Bipolar Inquiry

Thinking more about Matt Khan's intention setting related to bipolar cognition


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I was thinking a little bit more about Matt cons video on intention and I was thinking about how he said set big intentions for mundane tasks and I also realized in a way that the state of map consciousness is a state of a different intention completely so what Matt cons talking about is from ego consciousness setting big intentions and I was thinking about how in map consciousness the ego is scrambled and so there's a completely different intention there to begin with there's different meanings but the whole state seems to be of a different intentionality and it could be towards being relational and being embodied as one's child like self because that's how we are naturally in the ego is sort of programming that's in the way of our natural way of being and maybe the intention is to be creative and to learn which is beyond right and wrong because right and wrong would mean we have to compare it to previous knowledge and so we're always classifying and categorizing our perceptions based on previous knowledge and the previous knowledge is what is actually what is making things salient so we're only seeing what we previously know to be true and categorizing based on that whereas in map consciousness it's a state beyond right and wrong it's a state of always learning and there's pretty much no time to even judge whether something is right or wrong it's just like aha moment after aha moment and everything that is an aha moment is seen and understood as truth for that moment in the moment maybe not truth ultimately in context to every single moment but in that moment seen as truth and then it's let go and the next truth comes so it's like a state of living in truth for a moment to moment and when the ego starts to come in and try to judge and make things right or wrong good and bad then that moment a moment truth unfolding starts to get mixed up and then when it gets mixed up one starts to become in a state of confusion which leads to fear which leads to scary meanings and associations and then one eventually reassociate with ego consciousness the one that says right and wrong good or bad and I think too there's a difference in that when a person is in Eagle consciousness and and making these intentions it's still an abstraction and still a conceptualization whereas in map consciousness it's actually a state of being and the meaning and the intention are actually in the moment and then they're gone and in that way it's always new and diverse whereas if we're conceptualizing and abstracting in order to make intentions and meanings were still distracted from the infinite unfolding of the moment and i still feel there's value in doing that for sure I just see that when I compare it to the space of map consciousness when we're connecting with something of other meaning and of other intention besides the egos desires and intentions it's sort of like what he's talking about but the universe is doing it for us it's a way of being and I still feel what he's talking about is a way of being even though it's giving voice to altruistic intentions which is a good thing because it's a it's of a different quality than thinking about oneself I still don't think it's good to follow anybody really part of me just speaking to myself like this is perhaps giving permission to for us in a way to think for ourselves about stuff and talking about things like mania and psychosis for hours upon hours in ways that I choose to think about it and talk about it because it's my own experience a professional can give me a label but it's likely that professional has never experienced this so I'm talking about it and thinking about it and looking at it and inquiring about it in and presenting different perspectives on it in ways that I choose to think about it and I'm even using some scientific terms with my limited scientific background and reading but if if people that are professionals want to impose professional terms on my experience then I can use professio

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Bipolar InquiryBy Andrea