Does anyone know why we are here

F We are here to have sex. Maybe as much as possible. Go to Option C. G We are here to be a success at H We are here to work like dogs, pay taxes, get old, get sick, and die, without ever knowing why. J "Don't ask. K We are here to have children L We are here to pass on our genes M We are here for reasons we don't understand and never will, so we're supposed to just blindly stumble through life trying to do the best we can.

Aka, we're essentially mole-people. N We are here to set goals and achieve them O We're here to evolve. Evolve into what , exactly? And why? P Behaviorism: we are here to seek pleasure and avoid pain and why is pain and pleasure here?

Q Freud: to be torn between our instincts and societal expectations - hopefully reaching some sort of compromise - until we die.

P We are here to love others. R We are here to face and overcome whatever challenges life throws at us. S We are here to try to live a secure and comfortable life, typically in spite of not knowing why we're tasked with this burden of always trying to find comfort and security, and rarely actually finding it. T The "Economy of Happiness": We are here to squeeze the maximum amount of fun and happiness possible into our lives before we die a.

W We don't know why we're here, we'll never know why we're here - and we absolutely know that for sure. X We are here to breed. Z We are here to survive - meaning, keep our physical bodies alive - for as long as possible, even though we're going to die anyway. AA We are here for no reason or purpose at all.

It's all meaningless nihilism. BB We are here for "a reason" and either ask "what exactly is that reason? CC We are here to screw around and try to have a few good times before we hit the grave. DD Psychological: We are here to work on ourselves, overcome our neurosis, understand our childhood, become a self-individualized human, release our "inner children," unleash our repressed emotions, and free up our impulses.

EE We are here to find a game worth playing, and playing it to the absolute best of our ability. GG We are here for reasons we do not understand, but we can understand if we decide to figure them out and do the work necessary to do so.

HH We are here to overcome the world. II We are here to overcome ourselves. JJ We are here to promote health instead of disease , wealth instead of poverty, wisdom instead of ignorance, love instead of indifference, justice instead of injustice, peace instead of conflict, etc. KK All we need to worry about is not doing what we're not here for; then what we are here for will take care of itself. LL We are here to find certain people who really did know why they were here such as perhaps Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao-Tzu, and others - and follow their lead.

MM We are here for something nobody else can tell us, but we can find for ourselves, like a secret code inside ourselves that only we can crack. NN We are here to change the world, or bring about "heaven on earth. OO Erich Fromm: "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. PP The Matrix : We are for food, or so that our vitality or life-force can be drained to feed parasites we can't see and know nothing about. RR We are here to attain total spiritual enlightenment.

Say we do find a way to scientifically make us capable of surviving forever, or even much longer than we do now As the quote goes TT We are here to try to find the key to immortal life before our time here runs out.

UU Shakespeare: "All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity. VV We are here to find the "Holy Grail", the "Philosopher's Stone", to become enlightened or to find ultimate knowledge.

WW We are here to do battle, either to fight evil on the side of good, or to fight good on the side of evil.

XX We are here to to learn how to love each another. YY "What is the chief end of man? The galaxies and clusters of galaxies that make up the visible universe are concentrated in a complex scaffold that surrounds a network of enormous cosmic voids. However, in addition to the "normal" matter that makes up the visible parts of the universe, scientists have discovered that there are vast amounts of unseen matter. Clearly, if we hope to understand the structure of the universe and the processes by which it formed and evolves, we must first understand the distribution of this important but unseen dark matter and the ways in which it interacts with and influences normal matter.

Though astronomers have been studying stars for thousands of years, it is only in the past 35 or so years that they have been able to employ instruments that detect light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum—from radio waves to gamma rays—to peer into the dusty clouds where stars are born in our own Galaxy.

If we are to comprehend how the universe makes stars—and planets that orbit them today—we must continue these studies with ever more powerful telescopes. How does the universe work? Are we alone? Black Holes. The Big Bang. Suit yourself. What ever works for you, you know. Thank you for reading the article anyway. Wow i loved this! I am now trying to accept and enjoy the form. Are we bored? Also, I just discovered you through this article share by Lissa!

So you speak French? Montreal, quebec! Even addictive. According to Thomas Campbell in his book My Big TOE Theory of Everything , playing a video game is using our intent to control a creature that evolves in a different world. An older or younger character than me. Well according to Thomas, WE are the characters in the simulation, and consciousness is playing us. So playing a video game is Consciousness playing a human in this Physical Mater Reality an evolved simulation , playing an electronic character in a computer based virtual reality.

Suffering beyond belief for innocent animals and children. But we have full control over how we feel about it. I was in a car crash recently.

