ORIENTATION # 1101 : LIFE IS NOT A TAPE _________________________________________________ Lets try to enter a very complicated field : The so called nothing is an intriguing issue. We strive for something.. but whatever that something is.. that something will become nothing.. Things will remain perhaps.. a monument, a revolutionary theory, a music, a Tour Eiffel, a tunnel through the Mount Blanc and millions of books .. But psychologically we will face nothingness.. and however, 800,000 years from now, this planet will be a desert: everything will be gone: the birds, the beautiful trees, the oceans will evaporate and so the atmosphere will follow.. because of the expansion of this sun .. And then, 4 billion years from now; the sun will incorporate this planet within its solar corona... reducing it to nothing .. after that the star will explode .. creating a cosmic nebula .. .. which then will re-compact itself.. giving birth to a new star .. and new planets .. and this is life .. Now the question is : whats the purpose to do something ? To think about this or that direction to take ? Why do anything at all ? So here comes again the radical question which is : are we able to distinguish what is fact and what is opinion ? Are we ? But not as a philosophical theory of some kind, or merely verbally.. but rather wholly, with our whole mind : what is fact and what is the opinion of the fact ? We are thinking, right ? No matter what the real nature of the Universe is made of , whether holographic, sub-atomic, or vodka :-).. We are thinking : this is fact.. This fact means that something is going on.. But the very inmost nature of the self, when one has gone through all the architectures of thinking, with all of the consequential and inherent illusions and frictions, problems and ambitions.. one sees that the very inmost nature of the self is merely nothing. When you fall asleep.. what are you psychologically ? Nothing ! The things you have done, your diary, your manufactured tools, your genius inventions and your writings,, the thousands of pictures or videos of you .. your revolutionary ideas and all of your medals of honour are all there .. used... more or less... by other people.. but you are nothing, right ? Nothingness, this nothingness is therefore a part of life .. isnt it so ? And another part of life is what we call consciousness.. which is the condition of having an acknowledge of all of these things (if one is interested at all in all of these things) .. It seems that the very nature of the mind is the act of co-existing between nothingness and consciousness.. just like the very nature of existence is the co-existence between life and death (life nourishes death, death nourishes life... nothingness nourishes consciousness, consciousness nourishes nothingness)... Problem is that thought, our very machinery of thoughts, intertwined with identity, which is immensely conditioned by existential ambitions, values, meanings, confused prototypes about living and existing such as the soul, the paradise, the another dimension, the sacredness and so on.. has imposed a sort of superstructure to the mind : a kid just exists, psychologically.. He plays with something.. then he leaves that something becoming interested in something else.. The kid is self-centered-interested: he or shes interested in himself/herself.. What about us ? Are we interested in our psyche ? Or are we interested in what our psyche has become ? Our identity, our process of registration.. We are worshippers of labels .. frightened by the idea of losing them all .. ! Consciousness indeed becomes, along the years, a process of recording.. isnt it so ? And this process of recording creates what we call identity .. the I, the me.. the this is me... So consciousness becomes identity .. and this thinking identity gets progressively afraid by the acknoledge that it has limits .. that there is an invisible unknown.. that there questions which will never come across their answers.. and so on.. So life and mind.. which are a movement of consciousness and nothingness.. face a progressive psychological process of separation.. because our conditioned consciousness wants to track some answers.. some encapsulation aimed to have a meaning in life.. The conditioned consciousness begins therefore to fear nothingness.. but nothingness is a part of life.. and here the friction appears.. as well: the conflictual characteristic of the human psyche which is entirely calibrated in the spasmodic urge to prevent nothingness ... by filling up our psyche with overwhelming contents, definitions, illusions, archetypes and truths of all kinds ..because of which we erect our conflicts , our struggling, our existential anxiety and fears... and our collective and personal hallucinations.. inwardly and outwardly .. This is history, not my opinion.. as well thats the reason why a psychological progress never took place along the messed up history of men.. Now : this superstructure has been built up by conditioned thoughts: the very act of thinking freely.. (accumulating memories of course and their acknowledge, which is consciousness), but without the process of registration, identification and opinionistic verbalization.. gets continually stifled... all the time... We have transformed the perception of life into a tape.. frightened to lose such tape.. To lose the recording process.. ans this fear is exactly what prevents us to think through psychological serenity.. elevating our intelligence above all of the psychological and social curtains we have erected along our lives and historically for millennia... ________________________________________ endoffear.weebly/ eofproject.org jessicamystic
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:53:03 +0000
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