A half-brained question

[petermarcus]

Turn off your left brain. Forget about logic, cause and effect. Dismiss evidence and investigation. There is no math. Forget your dogma -- ignore what Moses said, ignore what Jesus said, ignore that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet, ignore that this world is a mere illusion.

Open your right brain. Think of clouds shaped like puppies and rabbits. Be hypnotized by the dance of a candleflame. Savor the most beautiful memory of your favorite lover in times that may have passed long ago, yet still cause you to grin foolishly when no one is watching...

Ready?

My question:

Is there fate? Is there a pattern, a path, a destiny that shapes us as individuals apart from any influence of family, society, or genetics?

My answer: My left brain says no, which is why I shut it off. My right brain says I am piloting a river. Sometimes I move upstream, sometimes down. Yet, strong or light, I'm always pressured by current just below the surface.

What does your right brain say? What visual do you see guiding you not at this moment, but guiding you through the whole of your life?

Don't think. See it, sense it, experience it, and type it out.

Let me know.

Comments

[wrapper.livejournal.com]

Pork!

(Sorry, I seemed to have turned off too much brain.)

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Swedish Chef philosophy of fate. Bork Bork Bork!

[hisbeauty.livejournal.com]

I believe in Fate :)

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Me too, I think. I wish I could see it a little clearer sometimes... ;)

[hisbeauty.livejournal.com]

Do you think Fate & Destiny to be the same? :)

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Destiny may just be Fate's goal -- kind of the end product, or what Fate is steering towards. I guess I beleive in both, but I think they're yet one more influence, just like environment and genetics.

[gravity.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I believe in, other than that beliefs are maleable. As far as fate and time and reincarnation and all of that sort of thing go, I think they are probably all inter-related. You used the image of a river in your example. Picture a giant infinite slinky that is connected at both ends to form a circle. So you have this spiralling form. I picture traveling along this spiral. In someplaces the next loop nearly touches the loop that I am on and where I am now is still connected in some way to everywhere else on the slinky. I think this would allow for the supernatural visions of the past and future that some people have. It is all one. Basically I think that at least my life consists of cycles, each cycle is a loop and these loops can consist of an entire lifetime or even just a few hours. So life is constantly changing and evolving but never really that far from where it once was and never completely detached from the past. I think that there is no beginning and no end to life and I think we repeat our lessons until we get them right. Somtimes I also envision life,fate,destiny, whatever you want to call it, mimicing the basic building blocks of life. The double helix that we call DNA. How perfect it is in its symetry. Somewhere the other half is living their own spiralling slinky of an existence. But that is the poet in me longing for my soulmate.