Fact
3. Not one cell of your body has ever died.
You are 3.5 billion years old.
You
were a single cell, a fertilized egg, and you
grew yourself into a creature comprised of over
100 trillion small animals all moving and communicating
in concert to weave your body, and your thoughts
within the atoms of the earth. Your living memories,
your cells and organelles came through your
parents and their parents back through all the
ancestors to when life first began. Not one
single living cell anywhere in the world has
ever died.
You
can examine some of your own cells in a microscope,
but you must rely on a century of medical research,
photographs and extensive documentation to absolutely
verify that you, and all people, and in fact
almost all the plants and animals that you can
see, begin as a single small creature (an egg,
a seed) and then grow themselves by dividing
and dividing again, constantly capturing the
elements of the planet and changing them into
themselves, and then releasing them again by
both excretion and division.
Visualize
this truth. See yourself as you were, a single
sphere over a billion times smaller than you
are now. All 100 trillion of the creatures that
now form you came from that single egg. You
grew your own body yourself, you maintain it
yourself. Yet you have no idea how you managed
to get the dividing cells to organize into yourself
nor how you are getting all 100 trillion little
animals that are your body to cycle earth atoms,
maintain your breathing, coordinate your seeing,
your reading, or your understanding. Yet you
did grow yourself, and you are creating yourself
within the atoms of the earth right now.
There
is a mind system within you of astonishing harmony and complexity. It is your mind, although you
are not consciously aware of how it works or
what it thinks, it is your mind, your awareness.
Your "conscious" mind is the communication
phase of this greater mind - "you"
are the "one" that talks to others
and to yourself. You identify your "self" with this communicator, and have a name and
base your self-identity on this and other words.
But your consciousness is only a very small
aspect of the ancient communication web that
weaves you from earth atoms.
The
astonishing and most wonderous aspect of this
truth is that the communication web, the mind
system, your mind, has been sensing the world
around it, growing more complex, advancing through
learning new ways to behave, for 3.5 billion
years.
 Life
is a continuous process existing within the
matrix of earth's atoms of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen
and nitrogen for about 3.5 billion years. The
atoms of DNA are constantly being replaced with
fresh atoms from the planet, and this spiral
weaving of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
nitrogen and phosphorous has gone on since DNA
first began to copy itself within it's specalized
self-generated association.
The
atoms of your body are the same ones that were
here 4.5 billion years ago. Your DNA and every
living cell and every living being on Earth
today has never died and has a continuous, unbroken
link to the entire 3.5 billion year memory of
evolving into what life is today.
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