THE UNIFICATIONING
a poetic essay about the human being, chain reactions
and the word “I”

written by Mikis Mazarakis
paintings by Christine Maudy

english svenska

Friends,
Our body, our intellect, our soul and all other elements that together form the notion which we with our language have agreed upon referring to when we in our communication make use of the word “I”, is a unit.

The word “I” is possibly one of the most misused words that the human has ever put on its tongue, counting in both the discrepancy between the interpretation of the phenomenon that the word represents and the actual state of things of the phenomenon in question, and the consequences that this misconception has brought about.

The purpose of this text is not mainly to illustrate the misinterpretation and misuse of the the word “I”. I will therefore not stretch further than to give - and then follow - a short, and most certainly very simplified, line of argument in order to explain what I mean when I say that our use of the word “I” to a large extent is based on illusory conceptions of the nature of the human being.

“I”, like all words, is a word that the human has constructed thanks to the intellectual skills that have made lingustic communication possible. Lying beneath the word “I” is the idea of what “I” is. Or in other words, what one believes that “I” is. This, however, is not the question that I here aim to discuss.
Instead, I intend to talk about the limitation in our thinking that an unwary use of the word “I” inevitably creates when one is not aware that every time that we in any form make use of the word “I” it is just a part of I that we can refer to, and not the whole I.

As you can see above, a paradox occurs.
And that is the core of the argument,
that we in the word “I” have pressed in conceptions of the human being
that are conflicting.

It is for this reason that this paradox, and every other as well, has come about.
The paradox is the signal to our intellect
(in the same way the sensation of pain is being signaled to the nervous system when the organism comes in phyiscal conflict with the world outside of its membrane)
that the conceptions underlying the word “I” are not logical.

To illustrate,
if we begin by thinking of the earth‘s population as six billion human existences instead of six billion human beings. Then we think of just one of these human existences and of all that exists in it, on all levels. The physical aspect of existence (the body), the spiritual aspect of existence (the soul), the ideological aspect of existence (the intellect), the phonetical aspect of existence, the social aspect of existence, the visual aspect
of existence
the sexual aspect of existence
the creative aspect of existence
the everyday aspect of existence
the hormonal aspect of existence (mood, temper),
the logical aspect of existence (mathematical thinking)
the visionary aspect of existence,
the aesthetic aspect of existence (taste, value)
and the divine aspect of existence (love, moral, emotion, fulfillment).

These fourteen levels on which a human being exists
are to the best of my knowledge, the most fundamental.
For every level on which the human exists, there is a channel of communication
between other humans in particular and other creatures in general
and everything else in omniral (…).

The channel of communication for our intellect is language
the channel of communication for our physical body is touch
the communication of the soul is through the vibrations of the energy field, which is dictated by either love or fear or any other of the countless emotional states that a human being can experience (all of which though are basically just different variations of love and fear, to a larger or lesser extent)
for social bonds the communication is through meetings
for logic through agreement
for sexuality through the sexual act
hormonally through behaviour
phonetically through sound
visionary through longing
collectively through relations
everyday through here and now
creatively through art
aesthetically through understanding
divinely through forgiveness.

The fatal mistake with the common use of the word “I” is that the conceptions having created the idea which puts together the conception of “I” with the sound/symbol
that in written language looks as follows: I
are conceptions that come from a human‘s interpretation of itself in relation to its existence as a randomly formed unit,
a material unit where nothing exists that is not perceived by any our five physical senses,
where all forms of communication beside the material ones
are explained as “unreal”.

The word “unreal” is perhaps the most truthtwisting word in the history of the universe.
There is no unreality. There exists nothing
at all
that doesn‘t exist
that‘s not real
that‘s unreal.

The idea of unreality is one of humanity‘s biggest mistakes
and we would do a lot better off without it.

