Holy Trinity of Now Writing

I know, some of this is like, “Oh look, Patrick discovered water!”

Building a common language requires visiting our common places, so that together we can discover uncommon places. Yes, water is water.... It gets interesting when we have enough common language to say, “Well, if that is true and passes the ‘isness’ test, then what about (_____): you fill in the blank.” Thats what growth and creativity is all about, filling in the blank. If we learn to do this well, we grow our communication forests of ideas in our mind that resist entropy in a way we did not have before. 


Sounds a lot like evolution, but it isn’t. Riding the "now" wave may result in making changes to the blue prints to better resists entropy. These changes are made based on our perception of our environment. What if our perceptions are not valid? thats for another post, another day.

Now, where was I. Oh, yea; water.

Be now. No, thats only two.

Be here now. That’s three!


Be (as in, you are or you are not. Be is the “you are” part of that.)


Here (as in, where ever in the now you happen to be.) 

Now (as in, the indivisible split instance of is.)

This post wants to bring into focus the character I’ve been hinting at for the past 19 posts. It's a character that comprises all the part of you; except that part that is greater than the sum of the parts. Once we establish this character, we will be able to visit along a timeline that flows from conception (which is a fixed point) and death (which is yet to be determined.)

BE-NESS: There is you, right? Your “isness” is, isn’t it? If you are, you know it, right? Just the you of you. This doesn’t require faith, it just is. Like the stars in the sky and the ground under your feet, there you are. No complications with this one. It has the truthyness of “is” going for it.

HERE-NESS: Next, consider the idea; to manifest as a human suggests there is a potential “you,” when you get started with that first whole human cell. After all, you’re sitting there reading this as a human, right? The gifts your parents gave in that first cell is the “protean” you, that is that cell’s potential. 

The “Protean” me didn’t have that football injury in high school resulting in knee replacement at 58. “Protean” me is the absolute optimum expression of my parents gift at any given age. This fictitious being is based in fact. This character’s roots in reality make it a unique tool. This is not a matter of faith either. The hands you have are based on the cards you’re dealt and how you play them. That seems straight forward.  No complication with this one, either.

NOW-NESS: Then there is the systematic visual illusion of life; consciously perceived as now; however, the instance of that perception no less than 1/2 second after now. This is the part that requirers infinite faith. What you perceive as now, is a composite, best guess with feeling, of what 1/2 second ago was like; but, a simulation none the less. Make believe, with suspension of disbelief.

This is a stage on which the curtain goes up at the onset of consciousness. When consciousness comes on and you are in the now with it, if the programing you need to respond to now’s environment is not in place, its just too late. 

This is why education is required, if we want to live together as a culture. In the end, everyone has to learn everything. No matter when you choose to learn a thing, it happens in a balance of internal and external variables. In that holistic context, the nexus of perception that is you, learns. 

Education is the antidote to ignorance. It may not necessarily cure a bad case of ignorance. Those individuals are actually quite rare.

One puts oneself in the environment and it happens to you. You go and sit in the seat and theatre happens to you. You go and sit in the seat and education happens to you. 

It's what you do with what happens to YOU that makes the continuum of your experience. It's what you do with what happens to you,  that writes your continuums. 

No fear.

The educational environment is indeed a form of theatre, where the Gods of Comedy and Tragedy are served up everyday, to every age in every way. 

This is a real physical place humans have, built of imaginary things. This is a place to witness and do, all the things grown-ups do in real life and be safe while doing so. Such environments provide a safe place and time to witness and respond to new stimulus. This is the process by which we install new solutions to life’s challenges. In earlier posts I referred to this as programs being entered into the non-conscious self, in which you may never be  conscious.

Consciousness should be a silent partner in the affairs of now, using the considerable power of its veto with conservative  reserve. Conscious processor is 50 bits per sec and non-conscious processor is no less than 50,000,000 bits per sec. Which one would you trust?

In a “General Systems” evaluation of the human instrument, we find the appearance of vast variety and complexity. Almost too complex to understand. Well, how many living cells are you? If you're fully grown, that is about 50 to 75 trillion (with a “T") human cells. Add to that the sum 625 TRILLION single celled organism along for the ride and dinner. That is how complex you are. 

So, here’s a BIG clue. Don’t think of it like that. Leave that to your Doctor, for now. Think of yourself as one thing. This really works. 

Each of your individual cells, human or otherwise, are the smallest independent living unit in your body volume. Everything else is communities of cells working together to perform a function. That is until your perception expands to the scale of whole being. Whole implies oneness, our whole being like a single living cell being. Different in scale, but not in kind. 

More tools. Yea!