We are the Self

This short idiom has been leaping

and prancing through my mind,

incessantly,
the past weeks.

Maybe months.

Cavorting somewhere

in the back rooms of my reason.

Creating quite the ruckus

as far as to keep me awake

for days on end.

It is a premise.

My personal hypothesis.
My supposition of what our world,
and more specifically,
our social structures and interactions

should be based on.
It’s not a creed I methodically live by,

but it certainly is an aspiration of where I would like

a (yes, this) society to advance towards.

A little assist for evolution and illumination.

A new Theory, if you will.

Very presumptuous, I know

but the current order is way more repulsive.

So I will take my liberties here,

in my tiny domain.

Call me arrogant,

I get called far worse every day.

Let’s be honest.

Nothing works.

Let me correct that.

Nothing that is touched and organised

by human hands,

works.

It all breaks down the beauty

of this planet

one drop,

one forest,

one species,

one miracle at a time.

It all steers toward death.
And we die along with it.

Be it slowly,

but irrefutably.

We behave like a creeping poison

petrifying one vein after the other.

I know I’m not alone in thinking

that we do not need to stay locked

in this plummeting spiral.

That’s why so many of us

are doing all those little

but magnificent things

to change our devastating bearing.

That’s why we hope

our ant’s hope,

facing the titans of convention.

Because anything is better

than the odds we are facing now.

So in believing that

We are the self

I start by assuming that we are the same.

We are all the same.

If you strip down the repressive layers

like the obvious tyranny of state and market,

but also the more surreptitious coercions

like religion, culture and morality,

and some of the biological differences

like skin colour, morphology and language

we really are the same, no?

Underneath all of that muddle

we all want the same things.

Freedom: meaning independence,

self-determination and choice.

Security: meaning safety,

refuge and sanctuary.

Sustainability: meaning mainly procreation

and to some degree, ecological stability.

All these notions combined

help to ensure and support our survival.

I’m guessing that all the raw psychology

underlying these mechanisms

is fundamentally the same in all of us.

I mean,

in the end,

we have the same objectives.

We are of one mind and

of one feeling.

Of one self.

I’d like to think that

this collective self

can be addressed.

Called upon.

Without human constructions.

The mode to address it

is universal even beyond

the bounds of this planet or galaxy.

And as simple as it is immeasurable.

It is the mystical energy we tap into
when we play music to one another.