Feeling and Feelings

And mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out of whole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.
Mark Twain

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James

Is not every aspect of our consciousness a type of feeling?

Physical Feelings

It is natural to use the language of feeling when describing the sense of touch. "I felt a cold breeze hit my face." It is less common to use the language of feeling when referring to sight and sound. To hear we feel sound waves. To see we feel light with our eyes. But we don't talk like that. We don't say "I felt the blue light from that Ford Mustang driving by." You say, "I see a blue Mustang." I think you will agree that at least in this case "feeling" means sensing physical sensations. It is not too far to stretch to include any type of physical sensation including sound and light. I think that oftentimes sound and light are used for communication and therefore what we call "thought" is involved. We seem to use the language of sight and sounds to describe thought and thoughts. "I see what you mean," is a common phrase. Many people believe thought and feeling to be separate if not opposite. We would suspend judgment on that point for now. But when we see a beautiful mountain landscape with the sun setting with high thin clouds in the sky we begin to get involved with feelings again. No human message is being communicated by the tremendous beauty of a mountain landscape. Not only are the light forms reaching our eyes feelings in themselves but we become aware of sensations, emotions inside our bodies.

Internal feelings, emotions

Internal physiological sensations, great cascades of electro-hormonal resonances, energy in motion, or emotions as they are commonly referred too are the next group of feelings. The limbic brain. Why does the mountain landscape invoke emotion, a sense of awe and wonder perhaps? Why does the sight of suffering invoke compassion? At least they do if a person''s internal e-motions are not repressed and blocked. Many, many perceptions invoke emotions. A realization that the woman you love loves you in return. The disappointment of expectation unfulfilled. A simple insult. A sudden insight or understanding after much reflection. Love and hate, anger and jealousy, joy and ecstasy, and many thousands of small ripples and ebbs and flows, nameless and subtle throughout the day and dreamlike at night.

Technological sensory apparatus as an extension of the human body become internalized and eventually merge into feeling. After driving a car for 5 years we feel almost at one with the car and without thought we navigate the roads in our cars as one unit.

Synthesense of Feeling

Synthesense described in the language of feeling is the total of all our diverse feeling apparatus of the unified field in the present moment. Stop breaking down each feeling and naming it thus fragmenting perception and through habit focusing on a limited segment of the unified field. Each moment sense and feel as one everything inside and outside the body. This is the very action of Attending. Paying attention. With the total field attended to you are totally aware. Do you see now how seeing, sensing, feeling, attending and therefore knowing spontaneously how to act, is one movement. Not separate processes or actions but unified field of your unique focus of Being.

Why do emotions become blocked? Images hold the keys. Images invoke emotion and repress it. How?

Feelings may be ripples on the surface of an ocean of memory, cultural memory, or species memory with deep swellings of emotion which overwhelm and last an age. The impetus for the American culture can be traced back to multitude of individual strivings adding up to a tidal wave. It is nice to stand on a cliff and watch the tide wash in. If you're patient you can hear the slow crashing of the waves cresting in rhythms which take years to cycle. The weather of feeling is as tricksome as that of air and water. We''ve no forecasters to warn of tomorrow''s thunderstorms. Have we got the vitality to achieve next Big Thing and grow as a culture? What do you feel as you travel this great land?

Only now do I understand that the feelings, the internal nexus of resonating sensations, are present now. The present Me situation here. To give attention to what is not true is dissipation of energy, to feel nothing, fear. A total attending to the synthesensatic feelings is Truth as both object AND action. No energy dissipates therefore you FEEL tremendous EMOTION. This is the energy in motion of the entire universe, a nexus of resonating energy streams, NOW.

This year is the Nexus Year of my Life. I can feel it. I can go anywhere this year.

Thought must be the tool of feeling. A thought is not true. It is a maybe. Thought allowed to lead in tyranny is the slow confused death. Thought is always fragmented and it takes total being to survive the total universe. In the Neo-Cortex we see images. Possibilities yet still not actual.The totality of your being is perceptible by your feelings along with ideas and images that live and die with the waves, harmoniously. Ride the energy of the universe! The cost of the ride is the Trip.

If the Universe isn't infinite then its infinity-1. And we are always moving. The excitement of moving through this tremendous universe ought to be enough to sustain one's sense of purpose. Remember even if you are trapped you are moving in this great Universe. And everything ends. That it ends is beautiful. If you've ever been trapped you know what I mean. Images can trap you its as simple as that.

But I want to get past all that. All the reasons and all the suffering. I am moving through this tremendous infinite universe. What possibilities are just a head? Let us surf the pulse of planets and stars, let us feel that, and what thoughts come that may.

Addendum:
Its a beautiful spring day, the sun's energy blends with me and my garden unhindered by clouds. Its warmth heats my body and its electric current feeds my cells. Oh what a wonderful creature! Thank you sun for emanating and blending with All That Is!