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The wish

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I mentioned yesterday that I has been to sit with Kairos. While in the wood, I did not hear the ravens - though I heard a raven when I returned to my car. I did not see the kite in that place wher I had seen her three times previously. I did see the pair of muntjacs who seem to live in this part of the Reserve and I saw a hare, in the distance and through the trees but definitely a rather pale hare.


In terms of photos, bark was calling me.



When I got home, I read this and it set me thinking.


One should not always let the wish be father to the thought, I protested with some firmness - Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig.


This, I believe, is a great source of trouble in the world. It's related to confirmation bias - that we select the evidence that supporters our theories; indeed, in many cases, we don't even see the contradictory evidence. All in the world that could perhaps lead us to think again and change our mind is deselected either by choice (as in considering that those authors are bigots, biased, wrong) or by our own unconscious. The mind can be like a Google Search engine in this way - and offers up that which we want to become conscious of.


There's something else too: two people with opposing views can interpret, or simply see, the same evidence completely differently.


We inhabit a realm where consciousness both tricks and is tricked by the concepts with which we frame evidence.


All this, I believe, makes it very different for us to be in alignment with others, or even congruent in ourselves.


Maybe we can ease the situation by continuously alerting ourselves to the truly magical transformative power of the wish. And the wish need not be something like my wish for an animate earth, no, the wish could be the fear of being cheated, in which case all evidence suggests the treachery of others. The transformative magic is the same.


Maybe our bodies offer honest testimony. But, no, the mind can impact that and reinterpret its messages.


This is the force of the ideal of the scientific world view, and yet that too is shaped by the questions we asks, the needs we have, and the pride invested in maintaining the "truth" of a certain hypothesis.


Meditation claims to clear the vision, but I believe it imposes another veil.


So, for me, the reactions of others. The response to the living world to one's actions. That is not shaped by the wish... although how we interpret it certainly is.



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maplekey4
1月24日

Important observations, Crone! One must try to be alert to the power of wishes. Thanks for the post.

いいね!
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