Shawn
Dec 27, 2003, 11:45 AM
(from an email in which someone asked me what my 'real motive' was for creating mind-brain.com)
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What is your real motive for creating you website? Is it to share you ideas, to welcome new ideas and debates form other people, or is it to justify yourself to yourself and the rest of the world? |
The world is our creation, it is a thing created by mind, it is a mental
construct. This is what I wish to communicate to others through the site,
so that they may open their eyes to this fact, so that they may go on to
create something more than what is, and to instill the world with new and
greater meaning. I don't think many people appreciate the essentially
'constructive nature' of reality. It is all a mental construct. We are
deceived by the fact that we are humans with human consciousness.... we
rarely venture outside the realms of our human consciousness, and thus we
see the world with human eyes, like a human would. Humans are blind to
this, for the most part. But this is only because that is the way that
humans are predisposed to construct the world, in human terms, in
all-too-human terms. There is nothing 'objective' about objective science,
other than the fact that the truths obtained by objective science are
invariant across human consciousness, but they do not hold for other types
and modes of consciousness. Do you understand this?
On a different note, do you know who or what you are? Think about it.
There are many illusions in life. The arguably tragic thing is that so many
people of the past have lived their entire lives in illusion. They believed
in their mental constructs, and took them to be the truth of things, up into
their graves. They were confined within their human consciousness, and
never looked beyond. They never saw the true potential of consciousness,
nor realized the constructive nature of reality. They never realized that
their 'truths' were simply mental constructs, including their own sense of
self-identity.
If anything, Mind-Brain.com seeks to awaken people to the fact that the full
potential of consciousness has not yet been realized, and that in order to
begin realizing it, we must transcend our human consciousness. This may be
brought about in many different ways, and spiritual insight is certainly
important for awakening one to the latent potential of consciousness, but I
believe the most important way to realize this potential will be through
adequate understanding of brain mechanisms and the manipulation and
enhancement of the human brain and its functioning, in order to make it more
than human.
While the site may have my name plastered all over it, giving rise to your
belief that it's just a personal thing, let's face it, in a hundred years or
so, my name will mean little or nothing, just as all names of individuals
mean little or nothing. What is really important is facilitating the
realization of the potential of consciousness, and this is something that
transcends the individual. So I suppose you could call that the 'real
motive' for Mind-Brain.com.