The One In All

In a mysterious castle with an infinite number of rooms, one of the Ones entered a room that had a big sign reading “The One In All”. There was a mellow and chill-vibed old lady inside. The Sarcastic One saw the room, went inside and said:

“So ‘The One in All’, huh? Great, original name you’ve got there. Really deep stuff.”

The one inside introduced herself as The Appeased One and responded:

“The One in All is not the religious concept of the alleged spirit of God or anything like that; it’s just that observer who lives inside each and everyone of those incredible bio-engineering masterpieces we vaguely refer to as ‘human beings’.

There’s an observer that refers to itself as ‘I’ living inside us all, and this observer interprets its surroundings in its own unique way, a singularity that occurs every time a new human is born.

Many people already know by now that our interpretation of the world is based on all our life experiences, on the way we assimilated them at the time we lived them , and on the combination of all these experiences. Experiences are meshed together into larger knowledge blocks that are intertwined via trillions of neural connections in the brain. Nevertheless, none of us knows what consciousness really is.

The Sarcastic One started to get bored with all this philosophical crap and left the room. The Maskless One happened to hear a bit of what the The Appeased One was saying. He came into the room and kept listening to her talk. The Appeased One greeted him welcome and continued:

“The way we’ve mixed our past observations now determines the way we perceive ourselves and others; in turn, this greatly influences our so-called ‘unique’ personality. I say so-called ‘unique’ because I honestly think each one of us has multiple unique personalities; I believe that multiple personalities only become a (potential) disorder when one or more of these personalities become disharmonized and alienated from their macro body system.

Many of us seem to forget that everything we call tangible, including our bodies (and therefore our brains), came from something that was once compressed ‘to the size of a pea’; that we all come from something that was once ‘one’.”

“Many people who have measured this idea with numbers, the fanatic Skeptical Ones, believe that this ‘pea’ exploded by mere chance, and somehow formed what is now the known universe. On the other hand, the fanatic Religious Ones have it that the universe was magically created by an omnipotent force-person who had human emotions, and contained everything inside himself (I say ‘himself’, as most anthropomorphizing fanatics seem to think this force-person is a male).

I honestly think that both versions are observationally limited… and a bit silly. What makes sense to me would be somewhere in the middle of both versions, right at the very center where they would neutralize each other and become both and none at the same time — right where you can see the point: this entire thing we call ‘reality’ came from a whole, from something that was once ‘one’.”

“Strange? Well, even stranger than that, this self-contained wholeness managed to expand itself and eventually generate millions of lifeforms, lifeforms which then gained the ability to perceive their environment and make a world of ideas and concepts of it.

Each and every one of these lifeforms has its unique way of perceiving each other and everything around them. It really amazes me how something could always manage to be unique time and time again. This one-thing, which I can best understand as ‘nature’, seems to do this all the time.”

“The problem with this is that I’ve seen that humans are often scared to share their unique way of seeing the world and embracing it as something that no one else on the planet can express in that exact same way (I’m really trying to avoid sounding soft and pulpy here, but it seems to be that self-worth is inherent to the subject at hand).

Human beings seem to be meant to represent a very unique observer of this strange mental place-thing we call reality. They also seem to forget that we’re all part of a greater whole.”

The Maskless One just sat there, thinking about what the old lady had just said. The woman punctuated:

“So yes, The One In All. In this room you can explore a human mind representing that unique One in each of us. Take a look around, there are interesting and weird text-paintings on the walls.”

Originally published at thethoughtcloudblog.wordpress.com on April 7, 2016.