To twist Descarte a bit, “I think, therefore I …. make shit up”
What comes to me to say about my writing is that my truth is transitory and though I do recognize its transitory nature, this does not mean that I won’t occasionally have some impulsive attachment to one of my perspectives. Though some may be reflective of broader patterns recognizable by others, none are expected to be “universal” by any means. These musings will each represent a momentary description of the general flow of my experiential life and what I’ve extrapolated from perspectives within that flow. It must also be said that there is nothing scientific about this. It is mostly a narrative of experiences, and suppositions made from them, using contexts both created and borrowed. Given that I’ve developed my current worldview over many decades, I do realize that I’ll have to contextualize on the fly as I put these writings out.
Also, noting that given we exist on a single planet around one star in a galaxy comprised of many billions of stars and there are at least a few hundred billion galaxies, it seems silly to state what is true. However, stating a truth gives me a semblance of certainty and certainty seems to hold my identity, also transitory in nature, in what feels like a stable place for a while. Here in this place that seems to me to be how things work, at least for me. Thus it serves a purpose even if on another level I know it to be a fabrication. Focused intent provides a semblance of certainty too and the fluid region surrounding this particular focus of intent has been named Justin Frank.
Secondly I will say that I don’t feel qualified to write about philosophical or metaphysical thought since it is clear that there are massive volumes of work on these topics which I have not read, or have read and remember only pieces of. Yet there is a flow generated when I write that seems clarifying for me so on I’ll go on.
Speaking of observation, one of mine is that precisely describing any experience is futile. I think that language, at best, can point to the general, and at times more specific, territory where the experience took place. If another is able to follow those leads, one may tune close enough to the experience to “understand” what’s attempting to be relayed. I call that communication.
So hopefully some of this will transmit.
I will note here that I often cannot accurately remember the precise wording of quotes or who said them. If I screw up any wording or sources, oh well. I’m just trying to articulate a point. The way my memory has always worked is that some things just stick and many don’t.
Lastly I’ll quote a long time mantra which came to me many decades ago:
Everything that I know to be true, isn’t.