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Subject: "Body and Self" - an experiment
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The following experiment was posted to another list to which I subscribe. I
have received the authors permission to repost it here. I found it to be
very interesting and as it relates to "body and self" feel it may be
interesting to the subscribers of this list as well. I hope this does not
violate list guidelines.
Sarva Mangalam!
James
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Close your eyes and, with the forefinger, write the letter capital "B" on
your forehead so that, to yourself, it is correctly oriented. Write it
repeatedly as you consider how, to someone facing you, it will look
reversed. That is, your forehead is like a window, and "you" are "inside the
house" looking out. For someone outside to write in the dust on the window
so that you can read it, they will have to write reversed, but you can write
in the dust normally to read the letter "B" correctly from "inside" your
head.
Now, write the same capital "B" on the >back< of your head. Write it
repeatedly, and observe what is the orientation. Is this letter "B"
correctly oriented as viewed from inside your head, looking backwards, or
instead are you writing it and reading it from a vantage point >behind< your
head?
Keep writing the letter and try to locate the "you" that is reading the
letter "B". Where are "you"? Are you not looking at it from "behind" your
head? How can this be?
Is it possible that the consciousness that we normally take as our "self"
is, in this case, not at all "inside" our head, but, in fact, "behind" it?
What does this say about the uncritical identification of our consciousness
with the body? Does this consciousness look >through< the head and out of
the eyes, instead of out of the eyes from within the head?
Next, again write the "B" on your forehead. Then move an inch to your right,
towards your temple, and write it again. Continue moving around the side of
your head, an inch at a time, repeatedly writing the letter "B" until you
are writing it on the back of your head. What happened to your orientation
towards the letter as you reached the side of your head and as you moved to
the back? Where is the vantage point from which you are "observing" the
letters?
Finally, write the letter "B" on the back of your head and try to determine
the distance behind your head from which you are observing it. Are you
seeing it from an inch away? Four inches? Right on the scalp? Is it even
possible to speak here of a "distance"?
I find this "experiment" to be very interesting and somewhat shocking! What
do others think?
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