In several ways there is no such thing as loss?; In human form the body ages as does everything around one and eventually the body dies and decomposes so can be considered loss. OK so preserving the body merely preserves the form to some extent but not the enlivening principle. So birth and death are an expected event and yet many fight to put off the day of the day of demise.
It's strange many accumulate possessions and surround themselves with as many assurances and insurances as possible and the more one gains the more the loss is felt. It is identification with assurances and insurances that forms one's identity and when the forms lessen or are denied one may vainly try to grasp the expiring form of the loss, like holding on to melting ice in the hand. The strange thing is one may know all about loss and its relationship to reality and that reality lasts as long as the form or assumption is of it and yet we may vainly kid or fool ourselves loss is a facet of life that is somehow a delusion and we are in denial about it.
Then we may arrive at the empty atom
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How did we arrive from this emptiness? Because the Universe and us are made of the empty atom and is there loss in emptiness?
Whether we like it or not we maybe just 'mind stuff' just an aware consciousness and the fact we do not really exist in the human or Universal planet and star form, just a dream in a consciousness and in fact we have been fooling ourselves we exist as corporeal carnal entities, maybe we have convinced ourselves over the billions of years that we are fleshly solid and here now. Are we though?
Deviant Art
Maybe we cannot live with the thought 'I am just an Idea' and so we believe ourselves so much and brain wash and condition ourselves so deeply and so fearful that we maybe an idea dropped here as it were by some mysterious hand in the sky and hopefully pray to that hand in which we may never see the arm that leads to the face. I am here you say and as I take photographs and look in the mirror we age, we do make overs and cosmetic surgery however underneath rust and decay carries on and we wonder when this form vanishes what then?
Then we may consider if I was an idea in a mind does that mind really want to keep its dream, its fantasy, its form for ever and so loves its fantasies and dreams and on waking up to its own delusions of illusions decide to carry on with new concoctions. Maybe the dreamer is bored with the same old, same old and endeavours to create more and more outlandish and complex form in order to amuse itself or try to escape from its old beliefs and fears of not existing, maybe the dreamer loses itself in its dreams in order to enjoy and escape the deep intuitive knowing it is all a dream, a puff of wind that moves the clouds and in itself denies and fools itself it is real. The dreamer hides hoping its unreality will not find it.
So to dream and wake up and to realise there is no such thing as loss because the empty atom was empty and just a piece of a jigsaw that produced nothing in itself and did not exist in real terms but just thought it did.
Hey so who are you? Are you a you at all? Does it really matter? And talking about matter what is that made of or consist of? Why atoms of course!!!???
When I meditate it is like a haphazard sitting waiting on for nothing. An empty mind just looking, waiting, alert for no purpose and that is to just, Zen, sit and await the fate of the empty mind, empty of personal thought, the ego beast for the moment quiet and acquiescent,biddable but not meek in that sense of helplessness.
I get the feeling of a presence, of a vast unfathomable space, not the space of the outer Earth limits or to the Moon and beyond, just a consciousness, a being-ness, alive, aware and still and flying on wings of nothingness, on being free and exploring nothing and this is exciting and yet quiet and adorable. I am fascinated by the charm of being and absolutely nothing to see, hear or touch the Earthly senses and heavy weight of my body gone as I Fly In God'Mind. I am flying in consciousness, I am flying in the space of Mind. I AM.
My body gone and what a relief, oh the freedom and yet at present not to relinquish or depart from this dear form -----yet?----and who knows when!!!?
I say God, yes, not because of any 'holy' feeling just a knowing that God is God without having to give reason or explanation. I could say Great Spirit, Creator, Great Source of Life and so on and yet this does not do credit to the feeling or intent.
Space is not the space that Astronauts and rockets fly in or the planets and stars abide in or come out of the nothingness of the quantum field. It is something far and yet close and it baffles the mind of the thinker and scientist, the philosopher and prophets, the wise seers and magicians.
It is consciousness that creates space, space in the real sense of it, is awareness which is aliveness and aliveness is aware of itself as living. Living without form, a sort of energy, a potential, ready to release itself and yet be contained in this store of endless potential which is being alive without purpose, living to explode into purpose without limit and instantaneous, spontaneous and yet not impulsive an unending creation and yet nothing substantial in it, it is mind stuff and there is no measurement here or there, just an unfolding nothing and all is transparent and a hologram, the magicians sleight of hand and yet bewildering real and knowing it is not.
