VLOG | E4 | EVERYTHING about us is Caring

So far in this channel, it has been about how the nature of reality relates to us, or universal existing that becomes actively existing in living beings, or Caring.

I also talked in the last episode about how we are Caring, how Caring is the self, or a verb rather than a noun.

In this episode, I talk about how everything about us is Caring.

From our heads to our toes, our muscles and bones, our cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and everything else, it’s all Caring.

Collections of cells that are Caring, creating human systems that are Caring, its all Caring to keep us existing.

Evolution shaped what’s living, or what’s Existing/Caring.

Reproductive systems are for collectively existing, not individually existing.

When we understand that everything about us is Caring, we can understand all else, like our mental health, emotions, and relationships.

VLOG | E3 | The Caring Self is a Verb

See previous episodes on universal existing, actively existing, and Caring — understanding that Caring is what all living beings are doing. It’s a what’s happening, as opposed to what is, for the nature of reality and living reality, especially.

Obviously, we think of ourselves as a noun, literally related to a person, place, or thing. We do not think of ourselves as a verb, or an action, something that is happening. But that is exactly what we are.

As I have emphasized in the previous episodes, like all living beings, we are Caring. Calling ourselves a human being is a useful label to distinguish our living being from other living beings. But we are not, in reality, distinguishable like that.

Let me use some examples to make my point about being a verb, a happening. We are always breathing; or, it’s not like we take one breath that lasts a lifetime. Our heart is always beating, for similar reasons. Our cells are always metabolizing — again, they continue processing energy to continue existing. Life, or living, actually, is not a thing, a noun; it’s a verb, continuously happening.

Then, on top of that, it’s knowing what living beings are doing, or constantly Caring for their continued existing. That’s how we get to the point of knowing what we are, or Caring. Drop the self word, and leave it at that, Caring. That’s what we are.

VLOG | E2 | Universal existing, consciousness, and the caring self

This episode is based on the Universal Law of Existing, which you can read in my blog post and watch in the previous episode, the first episode of this channel.

The goal here is to summarize ideas on consciousness and the self, as we human beings have debated this for centuries, probably thousands of years.

From Universal Existing, eventually we get living beings, which are actively existing, as I described in my previous episode.

From studying the research, especially the biologists who talk about how life may have began, something had to be present in living beings to continue existing, and that something would be an awareness of its in environment, especially of its food, or other sources of energy.

That is exactly where I believe awareness started, or had to start happening, and continues to be happening, in every living being.

A single cell living being has to be aware of its environment, especially of its food source; it has to distinguish between food and non-food, or the energy it needs to continue existing.

When I studied consciousness and the self in my first Master’s degree in the late 1990s, I really liked one of my professors’ book about consciousness, as he basically broke it down into two: primary consciousness and reflective consciousness.

Primary consciousness is an awareness of the world around you, which all living beings have, which I just explained. But reflective consciousness is something only a few living beings have, like perhaps dolphins, chimpanzees, and, most certainly, us human beings.

That means we are aware of ourselves like we are aware of our environment — we KNOW what we are, and that is consciousness, and the self — nothing more, nothing less.

This relates to the caring self because we living beings are actively existing, or caring, and that’s exactly what we are — our self is nothing more and nothing less than CARING.

We need to know what we are, literally because we CAN know what we are — due to reflective awareness, or reflective consciousness.

We are the caring self, similar to any living being, and that has enormous implications on how understand each other, relate to each other, and love each other.

VLOG | E1 | From the cold hard reality of existing to the warm loving embrace of caring

How can what's happening in the universe overall relate to why we love each other?

I began working on this issue in the fall of 1982 — starting with “life has to be cared for or it dies.”

Eventually, after understanding that caring is the common denominator of living beings, I had to go further -- does our caring nature relate to the nature of reality?

It does, through existing — see my blog post on January 1, 2018, for a long description of that.

https://discovery-solutions.net/blog/2017/12/30/from-the-universal-law-of-existing-to-mutually-caring-relationships

The Universal law of existing explains energy and fields, interacting and emerging, and everything that is existing.

Living beings continue existing because they are actively existing, actively caring for their continued existing; that's how we — and all living beings — are caring.

For us humans, that's how and why we are loving; we all have the need to be cared for and loved to continue existing, we all have the ability to be caring and loving.

From the cold hard reality of existing throughout the universe becomes the actively existing nature of living beings (wherever that is existing in universe), which becomes the warm loving embrace of caring to us.

Universal Law of Existing: It’s what’s “happening”

Reality is not what we see, it’s what’s “happening.”

We are not what we see, we are what’s “happening.”

Human beings emerge from interacting systems, such as cardiovascular, cognitive, and emotional response systems, among many others.

Drilling further, each human system emerges from interacting cells, cells emerge from interacting molecules, molecules emerge from interacting atoms, and atoms emerge from interacting electrons, neutrons, and protons, or quarks and leptons. And physicists and cosmologists tell us today that quarks and leptons are interacting fields, quantum vibrations of energy, that are always happening, always interacting, emerging into everything we see in the universe.

Finally, interacting and emerging is existing, or the Universal Law of Existing, as described in my January 1, 2018 blog post. Also described in the same blog post, life is “actively existing,” or caring, which, then, is the nature our reality.

To bring this full circle, we are not what we see — we are what’s happening, “actively existing,” or caring.