I just read a headline: “We May Have Found the Part of the Brain Where Conscious Experience Lives.”
This has been a focus of science for years, and as fun as the investigation is, it is misguided.
Don’t get me wrong. I love science. I trust scientists, mostly. I enjoy reading about where their discoveries are leading. I am curious about what direction mankind is heading. I am definitely not anti-science. Science has its place in the 3D world.
Now, back to the bit about this particular focus being misguided.
Contrary to almost everyone’s opinion, consciousness does not live in the brain. This amazing aliveness isn’t somehow created as an after-effect. There is no way, even in the world of matter, which is also misguided, that matter can create consciousness.
If we’d all just stop and explore, we’d discover quite quickly, that consciousness is not in the brain, is not even in the body. The body and that includes the brain, are in consciousness. It is easy to see for yourself.
That’s a leap too far for science right now. I am hoping to read a headline one day … if I life that long … that says, “Oops! Boy Were We Wrong!”
I don’t really expect it, but it would sure be sweet to see that before I pass into legend.
The problem, and it seems a very big one, is that in order to see what is, we have to be willing and able to set aside what we believe we know.
The overwhelming majority of scientists think that they are impartial, that their beliefs can be set aside. That might be true of some of the smaller beliefs, like the expectation of a particular outcome, or the fact of their impartiality, but that is far from the mark when it comes to the bigger beliefs, the basic ones that we don’t even consider to be beliefs.
These ginormous beliefs are the unquestioned structure of our worlds, and they are in play in every scientific exploration.
They are also in play in everyday life for you and me, for spiritual seekers, religious folks, agnostics, and atheists — for all of us.
If we can’t set aside the belief that the world is made of matter — a big one — and others like time and space, we have little hope of exploring consciousness. We will continue to keep barking up the same old tree and the squirrels will keep throwing nuts at us.
Currently, that is the case for most of humanity.
Most don’t want to consider the possibility that the impossible is possible. We aren’t willing to admit that just maybe we’ve had it all wrong, that we’ve put our complete and unquestioned trust in untrustworthy facts. After all, it sure looks like a world of matter. It sure seems like we are conscious, that consciousness resides within us. Why question that?
Why, indeed.
We’ve believed seemingly valid fallacies and acted from them, creating lives of conformity driven stress with our adherence to what is not true, what has never been true, will never be true.
Please don’t believe me. Don’t even believe yourself, your eyes and ears. The known will not reveal the unknown and it is the unknown that we ache for. Or simply go about your way. Cry bullshit. I mean, what IS this lady thinking. She must have lost her mind.
Well, yes I have. The mind that had the audacity to claim ownership of consciousness, that crazily thought that matter gave birth to consciousness, that matter is what it seems, is gone, and it took its love affair with the separate self with it.
I’ll own crazy. It’s not a bad way to live.
There is no appropriate bio for Amaya Gayle. She doesn’t exist other than as an expression of Consciousness Itself. Talking about her in biographical terms is a disservice to the truth and to anyone who might be led to believe in such nonsense. None of us exist, not in the way we think. Ideas spring into words. Words flow onto paper and yet no one writes them. They simply appear fully formed. Looking at her you would swear this is a lie. She’s there after all, but honestly, she’s not. Bios normally wax on about accomplishments and beliefs, happenings in time and space. She has never accomplished anything, has no beliefs and like you was never born and will never die. Engage with Amaya at your own risk.
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Ok good possibly valid points but doesn’t the mind consist of matter? I have been clinically deceased and my mind matter was still functioning inside my head not out in the cosmos where we all technically come from. Maybe it would be more appropriate to consider that our minds are capable of contact with consciousness and matter in places outside of our physical bodies such as in dreams? To think our consciousness is out somewhere in the ether of space controlling us from afar seems a bit difficult to believe. But if you believe in a Superior Being then it would be an easy leap to make. If you don’t it isn’t. In fact those who don’t are constantly wondering that if a Superior Being was over watching us from the Cosmos why is it that they would allow us to absolutely obliterate everything they allegedly created in their image?
Wouldn’t a more perfect being want their science projects to succeed rather than miserably fail as mankind has done to itself?
Hi. Thanks for playing with me.
The first sentence you wrote is a doozy: doesn’t the mind consist of matter? It’s one of the biggest fallacies, one that has been handed down from generation to generation …. forever. In my world, my experience, it certainly appears to be made of matter, but appearances deceive.
We perceive mind as an object that we can separate from other objects. We can even touch brain matter (interesting that they call it matter) but the brain is not mind. So, if what we can see, and touch … and assume to be matter, makes it matter then perhaps it is, but … what do we really know? Impulses, sensations, light and electrical signals, and we call that matter.
You had a NDE and were still aware of life. Does that mean the mind is matter? Was it matter that was functioning, or awareness? One thing that is never not present is awareness of, even when the awareness of is the awareness of nothing.
My experiences have led me to look deeper, to let go of what I thought I knew, things like matter and time and space and …. you know, the basics — and let life show me what it is. It can’t do that while I hold any belief. The belief will color my ability to see what is always, already right in front of my eyes. I found and still find it quite enlightening.
Everything arises in and returns to consciousness, to basic unfiltered awareness. Without awareness there is no experience, be it of a body, a higher being, dimensions, a self, or an orange. It is the bottom line, or as close to it as we seem to be able to get.
Whether life is made of matter isn’t really important. See what sees, what perceives, what senses. And then … notice whether there is a seer and what is seen or if they are one and the same.
Play with life innocently, like a newborn babe before that first belief set in. Curiosity is your friend.
Right on, Amaya!
Thanks, Floyd.
I love this discussion. Please consider playing with this topic more often. It is helpful in my own speaking and interacting with others who may not read your blogs. To me his topic can be infuriating, confusing, inexplicable, intangible and down right maddening for many people.
Hi Nancy,
Couldn’t agree more. This topic is ineffable, inscrutable, indefinable. Word play though, can be fun. Knowing that we can’t know opens up the playground.
Much love,
Amaya
I like this.