It is consciousness that creates the space we human perceive and everything arises in that space, the space of consciousness witnesses the created form. Consciousness being alive and thriving creates the light of awareness which in its turn facilitates the witness to the creation of itself.
The galaxies, the stars, the planets, the ET, Angels, the Black holes and all the wonders of the Universe are there and waiting for the created witnessing forms like humans and others to explore and find. Like the miniature villages and toy lands where parents take their children and delight to show them and delight in their delight. So astronauts and AI robotic electronic digitalised whatnots roam an already created Universe and the witnessing awareness, the God essence in one thrills at the created form enjoying the delights it created for them.
The forms be they planets or human, angels or ET in their shape and form are made of the elements and atoms which in themselves are just frequencies and vibrations and really have no substance to speak of in real terms, so this glittering Universe is a light show and any space traveller is really only travelling in a consciousness which has bestowed as gift most precious a portion of its own consciousness, so in fact God is admiring Its own handiwork through Its creation and us and its myriad other forms being like the children in Leggo Land cooing and having fun and our parent creator delighting in our delight.
So dear space traveller it is a privilege to be flying through and with the Mind Of God, go with reverence and delight and be humbled by the vastness of it and seek to find that space of 'knowingness' that intuitive part of yourself that knows creation and yourself are one.
As Consciousness is the all pervading and yet does not move in itself in a way because it has no physical form as such but is the essence of the physical senses that the human feels and bewildering knows its all atoms and bits that are waves at times and sort of bits and particles it is all in the mind and as such just enjoy the freedom flying without movement and beholding the light show and the many wonders therein.
This morning of the 24th July 2022 on a bright very warm morning at approximately 08.40 I am typing this and about a couple of hours earlier and sort of ruminating meditating in bed an experience came to me and as usual it is difficult or taxing and sometimes exasperating to 'get' the feel and meaning.
The night before I had watched the Women's Football quarter final between France and Belgium which France won and now face Germany in the Semi Final and after that I watched a movie I had partially recorded and then viewed the remainder. The film had a very subtle yet big meaning for me. The film was 'Lucy in Space'.
Lucy in the film 'Lucy in Space' and Dr Edgar Mitchell had a mystical experience transformed by THERE IS MORE;
How a nine-hour lunar walk and a return to Earth transformed a fighter pilot’s consciousness forever and put him on the path of self-discovery;
By Ellen Mahoney
From July 1969 to December 1972 the world watched with anticipation, excitement and sometimes fear as twelve courageous astronauts walked on the moon during six historic Apollo missions.
Going to the moon and walking on the lunar surface took exceptional skill and fortitude for the select moonwalkers. Each astronaut had trained for years with NASA. Many were test pilots, and nearly all were in the military. Being able to fly to the moon, set foot on it, and return home was a profound and even mystical experience for many of these space-faring astronauts. For Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell it was life changing.
Mitchell was the Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 flight, which lasted from January 31, 1971 to February 9, 1971. He traveled to the moon with Commander Alan Shepard and Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa. Seeing Earth from space, as he sped toward the moon, was a tremendous, life-altering experience for him. In his book Psychic Exploration he wrote, “The first thing that came to mind as I looked at Earth was its incredible beauty. Even the spectacular photographs do not do it justice. It was a majestic sight—a splendid blue and white jewel suspended against a velvet black sky.” Once on the moon, there was much more to absorb. Mitchell and Shepard walked on the lunar surface for nearly nine hours over two days. They completed many science experiments, collected nearly one hundred pounds of moon rocks, and made the longest moonwalk on foot of any Apollo astronaut. Shepard made headlines for hitting an “otherworldly” golf ball up there, but Mitchell’s return home to Earth provided him a transcendent experience that forever transformed him.
Return to Earth
After Mitchell had completed his major tasks on the moon, the ride home was, by contrast, a time of relaxation and reflection. He now had time to sit back in the spacecraft and just peer out the window as a cosmic sightseer—and the view was magnificent. In a 2016 video he said, “I was on the way home and was observing the heavens and the Earth from this distance. (I was) observing the passing of the heavens. As we were rotating, I saw the Earth, the sun, the moon, in a 360-degree panorama of the heavens.” And because there is no atmosphere in space, Mitchell said everything looked ten times brighter than on Earth. As he stared out the window, an unforgettable feeling of ecstasy and unity washed over him. He felt connected to the stars on a subatomic level with his body, his crew, and even his spacecraft. In his book The Way of the Explorer he wrote, “It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me.” He said every time he looked out the window during that three-day trip back to Earth, he had this incredible, overwhelming feeling of joy.
