Desire

“let her seek out an ingenious and sedulous Companion for herself, and not despair of obtaining her desire”.

Growth

I think the best way to explain my growth is that I have a budding consciousness.

My mental attitude is changed. My viewpoint has shifted. 

I find myself ceasing to fear, and those around me are quick to consider me reckless. But am I? I am merely open and calculating. 

Time has less meaning to me, for the idea of eternity has started to come to me. 

Self actualisation preface

Self actualisation is the motive to realize one's full potential. Expressing one's creativity, quest for spiritual enlightenment, and the pursuit of knowledge.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus, Gladiator

A Novel choice

The Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, once said that a close study of history reveals two contradictory trends. There are eras when people will put up with the most cruel and inhumane living conditions imaginable. Even worse, they will compound their plight by thinking up the most clever and ingenious ways of justifying the miserable systems under which they live. But that is only one-half of the human cycle. There are other epochs when people will undergo the most brutal and violent persecution in order to change their systems. Almost nothing, even death, will deter them from attempting to fulfill their appointed work. Solzhenitsyn thought that historical periods alternated between these two poles of moral contraction and expansion, social stagnation and reform. He believed there was no reliable way of predicting when the wheel would turn, prompting darkness to give way to light, or vice versa.

Texts include ‘A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich’,
‘The Gulag Archipelago’ and ‘1914’ which was the most famous.

The impassable chasm

“The all is mind; the universe is mental”
The Ancient Egyptian Philosopher, HERMES TRISMEGISTUS

The ancient Hermeticists use the word "Meditation," or "Contemplation" in describing the process of the mental creation of the Universe in the Mind of The All.



We cannot reach infinity by adding or multiplying anything finite. Infinity cannot be reached, it cannot be attained, or even approached. There is only one Infinity and that is The Singularity. We will not reach infinity, we will not attain infinity, because we already are the infinity; the present is the event horizon.

Think of blackness, the void out there past the outermost reaches of our most powerful space probes and telescopes, the edge of the known universe, but more often thought of as ‘where infinity starts’ or ‘where we cannot see or record what goes on’. This illusion, that infinity starts –‘where we are not’- is formed because there are finite things in this world, on our earth. But the fact is that we are part of infinity.
"I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space." -- Hamlet
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Sharing perceptions

We change the Universe by the sharing of perceptions.

Everyone continuously changes their perceptions of reality, and their universe changes accordingly. Changes are introduced both internally by formulating new concepts and externally by entangling with other minds with different perceptions.It is this exchange of perceived truths between entangled minds that creates our reality.What we see as reality are the perceptions we share in common with other entangled minds. Those things we perceive as true take shape in every universe with the same perception. Our minds still exist independently of each other, but the entangled minds who share the same belief all perceive the same reality.

Our senses are our main avenues of communication with other minds in this reality, and everything we read, see, hear, smell, and touch is a perception and becomes a part of our mind/universe. Everything we perceive is added to our storehouse of knowledge from which we weave our universe. Any addition, no matter how small, changes our universe. The change can have either a positive or negative influence, but with every change what we perceive as reality will also changes.

Some ideas extrapolated from my memory cells of this weeks Cognition lecture on perception:

*A rejected perception, if repeated often enough can grow to become accepted through its accumulating influence on the mind.
*A perception introduced when a mind is still in its infancy and has not accumulated a large store of perceptions will have a greater influence and be more acceptable.
*A perception introduced to a mind with limited contact with other minds will have a greater influence.
*A perception introduced with the stimulation of multiple senses will have a greater impact and be more readily accepted.
*When an idea or perception is introduced accompanied by a combination of colors, soothing sounds and pleasant smells they will be more readily accepted.
*Any idea or perception, once it is introduced, is added to the mind/universe and will change that universe.
*It does not matter if the perception is accepted or rejected, it is still added to the mind/universe. Anything that is added to the mind will have an influence on that mind.
*Any influence changes the perceptions, and therefore changes the mind/universe.

By sharing my perceptions with you, I changed your universe. Everything I have written here has now become a part of your universe. It does not matter if you chose to accept it or relate to it deliberately at this time. It is now in your mind and will change the way you perceive everything else. We change the Universe by the sharing of perceptions.

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Vision

Recently I have read a mystical book about ancient manuscripts found in the jungles of Peru, and inside these manuscripts is the knowledge of how to become aware of other beings auras (and minds) by way of enlightening the soul, so as to be able to expand our sense of vision. This would mean one would become extremely powerful in reading others’ bodies and minds. It reminds me of shamans that a close friend has spoken to me about in South America, and Mogurs I have read about in early Neanderthal times, when Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were competing for territory. The Mogurs concocted psychedelic drinks from psychoactive plants to communicate with the spirit world. I will be meeting a Shaman next week at a forum for Alternative Medicine.

Par Nietzsche

Notice his reference to worms, and, as you may observe, he often contradicts himself:
"All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man? What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes. "(from Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

Human knowledge advancement

There are moments in life where a revelation or reckoning occurs. 

My calculations show that that the time between one revelation and the next keeps getting longer. If I plot these advancements, I get a slowly plateauing curve.

If we extrapolate from here, the rate of ‘knowing’ advancement will keep increasing, and the time between unknowns will keep getting longer.

I was assuming that after reaching the plateau I would be wiser and more knowing, but I think the process doesn't actually work like that. Sometimes when I think I have reached a level of knowledge, I realise how little I previously knew and that my data are wrong. My data are biased as they are in my head and I was ignorant. 

What is so pleasant, is that I find it pleasant that I am wrong, and I find it even more pleasant that I will continually surprise myself throughout life. What I don't so much enjoy is the fact I need to doubt everything always.

Gladiator

My name is Maximus Desimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Areillius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Gladiator

Maslow quote

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment in life.
~ Abraham Maslow, quoted by Feuerstein, in Lucid Dreaming

Solitude and contemplation

I’m understanding the importance of having control over my frustrations at times of peril.
After all, everything seems less perilous when the perilous turbulence has been thrown. 

I am not afraid to enjoy the stress of a full life nor so naïve as to think I can without some intelligent effort. 

What is the distinction between your bodily drives and what your mind really wants? Is it only an illusion while you are young? Does the distinction deteriorate as you get older? In different situations it varies. In some situations you feel like your mind disagrees with your body. This is what holds back the theory because it is context bound and paradigm bound. 

See, how everything is so multisided! Every time I come up with an opinion, a thought, it falls down because I subsequently if not immediately, see an opposing or simply different perspective. I suppose that is a good skill to have. I suppose generalizations are not all that important if the main idea is to learn more about myself. To be able to conceptualize a situation is important for my understanding rather than creating a theory for others to relate to, I can create a theory for myself. 

How can I rely on what I think in a mind which occasionally catches itself pulling the wool over its own eyes?

Every piece of philosophy and theory has been dissected to uncover no greater truth than that there is no complete truth.