The REAL us (tRu):

A short sidestep:

In my youth I loved speed, and one evening I was driving on a road, that at one point, narrowed due to roadworks. In addition - there was a bend right after the narrowing. The bend, the roadworks, together with trees etc, meant that my visibility in relation to oncoming traffic, was limited.

As said, it was evening and at the moment there were no cars on the road - neither in my direction or oncoming.

As I approach the narrowing (holding a reasonable high speed) there suddently was an 'inner voice' saying;

'this, young man, is going to go really bad if you don't slow down '.

For one reason or another - I listened to this inner voice and slowed down - and sure enough, as I reach the narrowing and was about to cross over and into the opposite lane, a heavy loaded truck comes around the bend, also at high speed.

In short - if I hadn't slowed down, I would have met this truck head on.

Coincidence, subconsciousness, sheer luck or...? Well, I am quite sure that the thought itself, was not a result of my own thinking....- I leave that hanging in the air for now.

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I said I would take elements from various fields regarding what's been said and written about 'the meaning of life' - primarily to see if there is any possibility of finding an explanation that makes things 'fit together' (no matter how strange the explanation itself may be). The main reason is that I believe that EVERYTHING we humans 'feel' about life, our existence, the meaning of life.....has a touch of truth - but we may not understand the whole meaning because there is too much clutter that hides the important things

There might also be an other element into this - I believe that the whole purpose behind our existence, is something that the 'creator(s)' of this universe wants to keep hidden from us.

Why? Because if we knew the whole truth - it would destroy the actual meaning behind our existence.

Lets move on; There are theories that claims that we are just parts of a computer program, a game - or - that we are some kind of 'cyborgs' or 'avatars'. Personally I don't think that we are JUST parts of a game or computer program (or just cyborgs/avatars) - but I can understand such a feeling - given that the universe/life might not been made for us at all.

But although everything we are made of (or contains), most likely are removed at some point. Then there still is a tiny, little part left of us left - namely this 'something'.

From now on, I will name it 'the REAL us' (tRu).

I think this tRu is hidden deep, deep down within us - and that is tRu os something we have absolutely NO feeling or contact with. In fact, I don't think it is going to make itself 'known' in any way as long as it has it's place of residence within the Framework.

In other words, there is NO WAY we (as a human) can 'contact' or otherwise 'influence' this tRu. It has entered this Framework 'one and only' to understand/experience what a physical life is - everything else, has NO interest. So forget spiritualism, meditation, mindfulness, soul, mind etc. etc. etc.

Sorry! But given all the previous assumtions...

I can't see any reason why tRu should interfere/interact/affect with 'the physical life' (us) at all

It's purely a 'passive' presence!

But one thing is what 'tRu' does as long as it is collecting it's physical experience and knowledge - what it does AFTER it leaves the Framework, might be a somewhat different story. 

Lets go back to this.

I mentioned that there could be other things the tRu's had to learn.

What if 'tRu' - after leaving the Framework - has to learn qualities/skills such as cooperation, respect, tolerance, trust etc?

I'm not necessarily talking about cooperation, respect, tolerance etc. as we perform/experience this towards each other as living organisms in a physical world. And further, what if those qualities can only be learned in connection with other tRu's - by creating/making a new Framework and operating that together.

What if we have the following situation:

However, the tRu's (that left the old Framework) will not enter the new Framework themself. This new Framework is made for an infinite number of other tRu's (arriving from somewhere way out in 'The Existence of Everything') that is ready to start THEIR journey through a physical world.

In other words - the tRu's MAKING the framework, are NOT the same tRu's that lives witin it, hence we have;

• EtRu (experienced tRu's - finished with their physical life)
• ItRu (inexperienced tRu's - ready to start their physical life)

As said, the tRu's living inside any framework, will NOT interact with 'us' or any other physical creatures living in a physical universe - the ItRu's are here solely to experience physical life.

However, the EtRu's - may have multiple reasons for interacting. Everything from securing that physical world(s) has a continuous flow of changes, contradictions, events (so the new ItRu's can learn) - to - securing that they (the EtRu's themselves) can learn cooperation, tolerance, respect, trust etc.

The EtRu's might even, from time to time, interact directly with 'us' (humans) - through what we may perceive as an inner voice (like the one I had), praying, religious awakening/revelation etc. Again, so that 'we' follow the right path (or rather to secure that the ItRu living deep inside us, follows the path it has chosen). 

In short; after 'the Real us' has lived a physical life (as an ItRu), it becomes an EtRu - and - together with an infinite amount of other EtRu's, they create a completely new framework (incl. a non-physical-, semi-physical- and physical dimension(s) and all the rest that is required to get a framwork going) - all of this, so that the next generation of ItRu's can enter the framework and start their journey in search of physical life experience - AND - the EtRu's themselves, can acquire cooperation, tolerance, respect, trust etc.

In other words, what we consider as 'gods' (or whatever) - are nothing else but 'ourselves'. That is, our 'gods' are nothing else than former ItRu's (from a previous framework) now acting as EtRu's of our Framework.

Does this sound completely crazy?

Maybe - but it would for sure explain the statement;

'...mankind was created in the image of god...’

Perhaps it is a statement that is much more specific than what we may have thought....

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Does the above means that there are potentially many 'gods'?

Oh, yes - an infinite amount, at least one for each and every one of us (if not more). But that is not a new thought, religions differ in that area - some operate with one god, while others refer to several.

Look at it this way - how can we (ever) determine that the voice/contact/encounter that ONE person experiences (for instance in connection with religious awakening) is of the SAME origin as to what another person experience?

After all, the only 'proof' we have - is just the sender's testimony that it is of the same origin. But if the EtRu's main task at this level is to learn cooperation, respect, tolerance, trust - then....well, what prevents them from gather together and, in some cases, just appear as 'one' towards us?

All-in-all, it raises a new question, namely if we have understood the term 'god' correctly....is it something 'divine' or...could it be a function, a quality...?

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