There are a number of people on this forum who are better versed in academic philosophy than I, but there is a term called ‘solipsism’. Sometimes it’s called the ‘Brain in a Jar’ idea. There are various versions of it, but it basically comes down to the idea that the only thing in the world that one can be certain of knowing is one’s own experience. It can be further extended to say that, ‘all you ever experience in the world are the contents and projections of your own mind’.
Like any other idea, some people use this idea to make beautiful things happen, and others use the same idea to make damaging or ugly things happen. It’s probably more about the person than it is about the idea. And there are some useful insights to be accessed by way of this concept. It has its strengths and its weaknesses.
One of its weaknesses is that it can support an overweaning, hubristic, self-centered approach to living and experiencing in the Cosmos. Got to be careful of that.
We do make the Cosmos and form Nature through the ways that we project and configure our minds, thoughts, consciousness. At the same time, our minds, thoughts, consciousness, and intentions are also made of and shaped by Nature. It is a mutually influential and generative relationship. And thank goodness for that.
And we do (in my opinion) have the capacity to imperfectly encounter, know, and learn from people and things outside of ourselves. Again, thank goodness.
So, although the world is indeed informed and influenced by what your mind projects. There is also much, much more to the Cosmos than what you have projected or what I have projected.
I was not using Specialized Knowledge as the label of some philosophy, idea, or approach. Rather, I was capitalizing to emphasize that we tend to place synchronicity and related concepts into a unique mental category that we might think of as ‘specialized knowledge’ or ‘special knowledge’. Because those phenomena have been thus categorized by us, we then tend to relate to them in particular ways. Sometimes those ways are warranted and sometimes not.
That’s beautiful and I’m happy for you. May it keep growing and developing, and may it give you more and more inspiration and strength.
Anyway.
That’s about all that I was saying.
