What “stands” “under” your thinking and responses, even your sense of reality? We begin this session with musing on the word “understand”.

Human cognition is predicated upon pattern recognition and associations made instantaneously based upon the particular patterns in a person’s mind. Since this is so, one can question how much new or fresh thinking, fresh relatedness, or knowing a human being can bring to a moment. For example, if someone told you that there is no Wednesday, how would you interact with that information? Or, similarly, that 2+2=4 actually has no basis?

One might easily admit that such designations, as with all labels and designations, are arbitrary and without true basis, but if a quiche recipe calls for four eggs, what is to be done? If someone has a celebration of life gathering on Wednesday, but Wednesday doesn’t truly exist, … you get the point.

Yet, all the while, our common existence is predicated upon Wednesdays, calendars, numbers, and associations of thought that have been agreed upon since the human journey began. Therefore, the question remains: “What stands under your cognitive processes and understandings arrived at?” What is their foundation? Is it the same old same old, possibly moved around so as to seem novel?

We pause for a while in this session. No thinking. Just pause.