Transcendental Thinking Part 2

Transcendental Thinking

Part 2

“…What we are doing is bringing up children, educating them to live the sort of life we are living. In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to do the same things,” (Alan Watts). Alan Watts possesses a transcendental mind because he critically examines life beyond the rule book. For thousands of years, people have assumed the ancient pyramids in Egypt were constructed by the Egyptians. No one would dare to challenge this belief. The same goes for Jesus. Many who share the belief that they are equal to Jesus are ridiculed.

Today, children who have abnormal thoughts receive lower grades and are told they are incorrect. Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Many people have PhDs but are lacking creativity in music, art, and imagination; many are reciting what they’ve been told and never challenge it. Many get a PhD not for a deep passion for breaking the barriers of the mind, but for an income raise or for academic fame. When asking a professor of astrophysics during a lecture about the discovery of a possible Earth 2, the question was–is humanity ready for such exploration when the Ganges River in India is trashed and possibly 50 years from now 1 out of 3 will have type two diabetes with the current western diet. His response was not unique. It was the same response given more than a decade ago in elementary school, “Billions of years from now Earth may die, or before then Earth may get hit by a meteor. For the preservation of the human race we must discover planets capable of life.” It became clear, academic fame doesn’t mean that a person has a transcendental mind.

Carbon dating of the blocks used to build the pyramids is extremely hard because they don’t contain the elements required for dating precision, however, in elementary school, teachers are certain the pyramids are “this” old and then a decade later are “this” old. What scientists do is carbon date the bones from bodies near the pyramids and then say “this pharaoh must have built the pyramids.” This is problematic because the pyramids could be older than the bodies dug up near it.

Nassim Haramein, the founder of Holofractographic Universe and a powerful influence on the metaphysical community,' is ridiculed in the science world for his statement that the pyramids were created by ancient aliens. His argument states–how can humans ten or twelve thousand years ago stack 200 ton blocks on top of each other? The idea that men with ropes and large rolling pins moving these blocks are obviously illogical, however, academia still accepts it. Nassium is a perfect example of a transcendental mind.

How this relates to early American literature can be found in Ralph Waldo Emerson. His thinking has crossed over into a desire for deep meditation that will be practiced in schools nationwide because the pressure of the technology age is too much. Emerson is the founder of transcendental thinking. “..Jesus was not a god but rather the highest expression of humanity” (211 Baym) this quote reflects that Emerson was ahead of the trend by almost two centuries. Only recently, people are starting to believe Jesus as not a God but a person who decided to reach his fullest potential, who possessed a powerful mind. This is a huge transformation for society–moving away from God unworthiness towards I Am God.

An ability to decode symbolism and critically think is a prerequisite for transcendental thinking. “…Higginson indicated his displeasure with the Catholic Church’s attempt to create, through difference, a transformative experience that provided a new vision of reality” (Dillard 210), this reveals the early American dissatisfaction with norms carried across the Atlantic to the newly founded USA. Early Transcendental thinkers were searching for a cleanse of heavy dogma that caused the many wars in England“…in the nineteenth century, [Fayal] became a hot spot of tourism for those seeking health, leisure, and a return to a primitive mode of life they viewed as more ‘‘authentic’’ than the ones they had left behind…” (Dillard 210), this quote showcases the desire to find a more impactful meaning to life than religion and culture. Today people use transcendental meditation to connect with a higher mind for the retrieval of ancient wisdom about the self and world. There are many spiritual retreats for the purpose of meeting spirit guides, deceased loved ones, finding ones higher calling, and dissolving primitive fear.

“…self-culture and individual mind”, a quote by Emerson, explores the notion John Mill and Albert Einstein explore–impactful explanations are found inward seeking, for Emerson it is reflection, for Mill building a strong character, and Einstein using a powerful imagination. All are sharing the same principle–“The mind [is] actively intuitive and creative (212 Baym), a person who can see into themselves can see into all things.

Emerson among many thinkers of early America literature brought about a new way of viewing life. It is becoming more common to find children with peculiar personality traits because of it. These children are called Indigo Children and possess heightened sensitivity, psychic awareness, creativity, and metaphysical expansiveness.

 “… [they] share traits like high I.Q., acute intuition, self-confidence, resistance to authority and disruptive tendencies, which are often diagnosed as attention-deficit disorder, known as A.D.D., or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D,” (Leland).

