THE GROUND OF ALL THAT IS
The Bottom.
An exploration of Nothing Stands Alone
by Joshua Ryan.
“What makes this possible?”
SHUA STUDIOS™Distinct, but not divided.Connected, but not collapsed.
01 / THE FIRST REALIZATION
Relation
Joshua follows a simple observation: a fire, a person, even a thought depends on something beyond itself. He asks whether relation makes existence possible in the first place.
“Maybe things don’t exist and then relate. Maybe relation is what allows anything to exist at all.”
Part II · The First Realization
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What makes something you depend on possible?
THE BOOK BEHIND THE BOTTOM
Follow it all the way down.
These passages are only the beginning. Follow the complete inquiry in the book.
THE BOOK BEHIND THE BOTTOM
Nothing Stands Alone
By Joshua Ryan
Keep following
the question.
Joshua Ryan follows questions shaped by childhood, family, and everyday life. Beginning with the idea that nothing exists in isolation, he explores connection, identity, truth, and what might lie at the foundation of it all.
The book follows that inquiry across ten parts, from the questions that started it to where Joshua stands today.
“This isn’t a book of answers.
It’s a book of observations.”
From the Author · Nothing Stands Alone
Inside the book · Ten parts
- IStarting Honestly
- IIThe First Realization
- IIIWhat We Call Things
- IVThe Beginning Problem
- VWhat Lies at the Bottom
- VITruth Isn’t Just Belief
- VIIGood and Evil Aren’t Random
- VIIIYou Are Not Separate
- IXThe Highest Form of Relation
- XWhere I Stand
01 / THE QUESTION
What could stand
completely alone?
In the book, Joshua asks us to imagine something with no interaction, no effect, and no connection.
Touch the point.
02 / IN RELATION
Something changes
when there are two.
“Something has to connect.
Something has to participate.”
Part II · The First Realization
03 / THE THRESHOLD
What lies at the bottom?
“If everything depends on relation—
then what does relation really depend on?”
Part V · What Lies at the Bottom