Awareness as Alpha and Omega

It is true that awareness is the beginning and end. Awareness becomes aware through the filters of perception based on a past of a world out there and circumstances and occasions such as a mother dying. This means a whole host of things to many different cultures. In many native cultures death is considered the greatest point reached in a long and well-lived life. The mourning process for these people is way different than our own here in the West.

However, this is not the topic awareness chooses to follow at the moment. The point is that awareness becomes aware of an event (like a mother dying) and it sparks the inward corresponding emotions made up of chemicals released from the glands of the endocrine system. Yet, these chemicals released for many in western civilization are far different than those released by the awareness of a mother dying in a lot of native cultures. These people have less harm on their bodies because of it. There is less stress in general in lesser technologically and economically developed countries. This is hard to believe for those who feel comfortable here in the west with our apartments and houses and cars and jobs and 401k plans and warm clothing from Wal Mart, etc.

Truth be told, studies show beyond argument that the highest rates of deaths by murder, heart attack, breast cancer, and other stress oriented diseases actually occur here in the United States. So if it is merely a perception based on self-agreed-upon interpretations of the experiences of events that have occurred in our lives, then how easy it is to bring real joy and longevity to a life well deserving of life.

In the late 70's and early 80's molecular psychology and neurochemistry were becoming hit with the reality that awareness itself is the a priori beginning of bodily reactions and tensity within the muscles. During tests using rat's brains (which it need not be said how the author feels about such things) scientists discovered that rats have the very much the same brain chemistry as humans do. GABA, the neurotransmitter that keeps the brain balanced is common with rats as it is with humans. When rats and humans have low GABA output in our brains we become more irritable and violent prone.

There was an experiment with rats where the scientists took a violent rat with low GABA levels and put it in a cage with rats of normal GABA levels, thus they were more peaceful, and the violent prone rat killed one of the peaceful rats. The balanced GABA level rats, just by witnessing this violent even, had their own GABA levels drop, thus making themselves more unbalanced and prone to depression, irritability, and violence toward themselves and/or others. Awareness was the beginning of these bodily occurrences. So the phrase “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change” has a lot more meaning here. The way we take in our experiences and translate them based on our beliefs constructed out of the limitations of one single life in almost ten billion creates our moods and emotions and feelings. If you don't feel life important, you may have no feelings on seeing a spider killed. But if you really see life as special, you might just cry seeing something so complex and beautiful needlessly destroyed.

The relativity of factors that come together serving our every moment as it is and as we experience it are enough to make one see the illusion of choosing a belief in any one story going on here. Our idea is flawed, so long as it is an idea. The reality needs no ideas. And this is emotional equilibrium. Our understanding needn't be clung to. If it has to be clung to, then there is no true understanding.

If awareness is the beginning, then we follow back all of the sense vibrations and particles that we tend to translate as a world out there in need of our approval or disapproval, and we are left with awareness, a formless, bodiless, non-differentiated actuality existing in the very same essence in each and every living organism, as well as in each of their cells and molecules. Awareness is as gravity is: it cannot be found apart from anything, and not a thing can be found apart from gravity. Everything has gravity. And gravity and thing are never separable. Awareness is apart of all cells, all organisms, all cultures, all solar systems, all galaxies, all universes full of galaxies. Everything makes up something else, something greater, yet the same level of complexity exists everywhere. A solar system is just as complex as a human body. And an atom is just as complex as a galaxy. What's really odd is that a galaxy requires a mass of atoms, and atoms require a space filled galaxy in order to exist in. Inseparability.

Awareness, gravity, sameness, essence, whatever you wish to call it. This is a nature we all share. And any identification with anything other than this is limiting, tragic, and comical. Thus the laughter of the newly enlightened.