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Sometimes, you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty, and life. Either way, you win."

-- Brianna Wiest

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MOHENJODARO RADN EVENT PNR X AWBR X AW FATE X THE GLF BETN US

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REVISING AND RELEARNING 55 YRS OF LEARNING

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CURL UP AND DTH X FACING WALL

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DREM

Humans spend a third of a lifetime sleeping or trying to fall asleep. Sleep deprivation can result in a variety of cognitive deficits, such as depressed mood, speech disfluency, reduced alertness, attentiveness, and ability to learn or remember things. Sleep is essential to our physiological and psychological well-being, as it allows us to recharge overnight in order to face a brand new day with our cognitive abilities intact. So, it seems that sleeping is necessary. But is dreaming? What even is a dream? And more importantly, what happens to our brain when we dream?

A dream can be defined as “subjective experience during sleep” that is solely accessible by the dreamer after waking up. Everybody dreams, even if they do not remember having done so. In an average 8-hour-long sleep, we dream for approximately 2 hours! Dreaming mostly occurs in rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep, but to a limited degree, can also take place in non-REM sleep. During REM sleep, arm and leg muscles become temporarily paralyzed, while the eyes move quickly from side-to-side, and breathing, heartrate, and brain activity increase to nearly-awake levels. These features have led researchers to characterize REM sleep as a “metabolically awake brain in a paralyzed body.

Our dreams are not detached from neural activity, such that they exist in a vacuum – in fact, they very much reflect the inner workings of the brain. The perceptual modalities that dominate our wakeful state are also present in most dreams; consider how dreams tend to be vivid with colour, shape and movement, and contain categories we are well acquainted with, such as people, places, or animals. Dreams contain sounds, like speech or conversation, and sometimes, can include tactile perceptions such as pleasure, pain, or smell and taste. Evidently, experiences within dreams are not alien abstractions void of sensory substance, but are “seen, heard and felt.”

These perceptual similarities between sleep and wakefulness are reflected in neurophysiological similarities as well. Electroencephalogram (EEG), which monitors electrical activity in the brain, reveals similar states in the active waking brain and REM sleep. Positron emission tomography (PET) has shown that global brain metabolism in REM sleep is comparable to that of being awake. There is also consistency between the cognitive and neural organization of dreaming and being awake – for example, people with impaired face perception do not dream of faces. And the features of children’s dreams parallel that of their waking cognitive development.

In examining the neuroanatomy of REM sleep, researchers have been able to track the relative increase and decreases in neuronal activity. It is quite fascinating that, paralleling vivid visual imagery while dreaming, the visual cortex – which is responsible for processing visual information – becomes highly activated.

”Most of the time, we lack voluntary control in dreams; things just happen, and we carry along with the events that unfold. This could be a function of the right inferior parietal cortex becoming deactivated during REM sleep, a region of the brain which has recently been associated with free will (or waking volition). We also experience altered reflective thought, such that, we accept absurd events as true – for example, swinging from the moon, or the impossible jarring transitions from one dream-scene to the next. In dreams, we often feel uncertain about time and space or the identities of the characters that come and go. This could be a consequence of deactivation in a variety of brain regions (such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) during REM sleep. In fact, deactivation of the prefrontal cortex is associated with reduced self-awareness when engaging with highly sensory experiences while awake.

Some of our dreams are emotional, we feel the things we dream up, whether this is fear, anxiety, or joy. Unsurprisingly then, REM sleep is associated with increased activation of the amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex and insula; these brain structures are implicated in emotion and emotion regulation, and the fight or flight response. However, in approximately 25% of REM sleep, emotion is absent – even in the types of situations we would typically feel something should they be encountered while awake. And little do we experience low moods (such as sadness or guilt), which could be an effect of the reduced self-awareness.

We don’t always remember our dreams after waking up; dream recall tends to be best following REM awakening and can vary within and between people. Factors such as personality, sleep duration, and visual memory have been associated with dream recall. Several studies even point to sex differences, finding that women recall their dreams more often than men.

Some researchers suggest that just as we need to sleep, we also need to dream. They forward that dreaming has a healing quality, and reduces the sting of painful waking emotional experiences; that dreaming provides a safe environment to re-process upsetting memories and reach emotional resolutions when we wake up the next day. Maybe then, an evolutionary function of dreaming is overnight self-therapy.

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All happiness and suffering comes from the mind—we are the creator, everything we experience comes from our karma.

