You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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sciousness that the “movement” appears to arise, although it
“originates” 2 in THE SUBSTANCE. Please note that although
Korzybski refers below to “energies,” the concepts of energy
and atoms are not formed yet. Thus, it is for the sake of
clarity that we will “go prior to” “energies” and movement to
and even prior to consciousness itself as THE SUBSTANCE.
(See page 30 for diagram.)
Let us begin, with the process-movement event (Level C)
in The Substance Diagram, which is Korzybski’s departure
point:
“Think of everything in the universe as some sort of
energy, which involves constant movement of matter. At
this point I am not referring to objects in the universe
such as people, apples, etc. I mean all the basic materials
of the universe on the subatomic level (on a scale
smaller than the level of atoms). So do not think of this
level in terms of atoms—think of the universe in more
indefinite terms: constant movement of extremely small
subatomic energies.” (Sawin)
For us, the physics dimension is “after” the processmovement
level, hence consciousness (B), begins to “move”
forming the process level (C), which is “some unnamed
SUBSTANCE,” However, “it” does not appear as energy until
the quantum physics level (D) and it does not appear as
electrons until the microscopic level (E).
MOREOvER, OBjECTS AnD THE “i” pEOplE
DO nOT AppEAR UnTil “lATER.”
2 Please note that we do not mean “originate” in its classic definition, “to
come from.” Here we are stuck in language. Again, if all the world was
the ocean and only the ocean, we could not say that a wave originated
from the ocean because it’s all ocean. Hence, there is no point or source
or location of origination nor an originator.