As a simultaneously taught bilingual child, you can use different brain pathways to understand things. When studying foreign languages, so you can think in two more languages. Thus, the way your brain translates, processes, understands, and uses pathways is different.

At first, you use only your memory, you identify figures/numbers, and assign them a clue name. So, whenever that symbol wants to come into life, as magic, you just say the ‘abracadabra’, and it opens inside your mind. The power language has inside your head is immense, but our comprehension of the consequences of such power is limited scientifically.

How can you understand the system and its processing once it is running?

We live limited, and the only way to see your own limits is by challenging your brain, but… there is a downside or entropy:

Our brains use ‘language’ to understand itself. How can you challenge your brain when you use words to think?

The brain developed the ability to use language, as a chimp, we can understand some abstractions, but we are unaware of our own limits because: How can you see a limit if you cannot see where you are standing?

For example, how can a chimp know it cannot speak, when he is not aware of speech?

We are somehow like that, but in a more ‘advanced’ sense. We are trapped in a world of language where it becomes the one that liberates us, helps us understand things beyond ‘animals’ can, but at the same time stops us from seeing our limits.

When you learn a language and can think without translating, there is a transformation: Imagine a brain with different functional operating systems; where you can choose to use a Linux from from a proprietary operating system software.

When are you running a Linux?

You can get support from any other person who is part of your community: You are open, honest, trying to keep a healthy relationship, so it continues, and always in a conviction that there is good will around you.

When are you not? When you are afraid, need to use chains, there are a lot of bugs, and you cannot solve those problems because they are outside the box they sold you.

We live brainwashed when we do not question enough. If we could hack our own operating system by using different languages, thought processes, and creative community support… We could free ourselves from the chains created by greed, pain, and any kind of unhealthy behavior.

The problem comes into being when we don’t ever realize what is an unhealthy behavior, we don’t listen to our thoughts, and we become comfortable running a proprietary software.

We need to stop this, not because of ‘the need of a better world’, but because living passionately, doing what you love, and being really happy is something we all should have a right to live. Not just to expect something from ‘the government’ such as taking care of our rights, but because each one of us understand how our brain works.

Therefore we can understand how our thoughts interact with us, and how can we live peacefully inside-out.

Its like we are provoking pain without being aware of it, there is a need to realize what is inside of us, but our own language limits us, the way we communicate with ourselves is through thoughts, is there another way to reach my mind?

How can I gain control over my brain? Unchaining language.

This picture is an example of how language has its chains, but also the key to our own freedom:

Language is not all we’ve got to understand ourselves. Is it? Could it be just one of the known pathways? Are there more?

How can we reach new pathways if we use solely language and concepts inside our brains to communicate to ourselves? Are there other possible ways?

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What can we do to create a wiser and passion driven society? How can we think in ways our predecessors haven’t ever imagined? Well, simple or complex, we require the will to see beyond the taught.

A strong will can transform the world, the issue here is… How do we use our will?

To create ‘a better for all‘ or a ‘I need from” world? … It is not about forcing a way of life to all, but to create opportunities, so each person can follow their passion always taking in account the best interest of their self, families, society, country, and world.

We have been ‘taught’ that:
If you don’t work for money, you are/will be poor. If you are poor, you will be inferior, you will have less opportunities, and so, you will feel bad about yourself.

Well, let’s breakdown this idea:

01Money was used as a way to exchange things. What happened many years later? We created complex systems (economic models and games) depending on the representation it created. It actually is a very good idea. To use a symbol ‘who used to be backed up in gold’ (right now, it is not) to obtain what I need, if you don’t want what I have to offer.

02These models depend on our ability to predict human behavior, if our common behavior changes, then our models will begin to shake. It is supposed each time a variable is added, reduced or anyway changed, the model has to undertake some kind of scrutiny. That is one of the hidden layers of artificial intelligence, inside our mathematical models.

03I mean… Our brains are models used over and over, but as those need to change we do, too. Therefore, as our brain does, any kind of model needs to change if imminent. Somehow we believe variables (numbers/symbols) are the only ones to change, but that is not true. We do this because it gives us a sense of knowing and understanding, so we feel secure about our knowledge.

04If we feel secure, then we psychologically will feel stable. For how long can this go? Until, the environment becomes so unstable, so we begin to crumble down in the form of an economic meltdown, civil wars, etc.

05Life has patterns, but they evolve; this means we should be in a state of awareness in which we can oversee the consequence of a certain action will produce.

For example, I am greedy, I do not care about others. I believe money is happiness.

In time, you know that if every person behaves like this, there will not be enough to comply everybody’s needs.

Chaos will follow to raise some consciousness to the latter.

