Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Mind/Body Non-Dichotomies And Other Bedtime Stories...




This is something I wrote on a message board about the whole mind/body thought process people have. So many people want to change their minds, and think they can do it without any change in the body, like the two aren't the same thing. Like two minds with the same body, are not the samebody. Anyways. I think it's an interesting point for the purposes of this blog, and I wanted to share it with people who may not read message boards(message boards are the new/old salons, I'm slightly baffled why people have not caught onto this. Especially advertisers. I'm suprised every brand doesn't have a message board on it's website. I feel like every website almost should have a message board, just standard...anyways. That's a diffrent rant). So yeah.

Oh yeah. So the context was in response to a guy who was wanting to gear his artistic craft towards consciousness transformation(which was obviously of great interested to me) Here it is:

"The body obscures nothing. It's only because you seperate it from the mind that you feel that way. But just think about in terms of biology and how the nervous system is setup. The body is in charge of input and output, the brain is in charge of responding to and managing those impulses. If anything obscures it's the mind. But as I said, the two aren't seperate. The conception that they are is why you got blockage. Manipulating your senses is manipulationg your body AND mind. Consciousness steps in time with body, and context is framed coexisteningly. Your brain doesn't literally go like "MOVE ARM!" There's an interdependent relationship between the eyes seeing a fastball coming right at you, the reaction, to raise your glove to catch it, and the recollection of like movements. All of that happens at almost the exact same moment, and you can't say any of them are leading the way. Is the eye controlling the body because it sees the ball? Is the mind controlling the eye, because it knows what a ball is, is the arm controlling both by it moving up to catch it fast enough?

The only reason I'm fervent on this point, is because you say you are interested in altering your consciousness. But you don't understand how consciousness is built, how it works, or how it relates to the body. And what's worse you actively deny those associations to such an extent, that the only consciousness changing you experience will be fleeting, and your version of consciousness will end up less like the Buddha, and more like the Badu. "

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