So, since we interpret it so, that the only real form of communication
is the one through physically sensed perceptions
we thereby cut off the most basic forms of communication.
Those that have been there
that have been in us
that have carried us
for billions and billions of years
and brought us together
and held us together
long before even the gases had come together
and created the nucleous
to what would then become the planet earth,
and long
long
before
the creature who called itself human
learned to communicate through speech, writing, longing and logic.

When we divide ourselves
everything will be perceived to be scattered.

When we see ourselves
as parts of something greater
as whole
as whole parts
of something greater
everything will be perceived as one.

The word “I”
in the way it is now used
comes from the divided human
who sees chaos
in perfection
and danger
in the cradle.

So have the humans become,
so have the humans learned to live
think, feel
through history
and so have the humans interpreted themselves,
and this interpretation is what has been resting
behind the word “I”
for all these years
all these years that we have cried
over what has been lost,
which we ourselves have chosen to lose
because the only solace
in the kingdom of fear
is
irrationality
and the greed
animosity
cynisism and emptiness
that this creates.

But as said, this is not the whole human being. This is not the whole you. This is not the whole me.
This is a divided me. This is just parts of me.
“I” is just parts of me.

The whole me,
is all that is here and now and that can be materially grasped
as well as all that which is here and now and that can be felt
sensed
experienced,
regardless of the way in which it is being felt,
sensed or experienced.
This is the “whole I”.

“I” is not the whole I.

“I”
is the human being who stares into the eyes of the sun
in search of the moon.

With this as reason, I would henceforth like to - and will henceforth -
when I in my writing want to depict the signs that shall represent the whole me and not the divided me, which is what we do when we in common use of language do when we say and write “I”, use the words “my organism” instead of the word “I”.

And when I use the word “I”,
then this sign represents the idea that I have
that the word “I”, in whichever form it is transmitted,
never can represent more of what is actually you
than what is transmittable through language,
the channel of communication for your organism‘s intellect.

So! Now to the text in question, whose purpose it is to describe how the process of unificationing could look. We can start by drawing up a picture of the physical aspect of the human organism.

Among much else,
we have arms, legs, fingers, feet, toes, head, neck, and more…
If we for example picture my organism‘s body
standing on one leg
trying to keep the balance
and thereafter raises the right arm,
then this movement is not taking place
without causing an effect on the rest of the body of my organism.

In order to maintain in balance
the body of my organism must compensate
for the displacement that it did when raising the right arm
by changing its weight distribution
which is done by shifting the position of the body.

The body of my organism then leans back
which in turn results in the fact that it once again
must shift the position of the body
In other words,
all movements that the bodies of our organisms perform
are mutually affecting and by that, mutually changing,
always.

As soon as our organisms move one part of their body
it is not just affecting that one part of the body,
but all parts.

We remain in the physical aspect of the human organism,
but if we now picture the inside
of the body
and observe
what is going on in there,
we discover identical processes
and functions.

For example, if the body of my organism keeps its eyes open
it receives some kind of visual impression,
a sensation,
that in the brain of my organism is mutated into interpretations
that are shaped by
and shape
that which we in common use of language refer to
when saying the word “perception”.

The nature of these interpretations
is completely dependent on which consiousness in which they have entered.
We are probably all familiar with the fact that a certain visual impression,
or any other kind of impression,
can in one organism give rise to an interpretation
resulting in for example some form of pleasant (energygiving) emotion
but that the same visual impression can for another organism be interpreted in a way
that results in an unpleasant (energydemanding) emotion.

These pleasant and unpleasant emotions, that can be described as snapshots
of the constantly billowing hormonal flow,
are affecting which signal substances to be released in the brain
which then is communicated to the nervous system
which communicates with muscles and organs
who control blood circulation and lymphatic system
and immune system and reparational functions
and so on
and so on
and so on, continuously
out to all bodily functions
and continuously
out to all
functions.

Now picture that my organism had not kept its eyes open.
The process described above would in that case never have taken place.

Instead, another, unique, process
would have occured
and would in a way never before happened
change
everything
as a result of keeping the eyes closed
instead of open.

