On Ontology

Stephen Edward
Thoughts And Ideas
Published in
2 min readApr 27, 2017

Do we really know what we are doing?

Like seeds, our ideas and concepts arise from a subterranean place and suggest inevitability and potential.

From this, the subjective ‘we’ are able to bring about a reality of our own nurturing. The awareness of this perspective can lay dormant during an individuals process of creation.

Meaning, they may be completely unaware of this process all the while still being the visionary, conduit and creator.

One could also propose that it is entirely possible to be aware of this process. Being aware of our unconscious desires rising to concept, idea, action, reality. This particular concept in and of itself dwells in a suspended space of conscious acknowledgment. That I have chosen to write down its parameters and suggestions, perhaps, graduates it to reality. It is aired out, present, stated. Is it not then real?

Surely it does not have the physicality of an armchair, though it is in the form of text, language and rhetoric. Visible and comprehensible, agreeable perhaps not, however, undeniably conceived.

An interesting attribute of a concept is that it does not occupy space like the actions of birthing an idea into physicality does.

I am suggesting the potential of witnessing our own creation. Knowing that we are the medium in which the concept must pass for there to be any reality to it. If we hold that seat, it would be inevitable that all historic and potential concepts would be reviewed and their substance considered.

The authorship that this subscribes to our experience and subsequent reality is a transformative ethos that has the potential to elevate our perspectives and to evolve our psychological conditions.

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