Science and Experiential Consciousness

A Brain On LSD Looks Like A Psychotic Brain, Says New Study

A brain on LSD looks a lot like a psychotic brain. Earhart-Harris says that these images of a brain on LSD look a lot like a brain right before a psychotic episode. In both cases, neurons that used to work together start firing out of sync, and neurons that normally wouldn't work together suddenly do.

A brain on LSD is self-absorbed. The scans showed that the electrical activity of the brain slowed down substantially, mimicking the sorts of wave patterns doctors see during visual hallucinations. This led the team to believe that a brain on LSD is "tethered more to the internal than to the external world."

I love that phrase 'internal world'. Whatever the 'external world' is, any capacity to participate 'IN' it - in character, as it were - is dependent on a range of events of aligned purpose.
Is 'inner world' a direct experiential communication of such purpose? - but mis-perceived when experienced and conformed to the framework of artificial outer-world 'unity'.
LSD can open experiential perspectives preverbally of many aspects of multidemensional Cosmology - which is why the stories of tech innovators using it (including micro dosing) to open insight that can contribute to the frontier of rapidly innovating evolution of tech.
However, there are other similar and more natural substances including DMT which is secreted in the pineal gland - is it not - as a matter of course?
The realm of Consciousness is of course the realm of inherited psychic and emotional CHAOS - that a large part of the surface mind (external reality) seeks to LIMIT and CONTROL. Indeed there are suggestions that the brain is a Limitation device - although that also allows a very particular focus within Everything At ONCE!
But accountable controllable reproducible conceptual theory maps and models are already setting a range of parameters that filter and distort what can be 'found'.
Coming back to the idea of purpose, the 'what for' - as far as science is concerned is simply persistence (survive and procreate). Coupled with the sanctioned purpose of prevailing to procreate and persist - we have the exact basis for the psychopathic financial and corporate globalism that scientists probably are not perhaps aware of - being somewhat focussed in their (scientific) tools or specialities.

I'm not averse to ANY discipline serving a true Humanity - (which I regard as inherently purposeful) but the accretions of scientism around true scientific curiosity and endeavour has accumulated a particular ignorance and arrogance. Perhaps some exposure to experiential and somewhat chaotic 'reality' is missing in modern scientific careers?

PS - because of the imprint of terror, guilt, fear and shame that is pre-loaded as part of the human template - in various ways and degrees in various individuals. The 'regression' or exposure to the primitive or infancy states of consciousness is EXACTLY where the trigger for psychosis activates, and psychosis is one of many strategic reactions to the trigger state. A key insight being that the attempt to CONTROL reflects immediately as a CHAOS that then escalates and reinforces the need and justification FOR control. This 'control mentality' then becomes the protector of the 'war against terror'. If perspective is not regained the mind splits or fragments - and attempts to unify the sense of personal control grows the capacity to operate as 'a cohesive unit' out of many conflicting purposes or 'realities'. All of this is already reflected and study able as our world - but is not connected with inner 'reality' - while the non-physical or non local is discarded, rejected and filtered out - because its acknowledgement implicitly illuminates arenas of dependence that the control mentality finds insulting or a trigger to rage and a desire to manually replace it with its OWN systems.

Modern world: Communication breakdown

Why the modern world is bad for your brain

In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, we’re all required to do several things at once. But this constant multitasking is taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin explains how our addiction to technology is making us less efficient

Is it the modern "world" or is it the acceptance of and identification within beliefs or self-definitions that are not true of us?

Is the brain-body the physical aspect of  a communication device that tunes to and 'translates' or bridges non physical Ideational information as an integral expression of such communication?

Is the personality construct not a counterpart to the physical brain as a kind of virtual avatar through which non physical consciousness accesses experience of physical existence?

Is therefore the brain-bodied personality construct not therefore an intentional device of stepped-down limitation to effectively block, limit, and filter the Process of Life or Existence that IS Relation or Communication within Itself as a personal focus of unfolding experience of Self Revelation?

I hold these can be answered by honest observation or noticing.

Limiting is part of focusing and not in itself negative, but exclusive focus becomes a negative when operating without regard for wholeness of relation aka sanity or Reason.

The exclusively identified persona perspective has effectively got everything in reverse - as if IT alone determines and decides and plate-juggles life as ongoing crisis management in which the more 'control' is invested, the more 'out of control' the experience of self becomes. This triggers further layers of defence to cope with not coping such as to effectively redefine insanity as normal, and maintain such investment in this defence-identity as to regard anything sane as a threat... calling to be defended against or subverted to serve a weaponizing mentality and so it all operates as communication breakdown or dysfunctional collapse - or it might if the 'war-persona' didn't use war and death as a substitute for life and creation, for the power to destroy seems to be the power OVER life to any mind that is so exclusively identified within its own conflicted self-sense (albeit in projection) that it has forgotten the qualities of Appreciation and Gratitude that is the core nature of relational communication OF and WITH the non physical.

