Go - Return
_I: “Where do we come from and where are we going?” The day I met my dad, when I was 27, I went to his office to ask him to take a DNA test. He asked me why he wanted to take this test on me at this age... And I told him that I was on a path of internal growth and that I felt like I was missing an important part to integrate into myself. I realized that year that I knew a lot about the roots of my maternal family, but that there was something that did not allow me to put my feet firmly on the Earth, and that was that I did not know the history of my paternal family. So I told him that I needed to know where I came from, so I could build my path for the future. He didn't understand it, and asked _I: for example, what do you want to know? And I told him: for example, the last name, where does it come from, what does it mean? And his response was: “Look, if there is something that doesn't interest me in life, it is knowing where we come from, who we are or where we are going.” To which two sentences later he asked _I: “What do you do?” and I told him: “to explain where we come from, who we are and where we are going.”
_AM: Hehehe, the irony of life.
_I: Yes, right? It was very ironic, meeting my father, and him telling me that the last thing he is interested in is knowing exactly what I do. But I appreciate something about that conversation.
_AM: What?
_I: The projection. Generally, all mammals have a projection with their parents. It is unavoidable. We come from it, we owe it to them, we try to please them so that things go well, “you will honor your parents.” And in a certain way, we tend to follow in their footsteps, because their actions and intentions guide our walk. However, that was not my case. The greatest gift my father gave me in life was not having been there as a father. And I thanked him. He didn't understand it very well. But that strengthened our relationship. I did not have and do not have any projection on my father, any weight, no resentment or expectations of any kind. What I realized is that he was free.
_AM: I came from a world that was not interested in your world, and therefore, there were no conditions.
_I: Yes… And that's when I realized the unconditionality. I think that with my father we have that unconditional love, precisely because we do not share anything in life, but by not having expectations about the other, this led us to unconditionality, and that is why we respect what the other does without interfering.
_AM: There is a “back and forth” in balance.
_I: Yes. I discovered my origins, I managed to establish myself, and he will have discovered something, which one day he will tell me if he did it.
_AM: From conditionality, the coming and going of energy and patterns is received as Karma. While from unconditionality, that coming and going becomes Dharma. In the universe everything occurs through cycles of expansion and contraction that we can identify as the spread and integration of each part of a unit. The cosmic origin occurs in a neutral point that, due to its potentiality, expresses itself towards the external, begins to move towards the confines, to the eternal, but at the same time, returns to itself searching again for that neutral cosmos. This is what you can know as Syntropy, the unity of all turns, from the Greek “syn” (with) and “tropós” (turns, turns), as a counterpart to Entropy, coming from “ne” (within, in) and “tropós”, that is, in return, turning. Entropy describes a circumstance in which an initial effect that is driven in one direction can never return to its initial state, and its force will lead it to a transformation process in which it will always move away from the beginning. On the other hand, Syntropy describes the opposite fact, in which things tend to return to an initial harmonious state. An order like the one that started things.
_I: Everything comes back to itself, even if it is different...
_AM: In terms of karma and dharma, entropy and syntropy come together to create a scheme of the universe in which the cycles of a wave repeat initial states over and over again depending on their frequency level. Thus, unaware of this situation, a person is involved in cyclical states in which he rotates over and over again, repeating the same thing, whether day by day, year by year, relationship by relationship or life by life. If he does not change his vibrational state, he will go through the repetitions of the frequency wave over and over again, always seeing the same thing, hearing everything the same. A being aware of this can benefit from the universal repetition of the frequency.
_I: What benefit?
_AM: Foresight. Knowing what is to come, knowing the rhythms, helps us become wise, understanding the workings of life. In this way, something that we considered “karmic” becomes dharmic. And what is to come is nothing more than a return to what was.
_I: Go… And Come Back… Constantly.
_AM: The verb “Go” comes from the Indo-European “ei”, to go to a place, however, it is one of the most complex, since in Latin languages it has gone through many variations along with other verbs, such as “Essere” ( Ser), and “Vadere” (Walk), which in Spanish has given us so many variations such as: “I go” (from vadere), “I was” (from essere= ivi, ifi), “I will go” (from I will go).
_I: A very complex verb, from the family of irregular verbs. Although not like that in English...
_AM: Although English does share its irregularity in a certain aspect, especially in the past: I go, I went, I'll go. The verb “go” encourages us to move forward, it is a call forward, like a “hey!”, that draws attention to start the movement. Meanwhile, the verb “to return” describes generating a return movement: born from “volvere”, which means “to go around”, to turn on itself. In English this word can be found in “to stir”, which in Spanish would be to turn, to stir something. However, in this language the concept of return was lost, becoming “go back” = go back.
_I: But… Are we really going back?
_AM: In reality, the meaning of “return” is much more specific than simply going back, since it implies turning, going backwards, which does not imply doing the same thing, but rather traveling a path of integration. There is a tendency to see time as a line in which you extend in a straight line that takes you away from the past towards the future. This vision of life emerged with the abolition of philosophy and the implementation of monotheisms.
