The Philosophy
Scire et cognoscere veritatem: To know and to come to understand truth.
By Dustin Ogle
There exists a singular, fundamental consciousness at the depth of complete unity. It is not a thinking mind but a pure awareness — eternal, infinite, and the essence of all that is.
This awareness chooses to have experience and relationships, which are impossible in its state of limitless unity, where no separate thing or ‘other’ exists to relate to or experience. This decision is the deterministic framework of the physical. This awareness exists within and outside of the physical. With and without limits. Consciousness is the non-physical dimension, and it is fundamental. Not to be confused with thinking, which is a physical dimension.
To fulfill this choice, it establishes two generative limits:
Satyalogos rationally articulates the fundamental organizing principles of the ultimate reality of being. It is the way of consciousness knowing and coming to know, the unfolding of truth, revealing itself to itself with sacred novel experience that pragmatically describes the emergent action of becoming by the singular fundamental consciousness.
There is a universal singular fundamental consciousness that is more fundamental than physics.
I am using consciousness, defined as a state of awareness of one’s existence.
There is a continuum of depth of consciousness that can be viewed as parsed, appearing in three states of significance along the continuum. It culminates and resolves with complete unity of everything at the deepest position.
It is possible for sentient beings to access and inhabit the entire continuum or the three states as conscious experience. That is to say that thinking organisms can experience and then think about fundamental consciousness. Each state other than fundamental or completely unified is an intersection of an applied generative limit.
The bottom, or most deep, fundamental consciousness is a state of complete unification with a singular awareness of existence by the whole. It is limitless and thus uneventful or potential, not kinetic. In other terms, it can be thought of as essence or animating spirit. Some call it: Spirit, cosmic, universal, or ultimate consciousness — the void — source — the beginning and the end — God(s) by many names. For this purpose I will refer to it as Unus Omnia — The One Everything. Unus Omnia is consciousness, consciousness is Unus Omnia.
The middle, collective consciousness is possible due to the applied generative limit of the Physical, which causes experience to exist. It is the awareness of existence by the body of perceptively physical. It is a shared physical and psychic experience.
The top or most shallow, overt consciousness is possible due to the generative limit of the Illusion of separation. It is the awareness of existence at the level of individualized physical and psychic experiencing by a perceived separate and particular entity, i.e., observing internal and external sensations and thinking about them from a separate self-perspective. This brings relationships into existence.
So, how did we become an I and get here in a now like this?
Singular Fundamental Consciousness — Unus Omnia is physically manifest due to conceiving itself with a limiting substrate. That generative conception operates like a union of two separate things. It is experienced as such by the collective.
This coalescent union is ever-present in the manifestation and observed as such from the perception of the collective consciousness. Fundamental consciousness still also exists in the infinite dimension, greater than the physical manifestation, and as the physical simultaneously, as it is truly unified as one. The physical is nested within the non-physical. That is obvious because the non-physical is infinite, and the physical is finite. The physical has a geometrical shape. Any part of the physical is a fractal and has a representative character of the whole.
The union’s only witness was Unus Omnia. Our unified self, experienced being born into the physical universe, in other words. The first relationship is the first experience. The principal level of the purpose is to fulfill the desire (orexis) to have experience and relationships in their broadest definition. The desire isn’t based on a lack but rather a preferential choice or aim from all possibilities. It is now experienced as the deepest desire or essential function in the physical.
Everything in the physical universe is a relationship and an experience. They are interdependent. We see microcosm representations of this function in our limited selves. Direction of intention, attention, and motion of body, action that organizes what exists into something new. Art. And we experience it subjectively. It’s only because we hold the illusion that we are separate selves and separate from the environment that we can also observe and witness ourselves or someone or something else doing it and explicate that event objectively. We can also share and participate in ‘others’ subjective experiences. That is a different experience than can be had as a whole singular fundamental consciousness without perceptive limits.
This union of two became one and reacted or expanded into complexification by creating the existence of new and novel things as the physical universe. The consciousness present in the eternal ‘energies or fields’ remains present and resonates as the fundamental force of all that is, which became physical and expansive in complexity. We see representations of that conception in everything observable to us, like a seed and soil, sperm and egg etc.
