Chapter 48: The Mother of All Things
The evolution of all life forms on the earth follows the guidance of the "great subconscious", but the evolution of animals and plants other than humans mainly depends on the evolution of "body structure", that is, the evolution of DNA mentioned above, and human beings and other living forms such as animals and plants benefit from the evolution of DNA under the design of the "great subconscious", but also the evolution of "consciousness".
That is, on earth, only human beings have the ability to transform the "subconscious" into "consciousness"..The first step is to "name"; The second step is "language and writing" to enable human beings to communicate. The third step is to obtain consensus through communication and evolve into cultural, religious and social systems, which are derived from the experience of different ethnic groups and the objective environment. The fourth step is to extract from the unique experiences of different ethnic groups the universal knowledge of humanity as a whole, that is, the "truth" that can be applied everywhere.
"Truth" is the "law of the universe", but the "law of the universe" is the objective environment that human beings and the earth have to face, that is, the law of the mutual transformation of energy and matter in this time and space, and at the level of human knowledge, it is the knowledge of physics, chemistry and so on.
However, these are all objective environments, and human beings and life must also abide by the laws of life, that is, the blueprint of the "star" when designing life, and the blueprint for the design of life by the "star" is derived from all the experiences generated by the interaction with this time and space after the "star" is transformed into a "soul drop".
In other words, these are the experiences that arise from the interaction of the "stars" with the cosmic laws of our time and space, and these experiences are not only manifested in our DNA, but also in our "subconscious" human beings.
"Stars" look for breakthroughs in the evolution of life from past experiences, and human beings are the key to this.
The so-called "subconscious" is all the experiences and memories outside of the "conscious" of human beings, which is our "software program", which can be used by human beings to know how to use the "truth" about the nature of life.
For human beings, "truth" is divided into two categories, one is "the objective laws of the universe" (i.e., physics and chemistry), and the other is "the subjective nature of life" (i.e., biology, psychology, literature, religion, art, music, etc.).
To understand the "subjective nature of life", the most important thing is to share the experience of survival. If countless individuals can share the experience of survival with countless other individuals, if countless ethnic groups can share the experience of survival with other races, and more importantly, if human beings can share the experience of survival with the creatures on the earth, then the "elephant" of the "law of the universe" can be formed, so that the evolution of life on the earth can be developed by leaps and bounds.
But how do you do that? As mentioned above, human experience is not limited to "consciousness", and our "subconscious" is the treasure trove of life experience, which is the precious experience of countless beings on the earth "when they interact with the cosmic laws of this time and space in order to survive".
The origin of human civilization is "naming", and using this method of "naming", human beings have absorbed countless experiences from the "subconscious", which are shared with each other in the form of literature, art, music, and so on.
Music is actually a kind of language, and art is the intuitive perception of "truth" by human beings and expresses it in the form of images.
However, literature is to include the individual's life experience including: abstract experience obtained from the subconscious, condensed and expressed in words, and in the era when science and technology are not very developed, human beings were first in the form of chanting and word of mouth, sharing these life experiences with others, and when the process of sharing and exchange, everyone will find their own thoughts and feelings, and other people have also had these thoughts and feelings, so they can resonate, if an idea can make many people resonate, This means that this idea is getting closer to the "truth" that is the important experience of human beings to survive and evolve in this time and space.
The so-called "Tao is the way, the very way; The Tao is the law of the universe, but for the living beings, their Tao is not only the "objective law of the universe" but also the "subjective nature of life", so it is not that the Tao is limited to the laws of the universe as we generally think.
And "name" does not refer to the name of a thing alone, because a name is not just a label of a thing, it is the beginning of human consciousness and the place where the light of our human civilization is located.
Therefore, the next sentence is "the mother of all things", and only when all things have a "name" can they occupy a place in our "subjective consciousness" and become an experience that human beings can use.