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Dementia Endured

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Mike Donohue is a brave man. Courageous, direct, and bold, his blog energizes readers with a passion for action. Dementia Endured gives a hint in the title as to the nature of this talented writer: he will endure. And with a personality like Mike’s, it’s easy to believe that he shall overcome, as well!

His life experiences are opened to the reader, and his journey recovering from alcoholism to adjusting to Alzheimer’s holds its own fascination for visitors to his site. Mike’s strength and determination will remind readers that dementias are one area in which it’s best not to hold any punches.

THIS BLOG IS ABOUT MY JOURNEY FROM AA TO AD.

I have survived alcoholism from which
I recovered thirty six years ago then
Alzheimer's disease with which I was
diagnosed nearly five years ago. Both
have had profound consequence. They
are associated, one leading to the other.

I write about the experience in a book
click on the title to go to it or read more
about it in the column to the right

Monday, April 9, 2012

Part II of the Freedom of Now, Shortcuts.


Part I of the Freedom of Now dealt with the following:

That series the theme of which is “There Is More Than the Eye Can See” speaks of the existence of so much beyond our ability to see which intimately influences each and every action of our lives.

This Part II deals with what we do with what we see and is influenced by what we don’t see. The most evident of that not seen yet vitally impacting us is the negative, what we don’t know because of the limitations we have acquired and have enforced on us as we live the time/space nuanced dimension.

We don’t know where or what we have been in the past non-time; we don’t know where we will be after we leave this dimension and go back to future non-time. Additionally we are a blank slate as we leave the womb and enter this life. At the outset it seems all we can learn and acquire is what we can discover as we live this time, moment by moment and occupy this space wherever it is we find ourselves.

We do carry in cognition. The cognition we carry in is a talent we can articulate by occupying our body and using its talents such as see, hear, and whatever else we use to connect with that which is outside of ourselves.

We seem driven to spend the time, make the effort and thoroughly involve ourselves in this endeavor as we grow into a being a working part of this dimension. We learn how to “make it” and this quickly seems to be the way we identify ourselves in this world.

We don’t have much choice but to do it this way. So is it strange that we believe in what we are doing? If, however, we do nothing more, live out or time with this outlook, we have wasted vital opportunity.

This is a subject that will be treated over and over in this Freedom Series of which there are 7 parts, all within the greater series “There Is More Than The Eye Can See!” that comprises the unknown design that leads us away from acquisition and involvement in the fruits of this life and directs us to the goal of a Transcendent Life as we come near to the end of life.

The purpose of this Part II is to acquaint the reader with how our acquisition of knowledge and becoming part of this world works by rules and biases we have that are mostly unrealized by us. We deal in short cuts as described in the original essay I posted some time ago and have re-posted with a little revision in my Archive to accompany this essay. To read it click on: The Freedom Of Now Part 2.

Something in us influences us to cut everything we can as short as possible. We seem very goal oriented in life. As we learn, as we acquire and compound our knowledge, as we acquire what we want with the knowledge we developed, we constantly reduce all we can to shortcuts. We further shorten our time spent to spending only that necessary to reach the current goal and do not tend to go further unless it fulfills another goal we have.

We really don’t spend a lot of time learning just to learn in the first two of the three phases of our lives. We are severely pragmatic! Our goal drives our endeavor.

It drives it so hard and we become so involved with its function that we look no further, don’t have to. We fail to see what is beyond; we are so intent on perfecting what is before us. This is natural and normal for the limited time we are in. We act accordingly.

If, however we become so focused that we see nothing more we miss the whole purpose of being here! We are so designed for this life, as if we are Avatars. As Avatars we have a CPU (central processing unit of a computer) with Algorithms operating that CPU. The CPU directed by the Algorithms processes the formulas of the Algorithms in such a way that we immerse ourselves completely in this life in the first two stages of it and then shift gears in the third stage.
The significance of all of this is that we enter this life and all of us start out doing the same thing. We walk, talk, toilet train, as very young people, do all of the things we do much the same including doing them at approximately the same time.

As we grow older and continue expressing our bias for learning and acquiring we diverge from one another somewhat but still follow similar pathways at similar times. We are all built this way, programed this way and automatically perform in the way it is. It is in this, in this time and space limited existence, occupied by us as time and space limited beings, that we are the Avatars programed by Algorithms that are very purposefully motivated.

My final point is this. There has to have been more before, more after, to explain all of the potential we have in our minds and all the limits our body places on this potential. Looking at the limitations if we stop and think about them, their purpose is to support us in the task this life and our talents in it, limited as they are, can be used to improve our overall level of existence that will be ours as we leave here.

We are designed purposefully in this way. Consistent with the theme “There Is More Than the Eye Can See!” this is but another facet of this life about which we are totally unaware.

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