Philosophical discussion of “reality” – is it real? Or is it perhaps Super Real? Surrealistically speaking.

How many times have you had a thought about something and then been distracted by something else and then, somewhere in the future, that same thought comes up?  For example, the other day my doctor noticed that I had what he called foot neuralgia, so he prescribed Neurontin.  I picked up the prescription and it was great.  Made my feet feel like new again.  The next day in the mail, this flier came in that was touting homeopathic cures.  I’m into homeopathy enough to know what works for me but I’m always looking for new ideas so I glanced through it.  They would mention an ailment and then tell me to get their New Book and I would find the answer on page so and so.  I was about to throw it out when something caught my eye.  It talked about foot neuralgia.  I figured that it would refer me to a page in the book but on this one topic they decided to give the answer.  Alpha lipoic acid, was their recommendation.  I had been using GTF Chromium and noticed that provided some relief.  But I hadn’t tried alpha lipoic acid. 

Do you notice how many times you recommend something to someone and they just shrug and it almost seems that they don’t even hear you?  Like asking a friend if they want to see a movie at the cinema?  And then sometimes later that day, often after a few days, they will come back and suggest the very same thing?  I don’t even tell them that I mentioned that exact same thing a few days earlier … I just say “yes, I would love to go to the movie with you”.  I now use that ploy regularly.  I’ll mention something that I would like to do and then wait for them to mention it back.  It seems that when we think of something we like we often don’t like it when someone else mentions it.  It’s like we want to be the first ones to bring up the idea.  Anything less is not acceptable.  But I have learned to bury my ego and not let that get to me.  Instead, I have learned how to get what I want, even if I’m actually manipulating others somewhat.  Is it really manipulation though, if the other people suggest it?  Even though I may have planted the seed?  Yeah, you’re right, it is for sure.  But it does work … may I suggest you try it and see how it works for you?  It’s kinda fun to do too.  Empowering, it is. 

A friend suggested that we, as an entity, are like seas.  I like to think of myself as a Universe that is always expanding.  I know my writings seem to be that large, no matter how much I try to limit them.  But, I began to think about this and here is a little tid-bit that seemed to sneak through.  You might need to be “Enlightened” to get the full effect of this one … or not. 

Imagine that each one of us, 1 in 6 billion, are each creating our own universes.  We do this with our thoughts.  Each day it is almost inevitable that we are going to day-dream about something.  If it’s a vivid daydream it often becomes so complex that you actually leave conscious reality and go into your dream and you act out within it.  When you return to reality does your recent dream stop?  Of course not.  You have set something in motion that is not easily stopped.  In fact, you may be able to stop it on one plain, or one dimension, but what’s to stop it from continuing on in its own world using the energy that you put into it, but never removed afterward.  It sits there spinning, creating an endless continuation of your original thoughts.  To think that it will remain confined within your designed limits is a tad arrogant so realize that it is going to go outside the box, eventually, and create realities that support its desires, its feelings, and its emotions.  Further understand that this thought reality that you created is getting bigger each day, growing, thinking, manifesting its own needs into its own reality, or realities, as the case may be.  Every new thought that escapes from your daydream, past or present, is busy working to create a reality of its own.  And from that reality is born a new reality and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.

Now, one step further.  Imagine all the billions of people, who are thinking thousands of thoughts per day that can be morphing into trillions of sub-thoughts, and then take that entire amount and multiply it by how many people are occupying the planet at that time.  Suddenly the Universe begins to appear small.  When you look out at night and see the expanse that is there before you, and then you check your computer to see the distance to each star that you can see at that time, and you realize that you are observing objects that sent that light to you 16,000 Light Years Ago.  Then take into account all of the planets and stars and moons that are within that range, and then imagine going out beyond that by several infinities.  You begin to see why our Universe cannot really end.  Not and be able to contain all of the thoughts and knowledge that exists.  You must also realize in this equation that there are millions more live sustaining planets out there and that each of them is creating about the same work load as us if not much more.  Our minds are small and limited and we’re only thinking with 7% of our brain.  How many out there are thinking fully and at 100%?  How much more can they produce, over and above what we produce?

OK … now we’re getting into numbers that not even the US govt would understand.  And then we begin to add in the trillions of bugs and other living beings that exist on this and other planets.  If something is alive is it not putting out a signal, or message, or some form of speech to those of its own species, possibly others?  Even a tree has thoughts.  Have you ever rested up against a tree and not felt the life force within?  Did you get the feeling that the tree was communicating with you but you either didn’t speak tree, or you had no program that covered it, or you felt stupid, or you just relaxed and felt the positive energy the tree was attempting to give?

And then ponder this.  As you begin to shrink in size you see how small things can get, all the way down to microbes, and then cells, and then you begin to go really small.  I mean like out to the end of our galaxy … and back … small to the power of infinity plus infinity. 

Now go the opposite direction and imagine Men in Black where the camera fades from the Earth and retracts into space and soon you see that we are a marble in someones sack of marbles.  Pretty cosmic thought yes?  Well, what if we were not a marble in a sack but a grain of sand on a beach in the “Universal Gobi Desert”?  And this is just one of those deserts … there are many, many more, to the infinite power etc.

And to think that there used to be a time when these thoughts were totally unimaginable.  Just think, with technology on the rise, isn’t it possible that there will be a time not so distant in which we will consider this discussion and this paper as being infantile and so far below the bar that people of the future will not even begin to fathom its simplicity?

Just imagine how many new universes have opened up since I began writing this and you, or I, began reading this.  Does a whole new beach pop up at one sitting?

I will leave you with this thought for now but I will check in with you on Monday after the 4th of July holiday to see how you are doing with this. 

Our next assignment will involve being able to sense the thoughts and feelings of all living beings, first on this planet and then on the 53 closest from that.  It will be fun.  Have you ever felt the thrill of a sea squirrel when it first wakes up and stretches?  You will …. yes ….. YOU WILL!

Happy Independence Day … Keep Your Reality Reasonably Safe and Just a Tad Beyond Sane … it’s the only way … TO BE!

I AM

Dartagnon

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  • Hatedandloved15 on Jul 5, 2009

    Sorry to hear about your ailment, glad it is better.

    I love it. It kind of opened up this whole new perceptions of my surroundings. Especially the day-dreaming part. I get bored and often slip in to a day-dream. So the idea that these day-dreams I have at some point become conscience is pretty cosmic.

    That scene in ‘The Men in Black’ was very mind bending. I often think about how lifeforms outside our planet probably think with full brain capacity. No need for spoken language they can perceive the thought of another. There is no telling what we can mentally achieve as our genus Homo has only been around for 6 million years, and we as homo sapiens have been around roughly 500,000 years. We ourselves have yet to reach our full potential, we are still evolving. Although, I should say, there is no telling what we could have accomplished. Even with all our efforts it is still doubtful that we can turn this destructive tide.

    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein

    Einstein knew we would destroy ourselves with war, but I wonder if he knew we would also destroy ourselves with greed, pollution, and over consumption.

    Very good post.

    -Stephanie

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