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

by BBella , Sunday, October 24, 2010, 07:27 (5143 days ago) @ dhw

I had commented on the complexity of BBella's levels of consciousness, but she found her own statement confusing and has rewritten it: "I do try and not focus too long on any (other person's) supposed explanation of what I am observing."
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> Ah! In your original post, I misunderstood the provenance of the explanation, and thought you were switching off your OWN explanatory processes. It is, of course, far easier to switch off those of other people ... politicians, for instance, do it all the time!-To clarify (what doesn't really need clarification but for some dogged reason I will anyway), I found, in the beginning, I had an addictive need to follow any thought that came to mind about the mysteries of life, until exhausted, seeking to uncover just what IS. But then I'd find a book already written on what I was seeking to discover/uncover. Then when the internet came into my life, I became convinced that pretty much any thought I had was nothing new, only a reused idea from someone else. So I gave up following thoughts altogether that was looking to uncover the mysterious things of life. I realized, no thought I had is really my own, so why follow others thoughts? I figure whatever IS, just IS. And, whatever it IS, I will know after I pass from here to there. Or not. Either way, why waste my time and energy? I decided to just live on observe mode not seeking to understand - and that's when it seemed outside me became more conscious, seemingly to vie for my attention to relay some message. But by that time, I'd learned the comforts of observe mode and the discomfort of getting too far into explanations. (forgive me for my redundancy) 
 
>You later say: "there are no levels. There is only me and my comfortable place of observation." The great question is: WHAT IS "ME"? -If your question had ended here, I would have answered: "me" is the conscious/awake/aware I that was I before I became me and will be I when I am no longer me.->Materialists will tell you that all your mental activities are caused by electrical impulses in the brain. If we follow your simple camera analogy, the camera is part of your brain, so what is the "ME" that focuses the camera? -My explanation of the camera was given as a hypothetical of me being the camera. But that seemed to become complicated when you assumed (understandably so) me as the body and not the light/energy of how I meant me. -So, for a more realistic explanation, I will go back to the materialists explanation (to leave a not so good camera analogy) and say that I am the electrical impulses that causes the mental activity of the brain. But, once I, as energy, entered the brain/body of "ME", I became the totally new "ME" of who the body is or represents in this life. ->...I'm asking what "ME" is made of.-Me = I/energy + body/matter. When I, as energy, leaves me, the body, the body dies, and I, as energy, continue on. Whether as a conscious aware energy or just abstract energy, regardless, I, as energy, continue. ->Does your brain tell "you" what to do, or do "you" tell your brain what to do? -I would think that without the (I) energy that makes the body alive, the brain is just physical matter, like dirt. So I would say the body/brain is like a puppet. Once the (I) energy enters the puppet body, the energy takes on the puppets life. So it would seem to me, I, as energy, do not necessarily tell the brain/body (me) what to do, but enable the brain/body (me) to live a life.-Hope this wasn't even more confusing. I know you've heard this all before in some sense, as we all have, and is nothing new. So no trip to Stockholm for "ME" - and I was so looking forward to it.