The Normal Abnormalcy of Mind

[Guest guest]

Our senses have been abducted and dragged

to a dingy cellar. There, they are kept in

bondage and fed only leftovers filtered

and cooked by thought. This passes for

normalcy in our world, but that is not the way

our ancestor lived, or how animals live.

 

We live tightly bound in a swaddling of

abstractification and symbolism, as if we were

conceptual mummies slowly turning to dust

in our garishly decorated sarcophagus of thought.

 

We have traded sensual clarity and fullness of

being, for security and certainty. Our huge

frontal lobe protect us from the irrational fear

animals feels when encountering the sudden,

and the unexpected, but security and familiarity

has its price. The price of conceptual security is

lack of freshness, a sense of unreality, and

ultimately an unquenchable thirst for life.

 

This need not be so. We can free our senses from

the bondage of abstractification, and keep our

ability to think and experience the world without fear

if only we'll realize how we are being robbed of the

glorious fullness of unnarrated, unexplained, unidentified

existence by the persistent droning of unrelenting

thinking. Start indwelling your senses today, leave

your frontal lobe for a while, inhabit your body.

Believe me, thinking won't abandon you. It'll be there

whenever you need it. Go for a walk, don't think, just

walk, see, smell, hear. Be a tourist, an alien being see

your world, your neighborhood for the first time.

 

Pete

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , Pedsie2@a... wrote:

>Our senses have been abducted and dragged

>to a dingy cellar. There, they are kept in

>bondage...

 

How terrible. I wonder who is " we " ? Has this

been done to your whole family? How can we help?

And who the hell did this? Sounds as if a

real dark force is at work. How can we stop it?

And where is that cellar?

 

With my deep sympathy

Stefan