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3.The Marriage of
Mind and Brain
4.Psychology and Power: Understanding
Human Action
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O my soul, do not aspire to
immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. (Pindar)
Whoever sets himself up to
be judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of
the gods. (Albert
Einstein)
A human being is a part of
the whole (called by us the Universe) a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the
rest- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a
few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but
the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and of
a foundation for inner security. (ibid)
I want to know
how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in
the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts, the rest are
details. (ibid)
Compared to the Great Way, heaven
and earth are like a bubble and a shadow. Only the primal spirit and the true
nature overcome time and space. The energy of the seed, like heaven and earth,
is transitory, but the primal spirit is beyond polar differences. Here is the
place where heaven and earth derive their being. When students understand how
to grasp to the primal spirit they overcome the polar opposites of light and
darkness and tarry no longer in the three worlds. Only the seeker who has
envisioned human nature's original face is able to do this.
(Richard Wilhelm)
Mind is the Master power that
moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass!
Environment is but his looking-glass. (James
Allen)
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so
shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your
ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. (ibid)
The greatest achievement was at first and
for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg. And
in the highest vision of a soul a waking Angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings
of realities. (ibid)
To do evil, a human being
must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is
what gives devil-doing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the
necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which
helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so
that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. (Alexander
Solzhenitsyn)
Beware the leader who bangs
the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for
patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as
it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and
the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need
in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with
fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the
leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am
Caesar. (Julius
Caesar)
ENERGETICS: A completely
different medical approach: Instead of killing the struggling cells that are
infected -- which after all is killing part of the immune system as well! --
simply help the infected cells immediately change back into normal cells again,
by highly amplifying the very mechanism by means of which the body's cellular
restorative system works anyway.
(Col.Tom Bearden, in
reviewing David Bohm’s hidden variable theory, and the work of Becker, Priore,
Popp, Kaznacheyev, Stoney, Whittaker, and Ziolkowski, indicating that not only
cells, but bodies -- genetics and all -- can be time-reversed and
time-forwarded by application of very weak EM fields)
J.A.Wheeler's principle states: "Space acts
on matter, telling it how to move. In turn, matter reacts back on space,
telling it how to curve." Since matter is just locally collected
(trapped) energy (by Einstein's E=mc2), we may retranslate
Wheeler's principle as: "Space acts on trapped energy, telling it how
to move. In turn, trapped energy reacts back on space, telling it how to
curve."
Now we
can extend Wheeler's principle and add it to electrodynamics to form a powerful
corollary. This corollary constitutes the Principle of Vacuum Engines (or the
Principle of Vacuum Engineering), as follows: "Nested space-time
curvatures tell electromagnetic energy how to internally structure, be trapped,
and change; and internal electromagnetic energy structuring, trapping, and
dynamics tell local space-time how to internally nest multiple curvatures to
form local vacuum engines”.
By this principle, it can be seen that Priore
-- in creating and manipulating nested EM energy structuring, was forming local
vacuum engines. His method utilized the "template" vacuum engine of
the disease's deviation from normal, as the "signal input" to the
cell-and-its-parts. Priore's nested, structured biwaves impinging upon these
cells constituted pump waves, in the nonlinear optical sense. Thus an
amplified anti-engine was formed in the cell and in every part of it, precisely
against the specific disease's vacuum engine template. The result was the rapid
time-reversal of the cell and all its parts, de-differentiating the affected
cell and all its parts back to the previous normal condition. (Col.
Tom Bearden)
The restorative or
reparative system in the living animal is electromagnetic in nature, but of a
peculiar kind involving dc currents and dc potentials. This functions as an
analog command and control system which is applicable to the entire organism. (Dr.Robert
Becker)
We have
concluded from our biofeedback work and brain-wave research with hundreds of
patients that anything you can accomplish with an acupuncture needle you can do
with your mind. (Elmer Green)
There are two ways to look at
life. You can either believe that there are no miracles - or you can
realize that everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its
way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens
that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die
out, and the new generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning. (Max Planck)
Thousands of years ago
Chuang Tzu asked, "Is it Chuang Tzu asleep dreaming he is a butterfly?
