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A Witness To The Light
We as conscious humans, have a short history of existence in this vast universe. Our age as creatures in this universe is almost as the blink of an eye compared to the life of the universe. Nevertheless this short history holds a series of patterns, repeating again and again and it seems at least some of us are ignoring them.
The history of Jewish people is filled with the patterns of pains and joy. The joy that rises from within and the pain that is imposed on them from outside. A nation, joyful day by day with the treasure that she found deep inside the inner lands of the heart but still pain imposed by those who lacked the levels of consciousness to understand this wisdom.
The history of Jewish people is the history of resilience. The pain of those captive boys and girls who threw themselves in the sea to avoid the debauchery of the Romans is still felt after thousands of years.
Or shall we talk about a rabbi and his son who spent 13 years in a cave to guard the wisdom. These pains were not in vain; they manifested themselves in Jewish resilience. Thousands of years of being away from home and still thinking of home. This couldn't be natural. From our history we know nations that experienced a fraction of this and yet forget who they were and from where they were. They even forget their mother tongue.
But the pages of the book of Jewish history are not just written in pain, but in wisdom, understanding and consciousness. Actually, it was the pain that made it resilient. This is the tradition of this materialised universe. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was empowered by something bigger than pain that made him and his son resilient. What to us seems like a pain may not be that much of pain for him.
Spending all his years in that cave thinking and expounding on wisdom, he is just one among many.
The purest form of wisdom is the one who is being shaped in pain. This is important, without any doubt, Jewish writings are the longest world literature of wisdom and every page of it is a proof from the history.
I found myself blessed and so lucky to discover this masterpiece of humanity. 5 years ago, I left my home country Iran and relocated to Finland. After a few months of settling down, I knew I owe myself something. I started learning Hebrew, and to my surprise, after a few months I found myself in love with it just by learning the alphabet and a few first words.
Meanwhile, the Simorg project also was in process and I was thinking about the fundamental layer of it. No solution and everything was stuck. Added to this was my mental fatigue of trying to find a solution in order to create a meaningful digital architecture.
Finally, Hebrew language came into my life exactly at the time that I was needing it. Can you imagine there is a language that the word representing a thing is the same as the word representing a word. Now, I know it doesn't seem quite clear but when you are trying to architect a digital universe, you need to answer super fundamental questions, what is the existence? what represents the existence?
While you hit a deadlock answering many questions, then suddenly a miracle unfolds in front of your eyes. A language holding the blueprints of the creation. This is not accidental that a דבר (DaVaR) is carrying the meaning of both a thing, representing the existence and, the word representing the consciousness. After all, as Targum Onkelos translates the Hebrew text in Aramaic as,
$$$Verse original= וּבְרָא יי אֱלֹהִים יָת אָדָם עַפְרָא מִן אַרְעָא, וּנְפַח בְּאַפּוֹהִי נִשְׁמְתָא דְחַיֵּי וַהֲוָת בְּאָדָם לְרוּחַ מְמַלְּלָא: translation=Adonoy Elohim then formed the man, dust from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the breath of life so man became a speaking spirit. location=Targum Onkelos Genesis 2:7 direction=rtl$$$
This was a life-changing moment for me. Soon enough I started learning Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic; The medium understanding of the language and the lofty wisdom behind it was enough for me to kick-start a new architecture based on Abrahamic Consciousness, this magnificent source of wisdom. Isn't it beautiful that mankind just received one thing from G_D and through that came everything else? Consciousness was the ingredient. We can write books just about this single verse. Many things in the story of creation are created out of nothingness but the spirit! No one can say the ancients didn't have an understanding of nothingness, at least not Semites and specifically Jewish people. Torah is the evidence of highest level of consciousness, the power of seeing Nothingness and then expaning on it and sharing the precise stages of creation out of this nothingness is documented as a testimony to this consciousness.
Now, in software engineering when you start from the right thing, your building will go up right and straight. After years of failure on determining an architecture of unification, finally a practical solution manifested itself.
It is so logical, actually what Torah shared is that, it doesn't make sense for a creator to create a creature without a link to it and what is better than consciousness to be that link as this is the only possible way for that creature to get back to its creator. And you are right if you think it is impossible to create consciousness out of nothingness, it is the reminiscence of the creator which is out of the dimension of time and space of the creature. This is true about our consciousness, it is magnificent.
I will write more about implications of this decision and the fundamental layers that are extracted from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, collectively known as Abrahamic Consciousness, powering the architecture of Simorg, hopefully in future writings. But to be honest, it is all originated in Judaism and the Greek Bible and Quran are expanding and making those core ideas more clear, which it also makes them magnificent and pleasant to the eye, ear and mind to interact with.
Also, this is a topic of future writings but learning and reading Tanakh in its original language was an eye-opening experience which made me interested in the Greek Bible and the Arabic writings of the Quran. It is clear to me that if you want to unblock the beauties of these resources you need to start from the root, the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh. This stream of consciousness has a source and if you don't drink from the fountain there is a risk of having a contaminated water polluted by unnecessary hateful ideologies. Then with a heart free from any dogmatism and prejudgments it is possible to touch the consciousness which is flowing inside these writings, something that I call the Abrahamic Consciousness. The stream of consciousness is clean and bright in all three of them! Then finally through this consciousness, the highest level of love and kindness will manifest itself.
I'm still a student of Abrahamic Consciousness and hope to be able to spend more time on studying these magnificent sources of wisdom and gain a deeper understanding of them. Meanwhile, I set a personal goal to share with the world the beauties of these sources as much as I can. Hopefully, even a little, it will contribute to the effort of making a better future for humanity by the language that everyone understands, the love and kindness.
More about these beauties in a future blogs.