12.11.05

Thoughts of reality have overcome my mind. Thoughts meander through my mind, growing and growing as a tree from fresh soil, blooming into awe-inspiring images that are nearly indescribable. These images feel so true; they have a glow that surrounds them, enveloping the insecurely that may have been inside another's mind if they were to see such a thing. A gift..perhaps..

My thoughts are hard to explain, in which one other could understand them completely as i would like them to. I've spent time writing and explaining one of these 'images' i have seen:

Water half full or half empty, it is up to you to decide. Logically, we physically cannot change this. We cannot change the amount of water within this cup. It is simply either half full, or half empty depending on what your mind makes of it.

Now take reality. These are the definitions of reality.

1.The quality or state of being actual or true.
2.One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual: “the weight of history and political realities” (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.).
3.The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.
4.That which exists objectively and in fact: Your observations do not seem to be about reality.

Now, we cannot fully change what exists, generally speaking. Just like the water in the cup, it simply exists how it is, physically. And, just like the water in the cup, reality is what our mind makes of it; 'it' being all these senses and memories and other variables that come to our bodies.

We, hopefully, trust our senses. When we feel something very hot, we react by pulling away. Our brain naturally trusts our senses. It is memories and other variables that allows us to know such a thing; when we feel something very hot, we pull away, for an example.

What if we could take that cup, that is halfway full/empty, and make it overflow, or even evaporate. The cup with water physically exists as “halfway full/empty,” but what if we could train our minds to overcome our senses and breakthrough to a whole new reality, one in which we can manipulate our own senses. Generally speaking, once again.

For example, what if we could feel cloth upon our arms, when there physically is no cloth that is there, generally by telling ourselves that there is something there. Or, a more familiar example, what if we could look at a spoon and make it bend without touching it, maybe not physically but within our minds. Such things, i do believe our minds are capable of. What if...

Some may think I'm a crazy person. I do not believe so. My definition of a 'crazy person' is quite simple, really: One whom acknowledged and retained overwhelmingly incredible power within the mind, yet could not handle or control it both physically and mentally, i consider is a crazy person. Now, one whom acknowledged and retained such power, and could control it.. i consider a genius.

Whether or not i truly am considered a genius, i do not know. What i do know is that i am human, like the rest of us. I am not 'superior' to another, and if anything, i am less superior to many, for i am more human than they. I do believe i have a gift, as of everybody else. A gift that is unique in a sense, and one that is truly our own. Let us not shade our eyes from such beauty; instead open our eyes and see truth.