I came into an interesting and surprising realization the other day, about how our thoughts coalesce around certain eventual lines or outcomes and how these deviate from one another in the long term. It basically means that what you think and the way you think will crystalize over time into lines that stretch from past to present and into the future, these ‘lines of thought’ then going on to become to varying degrees overdetermining of your new thinkings. But it’s more than that, beneath this setup and process is a subtler law I see acting to shape the general directions of development among the various lines as they are emerging and by virtue of what they have emerged as over time in your own past. There is a static aggregate of sorts underneath and within the ideas comprising the lines, and these aggregates are composed of “goods and bads” in their purer essences. Eventually if the amount of goods begins to outweigh the amount of bads or vice versa, the lines start to sink into tracks, making deeper impressions in the mind and becoming more or less unmovable in their direction and in the types of contents out of which they are made.
In other words, the way you think and what you think about will, over enough time, determine what you are and how you think/what you think and are able to think in the future. You become that which you habituate to over time. It’s more serious with goods and bads being involved since these go deep into the mind and soul, affecting just about every aspect of your life in direct or indirect ways. In the end we can only focus on either goodness or badness, and we become one or the other. Which isn’t to say we ever attain any kind of black and white polarity although I think some people do, but rather this is a metaphysical principle by which subtler aggregates assume vectors and exert equally subtle effects upon us with increasing power as we get older. This power is then somewhat offset by our accumulating new experiences and broadening the amount of divergent hyperstatic relationships between the expanded contents of our minds, so it’s not like we need to worry TOO much. Yet it’s something interesting to think about, and I see this working in even more amazing ways in terms of how thought itself is almost literally the sublimation and reification of feeling/sense. Sensation and feeling (“affect”) as it exists in the mind as contents of the mind become rarified into ideas, into thoughts or concepts and the active operation of these mixing around together generating new subsequent thought-concept contents of rarified affect is what we call thinking. At least this seems possible to be true, I can’t verify it completely yet. There are some missing pieces to this picture, I’d appreciate anyone who can help me fill those missing parts in.
In effect, humans are slowly becoming angelic, more purely metaphysical beings. As affect sublimates into the more rarified forms of ideas and feeling moves into thinking (into feeling thoughts) and meaning is shifted up an entire grade within the grand continuum of being.
Within this process we’d better be careful about how we shape and determine ourselves over the long-term, as these are laying down the lines across past-to-future that will eventually become tracks deep in the ground of our being, tracks on which we can either ride upward in metaphysical ascent toward truth itself and the good, or ride downward into darkness and the hell of shallower ‘truths’. Up leads to more possibilities, endless ones in ever-upward and outward circles and spiralings; down leads to stagnation, loss of momentum, limitation of degrees of freedom, and death via petrification.
Ascending the life-process is no joke, we become increasingly responsible and self-responsible. This increasing responsibility therefore acts as an ex ante limiting factor as if from out of the future itself, imposing patience and care or severe consequences alike. Phenomenologically we have yet to integrate much of this process conceptually, although I believe at a deeper level closer to what is called our morality or sense of ethics we intuit this approach. The approach of this vast cosmic-level possibility, like a huge planet nearing closer and closer. The impression or sense of which corresponds to and in part can be defined as what is called conscience or even morality as such, speaking in terms of the causality structure behind the necessary apprehension of and implicit weighing-between of goods and bads as such.
What futures await humanity upon this amazing climb? We are already free to move about the ascending lines as much or as little as we’d like. Experiences mount, processes expand and encompass one another building tectonic foundations and endless fractal expanses within the limitless bounds of mentality, of the universe of ideas where all truths reside. The terra incognita of the soul waits, hic sunt angeli.We are beings made of pure mind, our physical representations that ground us may still be required for our mentalities to continue existing but I doubt that state will last forever. Aetheric undercurrents pull and push under the surfaces, lapping gently at the shores of our hearts. Beckoning us.
All the ideas you possess may in fact be nothing but grains of sand amounting to nothing. Maybe ideation itself is little more than the staging ground and egg in which something else gestates, waiting for its own adequacy to finally achieve necessity across time. Necessary being. The new start, a beginning. Technology will aid this process even as it threatens to drag us back down again. “Where danger is, there grows the saving power.” The vastness of this domain is almost unfathomable, perhaps dangers are needed to achieve the most effective and necessary attitudes and orientations within the core structures that will ultimately take us beyond this domain and into the next.
I have changed my thoughts on some lines of thinking…
I have totally discarded/dumped a large portion of some lines of thinking, which have become unnecessary/obsolete over time… so an unburdening of the psyche, to alleviate it of its mental malaise - perhaps just like the body needs a detox so does the mind, of which I do both often.
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Some become their thoughts… resulting in angst, desire, obsession, PTSD etc.
Some are at one with their thoughts… resulting in contemplation, daydreams, nightmares, amiability etc.
Some ignore their thoughts… resulting in nonchalance, apathy, aloofness, unmanipulatability etc.
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l am on the cusp of the last, I do not suffer fools -or anyone- gladly, and I do not understand why others think I should/must/do… or have I just defined the definition of an *rse-hole…
except through sufferable self description ( me know or should) where no doubt occurs about an intended parody, within obvious framed content’s of reference, which indubitably reduces to dada.
In such wide varience do searc an applicable identity.
Here, at this intangible point do I/we seek Parmenedies’ magic.
