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Observation as a Keystone
Observation is really a keystone of spirituality, as well as science. The capability we call observation runs deeper than the sense. As a matter of fact, there are whole scientific and military disciplines focused on “training” observation even though our senses work. The eastern teachings pointed out that senses are distracting and meditation is, in…
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Mind and Ego
The language gets sketchy. Is mind thinking? Isn’t thinking just an action? Awareness goes beyond thinking. The mind as we know it comes after, not before. It’s automatic and it’s why people get so tripped up. They are told to control your mind. Free yourself from your mind. Like somehow you can lobotomize yourself and…
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Direction and Thought
Now here is something interesting. Some people might think of total awareness and ask what about direction? What about purpose? Lots of people stumble over things like the law of attraction because in the popular material something is missing. Can’t be helped, it is the nature of the media. But tell me, can anyone interact…
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Infinite and Individual
When everyone is infinite, then who is different? Why does difference even matter? Do you believe you are limited? I am not criticising individuality. I am not deriding the core that allows the infinite to differentiate. When I say namaste I mean it. So when everyone is infinite who is different? We are all individual…
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Place of Humanity
The topic is an issue that comes up a lot, but is rarely given any formal answer for. Roughly, I will address the place of humanity in the universe. It can be argued that in order for man to arise (male and female), the universe itself had to satisfy rather unusual parameters. With all the…
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Brain, Mind and Experience
Can we say that ‘mind’ is just another word for ‘brain‘? I would debate that myself. I would say mind would be more akin to the morphogenetic field, and the body including the brain more of a mechanism and memory storage device. This is perhaps why the mind-body connection seems so mysterious. If you must…
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Attention and Intention
When you share an experience in any way, there is a need to reproduce the picture or data as presented by another. How is that possible without principles governing thought? How is it we experience anything to share with another, the observer, the part that not only says I am, but also I see? The…
Category: Observation
Everything has as part of its existence both its substance (essence) and its opposite. When thinking of my own being, I must also reflect on my non being. In that you can see the essence. Perhaps a more solid example. If I am thinking of me, there is this me and there is the world which is not me. But I exist in the world, partaking of space and energy and matter. Thus, how one can be who they are and the world at the same time.
What is consciousness or awareness that it can die? And if there is no reality without observation then why isn’t reality all patchy? Maybe there is no absence of observation. We can observe without seeing.
“People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument” Will Rogers
“This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer” Franz Kafka (German Writer of visionary fiction, 1883-1924)