This knowledge was not something intellectual, that came much later. It was the knowledge every living being has, simply by being alive. It is functioning, and it simply gets on with the business of being alive. Every cell is full of complicated activities, that happen many times a second. It is a unified whole - what else could it be?
For humans, the situation is more complicated, because we have become many selves, and they sometimes do not work together very well.
In fact, saying this is a radical understatement - we now have a part of ourselves, that is destroying the rest of us! We are not aware of this, and cannot become aware of it.
To say more about this situation, I will have to go back in time to the Sixties, when some of us became dissatisfied with our situation - and decided to do something about it. We believed we could make a better world - and, in fact did so, with the Civil Rights movement.
But the reaction to this was overwhelming - and resulted in the Vietnam War. In ten years, we went from optimistic reform - to resignation to the inevitable. And, most importantly - no awareness of this!
This where I am today, surrounded by people who do not know what they are - and don't want to know. I am tempted to be like them - and constantly have fight against this temptation. It's amazing how easy it is for me, to switch from being me - to being not me.
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