Mankind has, for eons, pursued and craved power… power in the form of governing, power involving influence, power in the form of authority, and power in the form of money or possessions. What is this power that man has spent so much effort in acquiring? Control is a significant feature regarding this pursuit of power. Many of us admire the man who we think controls (even if that man has multiple felonies or is a rapist). We are gullible, delusional people. We have always assumed that the controller and the controlled are two separate things. However, are they really separate things psychologically? Are thoughts really controlled by a separate central “controller” that has power? May it be, psychologically, that the controller is the controlled… that the observer is the observed? Could it be that, psychologically, the thinker is not really something separate, whatsoever, from thought/thinking? Could it be that the “thinker” is a projection from the thought/thinking process?
Man has evolved to the point that we can split the atom and do many complicated, amazing things. We have done a lot of fantastic things with energy and its power. However, we always use and manipulate things regarding this power; we are never actually in a direct relationship with the real essence of that power. We live in mental symbols and psychological abstractions, which do not really consist of substantial power whatsoever.
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