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Be in Multiplicity
If the Doors of Perception were cleansed,
Everything Will Appear to Man as it Is:
Infinite… (William Blake)
At the University of Aarhus, Denmark (may 2002) there was a second European conference of the International Society of literature and science. The conference was based on scholars having forged transversal lines and links between the various fields and wanted to further investigate and discuss such interdisciplinary approaches and linkages between the study of culture, literature, visual arts and techno-science, basically between science and the arts. Their ideas encompassed the connectivity seen in the following examples:
Links between fact and fiction
Transversal lines between science and story-telling
Links between cultural imaginaries and scientific practices
Semiotic-material practices
How metaphors matter and matter performs metaphorically
Intersections and incommensurability between visual arts, literature,
Culture and techno-science
Translations between physical and virtual spaces
Cyborg identities and cyborg bodies
The list continues but the point is, whilst many discuss such interplay, the value has yet to filter into any semblance of interconnectivity within our universities. All I witnessed throughout my last three years of study was active resistance to any suggestion of a scientific compliment other. Not that I would have any understanding of this without the education I received, but University thinking would have me compounding all into that reductive thinking in the very compartments many literary authors opposed! Come to think of it, throughout the history of the western literary tradition we could even argue how authorial success is eminently found in the voices that resisted the political norm, the permeates of hierarchy, that cultural sycophant. Many authors are the subjected ‘others,’ connecting to their culture through inscription.
What a cunning decoy… this education system of ours! Get the Einsteins, the Jungs or the Blakes of this world enlisted in the only place offered to them in terms of expressing their truths, the universities that behold the universals! When the really bright sparks stand in the self-researched glories of the PhD, get them working for the same system that has no intention of allowing any of their beautiful truths to fall onto the grassroots. The system will never let the subaltern speak, nor will it be overtly honest with scientists’ integrity. Watching the devastation of Hiroshima, Albert Einstein said,
“If I had only known… I would have become a plumber.”
I believe there’s a rather potent hermetic message in there somehow but I will leave that for you to fathom! Do not allow such a manipulative closure of your Self or your fellow’s humanity! Consider the beautiful totality within quantum laws, allow yourself ‘to see the world in a grain of sand.’ The overt message is to allow the multidisciplinary into the everyday, assimilate, coagulate and communicate your discoveries! Consider there is no line of progress, only the process that continues to unfold. There is neither order nor absolute conclusions for you unless you enter the chaos of your own potential that is capable of manifesting coherence in any moment. The ineffable is right there… within you. With acceptance of the mind’s dualistic perspectives, we may transcend the conceptualisation of the immediate as having no greater significance. Self-conscious differentiation transports us away from observing everything as being of the same basic, ordinary, nature and consciousness that remains universally and timelessly the same. In mystic shadows, there is the synchronisation, the synthesis of oppositions, where we experience duality whilst in a non-dualistic consciousness.
And there is the truth.
The Quantum of Right
The field is the only reality...
Einstein.
There is no need, however, for anyone to think they need the aforementioned Binaural beat treatment! Quantum physicists’ have found practises that can best exemplify humanity’s incredible ability to transform and initiate changes, proven through tried and tested experiments in the field of consciousness. Reassuringly, there is a path of least resistance! I will not bore anyone with my wonderment in quantum physics but it is true to say physicists have found the triggers that can cut across the unnatural bridge of hemispheric dominance and a little investigation can unleash pure potential. In the highly acclaimed book The Field, Lynne McTaggart unifies the principles from the top frontier physicists working around the globe, pioneers in a new world view that proves we exist as a “coalescence of energy… in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is central to our being and our consciousness; it is the alpha and omega of our existence.” (The field, p xv) What we perceive as real, the static material world of matter is completely unsubstantial in the quantum world; electrons and nuclei are perpetually popping in and out of existence. What is perhaps more considerable is the nature of the field itself, what we conceive as empty space, as an ocean of vibration- forces that transport the most vital form in the universe; the concentrated presence of thought. As Dr Wayne Dyer says, the world of quantum physics provides the ‘hard evidence for what spiritual masters have been telling us for centuries.’ We are all masters capable of change, possessing our own internal third eye of observational prowess-birthed in hemispheric synchronisation- that can unearth difference. The visionary breathes sight into the space, hearing the ancestral voices singing infinitely upon vibrating waves.
