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A CAT-Scan of the Global Brain (Part 2)

Deepak Chopra - November 02, 2007

When it first came into usage, "the global brain" seemed like only a metaphor. But the more we learn about how the human brain functions, the more convincing the parallels are in real life. In many ways each of us is participating in a brain without borders, one that encompasses humankind. I'd like to focus on several striking similarities between individual and collective intelligence.

--Reality is shaped by perception.

When the brain perceives that something is real, it becomes real. As a present instance, this helps explain the falling dollar and $100 a barrel oil. Economists have been puzzled by why the dollar should continue to drop in value when the U.S. has the strongest economy in the world. Objective indicators are mostly positive, but they don't match world perception. In the eyes of the world, the U.S. is risking its future in Iraq, even more so by aligning itself against Islam. Talk of World War III from Pres. Bush strengthens fears that America has set itself against a billion Muslims. At the same time, oil prices reflect insecurity about the Middle East in general. The U.S. would like its intentions to become reality, since our prevailing perception is that we fight for peace. But the global brain has other ideas.

It's already well known that markets are created by psychology. Stocks go up and down depending on perceived value, and perceived value lies in the mind of the beholder. You can make a million dollars selling ordinary rocks if you can convince people to perceive them as pet rocks. What we're seeing with soaring oil and the falling dollar is perceived value on a world scale, but one can go a layer deeper. The clash between Islam and America is rooted in belief in invisible things. On the Islamic side Allah is an article of faith; faith leads to certainty; certainty guides behavior. A suicide bomber performs his deadly act in the material world, yet if you trace such attacks back to their source, the source is entirely faith-based. This contradicts any notion that concrete things are more real than invisible ones.

American perception is the reverse. Islam is seen as illusory and fanatically misguided. Here I am talking principally about the Christian right and the politicians who pander to them by spreading fear in society. The religious right wants to wage a war of faith against faith, which is to say one subjective perception trying to defeat another. There is no basis for this conflict other than subjectivity, yet on a collective level the result is world turmoil.

-- The higher brain is separate from the lower brain but often ruled by it.

In the structure of the human brain one can differentiate the actual tissues and location of our ancestral brain. It is located lower down and farther back than the cerebral cortex, the higher brain. In daily life the two come into conflict but don't break out in naked warfare, because the lower brain can be repressed. When you argue with your spouse, you don't obey the lower brain's instinct to commit murder. But its atavistic anger, fear, and primitive emotions never go away. Therefore, life consists of a constant negotiation between old and new, between reason and instinct. This doesn't make the instinctual brain bad or wrong; in a crisis or at moments of inspiration, instinct can play a hugely beneficial role.

On a global level, the old brain is represented by tribalism and a deep suspicion of "the other," those people who lie outside one's immediate circle. The tribe bonds instinctively. It wars against other tribes without resort to rationality. One sees this in the Sunni-Shia conflict in Iraq. Rationally, both groups have everything to gain from mutual cooperation and respect. They should be sharing oil wealth, freedom from a cruel despot, and a future full of technological benefits. But tribal instinct forces each side to fall back upon ancient grievances. To the old brain it doesn't matter what year it is; the time is always yesterday, a remembered epoch of the fight for survival.

The U.S. made the critical mistake of treating the fall of Saddam as an action controlled by the higher brain. Democracy is better than despotism. Freedom is better than oppression. To the higher brain, it doesn't compute that freedom should lead to chaos and revenge. But higher perceptions can be arrogant and closed off, as they were here. The U.S. forgot that life is always a negotiation between higher and lower brain functions. This blindness has led to deep confusion. By equating the American cause with "civilization," we fail to see that killing one hundreds thousand Iraqis in the shock-and-awe campaign was just as atavistic as murder in the name of the tribe. Similarly, we haven't found a way to encourage the Iraqis to follow their own rational nature. Yet without a doubt the higher brain operates in that country as much as it does here. Assuming that we stand for the higher brain while Iraq stands for the lower is unreal and false. Every society, like every individual, is caught up in a balance between the two.

