Sunday, September 21, 2008

What's that mean?

What, pray tell, is this "metaphysician" thing? To borrow from Webster's definition of metaphysics, a metaphysician is someone "concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being". The reality beneath the one we perceive with our senses. I am interested in the nature and behavior of things, as well as the rules governing them, outside the realm of normal perception.

Here I’ll share some perceptions and (hopefully) provide insight into how things work. These will be my personal insights, and as such they’re subject to change as I learn and grow. You, of course, have your perceptions and are welcome to comment on mine and share your own. It is my hope that you’ll be motivated to look at things a little more closely, to be less accepting of what you’re told, and to step out of your mind a little bit and see how things feel to you. The heart can be a wonderful guidance system if we use it. Truly, it’s the process of thought that prevents us from seeing the deeper levels of reality.

As this blog progresses I’ll be addressing topics like:

The fake "reality" of politics

Opinions: why opinions are meaningless

Judgments: how our judgments damage us

Victims: in the metaphysical world there really are no victims

Spirit: oh, glorious Spirit!

Soul: the Book of Life

Personal energy: what personal power is and how we piss it away

Consciousness versus intelligence: the limitations of intellect

2 comments:

  1. I appreciate your angst and suggest the following as a course of future inquiry:

    Can we adapt? Are we trying to overcome the limitations of the brain? Do the apparent physical boundaries of our existence reflect the true nature of our being? Are the discoveries of consciousness attempts of the brain to grow beyond the limitations of time, space and the symbolic language? If the brain learns to see deeper what will it discover. Will we no longer exist as distinct entities? Will the web that connects us ultimately be revealed as each and all of us at once, and if this happens how can we fathom that kind of consciousness using the symbols of today. Certainly the metashifts in consciousness within various scientific fields discard the language of the past (i.e. the world is flat), and the inconceivability of such changes prior to their occurrence suggests the limitation of today’s symbolism.

    Language must assume temporality and spatiality. We can not define ourselves without being both actor and observer. The senses assume this relational movement. But can the mind/brain/senses become aware of true nature or are they limited by their own design. For example, are we watching an object move or are we witnessing similar though different static images appearing and dissappearing as though on film, and if so then is not the film only a reflection of the true actor residing just below our threshold of consciousness, that is to say if this example were true then would it be conceivable that the appearance of motion is nothing more than a complicated delusion based on the inability to distinguish rapidly changing static images from a single object in motion. If so, then what is this thread that holds the film together, rather what is that thing that would cause this misperception? Is it invisible motive energy? Is it motive? Is it really moving, or is it only another attempt by the brain to adapt to the environment in which it realizes that it is capable of these investigations without a clear knowledge of motive or any answer to the question of what it is that causes us to perceive or misperceive things.

    Is there a motive which is tied to the most primitive survival mechanism deep within the brain? Is the collective brain becoming aware of the physical limitations of the universe and growing beyond these limitations because it is aware that the body/earth within/upon which it resides is terminal. Is the development of science and literature revelatory of the mission of the brain to overcome limitations? Is there a way for the body to avoid aging, hunger/starvation, disease, etc..? Are we reaching for that conceptual being by playing with DNA to extend life? Will we need to reproduce if we never age? Will the brain ultimately be able to free itself from the body if it has unlimited time, because even In a scenario of unlimited time there is not necessarily unlimited resources to sustain the eternal body. Is the mission of the brain to develop technologies that permit it the time to endeavor in this regard? If the greatest thinkers never aged beyond their peak productive periods where would civilization be today? Is the collective brain in a limited repetitive evolutionary cycle from which it is attempting to escape? Does it sense its own fate? Is this a greater fate of man that is unfolding contemporaneously as we experiment with the unknown? Can we predict what will happen? Is the brains desire to survive thus creating this new man who will no longer need to consume to be, and is it doing this because it realizes the finite nature of the world in terms of its capacity to sustain man.

    These are the many questions. What are the answers? Where are we headed? Will our future far exceed the wildest dreams of our greatest science fiction writers? Who are these writers and why do they imagine these worlds that fall short of the potential of man? Is this stimulation intended to drive us in some manner to explore the nether regions of our consciousness, or are these people and ideas only crude reflections of the inevitable direction of man. Certainly our abilities are being tested. Is it in the nature of mans suggestibility to believe that any and all investigation is good. If so does this make for a fate unknown, but conceived in the notion that the survival instinct is good?

    Birth gives brain DNA from an older brain along with collective unconscious. We believe in a fixed locale for our consciousness. Can it be the ultimate goal of the brain to create a body that needs no sustenance other than that which naturally occurs without typical mechanisms, and in so doing thus helping to assure longevity of the organ known as man? And even in this scenario it is not possible to escape the ravages of natural disaster. Is it an even greater goal of the brain to escape the limitations of the planet earth given its foreseeable and inevitable destruction, since the brain as an organ possesses a possible link to the deepest subconscious and instinctive knowledge of this inevitability? Could that escape result in the ever increasingly more powerful and focused neural emissions, designed to connect to the universe free of space and time, personal electrical impulses that would exist without a fixed locale. Can this be engineered, and if so, would we then work within a limitless electrical field that simultaneously gives and receives impulses and information that is the essence of our being that now exists but is not recognized by the ordinary body senses. A connected, limitless force that sees all knows all plays with all and is self sustaining. To know God is to be this being that survives death. Is it not the inveterate suggestible nature of man to believe in these possibilities? Is it not true that the suggestibility of man is a reflection of the most important primordial need, the need to survive, and that this suggestibility is based in the intuitive knowledge that man is ill equipped to survive as a species in his present form, given the inevitable natural disasters that will end earth as we know it today.

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