A System Within The System

Posted in Full Potential Project · Spiritual Guidance |  Email This Post | by James Rick

Thought can be viewed as a system within the system.

Systems generally have a beginning, middle and an end.
But while the idea of ‘finite’ or temporary existence appears true for most systems
it is only true because it is viewed through a system based on a beginning and an end.
It is the act of thought or observation through this system which makes all other systems appear as finite entities.
Just before thought however, is a perpetual entity – which apparently gives rise to the system of thinking and the ‘concept’ of time, individuality and mortality.

HOW IS THE CONCEPT OF A SYSTEM WITHIN A SYSTEM USEFUL?

If what you think is a single process within a larger system, this frees you to consider there might be ‘more to reality’ beyond your individual system of thought.
You can use this knowledge to free yourself during meditation, to thoughtfully play with reality when you’re awake or ‘conceptualize’ a reality in which time, mortality and individuality doesn’t exist.
These useful conceptions allow you to begin to use ‘meta thinking’ (a higher level of thought) to become aware of thinking and go beyond it’s usual limitations.

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