Society?

Society?
What is society exactly?
American Heritage Dictionary describes it as:
A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture.
That of course is just one example of what society means for it stands to reason that each and every one of us has our own beliefs and views on what society means to us individually and we live our lives in conjunction with our own dreams, desires, passions, wants and needs.
There are many examples of how extremely divergent our culture is in our ever-changing society. We believe what we want to believe, see and hear things as we want to perceive them and above all, many of us take for granted what others have to offer because we are too busy trying to twist it to our own point of view.
If our society is brought together by our mutual interests then we must come to realize what those mutual interests are. In these ever changing times, it seems our most strongest desire as a whole stands in communication. We all reach out in one way or another to touch others with our thoughts, ideas and views which in return causes even more conjecture. Many of us have a strong desire to learn and understand and the more we seek to find an explanation to our hardest questions the sooner we will find the answers. We must also understand that the knowledge that we already have and our admission of what we believe to be true may still be in the early stages of full comprehension. One of the biggest problems with communication I believe, are the things we choose to accept as truths that shape us and make us who we are. Many of us hang on every word we hear, whether it be by tabloids, word of mouth, rumor, news, etc... There are those that don't stop and question the things they see and hear and in return, make assumptions. Then again, there are times when the answers are right there but are often ignored or never seen. It's complicated for sure, but as long as we keep an open mind and step back and look at the big picture-the answers will come.
I have seen so many changes taking place in society today. The different views that clash in how our children are raised, how we view abortion, racism, crime, government, military etc...
Today, more than ever before, our society is faced with many more challenges. Some new, some old, but still very important in today's society.
As in all things, I still have a lot to learn myself, but I am always open to new ideas, thoughts & views. I have only touched on some of society-There are so many other aspects to our culture I could write about, but I will leave that for another time...Diana

Passion for Thought

I thought I would expand a little more on a thought I had about Passion and the thoughts that moves us. I was talking to a friend the other day about how many of us have this need to share our passions and sometimes it becomes difficult for others to understand us and the desires that move us. This happens especially when we put them into our own words and actions through the things we write and through expressions in artistic outlets. There seems to be this kind of argument over how we express ourselves. When our thoughts and emotions take the lead, there will always be followers as well as critics in our path. It is natural to want to stand up and defend our beliefs no matter what others may say. Although, we must also understand that the things we believe in and the aspirations that drive us dwell the strongest in our own hearts and minds.
We as humans long to let others know how we feel about certain things. We also want others to share in what is important to us. It can be frustrating when others don't understand you or you can't get your ideas across even when they are as plain as the nose on your face.
My friend happened to mention how upset it is when you share your thoughts and ideas and others just don't get it or even worse, they get angry with you. My thought on that was that we all have doors to our consciousness. We filter certain things through experience and through observation into each and every room behind these doors, and we all have the ability to open every door. We choose what doors we leave open and what doors we keep locked, and we all carry these keys at all times. I was telling my friend that when we express ourselves through these different outlets whether it be by feelings, words or artistic abilities we as well hold this kind of master key to everyone's consciousness.
When we express ourselves, others may be uplifted or left angry because you have either opened a door that needed opening and left them feeling alive or you have unlocked a forbidden door to emotions they didn't want out. It gets complicated this way because doors you have opened and accepted within yourself may not be the same for another.
In a way, though, this can be a good thing, for even if they don't listen or understand what you say, you may have opened their eyes, even if only for a second, you may have woke them up and given them thought to open more doors and explore what is deep within themselves. There will be those, the angry ones who may just shut those doors right back up, but the thought will always be there, in the back of their mind, in some room they may have forgotten to lock after all.

