Late night ramblings

During our life 500,000 cells die each second, each day about 50 billion cells in our body are replaced, resulting in a new body each year. So cell death is totally different from body death when you eventually die. During our life our body changes continuously, each day, each minute, each second. Each year about 98% of our molecules and atoms in our body have been replaced. Each living being is in an unstable balance of two opposing processes of continual disintegration and integration. But no one realizes this constant change. And from where comes the continuity of our continually changing body? Cells are just the building blocks of our body, like the bricks of a house, but who is the architect, who coordinates the building of this house. When someone has died, only mortal remains are left: only matter. But where is the director of the body? What about our consciousness when we die? Is someone his body, or do we “have” a body? Better yet, am I simply a body of cells and fluids; am I a body which is tied to a soul; or am I a soul that is temporarily possessing a body. If so could it be that the I that is the real me, my soul, already exist in an extra dimentional place out side the body, but linked in a body/mind/spirit relationship. And, if so, then perhaps it is that what I do here while possessing this body is what determines the dwelling place of my soul, a direct reflection. As I become either acts of hate or acts of love in this life, I am eminating onto my soul, and the dimention of which it exists, the light or darkness that will forever become its place once the earthly body is gone. In essence Heaven or Hell, but in an energetic or multi-dimentional sense rather than a physical one.




There are just so many rabbit trails to go down with this series of thoughts: for example, if 98% of our material bodies change completley within a year, then how is it that we can retain memories for decades? This only adds to the hard pro...blem of consciousness, and supports the idea that though thoughts are influenced by the matter of the brain, they actually originate and exist in a dimention higher than that of the matter itself. Perhaps thoughts are something like radio waves from God, and our individual minds are merely organic transducers of consciousness. This is why individual consciousness seems subjective, but really it is just a very small part of the total universal and objective state of consciousness, something like Jung's idea of the shared collective unconscious.




Patterns everywhere... 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55... existing in and around us, like pieces of a holligram. 50 billion cells each day, 40 thousand people, 1,000 stars... The atom, the solar system, the galaxy... Branches on a tree, veins in a leaf, our lives, ripples on a pond, waves in the ocean... all just the rantings of a mind that needs to fall asleep