THE BRAIN

Hey. I didn’t know that about the western alchemical emphasis on the brain. I guess it is the fire method of raising energy up into the higher centers for enlightenment? I am not sure they ignore the other organs as much as use them as fuel for the ascending fire?

My first response to the Schiavo incident is that the focus should be more on the nature of western medicine to mechanize our bodies and torture a natural process until it generates more suffering.

To put this as a result of Terry’s karma, that she had to experience living in a world without her brain awareness, makes me consider that suffering in my life has purpose and ultimate balance is being made on the inside. I can hang out there and explore that more. I see injuries in my own life as condensed teachers when I can be present without panic or revulsion.

However, to then be in the hands of people who are terrified of the natural impulse to die….who devise methods that prolong what may have been the shen’s initial choice to disband, in the taoist mindset, adds another layer onto this that isn’t about Terry anymore but our culture.

Recently, I have seen two movies that approach this from a different point of view. The Sea Inside is about a man who broke his neck and lived for 28 years as a quadriplegic with the wish to set himself loose from a body that couldn’t respond to his passions. It asked wonderful questions, was pro choice, but made me wonder about the situation where the brain is unaffected but the body is without its nervous system.

I depend so much on my sensations and movements to bring me out of my brain. What would I do if this were taken from me? Consider it karmic rebalance and lay there? Or choose to disband?

In the Clint Eastwood movie it is from the Point of view of the one who is asked to be the moving arms for death to come. It is very touching and difficult.

I watched my mother ebb over a 10 year period with Alzheimer’s. Her headaches grew into name loss to mindless singing to a feeding tube. Every time I visited her I grieved the loss of another communicative part and traveled to the inner planes to meet her.

My father had the opportunity to pull the tube but couldn’t starve her to death. It appeared to me that she was first in a mental prison, one getting smaller and smaller, and then in a physical one–in the name of love.

I know Michael has spoken about suicide as the worst choice from a taoist perspective but when medical science, which is based on a mechanical model of how we work, enters with their divine resuscitations that never restore the person’s willful pulsations toward integration, the core impulse of alchemy and why we are here, but is moving into dissolution…then maybe suicide is the natural alternative.

We all die in so many unique and interesting ways, when it enters the cultural psyche like this, something big is happening that is beyond me. baba

…and: if Karma exists in the way meant, than in this case culture is part of it and a necessity for Karma to fullfil its way… without culture and people being afraid of the natural impulse to die there would be no way for Karma in that way to work… it would then use different means…

Spongebob,
I was deep in an Easter petting reverie with my rabbit whenI heard your question on the inner planes. Easter, by the way, is an old pagan Water and Fire celebration of the Oestrus, the rebirth through sexual conjoining of natural forces….

Back to Terry and others in a coma. Their shen are fully functional, they are perfectly awre of what is going on. Personal body shen are just the end point of a stream of cosmic consciousness that can’t die. Whether it expresses itself in the post-natal realm is a different question, and here the brain plays a major role as the expressive pathway for the shen.

I’ve worked with people in comas and they will communicate if you know how to talk to them. A lot of work has been done in this area by Arnold Mindell, a Taoist neo-jungian psychologist who calls his work ” Process work”. His books are available from his imprint, Lao Tse Press. He’s brought people out of comas after twenty years, etc.

The brain is one of six extraordinary or “curious” organs, others including the spine, blood vessels, female uterus, sometimes the gall bladder is defined as one, and another that escapes my enfeebled brain at the moment.

The brain is important to Taoists, but it just doesn’t have an inner will of its own; its will is just an expression of heart fire rising up to be radiated out to the post-natal realm. Its also the landing pad for the Great Spirit, Da Shen, descending from the “vault of heaven”, the dome of skull. All covered in formula 5.

The brain is highly respected in the sequential training of inner alchemy, and hence is cultivated directly only after the proper foundation has been laid in the earlier formulas leading up to the Sealing of the Senses. Otherwise, you are fooling yourself into thinking you have penetrated its operating system – just like the scientists who probe it externally with MRI machines haven’t a clue as to its invisble (non-cellular) intenral dynamics. If you even believe in the dinosaur age theory that the brain communicates via nerves only, well, that pretty well dates you to the last century. Read the article on my Science and Tao section by Mae Wan Ho on liquid crystal pathways of communication….

Short story: don’t confuse the primacy of the brain and our face attached to it with the inner workings of the soul and energy body – they control the brain, not the other way around, although if you remove the brain it certainly makes it hard to communicate with this physical dimension. But you can be leglaly brain dead, and still have your heart beating, i.e. alive at core.

Very good book that speaks to and supports much of what Michael just said here (and which cites Mae Wan Ho) is “The Biology of Transcendence” by Joseph Pearce, usually known as ‘the guy who wrote The Crack in the Cosmic Egg’ (not to be confused with my lesser known ‘poached egg’ theory of the universe).

Thoth gave you guidance on how to find a piece of the missing alabaster? Did you get into learning about Egypt or Atlantis through past shen memories or did an Immortal or Thoth contact you? Does this stuff appear to you when you are in meditation or do these beings just appear to you when your out in nature or something? I am guessing you communicate with them on the “inner planes” somehow rather than just materializing in your living room?

Care to share your memories of building the Pyramids? Also, are their any books you would specifically reccomend that exist on the subject. I don’t think Atleantean Alchemy is somehting that has been really written about publicly, has it? Most everything I have seen about the subject is from New Age sources that generally lack credibility.

Then again, I guess it’s hard when information is coming from a source that doesn’t exist phyisically and is being channeled from another dimension.

Loplani sounds like he was a very special rabbit. I love animals but couldn’t deal with the noise of dogs and am allergic to cats, maybe I should look for a rabbit..

I would buy your book if it was a work of fiction. but to think you have actually experienced these things and are going to write about them is pretty wild. Did you recieve a oral history of practices and human history from Thoth ? I know “New Age” authors like Drunvalo Melchezdek says Thoth gave him the history of Atlantis but always seemd pretty “out there” to me.

I think his version says we were created as slaves to an “alien race” or something, and thay were rspinsible for destroying Atlantis with their technologies of control.

And how does this correlate to people such as the Native American Indians who have been around for 30,000+ years.

Thena gain, the Native Indians and South American tribes do have some wild stories about creation.

Well, I thing I first heard about you writing this book like 5 or 6 years ago so I am guessing you are putting alot into it.

are you looking for a publisher for it or planning on releasing it as an E book?

. . . uh, what “poached egg theory of the universe” might that be?