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Self And Relationship
Individual awareness. Most people usually have a pretty firm conviction that they have it, but if you ask them who they are, can they list anything other than a set of relationships or activities? I’m a wife, a daughter, a sister… No, I guess you can’t. People even fight to establish their individuality in the…
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Producer Of Our Experience
Have you much experience of yourself when you aren’t doing anything? If so, what is that like for you? I think a lot. Thinking counts as doing something so it blocks out individual awareness. Does the self go away when you aren’t busy being yourself? When I’m not doing anything? I think even when I’m dead,…
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Control The Flue
Everyone familiar at least in passing with biofeedback? It’s using the mind to alter the body functions. People think things happen to them, like sustaining a paper cut. That is something that happened to them, but our mental body dictates what our physical body tells us. They are even training people to use the hologram…
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Read The Road Signs
Your inner awareness establishes what seem like rules. Even the most wild person still has repeating patterns in their lives. They don’t choose these patterns. The patterns come from the matrix of the self, or mind if your prefer. This matrix is configured not by outward pressures, but by principles perhaps unique to it. So…
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Big World Of Mind
Individual consciousness could also be called meta-cognition. Thinking is like the lungs. You can direct them, and they will work on their own. They can also serve as a vector for the induction of foreign substances. Whether that’s wise or not is another matter, but your thinking is a vector for the introduction of half…
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Inner and Outer Awareness
What rules human behavior? Greed? Fear? Personal needs vs. the pressure of other humans. All kinds of desire. How about emotion? Does the rational mind ever really win out for very long or in any meaningful way? Should it? Not necessarily, though some do think so. You have an inner and an outer awareness. In your outer awareness…
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Free from Nothing
What do people really want in life? Pleasure. Freedom or so they claim. Balance. Security. Health. Freedom for what? Security in what? Health and balance in what? More like “from what”. Ah yes, that is how people think, freedom from things. This is perhaps one of the first broken switches, stuck gates. We live in a world where you…
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Heart has a Mind
What do your dreams seem like to you? Fuzzy, indistinct. Warnings. Dreams are kind of like little TV shows, some stand out, some are forgotten. They are indeed much like stories, and nothing is ever completely forgotten. Some things are just diffused or generalized. They didn’t have enough of a center to stand out. It’s weird…
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Of Two Minds
We all have a bit of a problem on our hands don’t we? Seems like we are of two minds about most things, does it not? Ego and inner self? Yes, indeed. Frivolous and serious? Not frivolous. Those words are judgements. How do we determine importance? Importance is arrived at by the outer awareness. That…
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Purpose from the Inner Mind
How can we have health? Can someone else give it to us? Doctors can treat us. They can help our health, but only our inner state actually results in health or disease. In fact, what works as a medical assist for one person may threaten another person’s life, but the personal state principle holds true…
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Inner Mind is Your Living Mind
You said outer thinking takes repeated words for true. How can you reverse that effect? Well, you can’t undo the repetition effect, but you can do something. So I will wrap up with the big picture model. Avoid people that are abusive, and seek out people that are emotionally supportive? That is good advice, but you…
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Awareness to You
We had a question about how to develop awareness. It’s actually a really tricky question. I will ask you, what is awareness to you? The opposite of navel gazing? Being attentive to internal state and external surroundings. Perhaps it’s being ‘out of mind’ in that you’re not wrapped up in thinking. I think it’s like being…
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Goals for Awareness
As humans, we seem to continually strive to make our situations better and our awareness more complete. How do we come to the conclusion that our awareness is incomplete? We take ownership for our life. Those who don’t, don’t seem interested in developing their self but just keep hitting their head on a brick wall,…
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Normopathy
There is a personality disorder known as normopathy. It’s like psychopathy but differs in that rather than substituting an imaginary reality for what they perceive, they substitute a social norm regardless of how that affects their wellbeing or impairs their daily function. They can be driven to emotional breakdown when something prevents them from asserting…
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Supreme Imitators
Historically, has evolution been a voluntary affair for most species? We act like animals all the while claiming advancement beyond them because our animal complexity is greater? Is greater complexity progress? Have we chosen our social structures? Do we choose our communal, industrial and social pursuits? Can we name something that is actually a newly…
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Blindsight
You have a body, and the body thinks one way. It gives you visions to see, tastes to sample, emotions to react to. It does a great job of doing all of these things, and it prefers to avoid change. It cannot conceive of difference. This is why we have to learn these differences from…
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Virtualization is Realization
Science doesn’t have to fail. Religion doesn’t have to fail. Society doesn’t have to fail, but it does have to stop seeing itself as “real”, as being a reality that is the one reality that should win out over any others, because it’s the “Truth.” We have an urge to virtualize, because this is the…
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Change How You Be
None of this I’m saying is new. Shall we get to the new stuff? It’s been popular to tell people to change how they think, and that will supposedly change everything. Others say that they should change how they feel, and that will change everything. Have either of these had the miraculous impact they claim…
Category: Awareness
People are not what they think they are, but what they think … they are. Your individual awareness is like a body, and most people are down right anorexic on this level.
We don’t act only when the body acts. That’s not when an event begins and we are not the product of events that we have experienced. We are the producer of our experience. Your actions start before the event horizon of your body. Your actions are not predestined, but they are pre-chosen. Eventually, you can begin to see the core self. It’s a fluctuation energy, sort of like fire, and the airwaves or air currents moving through your core are what give rise to your impulses. You can control the flue.
“The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Indian Spiritual leader, 1931-1990)
“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” Billie Jean King (American Tennis Player b.1943)
“Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.” Shoshana Zuboff