epiphany of the day

[carnyel]

Epiphany: how you feel is a reaction to what you believe. Since reality is created purely from emotion your belief is your power to create your reality, use it wisely.

 

[uftusaf123]

Love this. I had the same idea but could not put it into a sentence as greatly structured as this one. Thank you friend

 

[SmoovPnCali]

Been living this since I was a kid......:thumb_up:

 

[Parshvik Chintan]

how does one voluntarily change their belief?

how could i make myself TRULY believe that gravity doesn't exist, to the point where it manifests?

or am i misunderstanding your statement.

 

[carnyel]

how does one voluntarily change their belief?

how could i make myself TRULY believe that gravity doesn't exist, to the point where it manifests?

or am i misunderstanding your statement.

Well voluntarily changing your belief is hard but not impossible. To change a belief takes two things; logic and faith. Sometimes we believe something because we have enough logic (by the standards we have developed over the course of our life) to believe. In order to TRULY know something is true we would need to see all of the variables, which is something that I don't beleive any human is capable of at this point. So to some degree everything that you choose to believe requires an element of faith, even if it is very small.

Faith is the thing that "miracles" are made out of because it bridges that gap where there is currently no knowledge. In this universe there are rules but what most people don't understand is that there are higher rules that superseed those lower rules. It's like a thousand years ago when flying an airplane would have been considered magic. It was impossible because we knew the law of gravity exists. But we didn't see all of the variables and so eventually we discovered "higher" laws of aerodynamics and such that allowed us to "break" the law of gravity. I believe that nothing is impossible but at the same time I realize there are rules to this place.

The part of you that decides "what is"; that is what some people refer to as your highest self. It is that part of you that you approach when you want to decide what you are or what is true. It requires true belief in order to change or create what you ask of it (which I am thankful is a saftey feature we are all equipped with so we don't mindfuck ourselves into a maddening loop of everlasting apocolytic hell :lol: )

So my answer to your question is that you must find that small element of faith within you and practice it daily in order to become confident enough to wield it. Also understand that your highest self operates on the law of love and is not going to simply cooperate with you. You must follow its rules that you must love others as you love yourself; meaning simply don't be a hypocrite. The more you love your highest self the more power you will have to control and theoretically anything would be possible for you to create.

These are the simple principles of truly loving others as you love yourself and to love your highest self which is to simply embrace fully the principles of love with your whole heart. Do it cheerfully and nothing will be impossible for you.

I really tried to keep this short so sorry for the ridiculously long answer. I would suggest not to take my word for it but to experiment with this yourselves and see what will happen.

 

[Jin]

how does one voluntarily change their belief?

how could i make myself TRULY believe that gravity doesn't exist, to the point where it manifests?

or am i misunderstanding your statement.

one cannot expect to change reality just with thought ,emotions and beliefs , without putting any work behind it

to make gravity not exist , one must first think how he can make it possible ?
then he/she must build an aircraft to do so

wright brother's wanted to be free of gravity aswell, so they thought how , they they came up with a plan , then they belived and positively kept trying until they suceeded in changing reality for themselves and others

this is how they manifested antigravity and made it reality

 

[Learning]

The invention of airplanes is not the invention of anti-gravity, nor is it a manifestation of anti-gravity. It doesn't matter if you're sitting in an airplane; gravity still exists.

Also, I personally don't think that reality is created "purely" from emotion.

I think there is a lot of value and wisdom in the ideas presented in this thread, but things are not so simple. Certainly, beliefs affect our experience of reality, and the interrogation and adjustment of certain beliefs can help one live a happier and more fulfilling life, but there are other factors BESIDES belief that affect one's experience of reality, too. The physical/biological structure of the nervous system is a big one, I think. There are certain things we just cannot get around, since we can only experience the specific kinds of sensory information which our nervous systems are "built" to detect.


Just my two cents!

 

[Jin]

The invention of airplanes is not the invention of anti-gravity, nor is it a manifestation of anti-gravity. It doesn't matter if you're sitting in an airplane; gravity still exists.

i was just talking metaphorically , i know they did'nt invent antigravity

 

[AlbertKLloyd]

Epiphany: how you feel is a reaction to what you believe. Since reality is created purely from emotion your belief is your power to create your reality, use it wisely.