NASA Moon walk: In his official NASA portrait
What in the World?
Trained as a scientist, with degrees in aeronautics and astronautics, Mitchell felt driven to find out what exactly had happened to him in the spacecraft. The experience had been highly visceral, unlike anything he had ever known, and he wanted to gain an understanding of it. He delved into books and the brains of scientists, looking for insights. When his conversations with scientists didn’t yield satisfying answers, he turned to people in other fields, such as anthropology, spirituality and religion.
Finally, individuals from Rice University in Houston, Texas, told Mitchell about a concept he had never heard of called samadhi, an ancient Sanskrit word describing an intense, heightened state of consciousness, an inner connection with things and a feeling of oneness with the universe. This one word, he felt, best explained his tremendous experience. A few other words, too, helped define what had happened to him: metanoia (a transformative change of heart) and satori (sudden enlightenment). He often said that his experience could be explained as an epiphany, a moment of sudden inspiration or insight.
In a 1993 interview with HINDUISM TODAY magazine, Mitchell offered that his deep-space samadhi could also be likened to the kundalini force, which can sit dormant in the first chakra at the base of the spine until it is awakened. “Yes,” he said, “that’s exactly what I was experiencing, the primordial energy of the universe, the primal and subtlest energies.” Other astronauts, he said, told him they had similar spiritual experiences. He was the only one who really wanted to talk about it.
Whatever it was that had happened to him, Mitchell felt wholly and utterly transformed by that three-day journey home and soon began to make sweeping changes in his life.
A Whole New Life
Completely absorbed in the mind and consciousness as his compelling new frontier, Mitchell had no further interest in the military or the exploration of space. Within about a year of his return from the moon, he retired from a twenty-year career in the Navy—the last six years of that period being with NASA. He has often said he went from “outer space to inner space.” Unfortunately, his fascination with this new exploration impacted his relationship with his wife of 21 years, and she divorced him. “It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me.”
–Astronaut Mitchell
He started to meditate, and continued the practice for the rest of his life. In the introduction to his book Psychic Exploration he defined meditation in scientific terms: “Studies of yogis, Zen masters, transcendental meditators, and people of other traditions are demonstrating that meditation produces qualitative and beneficial shifts in psycho-physiological condition. Alpha and theta brain waves are two physiological correlates being found for psychological stages of meditation, along with changes in breathing, heartbeat rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, and various other metabolic correlates.” Mitchell would have been concerned about all these metabolic issues as a moonwalker because NASA mission control was constantly monitoring his body as he explored the lunar surface. At one point, while walking more than a mile to the mission destination of Cone Crater, the heart rates of both Mitchell and Shepard soared; the two were told to turn back for their safety and unfortunately they were unable to reach their destination.
In addition to meditating, Mitchell became a peacenik. Though he had spent many years in the military and was a fighter pilot—as was his younger brother, Jay Neely Mitchell, who was serving in the Vietnam War while Edgar was walking on the moon—war and fighting now went against his sensibilities. The beauty and fragility of Earth, as seen from hundreds of thousands of miles away, changed how he felt about our planet. In his memoir, Earthrise, he wrote, “I could see how incredibly beautiful our blue-green Earth looked against the black sky. It was my home. I suddenly felt very protective of Earth and started to see everyone on the planet in a more sacred way.” He felt convinced war was wrong and hoped our politicians and leaders could also see Earth from his deep-space perspective. He believed they would have a new perspective, hopefully a peaceful one.
Mitchell was quoted in an April 8, 1974 People Magazine article: “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.”
Other Apollo astronauts have agreed. Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins stated in a 2009 NASA interview, “The Earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”
Mitchell’s moon mission made him more aware of sustainability issues. Growing up on a farm, he understood where food comes from. Although he did not become a vegetarian after his moon mission, Mitchell said he developed an increased awareness of how food is processed and what kinds of foods he consumed. In a 2016 video on sustainability produced by the Eternea research organization, he said, “From space it is obvious that everything on Earth is interconnected. We all breathe the same air, use the same water, and we all share the planet’s resources.”
