Only in Your Mind

What are you?

A Man? A Woman?

Nice try but you have missed the point.

A human, you say? Still staring at the shadows on the cave wall I see.

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Teilhard de Chardin

To put it another way, We are not man. We are spirits experiencing what it is like to be man. In the same way you can choose to experience what it is like to be a hard worker or lazy, a Christian or a drug addict, a sports fan or a couch potato, you have chosen to "be" a human. But it is not a permanent thing. It's a temporary jacket, a mode, if you will, that will be taken off and let go of, when the need for it is over.

It would be better to view your human experience as a mode or mindset rather than an existence. You can choose to be lazy or hardworking but you can also choose to stop and do something else. Realizing this puts you in control. Because you are into working out this year, doesn't mean it must be your life from then on. If you choose to learn everything there is to know about cars or computers, it doesn't mean you must remain a slave to those things for the rest of your life. People have differing interests all throughout their life. Some expand more than others who keep the same narrow world view until they die.

If you view your human experience as no different than a current interest (in the grand scheme), you will have much more freedom to explore life and push your own boundaries. Why get caught up in what others tell you the rules are or must be? Have you ever gone back through all of your beliefs and sorted out what was yours and what you just accepted because that's what everyone else did?

What's more, have you noticed how you will defend those beliefs that aren't yours and resist any form of change to your structuralized reality? Food for thought for those paying attention....

Consider some of those beliefs you take for granted:

Government or police are supposed to protect you.

The "experts" will tell me what is true and what isn't.

Scientists and doctors are trained to have the answers.

You are only supposed to have one relationship at a time.

Babies are born naked, yet everyone is ashamed to see or be seen as adults.

Freedom of speech....as long as no one is offended?

Someone stealing part of your money is ok if it's called taxes.

Special clothes to swim in?

I can't look like a super model so I won't exercise to be healthy.

The right to go through life without being offended?

Democracy - where 51% can vote away rights of the other 49%.

Radiation mutates things....microwave ovens?

Being the victim of other people's thoughts and opinions. (i.e. - He made me feel...., I did....because of you).

Losing weight instead of losing fat?

President Bush once said, "We will not tolerate those who will not tolerate".

Bringing people freedom at gunpoint?

You're free because you can, anyway you want...inside your cage? It's better here than anywhere else....we have shiny gold chains instead of rusty ones.

Law enforcement vs keeping the peace?

Victimless crimes?

Judging your intent rather than your actions?

Jailing your intent? Thought crime? Punished for your Beliefs?

The human body cannot withstand moving faster than 40 miles per hour?

Nothing can move faster than the speed of light?

Ozone holes....that have always been there?

No such thing as an ice age?

We accept intuition but not esp?

Placebo effect?

Is my blue your red?

Is this all a dream?

Where do you go when you hit deep dreamless sleep?

200 years ago, the average life expectancy was said to be 35, yet all the founding fathers lived into their 60's just like today. What has modern medicine really given us?

You are supposed to feel sadness when someone dies?

Is life what you currently thing it is?

Are you a man or a women? A human?

Only in your mind.

Brandon Songer is a freelance writer on spiritual and philosophical topics.

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