CHAPTER 4 THE QUESTION OF ALL QUESTIONS / THE HIGHEST RELATIVETY OF ALL

Now, after reading chapters 1-3, I want to invite you to the following thought experiment: What if we human beings are atoms for example. Mother Earth is a cell. The universe is an organ. And that organ belongs to another higher living being? Just watch the video from Simpsons and you know what I mean. Can we 100% be sure that this scenario is impossible?Stop being afraid and accept this idea, even though it might sound scary.

Well and what if that higher being in reality is again another atom? Space and time as we know would lose all its meanings. In fact, many things would lose their meaning, would we still behave as we currently behave? Here is an ethical game for the most advanced (and totally crazy J) thinkers: What if that higher being we lived in (this higher being is not god), is not a good or decent “person”, but a mean living being in its own world, for example someone we’d consider to be a serial killer or a cruel dictator that we’d lock up behind bars? What if by continuing to supply the universe with our human energy we contribute to the good living of this serial killer? Shouldn’t we stop doing that? One might argue that the instinct for self preservation is stronger than anything else. In any case, we simply can’t know if we are a cell of a good or bad higher being. 

We might think we are fair by doing the best we can in this world, but in reality we make it worse because we help the serial killer to live. This would mean that we’d be doing well if we continue to destroy planet earth and ourselves because by that we knock out the serial killer that lives by our energy. That is why in universal terms, in the truest sense of the word, all could be relative.

Let me have a final word. Even after all relativity, I believe in the goodness of god and in all his creatures. Everything has a meaning. Good and evil. Without darkness there can’t be light. Therefore, I believe we as human beings have to fight for peace, wealth and bliss for really everybody on earth.

Final Chapter.

CHAPTER 3 TIME TO LIVE AND TIME TO DIE / TIME RELATIVITY

Please don't rush things too much and enjoy life on earth. If such a thing like time exists at all, then only in human terms. 

Ok, fine we are human, but we should be aware of reality. =)

The time paradigm: Some cells reproduce in our body ad infinitum, or at least until we reach a certain age when they lose that ability. That’s the moment we die. But first let’s analyze why we keep on living until that moment comes. Some of our cells multiply before they die, therefore give life to new cells. We human beings do the same when having babies. We die, our babies live, have their own children, then they die, too, our grandchildren have children and so on. The same is true for planets, solar systems and galaxies. Here is the thing: we human beings live longer than a cell. Earth lives longer than us. The galaxies live longer than planets and the universe longer than galaxies. What we experience as a lifetime, namely around 80 years, doesn’t apply for a planet. What we perceive as a certain time therefore, whether it is short or long is only relative. Maybe a cell lives only a month, but its relative perception of this month could be the equivalent of 80 years for the human being. The perception of 12 dog years could be the same like billions of universe years. Maybe the concept of time doesn’t even exist. In science language, everything is made of matter. Matter never goes lost, it just transforms. So why should there be time to measure something that never ceases to exist and is relative? If you add a bit spirituality into this science, then you could say that we return home to god almighty, our souls become one with the great spirit and our bodies with the endless energy source when the matter of our bodies transform.

CHAPTER 2 THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Please allow me to draw a very negative image of our world's state this time. For sure, it's not as bad as I will point it out, or is it? Anyway, even talking negatively can be an act of love. Like a mother sometimes yells at her child with a threatening voice to stop it from doing something which will save its life. However, that mother will suffer with all her heart, when she sees her child cry because of her firm discipline. But sometimes love requires such acts. I love our earth, therefore I yell.

 As always, I can’t resist, but to point out how irresponsible we human beings currently behave to mother earth and of course to each other following the logic conclusions from chapter 1. Through endless power and profit-mania, through senseless greed and egoism, we have treated mother earth really badly in the past century (and each other as long as the human being has probably existed). Our Earth behaves like any other living being. It transforms its face and grows naturally through the elements of fire, wind, water and earth. It reproduces itself like the cells in our human body so it can grow or survive. Planet earth can get sick like any other organism and needs treatment, too. It can have the galaxy-flu and in turn take in a small tsunami for its cure. But what happens when our earth gets sick really really bad? When it gets cancer because of the way we human beings treat it? What if we were healthy cells in the beginning and have now transformed into cancer cells? So I feel empathy then, if Earth has to get more intense and frequent treatments through stronger hurricanes, stronger earthquakes, stronger tsunamis and stronger eruptions. Also, it will happen more often. It’ll have to fight back and kill the disease. It’s a live or die game for our earth. Unfortunate for us, we will die along with it as we are the cells within that body. Well, let’s face it, we are the disease.

