If not body, then what am I?

The name of this cosmologist is David Christian. He teaches an ambitious world history course that tells the story of the universe beginning some 13 billion years ago:

1. ​The universe moves from order and structure simplicity to lack of order and lack of structure complexity,
2. What we see today is staggering complexity; complexity building stage by stage to more comlexity,
3. Complexity means vulnrability and fragility,
4. 13.7 billion years ago in the beginning of time, there was nothing, nothing differentiable; to total darkness wrapped in darkness,
5. Then, suddenly bang! The universe appears, it is tiny but expanding, suddenly expanding fast,
6. Then distinct things apeear; there was light, there was differentiation, there were things we could see had we been there,
7. First different forces appear, electro-magnetism, gravity, etc,
8. Then, quarks, electrons, protons, ... helium, hydrogen, ..., then stars about 200 million years after the big bang, ..., then elements on the periodic table and matter,
9. Then planets and moons are mormed out of matter; thus our universe get formed about four and a half billion years ago,
10. Then chemical atoms in the presence of water and other liquids, DNA molecules appear leading to single cell primitive life forms, 
11. DNA molecules accumulate and store information, but this learning process is very slow,
12. It took a very long time for DNA molecules to enogh experiential learning to create human beings about 200,000 years ago,

​What then is our ultimate origin? Could a single cell organism that we were at conception exist without our parents and all the life forms right from the first primitive single cell life form that ever existed in the universe? Could that first single cell life form exist without the existence of matter? Could matter exist without the big bang? Who caused the big bang? Could anything exist without that indifferentiable unity of everything that existed before the big bank? Isn't that you are? Isn't that who I really am?

That name of this evolutionar biologist is Prosanta Chakrabarty. Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Science at Louisiana State University. In this video, he sheds light on evolution:

1. The one cell that we are at conception is an evolved successor of the primitive single cell life that appeared in the universse four billion years ago,
2. The first single cell form of life in time evolved to a wide variety of multi-cellular life forms including fish, the first vertebrate ancestor of all vertebrates, including humans, to follow; thus, we humans evolved from fish.
3. The first single cell life form had a DNA which is a characteristic of all life forms,
4. We learn from the cell bilogist that DNA contains the blue print of a particular life form, 
5. Evolution is not a stright line process ending in us,
6. The single cell life form that we are at conception has a DNA containing the evolutionary experoience, memory and intelligence of our parents and all the myriad life forms that preceded us in the chain of our existence,
7. Thus, we are connected with all life forms begining from the first single cell form, and
8. We would not have existed if the original single cell life form did not exist some four billion tyears ago. 

Aren't we really not that single cell life form that existed then and which still exists on this planet?  Watch the next video to see if that was the real original essence of our essence or a merely a link in a chain still longer.

The name of this cell biologist is Elizabeth Blackburn. She won a Nobel Prize for the research she reported in the video. Let us recall and reflect on the main points in the video:

1. We all start our existence as a single cell organism,
2. The one cell that we were had the intelligence and blue print of what we are today,
3. The one cell that we were grows into trillions of cells by cell mupliplication while billins of cells die every day,
4. The one cell that we were passedhis intelligence and memory to trillions of cells t creates
5. Our cells keep dying while we continue to live until the day of our death,
6. Disease and death is the result of telomere shortening which accompanies cell division, and
7. We can delay the rate of telomere shortening and consequential disease and death with the practice of meditation.

According to this video, what do you think we really are? Aren't we really the one cell that we were at conception? Isn't that infinitesimal organism our real essence. That is what divides itself into trillions of its replicas to grows and manifests itself as us. Yet some of its offspring become out heart cells, some brain cells, some lungs and so on. It not only divides itself as many, but it also organizes its offspring as many of our body organs so that we as huamns can survive.

How complex and how intelligent that one infinitesimal cell was that we today are! How did it become so intelligent? let su watch the next video ...