For several years now, I have considered starting a blog that honors the "a-ha" moment. In my best understanding, the thoughts in this moment are the natural synthesis of our analytical, highly educated minds and our inner, universal knowledge. They are struck in wild moments with clairvoyance. Having considered it enough, I submit this first thot without any evidence to prove it true (yet).
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Pavlov made his namesake contribution to Western culture through his experiments with his dogs. He reasoned that the brain has a physical portion that responds to psychological stimuli to cause a physiological changes in the body. Hear bell, see food, drool. Hear bell enough with food, every time a bell rings, we drool. Since then, this discovery has been used to justify human behavior in too many instances to count.
But what if this "reaction to our food bell" concept is nothing more than a uniquely dog behavior? Who is to say that instead of this causing a "repeat" pattern in our brain, that it would rather be a "prompt" signal to our consciousness? Do we often choose the same pattern in our life when presented with any prompt? Well, that is a personal answer, but my guess for most people is "yes." (This begs a comparison between the conscious awareness of a dog compared to a human, but my thot is not digging into that debate.) So here we have a cultural "out" for all of us choosing non-action and ignorance, leaving the mechanism of our patterns to choose reactions for us. Then, we just play off of our own reactions. In a way, this leads to the loss of our entire power as a person and a species.
"Let's just see where this neurological reflex pattern takes us, and then we'll decide how to react!"
In Universal law, we are either the source of power for our lives through active, conscious choice, or we are not. There is no room for inbetween. Just as if our planet were to be struck by an asteroid, we are either able to survive it or not, there is no inbetween. When given a prompt in our human thoughts (aren't all thoughts human thoughts), we repeat patterns. Sometimes, the action we choose is the same/similar to ones we've made before. To what degree are we stuck/addicted to these patterns? Have we settled to the mirrored pattern of our canine companions?
I can hear it now: Isn't this a good thing? Sure, as long as that pattern suits us, it is beneficial to repeat. We like to have a patterns for starting a car. Is we didn't have this pattern, using a car becomes extremely difficult. Is there a level of awareness that is given up by not acknowledging a car, sending it positive vibrations daily, and the other wonderful things to be found from powerfully present awareness? Well, after we thinking about it, do you want to do this the next time you walk out to your car? So is it a good thing? Yes, but not necessarily always.
To this end, I find more and more evidence to suggest that the "control" of our destiny and future as a species feels more and more like that "neurological reflex pattern" is leading our human ship towards a large waterfall. What if we taught to recognize our thought patterns to be malleable to the present, instead of biologically bound to a behavior? What would change for you as an individual? What might change for us as a species?
Does this mean that all of the physiological evidence we have to validate the mechanism changes? Probably not. How would one find out any truth to test this? A test for this could be a comparison between active, channeled meditators and spiritualists, and a comparable sub-group that is entirely reactive (say, teenagers?). Honestly, who has the time for this, and will its investigation alter the finding (those are so tough introduction questions to ask)?
Thots in response?
