The Glass Veil

There is something quiet lurking just behind the eyes, something we call human. If you look into the eyes of an animal you see only surface dwellings of emotional rationing. This being such that the animal is only capable of giving surface detail, thus animals while quite complex within their worlds have something less to own the world than humanity. Humans have that extra little bit to the world that makes them not more powerful but more unique than any other. That is our mind.

Human thought stems from neurotransmitters (the chemical messengers that travel the synaptic gap). This in truth is a chemical reaction of our nerves communicating through a long telephone line of axons, dendrites, and cell bodies. If we loose connection within that loop the communication is lost and that motion or though is never carried out. This is but the physical description of what occurs in the brain.; however, there is something much deeper than these little impulses that speed through our heads. There is the concept of the “soul” as many would put it where is the physical description for that?

It may lie in physical form just beyond the reach of our microscopes within the cracks of the synaptic gaps that allow the neurons to make the jump for connection from axon to dendrite. Sure these little chemical messengers just happen to float down to their receptor sites but what is it truly that causes them to find the specific site they are intended for? There is something more than meets the eye to these little messengers.  Then you might be able to say what makes us so different from the animals for their brains have such neurotransmitters as us. There in lies the uniqueness of the human presence. We are unexplainable even to ourselves and yet we can describe the universe through mathematics, literature, language, and ideas no other living creature can accomplish such as humanity.

There lies part of the human definition in our inability to explain ourselves. Throughout time we have sought external forces to explain the reasons for our existence. We have overlooked the self because looking inward is much more difficult than looking out at a familiar world. The world that lies deep within each person is a world unfamiliar and untraversed since man first appeared on the scene. Thus in order to explain the wonderment of our existence we placed our loyalty within the concept of “gods” or “God”. This is the reason why even within our vast technological world we still walk the earth as beings in a world with a coating dividing us from the world. We can see it but we are not truly a part of it, like a glass coating so we can see what is in front of us and touch what we wish, but we are not truly touching. We touch without touching. We see without truly seeing. There lies our explanation without explaining.

Humanity is the paradoxical creature that exists without existing.  It is until we shatter the glass coating that voids our sight of the world that we can see the world unclouded. The glass while clear is still fogged, thus we are forever amidst a fog that makes our lives unclear of meaning and purpose. Thus we’ve come to the truth of what makes humanity unique, it is this higher intelligence that has potential to become great it it would but shatter its impotence to become free and live with the universe instead of against it.