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Indian tradition calls “I-making”—and put it to work in cognitive science. Whereas the Indian thinkers mapped consciousness and I-making in philosophical and phenomenological terms, I show how their insights can also help to advance the neuroscience of consciousness, by weaving together neuroscience and Indian philosophy in an exploration of wakefulness, falling asleep, dreaming, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, deep and dreamless sleep, forms of meditative awareness, and the process of dying.
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ON A PAVEMENT CAFE, LET PARIS COME AND PA
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KY KRYIA YÔGA IS A LIVING SPIRITUAL WAY
- Homicide in developed nations has declined from nearly 1% per year to close to 0.01% per year over the past several hundred years.
- A global decline in nuclear stockpiles since 1986
- A decline of violent campaigns for political change (and the rise of nonviolent ones)
- Declines of deaths due to warfare from prehistoric bands to modern states
- The global rise of democracy coinciding with a decrease in the number of wars as well as the number of autocracies
- The abolition and criminalization of slavery, an idea that was unheard of for the vast majority of human history, but which has become increasingly common since about 1750 and is closing in on 100% of nations today.
- The increase in the number of countries recognizing the right of women to vote in elections, which went from close to zero nations in 1900 to the vast majority of nations today.
- Increases in the acceptance of homosexuality and gay marriage, with especially dramatic increases seen in each successive generation in developed nations.
- IQ scores (particularly abstract reasoning) have gone up ~3 points per year since the early 20th century.
- Dramatic increases in animal rights and modest declines in meat eating.
What is the third eye?
- Ajna chakra?·
- The Eye of Horus?
- The all-seeing eye on the dollar bill?
- The Pineal gland?
- That orifice from which Shiva lets loose the submarine fire?
There is some need to read beyond this dialectical culture of ours to try and intuit the meaning of these metaphors we use to express dimensions that can’t always be expressed logically.
We humans operate with a variety of energies, intelligences and faculties of mind. We sense. We employ will and deploy intention. We analyze, imagine and intuit. We know and need and desire. We are psycho-physical creatures with the added dimensions of emotion and something we vaguely refer to as the spiritual. And everything we see of ourselves, is viewed with an inner eye as opposed to the physical eye which obviously cannot be used to view a thought.
The third eye is an inner eye. It is the eye which one will use during the latter limbs of Patanjali’s Ashtangha. It is the eye employed during the Buddhist’s jhana. It is the eye which intuits the Yogi’s Gyana. This inner eye is a Great Witness and operates in many dimensions in a lot of different ways.
How do you open your third eye? It’s already open.
More applicable questions might be:
- How do I raise my emotional intelligence quotient?
- How do I train my intuition?
- How do I distinguish between imagination, inspiration, prescience and memory?
- How do I use the inner sight to navigate the 5 sheaths of physical existence as is described in the yogic kosha system (if you’re doing that).
- What roles does the inner eye play during meditation?
- What objective operations can the inner eye be employed for?
There are many relevant questions a curious seeker after self-knowledge and self-realization might ask. Yours is a good one. Let me return the question and I invite you to engage me in the comments if I’ve resonated with you.
What is it that YOU want to do with an open 3rd eye? What does it mean to YOU to have that energy activated?
How do I know that it has opened?
Close your eyes. Visualize anything. Could you do it? That’s one way.
One might be tempted to invoke neurology and put the onus of mind associations squarely with the occipital and parietal lobes of the brain. And still there is what looks like a picture in your mind’s eye of that image your visualizing.
Eyes open or closed, it doesn’t matter. Recall a feeling. Try to feel it again. There are a number of variables at play here. The mind’s eye is only one.
Again one might be tempted to lay the responsibility on the limbic system, the place between the brain stem and the two cerebral hemispheres that includes the amygdala, the hypothalamus, and the hippocampus. But what is it that is doing the recognizing of the current operation?
What is it used for? Well, besides what I have already written, now we get to talk about magic, don’t we.
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Predictors of Severe Clinical Course in Children With Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
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Abstract
Objective
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gas, which is produced by incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon-containing substances, and causes significant tissue and organ damage in the common event of CO poisoning. This study aims to evaluate the demographic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of patients diagnosed with CO poisoning in the emergency department and to determine the factors associated with severe course in the acute phase of poisoning.
Methods
A total of 331 patients diagnosed with CO poisoning in Hacettepe University Children's Hospital, Pediatric Emergency Unit, between January 2004 and March 2014 were included in the study. Their demographic characteristics, presenting complaints, physical examination findings, Glasgow Coma Scale scores, carboxyhemoglobin, leukocyte, hemoglobin, troponin T, pH and lactate levels, type of treatment (normobaric or hyperbaric oxygen), intensive care unit admissions, and outcome of poisoning were investigated.
Results
Ninety-three patients were given hyperbaric oxygen. Fifty-one patients were admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit, 18 patients have had a severe clinical course, and 6 patients have died. The risk factors associated with severe disease course were determined to be low Glasgow Coma Scale score, high leukocyte count, and high troponin T levels at presentation.
Conclusions
Glasgow Coma Scale score, leukocyte count, and troponin T level may be beneficial in predicting clinical outcomes and tailoring therapy in children with CO poisoning.
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One tree is like another tree, but not too much. One tulip is like the next tulip, but not altogether. More or less like people—a general outline, then the stunning individual strokes.
–MARY OLIVER
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