The Enduring Pattern
What is it that makes death so frightening?
I remember with piercing clarity the night I made the realization that I knew I was going to die. Let me share with you all, because it is something we all share:
It is my first memory. It is what I remember most of my youth. I do not remember a smiling mommy and daddy or the joy at opening a new toy during the holidays. I wish that were the case. Instead, I remember waking up to the universe to immediately realize that this form and life was just a passing condition and that I was destined to go back to the void from which I just came. I was just 3 years old.
When I wandered out from bed, crying and petrified of this unknown variable, I told my father what I had just discovered about the nature of the universe. I can still remember exactly what he told me. He said, “Yeah, but you are not going to die for a long time.”. Not much comfort there, folks. When I tried my mother, she took me to a priest because she thought I was possessed. Ah, the challenges of growing up.
This is the answer I wanted and have found through my own personal travels:
Death can be overcome and we can take control of evolution through the application of technology. We live in an open system which at a time needed death to maintain a homeostatic balance of resources, but that time is coming to an end. Material abundance and resource is almost completely here and is being repressed in an artificial fashion through an artificial scarcity model. This model is intended to maintain a shaky status quo in order to soften the transition to a new kind of society. The stress felt lately is the response to the accelerating change of technology and its effect upon society. Ideas are becoming king over cash and what was valued by some of our peers and many predecessors is losing value and causing economic instability.
As they say in some circles: This too shall pass…
Now how would you explain that to a 3 year old?
Well folks, to me, the information pattern of our mind disintegrating is the scary part about death. So, in unity we must come and go and in unity we must comfort each other. We’re all in this together. Without our interference, the void will degrade the pattern of our minds, greedily taking back the resources given to us for a short time in order to participate in the universe’s grand calculation.
Evolution?
May your pattern endure.
Michael Sara Fin
No Life, No Death, No Fear. This is exciting!
Well said. I wish more of our social and political leaders took a stance on death that less resembled your mother and father’s and more resembled your own.
Thanks, Christopher.
I’m trying to figure out how this type of conversation can be had with a leader who, more often than not, values power over wisdom. I almost think that it might not be possible.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!