When we look at the world around us, seeing creatures driven by the desire to continue to exist and to perpetuate themselves, it is easy to sense the seeming purposelessness of it all. Like all other animals, we human beings are born, we struggle to exist—to find food and shelter, to survive—and we seek out mates, and we die. But it need not be only this. There is more than this.
There are several desires that manifest themselves in us as they do in the world around us. We desire to exist. Once anything exists, it is driven by the desire to continue to exist. We desire to group together, to find commonalities between us and others and to cling and clump together. Even on the most basic level, the raw material of physical existence does this, driven by the force of gravity. We desire to connect with other beings in this world. Sexual reproduction is a form of this, but it is a very basic form of this.
All of these desires manifest themselves in us, but we are capable of experiencing them in forms that ever-more-closely approximate their truest forms. For all things in this world are ever evolving. The same pattern manifests itself on every level and scale of existence, but it manifests more fully every time it repeats itself. Like replicating DNA, it mutates with its replications, and those mutations, in their favorability, are preserved and passed on. The world favors an ever-more-accurate representation of the truest form of the most basic paradigm—the paradigm by which the whole world is created.
And so we come to learn, through our experience, what brought, and brings, the world into being. The greatest experiences give rise to the thought, “Others should be able to experience this.” And this thought manifests itself in the inclination to connect with another, to share this experience with another. And this inclination to connect gives rise to the inclination to belong, to work with the other parts of the world as a group toward the greater goal of sharing this experience. And this inclination to belong gives rise to the inclination to preserve the existence of the rest of the world, so that it might become capable of experiencing this experience.
The whole world exists to experience the Source’s experience. In fact, it is this experience that gives rise to the world. As we grow and make ourselves ever more capable of receiving this experience in its truest form, we learn experientially how much purpose there is in the world’s existence, and in our existence. And we learn—we come to know—why we are here.
We are here not merely to perpetuate our existence. We are here to become aware of our existence. We are here to give rise to more existence through the sharing of the experience that we are here to experience. At the peaks of experience, we can know why we are here. We are here to experience the experience that gives rise to the world, and that gave, and gives, rise to our own existence.
