May 10, 2012: Post 131, Day 131 - Fast Day
May 10, 2012
Daily Comment
I have moved the whole Diet and Food Diary section to the bottom of the blog. How do you like the new look? Let me know. I am still doing things to de-emphasize the diet-and-food-diary origins of this blog, transforming it more into a daily look at my life and my thoughts.
I thought I'd expand on my closing remark yesterday, "I love it when a plan comes together. Especially in a way that reaffirms my ideas and philosophy related to visualization, causation and metaphysics."
On causation:
We are used to thinking about cause and effect. Something happens that leads to something else happening. Linear and sequential. This is how our sensory apparatus tells us the world works.
But our sensory apparatus only perceives a small amount of the information that influences events.
If you don't consider our temporal constructs (Time flows in one direction, from the past to the future) and consider all time(s) to be happening now, you can look at some interesting ideas about causation.
The ideas that I'm talking about are that there seem to be instances where the result seems to have only been possible by the pre-arrangement of causes. That is, effects seeming to be inexorably forcing an alignment of causes. Effect and cause. It is all a matter of perspective.
Of course.
It all depends on where you start looking at causation. Normally, you look before the event, but it seems to me you can also look turn that upside-down if you imagine that the event comes first, then everything - everything, as in the Universe - arranges itself to deliver that event.
Let's look at a personal example.
This past Summer, I was in a fender-bender in the parking lot of a supermarket I had stopped into to buy spring water to a picnic hours away from home. Cause-and-effect thinking (what we could see happening) says that the accident was caused by someone pulling out of a parking lot without looking in the direction they were going. This caused the accident. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
The other driver says that when they started to pull out of the parking space, there was nothing behind her, nothing moving, and the car pulled out and cut her off. The fault is not hers. Physics aside, I caused the accident.
But the effect-and-cause view says that there was a very intricate web of events that had to occur for this accident to happen, not merely the actions that immediate preceded it.
My involvement, for instance, was predicated on a countless series of unique individual decisions I made and actions I took that put me in that place at that time - beginning with when I decided to leave on the 4-hour drive to the picnic. If I had done every single thing I did, drove exactly the same speeds on the same route, stopped in that supermarket for exactly the same amount of time, etc., but had left an instant earlier or later, the accident couldn't have happened. Or, if I had actually done everything exactly the same, but there was a second's discrepancy in what the other driver did, then there's no accident.
Basically, millions of impossible-to-plan (imagine) and impossible-to-coordinate 'causes' had to be in place to result in this particular effect. And that's just my part. The number of interactions with other people and with the environment are exponentially larger, and they that also had to be timed precisely for that instant event to occur. Anything different, and the result is different.
But, if you imagine that you start at the effect, the collision, it is much easier, and work backwards (reverse the flow of time), then all these amazing, split-second-timed effects, become 'normal' and the intricacies are no more difficult to see and understand then ripples from a rain drop. That is, the effect predates the cause.
If you believe that space-time constructs are human illusions, not Universal constants, as I do, then the maxim, begin with the end in mind makes perfect sense.
Which is the basis of visualization: You visualize what you want as a result that already exists - and don't worry about the path to realizing or manifesting that result. That's the job of the Universe, of the one-ness of reality that obliterates space and time.
I have seen this in my life, in different ways, and at different times, over and over.
I thought I'd expand on my closing remark yesterday, "I love it when a plan comes together. Especially in a way that reaffirms my ideas and philosophy related to visualization, causation and metaphysics."
On causation:
We are used to thinking about cause and effect. Something happens that leads to something else happening. Linear and sequential. This is how our sensory apparatus tells us the world works.
But our sensory apparatus only perceives a small amount of the information that influences events.
If you don't consider our temporal constructs (Time flows in one direction, from the past to the future) and consider all time(s) to be happening now, you can look at some interesting ideas about causation.
The ideas that I'm talking about are that there seem to be instances where the result seems to have only been possible by the pre-arrangement of causes. That is, effects seeming to be inexorably forcing an alignment of causes. Effect and cause. It is all a matter of perspective.
Of course.
It all depends on where you start looking at causation. Normally, you look before the event, but it seems to me you can also look turn that upside-down if you imagine that the event comes first, then everything - everything, as in the Universe - arranges itself to deliver that event.
Let's look at a personal example.
This past Summer, I was in a fender-bender in the parking lot of a supermarket I had stopped into to buy spring water to a picnic hours away from home. Cause-and-effect thinking (what we could see happening) says that the accident was caused by someone pulling out of a parking lot without looking in the direction they were going. This caused the accident. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
The other driver says that when they started to pull out of the parking space, there was nothing behind her, nothing moving, and the car pulled out and cut her off. The fault is not hers. Physics aside, I caused the accident.
But the effect-and-cause view says that there was a very intricate web of events that had to occur for this accident to happen, not merely the actions that immediate preceded it.
My involvement, for instance, was predicated on a countless series of unique individual decisions I made and actions I took that put me in that place at that time - beginning with when I decided to leave on the 4-hour drive to the picnic. If I had done every single thing I did, drove exactly the same speeds on the same route, stopped in that supermarket for exactly the same amount of time, etc., but had left an instant earlier or later, the accident couldn't have happened. Or, if I had actually done everything exactly the same, but there was a second's discrepancy in what the other driver did, then there's no accident.
Basically, millions of impossible-to-plan (imagine) and impossible-to-coordinate 'causes' had to be in place to result in this particular effect. And that's just my part. The number of interactions with other people and with the environment are exponentially larger, and they that also had to be timed precisely for that instant event to occur. Anything different, and the result is different.
But, if you imagine that you start at the effect, the collision, it is much easier, and work backwards (reverse the flow of time), then all these amazing, split-second-timed effects, become 'normal' and the intricacies are no more difficult to see and understand then ripples from a rain drop. That is, the effect predates the cause.
If you believe that space-time constructs are human illusions, not Universal constants, as I do, then the maxim, begin with the end in mind makes perfect sense.
Which is the basis of visualization: You visualize what you want as a result that already exists - and don't worry about the path to realizing or manifesting that result. That's the job of the Universe, of the one-ness of reality that obliterates space and time.
I have seen this in my life, in different ways, and at different times, over and over.
Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!
Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 200.4 lbs
Yesterday's Weight: 199.0 lbs
Net Loss/Gain: + 1.4 lbs
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| Year 2012 daily weight from December 31, 2011 |
Diet Comment:
I ate a lot of food, didn't get a lot of sleep and my weight bounced back. Boring. And of no consequence. Next?
Food Log
Breakfast
Skipped.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 33 oz, Water:112+ oz
Skipped.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
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| Celery and home-made spicy mayonnaise (not shown). Wild-caught salmon burgers with faux mashed potatoes (cauliflower, butter, salt and pepper). |
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 33 oz, Water:112+ oz
Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!
posted by Reverend Ken at
7:43 AM
1 Comments:
So- I am responding to your emails- thank you for them, incidently. It is not that I do not realize that I can just observe these feelings in myself and let them happen. I do know that. I try to do that and it works. I just do still feel them bubling up. every once in a while I get stuck.
You always help me out, though. Love you
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