The Anatomy of Human Memory Storage: The Elemental Brain vs. the Non-Elemental Mind or The Natural Brain vs. the Never-Natural Mind

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"Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . ." 

and  

"The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom"  

and

"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom."

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

"Realization is nothing more than a process which results in a person being freed from believing in all learned ignorance." 

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Anatomy of Human Memory Storage: The Elemental Brain vs. the Non-Elemental Mind

or

The Natural Brain vs. the Never-Natural Mind

NON-DUALITY AS OPPOSED TO THE DUALITY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SPLITTING 

from 

Instability / Insanity: What the Advaita Teachings Can (and Cannot Address)  

So, it has been shown that the seat of the Ultimate Sickness is in the content of the mind; thus, it is the content of the mind which must be the focus of the treatment and which must be eliminated. 

If persons' minds are split or torn as a result of being filled with dualistic, separatist beliefs, then the Ultimate Medicine which is an antidote for that mindset can address the problem; if minds are sick because of psychological splitting, then a different treatment is called for. 

Post-realization, the relative is not abandoned. The summative statement of non-duality is not "I AM THAT." Even post-realization, the statement remains "I AM THAT; I AM." While "the realized" - being free of living under the influence of false ego-states and learned ignorance - will not become emotionally-intoxicated as a result of the desires or fears of such personalities, they will feel. 

While ego-states inspire emoting - and result in instability - the Realized with have feelings. They will generally be witnessed as they rise and fall; yet just as emoting can result in emotional intoxication, so too does the possibility exist for feeling intoxication - and thus instability - to manifest if the feeling lingers. 

And why would feelings linger? If the cause is mental, then the "mind" has not yet been totally abandoned. There are lingering beliefs which are driving thoughts and words and deeds. 

But what if the cause is not mental? What if feelings are lingering even though the "mind" has been totally abandoned and there are no lingering beliefs which are driving thoughts and words and deeds? 

And what if physiological forces are at play which are generating feelings which have nothing to do with the "mind" or ego-states or emotions? The fact is, there are many such possibilities. 

So, instability can be a result of multiple factors. So far, the following have been addressed: 

1. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY DUALITY-BASED SPLITTING 

2. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL SPLITTING with references to 

3. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY CULTURAL INFLUENCES (especially among cultures that are dominated by those who have descended from the race which has historically been the most separatist and destructive and violent and which still disseminates much of the programming that supports a sense of superiority and "different-from-ness" and "better-than-ness" and aloofness and coldness and rigidity) 

4. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY PERSONALITY DISORDERS (Including not only the Splitting Personality Disorder, the Idealization Personality Disorder, the Devaluation Personality Disorder, and the Cyclothymic Personality Disorder but also the entire spectrum of other personality disorders) and relatedly . . . 

5. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY A FAILURE TO PSYCHICALLY INTEGRATE AND INSTEAD THE TENDENCY TO PSYCHICALLY DISINTEGRATE 

6. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY ADULTS WHO MODEL CONSTANT MOOD SWINGS AND INSTABILITY AND BEING TEMPERAMENTAL AND INCONSISTENT SO THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS UNPREDICTABLE 

7. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY FIXATING IN "THE PARENT" OR "THE CHILD" ROLE RATHER THAN INTERACTING FROM THE STANCE OF THE MATURE ADULT 

8. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY EMOTIONAL INTOXICATION 

9. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY RELIGIOUS / SPIRITUAL INTOXICATION 

10. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY A NEED FOR FULL REALIZATION 

11. INSTABILITY / INSANITY INDUCED BY CHEMICAL IMBALANCES AND BIOLOGICAL FACTORS (including biorhythmic shifts and both male and female menopause) and others to be discussed. It was asked, "What if physiological forces are at play that are generating feelings which have nothing to do with the "mind" or ego-states or emotions? The fact is, there are many such possibilities." The following has been shared previously but is relevant here: 

Maharaj discussed the fact that, at times, certain disharmonies can manifest during this IS-ness that have nothing to do with being "fully realized" or not. There are times when the body chemistry is "off," when there is missing a synchronized combustion of energy throughout all of the body parts. 

All efforts to realize fully and to fixate as your "Original Nature" will be futile if this issue is not addressed: 

Maharaj: “Suppose I am not able to think, that my mind is not clear. What does it mean? It means my food essence is rather dull today. It is not getting into combustion in proper order; therefore, the thinking is also dull. This mind pertains to the food essences.” 

The following subject matter is discussed periodically to make clear that persons during these modern times are facing a new challenge in the efforts to remain stable, a challenge which had not even been an issue until the last 50-60 years or so. The food supply across most of the planet is now as contaminated as the "minds" of the masses. 

Additionally, even if persons could find non-contaminated food that has the same nutritional value as farm-grown foods had fifty to one hundred years ago, most persons are not adhering to a food plan that is appropriate for their body type, metabolically-speaking. 

THE THREE METABOLIC BODY TYPES

There are three metabolic body types, fairly evenly-distributed around the globe in thirds, and if one is not following the food plan which is appropriate for her / his specific body type, then there will manifest an assortment of problems that appear to be mental or emotional in nature but that are actually physical in nature. 

So what are some examples of what can manifest when an improper food plan is being adhered to, examples that have formerly been thought to be mental or emotional only? 

Adrenal glands under functioning? The result will be a sense of being overwhelmed, unable to cope with stress, and driven by anxiety. 

Hypothalamus under functioning? One will be unable to differentiate true from false. 

Like head lettuce or other foods that affect the body's Ph balance? With 2 out of 3 types, such foods can cause moodiness and depression. 

Low in magnesium? Prepare for nightmares, muscle twitches and / or leg cramps, possibly constipation, possibly heart arrhythmia, and possibly anxiety.

Thyroid under-functioning? Prepare for depression and weight gain. 

Problems with blood sugar levels? Prepare for mood swings and a sense of loss of control. 

Undernourishing the sympathetic branch of the nervous system? Then you will be driven into a go-do-zoom existence. 

Deficient in calcium or magnesium? Forget about any chance to feel soothed and relaxed. 

Consider this pointer offered many years ago by Spinoza: 

“Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body’s power of action, increases, decreases, limits or extends the mind’s power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the mind’s power of action, also increases, decreases, limits or extends the body’s power of action.” 

Thus, it should be seen that much of what is sometimes offered to try to address mind and personality issues may well be body issues instead. 

If you are among the "I've got it!" I've got it! Oh no . . . I lost it" crowd, you might consider all of the factors that could be at play in that scenario. As for adhering to religious and spiritual dietary restrictions and thinking that those can provide deliverance and salvation - as well as provide evidence of the purity and high nature of one's assumed roles - the invitation is to be aware of the scientific facts which reveal that such restrictions can and will lead to instability and pain and misery and suffering among two-thirds of the people on the planet. 

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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