Diagnosing children with A.D.D. or A.D.H. D appears to be at an all time high. Is it because they have strange behavior, like Nissan Haramein, or do they truly have a condition? Alan Watts would agree any child that doesn’t follow in the footsteps of the parent is incorrectly perceived as being off track and must be reconditioned to follow the parent’s path.

Everything mentioned in this essay from Alan Watts, Nissan Haramein, Emerson, in relation to transcendental thinking leads to the question–what will be the next evolution for literature? Steven Spielberg, in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, started the movie era of friendly galactic contact. Now the term Indigo Children, in relation to gifted thinkers, is newly present. Literature appears to be evolving in the direction of reviewing the past and creating a new thought pattern.

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Transcendental Thinking Part 1

Critically Thinking Society

Louis (V.O)

But now I’m not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond life.

            Before the scene cuts to black, there is the image of over a dozen television screens lined up, stacked up, forming a college blackboard with a crowd huddled around in hopes a word, a phrase, an idea said within it can unlock the creative genius within them. Each television contains a scientist or mathematician from a country outside the USA–allies. The word disconnection appears across each screen to a country breaking the link of communication. Soon the blackboard of moving images of people talking cuts to black. Only disconnection written on the screens is left.

In the moment before the separation, everyone recognizes the blackboard of television screens as one entity. Critically expanding, a television is made of millions of pixels working together to make images. The diverse complexions of the faces in the many screens are as different colored pixels. Only when they work together, it becomes clear every pixel, small or large, is required for the construction of an image. When pixels forget this truth and scatter, there is no image but chaos. Pixels have different agendas because a visual is complex and requires them to work in different areas. However, all share the understanding,

Louise (V.O.)

Maybe there is a higher order.

There is a purpose for everyone’s individual purpose. It creates an image of Earth. Literature after the 1800’s Enlightenment connects people to a higher meaning for life through the subconscious expressing itself in symbolism and critical thinking.

Decoding symbolism, such as the Arrival, Sigmund Freud would agree, is understanding the subconscious always journeys to the conscious self in time and with the gift of critical thinking, a person isn’t bound to the group think interpretation. Impactful literature happens when the connection between subconscious and conscious occurs. This is when the higher consciousness awakens. Maybe it has been hundreds or thousands of years the higher consciousness has lied dormant. Once it pierces the conscious mind, like Albert Einstein looking into a fire and having an idea that would transform into relativity, its power can change the world’s thinking.

Powerful thinkers brought about a reinterpretation of society. Jonathan Edwards is a pioneer for an Age of Sentiment. He brought awareness into the troubles of receding arrogantly religious teachings. Jonathan believes religions most organic symbolism promotes happiness. Tainted religious symbolism terrorizes people into believing they are unworthy of God. John Locke evoked the Age of Reason, which sparked an interest in critical thinking, science, and astronomy. He inspired Americans to break free of Great Britain. He catapulted the USA into changing any system that has no room for evolution, slavery being one.

Strong characters are born from a critically thinking society. Edwards, Locke, and Thomas Paine all break free of group think. They are remembered in history because they challenged a stuffy system. Bradstreet’s poetry is remembered because she represents a courageous character who deeply feels into life. Thomas Paine used his blunt character to say what others were too fearful to say. Everything after the age of Enlightenment involved critically thinking instead of accepting without question.

A critical examination comes before, during, and after a changing world. Only those who transcend group think break through the glass ceiling of the mind, Nikola Tesla being an example. John Stuart Mill born in 1806 writes Essay on Liberty. According to Mill, the world needs strong characters to have revelations others are not capable of. A world without strong characters would continue to follow a fearful herd unable to explore beyond the commonly known pastures.

Cycling through sameness gets boring, especially when ideas are stagnate. The saying is–it’s better to be comfortable (stagnate) and safe than happy, happiness coming from boldness. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. might not have read Mill’s essay but lived by his philosophy. Mill states, a strong character is committed to the self, never derails the voice inside because the outside voices disagree, has an opinion that gets humanity critically thinking, isn’t agreeing to an idea because it’s popular, is in support of the self, and trusts the intuition.

Literature during the American Revolution is a call for Native American sovereignty. American government is founded on, “We the people…” implying all diversities in religion, race, and culture are embraced. USA in the beginning appeared to be a potential paradise for those who came from Europe, having to deal with great adversity for being different. However, “We the people…” is deceiving because USA is not established on unity. It is created on illusionary unity, suppression, and mainly for the purpose of being set free from Great Britain.

