In what do you move? In what do you think? What is the difference?
There are well respected neuroscientists who are now saying that the brain has only one purpose, to let you move. Nothing else, just to structure movement. That’s probably all they understand of the brain at this point. What is the difference between thought and movement? What is the difference between this place and your so called physical environment?
“Change” in the material? “Change” in the mental?
“This place” is an idea. At any moment the floor could collapse. Environment crashing in.
There is very little in the structure or chemical composition of the brain they haven’t been able to look at. Their remaining hope is they will discover something through examining the brain while it functions. Otherwise, they are completely clueless. If nothing shows up in function then they have no explanation for consciousness at all. There is a difference of course, proximity to the I, the eye, the observer. The centre of your essential, meaning essence based, creative vortex. Second Life, here, is a step abstracted from the initial creative medium, but in that it is capable of a less distorted resonance with the primary reality.
Are you implying that “ego” is “real”? Indeed, I am. I am also saying that no one knows what ego is. They look at the reflections only and declare that they see god. Like saying you see yourself clearly only when looking in a completely fractured mirror. There is a reason why you exist as yourself and not as my self. A reason for all these selves laying about. It isn’t accidental no more than there is such a thing as accidental atoms. Reality is creation. It is expression. It is change and process. It is mechanism and much more than mechanism. It’s the basis on which any and all mechanisms are or can ever be founded. It is beyond form, because formation is the end product, the finish or paint job on the actual substance of reality itself.
Why do you want to make changes in your life? Why have you ever wanted to change anything ever? How did you even get the idea?
Perhaps “things” might be “better”? An imagined “better.”
Dissatisfied feeling.
We mistakenly believe that conditions are out of sync with out desires, but in fact it’s our personal state that is out of sync with our conditions, with our context, with the living changing nature of existence that we are meant to share.
Pain? Pain is denial and denial of self is the ultimate pain. In every situation, as much as you passionately convince yourself otherwise, there is a context in which your presence there makes sense, a thing you would do, an action you would take, despite the fact that you may be too busy convincing yourself otherwise.
We dismiss so much of what we would genuinely feel like doing because it’s supposedly out of context, supposedly “not who we are.” We would often speak to people we don’t yet know, or assist in troubles that are “not our business”, but we are avidly convincing ourselves that “we have better things to do.”
On what basis do we come to that conclusion? Why do we believe that this pattern we are invested in is in any way real or worthy of maintenance? It’s a machine, a polluting machine at that. We complain about being ground under the treads of the system while we do everything in our power to keep that very same machine running.
Much wisdom is to be found in the absurd ramblings of the so called foolish. Fools such as comedians. Mitch Hedburg joked about what we should do when we go walking in the woods and found ourselves lost. He says we should just build a house. We were lost but now we live there. As silly as that sounds why is it not valid?
We’ll do insane things to feel that we’re ‘loved’… looking for approval from parents and then society.
Isn’t this a metaphor for what we do all the time — building a “house” and living there?
Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.
Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~