Beautiful ! ?

Beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is in the mind. The eye seperated from the body is a useless jelly ball, a convenient dessert for any hungry animal living on this treacherous planet that's lucky enough to stumbles across the nutricious slippery ball sac of impotent goo. It is the working human brain that sees, not the eyes. And within this brain resides the conscious mind; the creator of thoughts with the ability to contemplate the idea of beauty. I know that animals can see, they have eyes some of which work better than mine, but I wonder if any can comprehend beauty. Not that it is that simple. Beauty is such a broad and general quality. It is defined as anything that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind. People, animals , plants, buildings, machines, rocks. . . all are generic things that can evoke such strong emotions. Beauty seems to come from an infinite amount of sources. But it is more complicated then that. Not every flower blooms velvet petals, not every car is a Ferrari, and not every women has a gap between her milk teeth. I found the new blog post on beauty the most interesting by far. It asks about the perception of beauty. Is it a socio-cultural construct? And what are other forms of beauty? But the only examples of beauty it provides is the beauty inherent in women. Ah, the exquisite human female. I know all to well the allure of the ravishing feminine form. The sudden shortness of breath, the encompassing spread of fluster throughout the body, the primal compulsion to wanna smack that ass. The image of an attractive girl is sometimes enough to make even the most repressed individual scream out, "Daaaamn!" But beauty is far more profound then just the fertile human female. What about art? What about the beauty in the stars that shine in the heavens? Sexuality isn't difficult to understand. Of course it's influenced by society and culture. After all, you're most likely to only reproduce with the people who live around you. But it's mostly influenced by biology. The squared-jaw in a man is evidence of a high level of testosterone which is capable of developing strong muscles which is crucial if protecting and providing for a family. Large breasts, big-eyes, small nose, a pointy chin and child bearing hips result from high estrogen levels which prepare the body for ovulation and produce visual cues that a women is capable of producing healthy offspring. Indeed it seems that what we think is beautiful in a person is actually preconditioned by the environment and driven by our instincts for reproduction. But attraction is completely fickle. Just ask the criminal that's been locked away from women for twenty years or the person who wakes up next to a coyote (a person so ugly you'd rather gnaw through your own arm you have around the person then to wake them up) in the morning after a drunken night of binge drinking. Beauty is influenced but not necessarily constructed completely by culture, society and genetics. Which brings me back to the statement, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." The meaning behind this statement is "beauty is subjective." I think this is true. What is beautiful to me will most likely escape or even disgust you. But isn't it interesting that we all share the capacity to understand beauty. It's like fingerprints or tiger stripes. Though every human has fingerprints and every tiger has stripes the way they are displayed is unique to the individual. So what is this beauty? Where does it come from? And what constructs it? I believe the answer is consciousness, or being aware. I feel like I've been writing for a long time now and I don't want to seem redundant or lose the interest of any readers so I'll conclude with this story about Claude Monet's paintings that I read from Joe Dispenza's book Evolve your Brain. For those unfamiliar with Monets's art seeing his work for the first time you might be unimpressed. You may think the impressionistic pastel landscapes are bland and unrealistic and have little to no beauty. Now if I told you that Monet was a man who worked diligently at seeing things different from the common man. He loved light and colors and spent countless hours thinking about how they are connected to our reality and how to portray them on canvas. As he got older he developed cataracts which diffused and blurred his vision. Since he only painted things he could see the impressionistic dots that typified his work were actually the way he percieved reality. Now, if you look again at his paintings with this new found knowledge, you'll probably be more inclined to see their beauty. His paintings didn't change, it was fresh awareness that altered your experience. Hence, consciousness is the constructer of beauty. And the more knowledge you gain, the more aware of your environment, the higher the level of your mind's consciousness, the more easily it will be for you to percieve beauty. Love it!