Mind over matter (Thought #11)

Okay, so I literally have no excuses whatsoever for why I haven't posted in... uh... 4 months? To be honest, my brain is only now simmering down to an acceptable temperature and size to reflect upon life, simply because going from 6th grade to 9th is not as easy as it sounds. Also, I was completely incapable of thinking of any good ideas for this blog.

So, here. You know, that concept of "waves" that some people talk about, many people scoff at, and the majority of people wonder about? Positive waves, negative waves, it doesn't all narrow down to that. Ever arrived at a party and immediately felt oppressed by the feeling that everyone around you is either drunk or high? Or just felt that the "mood" didn't feel right? I know a good portion of my schoolmates have, as have I, not exactly a pleasant experience unless, of course, you're the drunk one, and even then. Waves are kind of the same idea as the mood in a room or even the way animals can smell fear. It's more like a sixth sense than a smell, although I do know that, scientifically, strong emotions DO have subtle smells that seep through our skin.

Speaking of science, the ongoing scientific debate on that sixth sense or lack thereof is quite a strange one. To be honest, there isn't much of an argument against it that doesn't sound like "well, it's simply illogical and impossible! " and there isn't much of an argument for it either, unless you want to hear "most people experience it, though." That is most likely because no survey will ever be close to accurate, because one cannot just answer a survey question that 1. digs into a sense that one is not necessarily comfortable with or used to and 2. will probably look like this: "have you ever felt this weird feeling where there's a kind of mood in a place but you can't really put your finger on it?" And, let's face it, most people won't admit that they do because their narrow mind is set on rationalism.

I don't really think it's for nothing that people say we only use 10% of our brains. What if 20% is being able to know people's feelings, 30% is reading minds and telepathy, 40% is telekenisis, 50% is communicating with all living things, 60% is self-telekinesis (flight), 70% is the complete control of your body (including your heart, hormones, antibodies...) which allows you to evolve easily into a life form that adapts to your environment, 80% is safe light-speed travel, 90% is an infinite strength of mind and strength of body, and 100% is... the ultimate being.

It could be. Nothing proves it. Nothing proves against it either. I can think of nothing that scientifically proves that we can't move an object that we are not touching (or breathing on) without help. For examples, there are many stories (most are true) of voodoo and black magic practice, cursing people... Most think it's ridiculous, but what if it isn't? I mean, WHO hasn't had an inexplicably horrible day, for no reason at all? It's not necessarily a curse, maybe just the result of a person's wishful thinking, or karma. Oh, and karma, who can explain that? Literally no one.

Those reports of ghost-spotting aren't always coincidental either. Of course, a gust of wind moving a coat in the wind could look like the Grim Reaper, but there are people who say they constantly see spirits, ghosts, or whatever you want to call it. So, really, we're surrounded by what we still call "supernatural occurrences," despite the fact that I think they're completely natural, and we choose to ignore them and call them coincidences. Don't you think that's a hell of a lot of coincidences, since it pretty much happens all the time? Okay, I'm not here to start a debate or impose my opinion. I just think it's ridiculous to ignore the obvious (okay I'm done).

Personally, I think it is only the narrow-mindedness of humanity that prevents it from truly evolving. Despite our relentless focus on technology, we focus too much on developing our current intellect, which is stuck on a sad, saad 10%, and it is not by putting all our faith in what we call "science" which, to be honest, can only explain the basics of our existence, that we will evolve in our minds. This is not at all a hate speech on science, by the way. I LOVE science, it is my passion, and I intend to spend the rest of my life working with it. All I am saying is that science can only do so much before our minds' potentials go beyond it. Maybe by the time we've evolved, we can then create new technology that adapts to our "new minds," but that could take a few million years, since we're not done with current, basic science.

Until then, I will write more often, for humanity's fledgelings!

PS: uh, I WILL be in an Internet-less place from July 29th to August 10th... I will TRY to go to the Internet café, but I am so damn lazy that I don't know if I will... Although my friend has Internet over there so I'll try... Okay... Have fun evolving over summer reading and sunny vacation!

Evolution (Thought #10)

I haven't written in FOREVER, sorry. I got caught up in a lot of things in my life (yes I have one, surprisingly so).

Well, right to the point.

Our fears: they're what push us forward in life. Along with our wishes: but in the end, aren't our goals set in order to avoid our fears? For example: you want to write a book that will be huge, make you rich and famous. But isn't that simply to escape the void of the shadows and poverty? Isn't that because you want recognition instead of having people constantly underestimating you?

