--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> > Dude-ji! I was just thinking about the whole particle/wave
> > perception alternation, though I didn't carry it into group
> dynamics
> > as you have. Yummy stuff!
> >
> > On another topic, I've been noticing some interesting things
around
> > sleep. My first experience about a year ago (?) on getting to
sleep
> > was to consciously blank my mind of thought, and fatigue would
take
> > over, I'd slip on the banana peel, and down for the count. After
> > several months I became too interested or I could say in Love
with
> > the active part of my mind, and it didn't seem fair to
annihilate
> it
> > willfully just to go to sleep, but I *had* to go to sleep. So
I'd
> > surf on my mantra for hours dipping into dreamland and back out.
> But
> > this wasn't satisfying because I wasn't really in a clean state
of
> > mind- kinda meditating and kinda thinking and kinda dreaming and
> > kinda sleeping. Not much to be gained from the experience. So,
next
> > I saw that I could isolate my mind into at least two sections,
one
> > logical thinkiing piece which would do its own thing, and my
> > dinosaur mind, watching autonomous nervous system stuff like
> > regulating breath and heart beat, kidney and liver function,
blood
> > flow, neurotransmitter activity and stuff like that. Once I saw
> each
> > part as a clear entity, it was then just a matter of turning my
> > attention to the dinosaur mind, and dropping into sleep. I no
> longer
> > had to negate the active logical mind, just tweaking my
attention
> so
> > that it would no longer get drawn in that direction, like any
other
> > control of the senses, though I am not sure which subtle sense
is
> > involved, feels like touch and sight combined. Anyway, on with
the
> > show! :-)
> >
>
> Yes! For me, it's being aware of different states of awareness
going
> on simultaneously in different parts of the brain (or elsewhere).
For
> me, "sleep" is ongoing in the back parts of the brain,
while "waking"
> is in the front, and an indescribable function --"transcendence,"
> say -- goes on in a "third lobe" above the skull. So, like you, if
I
> want to bring "sleep" into predominance, I shift my attention
towards
> the place where it's already going on: for me, towards the back of
> the head. And then there are the other brains -- heart, solar-
plexus,
> belly and so on :-)
>
Yes, the other brains! :-)