The passenger beside me felt terrified and thought we were going to die. I felt so alive, empowered and engaged. Same life event, 2 totally different feelings about it. Clear, brilliant, calming for my nervous system. Really well written. Thanks Olivier for taking the time to consolidate and share your emerging clarity on this topic that affects me so much in my daily life and in my search for tools by which to navigate the challenges of existing.

Thanks for the great information. You have helped me understand that we matter. We are here because we are meant to. And I love how you said. It makes sense. All of it. Well the opposite is true here. This should be a book next to my bed that I only turn the page when I can repeat the message. I found the article when I googled why are we here? What is our purpose? I study Abraham Hicks, and find the teachings resonate with my belief system.

Thank you very much for the taking the time to write this for us. Of these, yours was the most explicit. I have wondered about this sort of thing for many years, now, and would like to thank you for this enlightening site. I shall sleep a little sounder tonight. Thank you once again. Well said! I definitely agree with most of what you said. I do feel that, being human, our explanations will always be limited, because we cannot completely conceive of the concepts of nothingness, always, neverending, and why.

There ultimately is no why or at least a why explanation that we look for. Ah, existential brains! Why must we wonder? Yes, there is an acceleration in the universe, like the rate at which galaxies move away from each other. But does Consciousness need to evolve at a faster rate? It may all happen simultaneously anyways…. The answer is in your title caption. Thank you for this. This pandemic has probably kept a lot of us up a night thinking existentially; me definitely. The Universe is our playground to enjoy and nurture.

So many billions of years of atomic reactions had to happen and is constantly happening in order for us to be here.

There is so much Love surrounding us. I love your comment, Rasheed. My primary practice is to accept reality and of what is out of my control.

Feeling miserable that reality should be different is an ego trip. This is not a blind spiritual bypass. We currently cannot possibly possess any amount of Shakti at this time without money and possessions, because, if that were true then our physical selves would have died a long time ago through starvation or simply perished by the cold.

We simply cannot physically exist without shelter, sustenance and companionship. No amount of meditation will change that unless the whole world does it do you see that happening? So yeah lovely post and lots of great insights, but too many flaws due to the imbalances that have steered us towards too much power and not enough grounding.

Funny, eh? Would you rather be a snow bear in Alaska? Or an antelope in Africa during a drought? Or does the Dinosaur period sounds better? They might have more knowledge or more money. And those can be acquired. The richest man and the poorest man have 1 thing in commun: we all have 24 hours in a day. The outcome depends on how we spend them. Focus on what you can change, and be surprised how far you can go.

Thank you for your shared thoughts Olivier. You have a great human attitude. You touched on many subjects and provided many explanations with well documented references. I am familiar with most of your references and concepts however, it seems like you are still bound to a dualistic view in some of the text.

Most physicists and cosmologists seem to fall into the same groove and never address the unexplainable, probably because by definition it cannot be explained, but they continuously make up magic constants or concepts to fill in the blanks to complete their holy grail of a logical explanation for our perceptions and experiences. Thank you for reading the article. Yes I am! If consciousness has created a physical world, it must be sacred.

If our souls have decided to have a human experience, I want to embrace it completely, which means also embracing the dualistic aspect of our physical material reality.

Why not embrace the human curriculum? Why be here if not to do so? Otherwise, might as well stay non-physical…. Your email address will not be published. Understanding the meaning of life… Nonduality Previous What is Transpersonal Intimacy? Evi Vogeleer on February 13, at pm. Evi vogeleer on February 13, at pm. Olivier Bessaignet on February 14, at am. Lucas on February 14, at am. Laurie on February 13, at pm.

I understand. Chavi on February 13, at pm. Loved it. So well explained!! Mary Louder on February 13, at pm. Baila on February 13, at pm. Brittany on February 14, at am. Thank you for your expression! Ben on January 19, at pm. What a load of Bulshit Reply. Olivier Bessaignet on January 20, at am. Anne-Marie on February 14, at am. Natalia baker on May 9, at am. Suffering beyond belief for innocent animals and children Reply. Olivier Bessaignet on May 20, at am.

Anne on February 14, at am. Warmly Anne Reply. Emma Harper on February 25, at pm. Ruben F Bastardo on December 29, at am. Maria on June 16, at am. Onillon Claude on September 7, at pm. Seeker on September 22, at am. In other words, there still is no point to our being here. To what end? Oblivion seems preferable.

Please help me understand if I missed something! Kathryn on October 18, at pm. Olivier Bessaignet on January 12, at pm. It may all happen simultaneously anyways… Reply. Lucifer on October 30, at am.

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