Early American Literature can be used to inspire and sometimes to provide false information that suppresses ethnicities, races, cultures, nationalities, and sexes. For example, Early American Literature Europeanize Native American culture. Americans during the late 1800’s are blunt in their idea Native American genocide is for the greater good of all.

 “Winter of 1838-1839, some thirteen thousand Cherokees were driven westward on what has come to be known as the Trail of Tears. Roughly one-third of them, about four thousand people, died [on] route” (Hacker 361).

Critical examination causes the people to challenge systems that isn’t in support of a sovereign being society. A member of the Cherokee council reaches out to the US Congress for rights given under George Washington but Andrew Jackson, the new president during the Trail of Tears, believes the Natives are too irrelevant to gain freedom. Using literature natives tried to fight off a system suppressing its culture.

The power of written words when felt deeply can inspire a spiritual awakening.

Cobb (Inception)

I’ve come back for you–to remind you of something–something you once knew. This world is not real.

            Symbolism is a message designed to unlock the subconscious mind. Each word, every dream, thought, and feeling is more than a physical experience. It can wake people out of their habitual mental patterns that are preventing them from an evolution. The depths of the written word cross dimensions. An awakening is a steady progress/process of understanding that the world isn’t what everyone thinks it is. Late 1700’s Enlightenment created an ideology of creativity found today in Steve Jobs and Steven Spielberg. Creativity pushes not only the USA, but humanity beyond its current evolution into a new age of thought. Every word is symbolic for a message trying to pierce through uneducated self to the enlightened self. It is only the transcendental mind that can find meaning to the subconscious unraveling itself on a blank piece of paper and symbolism meant to activate a higher mind. 

North Node in Scorpio: Soul Growth

North Node in Scorpio: Destiny and Karma

Death and Rebirth

What I want to Accomplish

Power

What Is Most Important To Embrace

380 Degree Change

What I’ve worked on

1)      Simplistic life style

2)      Detaching from material pleasures

3)      Connection with spiritual self  

4)      Value relationships over material

5)      Putting myself out there

-          Meeting new people

-          Sharing my ideas

6)      Powerful ideas

7)      Accepting help from others (Continue to ask help from others)

8)      Group projects

What I’m working on

1)      Embrace the darkness in self and others

2)      Embrace emotions that may not be peaceful

-          Sadness doesn’t mean something is wrong with me

3)      Embrace combat when becoming powerful

4)       Business over money making

-          Business should be about sharing ideas

-          Work on plans, strategizing, organizing

-          Money should work for me. Not I work for money

5)      Implementing ideas into society

6)      Sexuality is a natural part of life

What I’ve mastered in past lives

South Node in Taurus

1)      Money making routine

-          Secure person

2)      Making the most out of simple pleasures

3)      Emotional consistency

4)      Appreciate day to day simple things

5)      Surrounded by beauty: home, people, life style

6)      Detach from drama

7)      Back to basics life

8)      Independence

-          Building an empire and managing it all on my own

It’s Okay to Have a Life That Is Intense with Love Affairs, Rollercoaster Emotions, Passion That Is Overwhelming. 

10 Achievements before Global Harmony

When will humanity be able to have harmony?

1        When good and bad can become one. These people, causes, and wars are good and those people, causes and wars are bad only leads to people fighting over an idea those seen as wrong must be forcefully corrected or pushed away. There won’t be confusion over who’s good and bad once people embrace both as the process towards discovery. It gives mankind a chance to show compassion towards individual and cultural growth. It gives people a chance to not pick a side but choose humanity over ideology.

2        When people stop controlling others to conform to their lifestyle.

3        Education is freely given and is more than reciting back information. It becomes a meditation of discovering ones higher mind.

4        People no longer need distractions or want to escape the struggles of life. They have courage to stand up to the things that discourage their creativity.

5        They take responsibility for their life and no longer blame parents, society, religion, or culture. Life is a neurological experience.

6        People create businesses, products for humanities health, peace of mind, confidence and higher self worth not for profit or entertainment.

7        Mankind values quiet time.

8        EVERY NATION SEES OTHERS AS THE SAME HUMAN THEY ARE.

9        Humanity doesn’t want to claim, own, or conquer life.

1    Success is defined in environmental health.