Now let's analyze our fears. Our fears are completely based on our fear of the unknown. Take any phobia, and you will find that it is all about the unknown. And, what do we do when we're afraid? Okay, we cower. But other than that, we may cover it up with a nervous laugh, a joke, or even icy stoicism. That is why we are a little ashamed to admit that we're a little bit intrigued by the spiritual world. "Demons? Balderdash. Afterlife? Psh. Spirits? Nah. Anything that could possibly throw off our sense of logic and defy the laws of physics? Never!" Now I am NOT talking about religion. I don't really believe in all that. I'm talking about spirituality. Now that, is an eventuality.

And here comes in the topic of psychics. They're infamous, and we ignore them, or, worse, shun them, or, even worse, "we believe in what they say." And by that I mean most believe that people who go to psychics are complete lunatics. But aren't they, too, trying to avoid their fears? Attempting to go to someone who could reassure them, relieve them of their doubts? Aren't they trying to get a glimpse of the future, to shine light in a realm where they only see shadows? Yes, they're just like you and I. Now let's see it from the perspective of those people with special abilities. First of all, they're kind of everywhere. Although you may not want to admit it, you obviously know at least one person that can do weird things, feel things you can't, have premonitions. Or better yet, you're like that. It's fine.

But. We don't really pay attentions to those abilities, but what if they were the omen of what is to come? A mirror of our fears? The key to evolution? What if the human beings that evolved into a new species were the ones who are "psychic," per se, the ones we're—afraid of? What if that was the reason we're afraid of them? Knowing that they will someday surpass us, be capable of things far beyond our primitive perceptions? Telekinesis, foresight, telepathy, bilocation... all those things clearly impossible according to the laws of physics might be possible to some people. So all those theories on evolution may be thwarted by the fact that they constantly follow science. But there has to be some intuition used there, and isn't that just something else we can't explain: intuition. How we can feel things before they happen, sense danger, read into people feelings before they talk. Some people call it survival skills, but I think there's more to it.

So what do you think? Is the next human species going to be a physically and intellectually different being or is it going to have an evolved version of our small "out of the ordinary" abilities?

What's next?

The Big Question (Thought #9)

Why?

The other day I was thinking about the morosity of the fact that life has no higher purpose than living. And even if it did, that purpose would achieve nothing. Well, I guess the purpose of life is the evolution of man and every individual so that humanity can make itself evolve and on and on in a loop. But even that has no higher purpose. And whatever the highest purpose is, it doesn't have a higher one. So here you go: we are stuck in a purposeless world by paradoxical situation. Lovely.

But that was the scientific way to see it. Think about it: the evolution of one throughout one's life is priceless. To me, a fulfilled life and a fulfilled individual is one who has acquired a full conscience of one's self and surroundings. It is when your understanding—not your knowledge—of yourself and other is at its greatest potential. Of course, some people say fulfilling a life is getting a Nobel Prize, or a Pulitzer Prize, or whatever prize you can think of, but what's the point if you're unhappy?

No, no, no, I say that since life has no purpose, we must make one, and we must make the best of life while it lasts. We don't live forever. Soon, we'll be able to (technology, just download yourself to another surrogate once you're too damaged) but imagine the number of people against the ethics of defying what life created? Whether you think it's defying God, or science, what it truly is defying is humanity. Personally, I think it's a great idea, because what if you want to enjoy life just a little longer? Although I'm getting off topic here. What I'm saying is we gotta make the best of what we're given. And the greatest gift we were given, apart from life, is each other.

What would man do if he was stuck in a non-societal world? We base almost all of our reactions on other human beings. Sometimes it's for a reputation or self-image, the standards people set, changing for the best, etc. Most of all, we learn lessons from each other. Humans are made to live in society, and thank God or whoever for all 7 billion other people on Earth. Although of course, there's the subject of overpopulation, which sucks, and hopefully we have a nice pandemic to deal with that.

Just kidding. Although we do need something. But that's not what I'm here to talk about (maybe later I'll talk about the ethical views of overpopulation).

The perfection of life is that we are unable to fathom life differently. What I mean is: nature is perfect. Things grow on their own, plants let us live and feed insects, insects feed birds, birds feed some animals, and all that food chain thing which is too long for me to write out. Everything works out perfectly. And the laws of physics are fascinating: gravity, heat=light, energy, speed... And although the presence of alternate dimensions is quasi-certain, we can't possibly imagine a world with different laws of physics or different nature or where the five senses are different. Of course, we can imagine minor differences (well, somewhat minor) like everything having two heads (thank you Family Guy) or gravity being much lighter or colors being different. I'm making a lot of lists today.