Clashes With Higher Intelligence

I thought I would talk a little about higher intelligence and some of my ideas about those who possess such a gift. I am not sure to what degree we consider higher intelligence. I know there are those who grade high on tests, excel far in certain subjects and are able to master the most complex of designs. It seems we base everything on this rudimentary purpose, some inherent knowledge of who we are supposed to be. If you take nature back millions, even thousands of years, higher intelligence did not exist. The cosmos and the planets existed within their own natural order and the laws that govern them are very specific. They still exist and continue to function completely without any outside sources. Now, centuries later, mankind has seemingly taken over with some very specific rules of their own. They have chosen to dominate the laws of nature in every possible way. What was once free has become governed order. We have taken innocence and made it a sin, took purity and turned it into something evil. We look at all that now exists, it breathes because we made it live, we brought it to life with our thoughts and actions. It may have always been there, yes, but we breathed a new life into it, we placed labels of right and wrong and we chose it's new path. So, now, there is this thought on higher intelligence. We all have intelligence, all of us do, no matter who we are, where we have come from, what disabilities we possess, we all can think-it's just the direction these thoughts take that makes us who we are. I think of higher intelligence, and it brings to mind scientists, mathematicians and scholars. They have surely made a mark on the way our cultures perceive things. With the invention of this thing we call technology, it has made communication easier in the way we reach the world and those around us. Yet, in this population growing world, it seems only to aid in the diverse complications of thought. It seems we all struggle to reach out to others with our own intellectual views and ideas in hopes that others will share in our dreams and desires. It does stand to reason though, that there are some people with more knowledge, experience and understanding that cause them to excel above many others. The tricky part would be when those of higher intelligence try to reach out to those that may not understand them. It would seem difficult to try and share your views with those who aren't really on your level of thinking. It's almost as if you are on another sphere of thinking quite different from those around you and this may cause others to think you are weird or different, yet in your own mind all is perfectly normal. I believe the greatest thing someone who is of higher intelligence can do is to share their thoughts, ideas and dreams with others. They may not fully comprehend, lash out in anger and may even think they understand when they don't, but there will be those who truly do understand and for many others, the doorway to higher intelligence will swing open.

My Thoughts on a true Romantisist

I believe the first level of a true romantisist is where one must come to acknowledge the many faces of seduction and be able to see desire in it's many shapes & forms.

When one begins to learn and understand it's many facets by opening their mind to it then they are taken to the second level.

When one can feel the strength and passion of another's soul and be moved by it then they have reached the third level.

The fourth level is attained when one has been truly touched by another on a more emotional level.

The fifth and final level is self-fulfillment, in which your own dreams and desires are manifested outwardly throughout the way you choose to live.


***This is not to say that there isn't always some level of romantisism in everyone, but those that seek out it's desire and it's wisdom are the true romantics.

The Core of Deja vu

Just the other day, I was thinking about my past and some of the things that I used to do compared to what I do now. There are so many changes, but it seems that most of the CORE parts of myself are still there.
I was thinking that maybe that is the same for all of us. We move through our lifetime picking up different things, learning and growing, but still, there always remains the CORE, the center of our being.
I remember hearing years ago that those first 5 years of our life are the most important. That, I believe, are the CORE years in our life that shape us and make us a start in who we are to become. This in a way sets the stage for the learning experiences and changes we learn and adapt to.
This thought got me thinking about how many of us have Deja vu and feel we have done things before and after leaving places. I have tried to understand this for years why we have those feelings and it got me thinking about that CORE set to our consciousness. That maybe we somehow predestine ourselves to the places and people we meet.
In terms of Deja vu, maybe we feel this when our lives hit the mark in which our consciousness is setting and this is the moment when we know we are in the right place at the right time. When our being lines up just perfectly with the universe.
It seems that when I feel Deja vu, I feel like something is right somehow, I feel like this is something that I should be doing even if it also feels like something I have done before. I feel that there are many moments in our lives that move us forward, but only a few that put us in perfect harmony with the universe. Maybe this only gives the thought that we have done it before and not a real experience that we feel.

I do believe this might require a little more thinking, but that is what I have come up with so far...Diana

Dreams-Do they have a life of their own?

I have always had a fascination with dreams since I was young. They seem to be one of life's greatest mysteries that people over the centuries have tried to define. There are all kinds of answers for dreams; interpretations and definitions which I am not quite sure totally define the realism of a dream.
These dream definitions try to take every aspect of your dream literally and break it down into words. For instance, a bear in your dreams could mean victory over an enemy or a rat can mean sneaky and untrustworthy. In order to understand your dream it would mean to break it into a million definitions this way in hopes of finding a logical meaning, and who knows, maybe there is some truth to this.
What I wanted to write about though, was some questions I have pondered about different aspects of my dreams-the more abstract or less concrete. Questions I am sure no one has ever been able to answer.

