The Center of Every Universe: A Reflection on Centrism and Consciousness
Hey, it’s great to meet again. Today, I want to talk about another aspect of the universe. This is centrism, which shows us that there is an equivalence between the large universe and the smaller I-universe. This reflection is meant to help us better understand how our perspective and our consciousness shape the universe.
Centrism: The Central Role of the Self in the Universe
Let me show you an example. These huge wind turbines here—they sound like an airplane. This is what reality looks like: a universe as a concept for the whole—everything is contained within it. I’ve been thinking about how to begin, but one must say that the materialist would argue that the universe is everything. Yesterday, I spoke about the I-universe—the I-universe is everything I know. The large universe, the cosmos, is everything humanity knows. Now, the materialist might say it’s not just what we know, but also what we don’t know. I’ve called this the ambiguity of the concept of existence elsewhere. If one proceeds in this way, they eventually come to absurd ideas like piano-playing monkeys in an infinite universe where all possibilities exist.
From a spirealistic perspective, that’s nonsense. There is only what we know and name. The thought exists. Therefore, I see a universe as everything that one can know and name. There is an analogy that begins with the self: I am always in the position of a central player, like on a stage—the star of a film. The I is always present. The periphery seems less significant.
The Universal Tendency Toward Self-Centering
We have terms like egocentrism, egoism, and many synonyms for it: self-centeredness, self-interest, selfishness, self-love, narcissism, self-centeredness, selfishness, self-focus, ego-mania, self-exaltation. These are all terms that are related to the central focus on the self. Based on how we experience the world, this is a normal thing. We are always at the center. Anyone who hasn’t received higher education might thoughtlessly blurt out, “I’m the most important.” But what is more significant is that everyone thinks this way to some extent. Some more than others, but taking one’s perspective as important is a natural thing. One must realize that this perspective exists.
Then we have on the other side, because I’m talking about universes, the issue that some believe there is only one universe. But if the universe is everything that a consciousness knows, then I can say that a consciousness is shaped through communication when people communicate. For example, the peoples around the Mediterranean thought they were at the center of the world. That’s why they called the Mediterranean the “Mediterranean.” Or the Chinese word for China means “Middle Kingdom.” The Chinese thought they were the center of the universe. The Chinese character for China is a target with an arrow in the middle.
I always say the universe is a metaphor for consciousness. Here we have the central perspective. In cosmology today, it is seen this way: From Earth, it seems as if the Earth is the center of an expansion of all galaxies—the farther away, the faster they move away. But people are wise enough not to say that Earth is the center of the universe because that would be ridiculous, especially if one considers the universe as unlimited and infinite. They say the universe has no center, and from any point, one would see the same thing. This, in my view, is a turn of materialistic science toward a more spiritual perspective. Perhaps at every point in the universe, one would perceive the same if there were a consciousness there.
The Ongoing Development of History and Knowledge
Regarding the cosmos and the movement of celestial bodies, egocentrism and self-love were widespread. People used to think that Earth was the center of the universe and that everything revolved around it, especially the sun. Today, we have the heliocentric worldview: Earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around. A few hundred years ago, this was a matter of debate. Galileo Galilei had a dispute with the Catholic Church, which said that Earth was the center of everything because God created Earth for humans. It was unimaginable that Earth could revolve around something else. The celestial bodies were created to serve humans. Galileo Galilei and Copernicus observed that Earth revolves around the sun, which is our current understanding.
There are also ideas that make this centrism of humans, this egocentrism, tangible, for example, the idea of humans as the crown of creation. From a spirealistic perspective, that seems a bit ridiculous. As part of creation and a source of information, humans are naturally not the crown of creation. An assumed God who could see everything might hear this and say, “Oh, I’ll send a few bolts of lightning.” But I think that’s part of creation—that every thought can be thought, even one of self-exaltation. This centrist view is common to every universe, which suggests that every universe is also consciousness.
The idea of humans as the crown of creation, that their thinking is unique, and they look at an unconscious nature, is a phenomenon of egocentrism. I think Plato’s Allegory of the Cave also has something to do with this. Humans believe at every moment that they are at the peak of something, and humanity as a group also does. The Allegory of the Cave shows a continuous process. Plato describes how humans naively sat in the cave and mistook the shadows on the wall for reality. Now they step into the light and see the full splendor of nature. At the same time, there is a longing for the old naivety.
The GDR was such a cave where everyone was blinded by propaganda. Capitalism seemed harsher to some, and there are people who long for the GDR. They want to go back but feel that it’s not possible. You can’t return to that naivety that existed back then. The propaganda was there, and people believed it a little, even though they knew that life in socialism wasn’t so great. It was often a waste of time, like when riding a bike and the valves were bad, and one had to wait a long time for replacements. In the West, everything was just there in a well-ordered shelf; you only had to pay the price.
In this context, it seems like we’re heading back to where we say we have to manage scarcity. History unfolds in waves—it reaches heights, but also depths. Therefore, history can never end, and knowledge can never come to a standstill. What we know today has a half-life. The idea that we are at the pinnacle is absurd, just as the idea that Earth is at the center of the universe is absurd. Equally absurd is the idea that one is the star of a film, which leads to many further implications, such as shyness. You think you’re being watched by many people, but fail to realize that everyone has their own I-universe and stands at the center of their universe.
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Article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model
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