Spirituality Guide

We now have building evidence of how changing a mind can alter which genes are being expressed on an almost real-time rate.

We also have cell structures that alter regularly - neurons turn out to have a ’skeletal’ structure which rebnews almost hourly, which is why the brain can restructure so readily when new information comes in and also goes some way towards explaining the plasticity of memory.

So yes, Attitude may not only be important, it could very well be the entirety of the causative factors that determine significant amounts of our daily lives.

It’s interesting to note, just in how many areas the orthodox view of biology is being rewritten.

It’s been something I’ve puzzled over a long time - why does the body have an electrical nature? It actually doesn’t seem necessary for nerves - that’s a (from memory) sodium/calcium process where ions are exchanged and the ‘electrical’ signals of the brain don’t seem to be needed in the body, yet the whole body has an electrical field so sensitive that we can detect mood by measuring skin resistance changes.

Now we’re beginning to understand why. If we look at the body as a building, we’ve been looking at the elevators and saying, ‘that’s how buildings communicate’ and now we’re finding the phone and closed-circuit TV systems. Guys like Sheldrake and Lipton are looking at the microwave antenna on the roof and starting to define how the building receives input from the owner. Others are defining the ways in which maintenance gets told by the tenants which systems to run and which aren’t important enough to prioritise. And we’re starting to map the information channels into each room so we can organise more effectively both the local room activity AND the co-ordination of the building output.

The information is not stored in the brain, but in the Mind. Minds are what brains do. The hologram field that is the tool of our active consciousness is, for all practical purposes, infinite in capacity. Even when the input channels get overloaded, the incredible capacity for associating and sorting in the brain will increase to handle it - that’s why neurons can develop new connections and why they are ‘refreshed’ so quickly - the brain can adjust.

The problem is, I think, not a matter at all of Information Overload, but rather of MIS-Information Overload. I think we are being bombarded constantly by BS from the media, from our governments, from advertising and from religion, and the ratio of shit to sugar has increased beyond our ability to detect the differences. The shite comes loaded in symbols actively designed to trigger processes in us and whatever truth there might be coming at us gets smothered in the avalanche of BS.

And just to make sure we can’t determine the differences, our children (and us in the past) have been cheated of Education by a system that sets us up as feedback robots. In other words, let an authority tell us something and we have a pretence of thought about it but we will feed back what was told us in the drill classes that are schools.

We are trained to live in our Spotlight Awareness, focus all the time on the immediate NOW moment, putting all our processing behind what is being fed to us. We have lost sight of the fact (and it is a fact) that we have an entire other level of awareness, the Floodlight Awareness, that can take in all the rest of the environment and make sense of it in different ways to that of the Spotlight.

We can focus only on a tiny part of the information coming at us every second, which is why advertising works - they give us an up-front story to engage our focus, usually using sex, but sometimes other trigger symbols, and feed the misinformation in through the neglected Floodlight Awareness and because we are so engaged in the focus level, we don’t censor or even register the messages coming at us from the periphery of awareness.

But it is impossible for the mere humans doing this stuff to get the level of coherence achieved by Reality, so this misinformation coming in starts to creates mismatches in the association process - and because it is coming in with the authorioty of symbolism behind it, it creates direct conflict with other ‘known’ facts.

I think this is the source of confusion, not that we are learning so much more now as the spiral of growth in knowledge tightens. I think we can handle all that, even if we need to learn greater finesse in selectivity - what we cannot handle are the lies, the manipulations of truth and the control mechanisms being implanted in us by the media around us.

Science is finding that meditation and prayer have quantifiable benefits, but only when done personally and with involvement from deep in ourselves, yet how many of us have been taught structured prayers to say, meaningless patter that doesn’t require any personal level of attachment to the words?

The chakras need to be known about before they can be used, trained, activated or whatever process we wish to use on them. Directed energy seems to be able to have effects on others - someone who has worked on their energy system can noticeably affect the kirlian patterns of another person.

There are two levels of awareness we all have, the spotlight and the floodlight.

