And i see that our brains are continually changing, and can't be compared to 40,000 years ago.
But perhaps the most important change is how we understand what our brains are, within and without the context of abrupt social and technological change. We do not yet understand consciousness, but the confluence of post-QM, biological and genetical research is beginning to point us to a new and likely civilization-changing epiphany.
A true understanding of consciousness engenders all manner of social affects which will alter civilization in ways we can only now envision, perhaps haltingly. But no less real.
I can't prove it to you, but i have already experienced the afterlife and the death and rebirth of consciousness. I can't prove, even to myself, that experience was real. I just know it, and take self-confirming reports from the mystics and shamans throughout history.
Such a world view is confirmed more by having direct cognition of physicists, including Nobel laureates, who have been influenced by various cosmic experience. And whose subsequent work has been influential on a complete remake of our current understanding.
I wish i could expound on why i've come to these understandings, but there's a football game to watch. Meanwhile, from the time of Aldous Huxley first writing about opening the doors of perception, to the complete co-option of the psychedelic experience by social dominants, leading most to miss the gateway, it is clear that the door remains open.
for whatever disfunction he possessed, i have to stand with Michael Jackson, for he popularized you could dance backwards and forwards at the same time. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
...that this generation is one that is filled with more people who have taken an interest in all these things by choice, ...and as well - even though there are more billions on the planet who don't have an insured meal for today and a few days hence, we are a large crowd would could practically presume survival... after being raised under the duck and cover nuclear threat - a strange combination. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
To switch analogies, the cerebellum contains the machine language. Our consciousness experiences only the refined upper levels - the GUI. Below these upper levels, where everything makes sense because it is forced to make sense, is a controlled hallucination that gets less controlled the deeper you force or guide your consciousness to go.
The blocks to letting your uptight consciousness go, and to going deeper, are both behavioural and neural (inhibition). But there are various methods to removing these blocks. There's external metaprogamming, the stimulation of internal biochemical systems, and even focused breathing - which coincidently is governed by a part of the pons.
Seeing bits of the hallucination in this state, but without control, is weird. Mystical even. Impossible to really describe except by analogy or projection. Which is where these related glimpses of other worlds come from. When you let go of the logical apparatus, you are stripping off self. You don't become unconscious, but you leave some of your consciousness behind.
The Pythia, or Delphic Oracles, that influenced the Greek world for 800 years, sat in a temple on the slopes of Mt Parnassus that was indirectly connected to volcanic chambers. There's an argument about whether these gases were ethylene, methane, CO2, H2S or benzene. You can't be me, I'm taken
but you leave some of your consciousness behind
yes, the 'witness' part.
delta, baby, no saving to hard drive, streaming only! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
