Who or what are we? Is individuality an illusion? How can there be opposites?

Question

We are what we eat; we are what our mothers ate. We are made of earth. We are made of sunlight. Our bodies are mostly water; this water has been recycled over and over again. So it can be said that we are composed of dinosaur blood. Our veins course with caveman urine. We are everything and everything is us. The materials we are composed of are just borrowed for a time from those who came before us. The components of your body will eventually find themselves in the hair of a future woman, perhaps your decaying body will provide the sustenance for a tomato plant the tomatoes of which will find themselves on your great great great great……………………………great grandson’s sandwich.

We are all one it would seem. How can anything be itself when it can be anything else? How can a man be a man when his body can break down and become female? How can there be opposites when the opposites are made of the same materials?

Answer 1

We are just borrowing the materials needed to create a vessel suitable for storing our life energy. Our Life experiences are what shapes us, and they are varied to the point that no 2 people can be exactly the same.

Answer 2

Opposites are a matter of perception, and exist only within a given context. On a larger scale or when viewed using different criteria, the opposite-ness disappears.

As far as the question of individuality...
Even if there is a limited amount of physical "stuff" out of which all things are made, and which recycles itself infinitely, there is a uniqueness in each person's perception of the world. That perception, that experience of the world, is what is individual.

Of course, you could argue that all experiences are part of a collective consciousness, so even our perception is part of something greater, and therefore we're not individual. However, our individuality would still be defined by the unique time in which we live, the unique experience we have, and the unique perspective we offer to the "universal mind."

Answer 3

These kind of questions should be done in the esoterist group where people have been listening about the consciousness and they are familiar with this.

Anyway, I like the way you think. It is very profound and certainly our body is not the only body we possess, we possess an astral body, an eteric body, a mental body. Those are so smooth bodies that we can't see.

I am sure that our body are not us. It is like somebody put us here in this material body, it is our vehicle to move everywhere in third dimension but anyway we can work out ourselves and try to take care of the inner man as we care of our material bodies and you are not crazy as others says but take care how you make these questions and to whom.

Answer 4

HOW DOTH THE FROTH?




Are you foam, or core of wave?
Serpent's tooth, or lock of knave?
When were you last fishe's fin
Part of happy otter's grin?

Are you, all of you, everywhere
Sliding down old Darwin's stair?
When were you last corral chain
Moose's head in Maine?

Do you truly know each bit
Of matter making up your wit?
Are not atoms of stellar source
Formed in novae and set on course
Shared in aeons many times
By quetzal birds, critics of rhymes?
Does not the copper in the Earth
Maintain its worth
As part of noble steed
Or the book you read?
What happens after use
Does it return to moose?

Oh blow thee high, oh solar wind
Go find a place where none have sinned
For they may not reject your ions
Jealous like a pride of lions.

Answer 5

I view personality and all things like a strand of DNA. Every generation the same structure is used, yet things deviate from the norm a little bit to give it some uniqueness but still has a lot of similarity with all others.

Answer 6

Hi, I wish everyone knew this.
Then, there'd be no power struggles, no crappish stuff in this world. We'd just be nature buddies and cultivate spirituality and love.

Individuality here on earth is not an illusion because we are seperate. But, we really all are one. Physically, it matters none. In spirit, there's a universal consciousness

Answer 7

We are all of one conciseness experiencing its self subjectively. This will become more obvious as brain neuron mapping and triggering technologies advance. Likes to think of consciousness as a natural phenomenon similar to fire. Only difference between fires are the fuels it burns, only difference between consciousnesses are the bodies it inhabits.

Answer 8

Just as it would seem improbable that moisture can fall as a single drop of rain that crystalizes into a snowflake like no other, so is the miracle that each being represents.

Answer 9

Opposites... mind... self... they are all illusions.

Just because we have a special knack for constructing and manipulating abstract concepts does not mean they actually have value or existence beyond ourselves.

Answer 10

Me-thinks thou hast been contemplating thine navel too much...
Might I suggest a new hobby?