Thursday, January 05, 2006

The illusion of Static

Throughout our lives, we have become accustomed to choosing our own realities. Meaning, what we believe, what we agree with, what we think is right, wrong, good, bad... and what is real and what isn't. We take for granted that our abilities to choose actually create our own experience... our choices about how we feel when we see a particular movie, or how we feel when we see a particular person, lover, friend, enemy, etc, are actually feelings derived from choices we've made about those things in our past. And those choices, then become ingrained in our mind, on a physical level, meaning our neurons form and branch out in our brains, in a specific configuration, based on our choice. Now for efficiencies sake, the brain retains that configuration, and the next time we are in the same situation we end up feeling, or acting the same way as we've done in the past. After awhile, it is only routine that you dislike cars when you drive them, or you dislike a particular type of food, or you love a type of person, activity, place, or thing.

So powerful is our minds ability to associate past experiences to the present, that we take so much for granted about our world. So many truths that we believe are real and authentic to us, to our history as a people, or what have you are actually based on untruths, or are interpretations of something that may or may not have happened. This is a paradigmn, this is a way of living, in which we feel something which is correct in our reality and experience, is actually something else. And like a foundation for a house, we use our past to build upon for our present and future. Each life experience is like a brick, and we forever add more bricks on top to build our current perspective on life. Our perception of truth and "reality" is very subjective, personalized, and unique, as no one has exactly the same experience as anyone else in the world. It is physically impossible, because the date would be different, time, people, positions of objects, colours... etc. So much change would have occured between the first persons experience, and the second persons experience that they are now two totally unique experiences and as such are interpreted differently by each individual.

How is this relevant in our lives? Well, ask yourself how much of your understanding on any particular subject is really authentically true, and holds its truth in every time, place, or situation. For example, think of two terms... "Static" and "Kenetic". These terms are used to describe something which is without motion, and not moving, and something that is in motion, and is moving respectively. But is anything really static? Look at a clock on the wall that doesn't move, look at your dressor, look at your carpet, look at anything that you percieve as not moving... something that is physical such as a rock. Does this rock move? Well it doesn't spawn legs and walk over to you, and it doesn't roll on its own without being pushed... otherwise it just stays... right where it is. But look closer... look deeper... look within. That rock is moving tremendously fast! It's molecules at a sub atomic level are vibrating at a fantastic rate... so is every other molecule in our known universe. All of them vibrate... all of them are moving. So then the question arises... what level of truth are you percieving? The truth that skims the surface? Or the deeper truth of all of life, and the reality that the term "Static" is in fact an illusion we've created for ourselves, in order to describe an object which does not "move" as percievable by our 5 senses.

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