[This is part of The System]

An Experiential Proof of Something Deeperism

[Editor’s Note: We’ve significantly abridged this essay for the present work. A complete version can be found in the appendices of the soonish to be rereleased Diary of An Adamant Lover.]

A. To be meaningful to itself, human thought (human feeling/thinking/acting) requires a Reality = Love* to motivate, ratify/justify, and explicate its own inborn rules.

*[We can sketch (poetically point-towards) Reality = Love like this: A Love that is so infinite that there isn’t really room for anything else: Love is all; a Love that chooses everything and is enough for all, with infinite Love left over.]

[Editor’s Note: The complete version of this essay advances arguments similar to those in the preceding Something Deeperism is the General Worldview That. For our present purposes, we skip down to the conclusion of part A.]

Only to the degree that we relate meaningfully to Reality = Love do we abide by our own inborn, indelible rules for coherently choosing one thought-direction over another.

(This is because the most fundamental of our inborn rules is that we should follow Reality = Love away from the worse and towards the better.

[Pause a second to feel how you long to follow Pure Love towards the True Good. Please melt these concepts into felt-notions, and then further into the underlying impulses they poetically refer to. And then you can see how well we paint the fundamentals of your psychological moment!])

Also following from needing Reality = Love to motivate, ratify, and explicate our own inborn rules of thinking, feeling, and acting:

We require Reality = Love to grant us insight into that and in what way it is True to say we are all essentially the same and are all in this together.

[Yes! Though we’re often tempted to turn others into caricatures and otherwise divest them of their humanity, deep within we believe we humans are all essentially the same and in this together. And pretending to disbelieve what we cannot help but believe points towards a fundamental Truth of human experience is like being a logical system that knowingly breaks its own rules: of course it can’t trust itself, make sense of itself, or follow itself to its own conclusions!]

[Anyway, without such insight, life is too lonely to bear; and we also don’t know what to make of everything we’ve learned by interacting with others — which is a great deal of what we think we know, and it’s impossible to say where the influence begins and ends.]

B. So what are our inborn rules of thought?

In this essay, we’ve thus far mentioned the need to follow Pure Love towards what is best for all. (This follows from needing Reality = Love to motivate, ratify, and explicate our inborn rules of thought, including our need to see that and in what sense it is True to say we are all essentially the same and are all in this together.)

And in the preceding Something Deeperism is the General Worldview That we outlined what we consider the other fundamental inborn rules of thought:

(1) We must keep working to better and better follow — and for Reality = Love to better and better motivate, justify/ratify, and explicate — the universal values. (Feel/think/act aware, clear, honest, accurate, competent, compassionate, loving-kind and joyfully-together).

(2) We must keep working to better and better answer — and for Reality = Love to better and better motivate, justify/ratify, and explicate — the fundamental questions. (What is really the case? What is really going on? What is love, and how should we seek and bestow love? What is truly best? How to best fit ourselves into what is really going on so as to move towards what is truly best?)

(3) Our feelings, ideas, pictures, words, and et cetera about Reality = Love are not identical with Reality = Love; and confusing our notions about Reality = Love for Reality = Love makes Gods out of our own (oh so limited) notions and otherwise points us in the wrong direction. Therefore, we need to keep working to observe, critique, and adjust our interpretation of the unlimited Reality = Love into our limited feeling/thinking/acting.

(3b) But that’s not so bad. Who ever said we needed a (clearly impossible) literal/direct/1:1 insight into Reality = Love? We don’t. We need to work every day to better and better relate our feeling/thinking/acting to Reality = Love. And we have inborn guardrails to help keep us on track: Our inner need to serve only a Love that serves all; the universal values; the fundamental questions, and the universal spiritual practices (prayer, meditation, contemplation, studying inspired writings, fellowship; practicing loving kindness and humble seeking; and most of all seeking every moment to better and better live in and through and for the Love that chooses everyone).

C. That we need a Reality = Love to motivate, justify/ratify, and explicate the universal values, fundamental questions, and our need for Love to be Real does not prove that they Reality = Love exists, or that (supposing Reality = Love does exist) we can relate meaningfully to It.