Fine Tuning
The quality common to all researchers in the quantum field has been ‘a simple willingness to suspend disbelief and remain open to true discovery, even if it meant challenging the existing order of things.’ (The Field p 16) Dr Karl Pribram had concurred the language of the brain is the ‘language of phase, amplitude and frequency, the spectral domain.' We perceive the world by resonating with it… 'aiming to be on its wavelength.”
I look at it as tuning in to the miraculous, opening channels that disbelief has always kept locked shut. And this is not mere poetic fantasy either; physiology proves that emotional, mental and physical concepts are potentially enforced by neuron repetition, ‘Fire together… Wire together!’ In other words, our minds have learnt various patterns of how to see the world and developed automated modes of response in relation to past experiences; we have literally moulded our synaptic processes into set patterns of behaviour, especially in terms of how we see the world. The initiative starts to break those long-term relations by interrupting chemical-thought process, principally by observing the effects within the self. It is as simple as taking heed to how we sound, what we say, noting how others respond to us and importantly, assign awareness to how we feel. The Buddha would advise paying attention to our surroundings, conscious of mindful reactions occurring in the vibrational presence of I, within any given space. Essentially, we may learn how to see the physical self from the outer sides and whilst doing so, become aware of how others may see us; thus, we trigger new neurological pathways to open. From ‘out there’, we are able to distinguish the models we had fashioned from past experiences. To break moulded patterns, one need only pay attention to other perspectives… so, observe intently. We then become the subjective-objective. We become the multiple. Monumentally, we become enabled to the visionary inscribed in the metaphor of the blinded poet, from Homer to Milton to Derek Walcott’s Omeros. It was only after the naïve Gloucester had suffered having his eyes plucked out, could he know to cry, ‘I stumbled, and I saw!’
So, start to envisage yourself in quantum levels of being! Research… investigate… partake in discoveries that keep resonating/repeating themselves around you and remember to share your discoveries too. Listen and learn different areas of thought, find an alternative to what you read; participate in what is different! And vibrate in the collective!
Climb into the quantum understanding that there is no ‘you’, no ‘me’, no ‘not-you-me’ duality in your body in relation to the universe; leap into the knowledge of the one, all encompassing energy that is. Irrevocably, it is time we discover our humanity; that is to say, we need to remember our essential natures beyond nationalism, cultural defines, sex, colour or creed. Science can finally prove the beautiful, reflect a sense of the divine, and dissolve the boundaries that have suffocated half of our brain! Defy conditioning that dictates how you see this world.
Clasp your individuality in your hands and seek the new focus! Seek and you shall find!
Signs of the Miraculous
I shall exemplify the incredible affect our exquisite minds can have in and on our miraculous life.
Water
Dr Masaru Emoto first started studying water in the 1990s, and was soon to publish astonishing and supremely beautiful photographs of water crystals taken under the microscope. Exposing water to Hado, ( as the intrinsic vibrational pattern at the atomic level in all matter and the smallest unit of energy. Its basis is the energy of human consciousness) Emoto discovered through diverse and sublime water crystals that thought/intent is everything on water. Emoto set up many experiements and I cannot say any other than get his book and see the extraordinary miracle for yourself! (Book details are found at the end of this chapter) The crystal below is of Mozart's incredible influence on water, the vibrational force creating a unique water crystallisation! (Intriguingly, Mozart’s music has also been found to trigger hemispheric synchronisation.)
Tap water in cities subjected to chlorine treatment failed to form crystals at all, with no sign of the characteristic hexagonal (6-fold) symmetry of snowflakes. Partial crystals sometimes appeared, as if trying desperately hard to be a clean water. Whenever the quality of water was good, complete crystals formed, each distinctive in detailed pattern and colour. Some of the loveliest, most perfect crystals were from natural, unpolluted water sources.