So, what should we do: A ‘better world for all’ or a ‘I need world’?

You may believe, if I can have what I want, when I want it; I will be happy. I need to be rich to obtain power, influence, and to enforce my will… However, ask yourself: Why?

What is happiness? What will make me be fulfilled? Is it to have everything I wish or is it to water my garden? Is it to convince everyone to do what I want or is it to embrace my loved ones?

There is no need to exclude one from another, but to reach a balance… The way the ocean flows in peace, comes and goes, never extinguishing, always asking yourself questions to unchain ourselves:

Freedom comes from the inside-out.

Think about things thoroughly, letting the past behind to forge a future without those rusty chains of thought that have brought us into this mess.

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• assumptions assured by confirmed predictions
• belief systems sustained by thoughts
• projections maintained by memories through experiences

Concepts are rarely questioned because we even believe others have the same definition because “they are in the dictionary”. However, these dictionaries lack insight because they are used to create a common ground. They do not express the real “use” of the word or words because language is a constantly changing mix.

This is important to establish because the main reason of conflict in between humans beings are: “Misunderstandings”

The number one cause of dissolution in unions is: Lack of communication.

For example:
My concept about love is not the same one you had, so I file for a divorce because you lacked the ability to love me as I wished, and we did not learn to how communicate properly to each other what does love mean. We can talk for hours, but a deep communication is lacking because of the misconceptions of the main words being used.

How many words have you asked yourself what do they mean to you? Have you asked to those who you constantly relate to… What does it mean to them a friendship, love, honesty, companionship, loyalty, etc.?

What you see is not what actually is; it is the image you have created of it the one being understood. However, it kind of works this way… We can communicate, but we also live so much division when we don’t know how to explain what we wish to express.

We may see and live the same truth, but each one of us uses a lens on a different focus that is seems we are seeing different things. So much anger, aggression, and separation created by these wrongly understood concepts, and by the interpretation of these when applied into a certain environment.

How can you commit to a relationship when you cannot even listen to the other’s expectations when using the word “love”?

It is a spiral that goes somehow like this:

• Lack of communication eventually results in broken expectations.
• Broken expectations leave you lost in translation, then communication becomes even worse.
• It all ends up in sadness, and at the end; if not careful it turns out into anger and hate

Communication means: I listen to you fully. I close my thoughts for a moment. I open my heart to you. I care what you have to say, although I don’t agree with you. I may even grow and have better ideas with those remarks I don’t agree on.

It does not matter if he does not listen to you. It is YOU the one who should listen. Is is YOU the one who should become aware of the situation. It is YOU who can change the world, not others.

Remember, I may be wrong. Think things out. Ask yourself more questions. There is no one out there to say something enlightening. It is you the one who has all the questions; therefore all the answers.

If others see you want to listen, they may try to… but even if they don’t… move on. Learn from each experience and open those eyes to new understandings by simply listening.

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Do the voices control me or do I control the voices?

Those voices are conditioned by my past experiences. I see a tree. I know it is a tree because someone told me it was so. I am not focusing. I believe there is a man standing beside it, but I focus and no one is there.

Was it my mind or my senses?

This event tells me the mind is not trustworthy. My senses can trick me and my mind can create whatever it wishes. (Example: Schizophrenia)

Is there a way to discover what is real without other people as my point of reference?

There must because we will die, and alone. So, other people’s opinions or ideas are not valid at the time of death.

So, if certainty does not come from external interactions, but from inside out. How can I discover it?

Let’s explore this with our thoughts…

The fact: Thoughts are influenced by our surroundings, if we are not aware of those thoughts and how our surroundings affect them… we may end up doing things we are not passionate and happy with.

Thoughts play a very important role, but sometimes we underestimate their power. We take a thought as a reality or a fact, when a thought is one of the most ephimeral things of this world.

For example:
I see a man with big wrist watch. I want it. I see a TV ad. I want it even more.
If I ask my self: Why do I want it? Do I need it? Can I use that money for something even better?
Answer: I don’t need it. I prefer… or I want it because…
You just stopped to think, therefore your free will is in action.
On the other hand: if you did not question yourself, and just bought it… You are just a muppet of our surroundings.
Think about it.

While I believe the media is not the one to blame, but each one of us, who don’t question things and go with the flow. If we all began asking the reasons behind everything… this world would be very different; more peaceful and educated.

The media is the result of our actions, and it is the reflection of the mayority of our society. Don’t blame the media. Question your mind, and find out: Am I being controled by someone? Or am I being free and those are my elections?

Why?

Each one of us, choose how and what to absorve in the media, if we are aware of our surroundings as they unfold. It is very easy to just blame others for the way and how we are being manipulated.