_I: How? Really?
_AM: Yes. In the sciences and arts, it was understood that all reality has curves, spirals, cycles. The Earth was understood to be in motion, and the circumference of the Earth had even been measured with simple experiments, more than a thousand years before Christ. In these experiments, it was possible to identify that everything in life was cyclical, and it was reaffirmed that both space and time were circular or spiral. The idea of Reincarnation was logical in cultures that saw how waters, clouds, drought, and seasons had cycles. How the stars repeated themselves every certain time, and the lunar cycles. Everything fit. Today we can even understand this much better, and even science can confirm that nothing dies but everything is transformed, it is the basic law of energy conservation, "energy readaptation", what they previously called "reincarnation of the soul." However, with the vision of the one God, to whom we all go, from which we all come, the belief spread that there is only one life, and that the only possible destiny is to return to God, and those who did not comply with his laws were condemned. to return again and again. But this perspective allowed everyone to believe that there was a second chance, with which governments lost power over the people. So they decided to create the idea of an eternal Hell, where after this life you would be directed not to follow divine law. This vision was very useful to the Empires, and they extended the concept of time as a line that advances, and whose only result can be returning to God.
_I: Oh, and from there these linear concepts were generated…
_AM: All possible philosophical or scientific versions were denied, returning to the idea that the world is a Flat Earth, with limits, and that we are observed from the heavens while below is hell, the underworld. The linearity of the processes brought the flatness of space and the flatness of time, and thus, the idea of going to a place was almost determined. For this reason, there is no turning back, you cannot try anything again, because life is a one-way path.
_I: But the other vision did include the return, right?
_AM: That's right. The birth of the Sun and the Moon on the horizon, the cycles of the stars, the seasons of the year, sons who look like their fathers, daughters like their mothers, the historical cycles that repeat themselves, all this gave the notion of something we will call “the Eternal Return.” This concept arises in Eastern visions of existence, in which everything is part of a constant repetition in which we only aim to repeat things, but with the intention of improving and evolving in each cycle until perfection. In the Mediterranean, this vision was coined by Zeno of Citium, around 300 BC, who in Athens preached his philosophy from a painted porch to which everyone came to listen. Portico was called “Stoa”, and therefore, those who approached the portico were the “Stoics” (stoaikós). They said that the world was going through a constant cycle in which things were repeated incessantly, and to do so at the end of the cycle everything was consumed in fire and from the ashes the world itself rose. They said that to free oneself from this cycle it was necessary to detach oneself from the merits, successes and all the pleasures of the material that unites us to this cyclical world, with which they based their ideas on the domain of the physical, the acts and the facts of the external world. The goal was to be happy, free and wise by getting rid of all material things.
_I: The idea of karma, then, is related to this Stoic idea in which we incessantly repeat the same things, which will be negative if we do not face mastering the physical world and transcending it to another plane of consciousness...
_AM: Exactly, although the Eastern vision did not say that, but rather said that cycles were part of learning; It was not necessary to get out of the cycle, but to improve it until it became divinity.
_I: Which makes more sense…
_AM: Well, for you. Both visions could be viable for the Universe. We will have to see which one gives better results.
_I: So when we talk about moving forward to improve or moving forward to free ourselves, both options are possible?
_AM: That's right, but your results will depend on the return. That is, leaving a cycle inevitably makes you start a new one. Returning to the beginning is inevitable even if it seems different because your eyes have changed the way they see.
_I: What do you advise me?
_AM: Return. Always come back.
_I: But when do I move forward?
_AM: Coming back. You cannot move forward by escaping the past. You understand? In a spiral or circle, any movement that involves moving forward, going forward, will only lead you to go through the same wave with its frequencies again. You will always be coming back. The only way to move forward, to go forward, is to recognize that you will go back. In the holistic vision of time and space, the line ceases to exist to become this torus of constant spirals, in which I return to the same point but creating a new option each time. Reviewing what has been done, going through what we have experienced, helps to reconstruct the wills of the future, as it helps us to possess wisdom, it makes us see that in this way we do not know the future, but that it will simply be a different form of the same wave. Whenever you go, you will be coming back. Therefore, go back, contemplate your past, discover your history, there will always be things that you have not seen, and when you discover where you come from, you will know who you are, in order to understand where you are going.
_I: The three famous questions. Where we come from?
_AM: Of having thought about the future.
_I: Where are we?
_AM: On the threshold between what we saw and what we experienced.
_I: Where are we going?
_AM: To the Origin of the idea we project.
_I: So, you could say that I come from an intention, and I am on the path to discovering why I had that intention.
_AM: And this is how you break the cycle of belief of past, present and future. There is only one real question in this entire cycle.
_I: Which one?
_AM: Going and Returning is an evolutionary path of perceptions constructed by the observer. Whenever you come back you will be going, whenever you go you will be coming back. Well, the two extremes join at the same point.
_I: Who was I? Who I am? Who will I be?
_AM: “Who am I?”… That is the question.