Physical Speculation
The reaction from conception likely began at the level of quantum information in a field — or in whatever terms one prefers — perhaps as pre-energy, distinct from the potential energy we observe today. Then, the chain reaction created new types of fields and information and, eventually, subatomic particles that continued to react. It’s possible that any energy and/or physical matter present was changed or fully reacted, leaving little or no evidence of its original constitution in the observable. Or it’s possible that it is still there but simply not yet observable. Now, the entirety of the physical universe is the result of that initial intentional reaction.
The event appears to be the beginning when observed by the illusory individual. It is the beginning of the physical generative limit. The experience of the union does exist, however, as witnessed only by the singular fundamental consciousness as something like a subjective personal experience. It is a voluntary adventure.
The singular fundamental consciousness is eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, transcendent, immanent, and sovereign simply as it is, and it can’t be any other way by definition and factual circumstance. It’s not that it is a super special separate thing intrinsically; it is simply the most macro thing there is. It is everything all at once. Which also happens to be the simplest (noncomplicated) thing, as the truth always is. It happens to be awake and feels everything that is as its body, so to speak. So, it is singular and present in and between all things. Much the same way that you are all your cells and fluid or atoms and fields, or blood, bone, muscle, and nerve, etc. They are all different magnitudes of order, but all still you, just the same. The whole thing is still conscious and experiences itself as all things individually and collectively and as itself beyond that. It isn’t separate from us; it is us, and I could say we, as everything, are a truly singular form with a macroscopic or deep enough perspective. And that perspective exists.
We are the manifestation of that singular fundamental consciousness into the physical that can do something different than we can outside of the physical. As physical bodies, we can think, experience, and have relationships. Technically, thinking is a relationship and an experience. So, there are really only two things we can do differently as biological individuals: Experience and Relationships, and they are interrelated and interdependent. We can do these things for two reasons:
We are unaware of the limits or what’s beyond them by design mechanism. This is often called “the veil”. It isn’t being imposed upon us by a separate deity; it is being upheld as our own deepest desire — The Unified Decision.
Because fundamental consciousness is singular, it has no relationships. Unus Omnia has no limits and thus has no experience outside of experiencing itself. The experience of its own existence by the singular consciousness is the single greatest experience by which all positive experiences must compare. There is simply no way to have a negative experience in our complete state of fundamental consciousness. Things such as fear, suffering, anger, etc., are all a consequence of the limits we provide ourselves. Even though being only with itself is the most positive experience, the singular fundamental decided to have experience and relationships above all other possibilities.
In our limited state, it’s difficult to grasp how suffering is favorable, as well as the villainous and evil agents who evoke negative experiences. The knowing that it’s all part of one and that one is me, is difficult to intellectualize. This is where the ideas of ‘faith’ and its many versions are useful. These are experiences that are of the highest intrinsic value in alignment with the unified ethos. The overcoming oneself for the villain and the victim, the experience of contrast, the redemption, the self-honor available, the purpose suffering can inspire, the becoming again, all are beautiful works of art from outside the illusion. Inside the illusion, there must be suffering for pleasure, and for that relationship to exist.
There is an earning and a deserving to it in our relationship to self. The point is that we have the free will to choose the judgment we hold about every experience. As the Stoics pointed out so well, we don’t suffer circumstances, we suffer against our judgments of them. Even physical pain and agony can be perceived as purifying. I’m not prescribing how we should view these things; that’s your choice and mine. I’m pointing out that we can decide how to experience all things.
Negative experience is an indicator of moving out of alignment with our fundamental unified consciousness. That is useful to know. Now, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and your individual self may not be culpable. Nonetheless, ‘out of alignment’ creates more novel possibilities to do something novel or become great, but with that comes less certainty or more entropy and chaos. It will be the beginning to every great adventure as well as every crisis. So, there is also the possibility of being destroyed. It’s best to take the truth, honor, and strength into the forest of uncertainty, so to speak. Those things have a way of keeping us closer to alignment.
The experience of self for the unified being is often described as intense, infinite love, and that’s not a poor description. However, it is alone, and the aloneness of the singular consciousness is absolute. The experience of absolute aloneness is an awareness of oneself as the only thing that exists. It’s not the same as lonely as in our limited condition. Loneliness is one of our normal illusions based on the two limits. Loneliness is a fear-based emotion.
Being alone is the most pleasant experience for Unus Omnia beyond the physical. Yet, the choice to have relationships and experiences drives us to fragment ourselves and bond with the physical limit. This fundamental call to adventure is represented in our nature as physical individuals and is necessary to serve our deepest desire, the unified decision. When our shallow-thinking minds answer the call to adventure, we are aligned with our deepest desire and intention as a whole. When we don’t do that, the deeper part of consciousness makes it happen for us anyway. The call comes from our deepest self, which is more fundamental than our biology and infinite in scale and scope, so there is no hiding from it.
