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Everything Make Sense: A Close-Notice of Life and Consciousness

By Tim Garvin

Everything Makes Sense is a bottom up exploration—and explanation—of existence itself. The manuscript opens by proposing two thought-primitives—meaning and desire—as the base-most constituents in every moment of consciousness. The discussion moves to freedom of the will, the consciousness-unconsciousness junction, considers the complementary philosophies of physicalism and neo-Darwinism, and finally, after careful and wide-ranging thought, arrives at its central conjecture—a universal intelligence produced, and is producing, the cosmos, now and now and now.

This conjecture is vaguely central to all religions, but modern science has exposed religion’s errors and simplicities. Yet since the province of religion and science is identical—the cosmos itself—opposition between these two fields has always been absurd. Everything Makes Sense exposes that absurdity and offers a resonant handshake.

As the book proceeds, always in a conversational, offhand, and direct manner—and using poetry and stories to illumine its insights—the discussion considers the nature of knowing, the sizing of desire, the opposing stations of egotism and humility, and finally examines the base-most desire within all desire, namely, the restless longing for reconnection to Being itself. Eventually the work of two cartographers of the inner world, Aurobindo Ghose and Meher Baba, is introduced and noted as identical with each other, and also identical with most spiritual thinking throughout history. Their thought is examined and elaborated and found to answer many of humanity’s most

urgent questions—and to point a direction for answering still more.

Yet Everything Makes Sense is not a religious work or petition for belief. It is an openhanded examination of the basis of intelligence and consciousness. Its supposition about the nature of the universe is reached by close-noticing existence itself and by a careful consideration of alternative explanations.

The remainder of the book elaborates the consequences of these hard-won insights and considers, among other topics, the notion of fate, the difference between morality and good and bad, politics, psychedelics, the occult, and the change in consciousness currently overtaking the earth. As trickles of new awareness gather into streams, and science bends itself to a waiting field of exploration, the inner world Everything Makes Sense describes will likely become evident to instrumentation. When this occurs, mankind will have developed a new science in which the aims of prosperity and of human valuing are identical.

Carl Jung remarked that the neurosis of his patients usually dissipated when they discovered a good reason for living. Everything Makes Sense is an effort to provide that reason.