Dimensionality of I and Witnessing
The perceptional states and their exciting varieties of cognitive feels are brain processes. This process is possible to be replicated as ritual by external help or probably even by medical intervention. The religion, however, starts beyond this ritualism and processes. The cognitive processes and perceptional multidimensionality are means but its conscious use for specific and desired ends requires eligibility. This eligibility requires personal and very conscious enterprise. We have already talked about how happiness is actualized in two-way processes. The fact however remains that even when happiness is induced and acquired through ritualism of external attainments-possessions; they are necessarily cognitized by the same brain structures, which actualizes internal happiness sans ritualism.
Both religion and ritualism are expressions of the same ‘I’ but probably in different dimensions of ‘Me’. May be; if consciousness has the eligibility to witness, it can align the two in singular symmetry and linearity. The ‘I’ is always witnessing, whatever way ‘Me’ toggles with probabilities. May be; observance and witnessing has the same relationship, as is between rituals and religion. It probably is a matter of cognitive registry in the brain states. This needs to be clearly understood…
Probably, the toughest realization or personal experience of ‘I’ about the probability of ‘Me’ is the reality of Death – the Finality of Mortality. It is believed that mass majority of people are scared or at least uneasy-unsettled with the idea of their own death. This fear or unease is however not singularly expressed and processed. Different people accept their mortality in different ways. The apprehension and nervousness have many shades of cognition and manifestation. The process of I Witnessing Me’s inevitability of nothingness, is singular reality for all living being but, its registry and experiences are multidimensional and shaded.
There is a golden prescription, which is handed to people, from pure perspective of science. It says; before you happened, there was an infinite time landscape of nothingness, which you didn’t feel and experience. You were born and became aware of your inevitable mortality but you are not anyway apprehensive or at any discomfort about the massive nothingness, which preceded your birth. The same nothingness and in similar magnitude shall prevail for you, after your death. There is no difference in two segregated pieces of nothingness, before and after your death. However, you fear and are unsettled about the succeeding nothingness, which is perceptioned as death. The preceding nothingness, before your birth, is the same death but it doesn’t feel and experience as same.
The future and past may be equal and same entities but as I Witness Me, the cognitive realities of them become different. It is something like you see ground below from the fourth floor of your house and god down to look up at the fourth floor; the two views are not the same, even when the distance and other aspects of physicality are equal. It has got to do with some causality, which is there and impacts observance. The dimensions change and its feel alters as situation of observance changes. You fear looking down from the fourth floor but not looking up. Why?
Science says, there is no valid reason for fear of death as you must accept the later nothingness, as objectively and calmly, as you take the former one. Is it easy? Is it possible? No and yes! That probably is the cognitive difference between observance and witnessing. Is it? There may very well be some artistry of consciousness and awareness, which could actualize a reality, beyond visceral feel and experiences? Is it?
This prescription of objectivity and logicality apart; you shall still find it tough to handle the idea, feel and cognition of your death. Why? Why is it that the former nothingness is not scary but the later nothingness is? This may have many interpretations. However, one of the probabilities seems that there is this reality of ‘I and Me’, sandwiched between the two nothingnesses. The infinity of time and space, before my birth, which is somewhat a singular nothingness for me, is not unsettling as there is no element of ‘I’ in that nothingness landscape. It happened before ‘I’ happened and its definitive sense of ‘Me’ happened. The later nothingness is unsettling as there is a definitive ‘I’, which cannot in any powerful ways be dissuaded not to witness ‘Me’ in the infiniteness of nothingness, which shall succeed my death. This registry of reality is cognitive but it has its elements of truth embedded in physicality of actuality of body-brain. This I Witnessing Me is structurally embedded in the very design of brain states. Its cognitive manifestations however have subjective and personal journeys.
This potent and unputdownable reality of ‘I Witnessing Me’ is so unique, mystical and mesmerizing that almost every reality, comforting or uncomforting, has to be contextual to it. The context or filter of I As It Witnesses Me cannot be done away with. Since over 3000 years, ancient spiritualism-philosophy and now modern science are deliberating this phenomenon of ‘I Witnessing Me’ and exploring the probability of ‘I’, coming to a stage of cognition, where it has the empowered and evolved artistry of witnessing realities, in which ‘Me’ stands in poised and lasting peace-sanity with all probabilities. This is science of body-brain, as well as artistry of Consciousness.
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