Question:
Hi Bob,
I still have a difficult time in connecting my thoughts in accepting that our singularity needs to whiz about in order to create an image that we “see”.
I don’t discount that it is happening, I just don’t understand why it has to be that way.
First off, if we are just this point of consciousness, why or how do we “see” this image created from our whizzing about.
It just seems a bit crazy that we create things like a tv or computer monitor.
Why should this be necessary if all that we should need is consciousness and imagination.
Why does something need to be created and how – or possibly what – is seeing this creation?
This is something that has always been a bit of a barrier for me.
I find it easier to accept that it is all part of our consciousness and imagination, but then again one could argue how is it that the image is created in/from our imagination…
It is the type of conversation that could go round and round.
Reply:
Hi,
I will try to explain this whizzing from what I understand.
We are this single point of consciousness.
If we were not curious, we could just stay in one point and there would be nothing.
But, if we have curiosity, we feel the need to create images, etc.
The only way to do this is to move just as if you were moving a pencil on a piece of paper to draw a dog. We would have to move the pencil back and forth across the paper until the image of a dog appeared. Sometimes the lines we draw would have to cross each other.
Now, if we want to draw a dog walking beside a man in a park and so on we would have to draw many more lines on the paper, some crossing each other over and over again until the sheet of paper was filled will images; the man, the dog, the dog’s lead, the trees, grass, flowers, perhaps other people and so on. A complex picture created from thousands of strokes of a moving pencil on the paper.
If we wanted to do this in zero time, we would have to move the pencil very quickly indeed.
Now, as each image only lasts a tiny fraction of a second (in our time) before it is erased, to create other images, one after another, each image slightly different from the previous one, we would need to whizz the pencil over billions of sheets of paper – or blank postcards as the GWB says – at a fantastic speed.
As soon as one postcard has the picture we imagine on it, it is erased and a new, blank postcard appears and we have to start again frantically drawing an image that our imagination creates. Then it is gone and we start again.
Now, we don’t use a pencil, we use our imagination to create these images, but it is the same idea. A pencil merely transfers our thoughts onto the sheet of paper or postcard.
So, our consciousness, via imagination, has to be whizzing about in this void, drawing picture after picture, billions of pictures a second.
It never stops.
This, apparently, creates what we call reality.
It is our ID that sees the pictures we create and it is our consciousness that has the desire to create the pictures. But, it is all imagination and is not actually real any more than a drawing on a piece of paper is reality.
It is difficult for us to visualize this but I think that this is how it works.
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