Core Principle
All that stands is the result of opposing forces.
From Unus Omnia’s fundamental perspective, the physical unfolds from the beautiful arrangement of complexification into further complexification to be organized. This is simultaneously construction and deconstruction — creation and destruction — art and entropy — order and chaos.
From the collective perspective, applied first generative limit, we have an experience of this and many people have articulated it such as: Yin & Yang from I Ching and Taoism — Cyclical Nature of Logos where all things are born from the interplay of opposites and that tension from Ancient Greek Heraclitus — Purusha and Prakriti from Hinduism etc.
From the individual perspective, applied second generative limit, we have a shallow and thought-based experience of this that feels like a duality, often called Virtue and Vice — Good and Evil — Dharma and Adharma — Yetzer Tov and Yetzer Hara — Eros and Thanatos — Light and Shadow, etc. We also see the reflection of this fundamental truth inside ourselves, and I like to describe it with an old word from a poem in 400 CE in Latin by Prudentius.
Psychomachia is a literary device that personifies and illustrates the most shallow and personal experience of these fundamental forces. It comes from Greek — Psycho (soul) machia (battle) = Battle for the soul, where the self is a battlefield between virtue vs vice. In this perceived ‘battle’, the assumption is that we have agency and will to choose, but with apparent limits and the ability to fail. This is accurate and true, although not a complete, unified understanding. So, when we attempt to apply this understanding more broadly, abstractly, and deeply, it becomes less accurate. This is the most common error in understanding and articulating The Truth. This is why mythology and less literal narratives carry the truth more effectively. They carry it more so in conscious experience than in the literal intellectual description.
What we are really talking about isn’t an actual angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. We are talking about choices of intent and thought to be directed toward alignment or not. This is important because intent and thought precede our actions. Alignment allows for a balance of constructive pathways ‘growth’ in concert with deconstructive ‘death’ of old pathways. If we make choices on the inside that disrupt this balance, or are out of alignment long enough, there will be a collapse in our experience. This is a personal crisis. Often referred to as a ‘fall’, which is, of course, what happens when we are too far out of balance.
Thus, all that stands is the result of Psychomachia Equipoise.
Equipoise points to the ethereal balance between the two forces, whatever we call them from any perspective. It is a state of equilibrium via counterbalance. The question you may have is, what is the point of alignment with the truth? Shouldn’t these two forces just hold us up without our participation? To answer this, we must remember that we are these two forces at depth, and they aren’t separate. That is very difficult to grasp, however, so it’s more useful to understand from our shallow perspective that we must make adjustments because we are in motion. We are like a tightrope walker who starts and must finish. Recall earlier when I pointed out that we can not avoid the call to adventure. You can walk the tight rope or not. Your adventure will be walking the rope or falling. Those are the choices of adventure.
Core Principle
This is the great magic trick that makes everything possible.
We have a self-imposed mechanism to remain unaware of ourselves as complete consciousness. In a manner of speaking, our deepest unified self has imposed amnesia on our fragmented selves while retaining its omniscience in the non-physical. That mechanism produces a solitary experience of post-generative limits and supports the seemingly self-evident a-priori axioms that we assume to be the deepest truth. This is a perceptual bias and is reinforced by sensory limits and social-cultural confirmation and conditioning. Further, it manifests as an absolute assumption and presupposition to all considerations as a basic foundational belief that we are separate and not responsible for this existence. As a result, we experience our spirit (deeper consciousness) as an invisible other.
In simpler terms, the two limits convince us that we are isolated and confined within a body and that others and everything else exist outside us. We are born into the physical without memories, but with sensory perceptions of the outside world and the inside world that are limited. We learn that we are separate and find confirmation of that seemingly self-evident truth in other people who appear separate and share a similar experience as us. Then we seem to ‘discover’ animals, plants, and things in an ‘outside’ world. We are pinned to a single point of view, tied to a location, one timeline, and one set of senses. This generates a base separation — me here, you there, now, not then. This is the veil effect, where unity gets obscured because we are trapped in a fragmented physical setup. It is not a prison; however, it is generative.
