Re: Whole Brain Functioning - flaws of Unity --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > New morning was talking about drugs earlier as a way to temporarily > alleviate suffering, with the caveat that if we were to use them as > a constant solution, we'd end up like Elvis or Rush Limbaugh (I'm > paraphrasing here...). So learning to not suffer is just that, a > learning process. Not a solution in a bottle, or a mantra by itself, > or just thinking different thoughts, but an entirely new, integrated > approach, where we transform ourselves in order to in effect live in > a different world. One just as challenging and comprehensive as that > in which we would suffer, but through our hard won skill, > perspective and capacity, the suffering is no longer present.
Explaining my thought a bit better, and it is not inconsistent with what you write here, what I was suggesting is that better neurotransmitter (NT) / receptor (R), and uptake mechanisms, particulalrly for dopamine, seratonin, GABA, noraepi, and the endorphin receptor complex ARE a large part, if not the whole part of happiness. At least relative happiness all the way through the ananda kosha. (how such neurotransmittors relate to polishing the reflector of Pure Consciousness is a broader and perhaps more interesting issue). I suggested drugs as an example of temporary means of achieving "better", aka happier, such neurotransmittor/receptor states. The larger question is how to culture and create such NT/R states without drugs. Or via via better supplements than are now available -- perhaps hidden AV rayasanas, soma, etc. Even Patanjali said siddhis could be achieved via drugs. (And if a reflection of Pure Consciousness is necessary for siddhis, then by implication drugs could be related to polishing the reflector of pure consciousness.) And Maharishi said enlightnement could be achieved through drugs -- either at Humboldt 70 or Squaw Valley 68. The caveat is that they are not referring to current drugs. Still bliss in a pill -- time-released I hope, or permanent IV, is possible. Or perhaps full hatha yoga, pranayams etc are such a way to culture such. Or Tai Chi. Or perhaps they culture something else which also brings on the bliss.
