Blissful Life

Category: mind n consciousness

  • Couldn’t mind be naturally ‘supernatural’?

    I just got a hypothesis to prove that supernatural may be natural. Well I actually got that idea when I was trying to make my first post at Brights India (a group of Brights in India, Brights are the people who like the naturalistic way of the world), but there’s no way I can adapt that in another way to put in here. So I’m just copy pasting the whole thing. Keep in mind that I wrote this not to you, still I want to say this to you too.

    Let me first excuse myself, this is my first post here, I might be sounding odd.

    But couldn’t mind have powers that some of us are just being unable to use?

    Let me clarify myself.
    Our brain can convert sensory inputs from eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue (that’s where modern science is now) that is visible spectum, audible frequency, smell, temperature roughness, taste

    Now think of sharks which can sense electromagnetic field.

    To continue what I’m going to say I need to make an assumption –
    “that there could be, like the electromagnetic waves, another kind of waves or radiation or energy, which the modern science is yet to experimentally confront.”
    (and with that i must add “did anyone know about electricity before faraday (or is it oersted?) discovered it?”)

    and there’s one thing to note that if there’s such a thing it’s properties could be vastly different from any other things we have observed. It may not be like light. it may not be like particles or waves. and of course i can not tell what it will be like.

    [the whole point of this post is that assumption. if that is wrong i’m dead]

    If you agree with that let us call those rays asd rays (that’s the abbreviation of my full name – so that if in case someone finds it i can tell that i had predicted it and name it under my name, got the point? :D)

    now i hope i am right when i say that “evolution does not depend on whether we understand it or not”
    (that is to say like we have the electron behaving like a wave when we observe it and like a particle when we do not in Young’s double slit experiment)
    So I believe that
    “even if we don’t know that asd rays exist, our DNAs know it” (my goodness, that is an interesting point, could our body be knowing what our mind doesn’t? could we be knowing more than what we know?)

    And so let us assume our body has evolved mechanism to receive asd rays (like we do with light rays)

    And if we can receive asd rays we may be able to send asd rays too.. may be (like we can create sound, and hear sound)

    And may be there is some organ in our yet-to-be-studied-fully brain which CAN actually send and receive asd rays.

    now, may be the composition of asd rays is such that it doesn’t require a medium to pass through.
    and may be it could interact with things (sound can make things vibrate, light can strike electrons off)
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    OK. that is all the assumptions we have to make.

    Now my intentions are clear.

    Couldn’t there be such a mechanism in our brain or mind or body? (which can make things like telepathy, spoon bending, apple from thin air, etc. possible)
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    Reply from akshay s dinesh to asd of india

    But if there’s such an organ, our body would let our mind know it. For, do we have to learn that we can use the eye to see, ear to hear, etc. Should there be such an organ we must be knowing about it.

    reply from asd to akshay

    but do we come to realize that we have a liver, or a spleen by ourselves? (I never knew there existed an organ called spleen until I watched a mother killing her step daughter hitting on the spleen with a hammer in reality tv)
    i mean may be this is an involuntary organ.
    (like our heart rate gets automatically lowered when we’re calm and vice versa)

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    Well I know all these are assumptions. But this is my hypothesis to make many things that we term supernatural as natural.. So that there wouldn’t be any fight at all (i don’t like fights)
    and therefore i wish to invite you to contribute to this idea too. That is to say instead of asking me questions. Help me make this idea a perfect hypothesis waiting to be proved.

    Well, that’s it. I know this is crazy. Still.
    This is the link to the actual thread.

  • Achieving God

    The success of experiencing what I did and am trying to share with you through this post will depend on how detached you are from your mind. (In doubt? Read the post The Secret to (Infinite) Happiness)
    Earlier I told you about the happiness you get out of the realisation that you are neither your body, nor your mind, and that how your body or mind feels is not how you feel. There we talked about detaching your mind from yourself, and not letting your mind influence you.
    But today we are advancing to the next step. Controlling your mind

    We often find ourselves indulging in pleasures (what saintly people call worldly pleasures). And most often we find that something in us does not want us to do that. Let it be watching television on the day before your exams, or having a deadline closing in and still finding time for everything else but the project, or knowing that you have to exercise for a healthy life, but still in the bed every morning; the times when you say “I couldn’t resist”

    What was it that you couldn’t resist on those occasions? The desire in your mind.

    Until you learn how to control your mind, true happiness can never be achieved.

    And this ability, the ability to control your mind is very difficult to acquire, unless you are willing to train it for hours and hours. (In saintly terms, prayer or meditation)

    But I just found a short-cut.

    Let’s start it straight away. (Works well if there is anything you have been postponing)
    Find a disgusting task, completing assignments, learning, reading, exercising (these will turn to be fun later, as I will show you).
    Try to do it now.
    Your mind is telling you not to do it.
    Try to do it. Mind fighting. You try. Mind. You. Mind. >><< egh… dishyum… dishyum… ><
    Don’t let mind take over you. Control your mind. Teach it that you are the master and it your slave.
    Make it do what you want.
    Now, the first task is the only difficult task. If you can do this by brute force over your mind, you are successful. Everything else is easier.

