How we exist:

Imagine a CD. Look at the side that doesn’t have writing on it. The data side.

Now, imagine a ball placed perfectly in the hole in the middle of the CD.

In your mind, paint the ball blue. This is important. You can’t understand the process unless the ball is blue.

Now, suspend the ball in infinite space. No stars. No black holes. No ether. Just darkness. The only light that is available emanates from the blue ball and is only visible on the surface of the ball and the CD.

Put yourself on the blue ball and look around. Imagine that the ball now becomes the size of the earth while you remain the same size.

If you now look out over the horizon, you see what you saw when you were created.

The ball is perfectly round and blue. The CD is perfectly flat and the color from the ball traverses the grooves of the CD to make a translucent palette on the CD’s surface. The CD seems to be infinite in depth but also seems to have a definite edge.

At this point, you have no memories, only a blank, blue palette from which to create anything that is possible.

Hang in there. We’re almost done.

The blue ball represents your existence. Anything that happens in your life is either stored inside the blue ball or is shown on the surface.

You are the only one who can occupy the space within the blue ball. All other matter and material is relegated to the CD.

Therefore, the blue ball can be thought of as your existence. Only you can experience it.

Also, the blue ball represents the present. The past is gone and the future never comes.

Now, for an example.

Say that you live in Vidalia, Georgia. At exactly this moment, you’re walking your dog down Onion Street.

For you, no other place exists. What your eye sees defines your existence in the present.

In your world at the present time, Atlanta doesn’t exist for you.

Now, if you get in your car and drive to Atlanta, it now exists in your blue ball.

The question you need to ask is what are the other people doing in Atlanta while you are walking your dog in Vidalia.

Well, they certainly exist, but only on their own blue ball.

Everyone exists on his or her own blue ball.

But, listen carefully, other people only exist in your world when you see them while you meander through your life.

To you, nothing or nobody exists until and unless you see them.

Okay, so you exist on your own blue ball and other people come into being only when you see them. But, what’s the CD for?

You need to listen to Neil Young’s Cripple Creek Ferry some time.