(To be continued)

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Posted by Deepak Chopra at November 2, 2007 01:55 PM

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Neural pathways from the amygdala to the cerebral cortex are super highways.

From the cebral cortex back the other way...there are only a couple horse trails.

1. Posted by danashields on November 2, 2007 02:55 PM

Humm....interesting, as I had not really quite thought about it all like that, especially with all the comparisons.

Thanks Deepak, as I really enjoyed reading this one. And I'm at a lose for words as I ponder upon it, which is unusual for me.

Like I can use this information for many different benefits.

Love, Char

2. Posted by Char4 on November 2, 2007 03:36 PM

Hello Deepak and Everyone,

What you write is so true,"The U.S. made the critical mistake of treating the fall of Saddam as an action controlled by the higher brain. Democracy is better than despotism. Freedom is better than oppression. To the higher brain, it doesn't compute that freedom should lead to chaos and revenge. But higher perceptions can be arrogant and closed off, as they were here."

I hate to harp(no, really I do) on this subject but I think that our new American Embassy in Iraq says so much about this Nation's arrogance and selfishness in dealing with the "other."

Like you said, they sold this invasion as a necessary action controlled by the higher brain but then they build(faster than the speed of light) the largest, most lavish, Embassy ever and it sits right smack-dap in the middle of the heavily fortified Green Zone...what a statement to everyone in the World from America....here we are...you couldn't miss us if you tried....we are rich.....powerful.....and in your face....Saddam's palace is nothing compared to what we have!

Really, why didn't we just build a normal, run-of the-mill Embassy..one that doesn't stand out...one that says...we are just here to serve the people of Iraq?.....Instead, we built one that says....move the hell over and make room for us Iraq....we are here to stay!

I'm sorry but I am deeply disappointed in our Government....all of our Government not just this Administration....everyone in our Government knew about the size and lavishness of this Embassy and allowed it to be built, like it is the most natural thing in the world to be done once you invade and occupy....after all democracy demands to be seen and heard whether you want it or not, right?

When will we learn?

have a great evening everyone, ruth

3. Posted by ruth on November 2, 2007 03:58 PM

I am trying to put this in perspective with what I know.
D.T. Susuki says (God) is Love and Wisdom.
In the human there is correspondingly emotion and reason.
If you take away something I am attached to, I will react emotionally. I temper this with reason, because I have reasoned out certain things to be so.
Revealed words, like the Vedas and the Torah and the Laws of Manu, for example, foster reason, in its capacity to temper emotions. Our history has been built apon this.
If we were to think of the earth as one individual (one existing global brain) then we ought to be more watchful.
Its been said that if a stone were tossed over yonder then the entire earth's gravity shifts.
"It is only at the level of individual events that the wholeness reveals itself." -Henry P. Stapp/Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics.
Kind of like an individual called Moses, or Jesus, or Krishna, or Buddha.

4. Posted by Sherry on November 2, 2007 07:30 PM

Excuse me, and a man called Mohamed. I don't know much about Islam, but I certainly revere the practice of keeping God on one's mind five times a day and I certainly revere the tradition of the Sufi.
I don't know why we have to keep purifing ourselves, the nation, and the globe. There's something else going on here.

5. Posted by Sherry on November 2, 2007 07:48 PM

"Similarly, we haven't found a way to encourage the Iraqis to follow their own rational nature."

We haven't found a way to do that for ourselves here either. And what we are doing over there certainly does not come under "following our own rational nature".

This country isn't using the higher brain-lower brain metaphor you are using here. It's an OK metaphor, I guess.

Sigh....

"Civilization is great idea...we should try it."

6. Posted by yogi-one on November 2, 2007 08:36 PM

There's several things in this post that bear close scrutiny.

"When the brain perceives that something is real, it becomes real." - to the brain, that is.
There may still be realities the brain hasn't perceived.

Perhaps the word "perceived" is being confused with the idea of judgment. It is, of course, possible to perceive things that the brain does not believe are real. Some kind of additional evaluation must be made before a perception is judged to be "real" (leaving aside for a moment the criteria by which the brain makes that judgment).

