| What keeps a scar on the body when all cells of it have regnerated in the space of about seven years? What keeps us looking the way we do? What keeps us thinking and feeling the way we do when this regeneration would include all cells of the brain? What keeps a sense of self when our "self" is completly new in seven years' time? It would be memory. A bigger picture of memory than we're used to seeing. What keeps the scar would be some type of encoded information that the one cell passes to the next one. A tendency. The world would be full of "tendencies'. The same way cells change but there's some kind of tendency that is transmitted, anything we do, say or think would create its waves. Its tendencies. The concept of karma. Fate then, would be where the present tendencies are leading. To what extent can we alter "fate" or tendencies? We should be able to alter the tendencies that maintain the scar as we're part of the same intelligence that would encode the information of its existance. We should be able also to alter the "tendencies" of a certain situation. Aknowledging, of course, that we are part of a whole and that there are many other people, therfore many other "tendencies" that have been created and are at play. To what extent we can alter the big picture would in turn depend on how much energy we're able to put in it. How powerful a tendency we can create. Everything, in this realm at least, would "tend to tendency". If you've been eating junk food for a week, the cells of your body are going to ask you for junk food. "cravings". If you drink healthy, fresh juice for a week, that's what your cells are going to want. whatever they need in oder to maintain their present configuration. A memory creates a tendency in your mind. What we call "attitude". "Ego" would then equal memory. Tendencies in mind and body and possibly in other levels that would maintain a sence of "self". A defined person. When you trancend memory at its deepest level, there can be no self. "Self" then, would be defined as tendencies that, by succeding in continuing themselves, create the illution of continuity. Collective mentality. If mind precedes matter as eastern thinking claims (now backed up by the findings of quantum physics), any tendency would be mental before it becomes biological. Engrained first in the collective mentality (1) before it becomes engrained in our biological memory! 1. Collective mentality understood as our (ever shifting) socially accepted beliefs, ideas and tthe patterns of behavior that derive from these. |
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