Is Consciousness Relative?

You are going to die one day. This seems scary. But is it really?

Every cell in our body dies so that we may live. The individual cells are shed constantly so that we may transform into new beings every moment of every day. These deaths do not scare us because we do not consider ourselves to be these cells, but the truth is we literally are those cells; they compose our body.

Similarly, matter is made up of atoms. Atoms are tiny, of little consequence to us, inconceivably small. On an even smaller scale atoms are composed of tiny electrons which revolve around a nucleus. Even though these particles are microscopic in nature, we know that there is a huge amount of space between electrons and the nucleus.

It almost reminds one of how there is a vast amount of space between the sun and planets and how the planets revolve around the sun, does it not? It's almost uncanny. Which begs the question: are we just tiny beings on one of the electrons on an atom?

Let us go back to our fear of death. We are convinced that because this one tiny inconsequential human body we inhabit is going to die, our being, our consciousness, will die too. But why do we assume that? Are cells not part of a greater whole & are we not like cells? If we look at how nature arranges itself the truth is we are simply a tiny part of a greater whole but because we are tiny humans with simple brains we don't yet understand how this consciousness works.

Let us theorize, then.

What if not only time is relative just as Einstein said, but consciousness itself is relative? What if each and every one of us only has one tiny perspective at a time and we just don't know that yet?

Some may say we can never know for sure, but I disagree. After all, our time of being trapped in this tiny pocket of consciousness is only temporary. Is that not wonderful? Is that not extraordinary? Your physical death is no different from the literal death of every moment and experience you've ever had. Literally everything ever vanishes simply so that we may have some more. What a grand experiment of being! What a lovely, wonderful world!

I believe we are everything all at the same time but we can't be conscious of that because it would be incomprehensibly overwhelming and our collective mind would literally be blown, unable to function properly anymore. We need our separation to be as one.

So this, then, is all one grand experiment, our consciousness playing with and deceiving itself. Even better, if you think about it, is that our experiment is continuously improving. Just as our iPhones keep getting better with each new generation, our human bodies improve and adapt to our environment more efficiently with each successive generation. Life keeps getting better and we know this to be true because we now understand evolution!

But some people are scared that one day the human race will die out. Those people are adorable. First off, in all likelihood those people will not witness the exinction of the human race. But more importantly, of course we will be extinct eventually! We will inevitably go the way of the dinosaurs (though really, have we not just developed better hardware on top our base reptilian brains? Are not dinosaurs still alive inside us? And are not human beings the iPhone to the the dinosaurs' rotary phone, the same exact thing but vastly improved?). We human bodies are doomed to be as obsolete as iPhones will someday be in the future when something better comes along, but this will merely be because we are not the best phyiscal vessel of consciousness available anymore - we will be something even better.

So there you have it. The cells in our bodies die so that we may live. We as individuals die so that new beings on earth may live. And one the day the sun will expand and the earth will be swallowed whole and the entire planet will cease to exist.

This is not a problem; this is a solution. Don't hate your individual death, a cell's death, the earth's death. Instead ask yourself: what great and awesome being does the earth die for so that it may live?