The Illusion of Control
The voice in my head spurring me on to write this is separate from my consciousness. Oddly, I am merely observing a particular spirit taking control of my fingers and transmitting these thoughts through the keyboard to this page. I don’t actually have control over this process, but I can observe it with amusement. I can observe the frustration that arises when the spirit cannot think of the right words. And I can watch during the rare moments of "flow" where the thing that the spirit wants to express finds its way to the page with little friction from the conflicting spirits of grammatical correctness and censorship.
You see, there is NOT only one "spirit of blogging." There were multiple spirits involved in the creation of what you're reading today. It is when this confluence of spirits begins to flow in the same direction that we experience the thing called "flow."
But I didn't set out to talk about flow today. I wanted to continue my exploration into Nondualism and particularly the illusion that many take for granted; that there is a "thinker" behind thoughts. No, thoughts emerge on their own, driven by various spirits with different motivations and drives. I am taking some creative license by calling them sprits but they are more accurately described as evolutionary wiring or cultural conditioning; autonomous programs with different, sometimes conflicting goals.
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