A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: Choosing the correct key to soothe the hungry heart.

In past episodes, I have explained how my reasoning is centered around my ability to reason freely and choose what is best for my three innate yearnings: What does being fully human at that next level mean? How can I love using my next level of humanity as energy to become what my nature naturally intended? What is truth, not corrupted by matter or mind, which does not change?

In previewing all experiences from my lifetime of searching for meaning (Viktor Frankel’s notion of meaning), unlocking the mystery of my humanity at its next level requires a set of assumptions or presuppositions that I use based on what my reason tells me is tried and true and tested again and again against the anvil of time and repeated usage.

In this approach, my assumptions will not be yours because you are not me, and I am not you. I realize that I have reason for a reason and the ability to choose what is good for me, even if it may not be consistent with what my intelligent progression indicates. So we have the great dichotomy: no one can tell me what to believe or what I should put in my bank as treasures unless I choose to put it there. I can be the sum of what I have chosen to place at my center as principles of behavior. Complicating this is the condition in which all humans must bathe each day, that we live collectively as we all move ahead in complexity and increased consciousness; what I believed ten years ago is either updated or abandoned in favor of something that fits how all reality presents itself to me. It is the ongoing consciousness of what is good or bad for me.

Characteristics

Choosing one paradigm that fits all my requirements requires that I have requirements. Here are some thoughts that led me to select my choice as the key or cornerstone for how reality makes sense for me. Right now, I am just confining myself to thinking about those elements that caused me to choose my template for how it all fits together.

• My choice for a template must answer the three questions about what it means for me to be human, not in the entirety of a completed or finished paradigm but enough that it is reasonable that I can continue my search for meaning.
• This paradigm must include the knowledge to move forward in my mind initially, then how to love as the purpose of what it means to be human, and finally, a truth beyond corruption.
• This paradigm must be located outside of my local experiences of what it means to be a human, yet which, when accessed through free will of choice, allows me the energy to move to my next level of evolution, even one which my life experiences say doesn’t make sense. This is dying to the old self or placing new wine in new skins rather than old ones. This is intelligent progression, the awareness that my human nature, good as it is, is insufficient to jump to my next level of evolution as nature beckons.
• I must be able to access a source of energy outside of my humanity that, when mingled with my life choices, makes sense of what seems impossible for the human mind alone to execute.
• To move to that next step, I must die to myself, what St. Benedict calls “Renouning yourself to follow Christ.” (RB 4:10). If I want to move to that next level of my humanity, then I must die to the present one, like a snake molting its skin to move forward, not as my humanity indicates, but just the opposite as behaviors that are good for my destiny as an adopted son (daughter) of the Father.
• These elements have been discovered over a lifetime of searching for the answer to the three innate questions plaguing the inner sanctum of my being.

I chose a system of thinking that can begin to resolve my intellectual questions (based on my unique capability and capacity to know, love, and seek the truth, based on the total chorus of my lifetime of trial and error).

In the next blog, I will share which paradigms I explored best fit how all reality is seamless and makes sense.

To be continued…

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