The Natural Nature Of The Supernatural

I'm a failure; I've been shoving forward something I promised myself I would do a long time ago. You see, one of my "hobbies" is thinking; since I was in high-school and even before that, people have always accused me of being an impossible day-dreamer. And the sad thing is that they're all absolutely right.

Sometimes I have to force myself to stop thinking about something because it's just so ridiculously trivial, and I'm behind the wheel of my car to boot. My mind wanders off on it's own, latching on to small things like a bird passing by, snowflakes floating down from heaven or the observation that there's more flowers on the field than there were yesterday. But also thinking about thinking and trying to grasp the origins of my own thoughts and the state of "the human condition" or the origin of stuff and life are things I like to mind-wrestle with; today I marveled at raindrops flowing down a window; why do so many of them take the exact same path? Is there a "path of least resistance" to be found on a vertical glass window? Why does rain fall down in drops? Really, it's ridiculous.

But that's not the failure that pains me now; it's the failure to start trying to meditate in a serious fashion. Maybe it's because it seems my mind is never at rest that I've always admired people who are able to really clear their minds, to recognize the mind within the mind, the self, and to even bypass it and shut down the inner voice, that constant companion who never shuts up. The most tantalizing description meditation I've heard is this: meditating is trying to find the origin of your thoughts, and you've succeeded when you realize that you are not the thinker of your thoughts...

Another reason I'm failing today specifically, is that I didn't have time to write a more meaningful post today; another promise I made, almost a year ago now, was that I would write and post every day, and this is one of those days when it's harder to keep that promise. So I'll leave you with the short video that got me thinking about thinking thoughts again; I think Jamie Wheal (this is the first time I've ever heard or seen anything from this "expert on peak performance and leadership") makes a good case of explaining how we have come to call some experiences supernatural, when they in reality stem from altered states of consciousness, such as the meditative state I briefly mentioned. He specializes in neuroscience and application of "Flow states";

In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
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