An Avid Interest in Consciousness
Edgar Mitchell is known for his life work in unraveling questions about the mysteries of life and consciousness. His 1971 samadhi in space triggered an intense drive to investigate consciousness and unexplained issues such as extrasensory perception, telepathy and clairvoyance.
Mitchell’s initial interest in paranormal topics developed during the 1960s, when he became fascinated by the ESP research done by Duke University parapsychologist Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine. The Apollo 14 moon mission gave him a unique opportunity to indulge his scientific curiosity. During his personal time on the spacecraft he conducted four private experiments with four individuals back on Earth, testing whether ESP might bridge up to 240,000 miles of space. Using numbers assigned to the five standard symbols (circle, cross, wavy lines, square, star) of ESP Zener cards, he conducted two tests on the way to the moon and two tests on the way back. The four individuals on Earth were to try to write down the symbols in the same order Mitchell thought about them.
NASA Landing at sea: Navy divers assist the three Apollo 14 astronauts out of their Command Module moments after it fell into the Pacific Ocean on February 9, 1971;
Back on Earth, the results of these deep-space ESP experiments were analyzed by Dr. J.B. Rhine, parapsychologist Dr. Karlis Osis of the American Society of Psychical Research, and by Mitchell himself. He said the data was difficult to evaluate because lift-off from Earth had been delayed, affecting the timing of the tests. In Psychic Exploration he wrote, “The results were statistically significant … because the number of hits was amazingly low. The statistical probability of scoring so few hits was about 3000:1.” He explained that this negative ESP effect was called psi-missing, which in itself offered evidence for the power of psi (psychic phenomena): the striking difference from chance results showed that something was happening, even though the effect was not what was expected. In Way of the Explorer Mitchell wrote, “The results of our in-flight effort suggested that there was some kind of communication being achieved during the experiment that wasn’t through the conduit of conventional transmission.” A report of his findings, “An ESP Test from Apollo 14,” was published in the June, 1971, issue of the Journal of Parapsychology. “An invisible and subtle essence is the Spirit of the whole universe. That is Reality. That is Truth. Thou art That.”
–Upanishads
Mitchell’s research into consciousness took him around the planet, searching for answers from all sorts of people including shamans, psychics, and spiritual healers. Along with changes in his lifetime, his circle of friends and colleagues was changing.
In 1972 he met two unique individuals, American healer Norbu Chen and Israeli psychic Uri Geller. Chen had studied Tibetan Buddhism and ancient shamanistic practices. At one point Chen tried to help Mitchell’s mother, Ollidean, with her failing eyesight. Mitchell said his mother’s eyesight was corrected at first but then reverted back. Geller is best known for being able to bend a metal spoon with his mind. His psychic abilities were studied at the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, in the early 1970s. Mitchell was fascinated by Chen and Geller (whose abilities and claims were criticized as well as applauded) and wrote about both individuals in his books Psychic Exploration and Way of the Explorer.
In 1973 Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to further research the fundamentals of consciousness. Noetic comes from the ancient Greek term nous, which is best translated as “inner knowing” or “intuitive consciousness.” The IONS website (www.noetic.org) describes Noetic Sciences as “A multidisciplinary field that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the full range of human experiences.” Since its founding, IONS has focused on key subjects such as mind-body interactions and the intersection of science with spiritual experience. Today IONS is located in Petaluma, California. Its current areas of research include consciousness and healing, extended human capacities, and worldview transformations.
COURTESY CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS Landing at sea: Mitchell mapping his historic 33 hours on the moon.
NASA Ellen Mahoney is a professor of journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She helped Dr. Edgar Mitchell write Earthrise—My Adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut. She is the author of Gandhi for Kids. Contact: evm@infionline.net
We Are Not Alone
Edgar Mitchell is widely known for his outspoken views about extraterrestrials and his belief that we are not alone in the universe. He discussed these concepts on radio and television shows, in Internet videos, and in speeches and books, remarking that he and the other eleven Apollo moonwalkers were, in fact, extraterrestrials from Earth visiting a different heavenly body.