However, it is a point of view I find somewhat interesting:

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Are thoughts a trustworthy source of self knowledge? Why?

Thought 1: I don’t like you.
The same person, within the same hour.
Thought 2: I love you.
Thought 1: I am sure.
The same person encounters an event that changes his old paradigms.
Thought 2: I don’t believe on that anymore.

Is a volatile thought generator a valid source to get to know me?

Certainly, in a physical external environment where you are certain those thoughts will produce some action because…

For example:
Certain thought 1: I don’t like cats. They produce me allergies.

Will this person change his mind? Unless the allergies are vanished, he will live all his life disliking cats.

But… Is a volatile thought generator a valid source of self/inner (not subjective) knowledge?

Could be… Could not be… How can we know?

Mind exploration with out many possible capacities:

• Thought
• Creativity
• Emotion
• Hormones
• Brain
• Others

Why have we evolved in such a way we can use thought is the means of transforming abstraction into thought, and then ordered words?

There should be a reason, so… To know our mind we can use as a first step thoughts. A volatile form of communicating with ourselves and others.

This is important to know because if we understand this, then we can change our minds freely. There is no need to fixate with ideas because ideas are thoughts, and those are volatile.

Thoughts change and the results of those produce different actions. Things also change, how will we adapt to those changes if our thoughts may not be ready for those changes? How fast does our surroundings (nature & people) change? Do does our mind move as fast? We all can be wrong at the long run, but may be right in the short term.

Does the truth change? What is the truth?

When will be admit… we all can make mistakes to learn from them?

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Why do we want to destroy who we are?

I suppose this does not only happen against nature. We also act constantly against ourselves without being aware of it.

The path of self-distruction is not to hate, but to act upon your hatred. For example, you may hate a movie, but it will stop there. You won’t destroy a cinema because they showed a movie that does not follow your belief system.

It is the same thing inside of our minds…

We may even hate parts of us, but hate and love have the same root: You care about something enough to hate it or love it. So, how to find a balance in so many “opposites”?

01We tend to compare things in the same sphere of consciousness, when things are not like that. For example, love can be compared to hate as an opposite if you see love as a feeling. However, if you understand love as a state of being, then it may be harder to compare it with being hateful.

02 Our definitions represent the image we have created of those concepts. Therefore, a comparison is just valid using your own internal processed ideas about what is being compared. Even though, we use dictionaries, those lack the deepness of a human being discovering the reality beyond our communication systems.

It is very easy to say: Hate is the opposite of love, but is that the truth? In what extent of awareness it may be, and when do they begin to unite each other?

This all happens because we are living in a society full of “I AM WHO MY MEMORIES TELL ME I AM”.

That’s ok if that’s what you believe is enough if you don’t want to ask more questions, and you don’t want unveil the truth behind our confusion. Those memories can help us to elaborate complex thought systems that break our traditional systems of communication or those memories can entrap us in as sheep in a herd going no where.

It is strange, but instead of using thought system to understand communication. We use our thought system to break and fragment communication. The tool that should help us unite us through dialog becomes a method of division. Should we investigate this further?

We use a dictionary, but those terms are so vague that at the end our interpretation of reality varies in such a way that peace is no where to be found.

For example: If conclude that egoism is good, and famine is good if it is not yours. You might believe that imprisonment of the body is not good, but because you are free and although others may be trapped, you really do not care.

How come you do not act when seeing others in a state where you believe is not good? How can you believe that something is good in one perspective, but not in another one? What is the problem with words that they do not seem to reach a real consensus?

Do you know what the term good mean? Yes, you might be tempted to define through the use of a dictionary, but… Is good, a very relative term, an easy term to define?

To become aware of this fact changes the way you see the world because our perception is biased by our conditioning.

A child sometimes can see beyond because although they are not aware of the complexities of thought and language, they realize what we have lost… A sense of wonder that brings us back to the present moment that can be translated into a sense of fullness and profound goodness, one that is beyond any dictionary definition.

For example, those who don’t believe in being good to others surely haven’t found the truth beyond their own thoughts and beliefs. These people might not understand what does the concept to be good really mean. They still must ask more questions to find the fulfillment of a joyous of life.

It is a serious matter, don’t take it lightly, it is unfair to continue this way. What will our future generations remember us for? Our acts of self-destruction? Because when we contaminate, it is not killing just us, but everything that surrounds us.

Take as an example smoking, those who die first may not be the smoker, but the little daughter that spends her time with her dad who smokes.

Can you see the lack of awareness due to their own concepts and lack of wonder? Please, let her live… Let us live. Let us have a wonder future before it is too late for us to correct what blind adults have done.

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