The Common Understanding

The Common Understanding is the fund of knowledge into which we are born; from which we spring on our journeys through human consciousness.

The beauty of the Common Understanding is that it is assembled over many centuries by ultimately selfless people. In their journeys through human consciousness many people forget the indefinable nature of the task facing them. They forget that they are here to learn and to contribute. In the course of this forgetting many of us become petty and selfish.

But this only lasts a short time, because people die, and in this ultimately selfless act they leave behind whatever they have discovered in their journey.

The sum total of all these discoveries that those of us still journeying can remember or record is the Common Understanding.

The sum total of these recorded or remembered discoveries becomes the best answer that we, through the generations, can provide to the question:

"Why are we here....?"