Down the Rabbit Hole

Where thoughts and wonderment thrive

We are not our thoughts! One of my favorite topics to explore and write about, how our brain works, so my heart did flutter flops when I read that it was today’s prompt by Sujona Chatterjee. As synchronicity would have it, just the other night, on a Tik-Tok video, someone posed the question that they couldn’t wrap their brain around “What exactly are thoughts?” Of course, I started to ponder the idea of thoughts before the prompt immerged.

Dr. Joe Dispenza describes thoughts as the language of our brain. That makes the most sense to me. We are not our thoughts, but they certainly are the language of our current reality. That reality comes from the current way we communicate with ourselves and others in our conscious state. Language is simply a system of communication that represents a process we have learned from our environment thus far.

My first introduction to Dr. Dispenza and others who tried to show us about the quantum fields, such as the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” It was a film that combined narrative and documentary portions meant to introduce new & different perspectives found under the premise that we create our own reality. Two years later, an extended version of What the Bleep — Down the rabbit hole was released with fifteen hours of material. I was so fascinated and tuned in to the movie’s premise; I became a broken record of its message. However, at that time, others often just thought I was crazy, so I kept it to myself.

Another rabbit hole full of wonderment comes from the story Alice in Wonderland. A story written in 1865 with the original title Alices Adventures Underground. Alice meets the white rabbit at the beginning of the story, wearing a large pocket watch, exclaiming I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date. No time to say hello, goodbye. I’m late. I’m late. I’m late. Alice follows him and falls down the rabbit hole into a fantasy world so different from her reality.

What I have found in my own life and growth is that rather than rely solely on the gurus and master’s of today, the foundations come from ancient wisdom. The symbolism and underlying messages in those old stories have relevance in today’s world if we slow down and pay attention. I feel that rabbit hole is where we go within and hear the whispers of our unconscious.

Society, today, is filled with people running to get somewhere, but where? There is no time to stop and chat, being late for this or that deadline, appointment, or next level of achievement. However, using shortened versions of stories, experiences, or abolishing history symbols altogether takes away the proof of growth, often intangible but undoubtedly necessary.

My all-time favorite quote by Socrates — “Wisdom begins in wonder” is what leads me on my path. I am a history nerd — not a history of events or dates, but the history of words, art, and stories. The magic of thoughts and ideas that are not who we are but who we desire to become, from deep inside. Perhaps the mystical place of the unknown is what simmers in the unconscious until we decide to explore it from a different perspective. Or the view of a child, who naturally enjoys the wonderment of the environment around them. That is until they are told not to by adults who forget how to believe.

Often, we hear that a person’s dream is to leave a legacy. I know I have said it myself. It means what type of mark do you want to leave in the world. Due to my upbringing, I vowed the day my first child was born; I would do all I could to break the cycle of one of the legacies given to me. It meant I would not only allow but encourage them to hold on to the notion of being a child.

As I’ve grown, I see where my approach may not have been taken as best practice; however, it was the best that I could do in the reality I was creating in my life at the time. Legacies changed with time as we add and subtract the ideas and actions that we have. Yes, our thoughts are not who we are, but we owe it to ourselves and our closest loved ones to grow into who we are. That alone will change the thoughts- the brain our language speaks in our current reality.

Note: some facts regarding What the Bleep and Alice in Wonderland came from Wikipedia