Mystery of Consciousness
Part-IV To be moved is a rise of consciousness
What we see and hear is that the brain recognizes electromagnetic and sound waves as colors and tones from sense organs such as eyes and ears. Our sense here is not only identifying what is around. We have the ability to distinguish more than just wavelengths within the wave combination, and those wavelengths stimulate our emotions in many ways. We feel beautiful or wonderful, when hearing or seeing, or we feel intimidating anxiety or scared. Then, we express the emotions obtained, linked to words.
One example is the experience of watching and touching art. When the mind of those who listens to music and watch arts is moved, it appeals to our heart. There is a heightened feeling of fulfillment, sometimes the body shakes and tears come out. We express the experience of that time in words that we are moved. It is a moment impressed by the object and our emotions are concentrated enriching the mind as if we forget time. At that moment, you will feel as if your heart resonates with the subject. A feeling of high abstraction may occur in you, and it may be that you are moved into it and forget about time. There is a feeling that the concentration on the subject goes beyond the mere sense of wavelength and raises the action of the mind one level higher.
In contrast, if you are offensive to an opponent's attack in a sports game, you will forget yourself and become excited. Empathic exhilaration occurs in such situations where things move in a positive direction, such as with fortitude or team collaboration. This feeling of heightening is a little different from the impression that I mean here, even though there is a strong emotional height. It is because new discoveries do not continue after that. What I would like to talk about here is the possibility of expanding the mind and spirit by feeling beautiful or wonderful. Although a story in which a person overcomes difficulties from a stressed position deserves to be moved, it is not actually an experience value of the person unless he is experienced by himself. It creates a positive feeling that you will be able do it through your own experience. This is the power to inspire rather than impression to be moved. Overcoming adversity and opening up new developments is one of abilities of life beings. Humans further extend this ability.
I think a little more about impression being moved. In order to admit that the subject is beautiful and to be moved by it, I think that there is always hope or a stance of mindbefore that. When you come across great landscapes or famous paintings in the museum, you have a sense of going out there and discovering something. When listening to music, we feel stronger impression to go to a concert than listening at home. There is a preparatory stage to get there, and a stage to raise consciousness gradually is necessary. Therefore, when you receive a strong impression as expected, your emotions will rise and you will be moved. In our mind, we have the expectation of meeting the impression, and when we find them, we can satisfy to feel moved with fulfillment.
When you are moved pictures or music, there are people who are not impressed for the same landscapes, paintings, or music. In that case, it is thought that impression is a stimulus that gives a special feeling for the individual, as the information patterned and identified in the brain is combined with the value from various experiences. Even if you receive an unexpected gift or a surprise accompanied by joy, the situation will not make you feel the impression to be moved though it is pleasure. The experience of getting impression to be moved seems forming gradually in consciousness as empirical value. In other words, experiences that feel great or wonderful are stored little by little, and such collaboration that serve as stimuli for recognition links in the brain, and this accumulation of experiences rises to a clear recognition. Discovering a fulfilling experience from the information received from the sense organs is to expand the individuality of the person and complicate the combination of recognition.
When many people are moved by great works and performances at the same place, although they are different in the degree to be moved, they are generating the feeling of resonating to the same target, so the sources that cause them are the same. When a strong emotion occurs in people, it becomes a force and affects the surroundings. It resonates with many people who are moved. Such resonance takes place in the closed space. We are going to the museum to be moved by paintings, and going to a concert to be moved by music. We have a hope that we want to meet something wonderful on purpose. Furthermore, the feeling of being moved by stimulation from the same subject is spread widely, in different languages, characters, ages, or even from different races. In other words, impression is a universal language itself in humans.
In the process to the situation that leads to the inspired impression, humans have a common mind that moves in the direction of strong impression even though there are differences due to individuality. If you were an ordinary person, you would not have been able to distinguish the arts in your early childhood, and you would not have much experience of being moved. It seems that the feeling that impression to be attracted will appear after some age. The reaction that enhances the emotion from the stimulus from the subject reaches the power to shake the heart, by means of accumulation of various experiences.
