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Recieved: 2003/02/28 12:11
Subject: Re: [K-list] thinking about mind vs brain
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2003/02/28 12:11, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 02:07 PM 26/02/03, Lavina Leone wrote:
>I have been reading and digesting the conversations about the mind and the
>brain. I have noticed that it is becoming more and more difficult for me
>to express my thoughts with words and even more so to put my thoughts into
>words and write them before they float away, please be patient with me.
Yes. We will.
>As these imperfect things become less and less available to me, and I
>spend increasingly more time with what must be the mind, not the brain, I
>find myself wondering if the condition of my brain is the natural result
>of wanting too much for too long to be connected to the greater mind, the
>universal spirit.
>the phrase 'Be careful what you wish for.' seems to sum up for me just how
>powerful the brain/mind connection actually can be.
I can understand your having that thought, but in my experience, the
karmic feedback on such actions is not so severe. I do not believe that
unconditional love would deliver your desire for spiritual connection, as a
punishment of Alzheimer's.
> It seems to me, these days, that had I known then how powerful the brain
> is that I would not have thought to dismiss its ramblings so easily. I
> would embrace more fully my imperfections, and experience my thoughts
> just for the sake of THEM If I have it to do again and I hope there is
> some truth to remembering past lives because I would like to remember
> this the next time around:
>Spirit is forever, but *this brain* is a short lived gift.
This life, is a short lived gift... this body. This precious moment. It
is not too late to fully embrace your imperfections, as you call them.
>I seek now to savor each moment I can squeeze from it and I do not worry
>so much about the connection to the all mighty universal mind which goes
>on forever, instead I struggle to remember the experience of this moment
>in eternity that is slipping away faster than my physical body.
That is a very grounded perspective. You write very eloquently, of your
experience. It is beautiful. You are beautiful. I am really glad you choose
to share with us.
>Or maybe better yet to use my brain to allow the MIND to experience more
>fully the wonder of life independent of universal mind.
That is IT! Yes... this is wisdom. Goddess experiences life, through
us. Our brains, our bodies. I believe, according to my experience, that
Goddess does not judge, or care about enlightenment, realization.
Experiencing the life of a child, a beggar, Gandhi or Mussolini is equally
precious, to the All. Limitless manifestation, What is, experiencing Is-ness.
Rocks and trees know this, and they have no brain.
I have often thought, that the pursuit of enlightenment is escapism. I
respect those who choose, on whatever level to play the illusion game all
the way through to the end, without looking for the exit, as we 'seekers' do.
The laughter of the Buddha, comes of finally attaining realization, and
also realizing, it does not matter. :) The moment matters, the being, the
here and now and the ordinary-extraordinaryness of being human. Chop wood,
carry water.
Comes to mind...
Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies, for the beauty of the
cinematography, and for one scene. Rutger Hauer, as the replicant whose
time has run out... Saves the man who has been hunting him, to have a
witness to his final moments.
Sound clip: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/4791/
"I've *seen* things
you people
wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire
off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched seabeams
glitter in the dark
near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments
will be lost in time.
Like tears
in rain.
Time
to die"
... and he dies.
So it is, with us all... the Mind merging you spoke of seeking, has
been compared to the loss of the individual ego self, a drop of water
disappearing into the ocean. The nature of memory itself, is ephemeral. How
much can any of us remember, of when we were six years old? Ask me what
happened on this date, last year and I'd come up blank, unless I consulted
my records... my email from that date might give me a clue. Ask me what I
was doing at this time last month, or last week?
Think of something that happened when you were 20... how you felt about
it then, compared to how you see it now. The memories get edited, revised,
perceptions and attitudes change with time.
Yet... according the the Tibetan book of the dead, and stories of NDEs,
the life review after death relives every single moment, the Akashic
records hold it all. So, the thoughts merge, like tears in rain, but are
never truly lost to Mind. Hypnosis experiments have discovered that every
moment of life can be retrieved, with perfect recall and details that may
not have been noticed, at the time.
The hunter, watching the replicant die, muses:
' All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I
come from ? Where am I going ? How long have I got ?
All I could do was sit here and watch him die '.
Thank you, Lavina. Bless...
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