When I think of ideas themselves, I see DNA strands that are always seeking balance as they copy themselves and grow and form into larger and larger shapes through a series of splits and combinations, but initially, they start as a marriage of a positive and negative quality which together create a 'thing' that is perfectly balanced. When these two halves are separated, they latch on to whatever 'stuff' they can find to create another set which then grows into a larger entity that contains a slant or an inclination of a positive and negative nature. In this way, balance is maintained and reality grows by leaps and bounds macroscopically through microscopic growth. Light and darkness, for example, would be this initial interconnected DNA strand which separated at some point and grew apart in its own ways through a series of divisions and connections with things that were like light or darkness. After a division and recombination, light and darkness thus was able to form energy and matter (stuff and no-stuff imbibed with light or darkness), which created another set of these interwoven entities-new bases to further develop the reality in which we all perceive. Once this new set was created, the bases could then divide and recombine again in new ways: energy + light, energy + darkness, matter + light, matter + darkness. And on and on, the separations and re-combinations grew as they still do, taking off and blossoming from this initial idea in an exponential fractal fashion.

This is precisely why everything exists in some type of dual (e.g. conflicted) nature, how you can convince yourself so easily of the rightness or wrongness of an action since all ideas exist as a duality. But the world from which you have come, your environment, has harvested its own 'slant,' so you may have a more effective ability to work with positive aspects of a particular idea or negative aspects of a particular idea, just as certain plants can grow much more effectively in a particular type of environment that is friendly to its growth. You are more easily convinced in one way or another concerning the ability to combine types of elements in new ways because you see examples of others combining ideas in the same way around you.

All of these divisions of dualistic ideas lead to a question: what causes the division to occur, and what is the stuff that connects these newly created, incomplete pieces of ideas to new bases? This type of question reminds me of another question: how do you teach your children something new? The answer is one in which all teachers use quite frequently--by connecting a new idea to an older one that they already know using an analogy-teaching them how something is 'like' another. The analogy itself, connecting a new idea to an older one, creates a new dualistic combo-packet which is then used to further define (dare I say create?) and affect the reality in the minds and lives of others around us.

What we would define as life is the ability to reproduce, but what (or whom) is actually 'causing' the divisions and recombinations of idea packets to develop and grow? Light and darkness on its own do not really divide themselves into two distinct entities or we would consider light and darkness alive-it is our own collective conscious mind that is doing the division, requiring us to create the division through a conscious attempt, such as us putting something in the way of light to form a shadow. Our conscious mind brings life (divisions and recombinations) into the picture-our consciousness splits bases formed by others and recombines them into new bases. Without us, without consciousness, there would be no universe because there would be nothing to do the initial splitting and perceiving. It wouldn't exist! If you believe it could exist without us...for whom would it be doing the existing? There would be no planets because there would be no perceivers of those planets.

We have seen evidence of the effect consciousness has upon the universe in the lab. Without our conscious attempt to measure an electron, we can never know whether it is a particle or a wave. It exists in a field of probability, containing both states at once. When a physicist asks of the electron, are you a particle? The electron responds, "Yes, I am a particle and not a wave. I do things a wave cannot." When a physicist asks of the electron, are you a wave? The electron responds, "Yes, I am a wave and not a particle. I do things a particle cannot." To the physicist, this is an impossible contradiction since many believe that there is an objective reality that exists outside of the observer. However, to our understanding of what these 'things' are, an electron is a precise example of an idea combo-packet that can be divided and recombined to form new entities through the medium of our own consciousness.

Just as astounding, our consciousness does this dividing and recombining in what is called a 'nonlocal' manner-e.g. external to the universe itself in some other realm with no bounds, since our consciousness can affect the behavior of electrons regardless of our distance from the electron whose properties we are trying to measure. Our affect upon electrons break the barriers put into place by Einstein who said nothing travels faster than the speed of light. Quantum mechanics has shown that conscious intent of measuring an electron breaks this barrier every time. The electron knows instantaneously, impossibly, what someone is trying to see, and responds to that intent faster than light itself. Our own consciousness, then, is the universe's tachyon rays allowing events such as the exploration of black holes possible. Consciousness exists externally to create restrictions that do not apply to itself and to break them in a celestial dance of infinite growth and death.

At some point in the past, obeying this divisional rule, consciousness itself divided itself into two competing entities...one which is a form of connected consciousness and one which is a form of disconnected consciousness. On earth, this has seen the light of day by forming into two opposing thought-petri dishes. If you believe everything is connected and undefinable, you place yourself in the class of an eastern thinker. If you believe everything is disconnected and definable, you place yourself in the class of a western thinker. Depending upon which petri dish you inhabit, the protein-like substances around you are more akin to develop western or eastern type combo-packets out of the substances around you. The reality that you assist in developing is thus influenced by your ability to create and use a particular brand of substance around you.

Many of us have an inner tendency to believe that there is something wrong with the world because of wars, because of poverty, because of our destruction of the plants or of the sea, because people are Democrats and not Republicans, etc. Through all this perceived turmoil, however, and through conscious effort, wars will combine with other entities to form things which are like war, but somehow different. The positive and negative aspects of poverty will split and recombine with other entities to form things which are like poverty, but somehow different. Our destruction of the planet will form other entities that are like the destruction of the planet, but somehow different. War will not always exist in the way that it currently does, but its influence upon the structure of reality is a consequence of how the universe works and can never be undone through these combo-packets of division and recombination. It will eventually decay into a new, unrecognizable state. If you do not like war or poverty or the destruction of the planet or Democrats or Republicans, the most influential force you can bestow upon the world is to therefore give these concepts a new analogy. Use your petri dish, split the positive and negative aspects of these entities, attach them to your own bountiful selection of branded proteins, and form something new. You, then, will seemingly have done the impossible. Through you, the human race will finally have learned to grow up.