Noticing Things

I've been starting to see things differently these days. First I want to make several observations that I hope will stir up some good conversation:
1) Everything is connected.
2) Very few people see how everything is connected
3) There still remains an unconscious feeling that everything is connected (Re: Jung)
4) Because everyone knows that everything is connected, and because they fail to see that connection, people do as much as they can to create separateness in a world where in the end they are really small and insignificant.
5) When a person can realize that all their attempts at separateness and egotism will fail, they can start to see how everything is connected, and they will then be able to understand that they are not small or insignificant because they are connected to everything.

What does this all mean? Well, of course I don't know. I can only attempt to understand.

Everything is connected: At one time we all came from some infinite origin, something that we really cannot understand because before it there may have been nothing. Thinking about this is troublesome, first there is nothing, then there is something. Regardless of what we call this great creation we can derrive two points from it: one that whatever was before is beyond our comprehension, ie: we will likely never know; two that at one point we were all part of the source of everything. As I've heard many smart people say "we are all made of starstuff." So if everything was once connected the only way we could say that things are now disconnected would be to say that the process of original creation is over. Of course, it is not. Everything that is happening now is an echo of the origin. It's possible that this entire ball of wax is just getting warmed up. On an infinite time line anything is possible. Just because the world makes sense for the most part, doesn't mean it always will. So I would have to say that everything is connected because of these points.

Very people can see how everything is connected. It's good enough to understand what I just said, but it's very hard to see. We go through our daily lives on our cellphones, text messaging, talking, breathing, eating, and the whole time we don't stop to think that everything has a history that brought it to the point in time we are currently in. Even points of data have a history, an origin, and a future. It's not because this is impossible to see, but it is because there is so much in existence that has absolutely nothing to do with us that we are still a part of. It creates a very interesting paradox, how can something have absolutely nothing to do with me yet I am still part of it? When two people in Russia have a conversation about the recent snowfall it has nothing to do with me, at least in their minds they aren't thinking about me when they have this conversation. And that is the important part, we are not consciously aware of everything so we think that we can't be connected to everything. Of course, we are.

Just a timeout here: I know people write entire books about any one of these topics, but I am ranting here so bear with me.

The collective unconscious. I'm just going to explain this on my own terms. Every once and a while we are hit with a moment of serendipity that takes us by no surprise at all. Maybe you run into that person you were thinking of all day, maybe you just do perfect on a videogame you are playing. The point is, on some level we take these things for granted. What are the chances of running into that person? Who can really tell. In the grand scheme of things, over the millions of years of the past, the chances are an infinity to none. let me try and explain, since our atoms came from the same origin, the chances of them bumping into each other again given an infinite amount of time and (possibly) and infinite amount of space, the chances of that same bunch of atoms bumping into each other again is zero. Yet it happens all the time, and does not surprise us. If you are following what I am saying, then you should understand that we should be thankful for each other, and quite honestly thankful and spellbound by every second we have. But we're not, because to be spellbound by our own existence would not be very productive.

People create a separateness. Of course we do, if we didn't would there be any individuality available? This may be the one thing that separates us from the animals: we seek an individuality, where they frankly have no concept (except in some cases in the great apes) of an individuality. Our individuality then becomes a self-feeding fire that could very well be our undoing. I may talk about this more later. To my last point...

Failure: Total separateness would mean death. You can't remove yourself from this world, yet people are always trying to be individuals and let their egos take control. Of course we do. Being an individual is great. But you gotta know when to draw the line. I may talk about this more later too. For now, I have to get to class. Let me know what you all think.