So, I will ask you again, what are human beings?

As I mentioned in the first part, this will be a three-part-post. The idea is to take our time when considering who we are, because there is a strong part of us that does not want us to see the answer, or even ask the question. I will be introducing that part of our humanity in this section, but I’ll explain it again, along with the rest of us in the last part. Before we get there however, we have to see something else- we have to see our sight- our ability to perceive.

What is a human perspective? Well, in short, it is the result of our mentality, or all the stuff I’m going to write about in the final post. Our perspective is what we see both visually and mentally. It is what we think, know, believe, and imagine. But it is also what we assume. It is the culmination of every determination our brains make. Every single thing you do is because you perceive or sense information and make a determination based upon it. We cannot change this- we have to act ‘because’ we sense and determine- but ‘what’ you sense and therefore determine can change. Clearly we all know this. There are billions of unique culminations of opinion, belief, knowledge, and assumption (humans with different perspectives). There are liberals, conservatives, environmentalists, anarchists, rebels, soldiers, Muslims, Buddhists, non-theists, Jews, Christians, yada yada yada… So, what’s my point if we already have such different perspectives?

Well, what if ALL of these perspectives (assumptions, beliefs, knowledge) were pointed somewhere besides the only place where the answer to our improvement lies? All of our perspectives have one thing in common- they are views of the outside world. If there was anything outside of our own humanity that could change our humanity, it would sure throw my view of reality and reason for a loop. It just doesn’t make sense to look somewhere besides the cause for answers. And it just makes perfect sense that we are the cause of everything we perceive and do. So why don’t we see it? Why and how do we ignore our core mentality- the one thing that makes us human- yet define who we are by what we are drawn to on the outside?

The answer is comfort.

Like I stated, I’ll explain more about this necessary, yet limiting part of our humanity in the last part. But in short, it is just much easier to only see (see, consider, imagine, believe in, know) the outside world. The reason it is so easy for us to ignore something so obvious, and of ultimate importance, is because a huge part of our humanity only determines what ‘seems’ safe. A much older and much more prominent part of your brain will take any information you see, hear, feel, think, believe, assume, or know and come to a single bias conclusion every time. But, unlike other lifeforms, we can sense reality as well. So because we only seek this ‘perceived comfort’ by default, while possessing the ability and desire to perceive reality, our perspectives are not truly our own. Or more accurately, they are our own, but only the part of who we are that ignores the truth… ‘not ideal’. It should go without stating, but we cannot improve our selves until we perceive our selves.

There happens to be more to us than meets our proverbial eye…