The simplicity of pausing long enough in in active willingness to connect with one's peace is the conscious unwillingness to persist in conditioned reaction and regain a perspective that can discern the practical step within a wholeness of being - aka joy or heartfelt connection.

The term 'I' or indeed 'you' is a relative terms - not only to each other - but can and does often refer to a disconnected bunch of thoughts that  - if paused and investigated are NOT true of you (or of me).

The disregard or neglect of this primary responsibility AS consciousness, is the indulgence of a powerlessness seeking power, a lovelessness seeking love, a fearful vulnerability seeking security and protection. And no matter the intensity of such experience, it reflects less than true, for you can leave unchosen that which is untrue of you, and can give your attention in alignment with your true desire and can wholly stand in what you know to be true of you now and live that as an unconflicted flow of being that naturally knows how to be in any given situation without coming from a negatively or fearfully defined sense of self.

On not being a brain (further commentary on consciousness and identity re the TED book; the Virtual Shadow)

It's sort of cute to read "the brain just needs to be present'.
The substitution of "scientifically correct" terms for the process of life - that is not only present - but Presence is an example of being more concerned with one's presented commentary on life than living it - or should I say - "being Lived' - because it is not by our own power that we live or think or have awareness of existence - and nor, are we a brain or an effect of a meat brain.
If you mess with my computer, I may not be able to type and communicate with you via these means - but my Mac is not the intelligence behind the message.

The focus on forms is the defocus from the relational field of which the awareness of the form is but part of the event.
This - further down the river of its process - becomes a consciousness that has to think or maintain a self referencing activity or it fears it will not exist - or will be confronted with non-existence. This compulsive activity is mental illness and not normal healthy running - even if such a loop is accepted to be the norm and therefore considered to be our nature.
Substitutes for life are the result of searching for a completeness that is believed lost by the act of identifying exclusively with forms and forgetting the relational being in which all experience is expressing.
Therefore people who meditate or enjoy silence or indeed one pointed appreciation and singleness of purpose, are much less inclined to 'scatter' themselves in distraction, or give themselves to what does not actually fulfil.

Bentinho - Be In Awe & Trust

(commentary on a video message by Bentinho Massarro on awakening)

I note the symbol of brain for thinking.
I seem to do things with my arm, but have no direct experience of my brain; the brain integral to the body associated with this particular incarnational instant of consciousness. (I certainly do not have any direct sense of the brain being 'a something' I control as a separate entity).

the use of brain as substitution for mind is an indicator of the elevation of matter to an ascendency over the mind. As if a program is the programmer.
It is ironic to find this in Bentinho's vocabulary - and yet it may serve better to reach those who are at home in such a vocabulary.

A message is an awakening message when it awakens - not when it conforms to rules!
The mind of rules is like a series of programs running. It may seem to be a self protective guide, but it is the way the past seems to recreate itself such that the Presence - the indivisible presence - of being, is forgot or eclipsed.
Why?
So that the play of a judging, controlling, manipulating sense of power can be engaged. But what happens when we act upon?
We experience reaction.
What happens when we identify as the doer of the act?
We suffer to be trapped in victimhood to a world that merely reflects our own unowned thinking.
Take back your power - and choose not to use it. True Power Shares itself, and doesn't act out as a separate will in a mentality of divide and rule.
As Bentinho says, is true, we are given what we need as we need it. But if our first 'need' is to be righteous or validated in our thinking - we will only see that which gives us our demand - whether it is there or not!
The opening of Intuition via the pausing or resting or nonuse of separative thinking, welcomes or accepts a basis from which a true Consciousness can grow - as your real life - of a love of truth that is not manufactured and a freedom to be the love that you are. This process dissolves or transcends the fences of the mind - but is gentle to the current sense of integrity.
When that which isn't really you falls away, Aha! So it has always been - but I didn't SEE it!

What we do see, is witness to our thinking. Rather than try to disentangle thinking, (thinking loves that one!), simply notice and abide in the awareness of being. It is easy to notice how STICKY thinking can be when we identify with our thoughts - no matter how 'enlightened' or righteous they might seem to be.

Growing willingness for awakening is potentially the loneliest process at times - because it steps out of the lid that was made to hide the loneliness of the heart. An un-Communioned consciousness is in pain and dissonance of separation-loneliness and tries to compensate out of its own thinking; grasping at the symbols of love and the wish for love and the ritual doings of love - but never Being the love that you are.

We see what kind of society grows from hiding illusion with illusion. (Hiding fear in darkness). But what kind of world arises from a willingness to let being be the Mover of All Things?
This is a pause to laugh because, surely, this is already Fact. But the conscious acceptance and embrace of Life is a Prodigal re-membering of a Source that is our innate nature to align with. Such is our joy.

Thankyou for your attention

In Peace