In order for you to feel you are getting closer to "the source", you have to believe a source (or something to that effect) exists. Nevertheless, I can appreciate what you are saying about finding something that brings you to a good state of being.
And I am of the opposite mindset. As I get older, I find myself more curious about the science of the world and want to know more about the intricacies of how and why things work. Proof is meaningful to me because it represents facts. Facts represent truth. I want to know what actually is, not what I believe it to be.Proof and belief are secondary to me. Prove what... to whom? Why do I even care about that? I'm searching and traveling toward something, some realization and meaning... as long as I feel I'm progressing, proof is almost meaningless.
It kind of reminds me of the movie the Matrix. On the one hand, I wouldn't want to know the "truth" about the Matrix as the world I was living in was comfortable, secure and more fun. There is something to be said about those states of being. Truth isn't always comfortable.
On the other hand, if you know about the "Matrix", ugly and harsh as that reality is, then you can empower yourself to do more when you enter the "Matrix".
So in the end, knowledge is power because only it, can provide true understanding. You can not fully understand anything until you know it and you can't truly "know" it by just belief.
In a sense, those things did already exist and we are merely figuring out how they work. That the universe already exists means that the formula to how and why it exists also exists ... we just haven't discovered it fully yet. Very few people can pick up an instrument and play it without first learning how - so you would need more than just the right frame of mind to play an instrument well. So yes, I would say that intelligence and/or the brain allows the person to rearrange notes in new pleasing patterns. Without intelligence, we would not be able to understand how to play an instrument, talk or sing.I do give them credit... using intelligence takes a lot of work and training. But I wonder if that effort just lets one discover things and ideas that already exist (e.g., Einstein - the theory or relativity already existed, he just defined it) or if it truly allows one to access new things. I go back to music as an example. Does intelligence just allow one to rearrange existing notes in new pleasing patterns, or is there a real, new essence being formed that truly did not exist previously?
It came from the person's brain, which is highly creative and capable. Each of us, though we have many things in common, are also highly unique. Why "should" the best of our abilities have to come from an outside source? Why isn't it enough that we are capable of creating such beauty or brilliance all by ourselves? Is a beautiful song less beautiful if it was inspired by the human, than if it was inspired by "the source"? Do you not believe that we, as humans are capable of creating beautiful works of art or brilliant inventions or discoveries on our own?If so, where did it come from? When an artist, explaining how she came up with her new work, says, "It just came to me", where did it come from?
Could we not be just that great?
Back to you.
M.
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