Some heavy metaphysics

[sya]

Here I’ll talk about my spiritual beliefs on how it’s possible to be something that doesn’t necessarily exist here as well as a hypothesis on how all of this is possible. Yes, I’m aware that this can be explained psychologically and I’m not discounting a psychological explanation, but that isn’t what I’m discussing here. Under the cut, I’ll be talking about hard core metaphysics in great detail and how I use it to explain how things work in a spiritual sense.

Ever since figuring out I was a protoss, I kept trying to figure out how that was even possible from a spiritual perspective. Such as how it’s possible to be something that was created for a video game, or anything deemed fictional. I quickly started questioning what the difference between fiction and non fiction was. And from a philosophical perspective, I realized that the line could get very blurry.

My own spiritual beliefs are based on a couple of different philosophies, including metaphysics, ontology, pantheism and idealism. The idealism I’m explaining here is different from the way it is used outside of philosophy. In philosophy it is defined as “ a diverse group of metaphysical views which all assert that "reality” is in some way indistinguishable or inseparable from human perception and/or understanding, that it is in some sense mentally constructed, or that it is otherwise closely connected to ideas.“ I view this from a Platonic perspective, where the mind perceives only figments of the true nature of reality from a ‘higher’ realm. I will talk more about this a few paragraphs down.

I’ll talk about another important aspect to my spirituality: creativity and energy. As I mentioned earlier, I consider myself a pantheist. I don’t view god as a single sentient person. When I say god, I’m talking about the god that was responsible for creating everything in Abrahamic religions. I view 'god’ as an energy that flows through all of reality. Everything and everyone is considered god. Nothing was ever actually created but was always in existence.

That way, I eliminate questions like who created god, on what existed before the 'beginning’ (such as the big bang), and how could everything be created out of nothing. The answer I came up is that nothingness never existed. I believe the true nature of reality is pure entropy. In this pure entropy, everything exists and that there is never a beginning or an end to reality as a whole. Rather, time exists as an infinite cycle of circles. Reality feeds itself to continue to exist. Because of all of this, everything is permitted to exist, even the unimaginable here. This includes multiple universes. Much of my spirituality involves energy work and manifestation by pulling what I want into this reality. I also believe that souls, afterlives, and reincarnations exist based on the thought that nothing dies due to it being energy.

Another thought experiment that I think about is that you can’t divide 0 by 0. The answer is undefined mathematically. In a similar way, you can’t destroy anything to create true emptiness and true unreality.

Next I’ll move on to talk about the multiverse. I’ve done my research and heard many times that the multiverse theory doesn’t necessarily accept or prove the possibility of fiction existing. Because under one framework on the multiverse theory accepted by the scientists who believe it, is that the laws of physics can’t change from universe to universe; it has to be consistent with this one.

My response to this is that other universes aren’t necessarily bound to the same laws as this one (obviously I don’t know for sure but I’m leaning towards the possibility that different universes are bound by different laws of physics. That is why I’m holding a position of skepticism). But by making this assumption that other universes have the same laws without a doubt, the burden of proof is heavy because it can’t be empirically provided. At the same time, the multiverse that fictionkin do believe are talked about in philosophy and in thought experiments. In philosophy, it’s under modal realism and possible worlds. Even though the multiverse theory that is accepted by scientists is different, the belief is still heard about in philosophy.

As I mentioned at the start, I’ll talk about platonic idealism and how it shapes how I view the nature of reality: that it is unknowable and impossible to know it for sure.

The brain and all of your senses have limitations in what you can perceive. For example, one limitation is that you can’t think of a color you’ve never seen before even though other colors exist outside the visible spectrum. No matter how much you could try to think of a different color you’ve never seen before, you can’t imagine it. So there are innate limitations when you use your 5 senses. I think that is the same thing with anything else. That is why I feel that the true nature of reality is undefinable and that you can only get glimpses of it’s nature.

I’ll use Plato’s cave allegory as an example to help explain this belief. If you don’t know what the cave allegory is, now you’ll learn:

Imagine a cave where people have been trapped all of their life. These prisoners are chained so that they can only look in front of them. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a group of people making shadow puppets basically.

The prisoners cannot see any of what is happening behind them, they are only able to see the shadows cast upon the cave wall in front of them. In the allegory, it’s suggested "that the shadows are reality for the prisoners because they have never seen anything else; they do not realize that what they see are shadows of objects in front of a fire, much less that these objects are inspired by real things outside the cave which they do not see.”

I think the way reality is perceived in the empirical, physical world are just shades of what is actually real, just like the shadow puppets. You are able to get to a 'closer’ understanding of reality by using your imagination and other abstract concepts to help you out because those concepts aren’t necessarily bound to the physical, concrete world. As to what I think can exist out there that isn’t right in front of you physically could be entirely different realities and realms.

With creativity, whether it’s drawing, writing or music, you can take those abstract concepts from other realities (including things that don’t exist here) and bring it to the concrete world through manifestation. When it comes to fictionkin, there are two possibilities. 1: The writer managed to pull up an idea through their imagination and manifest it here, or 2: The multiverse is close to infinite and what they wrote was one possibility of many. In both of these cases, the universes exist by themselves.

I’ve had very strange experiences that I feel go beyond purely empirical and psychological reasons for it being possible. These experiences include memories before I knew about the source I’m from, strange coincidences throughout my life, which includes things I find too close to be coincidental. This is an entirely different topic however which is an essay all by itself. In my mind, I have the need to find a justification on how all of these things are possible. After many years of thinking on my beliefs from even before I knew about otherkinity, I came up with a coherent conclusion.