We are not things. We look like things but we are not things. I can bump into a table, I can bump into you as if you were a thing out there, an obstruction…
But we are not things.
When you walk into a river, you bump against a current as if this current were a thing. This current is always there – it was there yesterday when you went in for a swim and it is there today when you go in for a swim. But a current is not a thing. A current is a process not a fixity. And so are we. We are not things, we are autopoietic currents. We are… processes. We are… presence-in-progress… am-ness-in-progress…
In fact, there are no “things” per se. Even what we consider to be “things” are not immutable, unchanging objects. Even “things” are ever-dynamic currents of molecular, atomic, subatomic change. We only objectify these processes as “things” because we are unable to visually detect their ever morphing nature.
The Universe is a fluid (dynamic) Oneness. And so are you…
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