Patterns and Pollution
March 5, 2010
Although the brain may be genetically hardwired to perceive particular types of patterns, such as edges, light versus dark, hot versus cold, and even time, most patterns are learned from experience. Actually, since there is no memory "storehouse" in the brain, we actually recreate the vast majority of patterns over and over again throughout the day.
Of course, these patterns are learned in infancy and childhood, as both brain and patterns evolved together in highly qualiadelic relationships. By the time we are young adults the relationship has become symbiotic; most of the patterns, like most of the sheets of neurons, have settled into habits.
Our planet exists in a larger universe of patterns which shape it, and in turn the atmostphere and the biosphere influence how we perceive reality. On top of this, the qualiasphere also reinforces habits of perception; however, it also can dissolve them...
The philosopher-mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz observed that patterns within patterns make our world predictible, but "only for the most part." Everything is uncertain. This means that there are other ways of seeing, unpredictible and irrational patterns to be discovered.
In short, although our ways of seeing are habituated to the forces which guide our planet, the universe consists of many more dimensions than are expressed on our planet. Though we humans may detect but a few of them, at present, the idea has taken root in our minds.
Both science and experience both have proven that the very act of perception changes the world we experience. Just as the famous Heisenberg principle reveals how looking at photons of light transforms them from waves into particles, so too can conscious ritualing transform the physical universe.
For fifteen-thousand years our ritualing has filled the qualiasphere with living entities known as ideas. Ideas are in our brains, in books, in experiments, and in all the stuff and clutter of cities, states and cultures. Cars, refrigerators, and asphalt streets; taxes, protests, and armored tanks; music, art and modern architecture; even garbage (especially garbage): we have, indeed, transformed the physical universe.
Today, lots of new ideas are popping into existence and spreading virally through cyber-culture. Not just about science and technology, and not necessarily about art, and politics and culture, but ideas about existence. Ideas that reveal how we are locked into habitual patterns of seeing, ideas which release us into possibility.
If each memory throughout the day is actually a recreation by neural sheets of interacting upon familiar patterns, then the world of consciousness is, indeed, fragile. Anyone who has experienced psychedelic drugs can attest to this. (The controlled spontaneity of the qualiadelic experience is much safer than psychedelics, although who knows what would happen if the two were combined. This is, in fact, the way things were going before Timothy Leary brought LSD to the masses).
Uncertainty is a fact of life, but, like death in the Western world, we have created elaborate ways of pretending it doesn't exist. The craft of consious ritualing will help us navigate into the uncharted territories of consciousness and reality.
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