Originally Posted by
Carôusoul
Again, I'm probably not thinking of the exact same sensation or experience of the OP. But I am talking about a profound connection with everything in the world, and not being detached. I know how easy it is to condemn, I know cause I've done that most of the time.
When I go out into the town on a cold friday night here, and all I see is hardly dressed girls screaming and shouting, vomiting and drinking and creepy and overmasculine guys trying to fuck anything that's drunk. When I see these same people repeating this every weekend and living a banal and dead existence everyday in some shit filled office or stacking shelves and they only seem to have a hatred for the world. They only seem to be waiting for the next superficial release. Lives literally based on acquisition of 'things' and people being counted as another thing with this.
The problem, I think, is that what I'm talking about, this understanding, is far far deeper and more profound than anything we assume it to be. It's more profound than what you "do" in your life, more than how you act, what you want, what you even think. Like I said, it may in no way be expressed through the way someone lives their life, and they may look to us absolutely lifeless, mundane. That's how they do look to us. We think we have seen, or we have, something that they don't. I think it's true that maybe we recognise or think about this muchmore, we consider it's implications.
Why I basically have faith in people, is through my own experience of the world, directly. It seems to me that simply my experiencing, of everything in the world, this absolute sense of 'being in the world', this dasein. I remember times when I have been selfish, greedy, superficial, everything negative we recognise in people here. BUt always always I have been profoundly connected with the world in a way which has never been absent. When it would appear to the world that I'm doing nothing but a superficial pursuit, and I myself would only be thinking of greed and what I want, there has been present a sense of connection, that I did not RECOGNISE, or UNDERSTAND. This to me is one of the most profound states imaginable. I cannot concieve of consciousness without it. It seems to me to be a part of what it is to be conscious.
Most people won't find significance or recognise this sense. I have talked to enough people to find absolute wonder in all of them though. It is part of being human, to be enchanted with the world. Some show it in ways so subtle we don't see them, but I guarantee it's there. This is very hard to explain, but you know what it's like simply to experience the world? To be within the world totally, you don't need to be reflecting on this, theorising, simply to be. This is what it means to be a being. To be conscious. This is beautiful and wonderful, and though you may be superficial, disconnected on one level, at a deeper level, everyone is in this. It's somewhat beyond distinctions.
I have faith, that people, human beings, are complex. I know they are. They are so much more complex than we can imagine, and for us to cast such judgement that maybe all we see of them is all there is to see, it belittles the complexity. In a red faced fat man guzzling beer and shouting at passers by, I can find more beauty and complexity than the stars.
Think of a human life, any. Think of all the love and hate and the dreams and the billion emotions and the appreciation and the desires and the disgust and the interactions and the moments of a little smile to someone and all just perfect experience, pure experience of the world. all these things. Everyone has all of this. This is not mundane, no matter how you cast it, and to experience the world, in any way, is amazing, to me. On the very surface someone can be superficial, greedy, evil, but the mere fact of their being, their experiencing, it's a wonderful end in itself. And for me, it's evidence in every human being of a connection to the profound or as you might want to call it "the divine".
I'm not good at explaining this particular point, and this has been heavily ham fisted.
