on a lighter note.. .'.
I remembered how to activate the "pleasure centers" in my brain - I can currently cause pulses that start in my head and circulate through the body.
Haven't managed to get it going as a background task yet though. So it's more like a seratonin boost that lingers for a while and tapers out.
If you're interested in trying it - it's kind of like spontaneously dropping (rising?) into a clear, medititive state - if you can do that, you can isolate the release itself. and there you go.
I feel it on both sides of my head, making a 1.5-inch equilateral triangle with my medula oblongata. - where do you feel it?
Am I making sense, or do I sound like a hippie? :)
this was induced by reading Toby's blog, his most recent post has a link to a really cool set of cards he made, based on Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of the brain. Did a little search to brush up on my details and found myself (disappointingly enough) ticking the boxes next to many of the lower circuit symptoms, reading about the fifth again reminded me of the above "Bliss" - In - A - Can.
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well I never liked higher/lower - I tend to use Leary's Terrestrial / Post-Terrestrial if I must (although I am sure he would have moved on by now). The first four circuits seem not just useful, but essential! I am not one of those people who think their mind is somehow free-standing - I feel well-bedded into my mammalian (and earlier) ancestors - and it is the scientific view that Darwin started off that I still like as a model. In spite of misuse of those ideas (Social Darwinism)I still think we learn more by admitting our dependence on our survival circuits - and I can't understand why sociobiology gets such a bad press from the left and the feminists, etc - unless it's the new version of the hysteria of being told you are descended from apes...(as though that was an insult! - almost as bad as being an ex-hippie, apparently).
And I totally agree with Childe about the 5th circuit and up being for those not under survival pressure - my mum used to say that about the Greeks: "It's easy to get into philosophy when you live in a mild climate, on a Mediterranean diet, with slaves doing all the work".
As a Maybe Logic Academy member (early uptake) I get one email a week for 12 weeks delivered direct to Bob's desk, so we could always ask his opinion.
Sadly, I didn't sign up for the 8 Circuits course which has now started (didn't feel in the mood for Finnegans Wake - too busy in July) but did sign on for the Illuminatus! course (I have a bit of a lazy mind right now).
How about
the four basic/essential/survival/autopilot circuits
and
the four fun/play/frivolous/not strictly necessary/emergent circuits
?1?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hehehe - I've been working on disclaiming less in my writing, it's quite amusing that the phrases I felt inclined to disclaim (or over explain) are the ones that were misleading :)
gawrsh, so much to respond to :)
let's see - I agree and occasionaly experience middle-class guilt on that introspective freedom. childe: I too experience it in a downward wave, I think I erased the paragraph that clarified this.
also, I knew my comment on the lower four would be misinterpreted, so that's my own fault - what I was attempting to portray is that a lot of the negative feelings I have been experiencing were based on survival circuit insecurities. When I speak of their presence as being bad, I'm not saying "ugh. lower mind.. how filthy," and there's no either-or state going on - it's simply that they have been dominating in unhealthy ways. Obvious stuff like difficulty finding work and business-oriented power struggles (all survival things) have caused levels of regression, where the presence of such minds is detrimental to my life. (this can be demonstrated by the vastly higher use of "I" and "Me" sentences, and a dramatic boom in self-centered blog posts)
So yeah, I have no problem with being an ape, so long as I don't _ALWAYS_ shit myself when I'm scared.
Likewise, I have no issues with "hippies" per-se, it's not either-or. Put simply, there are many statements that will be disqualified (before being considered) simply due to sounding "airy", and that negative association is with "fad hippies", not hippies, or the hippy mindstate in general. (or, to demonstrate the reverse view: Not all Native Americans are shamans.)
so yeah.
there's (as Leary and Wilson have both mentioned) a distinct difference between using/accepting the lower circuits, and being ruled by them. I'm not saying "lower circuit thought is bad," I'm saying "falling back into negative imprints is not my optimal state"
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Ah - I gotta use my smileys more.
Didn't mean to dig, I was writing with a smile on my face, man. Perhaps there's leakage from my household, where misunderstandings abound at the moment, and it makes me kinda tired. I have been looking at my triggers, the stuff that makes me defensive or argumentative - and suddenly remembered the best one-liner I got from NLP. "Assume positive intent".
The person may have been clumsy with their words or gestures...but assume they weren't trying to 'set you off'.
Sometimes they are though.
Then I prefer the energy of Mr Bandler. When asked by some prissy woman at an NLP talk, which had contained some strong language, "Do you HAVE to use that kind of language, Mr Bandler?" he replied "Fuck, yes!" :-)
Erk :)
Guess I should have used more smileys too.. shit, we're going to get into some kind of logarithmic back-pedalling here :)
The BBC would like to apologise for the preceding non-sequitious(sic!) comments.At risk of overexplaining: ...actually. no. :)
Well, we could all just delete our comments, I guess, this IS a very public place for chatting....
My problem is that I don't much like emoticons...and when I thought I should learn a few more (I know about three) I put 'smileys' into google and got to SmileyWorld (slogan - Be Happy!) which carried this warning:
Warning! Some people make the mistake of referring generically to icons as "smileys" or "smilies. This is an incorrect use of our "SMILEY®" trademark. Please make sure that you refer to "SMILEY®" only as a trademark for the icons (or other products and services) of SmileyWorld, Ltd.
Well, I refer you to the tone of Mr Bandler's reply in my previous post - I don't want to start littering expletives around - I don't waste them on MacJob people like that... ©-: ™ :-0 ® whatever....
How do I activate the pleasure centers of the brain? KIndly elaborate, pretty please? :-)
Christy: next time you're doing your Neti-neti exercise, try to passively notice which physiological events that accompany your state of relaxation - if you learn to isolate where they're at, you can activate them without the Neti-neti.
Another option is to practice internal energy manipulation - a simple approach is:
* Get into a relaxed state (preferably lying down)
* As you deeply breathe in, imagine that the air is white energy, and picture it swelling and filling your lungs, as you breathe out, feel it pass across your lips
* Once you feel comfortable with this, and the visualisation has become strong, try holding your breath and condensing the energy around it's center.
* breathe out. repeat a few times
-- at this point, you may want to take a break, you may not, if you do, start at the beginning and then move on to:
* after condensing the energy in your lungs, visualise it moving down your left arm.
* as you breathe out, experience it climbing back up your arm, through your lungs, up your throat and across your lips.
as you become comfortable with that, you can practice moving it around your body. some people believe that you can heal/diagnose conditions by moving this energy around - one thing for sure is that it can be used to increase your internal awareness of heretofore ignored parts of the body.
It can also be used to activate areas of the mind/body that you can isolate in mental imagery. (yogic introversion)
Let me know how you go with this, it's just a quick attempt at making an exercise.. but I have the unfair advantage of having meditation and energy work introduced to me at a very young age, so don't be discouraged if it takes a little longer that it sounds.
Thanks a heap! I took notes and will let you know how it goes. Thanks, again! :-)
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