When the world was young and new, it asked ‘What am I, if not an apple?’

Like me, the world woke one day seeking to know itself better, and began it’s curious inward quest, as many of us do.

Like me, the world didn’t know exactly what it was looking for in there, and even though the inner structure was familiar, the world found it difficult to describe itself without also describing an apple.

Are We Not Apples?

The world often tries to illustrate itself with artful diagrams, circles and arrows, but the sketches and models often have a similarity to an apple, complete with skin, fruit and seed.

A drawing of the inside of an apple seed might turn out to resemble an entire tree, with it’s branches reaching upward to study the air and sunlight, while the roots intimately examine the earth and water below.

Space: Also Behaves Like an Apple

What does space look like? At a glance, space would appear to be made of nothing, and we can swish our hand through the air to prove it, as long as we ignore the swish, and only as long as we think of the air that we breath for sustenance as being nothing. It’s really quite a lot.

Looking beyond the air, there is proof everywhere that the space that we call empty space is full of infinite information, and that instead of space containing nothing, it contains everything.

The Fractal Wake of Consciousness

As consciousness plunges inward to examine the infinity in there, out here is such a tremendous reaction to that action that we might think we were witnessing creation itself, happening live. If only we could back away to see such a splash, if we could only see what happens when awareness itself leaps inward for a more intimate look, we might then see what space is actually shaped like.

Every Apple Has a Star Inside

Like an apple tree, a star looks inward with all of it’s might, pulling data in through it’s north and south poles, and like an apple tree, the vibrant star perpetually showers the equator with golden fruit, the results of the perpetual in-query.

Like a star, the tree’s radiating branches and roots fill the orb on the inside, while fresh fallen apples bounce out into the surrounding field, sharing the data in a seemingly-infinite feedback loop.

The Earth Could Have a Star Inside Too

Like an apple, the Earth draws information through it’s poles, but then radiates that data outwards in the form of volcanos and lava, plants and trees, animals and things, fruits and vegetables, male and female, roots and branches.

The Earth May Actually Be a Strawberry

The Earth that we live upon does seem a little different from an apple, in that an apple’s seeds are in the middle, while the Earth’s seeds are on the exterior: the Earth’s seeds are us, as we contain all of the information that we have inherited from the planet, taken in through the earth, water, light and air just like an apple, and we are animated with consciousness by way of the same introspective jaunt that gives the force of life to all things.

We are all stars inside-- every planet, every apple, looking inward with enough enthusiasm to spark an entire universe of life, and whether apple or planet, we all look the same on the inside.

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