In the beginning, there was the Essence/Essenz.
Things like religion didn’t exist. There was no need for philosophy or a belief system either. The Essenz was everything. It was life in balance. People lived in and with nature and observed the Essenz every single day.
The Essenz was the way, but it was not called the Essenz back then. It had no name. There was no need for one; it was simply life in its purest sense. Thoughts about life were unnecessary in a world where there was only being.
As this changed, and people drifted further and further away from nature and themselves, there came a need to name things as a way of keeping certain knowledge alive and differentiating it from the new rules. Perhaps people would remember the old ways and return to them?
Sadly, this didn’t happen - the more people drifted away, the more they forgot the old ways and became occupied by a density and heaviness of thought, emotion and being. People’s ‘bodies’ started to change too, they became limited by ‘death’. Something that had been unheard of before. But it was one of the prices to pay for following the new rules.
With all of these changes, came the need for a whole new system to serve the whole new way of being - religion, governance, the elite (some of whom remembered the old ways but with their new found power, weren’t about to go back to them), medicine, faith, philosophy, logic, science, technology, industry, economics, consumerism, social systems, land borders - basically they created an illusion and a system of duality (instead of a whole) to keep the new rules alive.
Everything that was against the new rules came under scrutiny and measures were taken to erase the old ways from existence, through the destruction of nature, psychological propaganda, non-stop distraction, and above all, the creation of fear.
With the introduction of a bodily ‘death’, fear was easy to perpetuate. Death also created a whole new way of labelling life with the notion of progression, evolution and ultimately, time.
One could say that it all started with nothing, which evolved into something, and soon that something grew out of control.
In the beginning, it had all been so simple: Now. Here. I AM.