What Experiences Do You Want to Create?

Posted in Perspective · Spiritual Guidance |  Email This Post | by James Rick

For many years I struggled with the question: “What is the highest value thing I can focus on right now?” I thought if there was one true path I wanted to know what it was. I didn’t want to waste any time. If I could know what that ‘high value’ path was for certain – I wanted to walk on it. This question caused me to regularly zoom out re-evaluate if I was truly on the highest value path. This question is the seed in which the Full Potential philosophy grew.

“WHAT EXPERIENCES DO YOU WANT TO CREATE?”
Overtime I realized that to answer the question: “What is the highest value thing to focus on right now?” You must know something else first. Value cannot be defined by itself. To know the value of something you must know how it will be used. So to answer the question, “What is the highest value thing I can focus on right now?” You should first answer the question: “What experience are you trying to create?” After hearing this question in my head over and over again and then linking it to high value focus, I smiled.To have the power to ‘decide’ what we are trying to create and then measure high value on that basis is a godlike ability.

CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVED TO ASSIST EVOLUTION
Human beings are the most conscious beings on the planet – why? An evolutionary intelligence stumbled along for millions of years and then suddenly gave birth to a conscious intelligence that could adapt faster to environmental challenges. For example when it gets cold outside, rather than waiting millions of years to evolve fur, you just know its cold outside so you throw on a coat. Because it could get hot again and then instead of waiting millions of years to lose the fur again you just take off the coat. In short, conscious ability is a strength of evolution. Your ability to be logical is not an accident – consciousness is a tool being used by evolution to evolve faster. And self awareness is something that emerges from within self consciousness. This may be something that evolution did not plan on – a being aware of itself. But then again a being that is aware of itself is also more effective than a being that is not. Therefore self awareness may also serve as corrective logic.

IS THERE A ‘BEST’ FOR WHAT TO CREATE?
If you evolved conscious capabilities to decipher high value, it may be evidence that what is the ‘best’ creation is still being discovered through trial and error. This means that what you are creating in your life right now is part of the process for discovering the best way to live! The implications of this are huge. You (as an individual and as a civilization) are deciding right now the ‘best’ experience. There is no ‘correct’ path other than what you say there is. And through a vote of collective will you are deciding the best experience for yourself and for all

THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY BECOMES COLLECTIVE REALITY
Now when I say collective will – I mean the most dominant of ‘memes’ or ideologies will prevail – but only for a time before they are evaluated and are transformed or replaced by newer, improved ideologies. Because an ideology is like an experiment and as it plays out it is studied and improved upon. Some great thinker might create a ‘new’ ideology but it is built upon the usable foundation of older ideas. Take for example the Constitution of the United States, it was not invented out of thin air, every form of government since the beginning of recorded history was studied and borrowed from. The past governments served as experiments by which a ‘new’ government could be created. All surviving religions have evolved over time as well. New rules, new orders, new amendments, basically by making gradual changes to its “DNA” the ideology has survived. Though it might still be called by the same name, it is not the same as it once was.

EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE
This means everything is open for evaluated right now: all religions, all institutions, and all philosophies – all is being evaluated on the basis of utility. Some serve as excellent vehicles to a higher consciousness right now and others are looked down upon as primitive and needing to be discarded in order for us to advance. What does it mean to evaluate on the basis of utility? It means that you silently ask yourself: “Is this useful? Is this benefiting me in some way? Is this relevant to what I value in life?” This is how all information is evaluated. You are asking yourself questions like these as you read this. Change is happening right now.

IS THERE A FINAL DESTINATION?
Are we working towards a model of ‘the best’? Do species keep evolving forever? Does civilization ever arrive at a point of ‘best’? Could you ever arrive at a place in life where you could honestly say “Life could not be any better!” and mean it?

No there is no final stage, not on the physical plane at least. Species will keep evolving forever. Civilization will never arrive at a final destination. Life can always be better. Because as sure as time is infinite progress is too.

IS TAKING A STEP BACKWARDS STILL PROGRESS?
Even though you might falter, progress is still made. A step backwards is not a step in the same stream. All of life is in transition and what appears to be a step backwards is inevitably temporary because if you realize it to be a step backwards you will be motivated to take a step forward. Remember – as you decide what’s best you move in that direction. Even if there seems to be obstructions that you are powerless to remove, the obstructions will inevitably fall because the collective will of life will overrun them – like a dam destined to fall before a great body of water. No resistance (read: no ruler, no organization, no government, etc) can hold back the raging will of higher intelligence. The frustration you might feel about changing the way things are is a frustration that flows through you from this higher intelligence that recognizes a better way. Although you may not always realize the change in your lifetime (that is to great disappointment to the Ego) the change will inevitably occur. This does not mean you should wait to act– on the contrary the sooner you act to improve a situation the more closely you are aligned with this higher intelligence and the more fulfilling your life will be. Nature has cleverly ensured that the thing you are passionate about is where you can have the most impact. Therefore your life purpose and the will of this higher intelligence are infused together – and your mission is to discover it and make it the dominant focus of your life.

HOW CAN YOU GET ON THE ‘RIGHT’ PATH NOW?
When we slow down our brain and listen we begin to employ the higher intelligence within us to discover our highest value path. Then we also have the power to choose whether to take that path. And the entire path is not always visible. In fact the path is often fuzzy with only the first step visible. That is faith – taking that first step and putting one foot in front of the other even though the entire path hasn’t been revealed… knowing through feeling that you are on the right path even though you don’t know where it leads.

GETTING FEEDBACK
It is easy to get excited by an idea or feel ‘guided’ in some way to do crazy things. The individual may be disillusioned within their own brain to do what they feel is right. It is the disillusioned righteous (ruthless kings and dictators, various religious heads and cult leaders, etc.) that have created more harm than good.

Feedback can be measured in a variety of ways. For a human being that feedback is ‘happiness’. For a tree that feedback could be size, health and age. In general – the more ‘vibrant’ a life form is the closer that life form is to living at its full potential. In contributing to ‘life form vibrancy’ one grows in vibrancy; this is the genius of nature.

IN SUMMARY
What is the highest value thing you can focus on right now? It depends on the experiences you want to create for yourself and others. Your ability to clarify and answer these two questions is what makes you so incredibly powerful as a human being. Take the time to appreciate this gift and work this out through paper or on your blog.

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