Listening to lectures on YouTube is my media these days. I watch movies and look through facebook pretty regularly but while I am relaxing with a crossword puzzle or a new creative project I listen to lectures.
It has been a bit of a challenge to get anything very current with the YouTube lectures. I need some tips to help with that search. So these talks are dated. Similar to “things” in the skies that might not be there by the time the light reaches me to see them – these shared ideas could vanish.
Is it just trending again that teachers, doctors and research scientists in lectures repeatedly mention the limits to our understanding and senses? I am overjoyed to hear them speak of this as a normality. Boyfriends have broken up with me for sharing such “nonsense” with them. I have been barking about this and driving folks away for decades. It has been a successful unchosen pattern for my life in many ways. It has been my truth to say that we are only capable of knowing or sensing an immeasurable percentage of what actually “is”.
We are programmed to survive. We could have done better, in my opinion. It is a miracle, however, that we are here in this shared place and time. Feeling that “present-ness” with questionable and tiny receptors creates one of my passions. This is a place that I make art from.
What we comprehend as reality is far from the reality that must actually “be”. Our very highly evolved survival skills are not absorbing the information it cannot categorize. What are we missing? Are we missing what is in the space between all the particles we have names for? Are we missing that 99.99% of now? Is “now” “unseeable”? Is artificial intelligence the obvious next step? Is learning to see things as they are impossible for us? Are we just accepting the perception that is limited to what we feel comfortable sharing life with? I am grateful for hearing ideas that make me question reality.
I am striving to look into the face of what is unfamiliar in people, ideas, nature and myself. I visualize now that what is unfamiliar will awaken more fearless curiosity in me. Accepting this means not understanding and that is OK. Beyond understanding just might be my power spot. Not fearing this step might be what I need to survive a little longer.
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