where i’m at
Welcome back.
The past couple weeks were quite hectic; quick trip back to New York, starting fall semester at Central Saint Martins, all while continuously working on research. The last week has been a lot of reflection on where I currently at, and where I am headed.
The biggest achievement since the end of Unit Three has been identifying the materialized output I am exploring as part of my intervention. While I am not ready to share that, I will share updates on my current research.
Today, I had a meeting with an integrative psychologist on my question, “How can we identify the barriers that exist within who we are versus who we want to be.” I am grateful to have had the chance to learn new perspectives that took me by surprise.
Recently, I have been battling the dilemma whether Alternative Universes should have a negative or positive connotation. It’s quite interesting because the hypothetical definition I have applied from external resources suggests that an alternative universe is a hypothetical reality where the aspired self exists. However, my original conversation with hypnotherapist, Sara Maude, discussed that “In true consciousness, you already are complete.”
This made me reflect on the framework I have been building. If we are complete in true consciousness, does that mean I am already everything that I dream of being? And take mental health for example; if someone is battling anxious thoughts regarding a situation, are they in an alternative universe because they are not consciously present?
The expert interview I conducted today suggested that, “alternate worlds we can say are a very depressive place, also hold a wealth of information that tell us what we are feeling and parts of our self needs, not so much about getting attached to any one version, but using it as information.”
My workshop interventions used the process of visualization to bring my participants in a world that they dream of, but now I am questioning which route makes the most sense for this project. As I am writing this entry, new thoughts are pending.
What if an alternative universe is the place where we do not want to be? Take Stranger Things…the Hellscape was an interdimensional world full of horrible creates. Or even in Interstellar when Cooper enters the tesseract. It’s not like he was happy seeing his past self making a decision that he would later regret.
Jim Carrey questioned, “Where do our thoughts come from?” Maybe the barriers that prevent us from self-growth are thoughts from the past, while dreams and aspirations are thoughts from the future-self?
It’s reminding me of a conversation I had on Saturday night. At times, intuition is a powerful tool. So are the aspirations we develop over the course of our life actually intuition aligning our timeline? And if we are not consciously present, then is the internal self living in an alternative universe that actually holds barriers to self-growth?
My tutor mentioned that its like a birds eye view and I couldn’t agree more. So how can we develop a birds eye view on the kinds of thoughts we have? Grouping them together from the past and future self…but even if we do that, what about the present?