The spotlight you are familiar with, it starts in class or maybe before… ‘pay attention’ ‘look at me’ etc. It is when we look through the tiny pinhole of clear sight in our field of vision, when we bring our attention onto a specific thing, concentrating on it and ignoring the rest of the input we are constantly receiving.
We have been carefully focussed (sorry) on the spotlight throughout our lives. Those who can’t activate it at will or who get distracted by the rest of the sensorium are labelled with ADD.

The other kind you are also familiar with but probably don’t know it. The floodlight is all the rest, from peripheral vision through to the ongoing input of information flooding the senses that aren’t being used for spotlighting. When we drive with a friend, we can happily chat with them all the way to the destination, concentrating on the conversation and thoughts involved in the interaction. When we get where we are going we often can’t recall the journey - yet all the way we were driving, steering, watching traffic, noting the conditions, the road, the signs. The driving was being done with floodlight attention while we spotlighted with our friend.

This is the awareness spoken of by the native tribes, by the shamans and sages. When we release the fixed focus of the spotlight and let the world flow in and become aware of it, not fixing our attention on anything in particular but just Being there, Being Aware of the world in all its complexity.

And it is in those moments of Floodlighting we can become aware of the simulation and of the connectedness of All.

There’re more things to wonder about when we begin to examine reality. One is a BIG one.

Science tells us that inside atoms are protons, neutrons and electrons. Inside them are quarks. But some oddities in physics have brought forth a new theory to explain some odd goings on. String Theory tells us that at base of everything are strings, so small that an atom compared to the Earth is a far closer match than a string compared to an atom.

Strings are tiny bits of… we are not sure what, but the best of theory says that for at least part of the time, they are somewhere else. They vibrate in and out of our reality. Strings make up everything we experience, yet for part of the time they are just not here.

So with all those things pointing at a reality a bit different from that being taught in schools, we have to wonder what is really Real.

At the moment it would seem only one thing can be relied on. With the universe a hologram, with memories being part of a mental hologram we call Consciousness and Mind, with the evidence that there is nothing at all that inside the smallest things we can conceive of, it would seem that the only real thing is us.

Strange that after all these years, after brilliant men have worked their minds for decades in study and discovery, we find ourselves heading back towards the idea that only Life has meaning, that ‘All the World’s a Stage’ or that lives are played in the Cave as Shadows on a Wall with the real players back off behind us.

If all this speculation is right, being worried about the world around us if like being worried if you’re behaving right in a dream you had last night. If the world around us is a creation of ours, if how we see it can change what we experience, then it would seem it is what is in us that matters.

To review briefly some of the ideas behind all this speculation – from Science we have the theory that we are inside a hologram. When I first heard about holograms, almost nobody knew what they are, but since Princess Leia’s message to Luke as a hologram from R2D2 and Neo’s Matrix worlds, most people now have some idea of what one is.

Relativity tells us that the frame or location of the observer is important – where the observer is and what he is doing can alter what he sees and when.

Quantum Theory tells us that everything is random jiggles of a quantum foam and the only apparent causation for a reality is Consciousness – in other words it is the perception of the quantum state that causes it to collapse into entanglement – to become real, or perhaps just to Become!

Brains are not where it is at. We can probe and scan all we like, but there’s some steps missing in the idea that brains are US. One you might want to ask is, where are the memories stored? When they talk memories with brains, they show us where particular types of memories are processed, they show us what parts trigger when certain associations are made, but what they don’t show us (because they can’t) is where the bytes of memory storage are actually held.

I’m not sure why but it seems to be a question not being asked.

Currently we are hampered not just by the way things are being run, which removes effectiveness from the very people who are the mainstay of the society, but those people are also being crippled from childhood by an education system designed to ensure they never learn to think properly and always find authority more important than individuality. Those who break the mould normally find the people around them work to bring them back to the normal level – in my opinion because the example of someone not conforming raises uncomfortable subconscious thoughts about why one isn’t also throwing off the chains.

It can be hard to break the chains of normalcy, particularly when those in whom we confide put us down for trying, or when those we love or trust will not or cannot back us in our path. Sometimes I think the road is hard, not through any particular quality of the road, not because we have to walk it all alone as the Christ and all the real sages have said, but because those we know are standing by the side of it, mocking and throwing clods of dirt at us until we turn aside and return to the dullness of the daily grind.

