A recluse living in the Rocky Mountains with his dog, Shawnee, White Feather tells stories that lead us back to the primal joy of our existence. His philosophical and metaphysical essays push the envelope of our perspectives while grounding us to the feelings that connect us with our source. With insight and feeling, White Feather shares his journey through the shift in consciousness the world is going through, compelling us to look at our own journey. To discuss White Feather's writings and other philosophical and metaphysical subjects with others, visit White Feather Forum.
Monday, June 07, 2004
Shift Happens - 1
by White Feather
Are you tired of hearing about "the shift;" this big shift in cosciousness we're supposedly going through right now? Are you tired of hearing about it and now want to actually see and experience it? If this big shift is really occuring, then why does so much of life still seem the same?
Our brains can be a lot like a computer. For purposes of speed, our personal computers have what is known as [i]caches[/i]. This is a storage of all the webpages you regularly visit. So that sites come up fast, the cached version of a page will come up at times.
Our brains are a lot like that, too. Let's say that we walk by a certain building practically every day. At first, we look at it and imprint it on our memories, but after time we stop paying attention to it and instead of actually looking at the building we now just see a cached version of the building which is a composite of all the imprinting we had done the first times we consciously looked at it. Like the computers, our brains do this for the matter of speed and economy.
We do this even with people who are a regular part of our lives. Spending time with someONE over long stretches of time, we build composite images of them and we routinely see those images instead of any updated versions. We build a cache of default images that our brains can use very quickly and what happens is we get out of the habit of actually looking and seeing and imprinting.
You see, imprinting takes a little bit of energy; not much, just a little zap. But using cached default images takes no real energy at all. Everything is already on file there in the noggin and all we've got to do is click on the default image we want.
This same idea can be applied to thoughts and beliefs and emotions.
So one way of looking at things would be to say that if one is not seeing the shift then one is seeing cached default images. By "clearing out our cache" we are coaxing our selves to open our eyes and see and feel anew. By learning to feel with our eyes and see with our feelings we can stay out of default mode and we can open our selves to unlimited beauty and joy and undeniable evidence of a very major shift in awareness.
Are you tired of hearing about "the shift;" this big shift in cosciousness we're supposedly going through right now? Are you tired of hearing about it and now want to actually see and experience it? If this big shift is really occuring, then why does so much of life still seem the same?
Our brains can be a lot like a computer. For purposes of speed, our personal computers have what is known as [i]caches[/i]. This is a storage of all the webpages you regularly visit. So that sites come up fast, the cached version of a page will come up at times.
Our brains are a lot like that, too. Let's say that we walk by a certain building practically every day. At first, we look at it and imprint it on our memories, but after time we stop paying attention to it and instead of actually looking at the building we now just see a cached version of the building which is a composite of all the imprinting we had done the first times we consciously looked at it. Like the computers, our brains do this for the matter of speed and economy.
We do this even with people who are a regular part of our lives. Spending time with someONE over long stretches of time, we build composite images of them and we routinely see those images instead of any updated versions. We build a cache of default images that our brains can use very quickly and what happens is we get out of the habit of actually looking and seeing and imprinting.
You see, imprinting takes a little bit of energy; not much, just a little zap. But using cached default images takes no real energy at all. Everything is already on file there in the noggin and all we've got to do is click on the default image we want.
This same idea can be applied to thoughts and beliefs and emotions.
So one way of looking at things would be to say that if one is not seeing the shift then one is seeing cached default images. By "clearing out our cache" we are coaxing our selves to open our eyes and see and feel anew. By learning to feel with our eyes and see with our feelings we can stay out of default mode and we can open our selves to unlimited beauty and joy and undeniable evidence of a very major shift in awareness.
