A ramble – as I have no idea what ‘I’ am going to write, but I wanted to touch base as I know I haven’t written so much this week. I hope you like the Sam Harris posts. It was Tony Parsons who mentioned him, and looking him up I have to say that I was quite pleasantly surprised to see someone say that scientifically, it is proven that the brain makes decisions a moment or two BEFORE the thought comes to us about the decision in question. In other words, no free will whatsoever. Quite incredible, don’t you think? I’m adding a video of Sam Harris speaking about the fact that free will is an illusion. Wow, I just love it when human arrogance is brought down a notch or two.
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Sam Harris on “Free Will”
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It’s not actually true that I have not been writing, for I have. I am trying to finally organize and edit over 100 pages of a book I’ve been writing over the last few years. We’ll see how far life lets me get with it….Seen as we don’t have free will, it won’t be my fault if I don’t finish it – LOL!
So if I go a bit quieter it’s the book that’s going on probably, but I’ll endeavour to post other people’s interesting words and videos.
So how’s the collapse of ‘your’ story going? I trust it is going. It’s the only way.
To what? To what you’ve been waiting for.
Comments, as always, welcome.
Love,
Reena
PS. One other quickie. Someone asked me yesterday what I thought would happen in Dec 2012. My answer was – Nothing. That’s the truth – Nothing is always happening and will be happening then! Actually what will happen is the western world will still be shopping for christmas crackers on 22nd Dec. Because all of that golden age stuff, whether or not it happens in the ephemeral world or not, is STORY. 🙂
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I think there is also no scientific proof that one’s desires are actually one’s desires, as something originating in our own mind. Or it’s biased and fabricated. Since where do they come from BEFORE they appear in our mind.
As everything in material world appearing and disappearing in the void of never before and no longer, same way are one’s desires, coming from the void, which could be anything or anyone.
And observing them as they appear in your mind, there is no logical way to confirm that it’s actually your desire and not something that is fed into your consciousness from an external source that you know nothing about.
That is an issue of a system that is built on perception of the moment. It may lack the coherence of the whole picture as in what may lie behind the margin of that moment.
A mind may be taught to believe that if a message, e.g. desire, is dispatched into it, it’s for a reason. Ego centric minds will usually tend to treat everything as theirs even if it does them no good. Like, “ah, I want a bit more of that”. That’s the lack of a coherent picture in a sequence of motions of a soul that can say, “oh, that was good”, then get afraid and say “hey, and what if I never will be able to try it again”, and the ego will preprocess that fear based question into an answer of “ah, I want a bit more of that”, which a clouded mind will accept as its own desire and will go for more. Even when it could be better to have no fear to start with or put that desire aside and say, “I’ll leave it for later or let someone else enjoy it too”.
A clear mind sees reason in everything and sees the reason behind everything. And thus questions everything that gets dispatched into its mind as in “why and for what reason do I get all this stuff”, which creates a loop of inquiries that can restore the coherent picture as in where from does everything come and for what reason.
And some stuff can come simply for the reason to teach one to stay away from that stuff. That is an example of the separation between desire of the moment and that in the long run.
Since, essentially, everything comes from the long run. Every spirit has its long term desire, written on the timeless scale as in where it wants to get and where it wants to be in the long run.
Thus, it’s possible to say that everything is sort of predefined to some degree because at some point we take time to predefine it. And when the moment comes, our mind may either fail to see the reason and go through another spiritual lesson, or see the reason and recognize it as something it agreed with long time ago, which may come as a realization or an impulse to it.
But it doesn’t mean that we have no free will. We have will to choose our desires in the long run. And have option to fall for momentary desires emitted by imperfection and weaknesses of our bodies and souls.
Scientists like to find something in a microscope, fail to recognize how it connects with everything else, but hurry up to make a story out of it.
God’s only will for us was to let us have our free will and that’s the only thing we have. The rest are just mechanics of how our free will works.
And in our free will we can have long time commitments which may be fed into our consciousness bit by bit, creating karmic loops if necessary when we fail to recognize that we let our egos and ignorance loose and fell off the course of self realization in time and fulfillment of our purpose in life.
Peace,
@djurminschi