Looky! More science

I'm noticing how much more interested I am in the process of questioning, than I am in 'the answers'; and the very LEAST interesting answers are the ones that 'everybody knows.'

I think I've taken Amy Poehler's snarky skepticism as my current inquiry: "REALLY??" It's pretty amusing to greet all the media-provided generalizations this way; and then there are all the things I think I know, to treat likewise. Maybe I'm just a regressive old throwback to the smokin' '60s-- I really enjoy the state of bemused befuddlement, considering that everything might be very different than I've been assuming, and that 'everyone says.'

Something that came up in a conversation yesterday: 'We've ALWAYS been 'the 99%'; why/how did it become what people are willing to SAY? Similarly, I could concur that 'nobody is interested in investigative spirituality'-- and then I'd have to admit that this is not true of anyone I know personally, including members of my family of origin with whom I've not been in touch for years, now that we've reconnected on FaceBook.

So-- I wonder...

Exactly, Kate. Assuming things and making generalizations can make it easier to navigate the world in a practical way - if last time we encountered a tiger it tried to eat us, perhaps best we be cautious if we see another tiger - but you can find yourself delightfully surprised if you engage with people as human beings, that many times they don't live up to the preconception you had about them. I have had quite sensitive and unexpectedly deep and sensitive spiritual conversations with people who I assumed just didn't fit in that category, from suit-wearing millionaire CEOs to conservative church-going ladies to precisely-turned-out rich girls to non-nonsense get-the-government-off-my-back country folk.

What some people will say in a respectful private conversation is different than how they will perform when in a group of peers, too, where their fear of exclusion overrides their hearts.

"Really?" is a great question to ask.

Sounds delightful, Chris!

May it benefit your career.

Indra's networking will do that-- plugged into BIG power now, baby!

Had a dinner date with Gary Weber yesterday evening. I asked him where he thought neuroscience research on meditation was headed in the next 20 years. He says in the next five we will have mapped the brain pathways for selfing and non-selfing networks in the brain. He also envisions a biofeedback device that consists of a electrode net for your head hooked into a smartphone/tablet. The associated computer program will measure when you go into non-selfing by easy color coded bars so that you get immediate feedback of what non-selfing (non-dual) states "feel" like. Then, you can practice generating those over and over again. He feels that this is a more efficacious route to awakening.

I'd be willing to try it out. Why not?

Wait a minute, this from the guy who posted a thread about "what if there were a magic button so people could wake up instantly?" and why you'd stick your kids in it right away if it existed?

"In our quest to obtain everything as fast as we can we are willing to sacrifice work, training, dedication, patience, knowing, wisdom.- chris



You could work, train, dedicate, be patient in using this device. It doesn't seem to be any different. Just another tool, "techne" of the mind.