Notes - Preliminaries / Deconstruction / Obstinacy

     

         The first day of Spring. Breakfast and the Sunday paper. For a treat you are sucking on a Hershey’s Double Chocolate Nugget, half milk chocolate, have dark. Carol is reading the paper at the dining room table, you are in the large and comfortable living room chair and the cat is in her house by the window getting warm as it is by the heater vent.

         Mid-afternoon. You have spent the last two hours listening to a new radio station, Radio Gaia, enjoying the mix of eco-music while pleasure reading (a rarity) the newest well-written Harper’s from cover to cover (you are on the Mark Twain essay presently).

         Upon checking your email you found a fresh note related the “thought” from Doug, John D. Goss, PhD, is an old friend, former classmate, and your book advisor on physics. Here it is:

Dick, I have been meaning to send you this thought for some time. Remember when I said a thought was like some s/w code. I was not accurately describing the situation. A thought also contains information from our 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). We live in a 3D world, xyz and time. That adds up to 9 dimensions that our brains are using to create thought (dimension 10) and dimension 11 - emotions. No wonder it is difficult to understand how we think and how we generate thoughts and emotions. If our emotions are independent (fear, hate, love joy, happiness, etc) then we have even more dimensions, which make up our everyday existence. I suspect that memory is another dimension also.

Doug

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         Your response was to use this information to deconstruct the central theme of the six books since it was fully formed in your head as you awoke yesterday morning. Let’s move through his concept keeping emotions (as one), eleven, and memory as number twelve. Here is that central theme:

“The Merlyn’s Mind series is a story of Grace and Redemption which takes place unknown to all the characters including the Supervisor.”

         First, “Grace” as you use it here, comes from G---D’s Promise to Abraham for an eventual better world for the whole of the human species. “Redemption” comes from your insight of Milton’s concluding poetry in Paradise Lost. In your mind the ‘redemption’ is from committing original sin; however, you are not personally convinced there ever was ‘original sin’, that built in moral ‘guilt’ built ‘original sin’ as an excuse. 

         With this in mind it was easy to transfer Milton’s (and the earlier biblical) concept into a ‘redemption’ from an old human concept not a direct G---D induced concept. Thus, in the fiction, the characters would be mentally freed from those ideas and the concept would be updated (based on meeting the marsupial-humanoids and more direct connections with the Dead of both species to have an open window in the mind for broader human perceptions related and focused on community, and broader rights of freedom and dignity for both species, on simple politely oriented social and individual rules rather than laws.

        The last point, that even the Supervisor, is unaware, is unique to your thinking – inferring that G---D (who can subtly intervene in human affairs) is distinct from all characters, settings and concepts presented in the books and blog. This would bother you to communicate such thoughts if “fiction” were not the label. To you this is as a dream you have and are writing down for whoever desires to take the time to read and consider it. Nothing more, nothing less. This is a way for you to carry on your old classroom challenge to “get your students to think for themselves” -- by thinking for yourself. 

         You summed this up much better in context than I could have. Now that the concepts are clearer, how to deconstruct the theme? As the theme was already formed, how did the formation of the theme occur?

         Take a break. Post. More later. – Amorella. 

         Close to seventeen hundred hours. As you continue to be unsure how to do this, how about I help and if you disagree I’ll make revisions.

         That’s fine. It is interesting to take ideas apart and see how they were constructed. No proof in any case, but a hypothesis can be made.

         First, I’ll define dimension as a mental quality, several of which help to mold an idea into reasonableness. Start the order with the three dimensional world, xyz and time, next sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, then memory and then emotion. Finally, the thought is dropped from the mold. Grace, redemption, and G---D fit in a moral/emotional aspect, thus they do not fit in the construction as grammar (reason/memory) does.

         The three-dimensional plus time world is reality at its most basic both within the body and without as far as the brain is concerned in this project. The dimensions in this case are memory and emotion. GRACE: amazing grace lyrics; REDEMPTION: forgiveness for eating the fruit, a rule transgressed not a law and liberation as the world has enough people today in it and technology to consciously, humanely and systematically care for themselves (community and individually) and the planet.

         The five senses do not play a part directly. However, in your mind the memory “sight” of words as well as “touch” play a part. This is the reason for the Amazing Grace lyrics as well as Woody Guthrie ballads – romantic literary qualities. These qualities also fit with possible redemption, the symbolic rainbow with Noah and also adding the flavor of Jesus, the human being suffering on the cross.

         The Supervisor (memory) related to an ArchAngel only. No more and perhaps less in your dream-story. You have a definite though wordless line separating G---D from all things and beyond (which are by definition, less). What do you think?

         This is correct (or so it appears), but not what I expected. The words sound right in context though. Amazing Grace, Woody Guthrie, Noah and Jesus did flow through as I slow the process down. They sound very reasonable for me to have thought and considered. When I see ‘touch’ in such a context I also have to include empathy, which I assume is emotional in dimension.

         For better or worse, that is the conclusion of the exercise. Doug is correct; it is difficult to reason how a thought actually develops. I was surprised at your leap to having the Supervisor less than G---D or even an aspect of G---D. Your idea of ‘separation’ of G---D from all Things and Beyond is as a fact about G---D not an assumption or believe or conjecture. Would you agree that “G---D is all Things and Beyond”?

         No, because this does not allow for Free Will. Free Will is a Given.

         Rather arrogant on your part, isn’t it, boy?

         It is human on my part, Amorella. That is what I am. I am what my culture and my experiences have made me. The ‘separation’ of G---D from all Things and Beyond is how I feel (a combination of emotion, memory and assumed facts of experience). This is how it is existentially in my mind. What else could you expect of me, Amorella?

         This is enough for now. Post. This post is completed for the day. – Amorella.

         I am not going to be bullied on this. No one has to agree. I have my rights as to free thought and free speech just as anyone else, including Amorella, if she has some separate reality to her besides my imagination. 


        After some consideration, I concede. In thinking of Ohio's state motto: With God all things are possible (or something to that effect) then it may be possible for G---D to be separate and not separate at the same time). I feel I am separate from G---D. I do not know anything about G---D as a fact. It is not my place to speak for G---D in any case. I don't even know if SheAnHe exists. I just am trying to write a piece of fiction in six parts to pass my days in retirement for some self-fulfilment. - rho