WHAT IS "ATTENTION" ? But First, What is Man?

 How many people do you know who know what Man is... and why we are on Earth?

And... how come these two important questions are not addressed in our education?

Could it be that both questions require an understanding of various elements of life" that are beyond the reach of the brain and thinking?

The whole of oneself represents several layers or energy dimensions and only one of these is physical. I did a sketch some time ago that illustrates this point:

In this sketch, #1 is the physical dimension, with which we are all familiar.  But the Whole Human Being [WHB] consists of all four dimensions, and three of these are Invisible to the brain. And we are taught that we should rely upon the brain to know things.

And that is the problem all of us face... we simply cannot "think" our way to Truth, Reality, or God.

So... what do we do?  And, more importantly perhaps.... is this situation perfectly "normal"?

Oddly enough, it is perfectly normal, natural, and just the way it is meant to be!  And let me try to briefly explain.

I believe the whole of existence is intentional,  and is the Plan of God... and it is God that sustains everything... and therefore everything is operating just as it is meant to operate. And that means equal amount of good and evil.   However, to us, what we observe causes us to refer to these things as "chaotic," "confused," and "awful".  And the reason we "think" this is that we fail to "see" the reason and necessity for what we observe.   In other words, we are not aware that the REALITY of Existence is simply the Yin and Yang of the Law of Karma doing it's thing.  When we are unable to "know" or realize three of the four dimensions of existence... we are naturally confused at what we can observe.

And the problem with what I just explained is that it is all "one-sided" and purely intellectual.  Three of the four elements of "life" are invisible to us.  And quite naturally our judgement of the observable one-fourth of life seems to us both chaotic and unnecessarily brutal.

William Shakespeare was quite correct when he suggested that life is like a stage, and we are all players on that stage.  And we are both the actors and the directors of the play.

The Genius of God is the Law of Karma, and how perfectly it [operates behind what we can see]... but what we can see of the Law of Karma causes us to 'think" that life is chaotic, painful, cruel, and largely unnecessary.

The only part of one's Reality that participates in this play is one's "Attention".   Attention is an aspect of one's Soul.  But we are disconnected from what our Attention can perceive.  We observe life, but we cannot comprehend the Whole of Life... or the Reason for Life?

And it is the unknown elements of Reality that are missing for most people on Earth.  Does this help explain anything, or is the Purpose of Life still confusing?

Peace, 1 Brother James