What is probably the most astounding fact in Emoto’s work is the crystallisations brought into being by meditating certain thought processes into the water. A recent film, based on quantum ways of seeing the world, called What the Bleep Do We Know? uses Emoto’s images, highlighting the Chi of Love water crystal...
Now, to me.... that is breathtakingly divine....
Here's another amazing crystalisation brought into being by meditating upon love and gratitude:
The Divine Fire Within: Water and Light
Physicists have already found how atoms and molecules exhibit collective behaviour, forming coherent domains. Water has the quality of becoming ‘informed’ into single coherent waves, tending to polarise around any charged particle, storing and carrying information even if the molecule is removed. (Consider homeopathy! The dilutions still carry the energy charge of a molecule no longer in existence within the solution.)
Japanese physicist Kunio Yasue discovered water plays a vital role in organising discordant energy into coherent photons, in a process called superradiance.(1) We can think of water as a physical medium, a channel that conducts not only the signature frequency of the biological process, but organised into patterns, can also carry the imprint of wave information; water not only sends signals but amplifies it so as to be read at a distance! Whereas water is usually in a state of random disorder, microtubules (cellular scaffolding) within neuron/dendrite cells within the brain contain water that has a perpetual state of coherence, a state that enables photons of light to travel a pulse along the microtubules, what Hameroff calls the “light pipes” in a phenomenon known as self-induced transparency. (2) Able to work at the quantum levels of ‘action at a distance,’ the light tubes resonate in unison, accounting for the instantaneous operations within the brain. Superradiance would certainly account for EEG findings that show brain activity strives for synchronization, seeking interhemispheric equilibrium!
We can learn to see the reflections, the patterns that insist we are the microcosm painted throughout the layers of all material being, mirrors of the macrocosm. We can compare these ‘light tubes,’ (when acting as ‘waveguides’ for photons) to the ley lines of ancient tracks… spread across the body of Earth, with their alignments focused by the energy of sun rays. Like the sites ‘seemingly’ unconnected to the main ley lines, the ‘light tubes’ can act as tiny tracks for lesser light waves that fire upon all sites! This applies to the body of man and land alike. What may appear unconnected is connected by the unseen yet once connected physical relationship which holds its attraction for life, for infinity! It is this relationship that permits the famous quantum dictum, ‘action at a distance.’ Physicists know that once association has been made, interconnectivity will continue endlessly. I could knock into someone by accident, not knowing him/her before of after the incident, yet our connection is made; we will vibrate a connection thereafter! How amazing is that?
Science now proves conclusively that we have synaptic thunderstorms occurring throughout the brain; certain images, and audible resonates or physical responses fire measurable light on specific areas of the brain. (Remember! It is these storms that can become 'fixated.') Yet amazingly, tests now prove that when we close our eyes and are asked to remembering/to imagine a scene from earlier, the same light storm occurs in the same area of the brain!
So... Do the eyes see... or is it the mind? This is the hermetic spark of our own interior miracle, the ability for that thunderbolt of light to spark upon water, our very own interior electrochemical synthesis. We really are the Bear’s vision he had one evening; we are all water sacs, sparkling light within... without…
Newton’s material world in which the material follows absolute laws of motion in time and space - the mechanistic universe - is unfounded, as is Descartes' ideology that resulted in the concept that we stand outside this universe looking in. Our consciousness, erased from the centre, had then to contend with Darwin’s theories. But we are not an evolutionary accident, nor do we need to be the best at another’s expense to survive. We are not genetic terrorists! Nor do we have to believe life is about winning at finales, reaching nonsensical conclusions. We can finally share in the deconstruction of such separateness, shedding ego-manic distrust for the humble Id of totality and unity. We are a proven energetic charge of living potential!
Beyond Time and Space
Scientists later discovered that these brain light rays act as a signalling radar, vibrating an interaction out into the field itself, associating and transferring electrons, beyond any laws of distance. Our conscious minds are immediate and can act at a distance.
That demands some thinking about... a pause for reflection, surely?
Fritz-Albert Popp, amongst others, went on to conclude with the heretical thought,
“Consciousness was a global phenomenon that occurred everywhere... and throughout the body, not just in the brain. Consciousness, at its most basic, was coherent light.”
