All of these ideas indicate an Extraordinary Enrichment of Possibility, present and available, but requiring a Fundamental Change in the ‘How and Where’ the mind is applied. If we continue to plod along in our current trajectory of logical and linear problem solving, over-reliance on perception and what appears to be so, is it reasonable to assume a different outcome or effect? To continue to apply this traditional method of thinking and approach to personal and societal problem solving must lead to familiar and similar results. And we have clearly reached an impasse… a super-saturation point in which the carrying capacity of our human system and its interconnected global system has obviously been exceeded. The evidence and signs are surely in Full Frontal View in the perceivable realm of our beleaguered and divided world, as well as in the realm of our interdependent psychological, emotional, and behavioral experience.
We are all more or less alright with the idea of some evolutionary future development… a ‘when’ moment in which we will discover, uncover, and realize a Way Out of our worn, tattered, and ineffective methods of thought, feeling, and behavior. But what if This Future Moment was Actually Available and Accessible from the Here and Now of our present experience? And what if we Now Have and Have Long Had gobs and gobs of Living Enlivening Evidence of this Future Evolutionary Moment, but have largely marginalized it and rendered it unknown, unknowable, and inapplicable? And we have done this to ourselves personally and in our interactive dialogues and exchanges with others, as well as in our broader and all-encompassing collective experience… through a practice of mind that is conditional and limiting and incapable of The Greater Potential of Mind and Thought.
I have some rich experience that I gained learning to fly fixed-wing aircraft which I indulged in for a few years, culminating in getting my single engine pilots license and earning an instrument rating. I probably learned my most important lesson very early on in the training, which was that airplanes in general are very awkward, clumsy, and inefficient vehicles when maneuvering on the ground. But once the wheels come off of the runway and the plane becomes airborne, a Wonderful Transformation occurs. In the air, these systems of design and technology achieve an Elegant Grace, wherein the slightest control input produces dramatic change in the flight experience. It’s the same vehicle, whether on the ground or in the air, but when in the ‘environment’ that they were designed and built for, the slipstream, they Do The Job and perform powerfully and with amazing capacity and efficiency.
Similarly, I suggest that the Actual Design Function of the mind is not survival, but Creation. When restricted or deprived of this Creative State, the effects are chaos, confusion, depression leading to lawlessness, authoritarianism, and a whole host of sickening, defeating, destructive, and punishing ‘solutions’ that solve little or nothing and are anything but euphoric in effect!
Conversely, I suggest that when mind is allowed its Natural Creative State, it recognizes endless connections of startling possibility all indicating and progressing towards an ever-expanding universe of Understanding that Illuminates, Fulfills, and Nourishes…, from which comes Well Being, Enriching Connection and Association, and Inspiring experience.
