MINDSCAPE
The ‘landscape of your mind” is vast. What occurs in each moment of awareness sits atop every other moment of awareness that you have ever experienced. The Mindscape of Humanity is unfathomable.
Encounter with John’s Mindscape.
When you meet anyone new, the first thing you experience is their physical presence. Gradually, you become aware of more as I did recently with John. Behind his eyes exists a vast landscape - a mindscape - that spans all of his personal life experiences.
I have written about articons. I think of them in the metaphysical realm of creation and reality in the way that most people think about atoms in the physical realm.
Articons are the elements of existence beyond time, space and matter.
They are the records of all thoughts, feelings, concepts and images ever experienced in the minds of all beings of consciousness.
Constellations of articons embrace the moment.
As you interact with another being of consciousness, the constellations of articons change within your awareness to fulfill the purpose of the instant. When I say the word “home”, for example, my mindscape floods with feelings and images associated with my current home and perhaps previous ones too. John’s mindscape would have been infused with his. We would each understand the word “home” in our unique way.
Consciousness is the where all articons exist and become manifest in awareness as the circumstances of each new moment change.
While we perceive our existence through our senses, we experience it in our minds.
Science continues to be puzzled by the nature of consciousness and mind, one of mankind’s greatest mysteries.
BING Copilot confirms:
“The source and nature of consciousness is indeed one of the most profound and intriguing mysteries in both science and philosophy. Consciousness refers to our awareness of ourselves and our environment, but understanding how and why it arises from physical processes in the brain remains elusive.”
Encounter with John.
I am generally very aware that when I encounter someone new and exchange ideas, I tap into their mindscape of unknown depth, and they enter yours.
A few days ago, John joined my wife and I on the golf course to make a threesome. I learned that he is 74, still working as a financial planner, and had an unorthodox golf swing.
In casual conversation, I asked if he is following the American election. “Oh yes” he proclaimed “I sure hope Kamala wins” with some urgency in his voice. I didn’t respond.
At the next tee, I asked “Do you believe that humanity is facing a climate change crisis?”. “Of course”, he replied, “Don’t you?”. Again, I said nothing sensing a dogmatic mindscape best to avoid.
As we continued to play golf, I reflected on my mindscape about the climate change topic. The articons circling and informing my awareness on this subject felt like a swarm of locusts after John’s statement. Having written a book on Climate Change, I knew I had much to share on the topic, but I kept quiet. I continued to wonder, however, about his mindscape. Were his views researched and well-informed like mine, or did they just reflect the shallow talking points expressed by mainstream journalists and captured politicians?
At the next tee, I carefully ventured into unknown waters. I asked John if he could tell me the concentration of the gases, including CO2, that make up the air we breathe. He couldn’t. Then I asked if he was aware of the Milankovitch Cycles that affect Earth’s climate. He wasn’t.
We finished playing golf without conversation about anything other than golf.
At the ninth green, my wife and I stopped to admire “Ginkie”, the nickname I gave to the Ginko Biloba tree that I bought and planted as a gift to our golf course in May. Ginkie was in his Fall glory.
John was a nice man. His mindscape is vast filled with 74 years of content. I can imagine that there are many topics of discussion that we might have shared in agreement. However, politics and Climate Change are evidently not among them. We had no further discussions on those topics and stuck to our golf games.
FYI There link below is what prompted me to write about my encounter with John this morning.
I live in Alberta. Three times (that I am aware of) we had an energy alert, and we were told to shut off EVERYTHING that was not essential on 2 occasions. It was -40ish and dark out. Our system was threatening to collapse. I had to wonder how my fellow citizens felt that had electric heat. What would they do if the power went off for more than a few hours? When I speak with people, like your friend on the golf course, I want to ask them WHO do they feel should have their sources of fossil fuel power taken from them? Who should do without, and how will they survive? It IS extraordinarily ANTI HUMAN. All the money spent on carbon reduction is taken away from projects that could be used to enhance human flourishing, clean up ACTUAL pollution, and provide better societies around the world. How do we get this message out?