There is also the added anomaly in the Copenhagen interpretation, that famous quantum statement that the observer affects electron measurability; the electron freezes into a particular state until the act of observing is over, when it resumes its state of potentiality. We project, we affect! In essence, if all matter resumes a state of potentiality unless observed, does any matter have absolute form? This is a question that the film, What the Bleep Do We Know? shows most succinctly. For now, it is suffice to realise our powerful position in terms of being the observer. Do other’s projections... yours… or my own... govern this world?
We have walked into a timely epoch, my friends. We have all heard the mantra to, ‘wake up!’ Now we can scientifically justify our intent to enter the plethora of inter-dimensional spaces, experience altered realities without the ridicule from ‘out there’ that would have convinced us we were experiencing a nervous breakdown! For there is no true reality, nor is there a sub or un-conscious; there is only the right hemisphere awaiting acceptance for hemispheric synchronisation. Let your right be heard! Let your quantum light create! Be a vital part in creating the world around you! Repeat and own what Nelson Mandela would have us remember:
Our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve this world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God
that is within us;
It is not just in some of us - it's in everyone!
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others! (1984)
The Physical Reality of Rightful Change
In a world of constants, when light falls on a semi-transparent mirror, exactly half reflects, the other half transmits through the mirror. When a single photon arrives at the mirror, it will either reflect or transmit at a 50/50% ratio. With such binary absolutes, when science became able to record the wave transformations of ‘negative entropy’ (the move away from potential randomness into ordered coherent states) the effect of living consciousness on the field offered no such absolutes, although the results were staggering. (These experiments were designed to show conscious thought as having ability to cause material effects. If merely by observing matter, we affect it’s potentiality by fixing it into a given, then somehow the observer was creational, able to master the outcome. Scientists had only to prove it conclusively.)
Yet McTaggart tells us,
“Every scientist engaged in consciousness research was thinking the same thought. Why was it some people were more able to influence, and some conditions more conducive to influence, than others? … Dr William Braud looked hard for the common thread in all… experiments. He noticed several characteristics, which tended to more readily guarantee success: some sort of relaxation technique (…meditation, biofeedback for example); reduced sensory input or physical activity; dreams or other internal states and feelings; and a reliance on right-brain functioning.”
Braud worked with findings reported by the Moscow Brain Research Institute’s Laboratory of Neurocybernetics. Using transcendental meditation techniques, the institute had conclusively proved meditation as an exercise that improves the areas of the cortex dealing with the assimilation of information, with a marked increase in the functioning of communication between left and right brain hemispheres. Meditation opens the doors of perception a little further! Using techniques of the ganzfeld, German for ‘whole field,’ (a method that reduces sensory input by blindfolding the volunteer in a soundproof room whilst using headphones to play low volume static) Braud showed, alongside others, how thought projection/telepathic experiments were in all cases more successful by a staggering 82% after meditating! The odds were billions to one… It would seem ‘the left brain is the enemy of the field,’ yet it takes only the practise of relaxation techniques, those basic brain exercises, to improve right hemisphere response and induce synchronisation. Opening the channels that are receptive to the field’s frequencies proved symbiotic with the knowledge that the field is constantly tapped into and mobilized; it would seem the interior mutterings of everyday life inhibits the ability to perceive it. The relaxed, passive and receptive world of the field proves highly responsive to our intent in extending superradiance into the world. As The Field exemplifies, conclusive testaments of the dynamic relationship between humanity and the field highlight many areas of conscious agility, like remote viewing, healing, intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance and many similar information phenomena. All seem to be easily explained by means of the nonlocal quantum hologram... (more to come on this!)
Quantum physics reincarnated the aether, known collectively as the zero point field, a seething cauldron of quantum potential and unmanifest energy where particles and antiparticles spontaneously arise and then disappear. The very fabric and structure of space/time itself is again in question; it’s structure and its metric under intense investigation have raised far more questions than answers . For the purposes of this web entry, we will be focusing in the near future on, a) the emission/absorption phenomenon, and b) the structure and mechanics of non-locality.
