Let’s talk about the Universal mind.
I just finished reading Jack Kerouac’s novel Tristessa.
The title resembles the Spanish word “Tristeza” (sadness).
In the novel, Kerouac explores big concepts: the meaning of life, love, and our relationship with pain and pleasure.
Jack is greatly influenced by his friend Alan Watts and his own Catholic thinking in the novel.
At one point in the novel, he writes the following,
“What do you do with the stolen children you stole from your mind to forge an idea, because you were bored or because you WANTED to?you shouldn’t have done it, or Lord, O Awakening, you shouldn’t have played the game of suffering and dying with the children of your mind.”
And it blew my mind.
What if
As I read the sentence, Jack, I wondered, what if we were thoughts of the universe? What if the universe is a mind that thinks us, and we don’t realize it?
Wouldn’t it be the same as in dreams?
In dreams, we are inside our minds, and often, we don’t realize we are dreaming until we wake up.
If we have that clear and apply the law of correspondence of the Kybalion “As above so below, and as within so without,” we can conclude that the same as we dream ourselves, becoming characters in our dreams (below), the same at the macro level may be doing the universe (above) with our lives.
If the theory were true, we would be children of other previous thoughts.
This would make sense if we look at reality: no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness; it must always be translated from a higher level.
That’s why complexity is increasing, which is evident if you think we have gone from living in caves to living in big cities full of comforts, thanks to progress (increasing complexity).
Maybe we are thoughts trying to explain the reason for existence.
If the theory were true, the universe would be intentional.
The universe would, therefore, not have a neutral morality; it would have intention.
We call it destiny; we call it Karma. The fact is that there is a mechanism that facilitates certain things and irremediably distances us from others.
Those things that the universe brings us closer to are our purpose.
And for that reason, we feel attracted irremediably to those things. And when we achieve what we were created for, we feel fulfilled.
Think about it
Thoughts have a purpose, and therefore, if this theory were authentic, and we stopped resisting and accepted the universe/mind as creator and served it as coherent thought that fulfilled its function or purpose, everything would be better for us.
If that’s true, when we surrender to the universe and do its will, the puzzle pieces of our existence will begin to fit.
We will feel fulfilled because the universe’s mind could use us with the exact purpose for which we were created, which would surely make us feel fulfilled and consequently happy.
Takeaway
“What is life, a fiction.” Calderon de la Barca wondered in the 17th century. And it isn’t comforting to think about it.
What is truth?
That which remains.
But there is no permanent human being; we are ephemeral. Therefore, we are not “the truth.” And what is not truth can only be one thing: fiction.
But if we are fiction, why does it hurt us so much to live?
Perhaps the answer is that emotions maintain the illusion that there is more than one universal consciousness.
Imagine that one day, you wake up and discover that you are the universe and that only you exist. And you will be eternally alone. Wouldn’t you want to sleep and dream of us all?
A virtual hug
AG
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