Heroes Not Zombies

We have a way of looking at the world as if it’s made up of lots of separate parts which are moving.

The invention of movie film led us to believe that reality is made up of separate moments, each one in its own frame, and if we run the frames past our eyes fast enough we see motion.

We’ve looked deeper and deeper into matter thinking that at the bottom of everything are static, indivisible atoms. But now we know it’s not like that. We’ve looked inside the atoms and found…..it’s all flow, not parts.

Every part we see, every moment we encounter, every atom we discover only emerges to us as it, and we, flow on.

Flow comes first, parts come second. Parts are the shimmering sparkles in the flow.

I think that’s pretty easy to notice once you take it on board. Our right hemisphere is great at noticing the flow, our left sees parts.