A powerful and telling series of experiments conducted by Dean Radin at the University of Nevada (1997) followed a decade long set of equally significant experiments by Brenda Dunne, R. Nelson and Robert Jahn at Princeton University. (1988) Their experiments provide insight as to the subtleties involved in this level of mind/brain functioning. Jahn, Nelson and Dunn provided overwhelmingly that subjects could intentionally produce statistically skewed results in mechanical processes normally thought to be driven by random processes. Radin went further; he discovered that audiences watching a stage performance would skew the output of nearby random number generators during periods of high emotional content in the stage performance. The thesis in the Princeton experiments was that participant intentionality created a non-random effect to bias the skewed distribution. In the Radin experiments the results were not intentional, as the participants were unaware of the experiment, but the hypothesis was that attention (in particular, rapt attention) drove the system away from chaos (randomness) and toward greater order (reduced entropy). These results suggest that attention and intention provide closely correlated outcomes, and furthermore, that randomness may not be a general property of nature... that what is perceived as random noise in a system may be information (a pattern of energy) that is not in resonance at that moment with the particular perceptual system, yet is in the process always of becoming...
In the upcoming installments of The Bear and I, we will investigate what this means in layman's terms and how we can best apply ourselves to a) opening the right hemispheric channels and b) learn what effects we can best achieve in doing so. We will encounter new ways in which to view the world and will especially question Truth. This web entry started in the desire to explain/justify how I evaluate truths which seem surreal and at odds with the Bear's. The practices which follow can offer viable explanations and working definitions.... In the meanwhile, knowing all we have just learnt, I leave you with these following thoughts... for a little rumination! Don't forget... you are more than welcome to comment as usual!
Einstein once said that Imagination is far greater than knowledge... this is a statement that appears contrary to a world that tells us knowledge is the ultimate power. But consider... Imagination is always the forerunner of any knowledge, of any material existance in this physical plane we inhabit... Without imagination, nothing innovative can materialise... no new story be written... no alterior truth be realised. We change our perspectives frequently as science moves along the arrow of time... Paradigmatic shifts in cosmological truisms have been our conductors, orchestrating our perceptions and playing into our thinking. Yet always... the great Imagination is primary to any given material...
Pause a little while... and play and tease the word, I-magi-nation... I, either I of the individual personal... or else, I as an eye... of interiority. Then we have the Magi, plural of the Magus... the Mage of Wisdom, the internal knowing... investigate for yourself what Magi are sparkled throughout time, both East and West, North and South! From the Zoroastrian astrologer-priest from ancient Persia, from which is derived the terms magic/ magician, to the wisdom of the three magi of the bible, and shamans.... seek Imaginations ancestral voice! And finally... the Nation. Anyone who has delved within the microcosm of his/her internal self will vouch for my observation when I say that the more we delve within, the bigger the expanse of the universe becomes....
Ingenious, wouldn't you agree?
Recommended Reading: Emoto, Dr Masaru: Messages from Water (HADO Kyoikusha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1999/2001)
See: M Jibu, S Hagan, S Hameroff et al: Quantum Optical Coherence in Cytoskeletal Microtubules, Implications for Brain Function. BioSsystems 32: 1994
See: Hameroff, SR: Ultimate Computing Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (Amsterdam, North Holland Publishing, 1987)
Very interesting post, Imajicka.
Makes me think of several things...
There are 3 books I read recently that mention quantum theory - Stephen Hawkins 'The Universe in a Nutshell', Bill Bryson 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' and Paul Parsons 'The Big Bang'.
The frontspiece to Parsons' book (a relentlessly materialistic analysis) is Blake's 'The Ancient of Days'...I shivered when I saw it...
Best scientific writer EVER is the late great Richard Feynman...
Anyway I have wondered ever since if human decisions count as quantum measurements, and thus cause a branch on the multiverse as Everett thinks quantum measurements do...
...and if so, is it really true there's a universe just like this one, except Britney Spears is in Eastenders...