What I want to say here is that it is necessary to prepare the situation of being moved by one's own mind because of consciousness rising. The inspirational thing of art comes from the fact that humans as intellectual being have accumulated such experiences. In the process of personal growth and development, you can remember the height of emotions, identify the objects to be touched, and retain the strong emotions in memory. However, forced education as seen in some cases, may cause distortions in the way emotions occur. In some kind of organic cause, there may be person who cannot feel the excitement. However, if the phenomenon of impression to be moved occurs, it will certainly lead to the fulfillment of the mind and spirit. It is a world that cannot measure only by convenience and efficiency. We will go to museums, concerts, or landmarks around the world in search of inspiration. We will dare to use the money and time to seek inspiration without hesitation. Is this simply a change of mind for everyday life, or is there some consciousness working behind them?
<Consideration as increase of intelligence>
The flow of life that has developed consciousness for a long time has extended to human beings such as mind or spirit. Not only does it make life more efficient through identification by the brain, it also leads to development toward the height of the future. What human beings have become intellectual is caused by which make the world of mind more complicated and develop towards fulfilling the spirit. If the flow of life events is on a long experience from simple cells to having intelligence, and if it has aimed at rising of consciousness, the activation of life suggests that it leads to the future. It is the suggestion that we have the most appropriate form in space and time situations already given us. Therefore, it may be one direction that we identify and find out the things to be moved as wonderful and beautiful.
You can also see the accumulation of experiences in the history of painting. From the time when the object was projected and written as it was seen, it has been developed into a technology that appeals with invisible emotions more than just realism, partly due to the development of photographic technology. Regarding to the stimulation of sounds, there is a series of rhythmic sounds that convey information far away instead of speaking words, and that activate body movement in hunting and festivals. Then, it incorporates elaborate emotions by the invention of musical notes and the discovery of equal temperament, it has become an expression of intonation, and it has accumulated up to the grand impression of the symphony. These things are to take out and understand the extensibility of the heart hidden in the abstraction. What is suggested is that we need to develop this identifying ability in the future.
If the truth of this universe is beyond time and space that we can currently perceive, and if it is in a higher dimension than three dimensions for example, then it is natural that the information we can get from sense organs is just a small part of truth. Even though what we are seeing and hearing is part of truth, not all of it is visible, so it is natural that we cannot explain with the information we now receive. With the rising of consciousness in the future, it may be visible gradually as the mind and spirit spread.
Consciousness has risen with the evolution of life, but it is in the middle stages of the development of present intelligence. What we see is the change before and after time, and we only see what was in the past that went back from the present of memory. In the course of life beings, due to severe life conditions, priority stimuli have emphasized, and irrelevant ones have discarded. Our sense organs distort the truth by the condition of the body, because human vision can only accept visible light. In other words, even at the expense that discards and distorts, life's activities raise consciousness gradually and analyze information precisely while making an effort to increase intelligence. As human beings become more complicated in society, the understanding of the causal relationship with the passage of time is spreading. We reflect on what has happened in the past, predict what will happen next, and make every effort to benefit the environment of the individual with less failure.
Moreover, when we are conscious of time, we not only target objective time, but also have purpose and action that each individual pays attention to, and concentrate on time as its index. The sense of time changes depending on how time is perceived by the individual who feels emotion and concentration. Here, the "inspired" experience to be touched is to make the time coincide there, because when the resonance caused by the impression occurs, it develops into the spread of spirit in the closed space. The many individual spirits that exist there leave the individual and give rise to a passion for fulfillment and a motive for connection with strong emotion. Here, if the flow of life events leading to the future, it may be inferred that the most appropriate form in space and time situations has already been hidden and given to us in the mechanism of inspiring impression.
It is important not only to analyze by scientific theory but also to understand the causal relationship beyond time and space. Perhaps when such a sense of fulfillment develops, it means that it will reach the height of enlightenment of the Buddha. This inspiring resonance as a spirit has the potential that complex consciousness in human body will be a high spirit in humans. Even after the human body has destroyed, I cannot cut the possibility that the spirit has progressed towards unification. It is a human property that we can sympathize with the enlightenment happened during the Buddha period, even in the present age. Humans form such spiritual expanse due to the inspiring resonance because of rising consciousness and the spirit will cover and envelop the earth.
Written by Ichiro, 06/28/2019,