Tag: thought

Who am i…

 

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At some point in our lives, or a random repetitive thought we all have is: WHO AM I?

René Descartes, a Latin philosopher famously wrote in his book Discourse on the Method:  “Cogito ergo sum”  – I think therefore I am.  As Descartes explained, “We cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt … .” which basically meant that the act of doubting ones own existence serves, at a minimum – as proof of the reality of one’s own mind; that there must be a thinking entity – in this case the self – for there to be thought. 

Am I just pure consciousness. With each one of us moving away from the pure depending on our individual upbringing, culture, surroundings and beliefs depending on where we are born – and forever dispersing since the start of times from Adam and Eve.

Wrapped around this physical body with organs and blood flow and nerves and bones. I eat one end and shit out the other, I grew a few limbs over time and I call myself a human.But what am I? Who am I?

I am consciousness experiencing the physical form through a vessel i.e.our bodies. Bounded by the skin but infiniteness within. Infinity within finite boundaries.

I can think anything, anything at all. Then I can utilise the physical form available to me to develop that idea through into the physical. And we call that our combined reality? Isn’t Earth, the world around us, a product of our combined consciousness?

The Power of an Idea…

Any dominating idea, plan or purpose held in the mind through repetition of thought and an emotional desire for its realisation is taken over by the subconscious mind and acted upon by natural and logical means available.

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Where are today’s Edison, Bell, Einstein, Tesla and all the rest of the inventors we had in the past few centuries? Where are today’s DA Vinci, Van Gogh, Michelangelo who had so much to offer this world?
We are still the same human race – evolution has not accelerated for us to consider ourselves any different from those great minds. Then why do we struggle with coming up with innovative ideas that push the minds of masses to contemplate, to think, to express through innovations and art that language alone cannot do.
Is it because now ideas are all incentivised and patented by multinational corporations, or more so made the average human believe that alone they are powerless and cannot run the marathon without their backing? Why? Because they have power? Something that reverts back to controlling us through fear?
Or is it the fact that through the constant bombardment of advertising, media, TV and technology – we have succeeded to clutter our brains to the extent that ideas do not flow to our brains like they used to. As the first paragraph states, ideas need to have persistence and determination behind them – by creating chaos internally, its just not possible for an individual person to think something through and to have belief in it.