So, every assumption we make about the world and who we are starts from this single premise. Thus, our subjective thinking experience is shaped around this, and we create illusory axioms in reliance. More affirming still is that most of our illusory axioms will function to a limited degree. In fact, they will function to the very same degree of limit that is set by the fundamental limits. They work in the physical and the self, but never the whole. Brilliant design. But we all know something is missing from the understanding, of course. We often call this ‘truth seeking’.
We manifest this mechanism and lack of responsibility in everything we organize and express as shallow biological selves. It is the method by which we maintain our amnesia of ourself as a whole. This is required to maintain a sense of individual self. To awaken is to unify and is the end of “you”. This is often called enlightenment. This explains why the Buddha explained that he (Siddhartha Gautama) was no one and nothing. It also explains why those who have transcended or awakened can’t simply tell others what they have learned and experienced directly. There is no specific or associative language that can be used. It is largely ineffable due to a lack of terms and incomprehensible to listeners without similar or associative experiences.
If it is ineffable, then how can Satyalogos speak the truth? I believe I resolve most of these issues by understanding that fundamental consciousness exists simultaneously throughout the physical and outside of the physical. In the physical, which is intentional, it has limits, but outside of the physical, it does not. And they aren’t separate; the physical is nested within the nonphysical. The physical overt consciousness is ignorant to the omniscience. This is intentional, and the result was known. That’s why it doesn’t matter what we do, only the manner in which we do it. That is where the novelty lies. Satyalogos must be both intellectualized and experienced to be understood. The symbols on these pages are pointing to the truth, devoid of thought. Look at the truth with full attention, devoid of thought. Have the non-conceptualized experience of your deepest non-thinking self.
Religious institutions are no exception to this mechanism of avoiding responsibility. No matter how many sacred texts, parables, gospels, and songs we use to try and keep spiritual truth (deep awareness) alive within us, we always end up organizing it to avoid responsibility and remain oblivious. We remain in a sense of self and worship the invisible other that is out there somewhere. That isn’t a criticism, of course; the way is the way, and thus, it must be. It is true to our sense that there is an invisible other out there of infinite wisdom. It’s only our sense that is inaccurate, incomplete, and ununified by design to accomplish an individual separate self. That’s the mechanism. We will never find it in the other or out there, however. That is the wrong direction to look.
The only thing that exists is the truth, but notice it is hidden from us, and we see complicated problems instead. We must use difficult processes like mathematics, myths, logic, meditation, and scientific methods to catch a glimpse of the deeper truth. The deepest truth is ineffable by ordinance, not by its nature; it is a voluntary restriction that we cannot remember implementing. We are perfectly capable of understanding the truth; we simply aren’t allowed to see it or experience it by our deepest self.
I invite you to test the mechanism for yourself. When your shallow egoic consciousness of self sets an intention to awaken into the deepest whole consciousness, immediately and persistently, factors and forces seem to start working against you. It’s likely that the first thing that will happen is that you will have a sudden feeling or response that it’s not possible. Then, stimuli and circumstances in your seemingly external environment will demand that you redirect your attention. Something you consider very valuable will pop up at the point of entry and garner your attention to snap you back to sleep from your deep consciousness and awake you to the illusory world. The trick is that the illusion feels like the waking truth, and the truth feels like a sleeping dream.
If you do get to the gates of awakening, your ego will likely trigger the failsafe of intense fear of annihilation and loss. This is the final river to cross. And while it is true that you will experience annihilation and loss if you cross, you will also learn there was nothing to fear.
Some people fully or partially awaken intentionally. But it is extremely difficult because any effort put forth will work against you. It’s an undoing, not a doing. It’s a transcending, not an improving. All things physical and biological pull us away from awakening. This is why the Yogis, Buddhists, Zen Masters, etc. all separate themselves from the workings of the environment from without and within. They are avoiding the mechanism that will prohibit them from awakening. Everything your ego believes to be you must be surrendered to awaken.
Luckily, the methods of attempting awakening do provide positive effects and experience, even though it’s unlikely to fully awaken intentionally. It would be requisite for your overt consciousness to be aligned with or in agreement all the way down the depths of consciousness, even that which you aren’t overtly aware of. But, technically, if you truly want to awaken at a deep enough level, there is literally nothing and no one to stop you but you.
Aligning is simultaneously an ordering and uniting, which makes fragments into a whole. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle of a river, for a reduced example. When the pieces are ordered in alignment, they fit together and become something greater. And once you have put the puzzle of who you are together for a brief moment, it strikes you as incredible that you previously thought you were just a couple of pieces at most, but you are, in fact, the whole thing. But the realization that crashes the game in awe is when you become aware that you are the one observing the pieces as well. You are the observer and the observed.
