Immigrants Are More Than Our Brothers and Sisters.

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Written By Vast Self Author

Our senses tell us that every person we meet is a different self, but is this a fact?

Our sight, hearing touch, and smell reinforce this viewpoint, and this perception drives society to what they think is best. We base all our decisions on the accuracy of our senses, rarely examining them for accuracy. Therefore, currently, it seems reasonable to care more for ourselves before family, before friends, before fellow countrymen, and still before our possessions. At the very bottom of our to-care-for-list may be an immigrant, but how sure can we be that the immigrant is a different self from us? Is it only because our senses say so? We know from experience that our senses should not always be trusted. Take a discovery made by Copernicus in 1543 as an example. Up until the 1500s, humans believed the Sun was revolving around the Earth because this is how it appeared to them. Copernicus proved all humanity wrong with science and common sense logic that sometimes the way things appear is not how they exist.

As revolutionary and shocking as his discovery was, it is nothing compared to the inaccuracy of our perception of immigrants and ourselves. Currently, our perception tells us that immigrants possess a self different from us because they appear to be different/separate from us. Thus, we assume this is true about us and this is how we all exist, but is this a fact?

Is there a way to find the truth? Yes, because the method has existed since before the time of Copernicus.

Here is the setup:

If an immigrant, whom we perceive as another person, really existed as a different self from us, each of us would have to possess our own self. 

What does it mean to have your own self? It means if we want to be treated as a self we must be a singular entity (1), and not be a product of something else, but of our own essence that produces us (2). Otherwise, we cannot claim to have our own self, but be selfless. So, let's examine an immigrant person analytically to discover if s/he has a self different from ours. 

If an immigrant possessed a self:

1. they would have to be a singular entity, but are they? When look closer at them, we discover that an immigrant is not one entity, but a composite of countless parts. No one has ever seen a single immigrant who could exist without a head, torso, two legs, two arms, and other parts down to atoms and quarks. Furthermore, each part is also not one thing as no matter how big or invisibly small a part is, they are made of ever smaller particles, without an end in sight. This simple, overlooked fact is what Copernicus would love to demonstrate to us today. Everything and everyone appear to be a singular entity, but this is false.

2. Is an immigrant capable of producing themselves, or is an immigrant a product of something else? If they were capable of producing themselves, they would have to be able to produce themselves without space, the Earth, and its properties such as gravity, minerals, water, soil, vegetation, food, Sun and air. We aren't even mentioning all the countless small organisms, bacteria, pollinating insects, and chemical and physiological processes that produce what we call food. Furthermore, all the factors above produced the male and female bodies (parents), thus the reproductive fluids that produced the physical parts our mind calls "the immigrant". The immigrant would have to set themselves up without them too, which is impossible. As we can see, no part of a person produced itself because each part is a product of something else mentioned above and its essence. Therefore people can't produce themselves, no matter what our minds call them. What our minds call "an immigrant person" is a composite of something else and its essence, therefore an immigrant is without its own essence because s/he is identical to what produced her/him.

Therefore, we and everybody else are a product of something else and their essence, thus, no one has any essence that is different from anybody. Thus, despite our experience and belief, no one possesses a self, as everybody who exists selflessly (not a singular entity and full of everything else's essence, and not one's own). So no person possesses a self that is different from anybody. 

Therefore, we have no self that is different from an immigrant self, as we are all without our own essence that can be different from anybody. 

Thus, it is evident that the facts tell us that there is no difference between us.

Therefore, it is shocking how our senses incorrectly tell us otherwise.

All humanity actually exists as a one-seamless-vast living organism with our bodies and minds produced by the whole. There is no distinction between nature and people except in our mind's concepts of "nature and people". 

Why are our senses lying to us?

It's because we hold on to a false belief that everyone is a self. As shown here, this belief is baseless and contradictory to how everything exists.

It has been over 500 years since Copernicus pointed to the inaccuracy of our perceptions, so isn't it time we make another leap forward? Isn't it time everyone recognizes this falsehood in our perception? The truth is that the only difference between us both are labels like "immigrants" and "us". The names we give each other were created for convenience's sake, a social convention, and nothing more. They were not meant to symbolize the truth of every person's existence.

To conclude: to perceive and experience an immigrant as a different/separate self from ours is incorrect (like an illusion) because we don't possess different selves at all. So, the next time we see an immigrant south of the border or in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, we must remember that our senses are fooling us. We must remember the individuals we've named "immigrants" possess the same self as us, and are as equally precious because they are us too.

Eventually, our senses will stop tricking us and we'll perceive immigrants and ourselves as we truly exist. This corrected perception will reflect sameness, thus the duality and illusion of people having their own selves will vanish forever. Then, we will recognize that everyone we've labeled "immigrant" has always been more than a brother or sister. They were always us.

Editor Alexandra Sullivan

Vast Self Author
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