{"id":2530,"date":"2018-01-28T01:47:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T01:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truehope.info\/wordpress\/?page_id=2530"},"modified":"2018-03-12T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T08:37:08","slug":"dear-gud-2-paradox-fun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/truehope.info\/wordpress\/dear-gud-2-paradox-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear GUD 2 Paradox Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter two – the second letter<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u21d3
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Tap tap tappity tap tap …..um… tappity tap…\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 One
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We have already discussed how old or young or timeless both the universe and human beings might be.
\nRemember the first cartoon of \u201cthe beginning?\u201d. I\u2019ll let you into a wee secret: my original drawing was very different. It was black lines drawn on white paper and, just for fun, I added shades of grey to it using a drawing program in my computer.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 Two<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I had even more fun with the second drawing in chapter one. First I added shades of grey. Then I hit the image-invert button on my computer. See it transforms dark shades into light shades and white becomes black?
\nYou can even more fun:
\nDraw a form (shape) on white paper using a black pen or crayon. Then draw the same form on black paper using a white pen or crayon. See. Its like magic – the same form arises from completely different shades. Our mind says this cannot be and yet there it is.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 Three
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When I was young our school teachers taught us that only a few people can be good at drawing and painting. So it has taken me till I am 70 years old to get the courage to try to use colour in my cartoons. Well, now I find colour is amazing fun. I sure hope you do to.
\nAnd like all else, I find seeing colour involves wonderful paradox.
\nFor instance: our eyes can only detect one of two complementary colours at one time yet our brain \u201csees\u201d both colours\u00a0 simultaneously.
\nHere’s another paradox:\u00a0 is the green of a tree in its leaves or in our brain or in both?\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 Four<\/strong><\/h1>\n

You know, I never learned the language of music- all the written notes and rests and stuff.
\nI am in awe of people who can play a musical instrument.
\nI have always loved singing, especially when no one can hear me.
\nAlso I was shy about trying to dance with another person.
\nHowever, though I don\u2019t know much about music, people have said I dance in very rhythmic and expressive ways. How this occurs remains a wonderful mystery to me. It\u2019s a paradox: I don\u2019t know music and yet I move freely with it. Somehow my being joins the dots of sound in the silence and transforms them into continuous movement.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 Five<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Yes, I am concluding everything is paradox. My new fun sport is hunting paradox . I reckon it could be fun to explore how our muscles operate so that we can dance.
\nIt seems we have at least three different types of muscle.
\nOur smooth and cardiac muscles are \u201cinvoluntary\u201d. It\u2019s a fascinating paradox: our mind cannot control their action much yet they are vital to our mind.
\nOur mind does however have considerable control over the action of our skeletal muscles. I can\u2019t get over the number of fantastic ways that this mind-movement paradox occurs. The illustration below is my puny attempt to magnify what happens at a microscopic level in our muscles when we move.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 Six<\/strong><\/h1>\n

And where would we be if we stopped breathing for five minutes? We certainly would not be dancing in this human form eh. We\u2019d be dead.
\nI reckon our act of breathing is the most marvelous teacher of physics we have and, of course, our breath is always with us.
\nBreathing is perhaps the most amazing paradox you and I experience. Every breath connects and unites us with each other, the planet and the universe in wonderful paradoxical ways.
\nFor instance, in the contraction of our diaphragm muscle is the expansion of our rib cage. The universe recharges us with life-enabling oxygen.
\nIn the relaxation and expansion of the diaphragm is the contraction of our rib cage. The universe takes away the excess carbon dioxide produced by our body.
\nExhalation (breathing out) enables inhalation(breathing in). We give our breath away; we receive all in exchange.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 Seven<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I am wondering if you are getting a feel for what paradox are about? Did you notice a paradox involves two opposite or contradictory elements e.g. dark and light; sound and silence; in and out; …?
\nWe think each of these pairs is completely different and yet we can experience them both as the same thing.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u21d3 Eight<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I hope you are getting the picture OK. Everything involves paradox and our thinking process just cannot make sense of paradox.
\nOne reason is that we cannot think of two opposite ideas at once. Our \u201cmind\u2019s eye\u201d can only flit between them as we try to visualize them both. Our mind can become filled with endless arguments and conflict like we have just seen: \u201cI am inside…ugh .. What?!.. I am outside… no I\u2019m not… yes I am… no I\u2019m not… yes I mean no,…\u201d
\nIndeed, what can happen is our mind becomes so filled with flitting thoughts that we miss out on most of life. We have difficulty seeing where we are going and end up doing really stupid things.<\/p>\n

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\u21d3 Nine<\/strong><\/h1>\n

These drawings of paradox are just one of many ways there are of reminding us that our thought process actually has major limitations.
\nSure, thinking is an important part of being a human being. However it is only a tiny, tiny part of our ability to experience the wonders of the universe.
\nIn our culture, us adults tend to forget this and believe we know everything. We kid ourselves we can solve all problems by thinking and so we kind of get trapped in paradox. This explains a lot of our weird \u201cego-driven\u201d behaviour. Some of us even get completely out of touch with reality.
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Dear GUD Letter 1 \u2013 The Beginning of All?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear GUD Letter 3 – Human Consciousness<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Psychology (Definition in terms of paradox)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Last revised 18 Feb 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter two – the second letter \u21d3 Tap tap tappity tap tap …..um… tappity tap… \u21d3 One We have already discussed how old or young or timeless both the universe and human beings might be. Remember the first cartoon of \u201cthe beginning?\u201d. I\u2019ll let you into a wee secret: my original drawing was very different. … <\/p>\n

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