693. Is there anything in our near zone that can guide us to a perception of the existence of the I? Our mental near zone consists of everything produced by human beings. It is therefore here that we should search. Have we ever come across anything here that has created itself? Have we ever seen that a house has built itself or that a train has come into existence by itself? No, we have never yet seen that anything in this near zone has come into existence other than as a product of a living being. But if in the near zone, where our sensory powers with a one hundred per cent power and clarity see through everything, we cannot find anything whatsoever that comes into existence by itself, why should we assume that things in the distant zone can create themselves? If a claim that states that a suit of clothes, a house, a machine or anything else in the terrestrial human being's mental near zone has created itself can exist not only as something illogical but must also irrefutably be an abnormality or a sign of mental illness, why should the same acknowledgment not constitute the same abnormality or mental illness when applied to the distant zone? On what grounds can we assert that things in the distant zone create themselves when it is nothing short of lunacy to hold this assumption about things in the near zone? The absolutely only grounds that would be able to justify such a view of things in the distant zone must be that things in this zone are diametrically opposite to things in the near zone, which in turn means that things in the distant zone are an expression of one hundred per cent chance, lack of planning and chaos. But since such a view can never ever be verified as fact, owing to the fact that life demonstrates the opposite, namely, that everything is bound by law and therefore has a plan, which as we know is the opposite of chaos, it becomes clear that it is equally illogical or in conflict with normality to treat the details in the distant zone as self-created as it would be lunacy to claim that the details in the near zone, such as clothes, houses, machines and so on, come about or exist without having living beings as originators.