It does go really deep. Consider how the voice in one's mind is in their native language. We are these forms. The trick is to keep them as means of expression and not just boxes to contain our souls. When I was a little kid I used to rebel against the voice in my head and make it make up words and use nonsense language, as a way to tone it down and control it somewhat.
Evidence shows that our consciousness doesn't control our immediate motor functions and reactions, so its real function is imagination. To consider any and all possibilities, so our future reactions are better informed.
Think about how your mind quickly constructs images, like seeing faces in random patterns. Our conscious state is a mental creation of the senses combing their inputs. When we are asleep, it creates these dreams that seem all too real, but rather than having to constantly reset to outside information, the mind just creates them out of memory and emotion.
Then consider that when we control the outside input, we can go into this flow state, which is somewhat close to dreaming. Which is just fine, if your intention is reducing stress levels, but when your control of the outside world involves actively avoiding it, like being a couch potato, or actively destroying it, like quite a few very powerful people will, it's a problem.
We do, like the rest of life, only exist in the present, yet what rises us above life is our ability to see beyond the momentary situation, using the past to strategize the future.
Because of this, we are very goal oriented creatures, but we live in a cyclical, reciprocal, feedback generated reality. More thermodynamic convection cycles, than linear temporality. So more is not always better. We are ignoring all the blowback being generated by our current dream state.
Consider how the dichotomy of desire and judgement is politically expressed as liberal and conservative. Getting beyond their current forms and implications, any society on earth and in history will have those pushing against the culture and those enforcing it. Liberalism as social expansion and conservatism as civil and cultural consolidation. They are as fundamental to each other as spring and fall are to the cycles of life.
Yet because we have this linear, object oriented, monist idealism as our cultural paradigm, both sides see themselves on the road to nirvana and the other as fools, if not evil.
Not seeing the extent to which they become reflections of the other and balance out the polarity.
Yet the whole situation is operating at rates far beyond what is normal, because of the information age and even the current powers that be are racing to stay ahead of the game.
My hope being that the crash will be so total and so sudden, it doesn't destroy the people and planet, so much as crush their belief systems, to he point new paradigms have a hearing.
More yin and yang, than God Almighty.
Cheers.
