ego loss/realizations

I bet your good at eating pie though.

 

LOL, and I am better at noticing when people say your instead of you're. It helps when I no longer have a point and need to side track things. Just kidding.

I edited that last post too, answer, my sanity is on the brink.

 

Just so long as we do not all blink at the same time.

 

"but What do you mean thedope?"

Is that what you want brah?

Oh, forgot my LOL

LOL

 

We teach to learn, to learn to teach.

 

Yep, that may be true, tis not what I had originally asked though. The best leader is the best follower, etc. I was curious if you agreed that from the time we're born to the present, every split we know is learned? And that any perceived split is essentially illusory of itself? Even to go so far as to ask if this concept applies to my very distinction between objects in space?

 

Every moment is entirely new, every distinction is a vision of the past or crystalized brain circuitry.

 

I think Ouspensky was speaking of this in a way. Today is a consequence of yesterday, and tomorrow will be a consequence of today, as far as we are controlled by chance alone. Any connection? Also, crystallized brain circuitry? You're going to have to explain.

 

There is a connection. what he means by as far as we are controlled by chance alone is, as long as we are under the spell of autonomous habitual behaviors. We react without consideration of whether or not our actions are appropriate.
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material, whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. . As the pathways in the brain become fixed, a the brain acts as a transducer that keeps pumping out the same frequency over and over, no matter the variable content of stimulation or information.

 

Yeah, I've been working with this lately, as far as attempts at breaking mechanical behavior goes, specific reactions to specific situations. Bringing consciousness into the seemingly mechanic.

This is a bit beyond me right here.

So in a sense, we become detached from our surroundings, yet fully emerged?

 

Well, it is slightly more than plane geometry. Think of a quartz crystal in a watch. Every electric impulse is shunted to a certain rhythm. That is why it keeps accurate time.

It is nothing less than a somni-facient trance, sleep walking.

 

What is an every day example of these electric impulses being shunted? And the rhythm they are being shunted to?

Also, what does this apply to?

It, being? And again, what is this being applied to?

And above all thanks for taking the time as usual, to reply to these thoroughly. I am just trying to ensure at least some sense understanding of the material. I say some, because Gurdijeff made great points on understanding and the differences in individual association with common terms and words. Two can discuss the seemingly same thing, yet be miles apart in meaning.

 

The example is the automated habitual behavior. the electrical stimulus is the neural activity of the brain. We end up cataloging thing as similar that are not at all similar. Say you have a girlfriend who you think didn't treat you kindly and you get together with someone else and they say or do something that reminds you of the other, you become suspicious by association. The image that you are reacting to has nothing to do with the person you're with now.

It being, the situation we find ourselves in.

My distinct and whole hearted pleasure. You might notice I spend some time defining terms for mutual discussion.

 

Thanks for recapping that

Nice. The example itself was helpful as well. And to elaborate further at a different angle, is the resultant of this the projection of our fears upon others? Which might kind of give them (the fears) the illusion of actually happening, even though it is based on vaguely/loosely connected images of memory, imagination, and the present?

Yes, I do.

 

And if the electrical impulse is rejecting.

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lmao. namaste