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Other Titles
"I"
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A Wind Under Heaven
Where Deaf People Sing
Murder in the Highest Places
Meadowbrook Under Thunder and Wind

Summary

We are made of the stuff of the universe ... the laws of which are harmonic. At our centers we are the same ... there between thoughts. During much of man's history, however, the use of awareness has been dictated by major institutions. The universal center, the "stuff", has been buried...as trillions have been spit on, cast aside, beheaded, blown-up, stoned, burned, stripped of property. Institutionalized thought has floodlighted the dark parts of mind ... euthanizing the fear of mortality ... this assuring the power of dominators. As we emerge from this darkness ... we must study how man, body and soul, relates to the awareness beyond himself. Why do we have "I"? If we are made of the stuff of the cosmos, what is throughout existence which allows "I" ... and is "I" a necessity to the entirety? There seems to be an awareness beyond and above man ... as part of man and all existence. At the center of all the "stuff" is an equality that refers to the definition of the awareness ... which is love of existence, and of what exists.

Man has the free-will to see reality or bury it. If he chooses to live far from the center of himself ... in the clouds of "brainwash" ... he is free to do so. But in that place he is, effectively, a robot. Man's make-up shares the laws allowing the cosmos to be. If the cosmos is not a machine, neither is man ... at his center or near to it. Free-will defines man if awareness is a central determinant of the physical laws that allow existence. Again, I speak of man at or near his center.

As we escape the unquestioned certainties of Institutions, mostly institutionalized "church", Science must consider that awareness precedes DNA and not the other way around ... or Science will plunge us into an even deeper age of robotism.

About the Author

Born in New Hampshire, and schooled through the University of NH...also Columbia University. U.S. army during the Korean war. Lived several years in the Aleutians, as teacher, fisherman, laborer, writer. Has traveled to Nepal eight or nine times, and to China about five times. The writing reflects this.

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Part 1

A.

Sentience resides in all things.
By Sentience I mean the awareness available to a thing ... either as "I" or part of it, as partaking of the laws necessary to existence.

Sentience is an ethereal materiality, in the sense of being able to touch, and direct, and make the material world.

All things have or will have, universal sentience, pure consciousness, acting and/or maintaining as part of both "I" and the necessary physical laws.

Universal sentience, pure consciousness, is in all things, including the cells and the "I" of man.

Relative to the cosmos ... the entirety of man's mind has "I" ... but the parts of it don't.

The atoms, molecules, cells, have universal sentience, pure consciousness ... maintaining and acting according to the laws ... as within this "I", this particular entirety.

(The body-mind can operate without "I" ... as when a mountaineer's consciousness departs, or effectively seems to, in order to observe, and he continues to climb. I'll speak of this again.