Because I don’t have enough people thinking I’m weird, I’m having this spirited forum conversation with an insightful gentleman named Ethan in which I have been posing that we do not really think or choose, but merely PERCEIVE that we think and choose. This morning, Space Monkey elaborates. This will make absolutely no sense to you unless you have read all the other gibberish I have been posting:
SPACE MONKEY: Your beliefs are your guideposts. They are like trail markers that define where your consciousness goes.
So you believe you are human. This sets your consciousness down a trail of “human-ness” in which all of the potentials you realize come from a perspective that you are human. You, in essence, now limit yourself to only those potentials in which you are a human.
In following this trail, you come into a guidepost called “Ethan.” You now come into only the potentials that contain “Human” and “Ethan.”
As you continue your focus, you come to a guidepost called “choice.” You now come into the potentials that contain “Human,” “Ethan” and “Choice.” Therefore you perceive that you are human, you perceive that you are Ethan, and you perceive that you have a choice.
As you continue your focus further, you move through the theme of choice. Every potential you encounter has some aspect of choice, and since your beliefs are your guideposts, you believe that you have a choice.
As you are moving through this potential, along comes this other focus, we shall call him Paul, who tells you that you’re not really choosing at all.
It makes sense that you encounter Paul at this point because you have been realizing a path of potentials that follow the concept of choice, and Paul poses a challenge that conflicts with your belief of choice.
But Paul’s perspective makes no sense to you. Obviously Paul has come into this potential from a different path, therefore his “line of thinking” as it were, does not agree 100% with your own. Perhaps Paul was following the “no choice” path, which naturally intersects with the “choice” path at this very point.
You can see why both of you might have opposing viewpoints, yet both are essentially correct. To put it simply, whatever you believe to be correct IS correct. If you believe otherwise, that is also correct.
But that does not make Paul incorrect. Only from your particular point of potential, which follows your “line of thinking,” which are thoughts that you came into while focusing upon your unique path of potential.
Paul will argue (in actuality, Paul is a mild-mannered, reasonable man) that you are not thinking, while you are certain that you are thinking, and BOTH viewpoints are correct.
So you see how conflicts occur in your world, which are solely based upon your beliefs. It has not been possible, from the focus of the individual, to see that there are equally valid frameworks that veer from the collective systems of logic. And, of course, there are many collective systems in play, which is why there is much conflict.
This is about to change with your shift.
We are Space Monkey and we have run out of trail mix, so we shall have to find some other potential to munch on.
Realize that we, too, are only perception.
Do not feel bad. We do not think, either.
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Paul Tedeschi is a writer, artist, musician and medium, channeling Space Monkey, tripping out on tie-dye, and building Fancy® cigar box guitars in his garage. You may visit his curious world at capeodd.com. Or not.
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