“There’s a fine line between love and hate.”

A woman once said: “There is a fine line between love and hate.” This struck me at the time but I wasn’t sure why. It seemed to be coming from a place of great wisdom. A chunk of time has passed since I heard this, and it has come up again in my thoughts – and I am trying to figure out why this could be. For me, right now – one potential meaning of this phrase could be explained by my reaction to others. I have heard people say ‘The connections we make with others are, in part, caused by something we see in them that we see in ourselves.’ Right now, I am defining love as caring deeply about others well being, and hate as inability to accept the way someone is naturally preventing this caring to occur. I myself struggle with extreme social anxiety, this can prevent me from seeing which side of the line I will fall. I have identified my frustration with other people to be really an insecurity I find in myself. Often times when I realize this it is a relief, and it helps me to grow and learn more about myself and my reactions to the world around me.

It seems to me that on a macro-scale this same repulsion and connection theory can be applied. When cultural values collide in a large scale, maybe it is a societies subconscious reaction to something present in their own culture that is harmful to their progress/well being.

Usui Reiki Principles

give thanks
don’t anger
don’t worry
be honest
be kind

Noetic Bob Dylan

I was struck by the lyrics in Bob Dylan’s song “I’ll Let You Be In My Dreams, If I Can Be In Yours” :

 

“All the people can be some right part of the time, Part of the people can be some right all of the time, But all the people can’t be all right all of the time.”  

I see this as an illustration of collective consciousness. I believe there is intuition that people have, when they just “know” something to be true without questioning it. I do believe this intuition has divine threads (for more see noetic theory or gaia theory). These moments of insight don’t happen all the time, but we must use our reasoning to validate our thoughts. We question the world and come up with data and reasoning to back up our decisions. If we all are essentially part of the same collective thought unit, then these lyrics illustrate the distribution of that intuition across humanity. It is not possible for everyone to be completely intuitive all of the time. But there are moments in time when some of the people are completely intuitive for periods of time, as well as times when everyone is only some “right,” in other words, only partially intuitive. 

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Social Probability

In an age filled with numbers and statistics, people are becoming more based on strategy. What I mean by this is: when we are taught to consider massive amounts of data, our actions are more based on numbers and patterns. This means that we have taken strategy into all areas of our lives, including social realms. Today we try to sum up a person before we decide how we are going to react to them. We make our social moves based on what we think a person will do or say becuase we try and put ourselves in their mindset, or to try and think how they think based on what they have learned in life and what “kind of person” they are. We try to realize what background a person has and to figure out what kind of information we can get from people. We do this by looking at their appearance, asking about where they grew up or who they are friends with. We have come to realize that like minded individuals generally decide things based on similar data, so we can make the best guess as to what they are going to do or say based on their “circle of influence.” Models of this mindset are prevalent in new technologies and in science. A clear model is the model of social networks online: more and more people are grouping themselves with others and online we can see what kind of person someone is based on what kind of Facebook application they put on their profile or what group they have decided to belong to. These are clues that help us figure out what kind of decisions those people will make, which helps us find like minded individuals and in turn work in groups. These groups often contradict each other, but it is important to try and keep in mind that we can all learn from other groups. There is a dual process of learning more about ourselves, but at the same time learning more about each other. These things are hard to keep straight because, we have been conditioned to be so afraid of difference that it seems nearly impossible to realize we all have a common goal: to live in this world. Phrases like “to each their own” and “stupid is as stupid does” remind us of these different modes of thinking.

We are also faced with the question of lying: if I know that I can get what I want from a person by telling them a “little white lie” why not do that? Some people choose truth over lies, people begin to see these patterns of others either telling lies or telling the truth and adjust accordingly; we are able recognize patterns of behavior and base our social actions on these patterns.

Cultural Evolution of the Relationship

The ‘relationship’ has changed over the years. Two generations ago, the expectations were very different than now: One was supposed to find someone, anyone, and have kids and a family. Oftentimes, the ability of the two people to communicate and to get along in general where overlooked in favor of time constraints. Last generation we were supposed to find the “one,” that one person who could make us happy. This gave birth to a second form of panic: the belief that we could miss “the one” somewhere along the way and stay lonely for lifetimes. Today, we are told to work more in pairs, the feminist movement and the sexual revolution have created a more equal base for the sexes, a ground, may I add that non-western culture never needed to figure out in the same way. What is happening now is that we are told to find “ourselves” before finding “the other.” What this means is that relationships are tested until there is better fit and the two people can work together for mutual benefit. Less emphasis is placed on the formalities of the relationship, and the tradition, and more on the evolution of the actual relationship. This means that there is more room for error. If both people are whole people themselves, less emphasis is placed on the specific reactions of the other individual. This means that there is less anxiety over how each person reacts and more emphasis on the actual actions.

Thought Words

Evolutionary fashion – We have developed to need fashion and aesthetics to attract mates. Our clothing is our plumage.

Psychics – The human mind is evolving to be able to “read others minds” – we can read physical body language and know what someone is thinking. More people today are able to read physical body language than, say, in the Modern era, because we live in a progressively more collective culture.

Parallel Universes – Human thoughts are intersected. Because I am an artist I can see everything from an artist perspective, we see the same things but from different angles. We can find others who are thinking the same thoughts at the same time and it is these people who we resonate with. Our thoughts are a type of energy.

The Human Intellect - “Smartness” is a human construction. Every single person is smart for different things in life. We spend too much time worry about the intellect, every single person has the capacity to know things that others don’t for this reason every person has the knowledge of the whole world; together our intellects make a perfect puzzle. We spend our lives trying to figure out the big secret, when we should really just listen to the world around us and learn what we can.

Universal Learning – We are all students. Every single interaction one has with others and the world can be a lesson. When we are able to see these lessons we are able to be enlightened individuals and can transcend to a higher level of consciousness where we can see more of the present moment.