The Mind of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by BBella , Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 09:17 (5147 days ago) @ dhw

There's one other passage in your post which struck me as being quite extraordinary:-When I reread it, it seemed very confusing, even for me who wrote it, so cannot see how it would seem extraordinary unless it was extraordinarily confusing!
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> "[BBella] I do try and not follow any supposed answer too long for fear of getting lost from focusing on my own ability to continue to observe my own environment for myself and to relate with it and its uncanny ability to relate to me." 
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> This process is obviously vital for your own balanced existence,-Yes, absolutely vital! But! I want to restate the above and express it in a more clearer way (for me anyway), if I may. -I do try and not focus too long on any (other persons) supposed explanation of what I am observing, for fear of forgetting that it's not my observation but someone elses - so, I can continue observing and relating with 'my' own environment and its uncanny ability to relate to me. Afterall, someone may tell me what they have observed, but unless it's my own observation, it's really only hearsay (to me).->but at the same time it involves amazingly complex levels of observation and consciousness. -I would say it is just the opposite. I think I see in a more simplistic and unamazing way of viewing myself and my surroundings, possibly less complex than most. By observation, that's the way it seems to me.->You observe yourself observing other forms of consciousness relating to you, you look for explanations, but you also observe yourself looking for explanations, and from some kind of overall position you can actually switch off those two levels -If I observe and begin to focus on something, I wouldnt say I "switch" my observation off but more bring my focus back to central position (observation deck so to speak). This is only my focus, it's not me. Like using a camera lense to focus more closely on something, my focus is like a tool. ->in order to focus just on the observation level. -I pull back my focus and resume observation from my center not "in order to focus on the observation level" as it's more like I'm the light coming from a central position and my observation is the shine outward on all things in my surrounding, including my body. I might use a camera lense/focus to follow an idea, but I myself do not move from my center. If anything obstructs my view or vies for my attention (which is what I was talking about with numbers and patterns), I then mught use my focus on something that sounds like a promising explanation, for a bit, but I do not confuse that explanation as being something I myself have observed. ->However, I presume you can switch off these levels too, so that you can look at your environment on an ordinary everyday level. Otherwise you could never pick a flower, eat an apple, or peel a potato. -I would say that I observe all of life (that includes my body) from a center of being with no problem in carrying out my everyday life. I would even say I am more able now than before to carry out my life more efficiently than when I didn't know where my center was and followed everything I focused on like an addiction. Like I was trying to find my center (myself) in what I focused on. ->So just what is it that exercises all those different levels of control? If you know the answer to that question, get ready for a trip to Stockholm!-I would say, there are no levels. There is only me and my comfortable place of observation. Just like you are in yours, and so forth. Our observation center (hypothetically) may look to others like light shining outward from our being. Like stars in the night, we never leave our place, but sometimes we forget our place when we focus excessively on other stars and their place. -Just curious. What's in Stockholm?