Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1403

1403. That there is "something" that thinks, creates or reasons cannot of course be denied without one thereby also denying the existence of one's own ability to think and one's own experience of life. It is, however, a fact that we exist, and that this "we" is "something" that juggles with the bodies, and through these feels pain and sensual pleasure, disharmony and harmony, unhappiness and happiness, sorrow and joy, dissatisfaction and satisfaction, imperfection and perfection. If one denies this, what about all the millions of books that fill all the libraries of the world? Is not every single one of these books a "something's" account of experiences, feelings and ideas that this "something" has had, based on the reaction between itself and its surroundings? All the libraries of the world and many other factors provide irrefutable proof of the fact that these "experiences" exist. Without these experiences there would be no books, no narratives, no messages, no hearing of sounds, no seeing of colours and no feeling of pleasure or loathing. But if it is thus an irrefutable fact that the feelings or experiences exist, it is an equally irrefutable fact that there is a "something" that experiences.