The Dichotic Dilemma the Fabric of Life: The Fourth Dimension: from Duality to Reality

By RT Chiwuta

This book is about one man’s search for peace in his own world and in the world at large.
The world always seems in turmoil and humanity intent on tearing itself apart. At least that is what we are lead to believe in some of the images we see in the world and the events that happen.

Some people are more sensitive to this than others so this book charts a journey of a very empathic man trying to make sense of life through his writing in poetry and prose.

In the book, RT Chiwuta seeks to see a transformed world and takes us on a journey through his insights and experiences and proposes how we can bridge the gaps that divide us as a human race.

Ultimately, this book is about the power of perspective and the incredible diverse experience of being a human being which should inform us all of the beauty of our world.

This ultimately is the resonating emphasis of the book as RT Chiwuta was grasped as a young boy from Africa to the West in his youth and as a man now makes sense of the two worlds and ultimately how we can all live as one.

Discover the journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524677107

RT Chiwuta

Raleigh Chiwuta is a father, son, brother, friend, human being and earthling just trying to figure out what it all means. Raleigh is originally from Zimbabwe but emigrated to the United Kingdom in his late teens with his family and has been living there ever since. Raleigh has written before, publishing a book called The Dichotic dilemma and this collection of poems is a continuation of that journey.

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/15/2020

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Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS DEATH

CHAPTER 2 THEN LIFE WOULDN’T EVEN BE A MEMORY

CHAPTER 3 LIFE IS PLUCKED FROM DEATH, NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND

CHAPTER 4 DEATH IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF LIFE

CHAPTER 5 I AM A ROCK. I AM CRYSTALLINE

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

EPILOGUE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Date of inspiration for this work: 4 December 2016, the day my life was transformed forever.

With special thanks to and acknowledgement of the Norfolk and Norwich Constabulary, Hellesdon Hospital, Vipassana Meditation, Landmark Worldwide, my family, and the humanity of the world.

by Raleigh Thandazani Chiwuta

Peace is war.

And war is peace.

So what’s not peace or war?

It’s us.

We the people.

And the choices we make.

To infinity.

Ad infinitum.

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PREFACE

What is it to be a human being? Is it an earthly phenomenon? Is it an interstellar phenomenon? Is it a heavenly phenomenon? Is it a hellish phenomenon? Are we gods come to earth so we can experience life and ascend to godliness in another dimension or sphere of existence after death or during life? Are we peaceful by nature, or are we evil by nature? Are we doomed to live, die, repeat as we have been doing for centuries, or are we better than that? Who are we – and fundamentally, what are we?

These are some of the most intangible questions, intangible truths, and ultimate truths that elude us, for if we knew what we were, then surely our being-ness on this planet would far surpass the life we live right now, in my eyes as an optimist.

I am African, black, and male. One could argue that I am one of the most disempowered living being in this world, which is ostensibly run and owned by the fairer-skinned races and mostly by the fairest-skinned race in this time period.

Controversial assertion? No!

Just look around you at the world. Barack Obama was not a president of America, he was a black president. Even in the highest seat of power in humankind, his skin colour was at issue and an issue.

Hence I ask, what is it really to be a human being?

It’s a strange life we live, yet it seems to have its own agency, its own rules, its own laws. One thing that I have learnt truly is that misery and death unite us all. These are life’s inescapable constants throughout all of human time.

Slaves living on the cotton plantations of previous centuries could ostensibly live a less miserable life than the slave master and slave owner by virtue of the circumstances and expectations of their individual lives. Money is not the answer, but it certainly is the question.

I am at a point where I know for certain now that there is more to life than being filthy rich, and certainly more to life than the colour of my skin and ethnicity. I certainly put that to bed in the previous edition of my book. Hence, my effort with this work is to bridge the material and immaterial worlds of our existence – to bridge the void between the lived life and the experienced life, with a view to realising a new life that’s possible for all of humanity when we acknowledge that we are one entity in every way, from the universal to the atomic. I pray for the day we can reflect this in our human existence.

The time for war is over.

This is how empty and meaningless this whole thing called life is: Right now, I am charged full of heady idealism and my own self-importance to get this book published. I want the world to buy and read it so I can fulfil my own ambitions and make a difference in the process. However, if I died right now, before a single person has read this supposedly incredible message I believe myself to have, it would probably have very little significance apart from the feelings of sorrow and sadness those who are attached to me would have.

