Sensing life’s single creating and governing force

Zsolt Hermann
5 min readOct 31, 2024

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In our daily lives, we are often so entrenched in routine and the relentless rat race that we neglect to ask fundamental questions about our existence. Human beings would benefit from pondering life’s purpose: Why do we exist? Why are we termed human beings? Most crucially, what force sustains our life and gives us the experience of existence? What fuels all universal forces that keep the cosmos in motion? What enables our cells and organs to function? What makes us sense our existence, enabling us to move and act?

Many don’t engage with these questions. Even if they arise, they’re swiftly dismissed. People often believe they are autonomous, making independent choices and decisions. However, this is misleading. We are perpetually revitalized by a force that energizes us. Without it, our existence would be impossible.

Empirical natural scientists, who have explored reality and human nature for millennia, argue that our driving life force is desire. It’s the longing for existence, fulfillment of needs, pleasure, and avoidance of pain. Without this ever-renewing desire, we would feel lifeless, without the energy to rise from bed, aspire, or even breathe.

This desire is not inherently ours; it is instilled in us by a special force that created and governs the universe. Whether we call this force God, a Creator, or nature’s evolution is irrelevant at this stage. Lacking an understanding of this force, we cannot judge its nature — whether it acts unconsciously or with intelligence. Such judgments are only possible once we connect with and explore this force.

The above-mentioned empirical scientists assert that connecting with this force — that constantly awakens and enlivens us through our incessantly awakening desires — requires becoming similar to it, akin to tuning into its frequency. To achieve this understanding, a special method is necessary.

Currently, we operate primarily on basic instinctive desires: for food, sex, shelter, and family — common to all nature’s levels. Human sophistication in these areas doesn’t differentiate us from animals. We pursue these basic needs in modern ways.

Humans also possess unique social desires: for wealth, fame, power, and knowledge. These desires extend beyond basic survival, carving out our identity as humans. Yet, like basic desires, social desires stem from the same source, either through our physical being or our social environment.

All our desires, both basic and social, are inherently egotistic and self-serving, driving us to fulfill them at any cost. This pursuit fuels human evolution and modern society, characterized by rampant consumption. An endless desire for pleasure propels us toward a potential global catastrophe.

Immersed in selfish desires, we perceive only the physical realm, which, driven by our shared self-centered software, seems to serve our interests while we destroy everything. This leads to winners and losers, widening the gap between them. Thus, we all feel that we exist in this seemingly real egotistic “Matrix” for endless self-fulfillment.

However, some begin questioning life’s purpose, seeking truths beyond this physical world. More and more people feel the emptiness and lack of meaning in today’s human life.

Those driven by a strong desire to discover these truths might find the methods developed by unique scientists. This pursuit is crucial for today’s generation, disillusioned by relentless consumption and life’s perceived futility.

This search for purpose drives us to separate innate human desires from others in a focused environment. Here, we disregard basic and social desires, concentrating solely on life’s purpose and our connection to life’s source.

By uniting and collectively strengthening these desires — as we mutually absorb the initially small and weak desires and deficiencies for our human purpose and for connecting to our source from each other — we begin to pierce the veil separating us from the life-creating force, uncovering the path to understanding it. The empirical scientists explain that embracing the qualities of selfless love and service — life’s foundational principles — brings us closer to comprehending this force.

Recognizing and embodying these principles, against our egotistic nature, shifts our perspective. We gradually understand, accept, and discover that life’s purpose lies in a totally selfless and unconditional service to others — like how our own biological cells and organs serve the body for its existence. Serving others and adopting their perspectives overcomes our original egocentric viewpoints, aligning us with life’s creative force through the achieved similarity.

Ultimately, we realize that direct, individualistic, and subjective access to this force is impossible, as selfish intent would distort it. As a result, the required similarity with reality’s single creating force would disappear, and we would find ourselves back in our egotistic “Matrix” again.

Instead, we connect through others, observing selfless and altruistic interconnections between others that reveal the nurturing force. We do not feel anything in ourselves; we cannot sense this life-creating and nurturing force in ourselves, but only through others.

By aligning with it, we contribute to the fulfillment of people and the natural system, uncovering our purpose in aligning with the life source through selflessness.

This paradox — that giving up ourselves fosters connection, and through that connection, we become transparent pipelines through which reality’s total life force can stream through to others — defines our journey.

The less we think about and want anything for ourselves, the more we can pass onto everything life’s singular force “pumps through us,” like blood is pumped through capillaries and arteries.

The more pure, transparent, and selfless we become, the better partners and facilitators in reality’s living system; this is how we fulfill our Human purpose in life.

Moreover, the more we forget about our own existence and exist only to love and serve others and the source of life we reveal, we also disconnect from sensing physical life with its egocentric and subjective coordinates of time, space, and physical motion until we start sensing a Human existence that is beyond physical life and death — even before we “pass away” from this physical world.

By then, we understand that this “life” we sense through the biological body that is operated by its basic animate desires is simply a chance to start developing toward our truly Human purpose of recognizing and partnering reality’s single creating and governing force.

We will simply feel ourselves existing in a reality of desires and intention, enlivened and operated by a single purely loving and bestowing intention from our source. We merit this feeling by ourselves adopting and constantly holding onto the same intention toward everything and everybody outside of ourselves.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.