Heroes Not Zombies

There is nothing separate in this universe. All that exists comes into being temporarily through the creation of connections, shared events, experiences and links.

Wordsworth expressed it this way ….

…exist by mighty combinations, bound
together by a link, and with a soul
which makes all one. 

Once the number of connections increases above a certain level, we reach systems, networks and organisms which can only be described as “complex”.

Complex systems develop certain characteristics, not least certain capacities. They become adaptive, self repairing, functional wholes.

Each “whole” that we perceive is embedded in even greater wholes….what Arthur Koestler called “holons”, all nested into each other. The more complex the system the more likely we are to be able to discern its “essence”, its consciousness, even its “soul”. But some argue, convincingly in my opinion, that consciousness and/or soul exist, to some degree, in everything.

Indeed, maybe everything we call an object or an entity, is only the temporary manifestation of Consciousness, of the World Soul, the Divine.