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Curiosity
– “Magnetizing Knowledge”
Curiosity is the magnetism of Knowledge. Just
having curiosity around something magnetizes it and creates a form of
gravitational pull between us and the subject of our curiosity. If we don’t
know much about a subject, it’s because we don’t feel curious about it. Our
mind is governed and activated by curiosity. Whenever we wonder about
something, inquire, and try to anticipate it, we form a magnetic field that
draws information to us as answers to our inquiry. Curiosity as a magnetic field
is a primary state of mind that exists at, and works the same for everyone.
Whenever we don’t know something about a subject that interests us, we form
curiosity around it. We wonder about it, and next thing you know we are coming
across information about it, or forming insights into it.
The mind has a natural
function called our Reticular Activating System, or RAS, which is what we could
call the “seek, find, and point it out” function of the mind. Whenever we
wonder about something, we literally program out mind to search our environment
for the answers. The power of reasoning and questioning is that everything in
existence has a reason, a purpose for being as a natural manifestation of the
Law of Cause and Effect, and that questions and their answers are polar
opposites of the same thing. Just like giving and receiving describe opposite
ends of the same act. When we form curiosity around a subject, we activate the
forces that create an awareness of the whole process. Our RAS scans and
searches the environment for what it deems possible answers or valuable
information and then brings it to our attention. We not only notice it, but
realize its significance. It’s the function of the brain that directs our
attention to things in our environment.
One of the most basic
functions of the mind as our electromagnetic energy field surrounding our body
is one of anticipation. It is always asking . . . “what’s next?” It is in a
constant state of anticipation. This is to allow us to prepare for what’s
coming. Through curiosity, answers take a long time to come, because they come
in a way that cultivates complete understanding. The answers are full, diverse
and come in many forms as living examples. We gain a full sense of knowledge
around our inquiries. Curiosity, like desire, is the minds natural way of
leading us in an enticing manner to acquire more and more information about
things that interest us. We form a kind of intrigue, inquisitiveness that forms
a fascination around an idea or subject. This is experienced as a very positive
emotion with a clear magnetic quality. We can literally sense the magnet draw
to the answers of what fascinates us.
When we become aware of the
answers, or are given information and have direct experiences that serve as
answers to our deepest questions, we experience a form of awe around the magical
quality in which the answers appear to have come. We get to experience first
hand that quality of the mind that we use naturally as a means of development to
gain knowledge through experience through our ability to form a magnetic field
between us and the object of our desire. It defies logic because it can’t be
explained and can only be perceived through personal experience. The experience
of drawing answers and knowledge to us has a quickening feeling of elation and
excitement around receiving the answers.
Curiosity, in the most
basic sense is the natural precursor for learning. Learning that is of a
personal nature that serves our development in a very intimate way and seems
designed to move us in specific directions. Curiosity has a magnetic quality to
it that you can literally feel and sense as things come to you. Curiosity is a
positive emotion as a natural function that can consume you with a feeling of
fascination and awe. It makes learning a very pleasurable and fulfilling
experience. One that as you acquire real knowledge of the things that fascinate
you, causes you to marvel at the exquisite beauty and perfection of things that
fills you with overwhelming feelings of gratitude. A feeling of “thanks” for
making the experience of learning a discovery that’s fun and adventurous. When
we learn through experience, we learn thoroughly and integrate the knowledge in
such a way that it becomes a part of us. The knowledge becomes built in to our
muscle.
Curiosity has the added
feature of engaging our intuition as the means of discovery. It sets into
motion not only the natural faculties of seeking, but also our intuitive ability
to perceive of ideas, activities, books, articles, songs, and people that we
meet as delivering the knowledge we crave in the most appropriate way possible.
The universe, conscious and alive, responds to us intimately by revealing its
secrets. When we think about what we desire to know more about, images, ideas,
and thoughts pop into our head in association with or to them. If these ideas
are thought about, investigated, pursued, or actively engaged in they form a
synchronistic unfolding of ideas that provide with the answers in a rich, deep
and provocative way. The answers don’t come through others opinions, but rather
through experiences that speak to us personally and seem perfect for our
understanding through specific applications within our lives that provide it in
the most beneficial and meaningful way possible. This is what gives it a
magical quality.
We never find singular,
point-blank answers, but rather and interwoven array of answers that give us a
well-rounded knowledge from different perspectives, through different
applications, or as associated to an entire web of knowledge. It comes to us
through the principle of unity and interconnectedness, through which we
experience it as profound and as expanding our awareness of life itself in all
its diversity.
One of the problems with
our current educational system is that it’s focused almost exclusively on
left-brained, rational processes that deliver knowledge through opinion of
others, dictation or purely intellectual means that lacking the experience,
fails to engage the curiosity and imagination of the students in the adventure
of discovery. It fails to acknowledge learning as an individual experience and
instead lumps everyone together and provides them with written facts as lifeless
formulas for achievement. Yet learning as a natural experience is provoked by
curiosity and a deep desire to know something. The acquisition of the knowledge
sets into motion an intuitive process that’s like a treasure hunt that we are
joyfully led through with a series of clues, coincidences and bits of
information that form endless facets and unfold through a synchronistic process
of one thing leading to another.
Knowledge comes to us and
builds upon itself in an ideal fashion by first constructing a basis, then
endlessly expounding on it, filling it in with rich details and variations
forming a natural ecological system. Knowledge is a living force that exists in
a state of interconnectivity and balance with all of life through a constant
flux of evolution. Knowledge is NOT stagnate, fixed, or absolute. It is a
living force that grows, expands, unfolds and infolds, transforming and evolving
like a musical composure that moves us through an emotional landscape of
ever-changing seasons. It’s all nature, but every time we look at it appears
different in some way and we see something in it that we couldn’t see before.
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.
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