"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other
by association with smarter people."
-Will Rogers
Frame of Reference
As a hypnotist I have been always fascinated with the human mind and how people think. One of my major realizations is that every person is programmed or should I say socially and culturally conditioned by the society, surroundings, media, church and of course their parents.
Most people’s reference of reality or where they base their understanding is mostly associated with what they see in the media, church, or what they have heard from their parents.
Digging Within
From my collective studies of how the human mind thinks and also base from thousands field tested interactions, I’ve realized that whenever I give a talk it seems that people go inside, what I mean by this is that they look into their mind and look for a frame of reference for them to understand that I am talking about.
What I mean by this is, if my topic is about love most of them think about the person that they love and associate the word love with that person, for them to get a sense of meaning and understand it clearly.
Another is that, if I talk about the topic of food, most of the time they will immediately think about their favorite book and picture it clearly in their mind. Or maybe, if is start talking about a favorite animal, they will eventually associate it with their pet.
This is how the mind works. It needs to look inside and search then associate it to an image, a memory or into something that they could understand. Because, if they can’t find something to associate it with something in their minds, they would not understand it.
I think you get the idea. Now, let’s go a little deeper.
Into the Unknown
As a child growing up, I’ve always looked up to superheroes and most of the time, I have believed that they have Godlike abilities and power. Then when I matured. I realized that most people’s belief about the power of God is mostly associated with these superheroes. Why? It’s because they have to find meaning within them as to how God’s power operates.
Most people’s concept of power is driven from what they have seen or what they have been told. Since they haven’t had a direct experience of God’s power they tend to associate it most of the time to what they see in the movies and the things they have seen or read.
Maybe that is one of the reasons people fear God, because they have associated power with fear from the movies they have watched and what they see in the media how the powerful gangsters portray the image of power.
People need to understand the power of God so they have created an image and associated it into something that their mind could understand. That is why in most religious sects they use human stories to personify God thinking that somehow they would find meaning in it. They would like to put the whole universe into a box into something they could understand and relate to. But can you really put all the meaning of the universe into a 4 corner piece of book?
Maybe that’s why enlightened people are often silent, because they know that life has no meaning but the meaning you associated it with.
And these religions are a big thing these days, because people lack the courage to seek God on their own, so they just let other people do the thinking for them and more often than not, it just creates more confusion with other religions.
People need something to associate it into something they could understand. They don’t like dealing with the unknown, they fear it.
So to compensate their fear they have created religions, where there are speakers who could somehow talk in a way that relates to the level of thinking of the people.
Shifting the Paradigm
I find it funny at times whenever I talk to people about Love and how they relate it most of the time to the love of their parents or the love of their boyfriend or girlfriend.
Well, because none of them again has experience directly what God’s Love is so they tend to associate the word love into something that they could understand, which is human love.
Like for example people the verse in the bible about Love being patient and kind and never jealous, to some people it is just an intellectual concept because, most of the time what they understand is the part- being Patient and Kind BUT the word jealous they can’t.
For most people, or for the society they treat jealousy as something normal. Because, a lot of people can’t control their emotions they just accepted it as normal- into something that they could understand.
So, for most people the idea of love is mostly the type they see in the movies. The "I can't live without you" type of needy mushy love and from my experience its just gives people more suffering.
I believe God’s Love surpasses any love and none of us can never understand it ever. We could only somehow associate it closely into the love that we experience day by day, but still that is not enough. It could never be explained by any human being. Just like patience, you cannot explain it. Discipline, you cannot explain it. Self-esteem you can never explain it. That’s how God’s Love is, it is forever moving changing, evolving and it doesn't have a period it just is that way, unknowable.
Putting an End
I don't want to go too deep with this post this is just a quick random thought that I don't want to slip away that is why I blurted it out with my keyboard.
Basically, people need something within them to associate an idea. For them to be able to relate. That is why if you say that they could also live forever and create heaven on earth they could-not relate it within them, because they have been conditioned from childhood that its not possible we have only one life to live and at the end of this one we will go to heaven.
For most people they need something that they will understand. Something that for them is normal and that their mind could easily grasp it.
I think some of you might not be able to relate with this post but I leave it to you.
What if everything you have believed is wrong?
http://theridion.blogspot.com/2012/02/myth.html