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When we don’t accept that what we experience comes from our own mind, it is very difficult to practice patience and compassion for those who harm us, and we want to harm back. It is important to see our own examples from our own life that everything comes from the mind. Then we are able to subdue our minds, practice compassion, and help many people through our experience. It is so important, rather than believing that everything we experience is true, to think of it as a hallucination. Anger can’t arise when we recognize any problem as a hallucination—it is empty, it is merely labeled, so like this we need to meditate on dependent arising. This is so important to destroy ignorance, which is the root of all delusion. This is an important daily life meditation, not only studying emptiness philosophically, we need to digest and experience it. Otherwise, if we don’t meditate, we are just collecting information

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IN DEEP SLEEP , IN FLOW , FEELING OF EGO DISAPPEARS

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YOU THE AWARENESS X OLD BXM X SCANT COMFORT SWAMI

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CHOICELESS AWARENESS

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OBJECTIFYING PAIN IS TO DULL THEPAIN

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DR OF GAPS X GD OF THE GAPS X GAP OUT

 "GOTG" is a theological perspective in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of Gd's existence

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Devotee: Is God personal?

Bhagavān: Yes, He is always the first person, the 'I', ever standing before you. Because you give precedence to worldly things, God appears to have receded to the background. If you give up all else and seek Him alone He alone will remain as the 'I', the Self.

(From 'Maharshi's Gospel': Book II, Ch II)

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Saraswati Ekakshar Mantra

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For both those who do not have and those who do have knowledge (‘jñāna’), the world in front of us is real. For those who have not known, reality is limited to the extent of the world; for those who have known, reality limitlessly shines, without form, as the substratum (‘ādhāra’) for the world. May you consider that this is the difference between them.

(Bhagavān Śrī Ramaṇa’s ‘Upadēśa Kaliveṇbā’: Lines 76-80)

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
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It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

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yugen

In Japanese aesthetics, there is a concept called “yūgen” that refers to an awareness of the profound grace and subtlety of the universe — an awareness which evokes feelings that are inexplicably deep and too mysterious for words. Alan Watts once wrote of yūgen, noting that,

“There is no English word for a type of feeling which the Japanese call yūgen, and we can only understand by opening our minds to situations in which Japanese people use the word […] ‘To watch the sun sink behind a flower-clad hill, to wander on and on in a huge forest without thought of return, to stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands, to contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds.’ (Seami) All these are yugen, but what have they in common?”

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5 BDHA FAMILIES 

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The Karma Buddha Family: Efficient and Active

The final Buddha family is that of Karma, symbolized by a sword.  This is the most efficient and active family. Karma literally means action or activity. It is like the energy of a good wind, which blows away any leaves still clinging from winter’s stasis, or like a summer breeze in the Northern Highlands of Cape Breton, whipping through the tall, sword-like grasses, for it is summer when all living things are most active and growing.  The color of the Karma family is green but the mood is that of dusk, post-sunset, like an early summer night teeming with the activity of everything from insects to partying humans!

Karma people like things to work, to be functional, and timely.  They are pragmatic, with a tendency toward competition.  The neurosis of Karma is speed, restlessness, and jealousy.  Karma neurosis feels that if something isn’t functional all the time or doesn’t fit a predetermined scheme, it should be destroyed!

But again, recognizing this tendency toward speed, competition, and jealousy is the first step in having the neurosis loosen its hold.  As one slows down, action becomes appropriate.  Then one can be less self-conscious, competitive, and jealous.  And one can  learn to delegate.  This is the beginning of All-Accomplishing Action.

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EXISTENTIAL NAUSEA

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. -Ellen DeGeneres, comedian (b. 26 Jan 1958)

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Stellar Consciousness

Why do stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way sometimes move faster than those closer to the center? Because they’re consciously doing so, says Gregory Matloff, a former NASA rocket propulsion scientist. For some reason, there are multiple instances of stars moving faster than they should and defying the predictions of physics like Kepler’s orbit.

Much like the idea that a field of pervasive energy exists in the quantum vacuum, there could be an infinite, pervasive field of consciousness. That energy from the quantum vacuum, or zero-point energy, could be hypothetically accessed with a machine that utilizes the Casimir effect, which relies on vacuum fluctuations to transfer energy.

Much like the quantum vacuum, Matloff says that there could be a universal field that transfers consciousness to matter through the Casimir effect’s vacuum fluctuations.

He refers to this field of consciousness as proto-consciousness. Our level of consciousness comes from factors of proto-consciousness, which is much like the micro experience being the building blocks to macro experience. Inanimate objects and organisms that we don’t consider to be conscious, could have these lower level, proto-conscious building blocks from the molecules and particles that they are made of. These elements are basic systems compared to us. In humans’ complex systems, our level of consciousness can be considered a standard feature.

So, stars are extracting sentience through some sort of osmotic process with a quantum field of consciousness? As abstract as it might sound, there is evidence that potentially hints at just that.

Matloff uncovered research from a Russian scientist named Pavel Paranego, who discovered that cooler, less massive stars circled the galaxy faster than their larger counterparts. Oddly, those stars on the outer rim of the galaxy that move faster than they should, are smaller stars with less energy.

One theory of stellar consciousness states that consciousness would likely be found in the upper layers of a star. It is in the upper sheath, or photosphere, of smaller, cooler stars where molecules can be found. Scientists call this a molecular stellar signature or molecular spectra. Larger stars are too hot to have molecules in their outer layers.

