CHETAN X JADA AS CONSC X MATTER

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Excessive psychological stress disrupts the colon's mucosal layer. 

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FROM ATHEISM TO HEALTHY RESPECT OF SPIRITUALITY 

CANT R/O MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES 

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HOLMES- WHY DID THE DOG NOT BARK DURING THE ROBBERY?

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MYSTICISM NEEDS TO BE STUDIED AS MUCH AS MATERIALISM 

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GENES LOAD THE GUN, LIFESTYLE PULLS THE TRIGGER

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CANNOT EXPLAIN GOLDILOCKS AND ANTHROPIC COINCIDENCES 

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MATHYLATION PATHWAY ANT0AGING 

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ARUDHA

Arudha literally means ‘to ascend’ or ‘to mount’. Hence the words ratharudha and ashwarudha, getting on to a chariot and horse respectively. But in the Bhagavad Gita, the compound word yogarudha has a different meaning. Two verses from the Bhagavad Gita may be quoted.

For a sage desirous of attaining Yoga, action is said to be the means; for one who has attained yoga, tranquility (samah) is said to be the means. (Bhagavad Gita VI.3)

When (a person) does not get attached to objects of senses and is not attached to actions and has renounced all intentions, then he is said to have attained Yoga. (Bhagavad Gita VI.4)

The meaning is very simple and clear. But difference of opinion on the interpretation of the word samah have given rise to a controversy. The Samnyasa school insists that the word sama means action-less-ness. Thus, after attaining Yoga, a yogi should desist from all actions and remain inactive.

But this appears to be a contrary to the very spirit of the celestial song, the purpose of which is to insist on every person doing his duties irrespective of any positions or name. Moreover, the interpretation is irrelevant and unwarranted in the present context when the next verse declares that a person is yogarudha only when he has no attachment for objects of senses and also for actions and has renounced all intentions. It nowhere says that he should abandon actions. Verses – Bhagavad Gita III.5, III.8 and XVIII.11 say that actions cannot be stopped by any living creature, and for sustenance of life, actions are unavoidable.

Again, in the Bhagavad Gita VI-1, Bhagavan Sri Krishna declares that he is a renunciate and he is a yogi, who accomplishes all his duties without aspiring for its fruit. Thus renunciation, according to the Bhagavad Gita, is not action-lessness, but renunciation of the fruit of actions and their ownership, (Bhagavad Gita XVIII.17) and also of actions due to aspirations (Bhagavad Gita XVIII.2). The psychological attitude of non-attachment is the difference between a yogi and a layman (Bhagavad Gita V.12). Thus samah means tranquility and not non-action.

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Why is there always someone having the experience? Who is the feeler of your feelings and the dreamer of your dreams? Who is the agent doing the doing,

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ultimately we will need a new “ethics of consciousness.” If we arrive at a comprehensive theory of consciousness, and if we develop ever more sophisticated tools to alter the contents of subjective experience, we will have to think hard about what a good state of consciousness is. We urgently need fresh and convincing answers to questions like the following: Which states of consciousness do we want our children to have? Which states of consciousness do we want to foster, and which do we want to ban on ethical grounds? Which states of consciousness can we inflict upon animals, or upon machines?

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The reason the consumption of white potatoes may just have a neutral impact on mortality risk is that their fiber, vitamin C, and potassium might be counterbalanced by the detrimental effects of their high glycemic index.803 Can we have our potatoes and eat them, too, by somehow lowering their glycemic index? There is that cool crystallization trick. By consuming potatoes as chilled potato salad, for instance, it’s possible to get nearly a 40 percent lower glycemic impact. To minimize the glycemic index of potatoes, simply precook them and either eat them cold or reheated in the microwave.804 (I call it the nip-and-nuke method.) The vinegar in that potato salad may even have an additional benefit

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Meditation allows us to see how the voices we have internalized from our parents, political leaders, and religious teachers inform the way we speak and think, and thereby it opens up a space in which we’re not just vocalizing what our community believes and says.

Stephen Batchelor, “Finding the Voice, Performing the Self”

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“Non-duality” in Advaita Vedanta is completely different from “non-duality” in Buddhism because the former is discovered through Samadhi, while the latter is discovered through Vipassana. According to the empirical materials of Theravada Buddhism and from a psychological perspective, the nature of Samadhi is perception shutting down to activate a new mode of apperceiving, one totally different from the usual five sense mode of perception. That’s why one feels that everything in daily life disappears, and he and the universe assimilate each other in Samadhi. Therefore, in Advaita Vedanta, Samadhi would naturally lead to the insight of nondifference of subject and object, and the unity of Atman and Brahman. That’s the essence of “non-duality” in Advaita Vedanta. While the nature of Vipassana is enhanced awareness induced in meditation, which makes contemplating the five aggregates possible, just like “watching” a slow-motion film. According to the empirical materials of Theravada Buddhism, if we regard each aggregate as an “awareness” which is the state of being conscious of something, then contemplating the five aggregates would reveal the existence of “awareness of awareness”, and discern that it arises a moment after each aggregate and they do not appear simultaneously. Thus, it is clear that there is a constant self always there knowing all aggregates just results from “awareness of awareness” appearing between any two aggregates, something that under ordinary conditions happens very quickly. (That's like a torch spinning so fast that it looks like a ring of fire.) This would lead to the insight of “non-self” which means no subject of awareness/consciousness. Furthermore, according to Yogacara, Vipassana would reveal that there is no object of awareness/consciousness either. Therefore, we can conclude that the essence of “non-duality” in Buddhism is neither subject nor object of “awareness”/“consciousness”. That’s why Buddha didn’t attain enlightenment after achieving the fourth jhana and even the highest formless jhana, until he realized the role of Vipassana six years later.