**Say, you dream of a large group of people or there are lots of people in your dream around you. They may be talking or carrying on conversation and you may not be able to hear or comprehend what everyone is saying. Even if you cannot see or hear them, are they talking real dialogue even without you acknowledging them? Maybe you only hear some people and some are too far away or your back may be turned to them. Even if your ears can't hear the conversation, are there true conversations going on?

**When you dream of places and say for instance, you walk outside or into another room, does the place you just left disappear or is it still there just waiting there for you to possibly re-enter? Has the whole dream already been played out even before you dream it, or are things are being made in your head as the dream progresses?

**Do the people you meet know they aren't real? Do they have any substinence or any thought of who they are? I've also heard that groups of people can carry on the same dream, so are we linked somehow maybe not conciously, but do we really interact with real people in our dreams across our souls or subconcious? How do we know for sure what we dream isn't shared with others? Sometimes we do meet people in real life that seem familiar to us. That would be a quite interesting thought.

There are a lot of people who don't remember their dreams or think they don't dream at all. Maybe there is something more to that. Who knows what the human mind can conceive or the power it can do.

I have had many lucid dreams where I know I am dreaming. I will look around and listen, touch everything, smell, feel, and taste things. I have all these feelings in my dreams. I have died many deaths and know how to get out of bad dreams even when I am not lucid dreaming. Yet, those questions have always baffled me. I have told people in my dreams that I know they aren't real and I ask them if they know they aren't real and they just look at me. Sometimes it's weird that way, but I will always enjoy my dreams even without all the answers.

Technology is good...or is it?

For thousands and thousands of years this world stood without us, void of any worries. It was truly paradise here on earth. There was no fear of humans and what they could do to destroy this wonderful place. There was only earth's natural elemental enemies. Plants and animals found their own way to survive but did this without destroying this precious earth. They survived through their own natural means-not by destroying the ozone, ripping up the land, causing massive pollution, which in turn causes disease and famine. Nature did what it had to for survival, but we as a people today don't do it for survival. Well, we did once, maybe, a long time ago, but then our ancestors got hungrier and the hungrier they got the worse it became. Maybe at one time it was for the mere thought of staying warm and well fed, but we are far beyond those needs now. Our ancestors couldn't stay where they were, no, they had to venture outward to what else they could find. In a way, they got bored, and this boredom led to war, abuse, slavery, hunger and whatever else you can think of.
This past hundred years or more has made the human race real busy. Our ancestors urge to push forward-MORE! MORE! MORE! has now led to us. What our ancestors were is not what we have become. We have become something far worse. We can blame them, but we are supposed to be learning from our past WRONG! We haven't learned anything except to keep fighting forward for what has now become MINE! MINE! MINE!
Maybe our ancestors thought Technology would be good, that it would move us forward, improve us, make us better, but no, we are now lost in the Ipod shuffle. You think it would be better-a world where communication is rampant, we can talk to people all over the world using telephone, e-mail, webcam and instant messaging. I see all this, and I pay attention, and I see that this has made it worse somehow. Everywhere I go, someone has their ear to the phone or earphones up to the ears, and if you look back and really visualize it all, it's somewhat frightening. We are loosing touch with our everday world that is right in front of us. Not only that, but we have lost touch with so many other things as well. Many of us depend on microwaves to cook, televisions to babysit and phones to keep tabs on what everyone else is doing while we ourselves walk around in some sort of labyrinth, thinking we know what's going on but really, many of us don't. I am so glad that there are still a few wise people out there that can still find their way amidst it all.
What would happen if we ever lost all this technology we have come to depend on? Sure, there are those who may have seen it coming or were wise enough to not depend solely on it and will triumph over the ones that didn't really care and never learned how to truly survive. Yet, so many will inevitably perish in it's downfall. Someday we may have to learn to live at one with nature and realize it should have been something we had learned to do a long time ago.