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Mind Speed
One of my nieces recently sampled my blog and told me: “sometimes the words seem to flow faster than I can read them“. Another person once told me: “you talk faster than I can think“. Alas, such is the downside of having a racy mind.
If you believe the curve above, then the question of how to slow down a speedy mind may have occurred to you. Well, there are tried and true temporary solutions to the dilemma: music, drugs, exercise, alcohol, and meditation.
If you suffer from a racy mind, what works for you? Do you know of any permanent solutions?
Hijacked By Thought
In “The Most Direct Means To Eternal Bliss“, Michael Langford nails BD00 personally with a bullet to the forehead:
Confusing “knowing-insight-awareness” with “conceptual knowing“. That’s exactly the rut I’m in. What rut are you in?
operateUntilDeath()
Putting aside the “NotYouAndMe” class name in the bogus BD00 model below for a moment, I think most powerful and wealthy people believe that they can willfully control their feelings, actions, and behaviors via a “Conscious Executive” entity hosted within their brain. Objects of this fictitious class “require” and are “provided” energy by the one and only “life force“.
“NotYouAndMe” objects continually execute the “operateUntilDeath()” function in a “while(alive)” loop until the “life force” asynchronously pulls the plug – which can be anytime and anywhere. D’oh!
Each cycle through the “operateUntilDeath()” function goes something like this:
- Poll your senses for objects and events “out there“.
- Evaluate the sensor input data against prior memories accumulated and stored in your “Experience Database“.
- Speak/act according to whether you consciously perceive the current landscape as a threat or an opportunity.
The only problem with the model above (beside the fact that it’s another whacky BD00 concoction) is the “conscious” part playing the CEO of your corpus. That’s why the aggregator class is aptly named “NotYouAndMe“. To see this fallacy more vividly, feast your eyes upon the real, Nobel prize winning “YouAndMe” model below.
The BD00 mandated reality is that there’s a hidden and oft-denied “Unconscious Executive” behind the scenes that enables/disables the “Conscious Executive” object whenever it damn well pleases. In effect, the “Conscious Executive” gets sloppy seconds on the sensor data only after it’s been censored and chewed up by the “Unconscious Executive”. In totally clueless people like BD00, the “Conscious Executive” is rarely, if ever, “enabled“. D’oh!
How about you dear reader? Do you believe that you’re “fully in control and in charge”? Are you a “Conscious Executive“? The more you believe it, the less it is.
Finite Experience
I’ve just dropped in for a visit. How about you?
What Do You Do?
While perusing Dan Pink’s FLIP-Manifesto, point number 5 triggered a “WTF?” moment within my being:
“Outraged” at Dan’s audacity to attack one of the pillars of my UCB (the burning desire to continually search for personal passion), I navigated directly to the blasphemous pages that rationalize his assertion.
I discovered that Dan is right. In lieu of wrestling with an “endless self-examination and searching for some inscrutable holy emotional grail“, ask “what do I do?” instead of “what is my passion?“.
What do you think? More importantly, “what do you do“?
Structure, Not Content
The problem is not the content, it’s the conditioned structure of the human mind – Eckhart Tolle
If the structure of one’s mind has been conditioned and molded into a crystallized pyramid from birth (and whose mind hasn’t?), then its time-varying content will be heavily distorted by pyramidal thoughts. You know, those thoughts that put you at the top of the pyramid so that everyone will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you’re smarter and more important than they are.
Obscured By Me
I hate when this happens….
…which is ALL the time. D’oh!
Turning Inward
As usual, BD00 is delusional and frustratingly confused. Just about every spiritual book I’ve ever read says that one has to turn inward and leap into “the abyss” to experience lasting peace. The implication is that no matter how valiantly hard one tries, an individual can’t find peace, joy, and gratitude “out there“. Thus, frequent calls to “stop the search!” can be found in many spiritual teachings.
On the flip side, several “soft” business and psychology books that I’ve read proffer that turning inward too often may not be such a good idea. Here’s a confirming snippet from Theresa Amabile’s (wonderfully written and highly recommended) “The Progress Principle“:
A 1995 study out of the University of British Columbia showed how research participants who encountered problems in their quest to achieve goals that were personally important to them focused more attention on themselves and spent more time ruminating on those events. Since self-focused attention has often been linked to depression, such findings suggest that people’s emotional well-being can be damaged in the short run when they face discrepancies between goals that are important to their identity or sense of self-worth and what they actually achieved.