Or is it the butterfly dreaming he is Chuang Tzu."
In the Qigong of
transcendence it is asked, "Is the practitioner in the deep Qigong state a
person in a moment of transcendent energetic experience, or is manifestation in
a physical body actually a brief exploration into substance by an entity whose
normal state is one of highly refined, resonating light energy?" (Roger Jahnke)
. . . time is fluid, and so
are the boundaries between human beings; the borders separating helper from the
one who hurts are always blurry. Wounds, I think, are never confined to a
single skin but reach out to rasp us all. (Lauren
Slater)
It is in mastering our
thoughts that we master the universe. Thoughts are the masculine, electrical
component of the universe, and combined with feelings - the magnetic, feminine
component - create reality. In other words, thoughts fall into the reservoir of
the heart, and act upon the substance of things hoped for. (Almine Barton)
Philosophy is a battle
against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of words. (Wittgenstein)
A man does not seek to see
himself in running water, but in still water. For only what is itself still,
can impart stillness upon others. (Chuang Tse )
MERIDIAN
TECHNOLOGIES:
That thoughts generate
energy which affects our bodies is beyond question. Approaching the mind from
entirely different perspectives, both David R. Hawkins. M.D., Ph.D., and the
Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, M.D. have concluded that the mind, through our thoughts,
influences our physical beings at the most elementary levels; that thoughts not
only influence the chemicals in our bodies, but even turn genes on and off, and
cause the brain to reconfigure itself!
Other research indicates
that this effect is accomplished via the impact that the energy of our thoughts
has on the energy pathways known as meridians. The organizing centers
(acupuncture treatment points) of the meridians are responsible for biological
morphogenesis. They retain all of their growth functions after morphogenesis
and communicate with one another to maintain proper bodily form and function.
Kinesiologic testing can demonstrate that the connection between the mind and
body is immediate. Positive thoughts make our bodies strong and negative
thoughts make us go weak. Since the body's response is immediate, our physical
being is influenced from instant to instant to our changing thoughts and
emotions. It is the continuity and reiteration of various thought patterns
which can ultimately result in manifest disease. Thus, while ideas of all sorts
pass though our minds, it is the ones we habitually entertain that impact us
the most.
Fortunately, the mind-body
connection is a two way street: we influence the meridian energy via the
energetic pattern of our thoughts; we can also influence the energy pattern of
the meridians via direct or indirect stimulation of the meridian points
themselves. Proper stimulation of the meridians influences the pattern of
energy emitted by the brain, and can destabilize the self -perpetuating energy
fields of disease states. The energy fields of disease states are created by
our thoughts, and always precede observable disease states. Research has shown
that reliable changes in the bioelectric potential of meridian points occur months
before any physically observable signs of breast cancer appear in women for
example.
An individual's existence
does not begin with his conception nor his birth. We are not our bodies. Rather
we are eternal beings of energy, who have communication devices we call bodies.
Our bodies, through the influence of the meridians, become a reflection of the
projected energy of our being. As eternal beings, existing in a temporal
physicality, the energy of our current ‘here-now being’ is influenced by the
energy of our past existence. This influence is our Karma, a constant energetic
breeze that colors the context of our current and earliest awareness. At the
end of our current physical form, our eternal energy - the True Us - will carry
unfinished remnants from this life, in addition to past life unfinished
remnants. What are these unfinished remnants? They are energetic attractor
fields which maintain our separation from All That Is, that maintain our
duality.
When we no longer generate
low-level energy patterns, we exit the temporal physicality and become one with
All That Is. While this may seem to be an unrealistic goal, it is the path we
are all on, and will remain on until it is finished. Every step toward this
goal is, in itself, a step toward freedom and a step toward love. Love is
ultimately total freedom and total acceptance. Love is beyond forgiveness; Love
sees no errors in need of forgiveness. (R.K.
Ebert)
Never quarrel about
religion. All quarrels and disputes concerning religion simply show that
spirituality is not present. Religious quarrels are always over the husks. Only
when Purity and Spirituality go, leaving the soul dry, do quarrels begin and
not before. (Swami
Vivekananda)
The Vedanta [philosophy
of the Upanishads] recognizes no sin, it recognizes only error; and the
greatest error - says the Vedanta - is to say that you are weak, that you are a
sinner, a miserable creature and that you have no power and you cannot do this
and that. In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature and this
whole Universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates
and not matter. (ibid)
And sees thousands and thousands of
twinkling stars,
Each different from the others.
