The Universal Language

[thoughts of   ~a burning woman~ Sha’Tara]

Is there a ‘universal language’ or is the idea akin to that of a ‘universal solvent’ – which leads to an impossibility since it would destroy everything, including itself! 

I think there is a universal language, a language that life uses to communicate with life – literally everywhere.  I experienced this connection yesterday while on a long distance run through some remaining Chilliwack wilderness.  I could sense the life around me (it was a warm sunny day with very little breeze) flowing across the trails and when I ‘disengaged’ my ‘self’ enough I could feel this informational energy flowing through me, and in the complexity of my body it came through as a comforting effect.  I could ‘see’ things a normal human being does not see, or does not consider worth bothering with and in that vision there was no sense of fear, or lostness, or that anything could ever go wrong.

So what did I just say?  If I review that paragraph I see obvious points made.  One: detachment.  Two: empathy.  Three: simplicity.

Which brings me to realize that our universe has a language and that language is basic and simple.  It is resonance.  It is what makes certain sub-atomic particles appear to have omnipresent properties, or the ability to appear and disappear, and change their basic nature at will, in split second increments.  A photon can travel to any parts of the universe instantly… without moving.  All of life, therefore, is instantly and constantly in touch with every particle of itself, communicating instantly, knowing itself.  At that level there are no strangers to the family.  There is no ‘bad’ place.  No fear.  No danger.  No death. 

That is what religious interpreters of life have come to term ‘spirit’ eventually connecting it to their gruesome concepts of gods and goddesses, creatures who can ordain life according to their will; who can destroy what does not suit their understanding; who can choose among the sentient what will live and what will ‘die’ or (since death is an impossibility according to resonance) who will be condemned to suffer eternities in hells of their own making. 

The Fall of nature into complexity and what we call gravity.  Loss of resonant communication.  Awareness of death.  Chaos and confusion.  The more complex, the more chaotic, so it would seem.  I’ve observed less complex forms of life, such as ants, sparrows, mice, pigeons and gulls.  These creatures have adapted themselves to the increasingly artificial world of man and manage to survive in it.  There is no one to tell them they are not wanted or loved.  No one to make them aware there is really no food or safety or continuity to be had in man’s world.  Their development is still basic enough that they can resonate with their environment.  Without ‘sowing and reaping’ and without building competing cities of their own; without government or money; without education, they find both food and shelter.  They manage to live among man so well they are considered pests. 

This is where it becomes very interesting indeed.  For what we lose at one end, we necessarily win at the other.  When life becomes complex, it becomes ‘predatory’ (inasmuch as we can tell, and that is certainly not the final word on this); it becomes a win/lose affair.  Evolved entities with the ability to use reason see this as a balancing act.  What is born, be it a universe or a gnat, must die.  What lives in complexity must consume other complex life forms to remain alive.  We can see this.  We know it is true .  We already speak of the end of our universe.  Why would a universe die?  Because it can no longer find food to sustain itself?  It has ‘given up’ so to speak, or it has gained a new vision and is willing to go through the crucible of ‘death’ in order to come out the other side as something entirely new?  And where will that leave everything that ‘depends’ on that universe for life?

What is the point of anything if it does not lead to something new – and by definition, better – than what we now have?  Life as we know it entails great travail, pain, suffering, with some good things popping up in between to remind us to dream.  We continually re-create our dreams and they come to nothing, not because they are bad dreams, but repeats of old patterns which have no eyes for the new.  If the first event that set the pattern died, then whatever uses that pattern must inevitable die.  Its death is written in the pattern. 

The question then is this: we can find all the marvelous attributes of ‘God’ in the simplicity of the particle.  Can we carry those attributes over in the complex where we find ourselves?  We tried by ‘creating’ gods who could be both.  Well, sorry to say, the experiment has been an abject failure.  But can we learn from it?  Can we do better than our gods?  Can we conceive of something new?  Can we, as complex forms of life discover a way to resonate with all of our individuals parts without losing them (our ‘self’) to the indifference of the particle?  Can we keep what we have, become ever more complex, and learn to resonate freely with everything?

Can we learn the universal language without destroying ourselves in the process?