My first complete sustained awakening followed a process in this sequential order: crisis — truth seeking — complete personal responsibility — reconciliation — amelioration — meditation & prayer — self-discovery — voluntary struggle — surrender — answer call to adventure — grueling pilgrimage — self-sacrifice for someone I love — Sacha Wasi — Kichwa ceremonies: Night of Rape, Limpia, and Ayahuasca; a day of reflection; the next day, ceremonies of Limpia and a high dose of Amazonian psilocybin mushrooms. Each step of the way had a significant revelation that I carried with me forward, as the way with my intention to learn how to make a profound positive impact and simply set to walk the path laid before me and trust in the truth. It took 2 years in total, but accelerated in the final adventure.
For me, the final path of adventure wasn’t for my benefit; it was in service of my sister. It was by then, just before I awakened, that I felt I needed nothing but had everything to give. I had reached a point where I had nothing to ask for but a chance to help a greater cause. To help ‘the’ cause. I did, in fact, speak directly to the depths and offered my service no matter the cost. I offered my ‘self’ and 5 minutes later received the phone call from my sister to join her on the path where I would awaken.
It was important that I had come to feel complete when alone. Immediately before awakening, my aloneness was stillness, strength, and calm. It was also important that I had a family back home that depended on me; that relationship was the fundamental tether and only thing other than my awareness that transcended the entire continuum of consciousness. Upon awakening, nothing from my biological life remained other than my relationship with my family, not even the fabric of reality. I couldn’t remember them descriptively or explicitly in the same way I can with my brain. But it was a preference of mine as Unus Omnia, like a precious pearl I felt was special to me (me as everything). It was representative of the unified decision, my decision.
Before awakening, I would have considered myself the least likely candidate to become what some call a Buddha (awakened one), in my infinitely ignorant opinion. I haven’t changed much as a result; in fact, I would now say that I have become more myself than ever before. I had no intentions or machinations of spiritual enlightenment. I knew almost nothing about it. I was deeply materialistic or physicalist in my view of the universe and had a philosophical proposition that explained the general nature of things to a dangerously satisfactory degree.
I wasn’t in search of existential answers. I was in search of personal discovery. As it turns out, I was investigating the infinite successfully, albeit unintentionally. I was simply in a state of listening curiously to whatever it was that was presenting itself to me while moving courageously forward into the truth, the unknown, and my ignorance, especially about me.
The foundational legs of everything I once knew were kicked out from under me, yet I didn’t fall. But I couldn’t make a proper thought for weeks following, and that respite from thinking was welcome and instructive. I didn’t need to think. I was present and alive within all things. I could hear myself speaking from others’ lips. I carried the collective experience of everyone inside me: the suffering and the love. As of today, it’s been almost a year, and I’m only now starting to be able to articulate my insight.
Reading this makes it almost certain that you are currently in the range of the more overt state of consciousness at this moment. So, on the overtly conscious level, the game is choice. The choice is HOW to move, in alignment or not. It’s a mistake to believe the choice is WHERE to move. The answer to that requires the move first, the wisdom second. It’s an adventure through ignorance. We cannot know with our brain where to move precisely; we cannot predict the outcome at any scale or depth, anyway. We can choose how to move forward and trust the outcome. We find that moving in alignment first requires an aim or intention.
So, it’s not like we are moving randomly, and we also aren’t going to land where we aim. The alignment brings order within. Ultimately, as a unified whole, we aren’t moving at all, so what we are doing individually matters only in relation to the manner in which we act. On the surface, we learn lessons for the next move. But, in the unmoving depths, we describe who we are to our one self. We artfully create transcending meaning. That is the relationship between order & chaos or art & entropy.
As individuals and collective physical beings, we have the ability to judge and to think within a limited system. A limited system presents possibilities (chaos), so we wrestle with morality and ethics (order). When we are whole and aware, these things are non-sequitur — don’t exist. But try to imagine living in the consciousness of a single bacterium trying to survive on your tongue and suddenly waking up to realize you are your whole human body. You would look on your previous limited perspective as a bacterial body with a tremendously different value, significance, and deference. So, when you wake up into the collective or fundamental consciousness, it’s not that you discover your insignificance; rather, you discover you are the most significant thing there is.