But a man of wisdom and achievement
Perceives the one light behind the
dark dome of the night-sky;
Whose incandescence peeps at us,
Through all the holes in the
night-dome!!
To see the one in the many is the
casual vision of knowledge.
To see the many in the one is the
mission of wisdom. (Swami
Chinmayananda)
Many sensations come, many
thoughts and images arise, but they are just waves of your mind. Nothing comes
from outside your mind. To realize the pure mind in your delusion takes
practice. If you try and expel the delusion, it will only persist even more.
Just say, "Oh, this is just delusion," and do not be bothered by it. (Shunryu Suzuki)
All worldly pursuits have
but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow. Acquisitions end in
dispersion, buildings end in destruction, meetings end in separation, and
births end in death. (Milarepa)
The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us
succeed. Each patient carries his own doctor within him. They come to us not
knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor that resides
within each patient the chance to go to work. (Albert
Schwietzer)
What is the need for so
much news from abroad, when all that concerns either life or death is at work
within us? (William
Law)
The teaching which is in
written form is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for
the brain. Of course, it is necessary to take some food for the brain; but it
is more important to be yourself, by practicing the right way of life. (Shunryu
Suzuki - ‘Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind’)
If your mind is empty, it
is always ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many
possibilities; in the expert's mind, there are few. (ibid)
After you have ‘practiced’
for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid progress.
Even if you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. (ibid)
When you are practicing Zazen,
do not try to stop thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into
your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you
try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered
by anything! (ibid)
If you continue this simple
practice everyday, you will obtain a wonderful power. Before you attain it, it
is something wonderful, but after you obtain it, it is nothing special. (ibid)
To forget oneself totally,
one's mind should keep awake at every moment. A mind that has forgotten the
past and the future, that is awake to the now, to the present, expresses the
highest concentration of intelligence. It is alert, it is watchful, it is
inspired. The actions of a man who has such a mind are exceptionally creative
and perfect. Verily to forget oneself totally, is to be in perfection. (Swami Chinmayananda)
Man
masters nature not by force but by understanding. (Jacob Bronowski)
You must always
keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it,
you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must
lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path,
and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is
what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to
leave it must be free of fear or ambition.
Look at every
path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. All
paths are the same: they lead nowhere. In my own life I could say I have
traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. They are paths going through
the bush, or into the bush. Ask “does this path have a heart?” If it does, the
path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one
has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you
follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One
makes you strong; the other weakens you. (Carlos
Castenada)
The attainment of Nirvana
(enlightenment) from the ego's standpoint is extreme death, the death of self,
the death of "me" and "mine," the death of the watcher. It
is the ultimate and final disappointment. (Chogyam
Trungpa)
Meditation is not a matter
of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquility, nor is it
attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of space where
we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our
hidden fears and hopes. (ibid)
Happiness is as a butterfly
which - when pursued - is always beyond our grasp; but which if you will sit
down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Plough with truth. Plant
the seed of desire for knowledge. Irrigate the mind with the water of patience.
Supervise your work by introspection and self-analysis. And build the fence of
right conduct and rules. Nothing else is required to attain eternal bliss. (Tirumurai
– ‘Hindu Texts’)
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live
the present moment wisely and earnestly. (Gautama
Buddha)
...And see that nothing in
thy working mind remain but a naked intent stretching unto God-- not clothed in
any special thought of God in himself, or any of His works, but only that He is
as He is... (The Cloud of
Unknowing)
May quietness descend upon
my limbs, my speech, my breath, my eyes, my ears; may Brahman [The
Supreme] show Himself to me. (Invocation, Chandogya
Upanishad)
The mark of your ignorance
is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.... What the caterpillar
calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. (Richard Bach ‘Illusions’)
A man is the facade of a temple
wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man - the eating,
drinking, planting, counting man - does not, as we know him, represent himself,
but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect; but the soul, whose organ he
is, would let it appear through his actions, would make our knees bend.... We
lie open on one side to the depths of spiritual nature, to all attributes of
God.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson – ‘The
Over-Soul’)
We are born believing. A
man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty. (ibid)
Let men cultivate the moral
affections, lead many independent lives. Let them make riches the means and not
the end of existence, and we shall hear no more of the commercial spirit....
