Setting the stage
Here's my working theory.
All of existence is continuous, always moving, and everything is connected. There are no true barriers, at most there are influences that inhibit or redirect the flow, but in truth these are like a stone blocking the ocean.
In this continuum things simply are. We, as thinking creatures within this existence, distinguish and contrast things as a way to allow our brain to record and learn. Without contrast, without filters, it is extreme over-immersion which is indistinguishable to the limits of our senses. In mental development we learn how to shut things out, ignore things so we can focus on one comprehensible bit at a time. As our mind develops and builds the arbitrary archetypes within existence, it can consider more complex interactions, and composite simple concepts into more complex ones. This is how we develop as small children. There is a flex of sorts to the mind, as we first shut out most things, then as we understand a very small point of focus we can widen the beam of light, so to speak, so that we can view more at once. That said, to understand everything in each moment is to be able to track far more than our mental limits would typically suggest, following all the threads of a giant tapestry, simultaneously, would be a very simple analogue.
To our thinking mind, the world is complex and its interactions very hard to follow. The reality, however, exists before we distinguish, before we create comparison, exclusion, dissection, and differentiation. These are tools of the mind, and no more real than we allow them to be in action.
Recognizing that we only create arbitrary divisions is important to where I will walk from here.
The short and sweet implications are as follows:
1.) Anything is possible
2.) Judgment is artificial
3.) Truly living in the world is an act of being boundless
More will come on these points. =)
All of existence is continuous, always moving, and everything is connected. There are no true barriers, at most there are influences that inhibit or redirect the flow, but in truth these are like a stone blocking the ocean.
In this continuum things simply are. We, as thinking creatures within this existence, distinguish and contrast things as a way to allow our brain to record and learn. Without contrast, without filters, it is extreme over-immersion which is indistinguishable to the limits of our senses. In mental development we learn how to shut things out, ignore things so we can focus on one comprehensible bit at a time. As our mind develops and builds the arbitrary archetypes within existence, it can consider more complex interactions, and composite simple concepts into more complex ones. This is how we develop as small children. There is a flex of sorts to the mind, as we first shut out most things, then as we understand a very small point of focus we can widen the beam of light, so to speak, so that we can view more at once. That said, to understand everything in each moment is to be able to track far more than our mental limits would typically suggest, following all the threads of a giant tapestry, simultaneously, would be a very simple analogue.
To our thinking mind, the world is complex and its interactions very hard to follow. The reality, however, exists before we distinguish, before we create comparison, exclusion, dissection, and differentiation. These are tools of the mind, and no more real than we allow them to be in action.
Recognizing that we only create arbitrary divisions is important to where I will walk from here.
The short and sweet implications are as follows:
1.) Anything is possible
2.) Judgment is artificial
3.) Truly living in the world is an act of being boundless
More will come on these points. =)
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This is the same reasoning as behind the ancient Greek Allegory of the Cave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
Nothing is impossible just because we haven't percieved it before since our perceptions are as flawed as our assumptions based on them.
Good and Evil, Just and Unjust are concepts that only matter to man because it matters to man.
But it is hard to follow you on your conclusion number three. Is it because if you conciously live in the unknown knowing you can't know it all and embracing what is to come you are free of fear of the unknown?Posted 10-27-2009 at 10:27 AM by Mačl 
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#3 is influenced by a lot more, and it's an essay on its own, that will likely be forthcoming, though it's a half dozen years in development in my own brain, so, young and still developing or ripe to be diffused into parent topics.
Part of the foundation lies in a lot of the energy work I do. The concept being that, you can accomplish more, or at least different things, when you remove the arbitrary barriers. We build dams made of pebbles to stop the rising tide. We don't actually stop it, but the resistance shapes how we live based on the choices we make, rather than actually changing the ocean. If we stop building walls, or more easily identify specific walls and break them down, it opens up new avenues for us to explore and experience.
That said, I will likely post something more meaty about that on its own. #1 as well.Posted 10-27-2009 at 10:57 AM by Satorri 
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Your depth is immaterial to this conversation.Posted 10-27-2009 at 01:17 PM by Swam - Whatchu talkin' bout Grama?
Posted 10-27-2009 at 02:49 PM by Satorri - Regarding number 1: can you bend your knees backward?
Posted 10-27-2009 at 03:54 PM by Durenas - Yes, but do I really want to? Not a good feeling.
Posted 10-28-2009 at 06:38 AM by Satorri
