ARTICLE 11

THE WESTERN SEARCH FOR GOD
IS THE EASTERN SEARCH FOR SELF

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As human beings are born their journey of life begins. Briefly, they are first a child, become an adolescent, an adult, a senior, and then they die. During this process each individual fills an imaginary book with facts about his/her life. Most people are to varying degrees, well or sick, happy or sad, rich or poor, wise or ignorant, thin or heavy, and are expressing love, disagreement or hate throughout their lives.

For countless centuries millions of human beings have experienced these aspects and many have tried to answer a major question during their lives: WHO AM I?

The younger generation is usually involved in peer activities, discovering new worlds and generally do not spend much time pondering this question. The middle years are usually demanding one’s total attention on how to survive. In the final years, as death approaches, one’s attention is usually centered on the mysterious doorway of death and aging or how to avoid painful transitions.

Throughout the many centuries that humans have populated planet earth, most have never known a different reality than the one experienced via their five senses. One of the first humans to write about the world of the five senses was Plato (428-348 BC).

In his parable of the cave he attempted to expose to the world that one’s awareness of everyday living is based on an error. He stated that humans, at first, relate to shadows on the back of a cave mistaking them for real things. In his view it was an incorrect proposition to state that the five senses relate to the real world directly, even though it could be dangerous to think differently than the popular beliefs of one’s culture (Socrates and others have been executed for doing it).

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