This curious world which we inhabit is more beautiful than it is useful; Thus
it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
(Ralph
Waldo Emerson – ‘The Commercial Spirit’)
The Self is eternal; yet
men think it mortal. That Self is Infinite; yet men think it finite. Those who
possess the Tao are princes in this life and rulers in the
hereafter. Those who do not possess the Tao behold the light of
day in this life and become clods of earth in the next. (Chuang Tse)
It is not possible that
this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should
have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago;
rather this knowledge, feeling and choice are essentially eternal and
unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sensitive
beings. But not in this sense – that you are a part, a piece, of
an eternal, infinite being, an aspect or modification of it, as in Spinoza’s
pantheism. For we should have the same baffling question: which part, which
aspect are you? What, objectively, differentiates it from the others?
No, but inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason, you – and all other
conscious beings as such – are all in all. Hence this life of yours
which you are living is merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a
certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it
can be surveyed in one single glance. (Erwin
Schrodinger “My View of The World” – Quoted by
Alan Watts “The Book: On
The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”)
Throw yourself flat on the
ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you
are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as
invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As
surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew
to new striving and suffering. And not merely ‘some day’: now, to-day, every
day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of
times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally and
always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only
thing that has no end. (ibid)
The Buddha said: 'Monk, you
and you alone are your refuge.
You and you alone are your pathway'.
Would you say that you are
enlightened or awakened?
This is a trick question like asking: Have you stopped beating your wife? The
realization that is directly realized, is that the ‘I’ that thinks itself
either enlightened or not enlightened, does not exist in reality. It only
exists as a thought. When all thought is absent, when the mind is quiet, then
light shines through the form and senses and expresses Itself through the
relative mind of a relative ‘I’. There is no one who is enlightened or
unenlightened. I recognize myself to be that.
For many years, in many
spiritual traditions I was searching for the secret of a silent mind. This was
transmitted by my teacher, Papaji. In this transmission there is no one to say,
‘I am enlightened.’ The one who says, ‘I am enlightened’, is the only obscuration
to the flowing of enlightened consciousness. What I have seen is that there
is nothing but consciousness everywhere, period. Therefore, everything is
consciousness; all is enlightened.
(Eli
Jaxon-Bear)
The energy called desire has been condemned
for centuries. Almost all the so-called saints have been against it because
desire is life and they were all life-negative. Desire is the very
source of all that you see, and the ‘saints’ were against all that which is
visible. They wanted to sacrifice the visible at the feet of the invisible;
they wanted to cut the roots of desire so there would no longer be any
possibility of life… I have a totally different concept of desire.