Once a body dies so will everything else contained in it. Now, let’s look at the current news and historic statistics what’s going on all around our planet. To be honest, I see cancer, but I’m not sure in which stadium mother earth currently finds herself. I hope, it’s not terminal yet and a cure will be found. In my opinion, there are 2 options: either earth takes strong antibiotics and erases the human race from its body. Or the cancer cells transform back into healthy cells by getting rid of its very own diseases: Greed and egoism. I hope for the 2^nd option. But that would mean that we’d have to find the roots of the disease, and get rid of them who corrupt other cells. We’d have to start with the greedy dictators of the world who act in public but also those who act behind the curtains.

But more importantly, we’d have to change the supercapitalistic system that we currently live in and transform it into a healthy social democratic system. Let’s be honest, we still have nuclear energy, because it is cheaper (and industry dictators make us think we need them and block alternative inventions). We still use cars with gas, because they are faster (and industry dictators make us think we need them and block alternative inventions). We still build more and more concrete commercial shopping centers because we need to consume more in order to distract our minds of our misery (and industry dictators make us think we need it, use media to stimulate that thought and therefore block human creativeness and connection with each other, with spirituality, with philosophy, with politics with love, with education, with everything of real value etc.). When have we started living in a world, when all that matters is how much money you have or earn and that based on that money (which is by the way the creation of the human being) we make decisions that we think are efficient, but in reality are catastrophic for our earth and for all human beings.

CHAPTER 1 SPACE AND CLOSED SYSTEMS

What you are now going to read might shock you, you might reject it and think I need to see the doctors waiting for me with a white jacket in their hands, or you might seriously consider this “tough-to-digest” idea that I’m going to present you with.  Also, please forgive me if I’m making many scientific mistakes or leave out important details, but the logic is what matters anyway. In this chapter, I will tell you why I believe that the universe might be as small as an atom and we, the human being, as big as an universe. Or why there are several universes, not only ours. Let your fantasy flow and you will discover many new worlds for yourself. :)

For basic introduction, let’s take a moment and reflect upon organisms and related to that closed systems. Isn’t almost everything really a closed system in itself? And is this closed system not connected to another system as well in one way or the other? One system might be contained in another system, for example like our earth in our solar system, or exist in-/dependently next to each it other, for example like a human being and a plant. 

So which other closed systems are there? The smallest system I currently know of is the atom. Inside the atom there are so called protons and neutrons, but the names don't really matter. The next higher level is maybe a cell with a cell nucleus, membrane that serves as a wall and so on. Next comes f. e. an organ of the human being, which is made up of many cells along with other things. That organ could be the human skin, but it could also be the leaves of a tree. Then we have the human being and then planet earth following our solar system, the milky way and finally universe as we know it. Well, isn’t maybe everything somehow interconnected and needs the lower level in order to survive? Maybe even the higher level? Like we human beings need the earth in order to survive, or the earth needs the sun or the universe. Now, let’s think of everything as a living thing and give it a brief hierarchical order (probably making many scientific mistakes even though I was good in biology): The atom nucleus, the atom, the cell, the organ, the human being, planet earth, the solar system, the milky way and the universe. Well, here is easy math: There are so many different atoms, different cells, different organs, different human beings/animals/plants (flora and fauna), different planets, different solar systems and different galaxies. These are facts that we human beings are sure of, at least with the latest state-of-the-art technology, but let’s not forget the limitations of the human being. 

Why the hell shouldn’t there also co-exist many different universes? Furthermore, why shouldn’t our universe be contained in something bigger which we can’t imagine (for now)? Why should that “something bigger” not be contained in something still much bigger than that? Does the cell know that it is contained in the human body? Does it know of its special function inside of the human body? Does it see the human body? Can it see beyond its walls, our human skin? Like Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan when they tried to ship around the world, they were still not sure if they were going to fall down once they crossed the earthly borders. But in reality they surrounded earth and well they didn’t fall unless they were too drunk and sailed against some cliffs. Later in history, we invented space ships and suddenly could cross our planet’s magical border. We found out that there is a solar system, the milky way and the universe. Before, we were so ignorant to believe that our earth is the center and the sun and other planets are revolving around us. If you thought otherwise only a few centuries ago, well, welcome inquisition. We were all called witches, magicians or crazy philosophers, and we all got killed. As always, we human beings love to put us in the center of everything, we want to be the kings of the universe, our egoism and our greed can’t accept the fact that we are dependant and that we are relatively weak. 

