Consciousness, intention and reality =?
Today, we read and hear ad infinitum about motivation and intention, and how they supposedly define our lives. It is overwhelming - so much so, everything we hear telling us how we are to live is now a cliché. This is what happens when a good idea becomes an industry.
Regardless, it still is our job to sort it all out.
Is it possible that consciousness drives the whole process? Can it be that we define our reality with our consciousness? I am not talking about bending spoons or walking on water, but I am suggesting that much of what we experience as our reality exists because we have willed it to be so.
If you apply this notion to faith and belief systems, it opens Pandora’s Box. What if what we define with our consciousness and then accept and believe in faith, become our reality? Add to this, if consciousness exists outside of our brain and our brain is a receptor and not an originator of that consciousness; a lot of folks are in for a big surprise.
Imagine if heaven can only exist for those who believe in its existence because their consciousness defined it as real and brings it into existence.
For an atheist heaven does not exist because their consciousness denies its existence. This allows both atheist and those who believe in heaven to be right. Did not someone once say, “We are what we believe.”
On a mundane level, how about faith healing - is it real? What role does willed consciousness play in making actual healing take place?
How about optimism and despair – are they willed by the mind? This gets more complicated when we consider that 90 percent of our brain’s consciousness is unconscious to us.
In addition, what part does the early imprinting of our environment and family upbringing play in the development of the unconscious part of our willed intent? How does that shape our motivation and intention? How much was created by us? How much was planted there by our environment and upbringing? Getting a headache? I am.
This is enough for today. They say asking the right questions are more important than answers. If so, maybe some of these thoughts are the right questions. More later……..
Brother Giovanni
We also recommend: "the Pizzaonian"
Recommended reading: "Out of our Heads" Why you are not your brain and other lessons from the biology of consciousness - by Alva Noe)
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