It's always intersted me too that the slowest brainwaves (barring those found in deep sleep) - that is Theta waves at 8 -13 whatevertheyares a second, are found in states of inspiration, enlightenment, and get this, shame and humiliation! You know when you are deeply humiliated, and you flush up, and your brain seems to slow right down and you can hear a sort of pounding in your ears...no?...well it seems that this state is the most enlightening one to be in. As far as brain waves are concerned.
Will stop now as true to form have already lost this post once.
Will be re-reading your post with a view to further comments!
Regards, Cathy
Posted by: Cathy | 04 December 2005 at 06:49 PM
Hi Cath!
I note the books you speak of are actually very 'scientific,' although I have yet to read any Richard Feynmam... you are more than welcome to read "The Field" if you like and I also have a copy of "What the Bleep do we Know?" which is a fantastic documentary/film about the quantuum world we inhabit. It also explains very clearly about how 'thought' is paramount within quantuum space, as is Imagination more powerful than knowledge! I will bring the film to school tomorrow but let me know about the book?
"The Bear and I" blog still has to encompass such ways that we can understand and utilise the quantuum world, all tied into our hemispheric unity. As far as I experience it, 'human decisions' have a huge impact on the world. Everything we think in some way procurs the cause and effect of life... I see our decisions/thoughts/actions as ripples that keep expanding an effect even when we believe certain actions and decisions in life are over with! (Think about the fact that when any two things connect, the relationship will be connected forever! I think I mentioned my incredibility in understanding that if I were to accidently bump into someone I did not know, our connection would be established forever, even if I never knew or had anything to do with that person again! This certainly advocates the Buddhist way of existance, that demands we are conscious of all matter as a part of ourselves...)
I know this may sound somewhat simplistic, but I remember (when my state of consciousness was shifting) sitting on a beach one day and throwing a pebble into the sea. As I did so, I suddenly became aware how I had contributed to changing the way the world looked and behaved that day. Such a small thing in such a minute way, but enough for me to see the microcosmic part I am in the multiverse of life! Some may say that is mere imagination...:) But because of this pebbly moment, I went home and painted some perfectly smooth and beautiful stones with fine details; I put little messages on them, and symbols of positive affirmation. I then took them back down to the beach and threw them, one by one, into the vast collection of stones, believing I had put some energy into an act of arty beauty that may delight and mean something to someone who may, by chance, find one! (I know I go to a beach when sad or looking for some cleansing!)
As to there being another universe that parallels what we understand ours to be, I really couldn't comment. I do know there are definable dimensions (it is generally considered there are 11 in total) that we have yet to understand, but I am conscious how mankind is very thwarted by the established ways we have learnt to see the world. (The history of stupid white men...and Brittany Spears in another universe? Please!!!!)
Theta Waves...
I have always thought Theta waves to be slower than what you specify, having a frequency range of about 4 to 8 Hz.? I understand the waves to be active during times of calmness and relaxation deepening into drowsiness. The brain shifts to slower, more powerfully rhythmic theta waves. It has been called the twilight state, between waking and sleep. It's often accompanied by unexpected, dreamlike mental images. Often these images are accompanied by vivid memories, particularly childhood memories. Theta offers access to unconscious material, reveries, association, sudden insight, and creative ideas. This is a key state in the practice of reality creation...
Now, I have always understood the Theta wave frequency is augmented during non-emotional activities – either perceptual or imaginative - and this frequency offers significant creative potential to a person. At the interface between Alpha and Theta, an individual appears to be able to use his conscious mind to focus upon unconscious imagery in a paradoxical manner resembling free association. The ability to focus on unconscious processes allows a person to formulate more creative problem solution – taking advantage of previously unavailable information from his subconscious mind.
The energy of shame is the densest & lowest energy vibration of all the emotions. According to David Hawkings (MD, PHD: author of Power vs. Force) his studies calibrate it vibrationally at 20 microwatts. Contrasted with love at 500, or peace at 600, shame blocks our energy in the deepest ways imaginable. Shame is normally linked to the sense of self, how we feel or express your own anger or pleasure. Shame is one of 9 basic 'Affects' that make up the primary emotions in our bodies but from all I have read, it is a 'blockage,' inhibiting an 'Effect-ive' binary that gets blocked by shame. Emotions are always 'reactions' affecting self and others... Is it not true that we spend a lot of time attempting to understand and heal our emotional states, aiming to keep them in check so as not to cloud any issue in question? I feel emotive responses are mostly learnt, usually in childhood, and, acting as triggers, are the vital components/signs that can allow us to move towards the more joyful, poroductive, healthy and feeling metaphsical self that I believe... no...I know we are!