Well, just because we don’t have the technology for now to get out of our universe or even see that there is something beyond that, it would be egoistic, arrogant and narrow-minded of us again to make the same mistake like in medieval times and believe that there really isn’t something bigger than the universe. A living cell can also wander in our body but can it flee the body by itself? Can it see that there is a whole other world out there? So, almost with certainty we can say that there is something bigger, or at least a scientist would say that we aren’t able to prove the opposite. But what about smaller things? When it can go up in size, then it could also go down in size, couldn’t it? So is the atom the smallest closed system there is or does the nucleus within that atom contain many more sytems, i.e. is an entire universe for itself? Just because our technology, f.e. microscopes and dissociative methods are not that developed, why should there not be something smaller than the nucleus as well? In fact, why shouldn’t there be millions of smaller systems inside the nucleus and millions of bigger systems beyond the universe as well? When the human cell gets out off mother human’s universe and hasn’t invented its own space shuttle yet, it will die like we human beings would do out there in universe without our own space uniforms. Let’s not get confused by our human ignorance and parochialism and think that there is only our universe and that we are the only living beings with a reasonable mind out there. It’s all relative. Everything is a living being by its own definition, even the universe lives. It is proven that the universe is expanding, it is “growing” like we human beings do, too. 

But maybe there is an end to all. Maybe after a millions of closed systems in closed systems there is an end to this ad infinitum absurdum. Maybe that end is god. But you could also give it another name. That is for you to decide.

The whole world's secret

If you are still looking for bliss, for love, for success, for power or any other desirable wonder, then let me tell you that you will keep looking forever and not find it... Once in a while you might think you've made the big hit only to face deception and delusion following a little later. You will find out that it has never been there or that you've lost it for reasons that you can't really explain or understand.

You won't find it unless you understand that the secret lies within you, not outside somewhere in the vast universum of shining objects or in tricks of a fake magician that really doesn't exist. True magic without any kind of illusion stands right there in your heart. If you face yourself, you will see your fears and start battling them. Suddenly love will be there, no matter where you are, what you do or even who you are. Love for yourself.

We all have important tasks to fulfill in our lives, we may dedicate us to do good work to bring forward the human race in its evolution, but the most honourable task is to bring light in yourself (by) enjoying life on earth. Most of the time it's the simple things that make life great and the heart happy. You don't have to be financially rich or look like a fashion model.

In order to rescue yourself, all you have to do is turn on the spiritual light, use your heart and see the beauty around and especially within you. Believe it, by rescueing yourself, you will also rescue the whole world.

"Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled." (Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad)

Every philosophical mind needs a break. Even having fun is philosophy!!!

Tell tales of song and wine,
seek not secrets of the world,
None has found and no-one will,
knowledge leaves this riddle whole.

Von Wein und Musikanten singe! 
Der Welt Geheimnis lasse ruhn! 
Dies Rätsel löste nicht, 
noch löst es ein philosophischer Verstand.

~ Hafez / Ghazal Nr.3

Great people: Buddha

Here are some wonderful quotes I have found by Buddha:

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? 

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.  

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. 

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. 

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. 

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. 

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.  

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.  

Out-of-body experience

What creates egoism, what truly seperates us from other human beings, the entire universe, nature, from love, from god and even from ourselves is the idea of being someone. But it is not just the sentence "I AM." that takes us a million miles away from love. I believe that "I AM." is correct, but a fundamental piece of the puzzle is missing. "I AM YOU." "I AM WE". "I AM PART OF THE UNIVERSE". "I AM PART OF GOD". When you only say "I AM", then you have already seperated yourself. I believe that all war, egoism, discrimination, any kind of violence or greed will stop once you put in that little big extension. And you'll feel the bliss, the energy. The moment when nothing else matters anymore but the eternal peace surrounding you.

This TED Talk brought me to tears of joy. Enjoy.