The Nature of Feelings and Emotions

Feelings are Superior to Intellect

The perception of idea and experience are both done by the intellect.

However, the movement from idea to experience are powered by desire. Without desire, idea and experience would never meet and loops will never close. This would be like being ignorant or staring at blankness forever.

Desire is a fundamental kind of feeling which we sense through our hearts. We can say that:

• the intellect is our built-in sensor for ideas
• the heart is our built-in sensor for feelings

Ideas can be represented by accurately physical objects. For example, the idea of Covid is universally represented by the physical SARS-COV2 virus.

However, feelings cannot be universally represented by objects. For example, the feeling of freedom has been represented by:

• a flying bird,
• broken chains, or
• a person with open arms.

We can say that feelings are primarily metaphysical. Thus:

• the intellect is our built-in sensor for the physical domain
• the heart is our built-in sensor for the metaphysical domain

Feelings Versus Emotions

The word “feeling” comes from the Old English “felan” which means “to touch or have a sensory experience of something”. Since feelings are aethereal waves (Chapter 3), then feelings are waves going inwards to the mind.

Latin word “emovere” which is a combination of “e-” (variant of ex- ) meaning “out” and “movere”, meaning “move”. This implies an outward movement or expression.

We can think of emotions as feelings that have been processed by the perceiver according to his gravitational signature. Emotions are therefore subjectivized feelings just as knowledge is subjectified information and thoughts.

Emotions are more commonly seen in the items that we personalize, such as our clothes, computer desktop, office workspace, bedroom, personal vehicles, etc. These customizations express our gravitational signature to the outside world and validates our living existence.

Feelings pervade existence and are also ‘felt’ by non-living things, such as rocks and ice. A rock might turn redder when it meets a high amount of heat, while ice might melt and evaporate. We can say that the red color and the evaporation are the expressed emotions of the rock and ice, respectively. This will be explained more in Chapter 7.

Chapter 2 explained that the metapyhsical domain is superior to the physical domain. Therefore the heart is superior to the brain.

• This is proven by successful people having more (metaphysical) grit than people who had high grades in school.
• World leaders, such as Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, are known for grit but not for intellect.

The intellect is just the connection of ideas. But it is the feelings that powers the desire, not only to connect ideas, but to expand the scope of the intellect.

Superphysics asserts that while non-living things do not show intellect, they do show emotion by the way they react to physical phenomena. Unlike living beings that use the heart to process emotions, non-living things use the Radiant Layer directly, as ELectromagnetism. THe most obvious feelings that non-living things react to are those of heat and cold.

Superphysics Closes the Gap Between Intellect and Feelings

Human hearts lead us to errors because the Western educational system, spread globally through colonization, has focused on brain development and not on heart development. This leads to:

• physicists using their intellect to create nuclear weapons
• the recommendations of intelligent climate scientists being ignored
• mathematicians using their intellect to game the stock market

To push for heart development, and the increase in common-interest and fellow-feeling, Superphysics proposes to close the distance between the brain and the heart by visualizing* feelings. This is because sight is the main sensor of the brain.

Humans already do this through TV, movies, powerpoint presentations, branding, packaging, advertising and other bright, shiny, catchy, fragrant, and tasty things that appeal to the senses located near the brain as the eyes, ears, nose, and tongue.

This visualization of ideas and feelings will then prove our proposed Law of Conservation of Idea which is the metaphysical foundation of the concept of dharma.

Critical Thinking and Critical Feeling

In order to maximize our experience of existence, it would best to have both sensors running at 100%, as much as possible. This means they should not just be passively sensing, but also actively sensing.

This active sensing is the foundation of critical thinking (as intellect), as well as critical feeling (as kindness and fellow-feeling).

Currently, the educational systems in most countries mostly focus on intellect and is very deficient in fellow-feeling. This is proven by the prevalence of racism, terrorism, poverty & inequality, materialism, environmental destruction, etc.

The glaring proof is the existence of mass shootings by young people in the West. It shows that their educational or cultural systems nurtured hate and division instead of fellow-feeling and unity. This problem does not exist so much in Asian* education or culture.

Globally, this lack of fellow-feeling hurts even the intellectual sciences. For example, scientists have long had the data to prove that global warming causes disasters. Yet the feelings of the human species are extremely disunited, unable to drive collective action.

The mere visualization or even ‘audification’ of feelings will not be enough to increase fellow-feeling. To deal with such large-scale non-feeling, Superphysics proposes many new concepts such as:

• Qualimath
• Constitutional Virtues
• 5 Interconnectivities
• 5 Layers of Medicine
• 4 Laws of Value
• 4 Social Cycles
• Points-based economy
• etc.

These unify the feelings of each person so that each one will discover his role in the greater plan of the universe, and appreciate the hidden value in the existence of each.

Is the plan of the universe in line with what we feel?

This is answered by our intuition and conscience.

• Intuition is the detection of the aether
• Conscience is the intuition or feeling for the dharma or true nature