It is however, important we also realise all the brain wave states are actually always in effect, yet one usually dominates the rest . It is also true to realise that all energy has a negative expression and a positive: it is up to us as individuals what we choose to express! This is why many great avatars advocate we love where love loves not for anger is love in terms of hate yet always masks issues of self-love...
(I would add thou how it was only when I exposed my own sense of shame to myself and others that I healed and moved forward into another state of conscious understanding. It was ridiculous how I had suffocated and inflicted myself with things that were no crime, simply demeaned by societal ideology and expressed in shame!)
There's an incredible and diabolically hideous myth out there that "Life Happens TO Us." This myth dictates that all of the circumstances of our life and our habitual reactions to these circumstances are "just how things are...," and beyond our control. This is an easy myth to believe because, for the most part, it is what we are taught throughout our lives. It's what some psychologists call our "belief system." Our whole belief system is initiated/learned from other people. Parents, teachers and friends share their beliefs with us. We trust them, and because of this trust, their beliefs become our beliefs. Often we may have no experiential knowledge of these alleged "truths" about life until we stand and test them. I guess this can often mean we find an accepting mirror in which to exdpress our sense of shame etc
Ok, that's enough for now because I do keep travelling on those darn tangents...:)
Look forward to your forthcoming comments
Love Light and Flighty Fays
Imajicka
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Posted by: Imajicka | 06 December 2005 at 02:30 PM
Hi Imajicka
This may be a little incoherent as I am under the influence of artificial stimulants.
I have looked up my sources and of course you are right, theta waves are 4 - 7 cycles per second. The emotional states my source claimed they were connected with were embarrassment, frustration, creativity and inspiration.
I would beg to differ with you about the value of shame. Sure, artificial shame is wrong, when a child is shamed for a natural act, or a woman for that matter and sometimes a man.
But there is another sort of shame which I believe is truly creative, which is the deep and genuine shame experienced when you realise your behaviour has been harmful, or the rueful shame when it has simply been unreasonable. At that moment a mindset is entirely altered; it is a creative state.
Children experience it frequently. It is a learning process.
I am reminded of a time when a boyfriend of mine made an offensive remark to a woman. He did not mean to be offensive; it was meant to be funny, but it came across very rude and there was a silence in the group after he said it. We were sitting outside in the sun and he was wearing sunglasses. I couldn't see his eyes but I saw his cheeks redden and I know he felt ashamed of his hurtful comment. That made me value him more.
Frustration, too...I think it is a key part of the emotional process. So many of my most intractable problems have only 'solved' themselves (in the most unexpected ways!) at a point just after when I became totally frustrated and gave up. The problems I refer to involve relationships with other people. I think perhaps when you stop trying to solve a problem, it gives the other person space to make a move. Or the states of the universe time to move in. I'll give you an example.
I had to teach maths to an 11 year old boy, one-to-one. It was in the afternoon, he was tired, he didn't want to do it. There was a piano in the room, he wanted to play it. I said no, we had to do the maths. After an immensely frustrating half hour for both of us, I had completely failed to convey to him the theory of 'rounding up' (and down). At length my theta waves were just blowing my mind and I gave up in frustration, and let him play the piano.
Next thing I know, a beautiful rendition of the Moonlight Sonata is floating past my head (I had been expecting chopsticks). My frustation melted away, to be replaced with delight. How could this
child be devoid of mathematical sense or memory (for so my frustration was telling me!)? I have never enjoyed music so much.
Then we went back to the Maths. I immediately approached it from a completely different angle, and he picked it up straight away.
The Britney Spears thing is a joke, actually. But I've always imagined that every time I make a decision, I split into two Cathys, one that makes the one choice, one the other. Obviously each is then in a different universe. For instance, one went to Canterbury university and one went to York. At that point our lives began to diverge significantly.