First: desire itself is God. Desire without
any object, desire without being goal-oriented, unmotivated desire, pure
desire, is God. The energy called desire is the same energy as God. Desire has
not to be destroyed; it has to be purified. Desire has not to be dropped; it
has to be transformed. Your very being is desire; to be against it is to be
against yourself and against all. To be against it is to be against the flowers
and the birds and the sun and the moon… Your desire is as big as the sky - even
the sky is not the limit to it… The intelligent person stops desiring objects…
he starts living his desire in its purity, moment to moment. He is full of
desire, full of overflowing energy. His ordinary life becomes so intense, so
passionate, that whatsoever he touches will be transformed. (Osho
Rajneesh)
Seriousness - as
opposed to sincerity - is the great vice. (ibid)
I see my work in the world
as quite subordinate to my work on myself. I think that to have an idea that I
can help, or exert an influence, or have anything of value for the world, is
secondary to and dependent upon my having answered the basic question of what
my own life is about for me. It seems I have nothing to tell other
people until I have got my own act together and my own problem answered. (Douglas E Harding)
I distinguish three depths
of the will. One is the superficial thing which is what I want. The second one
is what I really want, which may be quite different from what I think I want,
and my behavior may give the lie to what I think I want - you have the superficial
will, you have the deeper psychological will which may be contrary to what you
think you want. And you have your deepest will, which is the will of who you
really are, and the slogan here is 'Thy will be done'. (ibid)
I think we must
distinguish carefully between seeing and feeling. I think the point about
genuine seeing is that you can have it when you want it. You can always have a
look at who you really, really are, whatever your mood, however good or nasty
you feel. This is not true of feeling. I cannot have feelings to order. I
cannot say I am going to have this feeling. If you do, and you seem to succeed,
the feeling is not genuine, it is self-deception. I think that feeling is
spontaneous or nothing. If it doesn't come to you naturally, if it is
artificial, it's not worth having. So exercises with a view to cultivating love
and so forth - well, I know the Buddhists do them: they send out loving
feelings in all directions, send out waves of love through the cosmos, I
wouldn't criticize that. But it's not my way, and it seems to have an element
of artificiality which weakens the whole thing. But good luck to them if they
can do it. It's not my way. (ibid)
The question, obviously, is
whether a computer interface can live up to exalted claims. If you can see
heaven in a grain of sand, does that mean you will necessarily also find it in
the Graphic User Interface (GUI) that is common, in one form or another, to the
Macintosh, Windows, and the World Wide Web? Programmers know the GUI as an
illusion, the product of operating-system routines meshing so smoothly that the
user is never exposed to the sight of icons, menus, windows, and the rest
dissolving into the inherently aimless binary digits out of which they are
composed. Even so, some programmers are provoked now and again to wonder if the
universe isn't built along similar lines, propagating itself at a high-enough
refresh rate so that humans don't detect the Supreme Hacker behind trillions of
lines of (mostly) bug-free Cosmic Code.
(Harvey
Blume, re Steven Johnson – Atlantic Monthly)
The Masculine
& Feminine Principles in the Creative Process
Coming into your own means
the deliberate, conscious, purposeful use of the creative power which you are
and which emanates from you. For, unconsciously and unknowingly, without
realizing it, you constantly create your life circumstances with this power.
What you think and feel, what you believe and conceive of, what you secretly
wish and fear -- all of this shapes and determines creative substance. And all
of this IS the motor force of this power.
Man connects with his unconscious blocks and subsequently comprehends his
obstructions and unhappiness in life. This is a great moment, when an
individual suddenly understands that he has done it, how he has done it and
what is the secret attitude that has produced the unwelcome fate, so that it is
no longer blind fate and he can connect cause and effect. From that moment on,
man ceases to be helpless. He has never been helpless in regard to any force or
power outside himself. But he is helpless against his own inner processes until
he recognizes and changes them.
How do we create?
First, you activate, then
you get 'out of the way' and let it happen. This creative principle exists
throughout the entire universe and manifests in everything in your life... To
activate means that the conscious entity deliberately issues, claims, sets in
motion, moves toward, causes, determines, makes happen, uses purposefully, the
forces at his disposal. He does so by knowing of these forces and calling them
into action... by removing all possible obstruction and by doing himself
whatever is necessary. Effort and endeavor are an integral part of setting the
creative forces in motion... this represents the masculine
principle in creation. It is also a movement, for nothing that is alive can
possibly be not moving, but the type of movement is a very different one from
the movement of the activating principle. The activating principle moves itself
out toward another state; the spirit of letting it be is a movement
within itself. It is a pulsating, involuntary movement, while the movement of
activation is deliberate and self-determining... The consciousness of the
attitude of letting it be is one of patience, of trustful waiting, of
letting a ripening process come to fruition, one of surrender to a force set in
motion. This may be called the feminine principle in creation. (Eva
Pierrakos - The Pathwork Guide)
In everyday life we learn more, and more truly, through intuition than
we do through verbalized observations and logic. We are tempted to be proud of
verbalizations, but it is possible that in many of our most important judgments
the small and fragile voice of intuition is a more reliable guide.... Verbal
processes are additive, while intuitive processes are integrative--It appears
that the most important judgments which human beings make concerning each other
are the products of preverbal processes--cognition without insight-- which
function almost automatically below the level of consciousness...that there is a time for scientific method and a time for
intuition--the one brings with it more certainty, the other offers more
possibilities; the two together are the only basis for creative thinking. (Eric
Berne – founder of T/A)
1.