In my own opinion:
How I feel is a result of how I process stimuli, which entails both belief systems and organic systems. I dislike pain because I find it painful, for example. I like pleasure because I find it pleasurable. In my case, and I speak only for myself, how I feel, even emotionally involves belief but does not stem from belief itself, but rather both physiology and behavioral conditioning, which belief could be considered to fall under, at least I see it as a form of mental conditioning and not a choice per say. I for example do not choose my beliefs, if you present a good reasoning for believing something I will respond by believing it, having been conditioned by the reasoning to adopt the belief as my own.

As a child I even believed things just because adults told me it was so, I did not choose to do this, rather this was my nature. Now I can self program and condition myself similarly, but still do not choose what I believe, though in the past I always thought I did.

My perception of reality affects my emotions and the reverse is also true, however my emotions do not change reality for my friends or family, nor do their emotions change my reality. Nor does my perception of reality itself change reality as I know it, thought it influences events relating to me, I have no doubt of this.

But alas I cannot use anything wisely, for I am not wise, and that is what I believe

My epiphany is this:
Now is the final cause.
Please read into that as much as possible.

 

[Botanical Bliss]

Here's another epiphany having to do with how one feels:

 

[carnyel]

To preface this post I will say that every single thing I believe about everything is really just one big working theory, which is why everything I say comes out like fact. Really what I'm saying is this what I believe up to this point. I appreciate all opinions on this matter and encourage them even if they blatantly disagree with my opinion, because that is how we learn from each other and that is why I am here.

To elaborate on the theory:
An emotion is simply a chemical marker that your brain uses to describe a specific experience. That chemical will make you remember how your five senses felt at any given time. So really our memories are just chemicals that our brain recalls to make us understand nearly exactly how we perceived an experience. You think that you are seeing in your head but really you are remembering how it felt to see it because all experience is emotion. Even now your mind is understanding how your five senses feel and creating a chemical experience to describe your current situation.

I believe that what we choose to believe about our current situation affects what chemicals are used to create our memory. It's like a filter your senses pass through. As they pass through they basically ask you what your perspective is on the matter. It's why someone seeing the glass half full is having a much better experience than someone who sees the glass half empty. They are both physically experiencing the same event but the difference is in the perspective. That is something that I theorize we have the ability to change although sometimes it may appear impossible to do so because of the current state of our perspective. Imagine if you could completely wield the power of your own perspective. You might be able to create an unbelievable world for yourself.

This is why I meditate. When I meditate what I'm really doing is asking myself how I feel today. I think about what happened yesterday and today so far to cause me to feel this way. The more in touch a person can be with his/her emotions the more you can affect change to your reality because you can start to analyze why you perceived things how you did and make the appropriate changes to your perspective.

I have more to say on the matter but if I typed everything I believed I there wouldn't be enough matter in the universe to record it all .

 

[Spangles]

The only way I can regard so called reality is either it is or it is not. Period. My epiphany is this.

If it is not what it seems, then the solipsistic perspective must be valid. Since solipsism cannot be disproved ( and thus passes Karl Popper's epistemological test) then ANY reality I can imagine is valid (real).

The common alternative is that it is what it seems to be.

I seem to be stuck with only these two choices, and either one is OK with me.

Insofar as we can affect so called reality, it may not be what it seems to be; therefore the best I can do to alleviate suffering, either for myself or for others, is to play by the rules of either game I choose to perceive/believe at any moment I either choose or which is foist upon me. Therefore the only way through this dilemma is for me to accept anything and everything which either comes my way or which I am projecting at any moment.

The key is "acceptance", the Buddhist admonition. It works better as I get older.

The Nexus is a great place to explore mind games. According to Wittgenstein (early 20th century giant of philosophy, whom many contemporary philosophers regard as the philosopher who dealt the death blow to philosophy as most of us know it), EVERYTHING is a game.

And so I play.

PS There are many other aspects of life for which the study of philosophy is beneficial, notably morality and aesthetics, but metaphysics (ontology) is a dead end. Sorry. It hurts to accept this, and it hurts me finally to admit that the mind cannot resolve this question of reality.

Metaphics is dead, long live psychedelics!