Reality

It’s been some time since i wrote; my personal time for the last month or more has been used up with contemplation of impending change. The change is courtesy a choice I have made or to be more honest have almost made. Contemplation has allowed me to revisit some of my posts and also look at certain subjects from a different point of view. It has been enlightening to say the least. Words; written or spoken do not grasp the entirety of the experience, that said I will endeavour to try and explain a few new points of view. As always one can or cannot agree. 

We face having to make a choice almost every day. The choice always appears to be binary. It is always this or that. The interesting part about the choice is that the outcome is almost a given. It would not matter what the choice is; the outcome is more often than not the same. The journey to the outcome could be different. The reason why the outcome is more often than not the same is because, we have in our mind already visualised and decided what it would be. Think “manifestation” or the more popular book “the secret”, YouTube videos etc. We ordain the end result by the power of our mind. Now if you go to the depths of this argument a new question arises. How do we know the life we live in our mind or head is any different to reality ? After all the outcome we foresaw in our head is what becomes reality irrespective of the choice we make.  

Let’s go down the rabbit hole a little more. If the outcomes are thanks to what we project in our minds then everything we see, smell, hear, touch, taste are all constructs of our mind. Or as Rene Descartes said “I think therefore I am” . I.e i am the product of my mind. What then is reality? What is real and can be distinguished from our mental projections ? We have no way to figure this out. If one starts on a spiritual journey at some time one will hear the words “one has to be the observer as well as the observed”. Simply put eastern theology says that to understand what is real and what is not; disassociate from ones mind and become the observer of ones thought - one could probably understand reality then. What if the observer and the observed are nothing more that just another layer of control that is associated with how the mind works ? One would not be any closer to reality or to answer the questions about reality. 

Lets bring in the concept of emotions to try and decipher this further. The two principle emotions to look at are fear and desire. Fear results in a control on our mind that we are normally not aware of. It guides our mind into making choices that are driven by a resistance to change. Desire is what drives our mind to want to make change. We are trapped eternally in the clutches of these two competing emotions and our mind projects and manifests the resultant equation for a particular instance of time into what we call reality. The interesting thing is once emotions are brought into the mix it becomes clear that there is no other reality. 

We are the product of our mind. We always have been. Our universe is what we make of it.; ergo reality is what we perceive to be real. It could be in your head, it would not make it less real. There is essentially no difference in the memory of an emotion or experiencing an emotion - it would not matter if the emotion was a construct f the mind; you would still experience it. 

We go looking for answers in philosophy and psychology when the answer really is within. We are the manifestation of an idea that wants to experience its self. 

C