The seed for his interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials was planted early. He grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, and the nearby city of Artesia. On July 8, 1947, he opened the Roswell Daily Record to find a headline in big bold letters: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.” (RAAF was the Roswell Army Air Field.) The story captured the boy’s attention, and he wondered if a UFO had truly crashed. But the next day the newspaper came out with a new story, saying the crashed “UFO” had actually been a crashed weather balloon. He seemed to accept this explanation at the time, focused on preparing to start college in the fall at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Increasing Scientific Interest
Though many people accept and are open to the ideas that Mitchell put forth about life in the universe beyond Earth, he has sometimes been ridiculed for his beliefs. Mitchell never deviated, however, from what he believed to be true. Today, with large space telescopes helping us see how incredibly vast the cosmos is and finding more and more Earth-like planets, more and more people are open to the idea that we are not alone in the universe.
Science and math are integral in this exploration. Many scientists use the widely known Drake Equation to evaluate the possibility of life in space. Written in 1961 by Harvard astronomer Dr. Frank D. Drake and often cited by famous astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, this equation is a method for estimating the number of possible extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. It has inspired scientists to explore the possibility of sentient life beyond Earth.
Dr. Drake has also been a key figure in the SETI Institute (an acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), which was founded in 1984 in California. The SETI Institute explores the origin and nature of life in the universe and is sponsored by a number of organizations such as NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer for SETI, believes we will find ET life in the not-too-distant future. And in a 2014 Tyson Series video, “Are We Alone in the Universe?” astrophysicist Dr. Neil de-Grasse Tyson said, “It would be inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we are alone in the cosmos. The chemistry is too rich to declare that. The universe—too vast.”
A Visionary
Edgar Mitchell was a unique space explorer who came from a family of pioneers. In a matter of only one hundred years, his great grandparents crossed the US after the Civil War in covered wagons in search of a better life out west, his father was born when the Wright brothers made their first flight—and he walked on the moon. He was and continues to be a visionary for this planet, shining an important light on the great mysteries of consciousness and the cosmos. In Psychic Exploration he expressed his wishes for our planet: “Humanity must rise from man to mankind, from the personal to the transpersonal, from self-consciousness to cosmic consciousness.” It’s exciting to know there is so much yet to explore and understand.
What is a name? It is a
mere symbolic ‘gesture’. This form which I go under is Geoff Freed, what does
this actually mean or define?To all
reports and circumstances I am a product of nature, a female fertilised egg and
a male sperm in my case from my biological parents.
This natural outgrowth
from nature and some say the author of nature is a product of an all pervading
invisible intelligence, a creator, God Almighty and some say the result of a
mysterious‘Big Bang’ an accident without
cause or design, a mere random effect. Neither assumption or statement can
categorically be proven by science.
However as I type these
words and the huge noise of my flat door being replaced as a result of new fire
precautions I feel with my human senses I am here and present on or in Earth.
Therefore, this organic
structure has been named Geoff, which is personal and unique as are my DNA and
fingerprints. Mind you there are other persons named Geoff short for Geoffrey, Freed is
my altered family name, which I took to alter by a solicitor or notary which
was my mothers maiden name which has nothing to do when she married my father
and his name was Glickenfried and my mothers maiden name being Bilangroski.
Therefore, this biological
organic form as long as it lasts in being alive whether conscious or not
conscious of itself, be it coma or senility or compos mentis is labelled or
tagged with this moniker.
When this organic
biological form dies it decomposes and from a purely scientific view becomes a
‘past label’ and if not famous or a celebrity forgotten perhaps even by one’s
nearest and dearest so to speak.
What strange event in the
vastness of time and space, what was the point or main objective in this
appearance of the so one called Geoff Freed DNA and Fingerprint.
Many have tried to fathom
the purpose of creation and existence.
Again some say there is no
purpose just the innate knowledge of the genetic structure to perpetuate
itself, a sort of survival instinct at any cost and mutations or variants to
serve its ultimate aim, which in itself a mystery and maybe even to itself and
yet a strange inert instinctual prompt which makes it from inert to
manifestation.
Then there are viruses and
bacteria and simple compounds that mutate and use variants to perpetuate the
species or whatever they may term these units of the plan, which they are said to
be simple life forms that came out of the ‘cosmic soup’ a sort of sea spawned
by thewhatever Universe.
So this Earth a spacecraft
of a unique and distinct nature bearing many forms ‘Earthanauts’ and beautiful
fauna and animals, birds, whales and fish and array of insects, microbes and so
much abundance of everything.
