Elasticity of mind
Everybody has what I'm going to call their own "perception of reality". And if you could choose a quality to "improve" your perception of reality, I'm guessing a lot of people would choose ACCURACY or something similar.
Personally, after giving it some thought, I'd choose for my own perception of reality to have more ELASTICTY. I arrived at this conclusion due to several factors:
- there is NO such thing as a singular accurate reality. Those that believe otherwise are deluding themselves
- Reality is continually unfolding. The "unreal" could happen at any second in the furure
- Judging by the sheer paranois of my PDoc* (at a recent appointment) at the prospect of me ever hitting another full-blown psychosis my personal choice should be governed by limiting the possibility of my mind ever snapping again. The antidote then is a more elastic mind that can accomodate more scenarios without freaking me out and tipping into paranois.
- With the explosions in technological possibilities, now is a more important time than ever to allow for more flexible perceptions of what is realisitically possible and what is not. As one of my my gurus Philip K Dick said "we are going to have to get used to dealing with entities that can be siad to exist and not-exist at the same time."
Let’s take the weather. Dark, cold, wet and windy. Sunny, warm breeze and smiling faces. Two extremes of our reality. You can measure the temperature to a millionth of degree but can you predict the weather next week, next month?
ReplyDeleteThe weather is our mood, a distortion of our reality. All I know is if I wait long enough the sun will shine again.
The antidote then is a more elastic mind that can accomodate more scenarios without freaking me out and tipping into paranois.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, you explain this a lot better than I ever could. :)