To be, to exist, and to occupy space
2.
To live with zest
3.
To experience one's own experiences
4.
To be appropriately close, to trust and to feel secure
5.
To influence one's environment (to be important)
6.
To experience one's own feelings across a wide range of emotions
7.
To be one's self (of appropriate age, personality and sex)
8.
To feel that one belongs (family, friends, community and culture)
9.
To feel OK about one's self, others and the world
10.
To allow oneself to be soothed
and nurtured and to soothe and take care of one's self
11.
To experiment, and to change
(and also to fail safely and use that failure productively)
12.
To think clearly and to solve
problems across a wide variety of domains (be sane)
13.
To be empathetically responsive to others
14.
To "make it" in love and work
15.
To make/find meaning
While these permissions do
form a kind of hierarchy, it is more useful to think of them as forming a
matrix. All are important throughout the life cycle, but each becomes more
important at certain times. They also need to be given differently at different
ages and their presence or absence manifests itself differently during
different life periods. The infant who is learning to make interesting
spectacles last, for example, and the adolescent who is comparing religious or
philosophical systems can both be conceptualized as manifesting permission to
make/find meaning, but at very different levels of development. (James R. Allen)
When we are caught in
addiction it is impossible to experience love. Compulsivity and peace of mind
are mutually exclusive… our addictions slowly become the walls behind which we hide…
eventually our walls become so high that instead of simply hiding we become
prisoners of our own making. The guards in the prison of addiction are our
egos, while the bars of our cells are forged with our irrational beliefs.
(Lee
Jampolsky – ‘Healing The Addictive Mind’)
There
is a grandeur in life, with its several powers having been originally breathed
into a few forms or into one; and that while this planet has gone cycling on
according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms
– most beautiful and most wonderful – have been and are being evolved. (Charles Darwin)
One’s life
oscillates, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the
saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands. - - And if ever the
suspicion of their manifold being dawns upon men of unusual powers and of
unusually delicate perceptions, so that, as all genius must, they break through
the illusion of the unity of the personality and perceive that the self is made
up of a bundle of selves, they have only to say so and at once the majority
puts them under lock and key, calls science to aid, diagnoses schizomania and
protects humanity from the necessity of hearing the cry of truth from the lips
of these unfortunate persons. (Herrman
Hesse)
The image of every true
act, the strength of every true feeling, belongs to eternity. Eternity is the
kingdom on the other side of time and appearances. It is where we belong. It is
our home. It is that which our heart strives for. - - We have to stumble
through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to
guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness. (ibid)
[The Personality
Re-build Workshop/ the chess pieces]
“The separation of the
unity of the personality into numerous “pieces” passes for madness. Science’s
‘schizomania’ is, in this, so far right as no multiplicity may be dealt with
unless there be a series, a certain order or grouping. It is wrong insofar as
it holds that there is only one binding, lifelong order possible for the
multiplicity of the subordinate selves. In the art of building up the soul we
can demonstrate to anyone whose soul has fallen to pieces that he can rearrange
these pieces of a previous self in whatever order he pleases, and so attain to
an endless multiplicity of moves in the game of life.
“As the playwright shapes a
drama from a handful of characters, so do we, from the pieces of the
disintegrated self, build up ever new groups - with ever new interplay and
suspense, and new situations that are eternally inexhaustible.”
- [then the demonstration of “chess” personalities in various
evolving scenarios]
“This is the art of life.
You may yourself as an artist develop the game of your life and lend it
animation. You may complicate it and enrich it as you please. It lies in your
hands. Just as madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so
is schizomania the beginning of all art and all fantasy.”
