Although
we seem to be substantial, whole, self-contained
beings, slowly growing older, we are, actually
a constant
flow of elements of the earth. Oxygen,
Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Sodium, Potassium,
and some 20 other elements - energized by
sunlight, flow through the
focus of our behavior. The elements move
through every part of us, even our bones,
and the atoms creating our appearance now
will be flushed through, exchanged for fresh
elements, by this time next year. We are dynamic,
constantly changing, on many levels, all at
once.
 The
elements flowing through us were forged in the heart of a star and formed our planet from
stellar dust some four and a half billion years ago. The elements you see when you look at
your hand at this moment are the same atoms that existed when the world began. They are
the exact same atoms of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen that were here during the
second world war, the first world war, the ancient Greek civilization, the Egyptian
civilization, and all the time it took us to evolve from bacteria to humanity. Atoms do
not pass in and out of existence or move through our imaginary past and future. Not only
the atoms are the same. The moment they inhabit is the same, too.
The elements are arranged differently today than when Earth first
congealed. The phenomenon we call life iterated a set of communications and the
patterns of elements unfolded into an expanding web of complex behavior, creating all the
living creatures and the biosphere they inhabit. The change in position and relationships
between the elements results in our appearance.
 From another perspective, appearance
has a different meaning. Each individual being appears in a given place as a result of
experienced or expected events. Events are interactions between beings and require certain
intervals to happen.
We can ask, how do we appear, now, in this place? And consider the
answer based on intervals of an hour, a lifetime, a century, a millennia, or three and a
half billion years. Each interval we select presents its own landscape of behavior
patterns.
For short intervals - an hour - we examine our personal moment to
moment behavior and the relationships we have with other beings around us. Over long
intervals, we examine evolution and the pathways of development of living beings on our
planet. On the scale of 15 billion years, we examine the creation of the universe.
In any interval, we examine the results of
intercommunications of beings as they change in a direction. We examine communications
between individual beings, families of beings, species of beings, ecosystems,
planets, stars and galaxies. Becoming is the result of webs of communications,
exchanging information with each other on increasing levels of complexity. Each level
created by the communications of the previous level.
Appearance also requires the
ability to perceive.
 We
appear as an observer,
a viewpoint, a mind
within This Magic Sea: a being revealed
by the elements of the planet passing through
its focus.
Mind regulates the passage of the elements through the focus of a
being. It gathers elements from the planet and changes their relationships and direction
of movement to form a being, and then releases them from its focus to apprehend more.
Mind controls the movement and interactions of beings from one
interval to the next.
Mind is what awareness does to create the appearance of its own web
of communications, and the appearance of other beings.
Here are 20
Facts of Life you should keep in mind.
They are important.
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