Our Brain Is Only for Understanding Our Emotions

We humans are an emotional species. Feelings guide us, determine our thoughts, our decisions in life, and our judgment. Whatever we do, we do it to feel good or to avoid feeling bad. Feelings are so central to our being that they even determine our memory. So why don't we remember the most critical moment of our lives, the moment we're born? We also don't recall our formative years as toddlers. The reason is that in the first years of life, our physical senses develop quickly but our emotional world, our “self,” lags behind. So before we have a distinct “self” with its own emotions, we don't attach emotions to events, and so we don't remember them, at least not more than flashes of images here and there.

The human brain functions as an instrument that connects with the greater field of collective consciousness encircling us. This collective field of consciousness is what really controls the human brain, and its calculations are outcomes of nature’s control.

Even at age three or four that we do have memories of - they're still vague and incomplete, as though they're not fully developed forms of memory. 

Our “real” memories begin when we begin to develop a psyche, a self that recognizes itself as an individual being. Once we perceive ourselves as separate beings, with our own thoughts and feelings, and we communicate with others as distinct individuals communicating with other distinct individuals, we transition from being little creatures with the potential to become human beings, into actual people. 

The transition reflects itself in how children connect with others, and becomes fully developed when we become teenagers and start being attracted to others.  

Curiosity About Our World is Good

This development, which is uniquely human, points to the reason we were created. We're not meant to remain like other creatures who mainly look after their survival, reproduce and sleep; we're meant to ask about our world, about the reason for its existence, and for our existence in it. We're meant to ask about and understand the purpose of our lives. Only once our emotions are fully developed can we begin to explore questions like this seriously. 

For me, that moment came after losing two of my sisters one after the other a few decades ago. The first was when I was toward the end of my army service - I was 20 years old. The second was a year later when I had just started university. I felt like something weird was happening, and was wondering what would come next since my life had spiraled out of control, and had become a series of unpleasant and extremely painful "surprises" one after the other.

Not everyone is curious about why things happen. Some people are satisfied to go through life not knowing, and thinking that things that happen to them are simply random. The meaning of it all isn't something they contemplate. So the way it works, is that the meaning is only revealed to more evolved people who wonder about it. Who wonder about it a lot. So after losing my two sisters I was haunted by this question for a while. What's really happening here? But then I swept it under the carpet along with all the tragedies that had taken place, and tried to pretend it never happened. The years that followed were hell. Why? Because I tried to run away from that thing that seemed to be chasing me. I tried to run away from my lesson. It would be many years until I got another opportunity to understand what it was all about.

So when these life changing events occur, and every day I'm reading about so many heart-wrenching stories here on LinkedIn of good people burying their children way too early - as painful as it is, we need to try to understand the lesson. The only point of all our suffering is for us to get the lesson. To learn something new about ourselves and mainly to expand our emotional intelligence, which really has to do with how we think of others. When there's a tragedy everyone involved gets the exact lesson they're supposed to. It could take a few weeks or a few decades - we all process things at our own pace. But trust me when I say that my Mother got the lesson - not after the first death in the family, but after losing another daughter, she started changing a lot - for the better.

The Purpose of Our Brain

The human brain is a computer-like memory device. It's not situated in our head, but in the field surrounding us, which we connect to. The human brain functions as an instrument that connects with the greater field of collective consciousness encircling us. This collective field of consciousness is what really controls the human brain, and its calculations are outcomes of nature’s control. So we really have a lot less control over things than we'd like to imagine.

Since our fate is determined by the nature of our relationships with the people around us, we really need to think about what kind of environment we want to be influenced by. People who are just passing through without a care in the world, or people who are concerned about the collective and want to improve things for everyone. We have this special connection between us that we can only develop if we feel that our existing connections don't satisfy us. When we begin to earnestly search for like-minded people who care about others and the world around them, we begin to discover a completely new level of existence that is undetectable to those who are only guided by self-interest.

When we begin to earnestly search for like-minded people who care about others and the world around them, we begin to discover a completely new level of existence that is undetectable to those who are only guided by self-interest.

At this new level we begin to see the network that connects all things, and how everything impacts everything else. All other creatures function instinctively to feed themselves and survive, but us humans are meant to discover these connections so we can accelerate our development together. We have the ability to understand this matrix of existence and operate within it as conscious beings. Developing that extra layer of consciousness is our purpose in life. Some will get to it sooner and some later, based on our role in the universe. If you don't know what that is yet, I can assure you that it involves contributing in a positive way to the whole. And it's something that makes you extremely happy. So when you find it, you will know.