Sunday 15 October 2017

Node-fications...

"Yesterday is just a thought away." Shingai Shoniwa (The Noisettes).
 

When do we get the green light signal? What makes a thought suddenly spring into life? How come our ventures always seem to be born unexpectedly, if not prematurely? There seems to be an urge for action at the genesis of every step we take towards our goals. We have contemplated, thought, fancied, anticipated and dreamt a certain event, and also repeatedly brushed it off as silly, disruptive, fantaisist, inconvenient and disturbing. But isn't that precisely what novelty is about?



From the oil lamp to the LED light



Most of our time is spent enjoying things that are already established around us: our work, our family, our circle of acquantainces or friends, our neighbourhood, our language, our laws, our nation, and even our way of thinking. But there always comes a time when we feel the itch: we want something strange to happen, we want some sense of adventure to destroy our routines... temporarily. Yet we shy away from the thought, trying hard to muffle it, for months, for years, for decades.



5D reality

Then, something gets triggered in our head. Our brain, our intuition, our subconscious one day present us with a now or never situation. A choice must be made: to go the well-trodden road (once again) or to engage in the new path (for once!). And this is not so much of a risk than an exploration, because the aim is not to experience a quick thrill: it is about checking whether what we anticipated all this time can ever match reality.



Minecraft construction of a footpath


In a way, we are forever children, yearning to understand the essence of this world: its physics and its metaphysical, its biology and its mechanics, its organics and its artificiality. We don't want all the stories to be only told, we want to become a character of these reality tales. So, what better way to do this than becoming the mastermind of our own universe?



Masterminds

In spite of what is commonly believed, we can become the architects of our own environments. It does not mean setting our tent in a desert island or revoking all forms of governance. It is the much simpler process of getting hold of what make us an island, a unique landscape, an original design, a natural chef-d'oeuvre. "Gnóthi seautón": "know thyself" as the Ancient Greeks advocated is the only way to reach that ultimate level of self-actualisation theorised by our Modern Maslow.



Evolution of the chimpanze to the AI android

Being receptive to our own mental and intellectual states seem to be an overstated cliché, as per coaching and psychological practices. Yet, it is so often underrated in our routines and everyday life, because at all times we want to be "aware" of everything that happens at the time it happens. Our human brain is inherently limited by its inability to reach omniscience, so we must rely on accurate memorisation, observation, analysis, reflection and conclusion. This means that we must strictly, as best as we can, retain information as raw as possible, without the confusion of emotions, the bias of opinions and the perspective of past or future ambitions. Only then can our intuition birth ideas and concepts with a consistency and an integrity that will be effortlessly carried out in our lives.