[serloco]

I find it astounding that we all share the same consciousness. We all recite the same information and carry the same answers. Like a program we have been conditioned and fed the same information. I hear it everywhere i go, again and again. Even the more advanced people still use the same channels. Like we congregate in pools of collective consciousness. Yet it so happens that once in while something new is introduced and consciousness is enhanced. We further ourselves and reach totally new awareness. When this happens the collective is immediately affected as the new awareness circulates into the stream. The state of humanity advances in the process.

The question I ask is how does one create new thought? If our awareness is always fixated on what we believe we know then our mind runs in the same pathways. You have to break the shell. Think outside the box. Really question what we think we know. Find our own answers. When we challenge our beliefs and our knowledge we free up the energy stored within them. The paradigm can then change to support something new. Imagination is key, and the link between our mind and our environment.

Any thoughts?

[danvb]

OMG... where do I start? You just tossed out so many different concepts there that I could probably sit here and write all day.

Take for example the very first statement you made, "we all share the same consciousness."is a statement that portrays a level of certainty that I might have good reason to challenge. DO we all share the same consciousness or is that concept just an example of conditioned thought? How do you define "consciousness" and does your definition apply to everyone? Is it possible to have more than one kind of consciousness?... Shall I go on?

Indeed, whenever philosophy is concerned, the questions and answers can become infinitely varied and complex... and there is most certainly no right or wrong answers. I think, as in quantum mechanics, it's all a matter of probabilies and educated guesses.

Like I said, um... well, suffice it to say that the very questions you asked have been some of the questions and ideas that I've immersed myself in for hours and hours... I tend to delve rather deeply so I could probably talk your proverbial leg off. Trust me, you DON'T want to give me that chance!

Dan

[serloco]

In a way we are all the same, but at different times. We all come from the same source, the potential to become all things. It divided and took many forms, potentially an infinite number of forms. It continues to divide giving birth and cell division. While the universe is constantly expanding it is also collapsing and returning to the source, placing everything ever created back at the same point it began. The alpha and the omega. A perpetual process of creation and destruction. Life and death. I see our consciousness as being all interconnected with each other and the source.

[danvb]

Oh my... you are taking it for granted that we live in the world of physical objects and Newtonian physics... But, once again, are you simply allowing your five senses to dictate what is real and what is not? Life? Death? Birth and cell division? Are those concepts real or are they simply existential experiences? IS the universe expanding or are you talking about what we perceive to be the physical universe? Again, there is so much more involved in all-that-is than the mere physicality of our own senses. We've begun to delve into the nature of physical reality in the field of quantum mechanics. There are things such as M-theory that suggest that reality is much stranger and more varied that ever thought possible... We are just beginning to break the surface in our need to describe and understand physical reality. It IS much stranger than our imagination is prepared to accept and comprehend.

What IS consciousness? Frankly, no one really knows. There are many, many theories and ideas, but those things are all unprovable concepts that are little more than beliefs.

Are you thinking out of the box? If you are, then you know there is no box.

Dan

[serloco]

Yes but what i meant is that it relates on every level of existence even into the very particles of physical reality. Of course the dimensions of reality are variable and unconstant yet i believe there also exists constant laws of life and death, advanced laws of time. One of those laws i believe is that all things are connected and merging with the source of all existence. |Expanding and contracting. Keeping a record of everything as it happens because it is always rejoining the ever present awareness of the source.

[danvb]

Yes, I know what you meant. Again I say, are you simply allowing your five senses to dictate what is real and what is not. In your own words:

"If our awareness is always fixated on what we believe we know then our mind runs in the same pathways. You have to break the shell. Think outside the box. Really question what we think we know. Find our own answers."

Yet, you are doing none of those things...

Spacetime exists only in the realm of the artificial construct of physical reality.

Allow your mind to go beyond.

Dan

[serloco]

No I am not. I am saying that laws of the universe, of life and death are also visible in our daily perception. Everything is in motion, expanding and collapsing.

I know full well that it is difficult to think something truly original, which is why i made the post.

You say i am not finding my own answers but some of the answers i have found for myself are also answers found by others. It is quite common for consciousness to flow through common channels. The trick is flowing outside of the channels into something new, and possibly contradictory. The paradox that exists between dimensions. Sure it is one way here and now, but over there it is completely something else.

[danvb]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, serloco... I enjoyed hearing what you had to say.

You hold on so tightly...

Dan