Many of these Cathys are dead, so I'm glad I'm not one of them. Many Cathys were not adopted, and grew up as Americans. One might be a famous writer, but it's not me. I used to imagine that I was the 'lucky' Cathy, that every time I got to go with the best outcome. I don't think that's quite true, now, but I am so far one of the luckier ones, I think.
Of course, everybody else would similarly diverge. And it might be on the basis of probability. For example, it there's a 20% chance a truck hits you, then there might be one universe where it does and four where it doesn't.
Please stop me if I'm talking garbage.
The whole thing would get horribly complicated.
On reflection, I think that imagining that is psychologically correct but scientifically wrong. It's more likely it just goes the way it goes.
'The meaning of life is that it has no meaning - except what you give it'
Love Cathy
P.S. Did you read the Bettelheim?
Posted by: Cathy | 10 December 2005 at 12:46 AM
I should say, ' -and what it gives you'
Posted by: Cathy | 10 December 2005 at 12:54 AM
Hi Cathy!
Perhaps, reading back, I made too little of the part where I state shame was a valuable part of my own evolution? I also understand shame as a vital component in a healing and... yes, a creative process. The problem with shame as I see it is the 'hidden' nature of this emotion and is not one that many want expressed in public yet as you say, it can be endearing and say a lot about a person, like with your boyfriend. Somehow, shame comes from the very depths of the real self.
I wonder, when realising 'the energy of shame is the densest & lowest energy vibration of all the emotions,' whether shame is possibly the most truthful aspect of our self, especially in relation to 'others'. It vibrates at such a low frequency but is this merely because of it's living in the deepest fathoms of our chakra energies, it's vibrations deeply personal? Love and peace as vibrations are very much about what we are giving out into the world....
There is this lady I once knew very well and she was 'chaos-in-creation.' She was re-enacting hurts and pain over everyone she met and it was so obvious to me she was avoiding the shame of what she had gone on to inflict over everyone through having been hurt herself. I remember, just before necessarily disassociating myself from her life, telling her my door was always open to when she wanted to talk about all the things she kept cloaked up in her 'shame' cupboard. She squirmed, telling me there was far too much but I told her this was ridiculous! Until she faced the actions of self she would never find her door to expressing the change I know she craved and in truth, when we open our truths to another, no matter how bad we conceive them to be, we invariably open the paths that exemplified our actions in the first place. We can witness ourselves more objectively...
I guess my point here is that shame is the only emotion open to this lady. Once she experiences it, she is able to move with it and thus 'feel' in relation to others; shame is always a two-way flow of subjective/objective. Until such time, she has cut herself off from relating to her own actions as well as identifying with what she effects over another...
So I agree with you whole heartedly but let me ask you something. Where the momentary aspects are concerned, like your boyfriend saying something in the moment, trying to be funny... surely we could argue that he was embarressed rather than shamed? His embarressment came from his being able to identify with the other person that he mistakenly embarressed himself? But is this the same emotion as shame?
And couldn't we argue shame is something to be felt and worked through as a form of release? We can surely experience our shame and creatively work it into a new frequency, thus freeing ourselves from the natural binds that shame encapsulates? For example, I was always deeply ashamed by the fact that it was me (as the mother) who was having to fight the father for the residency of the children. (Especially when considering I was confronting the 'mother-issues' I held with my own mother). Society assumes all sorts of ideas in such a situation, believing a mother must be surely awful to be in that position in the first place. Nobody I knew questioned what drove my mothering to such fallibility and of course, the father was initially seen as a shining opposition... But I faced all the aspects of the mother-shame until one day I owned my truth, forgave myself and most importantly, faced all the aspects that manifested or played upon my shame. I cannot forsee my ever having to face such shame again because I worked through it! I was especially fortunate that my own mother showed her 'Self' in standing in court alongside my ex, (a man she had not related to at all whilst I was married) as this helped me to exonerate myself from associated feelings of shame that were never of my making...
So, write back and let me know what you think....:)
Love, Light and Starry Fays
Imajicka
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Posted by: Imajicka | 18 December 2005 at 12:48 PM