"Reality is shaped by perception."

No. I fundamentally disagree. Haha - this from a guy who used to teach a create your own reality cirriculum, and teach people to visualize, etc.

What is shaped by your perception is your perception of reality. There's a profound difference.

For example, clay is clay. After you sculpt it in certain ways, you can say, "look, it's Caesar!" You may have shaped it to look like Caesar, but the reality is that it is clay.

There is a fundamental Reality that was not created by your perception, will be there after you as perceiver has disappeared, and other perceivers will have shaped their perceptions of it before and after you have come and gone with your perceptions.

To Deepak's credit, he did not say perception creates reality, he said reality is shaped by perception.

But I think we are even one step more removed from dealing with Reality. We deal with our perceptions of it.

As he points out, the perception of reality can very directly effect our lives. Stock market is a great example, as is the process by which tribes and nations end up going to war with each other.

It is the process of reacting to our own judgments.

I think, from a metaphysical standpoint, it is important to split the hairs and remember that we are reacting to our judgments on our perceptions. It creates a kind of pseudo-reality.

This is how we end up going to war on the basis of judgments that are out of touch with actual reality.

There are people whose lives and fortunes depend on this important truth. And there are people who give away their lives and fortunes because they cannot distinguish when they are being sold perceptions that are not based on reality. We do it all the time, and yes, there's one born every minute.

The example of pet rocks is good, but a better example would be jewels, diamonds and gold. There we play many deadly life, death, and war games simply because of value judgments we ourselves have placed on the rocks.

However, it doesn't change the reality of "rocks."

What we are changing, shaping, and reacting to is our own perceptions. The fighting and dying (and by extension, suffering itself) are all about judgments on perceptions.

If someone wants to gain mastery over their minds, this understanding is crucial.

The mind generates a kind of pseudo-reality - your "virtual world" so to speak, in a fashion not too different from the way you spin dreams during sleep.

If someone who understands this can guide your dream-reality, they can seriously manipulate you. You can become convinced, for example, that reality is a world of bogeymen terrorists whom the only way to protect yourself from is agree to be under the surveillance of powerful authorities 24/7, and to go around the world killing people who grew up indifferent cultures than you did.

You can become sold on the dream that your life, your community, your tribe, your nation, and your reality are dependent upon massive oil consumption, and that paying exorbitantly for it, and killing lots of other people to get it, is necessary simply to maintain your way of life.

There are multi-billionaires whose fortunes and livelihoods depend on managing that perception of reality for you.

There are people who have a lot of perceived power, and every bit of that power depends on their ability to manage public perception.

They understand full well that people deal with their judgments on their perceptions, and very few people deal with reality directly. The understand the techniques by which a perception can be reinforced to make it seem more real; endless repetition, manufactured evidence, and constant judgment-laden gossip being some of the chief procedures they use.

They understand the power of languaging, and carefully choose terms and phrases that communicate and reinforce the pseudo-reality they want you to believe in.

As Deepak points out, the pseudo-reality created in this way can seem real, and then when mass numbers of people start reacting as if it were real, the very notion that it is real gets even further reinforced.

The antidote is meditation, of course, meaning the process by which you disengage from your judgments on your perceptions, and then you can see your perceptions as separate from a more primary reality, and eventually, through long and deep meditation, understand the process by which the mind generates thoughts, and goes on to generate pseudo-reality, laced with all kinds of reactionary judgments.

This is part of the waking-up process.

7. Posted by yogi-one on November 2, 2007 11:05 PM

Hey all!

Just got bailed out by the grace of our Lord!

Looking at about 5 to 7 here (no joking!)!

Spent the last three weeks in the King County Jail.

Not fun!

Next five in Monroe state penitentiary even less fun . . .

Peace

8. Posted by empyrius on November 2, 2007 11:50 PM

Did Pandora have a Choice?

When you look skyward
what do you see?
A blue sky? Light? Clouds?
A moon and glittering stars?