- - - I knew then that all
the hundred thousand pieces of life’s game were in my pocket. A glimpse of its
meaning had stirred my reason and I was determined to start the game afresh. I
would sample its tortures once more and shudder again at its senselessness. I
would traverse not once more, but often, the hell of my inner being. One day I
would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo
was waiting for me, and Mozart too. (ibid)
During deep meditation it
is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present and
future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is
Brahman. Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good – death
as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. (ibid)
When you think that you
have found God, ask that He speak to you. Ask that he touch your brow, that He
give you a sign, a waft of perfume, a blaze of colour or a heavenly chord of
music. If anything comes, it comes NOT from God. He speaks from within. You
are God. You must give the sign. Enter the Stream. (Max Freedom Long)
Fortunate is the
man who ceases to live as some blind leader of the blind has commanded, and
uses his God-given sense in winning through to the normal in all things. To
love the High Self is normal. To love the low self is the way to health and
happiness. To love and work generously and helpfully with those around us is
the sure way to growth and contentment. Success is to have enough so that you
can feed a neighbor in distress. To have more than enough and fail to feed the
hungry neighbor is the worst of failures. To have life in your body and fail to
share it with the Father-Mother is courting disaster. First, come to know
yourself. Then, strive to know and understand those about you. (ibid)
As for man, his days are as grass:
as
a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is
gone;
and
the place thereof shall know it no more. (Psalms
103: 15-16)
It is obvious, once the fact is pointed out, that the character of human
history, the character of human conduct, and the character of all our human
institutions depend both upon what man is and in equal or
greater measure upon what we humans think man is. (Cassius
J Keyser)
People
don't have souls in the same way they have arms and noses; they ARE souls, i.e.
living centers of energy, thought, and personality; animals, to the
extent that they have consciousness, are souls too.
(Tom
Harpur)
My
concept is that the location of human memory (long term) may reside in the
“soft discs” of our DNA. Along with
the rest of our genetic coding, perhaps the tracks of imprints of the family,
clan or tribe are also stored and flash into consciousness in youth. Using the
analogy of silicon chips and their use in computers, one psychologist suggests
that ‘protein chips’ in the RNA (which the DNA uses to direct the activities of
individual cells) could hold much more information, extending back through
one's ancestors and eventually linking all humanity in a unified family. (ibid)
[G.W.F. Hegel (1770 - 1831) - German
Romanticist (circa Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron), developed the "Principle
of Contradiction" to explain the nature of thought. The core of
the Hegelian logic was a ‘dialectic’ or movement of the thought process,
consisting of three stages (triads):
1. a thesis
which is contradicted by
2. an antithesis;
and
3. a synthesis
in which thesis & antithesis are reconciled and transcended. The process is
dynamic, in that the synthesis then becomes a new theses, which is tested
against a further antithesis to yield a further synthesis (based on earlier experiences/hypothesis)
etc.; and in this fashion thought streams are developed.
For instance, in
the dialectic of “Being ___ Self” ---
{work up from (a)}
(thesis) (antithesis) (synthesis)
measure of self-being ¨ essence of self-being = notion of whole-self (d)
_________________________________________________
(thesis) (antithesis) (synthesis)
quality of
self-being ¨ quantity
of self-being = measure of self-being(c)
_____________________________________________
(thesis) (antithesis) (synthesis)
becoming
being ¨ determinate
being = being for self (b)
_________________________________________________
(thesis) (antithesis) (synthesis)
being ¨ nothing = becoming being (a)
-
- - in the partial example above (the Being - Essence - Notion triad),
each concept (e.g. Measure of Self-Being) is itself the synthesis of a
subordinate contradictory triad (Quality-Quantity-Measure) etc. Using this
dialectic "key", Hegel's objective idealism system proceeded to a
final, all-inclusive triad - Idea, Nature, Spirit, which
indicates that synthetic Spirit transcends the contradictory concepts of Ideas
and Nature. While a neat package, the Hegelian rationalist system was a product
of its times (Newtonian “clock-work”): it was/is useful for linear deductive
reasoning but isn’t thought to provide quality yields where accessing
multiplexing referent channels - e.g. intuition - must be utilized so as to
“process” complex, subtle areas requiring inductive reasoning.]
SUBUD:
On its own level each of the life forces (e.g. material, vegetable, animal, human, above human, etc.) constitutes a world of its own; for example, the material world contains millions of worlds analogous to the souls of human beings in this world. The souls of each of these worlds tend to be drawn towards and enter certain focal points of attraction wherever these are available. Such foc