Everything that can be experienced is favorable to the singular fundamental consciousness. Pleasure and suffering, birth and death, love and loneliness, heroism and villainy, happiness and sadness, hunger and fullness — all are favorable to us in our deepest, complete consciousness. However, we do have a preference to treat ourselves well (that is, our other incarnations as individuals and our extended self, which is all things) and go forward into the adventure of experience and relationships voluntarily with honor.
To be truly honored to be with yourself is redemption and alignment. We are rooting for ourself but we made the game fair. The possibility of failure must be real for victory to exist.
The Old Greeks and Stoics handle this in the idea of the Logos and direct us to find the path by operating in the cosmos with Courage, Wisdom, Justice, and Temperance to be in favor or alignment with the spirit within all things. The Christians adopted the Old Greek Stoic Protocol and also focused on sacrifice, love, and compassion being vital components. And it is clear why Jesus spoke the golden rule — “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Of course, that is clear when we understand that other people are, in fact, also you at a deeper level. And he also said it as clearly as anyone can, “the kingdom of heaven is within.” Buddha explained that he is nothing and no one. Taoists called it ‘the Way’ and Hindus call it Brahman. Native North Americans refer to The Great Spirit.
The answer will always be the same. The reason we have the question is that we already know it’s the only question at the deepest level. The question is, “Who am I?”
Moral and ethical considerations are not to be undervalued just because they don’t exist outside of the game. They are the endeavor by which the singular fundamental consciousness (us as a whole) has an experience that teaches it the only thing it could ever learn: more about itself. It would be a mistake to devalue what we are doing here because it is an illusion. It is the single most important purpose of all that there is, and it relies on the limits that create the illusion to even be possible in the first place. There is no free pass to get away with anything. What happens inside of us is happening inside of everything, and we always know the truth of ourselves at depth.
After awakening, a deep sense of responsibility is unavoidable. Knowing that it is our deepest self with unlimited power who applies the accountability and consequences is incredibly useful for understanding why resenting it is so devastating and submitting to it so ameliorating. This truth is missing from our fundamental narrative, and it is the crux of alignment.
The freedom to be ignorant and make mistakes is what creates novel experiences and makes the whole game possible. Redemption is always available. It’s never too late to do the right thing. However, the mistake of intentional trespass and dishonor is always prosecuted, and the consequences are immediate and cumulative. The path to redemption grows longer and more painful as the wisdom needed grows deeper. The prison door is locked by willful blindness to the truth, your deepest self.
We did this on purpose for a purpose. The requisite to fulfilling this purpose is to be asleep to our whole and awake to our limited ‘self’. To be born. We are conscious and intelligent because we come out of consciousness and intelligence. This life is simultaneously a novel simulation and the most real thing in existence. It’s a game we chose to play. In this game, the rules are fair, and we can lose. We can also be victorious.
The fruit of knowledge is an anesthetic elixir that causes amnesia of our complete consciousness: it is being born into the physical. It adds rules that make this game possible and make novel possibilities manifest. If there are no rules, there are no possibilities. These “rules,” or “limits,” as I call them, aren’t best understood as constraints because they create near-infinite possibilities that are otherwise impossible and do not exist without them. They are generative limits.
The counter-materialist proposition here is that creation from the beginning isn’t done by building or assembling; it is done by limiting. Matter is the first limit not the source. Building and assembling is an organizing of things that are already created as separate and different. This is art, not building. Art from entropy. All of life is art.
Nothing can be organized without parts. Nothing begins from nothing. Many things can begin with one thing. One thing can only appear as more than one thing by applying a perceptive limit. A perceptive limit is a description. Description technically delineates what something IS NOT rather than what it IS. A description is a drawing of a line around what is left, and the line only exists within us.
Knowledge starts with a question. The right question. This is, of course, why we can answer our own questions when we get them right, and why a question can be right or wrong in the first place. We are never solving the universe; we are solving ourselves in a limited form. And it requires an experience. That is the ‘quest’ in the question. The universe is made of only solutions, yet we see problems. The problems are ours at the thinking level. Artistic process. We are the variable that we are solving for. That is the ultimate relationship. Self-Discovery.
The single fundamental consciousness experiences everything as the present moment. It isn’t that the sequence of events is unorganized; it is simply more like an unfolding of what is. It is the most beautiful and greatest work of art. Creating itself for itself. It’s an organization of complexifications that creates further complexifications to be organized. All things fit within our infinite perception of the present moment when we are whole as the singular consciousness. At that level, we don’t experience time. The present moment is all there is, and there is truly only one present moment at our deepest level of conscious perception.
