“I am afraid your models are nearly useless. In fact, they are catastrophically misfounded. Let me demonstrate one that represents a slight correction of your own, and, if you can truly realize its import, you may be able to begin to understand yourself and what is going on in and around you.

Your model is something like this: the universe is a bubble with bubbles in it called galaxies, made of bubbles called stars and worlds. Worlds make bubbles called organisms, which are individuals. This is too simple by far, but it is also absurd, and not much like what is going on. It is, actually, like -language about what is going on- and so its structure is -like the language’s— and not (much) like the reality it models.

The reality it models is -more like- the following model. There is an transentient manifold of unlimited extent and perfectly unified temporality. From this impossible-to-contemplate manifold, a thing like a telescoping antenna (whose segments cross orders of material and energetic instancing) extends. Its first extension is your unique relationship to timespace.

This is, functionally, a universe that is you. The universe you see and experience as ‘around you’ is, actually, you. Each other being is the same. Somehow, these all overlap inside something which they together comprise. It is as if there are many universes with very similar structures, but in fact, they have a unification body.

The next extensions of this telescoping antenna can be thought of as galaxies, and your galaxy. Stars, and your star. Worlds, and your world. Organisms, and you. So, effectively, you are the entire universe. There is nothing ‘individual’ about you, in the sense your models imagine. You are a living antenna extended into timespace by its own source. And so is every other being around you.

The (more) correct model is a (dynamically reforming approximate metasphere) with many inward tendrils, each telescoping across the physical orders of scale, each with a ‘sensitivity array’ emerging at our order of being and scale as… the living beings we are and see.

So we are distinct, and we are one, and we are much more than any of those ideas can possibly convey. When we look into each other’s eyes, what we see goes -all the way across the extensions of orders- back to the original, dynamic unifying body. This is, in part, why living eyes are ‘infinitely deep’.

We are not individuals. We are living extensions of timespace itself. And its source.

And beyond.”

— an anonymous informant