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28 Dec 2005 @ 04:41, by Shreepal Singh
We live at three planes, or, we are conscious at three planes. These planes of consciousness are neither the inherent properties nor the bye-products of our bodily life. However, for action of the consciousness at these planes in the material world, generally, it needs a physical body.
• Firstly, at the lowest level, at the threshold of life, we "feel and sense" our living existence. It is the world of consciousness at the gross physical level, the most elementary level of living being. It is the base of the pyramid of human structure and is formed of "sensations" that may be occasioned by the end result of our pursuit of desires and thoughts or, by innocuous natural happenings to the physical body.
• The second one is that of "our" desires, This world is composed of cravings and impulses. A beauty inherent in the desires and cravings - ranging from love to hate and attachment to revulsion - provides this world its own rhythm.
• The third plane is that of "our" thoughts. It is a world of mind and its reason, and is composed of symmetry. It provides a congruity in the material world around us and creates a beauty and rhythm of logic,
Who am "I"? "I' is the ever-shifting bundle of thoughts, desires and sensations. This "I" remains in perpetual flex. Like a kaleidoscope, our "I" is an ever-shifting illusion shaped by "our" thoughts, desires and feelings, and this illusion lasts all our life span, till the death. That is "I" and that is how we spend our life.
ADDENDUM ON MARCH 29, 2007:
If there is ‘real’ existence of thoughts, desires and physical consciousness of human beings we must be able to fabricate devices that generate and receive these ‘realities. Is it possible? Why can we not detect any of them today with our modern tools that are able to detect the presence of ‘any form of energy’? If there is this presence of thoughts etc. we must somehow get an indication through our fine instrument. But we do not get any such indication. Is not all this existence of thoughts, desires and physical consciousness a humbug and nonsense? It seems so today. But we sould not be in hurry in pronouncing our judgment on the basis of our inability. Yes, we are inable but it should be all the more a reason on our part to be more humble in our judgments and verdicts on things that we do not know. We know today all our ‘thoughts’ or ‘sensations’ of desires are the phenomena occuring in our mind only. We know there are transmissions of impulses of energy through various neurological cicuits in our brain. We know these things are phenomena that are interpreted by our ‘mind’ as our ‘sensation of thoughts, desires’ etc.
But human brain itself is a trans-receiver. It generates and receives thoughts and desires, though we are not able to detect them outside our ‘mind’. Why it is so?
Brain is made up of matter and thoughts, desires etc. are not made up of matter. However, this matter is able to detect things that are not material (including electro-magnatic energy, which is material). Brain is a very sensitive material tool, which is simply devised by Nature’s evolution. It is conscious of itself. It is possible to fabricate a device that is able to generate and receive thoughts, desires etc. But it has to be likewise sensitive enough; it has to be conscious of itself. It is creating life in aboratory. It is possible but it is not enough to generate or receive thoughts etc. This artificially created life must be ‘sensitive enough’ and it means simply that this life must be organized in the required fashion like brain. Brain has been organized in the manner it is, by life’s evolution operating under the (evolutionary) principles like the ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘inhertence of the acquired traits’ etc. It can be done in laboratory but it is achieving evolutionary traits artificially. Now we have the necessary tool – genes – to accomplish this task in aboratory. It is duplicating – and not only duplicating but refining in a way that is not available in Nature – evolution artificially. It is all possible.
It all is creating ‘mind’ artificially. But today we are quite far away from properly understanding the functions of human brain. There is a long way to go yet. The coming age of science would belong to the understanding of human brain and mind. Not only we have to understand the physical brain, we have to understand the co-relation of physical brain with mind; mind that is conscious, subconscious and unconscious, and beyond that, which we do not know. The human brain is like an electric motors – you supply the power and it moves on; or like a dynoma – you move it and it supplies the power. In neither case it is ‘power’; it simply processes the ‘power’, which exists independently in some form. All this can be done artificially but by undertaking this task in laboratory human being’s understanding of things would completely be changed. By this way he would establish his relationship with Nature in a totally new way; he would transform himself. The steps of mankind are moving in this direction and our civilization is living at a critical juncture of life’s history on Earth.
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