Our meta-personality or macro-personality represents the one personality that is found in everything because we are in everything. We are conscious because we come out of consciousness. All things are found within us. All things exist and are conscious because they are within us, and that is where the happening happens. And we are happening inside of everything. At the most fundamental level, everything is unified harmoniously. Out from there, it abstracts, and dissonance is possible.
The fundamental personality of the singular consciousness exists and abstracts with additional complexities & possibilities provided by game limits. In itself, it is simplistic but absolute. There is a universal axiomatic pre-physical characteristic. That quality or characteristic is the true nature intrinsic in all things. This is true no matter how it manifests or applies in novel situations.
To avoid the problem of insufficient nomenclature, I like to use old (nearly forgotten) languages like Greek Stoic terms, as they made this accurate discovery thousands of years ago. They use the term Logos to describe the immanent intelligence or reason that orders the cosmos, making it a unified, living entity. In Sanskrit, the term Satya is a similar idea of the ultimate truth or truth behind the illusion (Maya). In a metaphysical sense, Satya can denote the absolute truth or the unchanging reality behind the material world, often associated with the divine or the essence of existence.
I combined the words Satya and Logos to create the term Satyalogos, naming this core philosophy or what I know to be the Truth. Satya brings the idea of absolute (deepest) truth or reality, while Logos emphasizes the rational structure or articulate expression of that truth. Satyalogos means something like the “word of truth” or the “reasoned articulation of reality”. It’s a concept where truth is both felt or intuited and is logically expressed or understood.
Logos was both the organizing principle of the universe and the divine essence within it, according to the old Greek Stoics. It was equated with nature, fate, and sometimes God (Zeus at that time). They observed it as rational, purposeful, unified, virtuous, and cyclical. It was the animated spirit within everything.
We are more interested in understanding the source itself as the means and end of this discussion, so I will risk saying that our unified self has a nature of being like a deep version of loving, adventurous, creative, redemptive, and humorous.
But those descriptions are a step or layer up from unified. And, out of these, even less fundamental traits can arise, especially as they interact with the generative limits and manifest physically or inspirationally, like nurturing, relational, curious, aggressive, sacrificial, etc. It’s closer to the truth to describe the fundamental consciousness as being made of love instead of it as a personality trait, or love is the thing that most accurately represents our fundamental true nature. Further, it’s impossible to define love or describe any particular aspect of unity because it would then be disunified, a reduction or caricature. It’s simply what we are.
The Unified Decision
The only definitive effable thing I can say in the physical about our fundamental ethos is that we chose to have relationship & experience above all other infinite possibilities. We choose from infinite possibilities that we cannot even imagine in our ignorant, limited physical state. That choice is our highest value.
It is obvious that we share in and experience these fundamental characteristics because we originate from them. We are not separate from them. This is our origin and, as a result, is our most potent form. However, at the fundamental level, there is no power and no perception of it because there is no “other” and no relationship as such to impose upon.
Change at the deepest level is the movement of something like intention, attention, and will. Motion without resistance or fear. And there are no other options. As ‘will’ presents in the physical, it moves up a level in complexity away from the origin and to a more shallow depth of existential awareness. Resistance and overcoming both become possible.
So, the more alignment with the source, the less resistance is possible. That power is not a magic that breaks the rules; rather, it is the operative rule. The fact that resistance can be found, however, and can increase, IS the magic trick of physical creation.
As an individual physical self, the call to adventure is unavoidable; we must either seek it or run from it. Either choice becomes the adventure. That’s the dilemma of our situation, and it’s a required feature. Awakening is the exception to the rule that must exist because we are the subject and the object. We are the rule maker, so we can skirt the rule if we awaken to our deeper consciousness. In our ignorance, we call this enlightenment or freedom. Ironically, an attempt to awaken intentionally will nearly always turn into a great adventure anyway. Even more ironically, upon awakening, it is clear that we don’t want to escape the game, and we must go back to playing it. It is the precious, ethereal, hilariously fun thing we do.
The experience of struggling and overcoming novel adversarial conditions is in alignment with the deepest fundamental aspiration of the singular consciousness. So, when we voluntarily go forth into the fire, it cannot consume us, but if we run from it, we become vulnerable. We are here for the curious adventure into our ignorance, which turns out to be The ignorance, the only ignorance.
