Philosophy of the Unconscious

March 4   Consciousness and subconsciousness. What are they? - Monier Saidden There is neither warranty nor expiry date provided for my material existence! We have to impose meanings on what is essentially meaningless so that we may hypnotize ourselves into accepting the unacceptable, we cannot hypnotize ourselves once and for all, we have to enforce the suggestion every few hours otherwise we forget, as we repeat the suggestion it becomes entrenched deep down in our sub-consciousness, then we don’t have to reinforce it as often.  For example, in some religions they have to pray five times a day otherwise the belief gets diluted, other religions like Christianity believers have to think every minute, almost all day about Jesus, He has to infiltrate every behaviour.  Etymology is the psycho-analysis of cultures.  Through understanding the etymology of certain words we can understand how a certain culture evolved and how a certain culture thought, languages form minds and program our hardware.  The word “theory” in English comes from the word “Theo” in Greek which means god.  So everything theoretical in English must mean some form of a divine matter or subject.  While the word “theoretical” in Arabic means what can be seen but cannot be practical.  Now let’s go to the word “word” itself.  The Greek word “logos” which means not only a word but a thought or a logic.  The bible says “in the beginning there was the word and the word was God, which must mean that our thoughts get materialized and that the first thing ever created was the thought, our thought is our god.  Now I should tell you the story which happened in my surgery to make you wonder about the concept.  I have a fluffy, soft, white cat toy.  I put it on my stairway leading to the door of my surgery.  One day I opened the door and that white soft toy started walking towards me.  I got shocked.  Guess what happened? The white real cat downstairs which belongs to the laundry had jumped inside my surgery from the window, knocked my soft toy and stood in its place and started walking towards me when I opened the door.The human brain is a fascinating organ. Consciousness, which controls our cognitive behavioral pattern - that is what we are willing to do what we are doing now. For example, I want to start dieting tomorrow or I want to stop smoking while the subconscious mind is what you are born with and what you receive and perceive in the first six to eight years of your life.It’s that part of the brain which makes you overeat when you start dieting and smoke when you decide to quit or go to the toilet in your nappy rather than wait to find the toilet.  At almost eleven months a baby starts to walk, go upstairs and downstairs, a great amount of skill and intelligence go into coordinating the movements consciously but as soon as the matter is mastered, it goes automatically into the sub-consciousness so that the bulk of the intelligence goes into trying to perform other new unfamiliar tasks, part of the instinctive survival skills kit without which no creature can survive life. When we are older the same thing happens again, every time we try to perform a new task it takes a lot of conscious intelligence until we familiarize ourselves with the task then it automatically moves to the subconsciousness. This form of intelligence is shared by all living creatures including plants.  You can easily see trees taking the direction of the wind, and plants taking direction of light. So all creatures have survival instinctive subconsciousness intelligence.  That intelligence has a very definitive too powerful unbeatable desires which are manifested every minute of our life.  The desire to eat and drink so that we can live and survive for the time being.  then the desire for my species to live and survive to extend my own existence through  having sex.  Those two overwhelming desires control every creature, plant or animal – they stain every act and every single behavior.  My opinion is the best opinion, the sweets word ever is my name and I am always right.  Everyone loves their ego, everyone loves success, everyone can accept people who agree but it takes a unique person to accept failure and love criticism. Is there a reality?  Is reality absolute or relative?  The wings of the clock have no value if there is no background behind them.  The core belief come from repeating coupled with the genetical susceptibility.  Dogs are territorial so they don’t hide their tracks, they don’t bury their faaces. Cats do, they instinctively hide their tracks.  They do bury their faeces.  The belief system in humans is the only common factor amongst different ideologies.  What would make a religious person become a suicide bomber against the same religion which is of a different denomination?  What would have made the early Christians desire and lust for martyrdom?  What would make the Catholic pope declare in public that Catholicism is the only way to salvation? The Orthodox pope would respond fairly aggressively to that?  What would make an atheist not believe in God and make a religious person believe so much in God?  It must be the belief system which is just like the old gramophone; our brains are like soft pieces of clay which are being carved by a needle attached to a vibrating foil.   The more the action is repeated the more we get used to things.  We can easily get used to rotten things.  When I was young we never had fresh oil.  The oil we used to get from the government was always rancid.  When I had enough money to buy fresh oil to add it to my sardines, I could not swallow it, I got the rancid oil to flavor my dish.  Tomatoes were considered to be poisonous in the medieval era until someone ate them unknowingly and didn’t die.  We materialize our own thoughts.  We believe in something then we collect data to substantiate our belief.  So when we fall in love we can only see the good things in the lover.  Yet as soon as we fall out of love we can only see the bad thing in the very same lovers.  The placebo effect in medicine is the biggest evidence that the belief system is perceptual and experiential, neither theoretical nor absolute.  Remember that story about that aboriginal man who was pointed at by a shoulder bone and he believed that he would die, his belief system in Shamanism killed him, no doctor could convince him otherwise.  The longer we carry our belief the longer they become a reality.   Just like smoking.  The longer you smoke the more receptors you grow in your brain to enjoy smoking even more. It becomes very hard to quit.  Similarly believing in GOD can make GOD a reality and not believing in GOD can make atheism a reality.  Atheism, theism, agnostism and the rest, they are all states of trance – we can evolve through them all or we could choose one and never evolve to the others.  Every one of us sees his own dream and the others cannot see his dream.  We are all in a state of hypnosis.  And it’s very hard to see other trances when you are yourself in a trance. Is there a life after death?  You can see the cells under the microscope moving and eating and having fun.  The minute a cell dies it gets disintegrated into atoms and the atoms still have moving electrons from one orbit to the other. If you split the atom you get energy.  There must be life after death in different forms and different shapes.  Just like water which could be steam, sleet, ice, snow, clouds or running water – all different forms of the same thing.  Maybe we are all balloons which if inflated they take different forms and different colors, what’s inside them is all the same.  When they get deflated their bodies disintegrate but what’s inside goes back to where it came from.  Consequently maybe there is reincarnation as the same air might inflate a new balloon or even an old one.  Maybe the power of the universe is the power of our thoughts – our thoughts are the God to a particular person.Is it the power that exists in the galaxies and the energy that drives the atoms among us the orbits? Maybe Panentheism is what I mean to say.  Our thoughts are our God and that God his name could be “athieism” He, god is omnipotent,  all knowing, He is the  power of survival, we are only groping in the dark to find out what He is like, no solid reality.  Amen.

 

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