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The druid Finn said: “Be your
self” The druid mystic, Finn, states that authenticity follows
not from moral ideals or destiny but from the non-teleological
nature-as-structure of the Universal Procedure that generates identifiable reality itself. Under druid procedural
ontology, the universe is a rule-bound
generative process, analogous to a Universal Turing Machine, producing
emergent dynamic (i.e. beings) without overall (though locally personal) intention or purpose.
Each emergent, man, mouse or bacterium, happens as a confined, differential
iteration of a universal rules set: lawful in origin, unpredictable in form,
and unique in outcome. Within this framework, survival ‘fitness’ is never absolute or
designed in advance; it is determined retrospectively through survival and
exclusion within specific contexts. Evolution works not by improvement toward
a goal, but by the persistence of what happens to fit local conditions. Authenticity (i.e. being oneself) therefore has a strictly
operational meaning. Since each being is a random procedural output,
suppressing or imitating another pattern distorts the evolutionary process
itself. To “be your self” is not a moral virtue or path to success, but a functional necessity
that allows accurate selection, adaptation, and intelligibility to occur. Ancient Indian parallels with karma and dharma illustrate the same logic:
advancement arises from fully enacting one’s given function, not from
role-switching or self-idealization. Like playing one’s actual hand in poker,
authenticity sustains the integrity of the game. The
druid Finn’s conclusion is stark and anti-romantic: there is no
destiny, purpose, or cosmic demand to be authentic. But precisely because
existence is a stochastic procedural experiment, fully (i.e.
@1, hence to the exclusion of all else) expressing one’s emergent nature
is the only coherent way the system can continue to work at all. The
‘temple’ as reference frame The ‘temple’
as reference frame in the Vedantic context Every
identifiable reality as a ‘temple’ of the Universal Procedure “Everyone is
God in their space” The druid Finn also said: |