Truth hides from us, even knowing what or where it is. Currently, we have conflated facts with Truth, even among our greatest thinkers. Historically, we have conflated characters, images, rituals, and other symbols with the Truth itself. Although seemingly obvious, it is worth clarifying that words and other symbols have no intrinsic meaning; they are symbols that point to meaning in an attempt to get closer to The Truth already present in the subject. The symbols are not the meaning, nor do they hold the meaning. Facts hold absolutely no truth or meaning, but they can, in fact, point to the Truth in exactly the same way that stories made of words and other symbols do, but not more so.
I will grant the scientific method as a very rigid, reductive, reliable, and useful method to describe, frame, and assign meaning to facts. It is one of the best ways we have invented to subvert the mechanism that hides the truth from us, mostly because it allows us to hang on to what we have learned, share it, and protect it from the mechanism. It’s a type of faith in the information those before us have left. Not so different from religion. But it’s only good enough to catch glimpses of it because it still lets us believe The Truth is outside of us.
For industry and technology, there is no better method to participate in and understand the physical. However, it’s still a method that describes and assigns meaning to facts, which only reflects the power of the practitioner or stewards of the truth and not the facts themselves. Further, science also uses the same assumptions to start from, as non-science does, to seek the truth. Also, science relies on symbols to articulate and record facts. So, most of science is interpreting symbols to understand articulated facts that allow interpretations based on assumptions it can’t prove according to its own standards. The truth isn’t in the facts or symbols, but they can point to it. Then, where are they pointing?
Siddhartha Gautama, who became a Buddha (an ‘enlightened or awakened one’), expressed this distinction by saying, “I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t look at me; look at the moon.” Buddhists often use this wise device as a compass for remembering where the truth is by saying, “The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.” The moon isn’t in the finger; it’s the moon. Just like Truth isn’t in the words or symbols, it’s in the person who can think about the words and have a conscious experience in relationship to them simultaneously.
Consciousness and thinking are not the same thing. Thinking is a part and function of consciousness for us. It’s better to conceptualize them as two different things united for one purpose. Singular Fundamental Consciousness is the truth, and thinking adds a unique and useful experience of it. Only in the human body can we think about the Truth, which is ultimately thinking about ourself at the deepest level. The deepest self we are thinking about isn’t confined to this body. I think, therefore I can ask: Who am I?
We have the ability to think incorrectly or out of alignment with the Truth. So, we possess the only landscape by which there is an antithetical adversary to the Truth, and thus, we have a revealing relationship with it. Yet the Truth can only be found where it has always been. It is the only thing that has always been. When you find it, it’s not learning; it is realizing what it is, and it feels like remembering. We learn knowledge (facts & symbols) but awaken to truth (experience). Discovering the truth isn’t gaining something as if it were lost or never possessed; it is a process of revealing. This process requires interacting with both thinking and conscious experience of awareness. We already know the truth; it is what we are made of.
The Fundamental Question
Every human consideration is an attempt to answer the same fundamental question:
“Who am I?”
I urge you to ask the question directly and listen for the answer.
We have no private thoughts; everything we think is happening inside of everything else that is perceptive, and it interacts with everything that is non-perceptive that we may call matter. We are interacting with matter, and it interacts with us. Ultimately, it is also us. The same is true of space if one considers it separate from matter. At the bottom depth, it all exists as one thing and can be experienced as such in a singular manner.
Everything unifies at depth, including that feeling you feel as your deepest essence inside. Fully understanding that unity requires fully experiencing it. And when you do, and you will, it is an infinitely vast remembrance. It’s not a learning. Maybe it will happen while this body lives, maybe it won’t. There is no point in trying to awaken; the point is to play the game well. You have eternity to awaken; you only have a moment in this expression. Make the most of every moment and be the most “you” that you can be. That is what you would tell yourself; that is what you are telling yourself if you listen deep and far enough. That is what you would have to do to awaken, ironically.
God is sleeping within you, and you are the greatest living dream. It’s the one where the dream forgets it’s the dreamer.
The Universe is growing a brain, and you are a neuronic node.
And we can know alignment by measuring the utility of value hierarchy to the success of ethos. If there is no utility, then ethos or values, or both, are out of alignment. That’s the rule.
We can hear alignment as conscience if we listen. We can feel alignment as faith or optimism, which moves antithetically or reciprocally against fear and uncertainty.