The Easy Answers to the Hard Problems of Consciousness
10 Years of Spiritual Mastery Wisdom condensed into 10 minutes
TLDR: stop looking at consciousness as a problem to be solved.
Realize it as an impossible mystery to be explored eternally.
The only way science might have a breakthrough with consciousness is when the scientists stop looking at it as a problem to be solved.
To “solve” the origin of consciousness is to understand the origins of existence and the universe.
When you understand the truth and reality about consciousness, you realize it cannot be solved.
Because it is an eternal mystery. Eternally unsolvable. Eternally unknowable.
Approach it then with playfulness and curiosity.
It is a game to be played. Play it scientifically, artfully, mystically, skeptically, faithfully — it doesn’t matter, as long as you are playing.
People have become so serious about solving this problem. As though it will make any real difference. As though it will matter. As though it will fill the void in their being.
That’s what we are all seeking in the answers to this problem — meaning.
And that is the one place it can’t be found.
Meaning is found in the search, in playing with the mystery, in creation, in communion — not in the answer itself.
People have been inventing origin stories and theories of everything since ancient times. Modern stories and theories are just sophisticated refurbishments of the same old, stripped of sentimentality and romanticism.
More importantly, they are all rooted in the insecurity of the underlying truth of the unknowable.
The unfathomable, uncomfortable, unnerving truth of the eternal mystery.
The one that requires a total surrender of control and a return to trust and faith.
Not in some deity. Rather in the truth. In the knowing that everything has worked out and continues to do so, without human knowing and understanding.
We believe cracking the code will lead to the end of all debates and problems. The beginning and end of utopia. When in reality, we live in god’s image of utopia.
The universe is created as deemed to be an ultimate, self-balancing, self-preserving, self-sustaining, self-fueling, eternally expanding utopia.
Where darkness is known to be a vital ingredient in the recipe of utopia.
This is the truth we keep fighting. The truth we refuse to accept. The denial that keeps us blind to the obviousness of the answers we most desperately seek.
This is the fundamental truth realized by those who attain real enlightenment.
The obvious truth that darkness is fundamental to creation and existence.
And that the great mystery is unknowable, unsolvable, and truly eternal.
This is not a belief or a debate. It is the fundamental reality seen and known from higher consciousness. Without distortion, fear, and narrative.
Simply by witnessing reality from that level of clarity, one can know the truth.
And in that truth, one can find real peace. Which too, is the fundamental nature of our being.
Only at that level can real, lasting peace be known. Where there is no fight with reality. Where everything is seen as divinely ordered — including darkness and chaos.
This is not a resignation to evil. It is the realization that the good fight must be fought. That’s what gives our life purpose and meaning. That’s the reason and rationale to darkness — so existence has meaning.
Not to end it, rather to keep life going.
That’s the purpose of challenges, resistance, problems, obstacles, entropy, suffering, and darkness. That’s the purpose of time — to slow down, to retard, to enjoy life in the making.
Without the opposing forces, time collapses and everything is realized instantly. There is no life to be lived because everything is instantaneous. Time gives meaning to life. Not death. But time itself. For the eternally realized being, death doesn’t exist. It’s simply a change of form. Which happens countless times in every body inhabited.
The real purpose comes from opposition, which is most precisely encoded in the laws of time and eternity.
Problems that give us purpose.
Which give our individual lives meaning as we “make the world better”.
And problems that can never be solved.
Which become games that can be eternally played.
This is liberation. When you solve problems and find purpose, not to some end, but for living life itself.
You aren’t some genius for figuring out that there is no ultimate purpose to life. Mystics have known this since ancient times. They also figured out what cynics never could — the highest purpose of life is to be lived. That’s where play comes in. It is equal to living.
The one who plays with life, in all ways — having fun, getting frustrated, fucking, freaking out, solving problems, creating other problems, and just being human, being alive — that’s living enlightenment.
Which, in reality, is what most of humanity does. Just unconsciously.
We are all living perfect lives, as intended by the divine.
Your problems are not curses and punishments for your sins.
They are your divine gifts. That give your life meaning.
Yet, in the grand scheme, it’s all a cosmic play.
If you “fail” your mission, it doesn’t matter.
Nor does it matter if you succeed.
There is no eternal glory.
That’s just a dull and boring story.
All that is created to alleviate the suffering mind.
But the real freedom comes from knowing truth.
That everything is divinely designed.
That all evil is also good at the highest levels of consciousness.
That you, in “god’s” mind, wouldn’t change a thing.
Not in the way you and other humans typically think.
You wouldn’t erase suffering and darkness in an absolute way.
Sure you would grant grace — precisely and purposefully as the divine does.
Not to make problems disappear. Simply to move a story forward.
The great and grand cosmic problems are not problems at all.
They are the design of existence. Mysteries to be engaged with forever.
In “new and different ways”. Except there is nothing really new and different.
And that is the beauty of it. For the one who realizes, even engaging with the mystery is just one of the games. And there are other games to play.
Simple human games. That we all play.
Just from a different lens. Without the unnecessary drama and suffering. Unless that’s what you would like to enjoy from time to time.
The difference is that it goes from being unconscious and accidental to purposeful and intentional.
If you are looking for a guide who will remind you and teach you to make life an enjoyable game, that’s what you’ve found in me. Message to begin your journey.