Or do you see a prison
With invisible bars?

When you make a choice;
are you free to choose?
Or is choice illusory,
& you are actually predetermined to lose?

Did you join the Army
To get away from your life’s drama?
Or does killing for rich people
you will never meet

give your life meaning?

Who knows! One day maybe
you too can be a prison guard!

Regarding our existential dread
a man once said,
“Man is condemned to be free.”
With this do you agree?

Or do you know that in truth
American “freedom” is slavery!

Alas – contrarily – within the walls
of a prison
can we make decisions
that will make us honorable human beings?

Whether we are confined within a cage,
or the whole world is our stage,
are we still culpable moral agents
worthy of salvation or eternal condemnation?

Fate versus free-will.

Mathematical a priori
contrasting Heisenberg uncertainty.

Does a Chain of Command
or “just following orders,”
exempt thee from natural law;
or are we simply spiritless animals after all?

Do unicorns have souls and is humanity real . . .

Did Pandora unleash all evil
or Hope within her box did she seal?

Peace

9. Posted by empyrius on November 2, 2007 11:55 PM

dear Craig,
what has pandora's box unleashed for you?
are you o.k.
I am worried for you.
Love,
~ Kate

Dear Deepak,
where does compassion fall
in the higher or lower,
(or outside of)
the brain
?
~ Kate

10. Posted by Kate... on November 3, 2007 03:02 AM

So, yesterday, got into my 30th, cyrcle around the sun, pretty bored, really, till I openend my mail; Neale Donald Walsh in Amsterdam..

So I got to see, take 2 friends, get an autograph, and shook his hand, i'll put the pics up later,

anyhow, good luck.. where's that localized in a brain..;)

Love, Passion
marek

11. Posted by marek dariusz podsiadlo on November 3, 2007 03:21 AM

Excellent poem, empyrius. It was especially noteworthy to me because I'd just wiki'd "hope" about three days ago, and read an entry on pandora's box. Apparently, the gods included hope as yet another evil.

I'm not sure I entirely understood it, but that it seemed similar to the theme of Waiting for Godot.

12. Posted by danashields on November 3, 2007 03:57 AM

The reality is: I didn't create my body, I didn't create the planets, I don't keep my heart beating, and I don't have to think inorder to breathe. So who am I?
To me this artcle says that our will can respond to a lower or higher brain. I think those ganglia of brain cells are merely the condensation of the lower and higher chakras. A condesation of Spirit from ether to gas, to liquid, to solid; and back the same road again.

13. Posted by Sherry on November 3, 2007 06:02 AM

I feel that it is well within the capability of every human being to reach a level of "Unity Consciousness", and I speak from personal experience. However it does require a critical mass in order to keep this level of consciousness sustainable I believe. I know that this feeling of Unity can be experienced without drug use, although in my particular experience it was triggered by a crystal called Sodalite. I will briefly describe what happened to me, someone suggested that I place a sodalite crystal on my third eye area and so I went along with the idea. After a short while I began to feel energy flowing from the third eye down my neck to my chest, and then my heart and finally my hands. It was at this point that an intense feeling of Joy overwhelmed me, and I felt all of the following feelings simultaneously: Unconditional Love; Peace; Unity- I was the same being as everyone else and that we are God; Feeling of waking up along with finding the whole experience extremely amusing that this was so simple, and yet this truth is literally staring us in our faces; Adistinct feeling of infinite wisdom availble to me.

This feeling lasted about twenty seconds, and gradually dissipated. I had never been as happy in my entire life, and for three days I had a not unpleasant headache in the centre of my brain. On the third day, the same intense awareness of Unconditional Love and Unity, came over me again whilst I happened to notice an old lady in the street that I had never seen before. It then left, but it had changed my life permanently.

14. Posted by Omni on November 3, 2007 08:42 AM

15. Posted by Omni on November 3, 2007 08:42 AM

16. Posted by Omni on November 3, 2007 08:43 AM

Empyrius: sorry about the time, man. Hopefully there will be time for reading, meditating and study. Just try to keep it clean and get out of there ASAP. Great poem, too - you have a lot of good insights to help folks with, focus on those.

