Choices are at the heart of everything we experience, and each one can make things better or make things worse. It turns out that the most fundamental building block of life is an increment of beneficial change: for any organism, and for any society around the globe. Did a particular change make things better, or did it make things worse? In the world of plants and animals, better or worse can be survival or death, reproduction or not, and evolutionary changes to a more robust nature, or not. We try to decide, and we spend most of our lives in efforts to make the world look like the good way it could, if the things we want happen. We could decide to make things better right now, in most of our situations. Or, we might decide that something needs to get worse for us or someone else before things really get better. We have to ask when something is done by us or anyone: did that something make things better, or did it make things worse?
We have a built-in detector to help us choose, even if sometimes we don’t listen to it. When we look at a situation and form a viewpoint, a perspective is created in our mind’s eye. We create focus and zoom in on the situation, we build and firm up our awareness, we settle into a vibration or spin. Like a train rolling down the tracks, less work is needed to keep moving along as our situation gathers steam and rolls to its goal.
We have a pairwise focus, just like we do with our visual eyes: we see things from different angles and it yields the depth we need. This tool literally weighs the alternatives we perceive, using a balancing equilibrium to feel which way to go, what to think, how to judge all the choices in the this ways or that ways for our next moves. Its a better or worse evaluation which we experience as a harmonic vibration. It indicates measures of conflict and cooperation, threat or friend, possible mate, or not. We balance and we wind ourselves up to jump this way or that way.
We not only have visual eyes, we have a pairwise view in mind’s eyes’ perspectives receiving all of the biological and logical inputs, sensed with lightning speed, immediately honing perspectives and possible choices: our mind’s eyes are testing all the viewpoints they see in order to find the best way to go. The balancing vibration tells us this way might be harmonious and that way is less so, or perhaps risky. We don’t have to listen, though. It’s our most important tool, but it can be fooled. It is a harmonic tool, our real “third eye”. We are balancing the vibrations of information, not energy. information flowing back and forth between the mind’s pair of eyes we have on a situation, creating our viewpoint for that moment. We can listen to it, or not.
Our real third eye is generated as a harmonic, an equilibrium in the information flowing between your binocular eyes of perspective, with all of the data coming in from layers upon layers of biological mechanisms. Our mind’s eyes helps us decide which way to choose, which way to go, which person we can trust, which one to pay attention to, and which individuals share our most valued characteristics. We may want to have future situations with them, if going this way with them now is better than going that way without. Sometimes we give them the benefit of the doubt, though. Everyone has this tool, because everyone has pairwise mind’s eyes on situations, generating a noticeable signal we can perceive: do we go this way or that?
Hmmm: which choice will make things better, or worse? You can almost hear the hum or discord in your mind, am I right?
Bill Custer's thought sphere 