Everything (Everything: Gameplay Film)

Minitoons Presents

One of the first things which everybody should understand

is that every creature in the universe

that is in any way sensitive

and in any manner of speaking conscious

regards itself as a human being.

It knows and is aware of a hierarchy of beings above it

and a hierarchy of beings below it.

That is to say, that wherever you are,

and whoever you are, and whatever you are you're in the middle.

That's the game.

Your senses, extend a certain direction.

In all directions.

And therefore give you the impression of being in the middle.

Because the definition of a person

is where you look from.

Now everything in the world

feels like that.

And also, it has its own kind

you see, spiders,

and hydras,

and sea urchins, and so on,

don't look very natural to us.

We say, "Well I wouldn't want to look like that!".

But they say when they see us, well

"What kind of an awful thing is that?"

And what a lot of nonsense it does.

Now, we come here, right at the start

to an extremely important principle.

Which is:

the different points of view you get

when you change your level of magnification.

That is to say, you can look at something

with a microscope and see it a certain way.

You can look at it with a naked eye

and see it in a certain way.

You look at it with a telescope

and you see it in another way.

Now which level of magnification is the correct one?

Well obviously, they're all correct.

They're just different points of view. When we examine our bloodstreams

under a microscope, we see there's one

hell of a fight going on.

All sorts of micro-organisms

are chewing each other up.

And if we got overly fascinated

with our view of our own bloodstreams

in the microscope, we should start taking sides. Which would be fatal!

Because the health of our organism

depends of the continuance of this battle.

What is, in other words, conflict at

one level of magnification

is harmony at a higher level.

Now could it possibly be, therefore

that we, with all our problems, conflicts, neuroses, sicknesses,

political outrages, wars, tortures,

and everything that goes on in human life

are a state of conflict

which can be seen in the larger perspective

as a situation of harmony?

Every minute little fruit fly or gnat

or bacterium

I will go so far as to say

is an event upon which this

whole cosmos depends.

This thing goes both ways.

It's not only, that

every little organism which exists depends on its total environment.

The reverse is also true, that the

total environment depends on each

and every one of those little organisms.

So that you could say,

this universe consists

of a, an arrangement

of patterns

in which every event

is essential to the whole thing.

Now, we screen that idea

out of our consciousness

just as we pay attention

to the figure and ignore the background.

So,

we see one way of looking at things,

mainly, that the organism is very

frail against the environment. It lasts

a long time, the environment

but the organism lasts only a short time.

But actually, the whole thing

is arranged, in a

polar system. Where the

enormous depends on the tiny, and the tiny

depends on the enormous.

When you came into this world

there gradually arose into being the

sensation of 'I'.

And it stays there a while it goes though a development and then it drops off.

But, all the time, everywhere

there are other 'I's' starting up.