rob van der slootdear Michael, I think you are making one fundamental mistake and that is that its not true that the mind is ALWAYS focusing and unfocusing. This only happens in the waking state. Neurologically its called fase-lock and fase-shift. But when the brain is in sleep state or in dream state (delta or low theta brain wave frequencies), there is no fase-lock or fase-shift. There is even no mind!!!! The mind is out of sight. So where is the mind then? Its not there because the brain does not produce mind activity. The pre-frontal cortex does not produce alpha rythms. The deeper brain regulates that. But there is still another very important state of consciousness, which is beyond the fase-lock and fase-shift mode of the brain. That is pure consciousness, the goal of the search of the mind, the total unbounded level of consciousness. There also fase-lock and fase-shift are gone. When the brain gets habituated to the level of functioning, then the waking state suddenly becomes different.....
rob van der sloot....Fase-lock and fase-shift are then not so important anymore. What starts to count is keeping the connection with pure consciousness in tact. Then the mind becomes an instrument, playing the song of eternity, of unboundedness. Reality becomes a dance of that and you become the dancer of the eternal impulses of Total Creative Intelligence. Vibrations become the fluctuations of the Unified Field. Your are then dancing in tune with the blending of Shiva and Vishnu, the eternal song of Brahman. That is unbounded bliss and happines.
Michael Belovedrob van der sloot ---- As you well know, we each have a mind and we each see things in similar or radically different ways. Thanks for your view point on this issue of focusing and unfocusing.
Vilas DesaiI think the neuroscience even today is limited only to these three states of mind; wakefulness, dream state, and the deep sleep state. In our ancient Vedas (In the mandukya Upanishad) there is a reference to a fourth state called the "Turiya". It actually says we as beings belong to neither of the three states but to the fourth state that is Turiya. That is our reality. Although Turiya is apart from the three states, it is in and through all of them. It's probably the most profound and sophisticated explanation to the universal question "Who Am I"?
rob van der sloot dear Michael, I think you are making one fundamental mistake and that is that its not true that the mind is ALWAYS focusing and unfocusing. This only happens in the waking state. Neurologically its called fase-lock and fase-shift. But when the brain is in sleep state or in dream state (delta or low theta brain wave frequencies), there is no fase-lock or fase-shift. There is even no mind!!!! The mind is out of sight. So where is the mind then? Its not there because the brain does not produce mind activity. The pre-frontal cortex does not produce alpha rythms. The deeper brain regulates that.
But there is still another very important state of consciousness, which is beyond the fase-lock and fase-shift mode of the brain. That is pure consciousness, the goal of the search of the mind, the total unbounded level of consciousness. There also fase-lock and fase-shift are gone. When the brain gets habituated to the level of functioning, then the waking state suddenly becomes different.....
rob van der sloot ....Fase-lock and fase-shift are then not so important anymore. What starts to count is keeping the connection with pure consciousness in tact. Then the mind becomes an instrument, playing the song of eternity, of unboundedness. Reality becomes a dance of that and you become the dancer of the eternal impulses of Total Creative Intelligence. Vibrations become the fluctuations of the Unified Field. Your are then dancing in tune with the blending of Shiva and Vishnu, the eternal song of Brahman. That is unbounded bliss and happines.
Michael Beloved rob van der sloot ---- As you well know, we each have a mind and we each see things in similar or radically different ways. Thanks for your view point on this issue of focusing and unfocusing.
Vilas Desai I think the neuroscience even today is limited only to these three states of mind; wakefulness, dream state, and the deep sleep state. In our ancient Vedas (In the mandukya Upanishad) there is a reference to a fourth state called the "Turiya". It actually says we as beings belong to neither of the three states but to the fourth state that is Turiya. That is our reality. Although Turiya is apart from the three states, it is in and through all of them. It's probably the most profound and sophisticated explanation to the universal question "Who Am I"?