blog 21

Blog 21:    7^th Jan. 10

Metaphors, Allegories and Analogies

-          Laibl Wolf, Dean, Spiritgrow - The Josef Kryss Wholistic Centre, Australia

The video game is where imagination merges with reality.  Life is where reality merges with imagination. Life is a fixed marker. Imagination is the variable.  Life is the stage upon which we, the actors, imagine our existence.

What a wonderful piece of dynamic art we are. One moment our consciousness draws meaning from the flower. Another moment it’s not the flower but the room that contains the flower. Might it be the imagination that contains the room with the flower.

We don’t see reality.  Reality looks through us. We are the filter. The creative products of our endeavors are the physical manifestations of our filter.

The sense of touch. Trillions of molecules interfacing with another trillion molecules. Replay on another stage: touch is exhilarating, adventurous, sensuous, and informational. So what do we have here? Collisions of objective particles that produce a flow of feelings. Tangibility meeting intangibility.

Perhaps there is no reality. It’s all interpretation, subjectivity – it’s about me, the ‘I’ within. Even pain is subjective. Prepare a person for pain and it will be felt more acutely. Our eyes see. Our ears hear. Our consciousness interprets. Would the real reality please stand up? Is it the eyes, the pain, or is it the awareness of sight and the feeling of pain?  Or is it consciousness interpreting reality?  

I pick the flower and hold it in my hand. It feels light. It looks intricate and beautiful. It lifts my spirits. It leads my thoughts and imagination in the direction of beauty and enlightenment. So reality does move the imagination after all. Or is my imagination changing reality? Or is my consciousness directing my imagination to create a new reality?

Are these just mind-games? Is this a semantic exercise? Is it a philosophical excursion? Or even mere musings of an intellectual wanderer?

I have chosen to believe that reality exists. I have chosen to believe that I am part of reality. I have chosen to believe that my perception of reality contributes to its evolving nature.  I have chosen to believe that reality is meaningful.  I have chosen to believe that I am meaningful.

I have chosen to believe.

I have chosen.

The waves of uncertainty collapse into a new moment of reality.

Life is not a video game.

 

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