I caught myself doing tai chi in bed while I was sleeping last night – I woke up for some midnight shuffling abouts. Tai chi is all about controlling your inner “chi” – or energy. It is a strange learned phenomenon to not only be able to pick up the energies of certain people, places, and things, but also to recognize and shift the force that those things can impose on or empower in the individual.
Some may say these sorts of things don’t exist. That’s fine. I just so happen to have experience experiencing these things. I don’t think that the supernatural, fairy tales, or religious texts are fact-by-fact accounts of true stories. But I do believe there are things just beyond our consciousness, things we can’t explain, and I think there may be more truth to these cultures than we acknowledge.
The more I read, the less I am astonished by certain phenomena and the more “evidence” seems to bear true about some of my more childish beliefs. And even if those things aren’t compelling enough for you to become a believer, it is still quite fun to explore, makes for good writing, and a more perplexing life.
Two things:
1. I think that when it comes to symbols (and magic), the more that we continue to be exposed to similar ideas, the more quickly we can deduce the main concepts and then be able to either expound upon them or see deeper into the symbolic truth being told or observed and then internalize it to the extent that it no longer holds domain over us in our subconscious. Freud talks about how much of our subconscious fears are not expressed in words (but rather symbols or dreams). Our fears are the words we can’t express and therefore, they usually come about in dreams and images that we project onto the world.
And this leads me into my second point. 2. I am enjoying my Podcast Project – The Boncast – and it is quite revealing how much work I have yet to do on being a good conversationalist. I notice that I will ask a question; it will remind me of a story or explanation, and then I will ask another question without allowing the guest to respond to the initial question. I suppose I just get carried away.
Anyways, in Episode #5 with Todd Flood, we were explaining how our conception of consciousness, even though humans are perceived at the top of the evolutionary food chain on earth, and therefore considered to have mental superiority, we still have an extraordinarily limited capacity for what true or awaken consciousness is, or could be.
If 1. We only use about 20% of our brains most of the time. And 2. There is a matter that is there, but we can’t perceive; it begs the question, what is that we are missing? What is it just beyond our eyelids and other five senses that we just don’t know which may be occurring that we are oblivious to?
In this podcast, I explain how I am going down the “language” philosophy, that the better one is able to know language, the higher their potential for consciousness, but also their ability to convey their ideas and what consciousness is. Books are about a lot of things, emotions, love, but it really is just a person organizing experiences and ideas – and the fun part is that books can get pretty experimental and non-linear just like our consciousness.
Writing, or the ability to organize thoughts is how we think. If you can organize an argument, you probably are able to organize your room, your checkbook, and all around everything else. Of course, I am worried that our brain processing – our executive functions – is beginning to deteriorate and instead be filled with OnlyFans and whatever the male equivalent is of OnlyFans.However, nonetheless, I do think there are people who truly are trying to form a better argument, master language, not to win, but to help others arrive there sooner and better.
So, finally, to wrap things up, maybe there isn’t a lot of evidence – besides thousands of fantasy books, all major religions, and most of modern psychology – that symbols and magic are factual. But 1. If I can argue my point well enough, you might be surprised who believes it. 2. Life is just a lot more interesting when we explore the great unknown. Whether it is when we fall asleep, or the magic is happening when we are supposed to be sleeping, unknown to us.
Ben Bonkoske 