What Humans Must Forget - To `Know’ Their Human Reality
The reality we observe has the overwhelming characteristic of `being real’. Every component part we observe, every `thing’, has the same attribute that seems to shout at us - `this is real’, solid, and you are part of `it’. It is also somewhat apparent that we literally learn to discern `what is real’ and `what is not’ as we mature from being infants.
Indeed, the oft made claim that children somehow see a larger reality, `such as make-believe friends’, would perhaps tend to support such a notion. Perhaps. And, while part of this post may delve into this aspect more - it’s not the original purpose today.
The original mind-idea that I sat down to write-up is one that I have touched upon before; and, that is, THE AMAZING AMOUNT OF MOTION are bodies are experiencing EVERY MOMENT of our existence. In other words, `we’ as humans - must be completely impervious to the motion, literally OUR body motion - as we can’t even see, feel, or sense our given motion in any manner (because EVERYTHING we `see’ is going at EXACTLY THE SAME SPEED.
Let’s start with the basics; your body is on a planet that is revolving at the rate of about 1000 MPH. Yes, in the most basic of manners, your body is going faster than a jetliner - and THS hasn’t even begun to look at `your solidness’ and the stability you perceive. Because, at the same time, in the same moment that your body is rotating on Earth, it is also in motion GOING AROUND THE SUN ———- ON The Earth. At the rate of about 67,000 MPH. So, just being alive and living on Earth in less than 4 hours - YOU travel further from your starting point than the MOON is from you this very moment.
But, we haven’t even begun to look at your real motion as a human on a MUCH bigger scale. You see, you are part of the movement of the SUN around the Milky Way Galaxy (the Sun has made about 20 loops around so far as a fun fact) indeed, the SUN’s entire system is going/moving at a rate about EIGHT times FASTER than the Earth is moving around the Sun…….. So, the rate the Sun is moving is about 500,000 MPH - and yes, you are a part of that too. And, if you think THAT is fast, you haven’t even begun to consider your real human reality.
You see, actually YOU are going MUCH faster than a measly 500,000MPH and change - MUCH Faster. Why? Because the MILKY WAY and surrounding galaxies are also moving. And, they are moving MUCH faster than the Sun around the Milky Way. You see, The Milky Way is being pulled towards a patch of space in our universe called the Great Attractor. And, as part of the Milky Way, you are going towards the Great Attractor at an astonishing 14 MILLION MPH.
But, fortunately, so is EVERYTHING around us in every sense of the word - right down to US being TIED to a specific `SPACE AREA’ (defined above as a cluster of galaxies) of the entire Universe - on a Universal Scale. For this area of space called the Milky Way.
But, this amazing space you have been granted as a human, that you are able to have NO awareness of your ultimate motion, except to perhaps watch the Sun move across the sky; recognizing your place as being on a planet - is not only about forgetting how much you are moving; - many other things remain well below the threshold of awareness; - KNOWN about mankind only since the real development of science - what mankind’s actual phenomenology and `make-up’ `actually is’.
For example, below our awareness is our actual `space’ (despite the rate it is MOVING at) of our body — and it’s possible `time’ element. As long time readers of this blog know, I am in the camp of rebel Physicist Julian Barbour who believes there is ONLY SPACES and NO `Time’. JB’s explanation of the `jump’ from one actualized `space’ to another actualize `space’ is one of the best I’ve ever read as speculation into the `way REAL occurs’.
Because, as thinking humans are aware - especially if you are a reader of The Heavy Stuff - our actual path to `actualization’ is on the most minuscule of scales, with the space occurring in a number of manners. One of which is that our very human space is `occurring’/actualizing Gazillions of times each second - literally `turning on’ then into a `virtual reality’ before `turning on’ again. That is what occurs to `our space’ as a human say the Physicists.
It is NOT even continuous but is contiguous.
Then, within our very space - within the very container of our skin - as mankind now knows thanks to science - we are made up of mostly `EMPTY SPACE’ between our electrons and basic elements. VASTLY EMPTY SPACE folks. That is turning on and off. And, IMO, even have a `phenomenology’ that occurs during the ON phase. Perhaps, even a complex phenomenology.
The Heavy Stuff won’t even mention all the functions of your body below the awareness levels - thank goodness. Such as digestion, breathing, blinking and such. And fortunately, perhaps, most of our `mind awareness’ is also in shutdown mode most of the time - helping us cope with the reality `outside and in front of us’. Especially if one considers being super aware at a given MOMENT/Space. As readers might know - `remember yourself’ is one of the many tenants of esoteric thought.
So, we are NOT fully aware of the most basics of every moment of our existence. The speed of the motion of our very space. The smallness of scale we actually exist within. Our very beingness - if examined in it’s truth - is nearly impenetrable.
So, we settle for `something less’. Something Understandable. Something we can produce a phenomenology within. Even if it is an illusion of `the actual now’ - as that would only be contained in `every space’ - and only shared in a relationship manner not including either spaces `so called real now’. Real space.
As humans, we stretch `it’ out. Experience `it’ in the shared universe as a `Not Able To Not Be’ actualization in the continuum. We can then hear the sounds of an instrument. Feel the rush of the wind. Have thoughts and emotions. And nothingness, potentially. (Perhaps thru a `not doing’?)
And, to understand the `real’ we have been taught as humans.
To gain as a child the `understanding’ of EVERY phenomena (with mass and in the timecone) we perceive. To understand it’s potential phenomenology such as knowing that `live things move’ or `change position’. To understand `how’ things are used and `look different’ from other objects within perception. To acquire over several years, a maturing `human view’ - a structure of perception. To `understand’ that `humans make things’ and have a phenomenology almost all their own on planet Earth.
And, finally, we forget as humans that we `select’ `space frames’ for our perception out of MANY that are available (it’s been said we `experience’ about 100 or so frames a second of perception but `see’ less than 20% of them) - but, nonetheless, are able to form our stable perception of things. We must also forget that these sensations we `received’ from outside things already in our past (the light that bounces off them to tells us their location for example) - and only sensations within a specific spectrum of light and frequencies that our human awareness can digest. (The old dogs hearing more and cats seeing more in the darkness for example.)
We truly are members of a spectrum and agreement in what we must forget to remember and know our Human Experience.
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But, amazingly, it’s equally apparent that `we don’t have to live in the EXACT NOW’ — except for occupying our space. Because our `actions’ are against the backdrop, literally, of the past (of other objects). And, that is apparently all `we’ or `consciousness’ needs - to form a stable reality with `all the other things moving at exactly the same fantastic speed we are’.
But, while we aren’t in `the now’ with others, we are in `the shared now’ with others (of the not able to not be). We find our real there as the `has to be’. The balance point of the determined past and the immanent future - what we call having freewill (from our now space). Understanding that our humanness is `below’ the great motions of the universe and `above’ the `nothingness’ that gives us `space’. And, that even as owners of our container, our space, our body (and mind space) - we lack the tools to be aware of our inner workings as basic as digestion and breathing. Pushing those needs off to a deeper level - as `we’ deal with the world of others. And, our very survival within the phenomenological framework - unless we direct our awareness outward.

