I’ve been listening to seminars given by Alan Watts, and the state of existence has been on my mind ever since. While most of us believe in a physical state of existence, many of us believe in a deeper meaning to life. Whether that deeper meaning is the existence of a higher power, many higher powers, nature, or nothing at all. Being someone who believes that everything is higher power, I see the disconnect between reality and the higher power, or deeper meaning to life, in the fact that we reject the idea that we are the ultimate fabric universe. To put in different terms, I am you, and you are everything that’s going on around in the universe.
Despite what I believe, I don’t see the disconnect between our physical state and metaphysical state as inherently wrong. In fact, I believe that that disconnect isn’t a disconnect at all due to the fact that the physical state we’ve created for ourselves is the metaphysical state. Yes, this leads to confusion, but think about it. When you realize that living the momentary life is the exact same as living in a metaphysical state, “you’ll laugh yourself silly” (Alan Watts).