How Does an Emotion Become a Definition?

Consciousness perceives the appearing reality, the material world, through the body, and the intellect organizes the information conveyed by the body into definitions. Consciousness identifies with the definitions, and because the information is conveyed by the body, it also identifies with the body.

Identification with our definitions creates the I, the ego, and the vision of the future that appears according to our definitions becomes the expected future, which is nothing other than the free will of the I, which is likewise the result of our definitions, that is, it appears completely according to law, according to our definitions.

The expected future appears before us as free will, but the appearing reality does not operate according to our definitions, because our perception is limited both in space and in time. It is not possible to immediately create from the information available to us the laws that define reality; more information, that is, more experience, is necessary for them, but the definitions with which we currently identify always create an expected future, which appears within us as our will.

Because of the difference between the expected future and the future that unfolds, we experience experiences for which we do not have a valid definition. We do not know why what we experience happens, but through the repetition of experiences we recognize that a lawful functioning is present in the experiences that appear.

Our own actions cannot appear according to our will either, because the appearing reality is not identical with the expected future; therefore, we ourselves do not do what we intended to do in the expected future, that is, we are not able to realize our will. We have no valid explanation for the actions that actually appear, and therefore we identify them as the appearance of emotions. The more often we experience the same reactions on our own part, the more strongly we identify with the appearing emotion, because we do not know the cause of the actions that appear, but because consciousness has also identified with the body, we perceive these actions as our own actions, rather than as the perception of the appearing reality.

It does not help even if we think about why we did what we did, because we can see only our will as conscious actions. We therefore explain our actions that do not correspond to our will by the appearance of emotions, because we do not know the laws that appear.

Experiences, however, continue in time according to the order of time defined in the second cycle and according to the sequence of experiences defined in the third cycle; therefore, on the basis of further experiences, we recognize and understand an increasing number of laws, which also provide explanations for earlier events.

The more precisely we are able to describe what we experience, the fewer events and actions require emotions; therefore, during the process of knowing, the intensity and number of emotions continuously decrease.

Emotions are therefore our own reactions to the difference that appears between the expected future and the future that unfolds. The greater the difference, the greater the extent to which the reality appearing as our own actions differs from our will, and the more emotions, and the more intense emotions, accompany it. During the process of knowing, our definitions become increasingly precise, and thus the actions appearing according to our appearing will also come increasingly close to the appearing reality; that is, the difference between the expected future and the future that unfolds becomes increasingly smaller. Therefore, emotions of increasingly lower intensity and fewer emotions are necessary to compensate for the difference, but as long as there is a difference between the expected future and the future that unfolds, emotions also appear, because our actions differ from our will.