In the Beginning

There was the Word;
Spoken this word has the power to create, without limitation. In time we learned to write the word, as a way to transcend our spoken words across time into the minds' of others without them ever having to share the same space or hear our voice. This has changed the landscape of humanity for all times.

Is most of what you believe to know not first conveyed to you through the written word? Textbooks, published scientific papers, news articles, and personal biographies are just some of the foundation where most people derive their base of knowledge. And now in the precipice of the age of technology people are sharing their thoughts with one another at speeds never before imagined with the newest iteration of written words: typing on the keyboard of your computer or handheld device. Often times if you heard someone speaking the way they type online you would find them to be erroneous, yet there's something about the written statement that conveys an altruistic authority. Creating a sentiment that regardless of how ridiculous the notion, whenever you read it the mind must at the very least ask itself whether or not to consider the statements validity.

This begs the question, how much of the information circulating throughout your own mind, is actually original thoughts? Given the overload of external stimulation most people receive from the innumerable apps on handheld devices one could speculate that hardly anything you are 'thinking' has any originality with most everything being linked to something you read or watched. So what then, is that the case for everyone? All the people you know are simply walking about with an endless orbit of information and ideas that have been supplanted from a Mindspace that is not their own.

Sadly, this is the case for many, many people. Which is why you can run into so many different individuals who when you speak with them on certain subject matters somehow they sound exactly the same as another person given their responses. Because they've never actually thought about it, considered the possibilities, and decided to draw their own conclusions.

But all ideas can't just be a constant flux of shared human thought, they must have begun somewhere...

Yes. In fact, everything you or anyone thinks and believes was first garnered by someone, somewhere. Whether it dawned upon you this morning in the shower, or a wanderer 2,000 years ago saw sights and heard sounds that left him in awe to the point it was written down and preserved for you to read a millennia or two later. That seems right and dandy, but where is it the idea comes from?

Ironically, any substantial idea bearing originality actually occurs in the silence. Everyone can mostly agree that once the mind begins to figure out how to think, it never ceases this process. From first thought forward it seems to be in constant rotation between firstly the things you have been told through spoken statements, and after learning to read the mind can ramp up this activity of processing information to an even higher degree. Therefore it's not hard to conjure that for the majority of 'thinking' you are actually in a roundabout of other peoples ideas that have found their way into your mind through speech or text. This is how social media has become so powerful, now the everyday person has basic reading capabilities and can imprint random others text based thought pattern directly into the mind under the guise of 'new information' at a frantic rate of consumption. This is how baseless claims spread like wildfire via the constant connection of the human thought sphere. Use discernment, and wrestle with the questions you have about a statement before simply believing it based on the 'source' or whomever gives you their vote of confidence.

Back to the originality of an idea. How is it the ingenuity of thought occurs in silence? Well, we've covered the way most things tossing around the brain are really just other peoples opinions and suggestions we've received from conversations, reading, and listening that are now masquerading as our own thoughts.

So the realness of our own mind is discovered between them - the 'gap' that separates what we perceive to be our thoughts. Take a deep breath; close your mouth, inhale powerfully through the nostrils while expanding the diaphragm, and exhale slowly again through the nasal passageway. It is here, now where your own unique originality will discover you. The Source of Creation takes the opportunity of this moment to gently bestow your own grand contributions to the human puzzle. The feeling is recognizable and certainly apart from what one would consider to be "regular thought". Seeking yourself through these means is perhaps the greatest work of a human life - for so often, quite probably even always, each fantastical achievement from any individual before being garnered into reality by sweat and toil was first conceived in a quiet moment.

So then, will you take respite and create an opening for your own individual excellence to flow naturally in the direction of your lived experience? Or take the more traveled road of meandering along with endless brain chatter cultivated through your environment and those you lend an ear to reading their posts? If you feel worn out or overwhelmed simply from thinking it is most likely to be from the cause of other peoples words in a constant bombardment attempting to shift your paradigm of thinking to be in line with their own.

Worry not, for your very own originality is always within reach. Not in the confines of memories nor the illusions of what is yet to come, but now in the liberation of this moment. Release all predisposed perspectives about your circumstances and allow the newness of here & now to bring truth into your experience. The possibility of this liberation exists as a constant, simply awaiting your own metaphysical hand to open the gate allowing entry.

Socrates himself was weary at the concept of writing, lending consideration to the prospect of severing the connection between an individual and their own source of creative ideas. Nonetheless, writing has indeed served us well. And yet with where we are now, the thousands year old concern of the great philosopher has come to realization, with people constantly flooding their mind each and every day with interpretations, meaning, notion, and perceptions not of their own choosing. It is more than likely that any feeling of fatigue without a great deal of work preceding it is a result of the information overload, facilitated through manipulating the dopamine levels via overconsumption and stimulation.

Should you find yourself in need of separation from this cycle, return to the beginning. Let go of the thought stream, and drift without a destination in mind. Soon you will arrive present, now. And in this timeless space, the wisdom of your very own words will find you.