This whirling spacecraft
with its inhabitants going around in orbits with its neighbours in the solar
system which in turn go around in orbits, in fact the Cosmos seems to be wheels
within wheels so to speak and these cycles all in the various rhythms and each
to their own and yet set in patterns and cycles that seem to be an eco
systemin symbiosis.
Speeding away in seemingly
to an unending space to travel in and to a mysterious destination or is there a
destination? Maybe as the stars wear out and explode and the debris being the
fertiliser for the next generation this self-perpetuation is a form of
resurrection and ‘reincarnative’ and is the reason behind cycles and perhaps
the human form copies the above cycles? Many Yogis, Adepts, Shamans with
Mystics it is said do resurrect and decease at will, so there is this natural
recycling and for what purpose?
Science will say it is an
instinctive purpose with no particular reason other than to perpetuate and form
ever-adaptive variations.An example is
like ice cubes in a jar and they melt their surfaces adapt to the changing
interrelationships and sense of the relationship. Then again those who feel
that there is an intelligent plan, a creator and that this evolutionary process
is the unfolding of the plan. Well then, this is one’s predilection.
Many have wrestled with
this quandary; for my part I have turned to existentialism of a sort by
extinguishing or deleting and whittling down to certain basic concepts which
may or not be applicable to the quandary stated; the event of the discovery of
the atom and the quantum field, the particles, the empty atom, the uncertainty
principle and so something in this to me suggests that something arrives from
nothing and is about the same as the big bang in some ways and yet with
experiments such as the two split experiment suggesting an observer and other
experiments suggest there is a witness and observer and interacts with the
‘electron, photon, atom' and so on, along with the many anomalies that are are apparent.
So knowing that these
ideas and thoughts were not original and many had and are contemplating these
issues and have their own deliberations, however mine is and is stated so many
times in article before; all concepts as above are and have been handed down
and in a way I have been conditioned on some of them so to disentangle I felt to
do a Zen meditation typeexploration.
Since all concepts are thoughts bundled together in a seemingly logical and
intellectual sequences then by being the observer, the witness in a non
judgemental way, by watching the breath and by experience the busy mind
suddenly of its own subsides into a calm peace, not a trance this has been
proved by various brain monitors and then one actually witness mind in its
pristine form, one is alert and fully functioning and noise and so on is like
in a distance but recognised but not analysed.
This experience seems to
suggest that there is a consciousness and indeed intelligence; in this quiet
mind, an empty mind, intuitive and inspirational ideas, not in words but in
micro flashes as it were and I comprehend instantaneously what is meant, an
understanding that bypasses my normal thinking modes.
This leads me onto an intelligence
that is the observer and has its own ‘brain logic cognition’, and is indeed
beyond the and behind the human mind brain logical intellectual academic
scientific, theological, political and general historic critique.
This then leads one out of
the ‘wheel of Karma’ and the hamster wheel. One is an observer and experiences but not caught in the trap of the perpetuation of the cycles. One is in this world
but not of it.
Then on the death of the organism
there is a sense of a natural occurrence and part of the ‘way of things’ the
Tao / Dao’ and the human inculcated will is seen for what it is, which is a
programmed, inculcated conditioned reaction to a brain washed pounding and as
such a habit that is so stuck and ingrained it assumes centre stage as one’s
reality and on really ‘getting the message’ one wakes up an there is an
aliveness without thought simply because thought is seen to be someone else’s
ideas, one has been duped and been taught all one knows.
Because the habit of
programmed thinking is so real and ingrained and has assumed one’s bedrock
reality whether it be atheism, theism, political idealism or whatever, there is
a shock, withdrawal symptoms and a period which seems like madness and ‘loosing
it’ some quit and go back seeking another ‘habit routine’, some to distraction
of various sorts, suicide, suicidal thoughts which can engulf one depression
and many other fantasies, day dreams and anything that relieve the gap of the
so called ‘no mind the empty mind’ , Some feel that this will be a never ending
oblivion and boring or even a raving mad lunatic, anything to give up the habit
of being programmed and enjoying the fruits of routine reaction and being sure
of being sure, even though this can be disastrous. Programmed countries,
ideologies and the rest can lead to confrontation and war because one’s
brainwashing and sense of security is threatened.
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