Abstracts vs Actualities: What Do You "Know" is "Happening?"

"The Tilled Field", Joan Miro, Oil on Canvas 1924

If you haven't already, read PART 1 of this particular series HERE. Everything will make much more sense. If not, carry on, and let the confusion hopefully inspire you to new heights of philosophical self-inquiry.

What's "Happening"?

YOU ARE. "Reality", as only YOU can define is, IS happening right now. Understand that "reality" requires consciousness to qualify it as "reality" in the first place. Minus conscious awareness there is no "reality". Anyone that attempts to argue otherwise is using irrational (contradictory) logic. Contradiction is not knowledge, nor "truth", whatever that may be. It's contradiction, and that sums 0.

(ASIDE - If you want to argue consciousness is an illusion, I'll rationally ask you to please explain "an illusion of what?" You might reply "of reality". This implies you have empirical knowledge and evidence of a reality existing somewhere that is the base layer projection for this illusion, which begs even more rational questions. Meet me in the comments for that stuff.)

Consciousness is a prerequisite for claiming "reality" is "reality", and consciousness is NOW. Always NOW. Absolutely NOW. When is consciousness? Consciousness is NOW. Kind of a funny way to think about it, but that's exactly what it is. NOW.

What Do You "Know", for Certain?

Your consciousness is the only thing you've ever actually known for certain; you are conscious/self-aware. This is key to understanding how to appropriately apply the concept of balance into a useful tool, that actually yields measurable (and pleasurable) results to your life and experiences.

Ontologically (not just psychologically), there is nothing outside of the "present". Your "projections" about what took place in the past, or what may or may not happen in the future, are just that; projections. 

People love to call each other delusional for a variety of things, but this right here takes the cake; projecting your awareness outside of the present moment directly dilutes your actual ontological relationship with what's happening. 

You ARE, and You ARE (Happening) NOW

The word "happening" implies NOW. NOW-ness. 

Everything you've ever experienced since you can recall becoming self-aware, is happening right now. Even the language used to describe that is a concept; an abstraction, not an actual. It exists only in the mind of the observer. 

The conscious, self-aware agent using that very self-aware consciousness to conceive concepts that are useful for the mastery of its environment...The only thing that exists to give anything meaning in the first place is YOU. YOU (SELF) exist, and you exist absolutely. The only constant is you as an existential singularity; consciousness is the ability to conceive concepts in the first place. This cannot be overstated. 

Rationally, it then follows that the only constant is your self-awareness, your consciousness. 

Everything you "know" is relative to this existential singularity anchoring of awareness. 

Epistemologically you don't know shit other than YOU ARE YOU, and OTHER THINGS ARE NOT YOU. This is where it all starts.

The World is an Ideological Shopping Mall of Contradiction as "Fact (I.E. "Truth")"

To continue to sleepwalk via treating concepts as real (Plato's Big Fuck Up) vs appropriating them as descriptions, not determinative of ontological reality is to thus elevate those concepts over reality itself. 

Welcome to insanity. 

This just so happens to be how the modern world functions without so much as a second thought.

Yes, they call those of us who refuse to settle for contradiction, paradox, and mystery as legitimate rational explanations for reality are the insane, conspiratorial, schizo ones. 

I don't settle for that bullshit, and neither should you if you've read this far. 

Come get a hot cup of coffee (or tea, juice, water, etc.) and a breather, you've fucking earned it.

Part 3 of this series is already written and being edited now. Stay tuned. Most importantly...

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman

Abstracts vs Actualities: Introduction

""The Floating Intellect - a mechanical behemoth disconnected from the ground of objectivity."" -Montalk.net

Introduction

Readers of this particular blog know I don't mess around. There's no time for easily-misconstrued bullshit. The world is already rife with that. There are an infinite number of shallow resources that leave more questions asked than they answer. Not only do I submit that a return to rationality is required, but an extreme one at that. Centuries of bullshit have poisoned the minds of everyone. Contradiction is heralded as explanation, with no second thought. Hell, there's not even a first thought, and that's the problem. Even in grade school, I always argued that critical thinking is just thinking. People just have low standards for thinking in the first place, so anything outside of their comfort zone is labeled "critical".

That should show you how poor of a starting point we often give ourselves. An immediately self-imposed limit. "Stepping on your own dick", as the brash Dan Pena would say. No matter; we need to get rational (use non-contradictory definitions and explanations) regarding some basic stuff, so that we can make use of it. So it can have efficacy for us. We need to smash the philosophical pinta wide open and examine things in uncomfortable - and hyper rational - detail.

Thus, this series, or folder, or subsection of articles will be dedicated to the blunt, rational attack on supposed commonly-accepted-as-fact assertions. Abstracts vs Actualities will dive uncomfortably deep into the ways we humans sleepwalk through our own definitions, often in contradictory fashion, and how this has a subtle, but massive impact on our behavior, and thus results in life. I've yet to come across a particular resource that unites philosophy, psychology, and physics in this manner. It's my goal to show you that in "reality", there's a thin, thin line between what we think we're doing, and what we're actually doing. Returning to rational thinking will make all of this crystal clear, because your thinking will be clear. There will be no room for doubt or anxiety because you'll "see" how contradiction was holding you back, usually in areas you were previously "unconscious" (unaware) of.

Thus, a return to rationality is a return to conscious awareness of "what in the fuck is actually going on".

Part 2 is being edited now and will be up in the coming days.

Until then,

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman

Physics is Not a Recipe for Ontology Part 1

YOU ARE, first and foremost.

YOU ARE a metaphysical singularity, and absolutely so.

Every "thing" you "think", "believe", and "know" is a direct result of your conscious existence.

Your consciousness is the only unmoving, unwavering, constant frame of reference for anything.

