BBella\'s Universe (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, December 05, 2011, 20:19 (4737 days ago) @ BBella

BBELLA: After the illness slowed me down to a crawl, and more or less, taught me to recreate myself from scratch, I ended up with the many changes I had desired most of my life. […] creation happens “within” the will of the all. […] Just because I wanted peace of mind way back then, it didn’t happen way back then right when I wanted it…because creation is not about magic.

I’ve just picked these three quotes, as they seem to me to tie in with a lot of the things we’ve been discussing, including and perhaps especially Buddhism (see my response to Matt under "Afterlife"), but also the nature of consciousness and subconsciousness. For me as an agnostic, it’s also interesting that you had to jettison Christianity, which had formerly been your guidance system. “Peace of mind” can only come, I think, if you’re at ease with yourself and with the world around you. A lot of people do get that peace from religion, and maybe their God is just another name for your “will of the all”. No attributes needed, no stories, but just a universal energy to which we can relate. I vaguely remember a saying along the lines: “If you go with the flow, the flow will go with you.” David has mentioned how his second book poured out of him, although initially he only had a rough outline in his head. The rough outline was in the conscious mind, but the book was in the subconscious, and the act of writing provided the contact between the two. That is certainly my own experience, and maybe it offers a parallel to your situation. Your real self may have been deep in your subconscious, but it took a terrible illness for you to gain access to it. The subconscious may be the part of us that is linked to the “will of the all”, and when we create – in your case your personality, in David’s case his book – we actually become aware of things inside ourselves of which we hadn’t been aware before. I’m not sure where this actually takes us, but I have a feeling that we’re establishing a lot of common ground!