Thoughts and insights

[Jannes]

'The edge of your consciousness' 

Found this in the first manga of Blame and it triggered an interesting idea. This serves as an analogy to the 'edge of your consciousness'. Basically everything that is still visible is within your field of consciousness and everything outside of it is not. Similiar to the analogy of consiousness like a lightbulb in the dark. 

What I find really fascinating is understanding the edge and making a difference between the edge and not the edge. Describing it phenomenological. What is happening when we go to the edge or come back 'home' ? For me it feels like expansion and contraction. 

And how well do these analogies come to describing consciousness actually, as these analogies kind of suggests consciousness as a field of something, but is that really so? 

[Jannes]

marine life in sunken ships

 

 

Human beings build structures informed by long-term intelligent thinking. Few other structures on Earth are built like that. Most things in nature are means in and of themselves.

So in a way, the gain and flourishing of marine life, after a ship sinks to the ocean floor, comes from primitive intelligence polluting the intelligence of the environement that humans built. It flurishes as long as these structures—originally shaped by long-term intelligence—slowly transform into means in and of themselves.

Edited July 19 by Jannes

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Indulging in abstraction

It can be something like this, ocean waves, a ceramic place... it all gives inexhaustable material for growing metaphysical intuition.

 

Edited July 25 by Jannes

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Telling yourself a joke

There is something deeply pure and wholesome about telling a joke to yourself. It is enough that you find it funny — in fact, that is the only important thing, as it makes it absolutely true. The universe laughed at itself in a certain moment in time; there are no social games, no doubt that this is good.

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I find it intriguing how music can convey certain things that other mediums can’t. Like, what’s baked in there metaphysically that makes this piece of music, pretty universally at least among humans, convey a sense of the sublime, infinity, God? How’s that possible? What are the limits of that?

 

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Cap on levels of consciousness

When you look at much of what humanity created in terms of humor, beauty, love it seems that at some point there is kind of a cap to it. I often ask myself if there is a higher quality of beauty, humor, love and intelligence out there that we as humans could experience and what that would be like. But a higher form would seemingly only be accessible from a higher state of consciousness. And maybe the current state of conscious experience most of us experience is a hard block for higher forms to enter, because higher or lower forms of consciousness wouldnt be understood. Moreover maybe the highest form of beauty for this given consciousness can only be found within this level of consciousness itself, because higher or lower forms wouldnt be understood.

And exactly for that reason, only from a certain state of consciousness can certain ways of love be found. It couldnt be discovered from below or above. 

Edited October 19 by Jannes

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When love is scarce

I like this artistic expression in the Midnight Gospel of a dark and unforgiving planet. Well, pretty much any artistic genre ever intuitively grasped this and could express it artistically if it needed to. 

But whats really being expressed there? When love is scarce, consciousness turns into night mode. The rules change. One is lucky to get the little sweet stuff from a fruit packed full of spikes and protective mechanisms and not get tricked by it in the process. Because love is such a scarce resource, everyone needs to protect the little love they have and find more and more clever ways to get it from everyone else. 

 

The second picture here, which is on Leos Blog, expresses the oppsite. Ones own survival agenda is given up. Its hard to imagine but it likely creates a flourishing, orgasmic, unburdend kind of place. 

 

Development of society/ consciousness at large can be mapped into a spectrum of these two expressions of love — from pure egoism to transcendence of ones survival agenda. 

[Jannes]

World between worlds

I love the world between worlds in Star Wars. I wonder what the source of the inspiration for creating such a place was.

"This mystical realm connects all of time and space, creating a conduit between the living and the dead. Those who control this plane would possess mastery over all of existence, but gaining access has proved an unexpected challenge."

―Darth Sidious

 

Interestingly enough Remote Viewer describe the source from which they view in basically the same way. (Without the artistic expression of course)