Bonjour,

Last Monday I wrote about my progress for finding a guiding purpose in life. If you read it you might remember that I said I’m trying to establish a framework which will provide me with the scaffolding for understanding myself. I wanted to take a moment just to explain what it is that I’m talking about. Perhaps you’ll find it useful.

With any construction, be it a house, a web-page or some IKEA furniture you will be required to have a basic understanding of the tools at your disposal. You’ll have to understand the blueprint, which pieces fit together and which do not. A hammer may work in some instances, but we also require more delicate tools.

To make this a little bit less abstract. My mind is a collection of tools that I have at my disposal. I can choose to use my logical reasoning for solving problems or perhaps my analytical perspective. Sometimes I will have to be rational, other times I might be required to be irrational. Had this been an IKEA furniture piece I would have had a carefully written blueprint for how everything fits together, when I should do what and when to achieve my goal of putting that damned thing together.

The body

Life unfortunately does not come with a blueprint, no matter how much some people would try and have us believe the opposite. Buy this for happiness, and acquire this for a great relationship and on it goes. Even though life does not come with a manual, there are certain things I can do to deepen the understanding of myself. In our ever going quest for knowledge we have begun to understand the composition of the mind. I would even dare to say that we have a pretty darn good idea of the components of our bodies and minds.

Unfortunately we’ve got a long road ahead of us in understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect each other. This is something we definitely do not yet know. Even the most basic and fundamental things such as nutrition, we can’t say with absolute certainty how it affects us, how something is metabolised and absorbed by our bodies. I’m not saying that we’re clueless, but if we were certain I’m confident that we wouldn’t have health problems, diets, pills and so forth.

My framework. I should talk about my framework. Right, so. I’m not entirely sure yet what it means exactly, but I’ll try and describe it. What I’m trying to establish is what our basic core components are and how they fit together. The building blocks that we’ve been built with. It’s ambitious and perhaps futile, but I love it. The seeking, the trying and mystique surrounding it. A basic component is something that I consider, hmm, a unit. For example an emotion, joy. How does this affect our cognition? What parts should be combined in order to achieve the maximum and most efficient results? When should they be applied?

I’m hoping that through a deeper understanding of these components I can improve the chances of understanding myself. How I react to input, experiences and even how I will use the outcome of these events in the future. One might argue that I’m leaving nothing to the supernatural, or metaphysical. I guess that would be a correct assessment. But I choose to begin here, because it will be much easier to relate to. Metaphysics is much more theoretical and difficult to work with because you have only your thoughts and imagination as guidance. It quickly gets complicated and it’s why I’ve decided to focus a little bit more on the tangible world.

I do have every intention of eventually venturing into other dimensions and see what truths they might hold. Even in String Theory they leave room for more dimensions than those observable. To say that we would someone be excluded from them would be foolish. Astral projection, out-of-body experiences might all be related to this, but currently I need to stick with one thing and work my way from there.

I realise as I wrote this that it hasn’t become exactly clear what I mean with framework, but hopefully it will become more clear over time.

Again, thanks for taking your time to read and if you’ve got anything to share, by all means, do!

/ Christoffer

PS: If you happen to read my post yesterday (Tuesday). No need to worry, I’m fine. I might have some slight bi-polar disorder or something :-) I’m still confused, conflicted, but my anger has subsided. Frustration is still there, but not so much of myself, but the lacking of interest from fellow humans. People have succumbed to media, consumerism and no thoughts as to how it affects the future. That I find frustrating.