The Material Mind

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Nisargadatta , " cerosoul " <Pedsie2@a...> wrote:

> A thought is a material process in a brain. A thought

 

 

This is only an explanation, never actually experienced, not

essentially different in the way it occurs in the human mind than a

caveman attributing the presence of a flame to a fire fairy.

 

Neither the flame nor the thought is its explanation, nor are they

known by any explanation.

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Nisargadatta , " cerosoul " <Pedsie2@a...> wrote:

> One of the objections to correspondence as a test of reality, is

the

> believe that we can never know any object in itself. That thinking

is

> always there tainting our perceptions, that even in seeing a rock,

> we can't detach the seeing from the recognition of it as a rock,

and

> that recognition is a thought. So the world of matter must always

> remain out there untouched by our mind, and there can never be any

> unmixed correspondent between an image, and its object.

>

> This objection is based on the fallacy that a thought is something

> insubstantial. A thought is a material process in a brain. A

thought

> is an exchange of neurotransmiters and electricity between neurons.

A

> mind is a choreography of chemicals and occupies the same spatial

> dimension as a rock.. That the brain experiences its own workings

as

> detached sensations doesn't divide the universe into two

incompatible

> realms. All is one, all is matter/energy, and matter/energy

> is the unknown.

>

> Pete

 

Yes, the material universe is one, including our bodies and brains.

 

The interesting thing is that we have:

 

1) Consciousness

2) Brain and nervous system

3) Other bodily tissues and organs

4) The skin covering the body

5) The world outside the body

 

And that these things are divided in time, where consciousness is

zero seconds away from 'you' and the body and the rest of the world

are always more than zero seconds away from 'you'. With 'you' I mean

awake awareness, the silent observer. So all you are aware of is the

past, everything has already happened, and now we are experiencing

all that has happened. Everything 'material' is the past. This means

that the Source of everything is in you, your consciousness, because

your consciousness is what is always closest to the 'future' - it is

the source emanating the future. Everything material has already

happened, it is dead. The human body is already dead, " frozen in

time " . A thought 'you' become aware of has already happened. All

bodily sensations, such as thoughts, emotions, memories, seeing,

hearing, smelling, tasting touching, has already happened; it is

already the past. So, when we say " I am alive " that is true, but it

is only pure awareness that is alive. The material world, including

our bodies, are never alive. The material world is form experienced

in sequence creating the appearance of change. But form in itself is

not 'things'. The material world has no substance. Only awareness has

substance. Awareness is, and cannot be born or die.

 

/AL