The Borders of the mind

We are finite creatures. We live our whole lives in this one little cupboard, catching cockroaches and burning bits of wood for light and heat and only daring to sometimes peak out of the crack in the door, and sometimes even wondering what is outside. A palace my darlings! All yours, with gardens and towers and servants waiting for you. You are royalty and you are living like a germ!

spirals.jpg“Human beings live in a state of mind called ’sanity’ on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure whether the space around them is infinite or not (either way it is unthinkable). If they think about time, they find it inconceivable that it had a beginning. It is also inconceivable that it did not have a beginning. Thoughts of this kind are not disturbing to ’sanity’, which is obviously a remarkable phenomenon and deserving more recognition.”

- Celia Green

It is disturbing to admit that our minds have borders. There are certain things it is impossible for us to comprehend. We just do not have that function in our brains.

There are currently about 38 Billion Million refugees in the world. There is no way I can possibly comprehend this number of people. My mind is not big enough to understand this part of reality. If you start to think about Space and how ultimatly insignificant those 38 Billion Million people are and how insignificant this earth is, it starts to hurt your brain.

We live in space and time. Two things that are around us all the time. Yet it is impossible for us to imagine time and space never starting or stopping. But it is also impossible for us to imagine that it dose start or stop. This makes NO sense! But whats even more freaky is that most people don’t even consider the weirdness of this. They just sit in their cupboard.

God is beyond all of this. God exists outside of time and space. He exists in the future and in the past at the exact same time (actually, not in time at all). He is everywhere all at the same time. He knows everything and he can do anything.

bald-eagle.jpgLets dRAw a PAralleL: The eagle flys really really high in the sky, yet it can still see tiny animals on the ground. We would NEVER be able to see that. We cant imagine being able to see that. That leads me to This: What I see is not what is THERE. I cant see the lizard on the desert floor but it is there. I have no garentee that anything I am seeing is actually there.

“What one sees with one’s eyes is never an object external to the mind, but a pattern of neuronal activity in the visual cortex. Thus it is all we experience. The brain, and the entire universe, is an appearance in mind. Mind, too, is an appearance, as is appearance itself. Appearances are a direct manifestation of Reality, which is infinite and empty of all form”.

- Eternally Alone.

astral-travel.jpgThis scares me. Everything is not everything. Or more accurately: Everything-I-Know is not everything. What must it be like to find the golden key? To unlock your mind and just to get OUT? To become dizzy with all the things you were missing out on. Maybe this is what heaven is like.

I feel like there are some people in this world who are unlocking the door, or have at least created some form of pick or crowbar to pry it open with. areas to research are: Child Genius’, Autism, Hallucinogenic drugs, Spirituality, Astral Projection, Artistic expression. *note: I dont subscribe or support these things, but they are my bread crumbs.

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3 Responses to “The Borders of the mind”

  1. May Says:

    well we compartmentalize, humans see it like a nuclei - at the center is home, family, then neighborhood. then workplace or school, then city, then country, then continent; distance is perceived by the shape of earth. but if someone was on the moon looking down on their country on the earth, it would seem less far away than a country at the opposite side of the world to their home where their sphere like head cannot shape-shift.

  2. Hungry Mother Says:

    The concept is still valid, but the number is a bit off:

    At 7:14 p.m. GMT on April 12, 2007 the world population was 6,588,348,576.

  3. Bekky Says:

    I think you mean 38 million.
    There are only like 7 billion people in the whole world.
    ;P
    Love this post.
    :) B.

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