Does this mean the cool stars have a molecular layer of consciousness giving them stellar volition? Matloff says he believes so. And didn’t Carl Sagan say something about us being made of star-stuff?

A more sci-fi explanation that Matloff entertains is that these stars could be moving faster due to an advanced civilization controlling it. On the Kardashev scale, a type II, stellar civilization or higher would inevitably build a Dyson sphere around a star to harness its energy. At this point that civilization would be able to move the star or influence its movement. Matloff thinks this is unlikely, though.

It’s hard to say whether a universal consciousness exists, or whether we’ll ever be able to tell, but those who have conceived of it provide compelling theoretical and philosophical evidence. Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, had the realization that we live in a “universe of consciousness.”

And other astronauts, upon returning from space, have experienced similar epiphanies of a feeling of ubiquitous connectivity due to consciousness. Certainly, the subjective nature of our perception and awareness is distinct and something to be explored. If there is such a field, how might we tap into it and could it be used to achieve higher levels of consciousness?

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HH Param Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji - Muniji shares that "There are three things which are rare indeed and are due to the grace of God – namely, a human birth, the longing for Liberation, and the protecting care of a perfected sage."

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Evolution is a cruel mistress, having programmed us to die.

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SN CNMA THE HANGING SUN 2022

 The Hanging Sun is a noir thriller set in the Norwegian fjords that revolves around the complex, and often conflicting, relationship between fathers and children and the latter's desire for emancipation. The interpretations of Alessandro Borghi and the rest of the cast are convincing, it is a pity that the actors have to move in a narration devoid of bite and often predictable.

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FTHR PROTECTV BUT STAYED SUB SPRTUAL TRANSACTIONAL - BTKRSNA 

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"Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been."

-- David Bowie

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SUMMER WINE SONG 1966

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FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE

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The different and the novel are sweet, but regularity and repetition are also teachers.

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4TH QDU NT ON

 

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Question:

Ekta Di, If I am holding a baby’s hand, there is touch perceived in awareness. Now, if the body falls asleep holding the baby’s hand the touch is no longer perceived in awareness. Awareness is permanent and is all-pervading so why is no sensation of waking state experienced in sleep? Ideally, if awareness is the only reality then the three states (waking/deep sleep/ dreaming) should be occurring in awareness and we should be fully aware in all three states as awareness.

 

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When you hold the hand long enough, the sensation disappears into awareness. This means there is only Awareness. You had labeled it as a sensation. By labeling something, it does not become that dear.

By labeling a ‘wave’ as wave, it does not stop being water. By labeling sensation as sensation, it does not stop being ‘awareness’ dear. 

Saying that No sensation of waking state is experienced in deep sleep’ is like saying ‘No wave is experienced at the bed of the ocean’.

You are forgetting that a wave & the bed of the ocean are both nothing but water. You are forgetting that ’sensation’ [waking-state] and ‘deep sleep-state’ are nothing but awareness. Everything is only awareness. Everything is only consciousness. Every morning this becomes evident to you when you awaken that there is nothing for you to possibly experience outside of your own awareness/consciousness.

When you recognize the above truth in your own experience then only will it become possible for you to become aware in deep sleep that the body and brain are lying unconscious. Then you know the ‘absence of sensations’. That is also a knowing. Something needs to be there to know the absence as well. That Knowingness is not different from Awareness. 

At the moment, this is not your direct experience but you have the potentiality to get there once you recognize Ajata Vada [There is only consciousness] in your direct experience.

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We live dependently, needing many many things for physical survival, happiness, love, and all that we want to accomplish. Second by second, our lives depend on oxygen, the plants that “exhale” it, the sun that drives photosynthesis, and the other stars that exploded billions of years ago to make every atom of oxygen in the next breath we take. From the moment of conception, we also need other people. You and I and everyone else are frail, soft, vulnerable, hurt by little things, and hungry for love. When we accept this universal fact, we’re not so hard on ourselves—and others.

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“If you can’t explain it to a 6-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself,”... One of Albert Einstein’s most famous phrases

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Consciousness has the potential to redefine literally everything. It’s the only thing we can personally be sure of. Everything else we see such as matter, physics, mathematics, space and time are only relative to the consciousness observing them. What we perceive as consciousness defines everything else we perceive, therefore until we understand what consciousness is, we really can’t say with 100% certainty what anything else is.

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PENROSE X MICROTUBULES X CONSC

The way you have described the interaction of the micro tubes and the neurons would make me think this could be a biological transistor of sorts, where the gate is the micro tube. So now we have the quantum world effecting the classical world. Consciousness may be seated in the brain but it may ultimately exist outside in the quantum realm.

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Standing out is the roughest path, only a few dare to take it.

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Eckhart Tolle said something like: "Consciousness doesn't exist It doesn't stand out It isn't a thing in the field of our perceptions It has no form Consciousness is being itself"

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