The “Why” Theory
By: Herbert Wraczlavski
Tags: Life, Meaning, Purpose, Afterlife, Philosophy

The “Why” Theory

FROM “THE EXCERCISE IN FUTILITY”, H. W., 2020:

One thing we have common with animals is our fear of death. It has been with us from the beginning, guiding us through danger and giving us the reason to evolve and to devise ways of self-preservation. We thought that once we diminish the ability of predators and nature to affect us, our fear will subside and give space to a more blissful existence. To our dismay, we´ve found out that the fear not only did not subside but quite to the contrary, it became much greater. It transformed from fear of material danger into fear of our own finiteness. No cave, no shelter, no house and no castle can shield us from what itself is wholly immaterial yet everpresent within matter: the primordial longing to lose all form and to disintegrate into perfectly uniform billow of dust. We can evade death by becoming ethereal, floating throughout the galaxies, and in this state exist for many trillion of years, but that is merely a slowdown from what is inevitable: Our extinction.

We like to think of our origins in mystic ways, giving rise to a colorful parade of imaginative decorum to illustrate the unillustrable metaphysical canvas of our physicality: Gods with elephant heads, six arms, or even with a human body. Some find solace in the belief of absolute good and evil, while others swear on the energy of Cosmos.

While it is all beautiful and inventive, all that imagery obscures what is important: the core truths*. Based on what is known to us, I have tried to logically assess the characteristics of our metaphysical cradle. To my surprise, the model emerging from my reasoning in many ways aligns with existing religious teachings.

*) TRUTHS IN A SENSE WHAT COULD BE REASONABLY EXPECTED

I´ve reached following 10 core truths:

Our universe is finite; once it has started and once it will disappear. The finite universe has a beginning in the eternal universe which has always been because being cannot come from non-being. The Eternal universe is infinite in every sense. Since the eternal universe has not been created and has always been, it cannot have spatial or any other boundaries because it did not have to retreat or obey preexisting. There is One Consciousness. Because the infinite universe contains everything, it also contains one consciousness. There couldn’t be more than one, because then it wouldn’t be infinite. One Consciousness perceives all in a single present moment. Time has no meaning in The Eternal Universe, as what we understand as time is a series of states that differ from one another by various states of imperfection. One Consciousness cannot cease to be. If it ceased to be, it wouldn´t be eternal. One Consciousness cannot experience the state of non-being. Thus it dreams of it in the form of transient worlds, such as ours. Transient worlds are created wholly in One Consciousness. It dreams of every atom of every world and that atom of which it doesn´t dream is an atom that doesn´t exist. One Consciousness experiences the state of being non-eternal via transient agents (e.g. us) to whom it borrows its consciousness. The subjective existence can exist only in the transient worlds as a property of non-eternal matter.

The result of the above reasoning is a shift in perception of our finiteness. If it is true, that all exist for a reason, we must be asking the question of what is the reason for the existence of the universe with a specific attribute of being finite.

If we accept the idea of transient worlds arising and disappearing on the canvas of infinity, the reason for their transiency also must originate from the infinite universe. And if it is so, it is also there where must reside the reason for us having a consciousness.

These two specific attributes of our existence, our transiency, and our consciousness are the key to the oldest question of “Why are we here?”

THE ANSWER THEREFORE ALSO HAS TWO PARTS:

The attribute of transience tells us what our transient world represents in the infinite universe: the finiteness. The attribute of us being conscious tells us that not only there must be finiteness present in the infinite universe, but also that it must be perceived.

If this is true, the humankind has completely misunderstood mortality so far. It has always tried to conquer it as if it were its enemy, but now we see our mortality is not an enemy, it is the condition for the infinite universe to exist. Those who claim that what is eternal is perfect and what is transient imperfect are logically incorrect.

Therefore, we are not subjects of God.

God is Us and We are our Own Condition.