Our psyches need R = L to exist and we need to relate meaningfully to It if we are to be internally coherent (meaningful to ourselves: able to meaningfully inhabit and travel with our own feeling/thinking/acting to our own conclusions, and thus able to meaningfully choose one thought-direction over another).

Of course, people are not formal logical systems. Our rules for feeling/thinking/acting are things of degrees, not perfect A or Not-A systems.

Therefore, it is more accurate to say:

Only to the degree we relate meaningfully to Reality = Love are we internally coherent / able to travel meaningfully with our own feeling/thinking/acting to our own conclusions; and thus able to meaningfully choose one thought-direction over another.

In any case:

Our psychological needs do not imply a R = L does exist, or that we have the capacity to relate meaningfully to a R = L.

D. Imagine now that Love is All and All is Love. Imagine that Love is an infinite explosion of infinite joyful giving beyond being and non-being. Imagine Love creating, sustaining, compassionating, and love-lifting everything up into Itself. Imagine all created things flowing together beyond one-thing and no-thing. Imagine Pure Love shining through everything/nothing. Imagine Pure Love overpowering everything/nothing and in the deepest sense already being everything/nothing.

Imagine seeking every moment for a Pure Love shining through each conscious moment. What would that Pure Love be like? It would be a part of your watching experience that cannot lie, cannot cheat, cannot be cruel, can only be gently and kind and giving and true.

And so, seeking what is wisest and best as you cannot help but do, you work every day to better and better organize your feeling, thinking, and acting around the Love that chooses everyone, and that shines so bright through everything, including your own conscious space.

E. Over and over again, we pause, drop everything, and work again to stand up straight within our own conscious moments, pushing out from within, letting the Light of Love flood us and explode out through our feeling/thinking/acting. We rest there, breathing Love in and out, letting Love dissolve all our myths, letting our whole conscious moment experience Love = Reality.

We become more meaningful to ourselves to the degree we allow the Reality = Love shining through everything to relate Itself to the rest of our conscious moments, thereby providing us with a firm foundation for feeling/thinking/acting.

Only to the degree that our feeling/thinking/acting is in sync with and flows aware and clear along with Reality = Love can we understand, believe in, or care about our own feeling/thinking/acting.

The proof of Reality = Love is beyond concepts. The proof is an experiential work-in-progress.

It was a misunderstanding of human thought to imagine we needed or could make any use of intellectual and/or emotional proofs of Reality = Love.

We don’t really understand, care about, or believe in ideas and feelings. We follow logical chains and feelingly move concepts and emotions around in our conscious spaces. And they morph and bump and create new combinations of ideas and feelings. But feelingly holding and moving ideas and feelings around doesn’t explain life to us any more than does feelingly moving sticks and stones about while building a little bridge in the creek.

What human thought can do is experience itself as a whole conscious moment and use ideas and feelings to build constantly-evolving bridges to and from the generous joy that lies beyond ideas and feelings, beyond being and nonbeing — beyond all the stories we tell ourselves and the feelings we use to force costumes of “real” and “not real” onto them.

The proof of Reality = Love is not an intellectual and/or emotional proof, but a whole-being coordination around Reality = Love.

We open up, turn ourselves inside out, push out from within, and let Love in.

We reach a tipping point within our conscious moment (ideas, feelings, and Love = Reality all relating imperfectly but still meaningly to one another) where it is more true for us to say, “Our sense of things is that Love is Real and we are all in this together — bound in and through the infinite Love that carries us all safely through” than it is for us to say, “we have no idea about what’s really going on”, or for us to say, “our dogma is the Truth”.

Here wisdom begins:

The proof of Love = Reality begins at that inner tipping point.
But it is never QED or game over.

Instead, Love = Reality calls us to work every day to gain more and more active compassionate joyous insight into that and in what way it is True to say, “We are all in this together”.

Authors: Bartleby Willard and Amble Whistletown
Copyright: Andy Mac Watson