Consciousness

There is a peculiar belief in

pseudo-scientific circles, that

consciousness somehow spontaneously

springs out of the brain

... that before the development of

the nervous system to its acme in the

human brain, consciousness

did not prove itself to exist.

This theory itself has never,

and can never been proved.

There is an alternative,

based on immediate perception

(without the mediation of the senses),

a perception that yogis have understood for many years,

that consciousness precedes the evolutionary process,

that consciousness is ubiquitous,

that there is nowhere where it isn't.

Some may say that minerals don't exhibit

any consciousness, but might this be because

consciousness expresses itself

according to the organisational capacity

of the being through which it operates?

Not much in the form of organisation

is apparent in the make-up of a stone.

In meditation, consciousness can be moved

at will to any part of the body.

Consciousness can also rest in

the wholeness of the body.

Where do you spend most of your time?

In the belly-land where appetite rules,

"Yes, Yes, Yes"

where it either wants

what it wants

when it wants it

... or is asleep?

Or in the head, the seat of perpetual no-saying,

that continually reminds the appetite

of what happened last time?

Or in the heart,

the point of balance of these two

... the heart that feels what's

appropriate in the moment?

Or do you reside in the spinal column,

through which consciousness is

the co-ordinator of these three?

Where do you spend most of your time?

The purpose of your life

is the one you give yourself.

The less time spent in the head,

the more open you are to life offerings.

Your belly urge drives you into trouble,

your head reminds you

what happened last time you tried it.

The heart is the seat of compassionate judgement.

It resolves the conflict between

heated impulse and icy judgement.

If in the head,

let's consider the washing of the brain

by your TV and mobile phone.

They can be used to manipulate

your thinking via the nervous system.

This method has even been patented.

Type this number, including the space,

in the Google search bar

and it takes you to the relevant patent:

US6506148 B2

Perhaps you're thinking

"John's off his chump,

it's a thowback to the LSD

he had as a teenager".

Indeed these may be the

ramblings of a senile old git.

I don't even know if

half of what I write is correct.

But interfering with a nervous system

is no longer a science fiction.

This article in the Daily Mail

is an interesting one which shows

how electronic nervous systems

can be interfered with.

From chump to C.H.A.M.P. ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3097937/This-silent-missile-destroy-enemy-s-electronics-PULSES-Air-Force-confirms-work-terrifying-new-weapon.html

The human nervous system

is an electrical co-ordinator for the body.

We're still only scratching at the surface

of the wonders that lie beneath

our common perceptual awareness.

And how many of us are sensitive enough

to notice subtle interferences with it?

Microwave radiation!

Think: "5G mobile phone technology."

How can it possibly produce

morbid changes in body tissue?

"The rich have got their channels

in the bedrooms of the poor."

[Leonard Cohen: Tower Of Song]