A Multi-Solipsistic Manifesto
I seem to be here right now
No matter which religious, spiritual, or materialistic idea ultimately holds true, the one and only thing I do know as a fact is that I seem to be here right now. With that, I acknowledge, that all my memories of the past and all my projections into the future are in my imagination. “I” seem(s) to be an immediate Point of Perception (PoP).
You seem to be here right now
While I cannot prove to you that either one of us is actually here, I seem to be writing this, and you seem to be reading this. While there is no Turing test for consciousness, nor an effective zombie test, I give you the benefit of doubt, and assume that you, too, are real and an equally valid Point of Perception. I request the same of you.
Experience requires separation
For me to have the experience of writing this and for you to have the experience of reading this, and for any experience to actually be experienced, separation of Points of Perception seems required. While there would logically be an underlying unity, a oneness, of all existence, you and I need to be separate in order for us to have any experience. Within this separation, I realize that if my perception is accurate, there appears to be one universe and one biosphere. As such it would make sense for all of us to collaborate and aim to make each other’s experience as pleasant as possible.
Experience levels
From the level of Points of Perception, we are equals. Anything that appears to perceive would therefore have to be on the same level, of the same value, no matter what kind of bio-robot it appears to manifest in (plant, animal or human of any kind, let alone other possible life forms). It is indeed the diversity on levels below the Point of Perception that makes this life interesting.
Separation can be overcome
On the PoP level, there is “I” and apparent “Other”. In order for there to be experience, this is required. Experience unfolds in dualistic poles. If I remember that ultimately, there is a unity, I can choose to integrate “Other” in my definition of self, embrace the polarity and hold the whole spectrum. In actively doing so, I experience connectedness, love and belonging.
All transactions require agreement
Right now, in this transaction of writing and reading a text, we agree on many things, to begin with, the language and meaning of the symbols and words used to express these ideas. If we did not agree on these things or meaning thereof, we could not have this exchange. At the same time, this agreement is based on probability clusters. We seem to agree on our definition of terms, but even that is to be continuously refined.
An agreeable meaning
All this might seem obvious. If this was a starting point for our actions in this world, though, we would not face many of the atrocities committed every day in the name of noble goals. If we truly accept that we are separate and alone in our Point of Perception, and that we can never even begin to understand someone else’s, our actions would show it. We can strive for empathy and compassion, and as such, we need to start from common ground. I seem to be here right now, I like to feel good, I don’t like to feel bad. Sometimes I am afraid, alone; sometimes I feel confident and connected. I am interested in you because you are different. Through sharing with each other we can enhance our understanding of this world. Each one of us brings something to the table. Each one of us seems to be here to provide their piece to the puzzle. Due to the dualistic principle of experience described above, the universe is full of challenges. Challenges are opportunities for transformation.
How can you and I transform this world together?
…’cause why else would we be here?
It's about the women and children
Note to self (and to men who care):
We live in a yet another new age. An age where more than ever, it is about the women and children – both outside and inside of yourself.
Love requires “Other”
Whatever lifestyle you chose to live, and however you chose to practice this, a life full of meaningful experiences, a life lived in love, entails putting yourself in service of that which is “other”. Love requires otherness, it requires overcoming of separation, it demands the integration of the paradox of “I” and “Other”, seemingly separate yet one at the same time. To live a life of love means to love that which is other, the unknown, inside and outside of yourself.
Time to catch up
Women are currently ahead in evolution. During the last century, they fought their way into male systems, into schools, politics, even the military. Through that, they have learned to activate their inner male, integrate left and right brain functioning in new ways (some more, some less successful). They have stepped up in the evolutionary development of mankind from barbarism to the great matriarchies, and from currently faltering patriarchies to this new age in which male and female inside and outside ourselves can thrive in harmony.
From Protohuman to Prototype
It is also an age in which we need to honor the child within us again, the child, who wants to explore and create wonder in this world. If we allow ourselves to discover awe anew in every moment, if we trust in our ability to create marvelous wonders again and again, we also create a new empathy and care for the children of the world who represent the future of mankind.
Remember to continuously discover both male and female inside of you, learn to love yourself for all that you are and can be, the known and unknown. And remember to live in beginner’s mind no matter what age, and that you affect generations to come in all you do.
Love and belonging…
We all seem to long to belong.
In order to love, there has to be separation and the willingness to connect anew in every moment.
Love demands resistance.
To expect safety in our experience of belonging, in love, seems a sure path to enmeshment and co-dependence.
To connect anew again and again allows for our own transformation and that of “other”, and an ever new encounter with an open mind.
Through resistance we grow, and in the dance of love we continue to expand our experience of self.
In oneness there appears no experience of self and no need for love.
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