Being Connected To Everything

Heidegger says we are thrown into the world. Our being is a becoming of something from the get go. We exist yet all other things exist too. How much of our existence is actually our existence, how much of our existence is shared with others and how much of our existence is not ours or others but something else, something we cannot comprehend?

We are thrown into the world but we are also cradled by it and we are also part of it. We are interconnected yet also separate. The separate part is what some people believe is our soul. Others do not see a soul but a concentration of unique experiences that have been a part of the world ad infinitum, called karma or cause and effect. Some posit nothing because our mind cannot grasp the whole existence thing. A primary mover seems stupid and any other explanation seems implausible as well. You can take the big bang theory only so far until you continue not to grasp how or why we exist.

Some Buddhists say we all come from emptiness. However, for us to attempt to understand emptiness is to also posit somethingness. There is no way our brains can understand what the initial event was. Everything that follows after this event is what we attempt to explain, where all philosophy is derived.

The initial thrust that thrusts us into existence is something we can never understand. It’s a conundrum. One we cannot answer without faith. Why are we here? Why do we exist? Who or how were we created? Who is quite presumptuous. We cannot ever figure this out.

The website is about what we do with the conundrum. The spark that is created between us and the other being or thing. How we use that spark to connect to the other, how the other’s connection with us leads to them connecting with us, how other connections are formed creating a whirlwind or blaze of activity between us and them, the inevitable dissolution of this connection, the remains or embers afterward, and the inevitable death or total dissolution of the connection, the ashes.

Throughout the last 40 years, reflecting on interconnectedness has saved me from myself. It started when my ideas of the world began to collapse. I could not understand how the core of our being is also the core of everything else and how by me hurting other things I’m hurting myself. Once I learned this, empathy grew, my love of other people and other things grew, my understanding of how we are connected to all people. How we are all people and all things. How we others, darkness and lightness.

Because of my conversion to interconnectedness at a very early age, I became a modern day priest. I’m currently retired as a psychologist. I have reached the age where I want to finish the things I left behind. I want to leave behind something for my daughter. I thought about the granules of wisdom my father left me, what his parents must have left him, what my mom‘s parents must’ve left her, and how I want to leave ideas that will help my daughter throughout her life. I’ve shared many of these ideas with her, and I’m sure like every one of us she has ideas of herself that helped more than any of mine, but by having mine, she can add to them and change them to help her through this world. I also hope that these ideas help you through this world and I appreciate every idea that the world has given my family, has given me, and will continue to be there for us to make it in this world. I just hope one of these days the ideas really are for all of us not just for this select few.

I will edit these ideas for the remainder of my life to further clarify and add more life into them. I hope they bring you as much connection to this world and to others as it has for me. As do many of you, we want to leave this world in a better place, and for the most part, probably feel quite disappointed with how things are going in the world. I think we all want to have more of a say on how this world is and the world that is today is more of a world for the billionaires than for humanity has a whole.