In other words,
Everything going on in the bodies of our organisms
affect everything else that exists in the bodies of our organisms
and extended
everything else
that exists.

There is no part of the bodies of our organisms that doesn‘t incessantly affect all other parts
and is incessantly affected by all other parts.
There is no part of our body
that is isolated.

The thought is now widened
and applied not only on the bodies of our organisms
but our organisms
in whole
and their existences.

The components of the human organism‘s existence are many.
It contains a consciousness (and all in it), it contains a body (and everything happening in and with it), it contains friendships (and all that is happening with them), it contains in most cases of a residence (and all in it), it contains money (and all that we do and choose not to do with it), it contains labour (and all that it includes), it contains time (and all that it gives life), it contains a family, material possessions, nutrition, dreams, images, words, memories, emotions, thoughts.

Now visualize that the physical body with which our organisms previously kept its balance on one leg, is replaced by all these components of the existences of our organisms.
The right arm is replaced by friendships, left leg is replace by money, upper body is replaced by consciousness, toes are replaced by nutrition, fingers are replaced by labour, and so on.
If we now raise the right arm (friendships), then this action is not made without affecting not just one, but all other parts of the body, or parts of the organism‘s existence -
in order to remain by the analogy.
If a displacement of the money is then made,
it means that this also affects all other parts of the existences of our organisms.

This process is constant and incessant.
Everything that my organism does and everything happening with my organism
is constantly and incessantly affecting everything else that is happening with my organism
and extended
is constantly and incessantly affecting
everything
and is constantly and incessantly affected
by everything.

In the previous example, the analogy was posed between the bodies of our organisms
and in a widened perspective
the existences of our organisms.
In the following example, the perspective is reversed,
the analagy will be posed between the bodies of our organisms
and in a smaller perspective
the cells that make up the constituents of our organisms,
that have created them
and is constantly recreating them,
that are the closest creators
with whom the human organism can communicate.

The same processes and functions are found there as well.
Of all the billion cells that have built
and is currently building
your organism
there is not one
that is isolated
that works alone.
Each and every one is fulfilling its own, unique function
but the work that each and every one conducts
always stands in relation to the work that all other cells are conducting.

Constantly
and incessantly
and inevitably
they are affecting and they are affected by each other
collaborating
cooperating
with the common goal of making the organism which they have built
and is all the time building
to work as well as possible
and thereby making the existence
that the organism has been given
as good as possible.

Now the change is made back into a larger perspective.
We stretch from a single organism
to a bigger organism
called humanity.

The word “humanity”
is, as well, very misleading.
The idea on which the word is resting
is derived from an interpretation of all living human organisms together,
as in all living human organisms, but in singular form.
In the word “humanity” there lies no hint of creating process.
In the word “humanity” there is no feeling of something new,
something that isn‘t human, that is a new creation.
But it is exactly this that all living human organisms together actually is.
A creation.

As obvious as it is that a human is a result of billions of cells in collaboration
and therefore is to be regarded as another type of organism than the single cell,
it will soon become equally obvious
that humanity is the result of billions of human organisms in collaboration
and therefore is to be regarded as another type of organism than the human organsm.
A creation
created by the human organisms
that have been created by the cells
that have been created by the elements
that have been created by hydrogen
and helium
that have been created by that lying the deepest down,
love.
In my view, it would for this reason be a wise idea to phase out the word “humanity”
and replace it with something in the spirit of the words
“the creation of the human organisms”
which would be in better coherence with the actual nature
of that which all human organisms are together creating and constitute.

Returning to the analogy,
the body of the human organism is now replaced by the creation of the human organisms. The body becomes the collective
and the body parts become the human organisms that make up the collective.

The largest collective of human organisms is, in other words,
the creation of human organisms
which is all living human organisms together.
This creation contains, in turn,
smaller collective creations
(or social constellations)
in the shape of families
friendships
football teams
love relations
school class
societies
and so on.

