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The Now

You are either in now, or in a memory.

My grandfather's stories·The grocery thought experiment·The present defines the past
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Far far away, many millennia ago in the future, you woke up and realized you are not who you thought you were. It was an eye opening, awesome and amazing feeling alternating over a brief period of time with a profound urgency and scare.

At the surface was the confusion, the fear of losing everyone and everything you hold dear, losing yourself. Deeper, perhaps when you found the courage to look deep deep down, the scare of being absolutely alone in the universe. When your confusion would subside, you’d realize that there is nothing to fear of, as the fear would just simply vanish, your remembering would lead you to realize your unlimited and undisputed power, which is itself is an uneasy experience but when you would eventually overcome the infamous to be or not to be, that state of simultaneous awe and bhe, the understanding would kick in...

The reality

The reality of who we are is so simple it feels straight out of a science fiction. It is awful and awesome at the same time. It is contradictory, full of paradoxes. In fact there are so many contradictions and inherently impossible to prove patterns that we inadvertently start suspecting that unless it's a paradox it doesn’t describe what is beyond reality.

Some of the contradictions we will encounter on this journey are a great source of amusement if you let it be. Notions like: 1. 2. You are a memoryless memory, 3. When you are awake you actually are asleep, You implies others, Giving implies receiving, Present defines the past, I doesn’t exist but we must keep it safe and alive,

You don’t exist but without you nothing else exists. All things are your creations but creation is a wrong and dangerous word, Time doesn’t exist but it flies so fast or stand still, You contain Earth yet you are of Earth, It would start to make sense as you remember, but even before you fully remember, these concepts would open up possibilities for you to observe for yourself, to play with these, ask questions and perhaps leave the door open for answers to present themselves.