[Continued for yesterday]
Visitor: “Yet one post stated if you put consciousness to ‘sleep’ a doctor can cut your heart out and the body does not feel that pain.”
F.: And that’s also the case with mental and emotional pain as experienced by persons. Why do persons so long for the sleep to come? (1) It provides a respite from worries and concerns and cares that are generated by their unending efforts to create and sustain images. (2) They are trapped in their programming and conditioning so they long for their “minds” to stop...to stop the incessant chattering…to stop the racing…to stop the noise. In their longing to escape the insanity of their programmed existence, persons desire the sleep-state so much that they (a) not only long for sleep at night but also sleepwalk through their days as well or (b) abuse substances to try mimic or induce the sleep-state to escape their miserable or boring lives.
Visitor: “Does consciousness witness feelings and personas experience emotion?”
F.: Yes. Emotions are always false, merely actions or reactions that occur when ego-states are assumed as identities and then feel threatened by challenges or by exposure and thus react out of fear or anger. At other times, emotional intoxication inspires those who have adopted certain "lofty" personas to claim that they are experiencing “bliss” or “divine ecstasy.” Emotions trigger more emotions, a chain reaction occurs, and emotional intoxication results, along with all sorts of bizarre, relative-existence behavior that often follows. On the other hand, the Realized, the purified consciousness, can witness and feel, but without action, without reaction, and without emotional intoxication.
Visitor: “Does consciousness feel the pain as stated above?”
F.: No. The brain registers the pain-signals that are tranmitted via nerves. Consciousness is the awareness of that which the brain registers. For example, some who suffer chronic pain have found relief via hypnosis. Brain activity is regulated but the consciousness continues its manifestation. If brain activity is slowed to a degree that awareness is temporarily suspended, then a temporary “disconnect” is induced whereby the pain is not registered by the brain and whereby the awareness of awareness is suspended for a time as well. For more, search past postings (using the tool at the top of this page) that distinguish between brain, “mind,” and consciousness, but know that the teachings focus more on eliminating the “mind’s” belief in ego-states that result in pain and suffering that are of the mental and emotional variety; therefore, the invitation is to focus on the areas of pain that the purified consciousness can eliminate, namely, the mentally and emotionally-induced pain that comes when persons are out of touch with reality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Note: For more information on the book referenced in the e-mail sent by the visitor, you may click: http://floydhenderson.com/iamabsolute.htm ]
Visitor: “Yet one post stated if you put consciousness to ‘sleep’ a doctor can cut your heart out and the body does not feel that pain.”
F.: And that’s also the case with mental and emotional pain as experienced by persons. Why do persons so long for the sleep to come? (1) It provides a respite from worries and concerns and cares that are generated by their unending efforts to create and sustain images. (2) They are trapped in their programming and conditioning so they long for their “minds” to stop...to stop the incessant chattering…to stop the racing…to stop the noise. In their longing to escape the insanity of their programmed existence, persons desire the sleep-state so much that they (a) not only long for sleep at night but also sleepwalk through their days as well or (b) abuse substances to try mimic or induce the sleep-state to escape their miserable or boring lives.
Visitor: “Does consciousness witness feelings and personas experience emotion?”
F.: Yes. Emotions are always false, merely actions or reactions that occur when ego-states are assumed as identities and then feel threatened by challenges or by exposure and thus react out of fear or anger. At other times, emotional intoxication inspires those who have adopted certain "lofty" personas to claim that they are experiencing “bliss” or “divine ecstasy.” Emotions trigger more emotions, a chain reaction occurs, and emotional intoxication results, along with all sorts of bizarre, relative-existence behavior that often follows. On the other hand, the Realized, the purified consciousness, can witness and feel, but without action, without reaction, and without emotional intoxication.
Visitor: “Does consciousness feel the pain as stated above?”
F.: No. The brain registers the pain-signals that are tranmitted via nerves. Consciousness is the awareness of that which the brain registers. For example, some who suffer chronic pain have found relief via hypnosis. Brain activity is regulated but the consciousness continues its manifestation. If brain activity is slowed to a degree that awareness is temporarily suspended, then a temporary “disconnect” is induced whereby the pain is not registered by the brain and whereby the awareness of awareness is suspended for a time as well. For more, search past postings (using the tool at the top of this page) that distinguish between brain, “mind,” and consciousness, but know that the teachings focus more on eliminating the “mind’s” belief in ego-states that result in pain and suffering that are of the mental and emotional variety; therefore, the invitation is to focus on the areas of pain that the purified consciousness can eliminate, namely, the mentally and emotionally-induced pain that comes when persons are out of touch with reality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Note: For more information on the book referenced in the e-mail sent by the visitor, you may click: http://floydhenderson.com/iamabsolute.htm ]