“A First-Rate Madness” author Nassir Ghaemi also touches on the downside of turning inward by describing the “depressive realism” hypothesis that can be attributed to tortured leaders like Churchill, Lincoln, and King:
This theory argues that depressed people aren’t depressed because they distort reality; they’re depressed because they see reality more clearly than other people do.
Zen Buddhism is loaded with paradoxical teachings and koans. Ironically, the “logic” is that when the mind can’t resolve two opposing concepts being held in the mind at the same time, at some point the mind eventually gives up on “logic” – providing an opening for peace, joy and gratitude to rush in and fill the void.
So, what do you think? Does turning inward facilitate depression, or peace/joy/gratitude? Is there a half-way point?
Discrete, Not Continuous?
I’m in the process of reading my seventh layman’s book on quantum physics. It’s written by quantum physicist William Bray and its long winded title is: “Quantum Physics, Near Death Experiences, Eternal Consciousness, Religion, and the Human Soul“.
Mr. Bray writes something fascinating about space and time that I don’t recall seeing in any of the other QP books:
On a Planck scale, each moment exists in an isolated region (we call a Planck interval) of space-time existing only in the past or future to another point, and never in the present. No two things anywhere in space-time share a common present, no matter how close they are to one another, all the way down to 10**(-35) meters, or 10**(-44) seconds, apart. – William Bray (p. 31). Kindle Edition
In other words, Mr. Bray asserts that space and time are not continuous dimensions, they’re discrete. The universe is not analog, it’s digital. The movement of energy and matter in time is herky-jerky, jump-to-jump, like a motion picture. However, it “looks” smooth and continuous because of the lack of resolution and sensitivity of our woefully inadequate senses and sense-extending tools. D’oh!
Here’s what Wikipedia says about Planck time:
Theoretically, this is the smallest time measurement that will ever be possible. As of May 2010, the smallest time interval that was directly measured was on the order of 12 attoseconds (12 × 10**(−18) seconds)…. All scientific experiments and human experiences happen over billions of billions of billions of Planck times, making any events happening at the Planck scale hard to detect.
My interpretation is that we will never be able to mechanistically detect what happens between two adjacent planck time points.
So, what do you think exists between two adjacent, discrete, planck time points? Could it be that bits of infinite consciousness leak into the finite universe?
After doing some superficial research on Mr. Bray, I’ve become quite skeptical:
- There are no recommendations/testimonials from peers on the inside or backside covers of the book.
- Googling on “William Joseph Bray” doesn’t reveal that much.
- He’s got a facebook page, but I’m not a member so I didn’t get to see it.
- I discovered his web site, and his credentials seem to be too extensive to be believable.
Nevertheless, the book is a fascinatingly refreshing and novel read. In a nutshell, his main theme is that consciousness is not caused by bio-chemical processes in the brain, it’s quite the opposite. Infinite consciousness lies outside of the finite physical universe and it thus paints the universe into being by “collapsing the wavefunction“. Consciousness is the ultimate observer and it creates you and me and everything else in the universe.
Don’t forget, BD00 is a self-proclaimed L’artiste, so don’t believe a word he sez. What do you think?
The Universal Process Of Personal Experience
Yesterday’s post revealed to the world the static structure of the system in our head that brings personal experience to life. In the scoop of a lifetime (Geraldo Rivera eat your heart out), the system elements (mind, ego, thoughts, feelings) and the relationships between them were unmasked and exposed for all to marvel at. Woot!
Today, on the day we camp out at the feed trough and give thanks, we’ll explore the mysterious dynamics involved in this system design from the divine. Lo and behold… the universal process that creates personal experience from nothingness:
Via a yet undiscovered secret global WiMax communication system that uses quantum tunneling for zero latency source-to-sink transmission, impersonal thoughts (conjured up in the sole Thought Factory located in China) are manufactured and coupled to the ether. The mechanistic brain then serves as a receiver of thoughts and the source of fuel for the personal Ego.
Next up in the zero latency pipeline is the Ego (a.k.a the “little” me). The Ego analyzes, interprets, gives meaning to, and binds feelings to each received thought that it decides to accept. These “I” thoughts are then injected into the Mind and, voila, personal experience is manifest!
So that’s it folks. Rejoice! You don’t have to go to church anymore and you can call off the search for enlightenment . By using BD00 as a conduit from the unknown to the known, the universe has revealed all.
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WTF?
Meh!
D'oh!
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