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Both approaches are leading to the same insight of the 'point of neutrality'. Practices or paths might be different, but in any case, it is a gradually perpetuating process of the conversion and transference of the awareness's attention from the experiences of unreality of duality towards the realisation of reality of nonduality. This initially happens in the points of neutrality and fully expand in Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa samadhi. Point of neutrality is described by Nyaya as a 'lamp at the door '. Witness consciousness 'sakshi' aware, insightful of both unmanifest and manifest simultaneously.

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Non difference of subject and object equals to savikalpa samadhi, where stil a single thought is present, however in nirvikalpa samadhi neither subject nor object are perceivable, that equals to shunyam

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serotonin primarily is pro inflammatory. So when there are sites of inflammation in asthma and arthritis, diseases like that there are high levels of serotonin and that serotonin helps to cause immature T cells to mature causes a recruitment of other inflammatory cells like eosinophils to the lung, through five HT to a receptors. So it could be that the reason that five HT to a receptors are expressed so widely throughout the body is that that's one of the main mechanisms that serotonin uses to indicate inflammation to activate the immune

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It is a matter of serious question about the difference between “Samadhi” and “Vipassana”. In Samadhi one’s objective is to concentrate of mind towards to focus on a point i.e. say God, the state of nothing in mind (non-self) only God is the extreme result of “Samadhi”. In Vipassana one’s objective is to focus on five perceptions to arrive at the point of “Non-Self” or “Sunyata” nothingness. So, I felt that the difference is in process, one is spiritual believing in God and the other is physical believing in natural phenomena. The ultimate goal is the same, however “Vipassana” is more practical.

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As a matter of fact, there are phenomenal states in which people have the robust feeling of being outside their physical body—these are the socalled out-of-body experiences, or OBEs. OBEs are a well-known class of states in which one undergoes the highly realistic illusion of leaving one’s physical body, usually in the form of an etheric double, and moving outside of it. Phenomenologically, the subject of experience is located in this double.

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AGE PATHWAY MX

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NHAGWAT TATTWA - MOKSHA

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SUFFERING UNFULFILLMENT

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ATRIPTI

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I tried to “think positive” — following the advice of all the self-help gurus — and failed completely. Dark thoughts pursued me relentlessly, like clouds covering the sun. No matter how hard I tried to wipe them away, they rushed back to haunt me. I beat myself up mentally for my failure.

Does that sound familiar? Psychologists call this the brain’s “negativity bias.”

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ASWATHAM - NOT REAL , EVERYTHING CHANGING EVERY MOMENT 

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EGO TUNNEL

First, our brains generate a world-simulation, so perfect that we do not recognize it as an image in our minds. Then, they generate an inner image of ourselves as a whole. This image includes not only our body and our psychological states but also our relationship to the past and the future, as well as to other conscious beings. The internal image of the person-as-a-whole is the phenomenal Ego, the “I” or “self” as it appears in conscious experience; therefore, I use the terms “phenomenal Ego” and “phenomenal self” interchangeably. The phenomenal Ego is not some mysterious thing or little man inside the head but the content of an inner image—namely, the conscious self-model, or PSM

AThere is a single IGF-1- lowering gene variant that adds as much as ten years or so to life expectancy if you inherit it from both parents.850

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AVOIDING UNWISE ATTACHMNT 

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DROWNED IN WORLD OF SENSE ENJOYMENT 

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However, what we do not know is how far discovering such neural correlates will go toward explaining consciousness. Correlation is not causation, nor is it explanation. And if certain aspects of consciousness are ineffable, we obviously cannot correlate them with states in our brains. We have no good understanding of what it means to say that consciousness is “subjective,” a “private” phenomenon tied to individual selves. But pinning down the neural correlates of specific conscious contents will lay the foundation for future neurotechnology. As soon as we know the sufficient physical correlates of apricot-pink or sandalwoodamber, we will in principle be able to activate these states by stimulating the brain in an appropriate manner

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REDUCING IGF-1 

To help slow this aging pathway, on a daily basis, consider: striving to stick to the recommended daily intake of protein of 0.8 g per healthy kg of body weight (0.36 g per pound), which translates to about 45 g a day for the average-height woman and about 55 g a day for the average-height man choosing plant-based protein sources whenever possible

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 Humans and Neanderthals Lived Side by Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago

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What would it be like to have the experience of living in many worlds at the same time, of genuine parallel realities opening up in your mind? Would there be parallel observers, too? The One-World Problem is so simple that it is easily overlooked: In order for a world to appear to us, it has to be one world first. For most of us, it seems obvious that we live our conscious lives in a single reality, and the world we wake up to every morning is the same world we woke up to the day before. Our tunnel is one tunnel; there are no back alleys, side streets, or alternative routes. Only people who have suffered severe psychiatric disorders or have experimented with major doses of hallucinogens can perhaps conceive of what it means to live in more than one tunnel at a time. The unity of consciousness is one of the major achievements of the brain: It is the not-so-simple phenomenological fact that all the contents of your current experience are seamlessly correlated, forming a coherent whole, the world in which you live your life.

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There have been more than twenty controlled interventional studies on the effect of exercise on inflammation in older adults, and they’ve consistently shown a beneficial, anti-inflammatory effect.1091 The IL-6 levels of active older adults may be about 30 percent lower than sedentary age-matched individuals.1092 Sadly, nearly eight out of ten American adults fail to meet the national physical activity guidelines

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