What's in the 'unknowable' black box of experience between stimulus and response? The behaviorists know it as unknowable because it can't be studied, objectively? What's in THERE??

Well.. the cream filling of life itself, of memory...
And what is the structure of life itself, of memory?
Well... images, feels, sounds, tastesmells. (And maybe this new, new notion of 5D, of beyond sensing, a third thing, presence personified, love actualized, electrified growing a face, interconnected, dark matter, beingness)

When we sit down together to look at what's unknown. Whether in conversation, relationships, through therapeutic work with a therapist, healer or coach, with a paint brush, or an instrument, we open the 'black box' wittingly.
We like to act like black holes are too scary, but really we absolutely, totally love them.

To look at an issue or to dare to bring dreams to life here on the planet, is to look inside that black box and to peer into, and smash through your toes, what's been deemed as off limits.
I often use the metaphor of Mufasa telling Simba, to illustrate this point,
M: "Everything the light touches, Little lion, that is our kingdom"
*oooh so sweet... Happy dad, happy kid.
and then;
Simba... looking in the distance, "Well what's that dark-ass place over there, dad? And then we get the smack down protective father moment- Mufasa like " NO! don't look over there, son. You must NEVER! And we certainly don't go there...
But we know the story, and we know we must look. And we can thank or get mad about how the father figure rolled out the no, but the call is too great, no matter. And the expense not to look is too high. Luckily we're NEVER alone. And even more luckily, we experience this. We have life itself, the people in it, we have memory, let's say- future memory, or imagination, and we have the source of all those thingies- SPACE. And ideas leave not their source.
Damn... there's dad, again.

We use what's known (judgements, ideas, beliefs, dreams) to gain access to the maps of reality we're making in "The black Box" through our images, feels, sounds, tastessmells. So what's in the scary, dark unknown place over there? Well, more of the same, and we still love to be surprised, and food! Inspiration, dumb jokes. Shit.. it keeps being 'who knows' and 'can't be sure', but at least it's not 'off limits'

Through this looking glass, it makes little sense to police our judgements, to label our desires, or to define who we are TOTALLY. It does make sense to let the box be as open as it actually is, (not more, not less) and with awareness, guidance, presence, friendship, discernment, support, practice, an outstretched #attitudeofsupport hand from a friend- we be looking. Through this frame, everything experienced is an opportunity. It doesn't have to change into anything else to be seen as such. wow.

We can literally start from anywhere to notice where we are. How dumb!! Where's the FOMO? FOMO NOMO- When our goal isn't situated only in linear time- "what i can get in the future', when we can be still with the mystery, we can use linear time to take us out of time.
Or into the body of the present. (This feels like you jumping out of your own birthday cake, wearing the thing that turns you on the most)
We can use our experience of being 'out of time'
(lets call that: spaciousness, gratitude, wholeness, laughter, Oneness, Peace) to drop a pin on our map- so's we can be guided, in our day to day lives, by the state of the art tech that is our very life stuff.

Cool, you're a big deal. Who's just totally mysterious and basic AF. And I wanna get to know you betta.

Love be a
Golden-haired queen
in the middle.
the yoke
the spoke
the sun
beauty

What's in your black box, baby?
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