Total Consciousness

Chapter-1: Foundational Beliefs for Learning

Outline of Article:

• The Second Foundational Belief
• The Third Foundational Belief
• The Fourth Foundational Belief
• The Fifth Foundational Belief
• Thank You

What is the second foundational belief for learning?

2. Evolution

     The second foundational belief pertains to the definition of evolution. Most importantly, this second belief focuses on the connection that exists between consciousness and evolution.

     Here is a very important choice you must make.

Is evolution random or intentional trial error?

Notice, motivated reader, that at present it is only an assumption that evolution is random. At any rate, here is my belief and definition of evolution.

     Evolution is the exploration, adaptation, growth and memory of intentional trial and error decisions in reality, made by some form of consciousness, which is recorded within life, for life, for all time.

     As a natural continuation, the approximate definition provided on evolution implies that there is a goal motivating all evolutionary processes. In particular, it appears as though evolution has the goal of expanding life forward in time, for all time, throughout reality.

     Now, why does evolution have this goal is beyond my understanding.

     However, as it pertains to all human life, we are all part of this goal of evolution—which means, to varying degrees, all human beings have the ability to adapt, to grow and to learn and to study throughout all life.

     Why? Because every human being is built from and within this very same fabric of evolution, that allows for growth, adaptation and much more to be created in reality.

     In other words, every human being can and must learn throughout life span development because we are all still alive within evolution.

What is the third foundational belief for learning?

3. Free-Will       

     The third foundational belief pertains to the proper understanding and application of free-will.

Without a doubt, all successful people—regardless if they can articulate the reason for their success—use their consciousness, evolution and free-will in a deliberate and consistent manner to be successful in life. Hence, a correct understanding of free-will is crucial for learning and studying.

     At present, there is much contention with respect to free-will. But, the purpose of this book is not to delve into the intricacies of free-will. For this purpose, if the reader is interested, I have other books on philosophy in which I address free-will in more detail.

     For now, I only present my findings and beliefs of free-will as an approximate definition.

Free-will is the ability of life to consciously choose to use information about the past, in order to make an intentional trial decision in the present, for the purpose of accomplishing the goal of evolution.

What is the fourth foundational belief for learning?

4. Emotions

     The fourth foundational belief pertains to the nature of emotions. One of the biggest misunderstood aspects of life is the true purpose of emotions.

Feel free to research this topic if you like reader. There are plenty of books, articles and influencers that will tell you about their feelings or emotions. And, in all fairness, there are some perspectives on emotions, from a psychological perspective that are useful: especially with regards to anger management or with understanding the difference between happiness and pleasure.    

     But, overall, there is not a strong unifying viewpoint with respect to emotions in life. Anyhow, here is my take on the whole emotion utility to life, which is based on my philosophy of consciousness.

     Emotions are one form of free-will communication between the three types of consciousness, which are the result of specific chemical releases within the body, initiated by one or more of the three types of consciousness.

     Basically, since total consciousness is comprised of at least three main separate—yet, interconnected—types (or parts or orders of organization) they need a way to communicate without being completely united as one.

     Emotions serve this purpose.

     In general, this communication between the three types of consciousness moves in both directions. Meaning, your e-consciousness receives communications (emotions) from your ava-consciousness and i-consciousness; and, your ava-consciousness and i-consciousness can receive communications (emotions) from your e-consciousness.

     There is a very important distinction to be clarified here. Emotions are another form of thinking. Hence, much like every person must analyze there mental thoughts for accuracy, so too must a person analyze their emotions for accuracy.

     In other words, emotions can be wrong, just like thoughts in thinking can be wrong. Feelings or emotions are not automatically free from error.  

What is the fifth foundational belief for learning?

5. Senses

     The fifth foundational belief pertains to the nature of senses. The comments for this belief are identical to that for emotions. As such, I will go directly to my approximate definition for this belief.

     Senses are another form of free-will communication used between the three main types of consciousness, which are communicated and received as: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

     At this point, given my assumptions of emotions, senses and consciousness; I claim that the reason for having the experience of any phenomena has to do with the communication between the three types of consciousness—which, carries out within all individual life forms.

Thank You

I appreciate your time in reading my blog post.

Next Monday I will upload the next part of Chapter-1: Foundational Beliefs for Learning, from my self-development book, How Does Studying Work?