Sherry - sounds right to me. Our bodies are temporary Gifts from Existence - we should take care and love them like gifts from the Divine (which they are). The day will come when we have to return them. May we return our bodies - when the time comes - with the same grace and compassion with which they were given to us!

17. Posted by yogi-one on November 3, 2007 08:44 AM

On this tiny path
Well age-prepared
A deep echo appeared unexpectedly

A sound very familiar
A surprise box, a charm
I was trapped

Red, try me
Emotions, fight me
Dual-legs, come

Asking me to follow
The holly-hole
The One

The attraction is strong
I have problem to control
I am on auto self-respond

A last moment before the go-ride
A crystal clear intuition
I'll be back here

With the final knowledge
The end of this unconscious-twist round again and again...

18. Posted by Jean-François Désaulniers on November 3, 2007 10:40 AM

She opened herself
She is in love
Beautiful electric

She is in love
Of a strict machine
A bi-love out of her soul

Feeling like her lovely-pet
Her beast-protector
I come to ask myself, am I insurance product?

Covering me with all dual-beauty-elevation
Riding as leash dog
I started to bite

I am not doggy-pleasure
You are not over me
Who are we?

A leaf falling from the tree
Rejecting love strict-machine...

19. Posted by Jean-François Désaulniers on November 3, 2007 11:03 AM

Dear Craig,

Very unhappy to hear about "stint in stir" I hope that the "5 in Monroe", you speak of is months not years.
If it's years, you might want to dissapear somewhere. Asia... Can you share what happened?

Your Friend,
Stan

20. Posted by stan on November 3, 2007 05:30 PM

Good evening all.

Thank you for the thoughts and love Kate, Yogi-One, and Stan.

Uhh . . ., yes that is years Stan. I have been accruing points (very much the wrong kind) and have never stayed out of trouble long enough for past troubles to no longer count - bottom line, even juvenile convictions still count against me.

My curriculum vitae makes me look very much like a, well, umm, a criminal I guess.

Never no violence though (well that is not even true, back in the early nineties I was drinking buddies with this crazy chick and we had a few D[omestic]V[iolence]s, “typical” drink a half gallon of booze a day stuff and like you think something good is going to happen after that . . .). But my adult burglary felonies acquired between the age of 18-23 really just kill me, so to speak.

As far as particulars about what is happening right now, I cannot really speak about the situation at this moment; I am sure you understand.

What is that quote by Einstein? Madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results!

It is hard to believe just a few short years ago, I was in graduate school, striving to be sober, and trying to help the very people I am possibly going to be “residing” with yet once again . . .

Stupid.

Alas. I wanted to o so badly be apart of the solution, and yet here I am fu**ing up – STILL –.

Stupid.

But, I come back to Intentblog because I am home here.

Peace all.

God bless

21. Posted by empyrius on November 3, 2007 06:34 PM

Dear Craig

God bless you as well. It is f-ing hard to break patterns. Sooner or later you will.

love, Heath

22. Posted by hgquinn on November 3, 2007 06:43 PM

Brother Craig,

Sorry to hear that it is years, not months or weeks. Still, it's great to hear from you again; thanks for stopping by. Despite all the events in your past, I'm sure you know you're special and have gifts nobody else in the world has. And if you feel home at Intentblog, I'm also sure you know that all patterns exist in the past, and have a hold on your future only to the extent you allow.

During your time inside, imagine you're accompanied by a piece from each of us, and I'll visualize you as a Mandela or Gandhi (or Tilak, another great Indian freedom-fighter who spent lot of time in jail under the British). God bless!

23. Posted by sWORDSman on November 3, 2007 07:37 PM

Hi Craig, 'God' too tests the 'students' according to their standard. Those of higher grade get tougher tests. I am sure He has set the toughest tests for you seeing your highest grade capabilitiy. And given what you write here I am sure you will pass through with flying colours.

