Wednesday 26 September 2012
Life is but a blank canvas
Life is but a blank canvas
On that one could create an invisible line by leaving the trace of her movement behind.
A movement which begins by birth and ends by death
A movement which could be both physical and mental
The movements begin in mind before they are translated into our physic, hence translation of the invisible lines of the movements of the thoughts (IL MOVEMENTS of the thoughts) into invisible lines of movement of our body (IL MOVEMENTS of our body).
These invisible lines of movement are then memorised on the canvas of the mind, or through some means of technology which either memorise the movements as they happen; e.g. camera, or memorise the trace of these movements which are marked by; e.g. pen and paper.
Ernest Holms says: “As we watch the process of thought we find that we think consciously, and we also find that something happens to our thoughts after we have thought them; for instance, they become memory. This proves that we have a deeper aspect of mind, which is called subjective, lying just below the threshold of conscious. This subjective mind is the place where our thoughts go and form whence they eventually return to us again s memory. Observation proves this to be true; for it always happens this way. Observation has proven that the subjective mind is the seat of memory and that is contains mental pictures, of impressions, of all that has ever happened to the individual. As these mental impressions come to the surface of the conscious mind they are called memories.” (Holmes, Ernest, 2010, The Science of Mind, USA, Wilder Publications, P35)
The IL of memories which are saved on our mind could be in form of:
- form of language; which could operate as a series of actual pectoral images of an event/phenomenon, or a series of metaphoric signs and symbols representing those phenomena. The latter is called words/texts
- feelings -e.g. warmth, fear
- sound
- taste
- smell
I am – proving oneself to oneself and the environment which includes others
As human we not only use the language to memories events and feeling but to convey them to others. This way we respond to our natural drive which is to prove our being and our existence to ourselves, and to the environment which includes other beings.
According to Ernest Holms the greatest discovery that man made was that he could think. “This was the day when he rose from ground and said –I am-…” (Holmes, Ernest, 2010, The Science of Mind, USA, Wilder Publications, P26).
Hence the journey of my mind or my individual IL of thoughts begins from the moment I made the biggest discovery of my life; “I am”. As René Descartes says: “I think, therefore I am”. (September 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_think_therefore_I_am ) I communicate and relate to myself and to my environment, therefore I am. Through my relationship with my-self, the environment/others I begin to form my identity. Hence one could say: “I am because you are”; “ubuntu” the essence of African mystic. (September 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODQ4WiDsEBQ )
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IDENTITY
Through the use of language we relate to our-self, to the environment and to others. Through this relation we form our identity.
Therefore my identity is:
1. The pattern of the dimensions of the centre of the gravity of my physical being within the environment and in relation with others.
2. The pattern of the past memory of IL of the movement of the centre of the gravity of mine within environment together with the memories of IL of the movements which are created by of my the changes of my dimensions in relation to the others’ dimesions, both physically and mentally.
3. The IL of the pattern of my future memory. The future memory is a term which I have invented to use here, meaning; the pattern of IL of the movement of thoughts which takes us into future plans and wishes, hence invisible lines of future memories or IL of the future memories.
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From the moment our life begins in our mother’s womb, or even before that the creation of this line begins. This invisible line represents the memory of our journey from conception to the grave. The line of this journey soon is developed into a complex combination of lines which present a variety of type of journey of different nature.
The question is whether IL of movement takes form prior to IL of thoughts or the other way round? This question is like the dilemma of chicken and egg. However, we need to break this cycle somewhere. I start it from the first journey which the sperm which carried the DNA of my father into my mother’s womb. A journey which although created an IL of movement nevertheless was caused by an IL of thought or in this case perhaps a natural program or built in intelligence.
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I have learned too late that;
That there was no meaning to life
I have wasted my life spending time to look for something which was not there.
Now I learn that “ the meaning of life is to give life a meaning, (Renee Pasarow, September 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpmPYm4c2ko ) and not to look for a meaning in it, cause there is no meaning there, and one cannot find something which is not there in the first place.
Hence I have a choice whether to give my life a meaning or not, a meaning which only I can give to my life not anyone else. I have a choice to give my life a meaning of my desire or leave it to others or the fate. Doris Day - Que Sera Sera (September 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc . I said a choice and not a responsibility, because with choice comes freedom but with responsibility comes obligation and force. Whether or when this choice becomes a responsibility, I do not know its mechanism at the present.
M agreed with me long ago, when I was a teenage, thinking the life was not but a pointless and fake show. She added; so we better put our best act on while we are on stage.
Now I have a choice to give my life a meaning or be just an observant and a fatalistic person watching my life passing by in front of my eyes. One thing I can be certain about here and that is no one but me is authorized to write up the scenario which I would like to act on the sage of my life. A scenario which is suitable to the potential I have and could be and better to be up to the best of the act I can be capable of.
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Art is developing a language through which one could give a meaning to her life in a stylish way, leaving stylish invisible lines of movement behind on the canvas of the memory of life.
- I am developing my own style of leaving invisible lines of physical and mental movements behind on the canvas of life. That is developing my own fonts in Persian calligraphy and also innovative drawing.
- I am translating the IL of poetic thoughts of 3 Persian poetess who have left the marks of the invisible lines of thoughts behind, using language, into visible lines of visual art, in form of photomontage, calligraphy and drawing.
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The existence which I am a part of has the potential of whatever takes place in it. If there is something which the existence cannot bear, it simply cannot happen. Hence the existence of intelligent human proves that the existence has the potential of evolving intelligence within. Whether this existence has the potential of developing a collective intelligence is not as easy. However we can say that our intelligence as human can only be activated if we are put in one another company. In fact observing the feral children suggest that human intelligence could remain in its animal level if it is not provoked by other human intelligence. On the other hand the human develops such institutions which systematically provoke and evolve human intelligence; e.g. language, university etc.
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