Two Brains: Our Curse And Cure

THE RATIONAL MIND MAY THINK, BUT IT DOES NOT TRULY KNOW BY ITSELF ALONE

All human attempts to define personal truth and reality are never absolutely certain, beyond a reasonable doubt. All truth and reality definitions are relative to personal interpretation, and only become absolute by common social group consensus.

Since all humans are in a constant state of change...physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual...even the personal truth that appears to be absolutely the "truth" is relative only to each person. Yet it is also always subject to change and never absolutely true to even to each person!

All individual perceptions, interpretations, judgments, and actions are relative truth for any given moment; they all subject to change, either consciously or unconsciously. Therefore, the nature of all human truth and reality is that of a continuum of uncertainty; always changing, never complete, never absolute!

Human existence is the challenge of maintaining a balanced understanding..a knowing..of the ever changing flow of life as it unfolds in every moment.

The key to peaceful interaction with one's outer environment is adaptability and flexibility rather than fixed and rigid beliefs regarding how to react to a changing life flow.

Simply stated, the human expectation of finding an absolute truth and reality that is unchanging is illusory. Understanding is relative only to any moment in time; always potentially changing, never fully developed. Our perceptions of the outer world form only momentary "certain" understanding that allows for daily decision making.

Our once "flat" world became a round world after Columbus; can it now be returning to a "flat" world or to a new . . . one? In fact, the vertical axis underlying all rational thinking and organizational social structures may be shifting to a model of horizontal, equality for ALL?

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As the rational mind can change its interpretation of reality, so can our total view change when we use our intituitve mnd.

Knowing truth and reality exclusively by either the rational or intuitive mind is flawed and incomplete. Only by a balanced knowing from both the rational and intuitive minds can personal understanding find certainty in the moment, albeit always permanently incomplete.

To think with both minds offers the appropriate way of knowing personal truth and reality. Rationalists and mystics each have only part of the complete answer. And, even when perfectly balanced, they can only approximate truth and reality.

We are always inputing new data from our external world; we are always reconstituting and/or reinforcing existing beleif systems. Our truth and reality therefore can always change...if we consciously choose to modify what we think we know.

Also, individual fear often arises from our lonliness. So we unite into "group think" by associating with social groups that reinforce our personal belief systems. This externally validated personal belief system may offer greater certainty for the individual, but often will cause social divisiveness. One group claims "their truth" is THE TRUTH for all; while other groups dispute that claim. Social groups and individuals compete to enforce their own limited versions of truth. Interpersonal relationships become based on fear rather than trust, competition dominates cooperation, arrogance conceals humility.

Wars result; peace is fictionalized. The individual floats in a sea of social confusion...anomie!

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However, all individuals have within themselves the total power to create a new vision of personal reality...at any time.

A person has accepted stress and chaos into their lives, so they can they can reject this situation.

The curse of the rational mind can be transformed into its own cure when balanced by the intutitve mind. The release of rational mind dominance will occur to the extent that both a capability and willingness of a person to change exisit within the person.

The difficulty of this release of old belief systems is the "cotton candy wrapper" of emotions that surround individual objective thoughts and aggregate personal belief systems. This emotional subjectivity clouds logical objectivity and inhibits the balancing of both minds.

Yet, the complete power to strip away emotional attachments to objective facts is within everyone, to some degree of possibility. The challenge is to find our personal tolerance for the potential consequences of any perceptual change.

Will resulting pain or pleasure outweigh the other? Will my survival be more or less likely if I change my beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors?

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Who is really in charge of YOU?

And, are you willing and able to tell your rational mind to go out for a coffee break?