Is this a real material world we are looking at, all together? These particles combined in a dance of matter, filling, flowing, growing. I sometimes think we live in a kind of matrix, but not one imposed on us; rather, it is self-made. It's a flow of consciousness which awakens the material world. Imagine our brain being a mere radio of cosmic consciousness. We are a kind of receivers of a collective consciousness. Our radio grows with the time, it improves, it stabilizes certain connections and lets go of others. This way, we tune into a certain channel which hasn't existed before we tuned in. So we kind of decide what we receive. We are not bio-robots; we are creatures with a free will that we can impose on the stream of consciousness we receive from the cosmos.
Our brains, as we can see from patients with brain injuries, are extremely capable of compensating for missing or destroyed parts. Neuroplasticity is already a well-known theory, which makes the idea of receiving consciousness a possibility beyond science fiction novels. If we agree that our brain is a radio of cosmic energy, then the next question is: what should this flow of consciousness contain? How is the information structured so that it can flow into each language beyond semantic and cultural rules? It should also be the same energy we share with plants and animals — unified for all life, as universal information structured equally for all living cells and organisms.
Which language should it speak? We could walk along with C. G. Jung and his symbolism or forms of archetypical collective consciousness containing ideas that appear on different edges of the world, in different countries, by different people, without them ever talking or meeting each other. These symbols, however, possess a kind of emotional energy that makes them strong, empowered emotional entities.
If we now take Kant's critique of pure rationalism on the other hand and walk together with Kant and Jung on both hands, we may come one step further. Let's state that this energy coming from cosmic consciousness is formed in a fluid symbolic structure. Then, as Kant states, we need to have categories such as space and time and (argueably) twelve other categories such as entity, causality, etc., to be able to perceive the world the way we do. Kant's strength lies in this point of view, in merging the empirical and the idealist. He asks: how should human perception be structured for us to perceive this world as we do? He is not looking for a biological structure in our body, nor for a physicality of the world, but for the metaphysical structure itself that makes perception possible. We'll never see things as they are, only as we can see them.
So, adding Kant's perspective to Jung's, we get the following picture: For us to perceive this world, which, as we suggest, could be a reception and reproduction of cosmic energy circulating within and around us, we should be generally tuned, a priori, into a kind of symbolic perception which doesn't necessarily reside within us or our brains. Otherwise, we wouldn't have the same symbols and superstitions all over the world.
Maybe if we could dig deeper, we could find ways to connect even more with the world around us. If we are tuned into this cosmic symbolic way, and if we instead go into technicizing without awareness, without holding our breath and looking into the starry sky but instead looking at our smartphones, then we are poorer in perceiving, alienated from the outer world. We could instead integrate the process of technicization appearing around us and act with cautiousness and awareness toward life, people, and other beings surrounding us.
Maybe if we stay still, hold our breath for a second, and look at our shadow, our contour, our frame, our silhouette emerging from our material body, the shadow of an idea, as Plato’s cave metaphor would say, maybe then we see the universal, the symbolic, transcending genders, bodies, everything, uniting us all as living creatures walking under the same sun. We could take it as a metaphor of the all-uniting cosmic power. If it is a real world we are looking at, and as we are the ones defining reality, the answer can only be affirmative.
Yes, we were looking at the same moon, and the moon was staring back at us. It was looking back at us without distinguishing between the matter within each of us. And as we gazed back, reflecting thoughts and common energy, we realized there was no hole in the matrix. There was no matrix. No matrix at all. There was one big onething manifesting itself in every particle, every cell, every living being.
We reflected it back, and we were in no hurry. We just stood there, unaware of each other, but at the same moment, synchronistically, we knew we were there. This we emerged within us, and this completely new feeling was now here to stay. As we passed each other on the street crossing, this feeling intensified. But we didn’t look back. We just knew: we are all one.
And from that day on, each time we saw our shadows in the moonlight or sunlight, we looked at the sky and saw one another, saw existence reflecting in the light. We thanked our shadows for being friendly reminders of the great cosmic interconnectedness, of being one, overthrowing borders, countries, cities. A cosmic consciousness in our shadow, in our silhouette, in our ability to feel, to be, to share, to gaze at the sky, and to lose ourselves in crazy concepts.
Inspired by Antikythera Think Tank: www.antikythera.org, Vlad Nancăs "Human Scale" in Romanian Pavilion and Biennale of Architecture 2025, written as Écriture automatique during the interaction with drawings of Vlad Nancă
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