Most on the right side of law are pseudo right. In my book only those who have come from the wrong side to right side are really right.

Wishing you all the best, Harb

24. Posted by Harb on November 3, 2007 08:18 PM

Damn Craig.

I'd like to come and beat the piss out of you.

You are so loved and about the most intelligent bro here at IB.

I agree with yogi-one. Use the time wiselly. Meditate.

25. Posted by LPB on November 3, 2007 08:21 PM

yogi-one:

I'm pretty certain you have seen the BBC four part series "Century of the Self".

Providing a link anyway: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm

26. Posted by LPB on November 3, 2007 08:24 PM

Correction to post # 25

"wisely"

27. Posted by LPB on November 3, 2007 08:26 PM

Hey Craig!

I see you've found yourself in another ordeal, and a long one at that.

They say, "Don't do the crime if you ain't got the time."

But we know, empyrius, that you have too much time on your hands.

So you do '5' w/good behavior...then what? Get a real job?

If no one will hire you now, what good will it do to spend...

I mean, you only live once. Maybe you should jump ship with this one.

Otherwise, you will only learn how to become a better criminal.

That's something to hope for, isn't it? And you'll be past the big 50 by then!

Yes, there's hope for you yet, dear friend. Best of luck with all that.

Peace! Keith

28. Posted by Keith on November 4, 2007 12:37 AM

Hi Craig,

I am sorry to hear of your situation. In my extended family there was someone who had a substance abuse problem and got into trouble with the law because of it and had to serve time in jail, this was heartbreaking for all of us who loved and cared about the person, but it was also a blessing for us becuase we knew that the person could no longer feed their addiction. This person served their time and now has a job and is alive and healthy and doing well.

Wishing you the very best in all that you do. Kicking an addiction that has taken hold is one of the most difficult things a person can attempt and the person usually needs all the help the Universe can muster to help them do it, in the case of my family member having to serve time served their body and mind and soul, their addiction was no longer center stage in their existence, their body got a break, their mind got a break, and their soul got a much need rest. Their jail time was as difficult as their addiction but when the person was set free they were free to get a job, get a home, drive their vehicle, have relationships with loved ones once more where before when they were into their addiction the relationships were severly damaged, and painful.

Yes, serving time in jail is horrible, difficult, convining but it is ultimately hopeful where living your life serving your addictions is ultimately hopeless.

anyway,,,,,here's to you Craig! all the best always, ruth

29. Posted by ruth on November 4, 2007 04:22 AM

Dear Craig

While it may not seem so at the time, the universe only wants for us what is in our highest and best good. You will find your way.

Much love to you Craig. God bless.

love
bonnie

30. Posted by Bonnie on November 4, 2007 06:05 AM

Wow everybody; Heather, sWORDSman, Harb, Lawrence, Keith, Ruth, Bonnie! I am overwhelmed with your sympathy and understanding. Thank you.

Like I said before, just a few short years ago I was on the verge of, no, I was doing positive things in this life, but my self-pity by not being accepted by Gonzaga University, and not being grateful for the opportunity of still being accepted into grad school at a "lesser" college, has brought me once again to this wretched state of utter hopeless stupidity.

Being too proud, too selfish, and too ungrateful for the good people, good things, and good opportunities that I have been graced with in this life . . .

Allowing myself to wholeheartedly re-embrace the bottle, and I somewhat consciously brought about my current state of affairs to stop the drunken madness; but sitting a jail cell, and possibly soon even a prison cell, is not the way I wanted to sober up.

I wanted to, I do want to, help “my people,” not add to the darkness . . .

This waiting for life’s meaning to descend upon me as a dove from the sky is not cutting it, I obviously need to take far more proactive measures to make life meaningful!

Sorry Dr. Chopra for ‘hijacking’ this thread, and on your future posts I shall stay on topic. Sorry.

Thank you everybody, really, thank you.

Peace

31. Posted by empyrius on November 4, 2007 08:38 AM

Wow dana I just widied "Waiting for Godot" and I shall have to read some more about this play.