    The moment you finish the first task something in you starts working. You feel a lot satisfied, confident,…
    These are the symptoms that mind has accepted you as its master.

    If nothing happened it is because you did the task through compromise with your mind. You told your mind to remain silent for a few minutes, while you finish the task. Mind will step aside, and, after you finish the task, take over again. That is not the way. Tell the mind first hand that you decide what to do, and that mind can only accept what you decide. Then do the task. And even after the task, you will remain the master.

    Now, the satisfaction, the pleasure you just had, remember it. Just remember how happy you feel when you are in control of yourself (and not your mind). Don’t forget that ever.

    (If you can, read the rest of this post only later. Though nothing is going to happen even if you read it now, it helps you better to take the control of your mind, if you read it later.)
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    If you are like me, your mind will regain its authority within 2 hours of completing the first task.
    It will hold a diplomatic conversation with you. Mind: “Hey! I accept defeat, you are my master. Will you please let me enjoy for an hour?” It will humbly request you. And you will let it. But the moment you do that mind will be back in power. So, what to do now?

    Actually you shouldn’t have allowed the mind even a moment. The more freedom you give your mind, the more it will take control of you. But still, you got trapped. Now how do you bounce back? Simple. Remember the pleasure you had when you had mind under your control? Yes, that pleasure of satisfaction and the feel of control (far better than even OP :D). Remember it. Savour its sweetness. So you have two pleasures waiting for you, one silly, fragile pleasure and the other everlasting, supreme pleasure.

    Remember it and fight your mind. Lo! Your control is back with you. And don’t lose it to mind ever again.

    Just go in full control of your mind for a day or two.
    And when you are pretty sure that you have your mind under your control, let it have some fun, still under your control. Some controlled entertainment. For an hour or so. And every otherwise gruelling thing you do, command the mind to treat that it is fun.

    The mind is a great servant but a horrible master

    And when letting your mind have fun be cautious. Our mind is so tricky that sometimes it will make us think that we are in control while actually it is in control. This can be called pseudo control. But you can easily identify whether you are having pseudo control or actual control. Just command your mind to do something, if it obeys you are in control, and if it doesn’t you’ll have to start taming it again.

    So, once you have tamed your mind, like a good pet dog, it will obey whatever you say. And may be if our mind does have some secret potentials like the saints say, then some day we will be able to bend spoons.

    And when you are in complete control of your mind, then you are in control, you are God, the Almighty.
    Enjoy the bliss.

  • Is An Amoeba Conscious Of Its Existence?

    Just think of living things and non-living things.
    We know that we are conscious of ourselves. But what is this consciousness? Where does it come from?

    Think in terms of atoms. There are atoms and molecules in our body. They are certainly not conscious.
    We have many carbon, oxygen, etc. combined to form proteins, carbohydrates, etc. They too aren’t aware.

    Now we have these things interacting to form cytoplasm and cells.
    Is it in these little corners of our body where we begin to realize our existence?
    Why does the DNA replicate? Why does it control the cell? Why are mitochondria synthesising energy? Why does the cell grow, divide? Why?

    So, the question:
    Is an amoeba conscious of itself??? 

    We are not amoebae. So we do not know it directly.

    But let us think of our own selves.
    We are made up of cells. But we are not aware of our cells. (Otherwise there would have been many many people talking in your head right now)
    So let us assume that cells aren’t conscious of themselves.

    Now, the next question:
    Then who is conscious?
    Take a single cell and you don’t get consciousness. But bring them all together you get people discovering relativity theory and nuclear fission.
    Where is this consciousness originating from?
    Is it from the cells itself? Are the cells actually self aware?
    If yes, then what is this awareness?
    We know that a cell is made of nothing but proteins and similar stuffs. What is it that makes an artificial protein different from a natural one. Why can we make an artificial heart, artificial eye, but not an artificial life?

    Now, if it is not the cells that are conscious, but the agglomeration; How does the neurons form mind? Or how do we think? What happens between the two moments when we are fast asleep and when we’ve just awaken? What is thinking through my mind right now? What is reading this post in your mind right now? Who are you?

    Why is artificial intelligence impossible? Why can we make powerful cranes and trains but not a clever robot?

    What is the difference between life and death? What is the electricity that runs through our bodies and make us move, talk, think? What is consciousness? What is life?

    Are we just runners in a relay passing the baton of life from our predecessors to successors? Are we even authorised to know why this fire called life burns?
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    (Though I don’t believe a God exists) Oh God! Please let me know !!! Please!!! (saints say that you should do this very thing to attain realisation, so what I’m doing right now is practically online meditation, or online praying or praying through blogging. Well God must be having an internet connection too, hope that he’s using a search engine far more powerful than google, and finds me)