There’re times I think it takes more courage to be able to tell those around you that you aren’t going to keep on with the role they have you slotted into, that you are finding a new pathway through life, than it does to actually start the new life itself. When we are ready to start our new life, when things have clarified enough to goad us into new directions, the steps can seem natural – finding the guts to tell a loved one you aren’t going to keep on with something they expect isn’t something we want to do to someone we love or care about.

In a thread on a forum, a discussion started over whether people liked the world or not. One person was talking about how things aren’t good for us, we have little or no control and hardly anyone has a decent life. Another responded by saying most people were content with their life, living day by day and making their way.

For me the question would be more whether they accept the world with its faults or have they no alternatives? Seems to me when I talk to people (I did bar work for a decade) about the world they all have complaints as you say, but they also have no way to change anything. Some surprising people think the election system is a fraud, that banks should be neutralised somehow, or that corporations are the true rulers of our world, but when you ask how we can go about changing it they pick up their drinks, shrug their shoulders and turn back to the cricket.

The conversation included reference to Zeitgeist, a movie detailing the world around us with a view of religion and banks that feeds directly into the theory of how there’s those who control our lives, who sit above the top of all the various organizations and manipulate the world so as to increase and hold power.

I don’t think the problem is getting people to realise there’s something smelly in our pig pen, although films such as Zeitgeist help detail the aroma, it is finding air freshener that we can all use. Rather than detailing in ever more complexity how many ways the shite stinks, we need to be working on ways to grow a new world from it, one in which people get to learn and live, if not happily, at least with some expectation they might be able to influence the path of their own lives.

To illustrate the point - you’re familiar with the appearance of the Milky Way, correct? Yet here… …you will find views of it which look radically different from what you see in the sky - simply because the ‘collector’ isn’t being limited to the tiny amount your eye can see - change the frequency and the picture is entirely different.

It isn’t hard to imagine that there may be a lot of our cosmos we don’t perceive simply because we don’t know how to look for it. Instruments can assist us but instruments are also a part of the hologram like our bodies and so only report what is IN the hologram, leaving aside the limitations we may be building into them because of our own perceptive deficiencies.

So if the Milky Way can look so radically different simply by altering what we see, is it so hard to accept that maybe the universe itself might also seem different at different frequencies? Or one step further, that Reality might be different if we could find some other way to view it?

The mystics tell us that enlightenment is simply a new way of seeing things; that the path is a personal one because we need to change our view of reality. Only when we can change our focus from the day-to-day, when we can stop seeing only the purely physical world around us will we find the new reality, the path beyond this one.

Of course that’s the rub, isn’t it? How do we change our world view? If you’ve been reading my posts, you will know I view learning as the purpose for which we are here – finding new knowledge, applying it to gain wisdom and so come to know ourselves and our Reality is what it is about… I think, anyway.

And learning is how we can change our world view.

Not only is the cosmos a fake, a creation of consciousness, but in these bodies we don’t even see all of the fake! We live in a box that only partially resembles what is actually present in the hologram. We’re inside a world where it may not be real, where it might all be a creation of our own consciousness and yet we are unable to perceive anything but the tiniest fleck of it.

And it is worse than we think – it’s estimated that if you look at a picture on your 19 inch widescreen monitor, filling the screen, the part of it you actually can focus on is about one pixel or less! Of all the information coming into us from the outside world, that’s how much is being perceived by the spotlight of our attention. The floodlight sees it all, but we are carefully brought up to not use the floodlight awareness consciously.

For those wondering what I am on about, look earlier in my posts for ‘How Do We Perceive’ and ‘The Other Perception’ – they talk about how we spend our lives living in the Spotlight world while the floodlight world mostly passes us by.

As it turns out, we can change our view simply by changing the frequency we see or hear. Dolphins in Port Phillip Bay here in Melbourne have stopped using audible sounds because of the boat traffic on the Bay. They still communicate; they just do it in ranges that are not interfered with by our technology. You can imagine another dolphin from elsewhere coming in through the Heads, listening for a bit then going away thinking the place is empty, simply because there’s no normal dolphin noise. (not quite, but you get what I mean I hope)