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