Multi-dimensional Thoughts

In my last post , I looked at how I struggled for some time feeling like I over-complicated everything, but now aim to see my mind as being intricate, instead of complex.  This has definitely been a very healthy change in my mindset, and has helped to to appreciate, and even enjoy, the aspects of my mind I often found myself wrestling against and wishing I didn't have (there are still these moments at times ;-)).  The more I've reflected on this over the years, the more I have realised that I also find myself frequently striving for simplicity, or a simple resolution to a problem, and appreciating that just as much as the complex solutions.   Essentially, I seem to gravitate towards Occams razor, a theory from philosophy which states "plurality should not be posited without necessity.”.  It's a funny saying, which could do with using its own principle on itself.  It basically means, keeps things simple, unless you absolutely have to.  If there are two competing theorie

For many years, I was aware that my mind was a busy place.  I knew it was often very hard for me to take things at face value, but instead I would process "inputs" to my thinking through the multiple dimensions of my mind.  What do I think about that input from a physical perspective? Does that differ to my spiritual dimension views? H ow does that make me feel (my emotional dimension)? If my physical dimension thoughts differ to those of my spiritual dimension thoughts, which is right?  Have I misunderstood the spiritual aspects, or are they right, and it's just different to what you would expect in the physical dimension?  In future posts, I hope to look at some specific examples of this interplay.  For now, I'm just going to look at how this interplay has, in the past, lead me to doubt the strength of my faith, and how in-fact it can actually be a joy. As I was becoming progressively actively aware of the interplay of my thoughts, I ended up feeling like I was just

Why this blog? Ok, so here’s the thing. I’ve contemplated starting a blog before. In fact, I have started one, and then gave up pretty quickly. I've never found an area that I wanted to settle on to blog about.  However, over the past year or so I've been doing a lot of processing, a large part of which has been on trying to understand myself better.  I had got to a point in my life where I became acutely aware of the amount of energy and effort I have put in all of my life to feel like I fitted in, or would be accepted, because for some reason I just felt different to the majority of people I spent time with.  During this process, my wife and I were taking a couple through a pre-marriage course, and one of these people was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome (now typically referred to as part ASD, see here ).  During the course, as they explained some of the things they struggled with, I started to see a lot of similarities between their struggles, and mine.  As I've researc