Anyways you get the point, I'm pretty sure there isn't much left to say at this level, so yeah.
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6th Dimension: Time (Thought #8)

Isn't time the most wonderful thing? Well, actually... isn't it kind of annoying? It slows down when you're bored, speeds up when you're stressed, and we all know it's relative but to what? It's a total (ahem, excuse my language) mindfuck, to think that you're working and time feels increasingly slow, and then you look over at the person next to you playing computer games and you think, "Right now, this moment is passing by impossibly quickly for them." You could almost say we constantly time travel back and forth: say that stressed out people live shorter lives, not in statistics (although that's true too) but that 50 years for them feels like 40 years for another person. Then again, people who read all day, or do nothing, or when they're sick, their 50 years could feel like 60 years to another. I don't even know what to say.

DALI—The Persistence of Memory.

Most confusing thing ever. It's completely (ahem) fucked up. Really. You have to admit, Dali represented time perfectly. It stretches to infinities but can fit in small spaces, yet it's so malleable, stretchy, but like a rubber band it can just snap back and whip your fingers. It's actually really frustrating. I don't really know why there's a dead tree in the middle of nowhere. Actually, I don't even care. This isn't the time for a Dali analysis.

So, time also has quite an effect on memory (another Dali reference, sorry...). Memories tend to exaggerate themselves as time passes, yet some details you can remember perfectly. Also, déjà vu. Okay, we all know (maybe not all of us) that the true reason for déjà vu is simply that the brain processes the current memory twice by accident. But if you want to look at the less scientific part of it, when you get a déjà vu, the first thing you immediately ask yourself is, "Wait. When could this possibly have ever happened?" and then the endless time-searching begins.

I could go onnn and onnnn forever about time. But, speaking about it, I'm running out of time and it's getting late. Maybe I'll update this into a more complete thought, later. Bye for now!

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Psychedelia (Thought #7)

In my previous post I said I would talk about psychedelic experiences, since they were somewhat related to adrenaline. So, here it is.

Getting high without drugs or alcohol is honestly quite simple, especially when tired. Very often it can be based on adrenaline, for example you can get high off of speed (not the drug, but going fast) and you might see a bunch of colors. There is a certain point you reach in adrenaline where you are on top of the world (I mentioned this earlier, just refreshing your memory ∑:3) and at this point you are ready to do anything.

It's like saying, "I'm psyched." Obviously this term comes from something, doesn't it? When you're excited, or extremely tired, you'll start goofing off and doing whatever you please. I guess it's a form of psychedelia, and we can almost get as stupid while in that state as if we were actually drugged. Some people also willingly put themselves in that state, through things like this or videos like the one below.

Once, I was exhausted and some idiot thought it was a good idea to tell me to watch psychedelic videos. I was fine, just practically hallucinating. Anyways, it turned out to be one of those experiences that are enjoyable, but not to be done again. I did have fun, but I'm pretty sure my mom won't ever look at me the same again after I pretended to be a plane :P

So, there you have it, psychedelia in full sight. Well, I'll say I didn't exactly do a profound analysis, it was more of a rant, but this is what goes through my mind, not what I write after 3 hours of research!

I'm actually glad I get more ideas now, I was a little dry which is why I didn't write for a while. So comment and follow, I'll write soon!

Adrenaline (thought #6)

THIS...IS...ADRENALINE

You know when you listen to that awesome music that uplifts your soul, or when you're about to cliff-dive, or when you're running, or fighting, or dancing, and suddenly...

You're on top of the world.

 Adrenaline, probably one of the best feelings on Earth—when self-esteem doesn't matter, and you're ready to face anything. Except homework :P

It opens the door to a whole new world, on the verge of a psychedelic experience (I will talk about psychedelia soon), a world where all laws are defied, where you're no longer yourself, and you can be anything.

Only problem with adrenaline is, when you're experiencing it you usually act and look completely ridiculous, either terrified or completely euphoric—it's one of those moments that you shouldn't look back on and criticize yourself.

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Adrenaline with friends, way more extreme than by yourself. It just makes you feel limitless, like you own everything, and in those moments, you really do.


I guess love is adrenaline too, right? You just get high on that person's presence, smell, voice, their eyes... But that's in between adrenaline and psychedelia.

So, I guess adrenaline tells you to never let go, because it's one of the best reasons to live, that moment where you feel like nothing can get the best of you. I got this idea when I got high off of this amazing dubstep music :) Props to primitivedubstep on soundcloud, sensational music, really.

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