Your consciousness and existence are a prerequisite for anything to have any meaning whatsoever, even the claim "Freewill is an illusion" (an illusion of what, and for whom?).

"Past", "present", and "future" are psychological abstracts. They aren't actuals. They're descriptive, not determinative. 

To treat them as actuals is to elevate conceptual paradigms over actual ontological reality.

Physics is not a recipe for ontological reality.

Consciousness/existence IS...and absolutely so.

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman

Consciousness is ABILITY

I have a few straight forward questions for you:

Who's deciding the nature of their thinking?

Who's deciding what to do or not to do?

Who's deciding?

The answer is YOU (SELF) ARE. Not only "are you", but YOU ARE, and YOU ARE - ABSOLUTELY.

Consciousness and existence are corollaries. To be conscious is to exist. To exist is to be conscious. There is no separation. There can't be.

The ABILITY of consciousness/existence to consciousness/exist is first and foremost.

YOU ARE conscious/exist because YOU ARE ABLE TO BE!

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman

New Decade, New SELF; So Stop "Parsing" "It" (YourSELF)

You can say subconscious, higher self, lower self, chakras, mind, body, spirit, etc.

You're completely free to model your reality this way, using those labels. But realize in the process all you're doing is adding more moving parts in your own consciousness, rather than just letting it be one thing/what it actually is. What that is, IS is. I know that sounds and reads funny but that's the accurate description. It's all of those things when you focus on them individually, but it can never reach its true potential by being approached from a raw, reductionist frame of reference, because that misappropriates, and thus dilutes, the actual efficacy of IS as a rational metaphysical primary. This then causes a whole host of cascading fallacies that carry over and infect all the other points in the Philosophical Chain of Command.

That's kind of the thing. Your entire "reality" is this frame of reference. You're existentially anchored. You're anchored as SELF amongst an infinite variety of finite manifestations of other existentially anchored SELF. That's not a grammatical error. Singular. Not "SELVES". There is no group metaphysic. All of "your" memories, thoughts, fears, and emotional reactions are only ever from the constant unmovable frame of reference that is YOU. YOU ARE YOU, and that's all you can BE(ing). Everything you know is relative to this. You absolutely exist (and you exist absolutely), or you wouldn't be able to formulate an (insanely inane) argument that you don't exist (the ultimate epistemological fallacy).

What "it" is, is IS. The IS-ness of "reality" stems from YOU - the SELF. You IS because you're ABLE to IS. Consciousness/Existence is ABLE to consciousness/existence. Again not a grammatical error. Only after Consciousness/Existence is ABLE, does it IS (notice I didn't say "becomes", "evolves" or "is created into"). I know this sounds like the absolute bat-shit crazy self-referential ramblings of some sort of Ozzy Osbourne tautology (What the fuck is this fucking fuck fucking with?!), but I assure you great care has been taken to make sure people don't think deeply on this shit.

The only "thing" which can be "actually" quantified as "real" is YOU. Everything else is a concept of your consciousness, not the other way around. Everything else is a concept from within your conscious awareness, because that's the function of consciousness; self-awareness as the constant, unmoving, existential anchoring of everything you know and think you know. That's it. To add additional and unnecessary layers of abstraction on top of this existential anchoring - such as subconscious, higher self, lower self, etc. - is to completely destroy your true connection TO yourSELF as it actually exists an experiences "reality".

"Reality" is entirely dependent on you first and foremost. Many love to argue "death is just like before you were born; you didn't exist". This is mostly justified by the lack of memory of experience, etc. Sounds logical. The only thing is the premise is irrational. "You" have always existed because that's all there is. You. SELF. There are also an infinite number of finite copies of this SELF manifesting simultaneously.

"Ego" is just a much a part of this manifestation of consciousness as anything else. To attempt to parse ego away as some sort of lower priority on the totem pole is to fall for the same trap outlined at the start of this article.

All Your Quantification Are Belong to Arbitrary (Because You Say So)

First and foremost, how are you quantifying those concepts?

Notice who's required for those concepts to have any meaning, relevance, or usefulness in daily life in the first place?

YOU.

SELF.

Without SELF CONSCIOUSLY EXISTING (consciousness and existence are the same thing, they are the only true COROLLARY)...are you just creating labels for yourself as a mental bookmark, so you don't have to think a little deeper about how to "touch yourself up" a bit, so to speak? Most of the time when we think of "spirit", it can be inspirational but the word itself can get you hung up on unrealistic and detached concepts that are actually having a negative effect on your reality instead of a positive one. You can't see them as negative effects because you're operating from a contradiction somewhere in your Philosophical Chain of Command.

Everyone IS unique, but not in the way social programming will have you "thinking" (there is no actual thought involved).

There is an "other", but not in the way traditional theologists postulate (and attempt to argue morality from).

The universe is indeed infinite, but not at all in the ways physics proclaims.

Shit is way, way weirder - despite being completely rational.

Appealing to Contradiction is Not The Way Forward in 2020

That's the amazing part. Reality IS weird as hell. We've been programmed with a plethora of lies and distortions that create a sterilized interpretation of "reality", mostly for the convenience of whatever authority figure's plan at that "point in time" (don't get me started with "time is real and is a dimension" bullshit) is.

I drink my coffee black and I eat my oatmeal with no sugar, cinnamon, or sweetener whatsoever. There's never a good argument for just listening to someone, but I assure you I'm probably the last person to allow a bias on an integral level. I shall remain as conscious and vigiliant against my own biases heading into the new decade, and I hope you'll do the same as well. We're far from perfect, but we as humans leave a lot on the table in regards to thinking clearly and rationally. Let's change that heading into 2020.

Stay rational, stay sane.

-Loaded Shaman