Therefore, what is it all about? I mean really? Steve Biko, Thomas Sankara, Jo Cox, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Ghandi, ad infinitum, have all died pursuing peace and love, yet we are all still here, and the sun rises and sets the same way it always has. We are still hurtling to somewhere and nowhere fast.

So what am I even talking about right now?

Well, let us see. I am talking about life, peace, war, wealth, the experience of life, and our humankind. I am really taking on the whole thing. I am tired of the violence and hate, people. That’s what I am talking about. I am talking to you directly, which is why I am writing in this manner. Am I perfect? No. However, I am certainly standing for something, and this will be my legacy.

So, the fourth dimension, he says?

I don’t even know from where I plucked that from the ether, but I certainly know that by the end of this book, it will be fully explained. So please read on, and thank you for your time thus far.

As ever in this series of books I have written, I will be going back to that time when I distilled my suffering in the world into poetry and sublimated the pain in the prose which became this series of books. I know that this is the final edition; after I finish this book, I never will be the same again. My mission is that after the world has read this book, it too will never be the same again – and for the better.

So then, let’s go together into this fourth dimension and see what it’s all about.

INTRODUCTION

The future does not exist. It is only a figment of the imagination. It is a projected life that does not exist – another dimension of your life, if you will.

The past that exists in your mind never happened, because whatever you made of the event you experienced in the past is not the truth. It is only your interpretation or point of view – a story you made up. At best, all we’ve ever possessed in our mind’s eye are fragments of the truth and only a fragment of reality.

Yet we hold on to our points of view and stories as though our lives depended on it. Of course they do, because this is how we define ourselves from our past and project that past into a future we live into. They serve as a guide for how to survive our lives interpersonally and intrapersonally and as a species or human race. Ironically, most of the things we fear never happen, yet we spend a lifetime fearing them anyway. Madness.

The future and the past are not real; they are only our individual versions of the truth. Reality is a myth. This is both exciting and terrifying. It is the unique power we possess as human beings over all of creation: the power to alter our reality. We have the power of choice and free will.

In and with this book, I am going to do my best as a human being and a lay bystander to argue the case for peace and equality throughout the world in my lifetime and beyond. I have been carrying within me the burden of the world’s suffering like a curse – as do all those who fall to the extremes of the empathy spectrum.

I was told by my psychiatrist, You are a very empathic person, Raleigh. If the world had more people like you, we would all be better off.

I will take that as a compliment, I thought. It is why I sit today to write this book into the future I hope, wish, and will work for, for the sake of our species.

There are no special people out there with the antidote to all our problems and our fears. We will be the answer, each and every single one of us, when we finally find the power to say no more. No more killing, needless dying, and poverty. No more.

Now is all we have. The future happens in each moment of now for every living soul. The past is irrelevant, because whatsoever you made of it was never the truth anyway. This is our creative power – our godliness, our ability to create as we go forward in time whatever reality we perceive. This is true from the moment you become aware of yourself as an infant to the moment you stop being self-aware as an adult and in death.

It is on this basis that I revisit my past to create a new future through the perceived reality and pain that I was perceptively experiencing before I knew what I know now. My style of writing is a literary device called stream of consciousness. In a way, we are all writing this book. It will resonate with everyone, no matter where you stand in life and how you perceive the world. My book is about the very matter of human existence itself. We are one. That is what I know now, so this book is for everyone.

We are all part of the universe – single elements of the universe walking in human form. We are disguised as you and me so that we can be separate, when all there is ultimately is us. This is life’s greatest trick.

The great duality has divided us through eternity, and that is why I have called the book From Duality to Reality, because I am going to exercise and expand every atom of my brain cells to prove to humanity that we are our own worst enemy. Within our own personal lives up to the level of nationhood and humanity, we are only fighting ourselves, and it is a losing battle. It’s a battle with no winners, and the sense of victory one can have when defeating the other is only a manifestation of the ego. All there is, is we, us all, as one.

This duality, this separation only exists so we can distinguish ourselves as selves, but this ego-centred way of life is proving too costly for our humanity. In this nuclear age we live in, it could prove irreversibly fatal.

I have just recently had a son, the most beautiful creation in my eyes and in my world. He is a mixture of so many ethnic groups that his existence completely