All In Moon Shadow

Part 1 of 2 parts!

Yesterday’s post I suspect was difficult to read, and those that did likely found it boring at best! What on earth does the topic The Maze of Free Will and Other Random Acts of Consciousness have to do with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)

If nothing else it demonstrates the fact I have it. How is that? I failed to explain myself in the writing of it. Today’s post will undertake that task.

Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher described reality as shadows on the wall, made bythe people watching them while sitting in front of the wall with a fire burning behind them casting their shadow on the wall. As the fire danced the shadows danced. As seen on the wall this was construed by those people watching as reality.

Like the curtain falling in front of him exposing the Wizard of Oz to Dorothy, the shadow dance became just that as I responded to living in the AD world. My life, living, all of us are but in the clarity and the shadows shown by the lightness of the moon. What we see and believe it to be is not.

If this was for real, we would not need birth to get in and death to get out. We would not need a mind with which to think nor experience with which to learn. For what purpose would any of this be?

From conclusion drawn simply from logic, (logic being one of our inherent proclivities) there has to be more than what we believe this world to be. If it is not life in our universe is no more than a paradox that defies that basic law that day follows night and 1 + 1 = 2.

Science relies on this kind of order to its knowing everything about our world. If not for that planes would not fly, bombs would not explode, x-ray would not work. Is technology and gravity something we can’t depend on; something denying any conclusion reached by us in our day to day activity?

When I was told “It’s AD” I asked why? My answer became “It’s all in the Moon Shadow!

Everything about the chaotic history of the happening of this my life came together into a sensible whole. With clarity I was able to see why I came into this world, the purpose I had to fulfill and the means with which to do it. The moon showed this clearly, finally.

The AD was in the moon shadow. It was there, it was something I didn’t need to see it all that well, but could not deny it was there. It was something I had to deal with and the clarity gave me enough light in which to do it.

This is metaphor I know; please excuse my Poetic Irish Heritage and my Jewish exposition of true reason. With Buddhism I was able to form it into a working model..

The Buddhist Philosophy boils down to this. It’s all Illusion; do not take it so seriously. Like a bad gas pain it too will pass.

Life is but a weigh station on our trip in the Cosmos. The Cosmos, whatever it is from which our consciousness emanates. It was conscious before will be there and conscious after we leave this body to decompose back to earth. This body has been but the Avatar through which we navigate in this unique Cyberspace we know as Life.

That is what breaking down the free will each of us knows so well and each of us understands to be uniquely ours, it starts to make sense how truly transitory living is. That is why the article yesterday was significant, deserved the comment I gave it.

Life is but a moment in something so much more of which we are or at least part.