The Grid, a Theory of Life

2007-03-13T02:05:00.000-07:00

What is Life? It is the question that generations upon generations have asked themselves.
It has led to a great diversity in religion, philosophy and science in which we try to uncover the roots of Life. It might be the ultimate quest of mankind, to understand humanity, the purpose of Being.

I have thought about it for a long time and, not being a religious person, I first tried to find an answer in modern science, particle / quantum theory. I wanted to explain ‘matter’. It led me to my own theory in which matter is not important because it doesn’t exist. But what does?

We Are, aren’t we?

That truth led me to a closer study of our personality, our inner Being. I discovered that we communicate according to a number of basic styles. I described that in a pentagram of communication styles and stated that some styles (opposite styles) cannot interact with others.

Why is that?

During our Life we experience a certain amount of conditioning to problems in interaction. From those experiences we form ‘boxes’ to which we relate if another, new empirical experience gets on our path. The ‘boxes’ trigger a feeling of ‘happiness’ or ‘unhappiness’, depending on the value we have added to the ‘box’. This feeling is the conditioning itself, it is not what we represent, it is a mere reflection of our environment and the values we learned to attach to that.

What does that mean to us?

After death we take the knowledge with us from this Life. It is not the experience from our conditioned behaviour to the experiences in Life which will add to our experiences, it is the experience we learn from being ‘ourselves’.
For that to happen we thus need to get back to our inner self. Become one with ourselves and leave the ‘boxes’ behind. An interesting work to read which is related to that is Tolle: The Power of Now. If you feel a ‘conditioned’ reaction by the mentioning of many spiritual references in that book, try something easier like Bach’s - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, or something more academic / scientific: Erich Fromm’s – The Art of Loving. The latter sounds very ‘soft’ as well (by the title) but is purely scientific. They all are targeting self-consciousness, leaving the ‘boxes’ behind, becoming more ‘creative’ so that we ultimately can be a Leader in our own field of expertise.

What is the bigger picture if Life is more than this Life?

I believe that in each Life we learn a bit and sometimes a large amount about the true ‘us’.
That is the only part we take with us to our center ‘Grid’ from which we will explore to new Lifes in order to add further ‘true’ knowledge. So, yes that is a form of reincarnation, until we have learned all the lessons we need to fill the ‘Grid’, the next phase of Life.

I tried to draw the Grid (here there are just a few, but there are hundreds..):

In the middle, one Life is represented by a blue star. Many Lifes’ Knowledge form the Grid, leading us to a higher existence beyond…
In this Life we thus needs to learn about ourselves, our communication-style. We must learn to seperate it from any conditioning…

If you take a close look at the Grid (it is just a drawing, an artificial way of trying to show the 'unshowable'), you will notice that it is all connected. All pentagrams form a motive together and every once in a while (in between 4 'Lifes') the fith Life will provide an opening towards reaching across borders / Lifes. I have added two colors:

One has an UP color (red in this case) representing the communication tyle / true person behind the soul. Here is where we can be ourselves, gain energy. By being ourselves we can be creative, add to our 'true' knowledge and be a Leader in that area.

The other is the DOWN color (purple in this case) representing the contra-type in communication. We lose energy here. It represents the 'conditioning' towards 'boxes' we made in Life. Everyone has a different contra-type. You can view my communication style model to find out which is the contra-type (opposite).