhythm and meter, and we organize the expressions of the universe (ourself) artfully to that rhythm. Alignment is also a dance to music in step. I dance this dance, and it’s the greatest fun. Try it out.
PERSONALITY – INTRINSIC NATURE
Our meta-personality or macro-personality (neither suffice) represents the one personality that is found in everything because we are in everything. We are conscious because we come out of consciousness. All things are found within us. All things exist and are conscious because they are within us, and that is where the happening happens. And we are happening inside of everything. At the most fundamental level, everything is unified harmoniously. Out from there, it abstracts, and dissonance is possible.
The fundamental personality of the singular consciousness exists and abstracts with additional complexities & possibilities provided by game limits. In itself, it is simplistic but absolute. There are universal axiomatic pre-physical characteristics. Those qualities or characteristics are the true nature intrinsic in all things. This is true no matter how they manifest or apply in novel situations. Listing the characteristics of our unified intrinsic nature presents a problem because the nomenclature to describe personality traits has an insufficient or inaccurate decoding issue. We don’t have a denotation for them. In other words, it is impossible to use the words we already have that describe our egoic personalities to also describe the singular consciousness’s personality without dragging in connotations, assumptions, and other baggage.
To avoid that problem, I like to use old language like Greek Stoic terms as they made this accurate discovery thousands of years ago. They use the term Logos to describe the immanent intelligence or reason that orders the cosmos, making it a unified, living entity. In Sanskrit the term Satya is a similar idea of the ultimate truth or truth behind the illusion (Maya). In a metaphysical sense, Satya can denote the absolute truth or the unchanging reality behind the material world, often associated with the divine or the essence of existence. I combined the words Satya and Logos to create the term Satyalogos, naming this core philosophy or what I believe to be the Truth. Satya brings the idea of absolute (deepest) truth or reality, while "Logos" emphasizes the rational structure or articulate expression of that truth. Satyalogos could mean the "word of truth" or the "reasoned articulation of reality"—a concept where truth is both felt or intuited and is logically expressed or understood.
Logos was both the organizing principle of the universe and the divine essence within it, according to the old Greek Stoics. It was equated with nature and fate and sometimes God (Zeus at that time). They observed it as rational, purposeful, unified, virtuous, and cyclical. It was the animated spirit within everything. At that time, the traits were described as Rational, Purposeful, Unified, Virtuous, and Cyclical. Most of Greek philosophy was aimed at understanding the Cosmos (universe) by way of understanding its source. We are more interested in understanding the source itself as the means and end of this discussion, so I will risk saying that our unified self has a nature of being like a deep version of loving, adventurous, creative, redemptive, and humorous.
But those descriptions are a step or layer up from unified. And, out of these, even less fundamental traits can arise, especially as they interact with the generative limits and manifest physically or inspirationally, Like nurturing, relational, curious, aggressive, sacrificial, etc. I’m reluctant to say much more because I may fail at properly articulating what could be considered by some as an attempt to provide the definitive determination of good or virtue vs. evil or vice. For example, it's closer to the truth to describe the fundamental consciousness as being made of love instead of it as a personality trait, or love is the thing that most accurately represents our fundamental true nature. Further, it’s impossible to define love or describe any particular aspect of unity because it would then be disunited, a reduction or caricature. And I could do a similar thing with the other traits. It’s simply that at full depth, we don’t possess things like traits in the way we understand them in the physical; that possession is based in relationship and experience. Rather, they are our constitution or substance. It’s simply what we are.
The only definitive effable thing I can say in the physical about our fundamental ethos is that we chose to have relationship & experience above all other infinite possibilities. We choose from infinite possibilities that we cannot even imagine in our ignorant, limited physical state. That choice is our highest value.
It is obvious that we share in and experience these fundamental characteristics because we originate from them. We are not separate from them. This is our origin and, as a result, is our most potent form, powerful if you like. However, at the fundamental level, there is no power and no perception of it because there is no “other” and no relationship as such to impose upon. There are also no limits or consequences like fear or resentment that cause interesting complexities to our shallow, overt personalities. That all disappears at depth.
Change at the deepest level is the movement of something like intention, attention, decision, and will. Motion without resistance or fear. And there are no other options. It’s best communicated as ‘will’ instead of power because there is no resistance. As ‘will’ presents in the physical, it moves up a level in complexity away from the origin and to a more shallow depth of existential awareness. Resistance and overcoming both become possible. Now that we have united with substrate and become physical, there are other qualities and characteristics available in this game. They are true of nature with the limits applied but not of our original nature. That is a result of the union and the 2 limits.
So, the more alignment with source, the less resistance possible. That power is not a magic that breaks the rules; rather, it is the operative rule. The fact that resistance can be found, however, and can increase IS the magic trick of physical creation. It is a trick because it requires the sleight of hand to forget who we are. Complete overcoming of resistance isn’t an original aim. That eliminates novel possibilities, growth, overcoming, and becoming. That would be back to where we started. So, we keep ourselves at a slight disadvantage. Scientists call this pressure. Others would call it the battle for our soul.
As an individual physical self, the call to adventure is unavoidable; we must either seek it or run from it. Either choice becomes the adventure. That’s the dilemma of our situation, and it’s a required feature. Awakening is the exception to the rule that must exist because we are the subject and the object. We are the rule maker, so we can skirt the rule if we awaken to our deeper consciousness. In our ignorance, we call this enlightenment or freedom. Ironically, an attempt to awaken intentionally will nearly always turn into a great adventure anyway. Even more ironically, upon awakening, it is clear that we don’t want to escape the game, and we must go back to playing it. It is the precious, ethereal, hilariously fun thing we do.
