Power to Cognize

How do you think? (This abstract and convoluted chapter will give you ample opportunity to notice your answer to this question.)

The power to change our relationship with our world, and in doing so to create our experience of reality, is tied to our ability to cognize and re-cognize. It is the data streaming before our minds, when cognized or synthesized into patterns that gives us feedback on our current direction and allows us to make choices to continue or altar our current relationship in some way. It is also repeated cognition, with memory and imagination, that allows us to measure the consequences of these choices.

If we look at reality through the concept of relationship, we see that everything has a relationship with everything else. That relationship can be conscious or not but becomes apparent when it is observed. Don’t ask me where I come up with this stuff. I just write it down and leave it to you  to make sense of. [smile]

To cognize is to see the relationship between ourselves and what we are looking at. That perception allows us to change that relationship deliberately if we choose. However whenever we change our relationship with one thing we also change our relationship with everything else.

Again: How do you think? What is the process by which you evaluate these statements for your self? Do you see the basis for this statement? If so, what is your process for doing so? The answer you give to this question illuminates the way you create relationships to form your thoughts. Is it not interesting that something so intimate (we create more than 60,000 thoughts each day) can also be so mysterious?

Here is one possible way to create relationships with this truth. Through creating a relationship between words and imagination we can take the abstract to the concrete. Whenever we change our relationship with one thing we also change our relationship with everything else. This is an abstraction that becomes concrete as we imagine a blackboard and a black board eraser. When that eraser moves ten feet away from the blackboard it changes its spatial relationship with the blackboard. But it is also alters it’s special relationship with every object in the universe by the same ten feet. From this observation we could perceive another truth: “What is so with one, is so with all.” If we again use our imagination to take that truth into an interpersonal paradigm could we say that who we are with one person is who we are with everyone? Can we be dishonest with one person and not with others? Regardless of your answer to this question, your cognition is valuable if it supports you in making a choice that takes you closer to the world you want to live in.

This is what power is all about: the power to create the world we want through conscious choice.

Action: Notice something you observe to be true. Use thinking and imagination to expand your definition of that truth. Now make a choice that will take you closer to the world you want to live in based on that perception.

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Dane E. Rose