Does the mind... / Bobby G.

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Hi Bobby !

 

 

 

Thanks for reading and commenting !

 

Always good to have someone to test out one's ideas on.

 

 

, bgbbyg@a... wrote:

> The idea that one becomes aware of a base awareness sounds backward

> to me. Wouldn't the base awareness (the real Self) be aware of

> awareness, or what is generally refered to as awareness?

> I would suggest that "I" am aware of thoughts only when they end.

> For "me" to notice a thought the mind must be having the thought

> of "ME". Knowing that that is happening is the "base awareness".

 

No, you're not offbase as I see it.

 

I would say that the base awareness at one point becomes aware of

awarenes and aware of itself as awareness. It's hard to say exactly

what happens apart from that; whether the small self is engulfed by

the large, or transcended, or the base awareness becomes "enlivened

from passivity" as various spiritual traditions describe it. I

would not disagree with anything you said.

> I bought a David Paradise a few years ago. It uses light, sound,

and

> electrical pulses to create desired brainwaves in each hemisphere

of

> the brain. Inducing a high beta into the right side and a theta

into

> the left produced a slow thought process with a high visual and

> holistic sensory input. It performed lots of cute tricks.

>

> It also taught me to fight through the desire to go to sleep when

> theta waves increased which had been a problem for me in

meditation.

> After practising self enquiry for a while the little machine no

> longer worked. In other words, when the 'I am' is steady in the

mind

> the induction pulses do not affect me.

 

 

Thanks for telling me of that observation. It's interesting to hear

that the theta induction didn't work after a period of self inquiry.

 

It could be taken to mean that the steady I am is something which is

beyond theta activity in the mind, but it could also be taken to mean

that a theta or similar state is already present, therefore induction

has no effect. Hard to say which one is correct based on report only,

the only conclusive evidence would be direct EEG measuring, which

would have been interesting to do.

 

 

Thanks again for the comments !

 

 

Love,

 

 

A.