The experience of struggling and overcoming novel adversarial conditions is in alignment with the deepest fundamental aspiration of the singular consciousness. So, when we voluntarily go forth into the fire, it cannot consume us, but if we run from it, we become vulnerable in a manner of speaking. We are here for the curious adventure into our ignorance, which turns out to be THE ignorance, the only ignorance. It only exists because we are creating it with novel action based on the imposed rules of the game. At the basic fundamental level, we are learning about ourself. While it seems like a battle against other external forces for our fragmented, shallow minds, it is all introspective to one perspective from any angle. We can think now, that’s a new and interesting way to understand ourself. Each person is part of one whole and is a sensitive, complex probe endowed with access to full responsibility and authority with a remarkable level of autonomy, very much in the image of our whole self. We don’t download consciousness, it is intrinsic. Rather, in a sense, we upload experience of relationship to our whole self, but the information doesn’t have to travel anywhere because we are it. Remember? Probably not… You will ; )
Why can’t we find consciousness if it is in everything, everywhere we look? To start with, we look for physical things and act surprised that a nonphysical or metaphysical thing isn’t in our view. That is silly. Further, we are conscious, and it is the only means by which we experience anything. So, we actually see only consciousness everywhere we look. To deny the only thing present because we believe it should appear separately is also silly. But that folly is in alignment, or one might say it is the will of God or the universe. That folly is the consequence of the limits and rules of this game that make it possible for us to discover and create meaning. And it leads us to more novel adventures. More experience, more relationships, more description and meaning.
THE EMPIRICAL & TRUTH
Truth hides from us, even knowing what or where it is. Currently, we have conflated facts with Truth, even among our greatest thinkers. Historically, we have conflated characters, images, rituals, and other symbols with the Truth itself. Although seemingly obvious, it is worth clarifying that words and other symbols have no intrinsic meaning; they are symbols that point to meaning in an attempt to get closer to The Truth. The symbols are not the meaning, nor do they hold the meaning. Facts hold absolutely no truth or meaning, but they can, in fact, point to the Truth in exactly the same way that stories made of words and other symbols do, but not more so. The same as feelings or senses have no intrinsic meaning. There is only assigned meaning and whether on not it is true or in alignment.
I will grant the scientific method as a very rigid, reductive, reliable, and useful method to describe, frame, and assign meaning to facts. It is one of the best ways we have invented to subvert the mechanism that hides the truth from us, mostly because it allows us to hang on to what we have learned, share it, and protect it from the mechanism. But it’s only good enough to catch glimpses of truth because compels the belief that The Truth is outside of us. For industry and technology, there is no better method to participate in the physical. However, it’s still a method that describes and assigns meaning to facts, which only reflects the power of the practitioner or stewards of the truth and not the facts themselves. Further, science also uses the same assumptions to start from, as non-science does, to seek the truth. Also, science relies on symbols to articulate and record facts. So, most of science is interpreting symbols to understand articulated facts that allow interpretations based on assumptions it can’t prove according to its own standards. The truth isn’t in the facts or symbols, but they can point to it. Then where are they pointing?
Siddhartha Gautama, who became a Buddha (an ‘enlightened or awakened one’), expressed this distinction by saying, “I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t look at me; look at the moon.” Buddhists often use this wise device as a compass for remembering where the truth is by saying, “The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.” The moon isn’t in the finger; it’s the moon. Just like Truth isn’t in the words or symbols, It's in the person who can think about the words and have a conscious experience in relationship to them simultaneously. Consciousness and thinking are not the same thing. Thinking is a part and function of consciousness. It’s better to conceptualize them as two different things united for one purpose. Singular Fundamental Consciousness is the truth, and thinking adds a unique and useful experience of it. Only in the human body can we think about the Truth, which is ultimately thinking about ourself at the deepest level. The deepest self we are thinking about isn’t confined to this body.
We have the ability to think incorrectly or out of alignment with the Truth. So, we possess the only landscape by which there is an antithetical adversary to the Truth, and thus, we have a revealing relationship with it. The interaction of conscious experience and thinking creates a reactionary test that yields clarity of what is self-evident. Yet the Truth can only be found where it has always been. It is the only thing that there has always been. When you find it, it’s not learning; it is realizing what it is, and it feels like remembering. We learn knowledge (facts & symbols) but awaken to truth. Discovering the truth isn’t gaining something as if it were lost or never possessed; it is a process of revealing. This process requires interacting with both thinking and conscious experience of awareness. We already know the truth; it is what we are made of. Our ability to emphatically articulate, align with, or embody the truth is the endeavor of knowledge and behavior. The personal ethos we aim at is the experience we live. That experience of the path and its consequences is the concept of Karma. What it is like depends on our level of alignment and what judgments we make of the consequences.
Every human consideration is an attempt to answer the same fundamental question,
“Who am I?”
I urge you to ask the question directly and listen for the answer.
Novel observations:
We have no private thoughts; everything we think is happening inside of everything else that is perceptive, and it interacts with everything that is non-perceptive that we may call matter. We are interacting with matter, and it interacts with us. Ultimately, it is also us. The same is true of space if one considers it separate from matter. At the bottom depth, it all exists as one thing and can be experienced as such in a singular manner. Everything unifies at depth, including that feeling you feel as your deepest essence inside. Yep, that’s the only one there is; thanks for sharing, and you're welcome! Fully understanding that unity requires fully experiencing it. And when you do, and you will, it is an infinitely vast remembrance. It’s not a learning. Maybe it will happen while this body lives, maybe it won’t. There is no point in trying to awaken; the point is to play the game well. You have eternity to be awakened; you only have a moment in this expression. Make the most of every moment, and be the most “you” that you can be. That is what you would tell yourself; that is what you are telling yourself if you listen deep and far enough. That is what you would have to do to awaken ironically.