We have a limited set of choices for how we will experience:
- Passive vs Active - We can choose to be passive and watch things happen, or we can be active and cause things to happen. We cannot be totally passive. Just being present has some effect on what happens around us.
- Consuming vs Producing - We can choose to consume things, information,
- Receiving vs Giving - We give and we receive. We are served and we are of service.
These are all essentially the same choice. They are the balance of being. We breath in and we breath out. We consume in order to produce. We serve in return for being served.
We seek balance in all respects. An imbalance upsets the equation and interferes with the flow of energy. If one is giving but never receiving, there is imbalance. If one is receiving but never giving, there is imbalance.
It is easy to be passive, consuming, and receiving. They are the natural flow of things. We achieve balance when we act, when we create, when we give, and when we are of service.
The tide of life moves in and out. The cycle of life is continuous.
We complete the cycle when we use the energy which sustains us to be productive, creative, and giving.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
The Fundamental Principles of Conscious Existence
I have deduced the following fundamental principles of Conscious life.
1 - We Think. We are conscious. We cannot be unconscious. We are always conscious at some level and in some form.
2 - We Exist. We are conscious, therefore we exist. Many believe we will always exist in some form.
3 - We Choose. When something is conscious it must choose. Deciding not to make a choice is still a choice. Choice leads to definitive experience, experience which defines us.
4 - We Experience. Conscious existence leads to experience.
These are the Fundamental Principles of Conscious Existence.
1 - We Think. We are conscious. We cannot be unconscious. We are always conscious at some level and in some form.
2 - We Exist. We are conscious, therefore we exist. Many believe we will always exist in some form.
3 - We Choose. When something is conscious it must choose. Deciding not to make a choice is still a choice. Choice leads to definitive experience, experience which defines us.
4 - We Experience. Conscious existence leads to experience.
These are the Fundamental Principles of Conscious Existence.
Our Purpose
My prior post on 'why' is inextricably connected to purpose. The question 'why' is equivalent to asking 'for what purpose'.
I believe everything has purpose. This implied purpose is what drives all of science. The scientist believes there is order and purpose to everything and this drives their curiosity to discover. To be fair, science is often more about how than why, but they are very closely linked.
My first seriously deep why was 'why do I exist', 'what is the purpose of existence'. I decided our purpose was to learn.
After some time I modified this to 'learn and help others to learn'.
After much contemplation and study, I currently believe our purpose is simply to experience. The more we experience the more we define ourselves.
We are life/god experiencing itself.
This purpose is unavoidable for reasons I will explain in my next post, the Nature of Conscious Existence.
I believe everything has purpose. This implied purpose is what drives all of science. The scientist believes there is order and purpose to everything and this drives their curiosity to discover. To be fair, science is often more about how than why, but they are very closely linked.
My first seriously deep why was 'why do I exist', 'what is the purpose of existence'. I decided our purpose was to learn.
After some time I modified this to 'learn and help others to learn'.
After much contemplation and study, I currently believe our purpose is simply to experience. The more we experience the more we define ourselves.
This is our purpose - To experience life and to define ourselves in the process.
We are life/god experiencing itself.
This purpose is unavoidable for reasons I will explain in my next post, the Nature of Conscious Existence.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Why?
Why is the most fundamental question of all. It drives all human progress. Without it we would still be living in the wild like the other animals. But where does our desire to know why originate?
Why are we compelled to know why?
Perhaps it is due to the other thing that makes the human animal unique. Perhaps it is due to consciousness.
I will cover these subjects and more here.
Why? Because it's what we humans do.
Share your thoughts on 'why' below.
Why are we compelled to know why?
Perhaps it is due to the other thing that makes the human animal unique. Perhaps it is due to consciousness.
I will cover these subjects and more here.
Why? Because it's what we humans do.
Share your thoughts on 'why' below.
The Beginning
I am a seeker of truth. I am both scientific and spiritual, rational and open-minded, physical and metaphysical.
I see no single path to wisdom. Wisdom is not limited. Wise people do not constrain the territory they consider, nor the processes they follow. Wise people, thought they may care what other people think, are compelled to follow their instinctive desire for truth more than their desire for acceptance. Sometimes that acceptance comes in their lifetime, sometimes only much later. whatever...
This is about one person's journey down the rabbit hole of true reality. I have taken the 'red pill'. I am not happy with the consensus reality of the matrix. I have a deep gut feeling that the everyday apparent reality we all know so well is not all there is.
I've been on this journey for quite a long time. I am a philosopher at heart. I am a student of life, and I am endlessly fascinated with the ultimate question. "Why?" It has been a companion since I was rather young.
That will be the subject of my next blog entry.
I see no single path to wisdom. Wisdom is not limited. Wise people do not constrain the territory they consider, nor the processes they follow. Wise people, thought they may care what other people think, are compelled to follow their instinctive desire for truth more than their desire for acceptance. Sometimes that acceptance comes in their lifetime, sometimes only much later. whatever...
This is about one person's journey down the rabbit hole of true reality. I have taken the 'red pill'. I am not happy with the consensus reality of the matrix. I have a deep gut feeling that the everyday apparent reality we all know so well is not all there is.
I've been on this journey for quite a long time. I am a philosopher at heart. I am a student of life, and I am endlessly fascinated with the ultimate question. "Why?" It has been a companion since I was rather young.
That will be the subject of my next blog entry.
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