In the following example, a relatively small social constellation is used (consisting of five human organisms) which are my organism and its to closest friends, called Ali and Baba,
and then Ali‘s and Baba‘s closest friends, called Sam and Son.
Now visualize my organism being the right arm. Ali is left leg. Baba is upper body.
Sam is the toes on left foot and Son is the right foot.
If my organism (right arm) is being raised, then it inevitably affects all other human organisms in the social constellation that my organism together with all other human organisms in the constellation constitute.
If Ali is displaced, then this movement is automatically exercising a mutually changing and affecting effect on all others.
The same goes for Baba,
and of course for Sam and Son as well.

This process is constant and incessant.
Everything that my organism does and everything happening with my organism
is constantly and incessantly affecting all other human organisms in the social constellations that I am a part of
and extended
is constantly and incessantly affecting
all other human organisms
since all of us together constitute
and are always creating
the largest of all human social constellation,
which used to be called “humanity”
but according to the intellect of my organism
is better understood with the words “the creation of the human organisms”
and even further extended
is constantly and incessantly affecting
all other organisms
since we all constitute
and are always creating
the largest organist social constellation of them all
which at least the intellect of my organism is not able to find a word for,
but is here proposed to be called
“the creation of the living organisms”
and even more extended
is constantly and incessantly affecting
everyting
and is constantly and incessantly affected
by everything.

Now it is believed in the intellect of my organism that the step is not big to draw the conclusion that no phenomenon
is isolated.

Everything and everyone
are part of a constant and incessant course of events of mutual effect,
callled life.

Everything
is a part of this.

Your organism
Mine
The flower
wind
fly
elephant
jelly fish
comet
solar system
energy
cell
galaxy
string
wave
field
universe
and all that is beyond.

Everything is changing,
everything is changed.

Everything is uniting
everything is united.

Everything is in unification,
everything is a unification.

Whether our organisms want to or not,
whether we are aware of it or not,
it is never the choice of our organisms to take part of this constant and incessant course of events, and no matter whether our physical body is alive or not.

All thoughts and wishess of breaking loose
of going by yourself
of not being affected
of not trying to change
can be derived
from an isolationstic interpretation of the nature of the universe
which the intellect of my organism considers to be irrational.

When our organisms at these current times
look at the planet and those living on it
things are by a large number of people perceived as worse than they should,
both on an individual and collective level.

Just like the cells that have created and are creating your organism,
have our organisms created and are creating a large unification.
We are here
to unite.
To be united.

But right now
we‘re living in a system
saying that we are here on this planet
alone,
saying that “I”
is more important than “you”,
saying that the best way to understand something
is to chop the object in question into pieces
and study each of piece by itself
isolated
taken away from the whole
and once you‘ve finished studying each piece by itself
then you can understand the whole
thanks to the sum of analysises of every isolated part,
saying that that over there has nothing to do with this right here
when as a matter of fact, that over there has everything to do with this right here,
saying I have nothing to do with you
when as a matter of fact
I have everything to do with you,
saying that the smartest you can do
is to keep your knowledge to yourself,
saying that what you have created belongs to you
and no one else
instead of saying that everything that is created
is created by us all,
saying that an action is either made in selfish interest
or altruistic interest
instead of saying that these two words
should be one,
saying that the work for the bigger unification
is a sacrifice
instead of saying that the feeling of sacrifice is only there
because the current unification
has been corrupted
kidnapped
by irrationalists
who talk like lambs
and act like wolves,
who take and pretend to give
but instead keep on taking
more and more,
saying that each and every one
should do everything by him- or herself
because each and every one
is fundamentally alone
instead of saying that each and every one
can become
each and every two
and every three
and four
and more
and when there are more
the more becomes one
and one from more
is stronger
than one from alone.

What‘s difficult is not to change the world,
but to not be paralyzed by the notion
that every step you take
changes it.

Or
what do you think?

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