Interesting . . .

Peace

32. Posted by empyrius on November 4, 2007 08:56 AM

"wikied" (Wikipedia) I mean

33. Posted by empyrius on November 4, 2007 08:58 AM

Dear Craig

Maybe your life's meaning is in the art and feeling in your words.

love, Heath

34. Posted by hgquinn on November 4, 2007 09:21 AM

Dear Craig,

I'm so glad you are here at IB, sharing with us. Reading your posts, this line struck me: I wanted to, I do want to, help “my people,” ...

If this is your clear, strong intention, then how do you know that you are not still on the way? How do you know that this is not EXACTLY where you are heading, to becoming the Craig who is part of the solution? You have understood so many things in such a short time, you have woken up in a way you could never have done before... how do you know that this situation is not the perfect road to the you that you want to be?

We get so scared when we cannot see how perfect this moment is, when we don't understand how completely safe and loved we are in life. Our perception often tells us that what happens is wrong... but is it? When life takes us to new places, the lower brain wants to fight or flight, but the higher brain ca look at it all and realize that the moment is perfect, and so gratitude is the only logical response!

You'll be all right, friend, more than all right. You are growing faster than ever, just look at yourself. You might be helping your people sooner than you think, in ways you couldn't have imagined ... Good luck! I hope you will want to stay in touch with all your friends here, and share the amazing journey that your intention has started.

35. Posted by Aurora C on November 4, 2007 09:39 AM

Craig,

I live near you and am happy to visit you in Monroe. Would that be okay with you? I can bring my friend Jon who is an artist/wood carver (he loves yellow cedar) and lives in a rustic cabin on wooded acreage in Duvall.

Trish~~

36. Posted by Trish on November 4, 2007 10:01 AM

empyrius, please let me know your thoughts on Beckett's play.

For me, reading it represented a watershed moment in my spiritual life. (In zen, you'll be rudely smacked on the head to elicit such a shift.)

SMACK!

37. Posted by danashields on November 4, 2007 01:45 PM

OUCH. What'd ya do that for?!!

38. Posted by danashields on November 4, 2007 01:48 PM

Dear Depaak,
Thanks you so much for this post. There is great turmoil within my family at present, not aas extreme as the US/Iraq situation --but similar in context. I will now understand that this conflict is quite simply (though utterly complex) a manifestation of the conflict between new and old brain, thereby, with intent, stay focused on higher thought, letting go of any thought that tries to interfere.

Perhaps in healing ourselves, or upgrading our responses we contribute to the healing of our families or the upgrading of their reponses and the healing of our families contributes to the healing or upgrading of the world's reponse.

Perhaps this horrible drama paying out in Iraq and elsewhere is an extreme outer of manifestation of those dark shadow places that lurk within --let us hope we don't loose our selves in the "horror" of it all, the who is right and who is wrong but instead use this as a barometer of our being and so the work each day, difficult or easy --painful or painless-- that can be done for our collective conciousness.
thanks
monica

39. Posted by monicam on November 4, 2007 06:08 PM

40. Posted by monicam on November 4, 2007 06:09 PM

Monica,

I appreciate your words and agree that we can and do support each other in "higher thought" and in this upright position we manifest new patterns of peace and joy.

Trish~~

41. Posted by Trish on November 5, 2007 05:52 AM

A beautiful sentiment Heather, if only t'were true . . .

Lordy Aurora, you are a wonderfully optimistic person, and your thoughts are mightily enheartening; may you shine evermore!

Well Trish, if it does indeed play out like that, you and Jon shall definitely be on the visiting list.

Tis funny I had never heard of this 'Godot' before, I can't wait to see 'it' (har har har har . . .)

Peace

42. Posted by empyrius on November 5, 2007 07:21 AM

Oye, dear Craig, do see how you put up your hand? I do that, too, like this: "Stop," she whispered, "don't expect so damned much of me!" :)

love, Heath

43. Posted by hgquinn on November 5, 2007 08:05 AM

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