I Found A Cure!
Corey...@gmail.com
pools of water and pieces of metal available to observe their own
reflection. The only way to get a clear image of what you looked like
was to trust an artist to draw or paint your portrait. And the latin
word for drawing another person portrait was, Enlightenment.But today
we have highly advanced mirror technology available, which I believe is
very useful in treating mental and physical illness.
The ancients believed mirrors to be useful for divination, and also for
absorbing evil. That's why people still say it is 7 years bad luck if
you brake a mirror. We don't put much thought into mirrors anymore,
and its considered superstition if you do. But it shouldn't be because
mirrors are a better tool for bio-feedback than the electronics and
computers people use today.
A recent study found that people who were paralyzed could still work
computers when hooked up to medical instruments which measured
bio-rythms and brainwaves. And scientologists believe they can control
their emotional states with lie detectors. But a mirror is an even
more valuable tool.
People don't have an objective understanding of who they are, and 'the
man in the mirror' often takes advantage of that. When I look in the
mirror for a little bit of time, I see someone completely different
from who I think I am. The man in the mirror behaves in strange ways,
and when I dissasociate from myself he does things that I can't
control. But when I meditate on the mirror I begin to relax and I've
been able to learn new skills.
After talking to the mirror I've learned to wiggle my ears, and lift
one eye-brow. And once I even staired into my eyes untill my pupils
started dripping into my iris. Which was extremely scarry, although it
didn't cause any physical problems. However I think I am giving up on
wasting time on the computers, and will continue to practice Zen while
looking into the mirror, because although I consider them to be
side-effects the man in the mirror has control of me.
He is writting this paper, and thinking for me. He moves my fingers,
and winds up talking about things I'm really not even interested in.
But if I meditate on who I really am, and try to remain self aware I
can take control of myself. So that's what my job is now full time.
Just listening to music, and gazing into the mirror.
I haven't been talking to myself, pacing about, or drinking. I've been
smoking less, and I haven't been over-eating. And I've actually been
completely entertained while looking in the mirror. And I'm going to
buy a larger mirror to cover a wall in my house. To go with a nice
sofa to sit on of course.
So perhaps I will coninue to post every now and again, but I'm not
going to make an obsessive habbit about it and I will be thinking about
what Corey White wants to write, and not letting the man in the mirror
do all of my "hacking".
But Legend has it that you actually are the man in the mirror and he is
you, and if something ever changed in the mirror world, there is a
chance that you would switch places with the man in the mirror. That's
because there is no logical way to determine if you were still yourself
at that point, without the notion of subjective randomness.
I've hooked myself up to a lie detector while I'm watching myself in
the mirror. The lie detector helps me focus on myself, and I'm doing
muscle relaxation and psychological relaxation so I am able to regain
clarity of who I am and what I really want to do with my life. The
legend of the mirror was past down through my family, and through
mystical experiences I've had when I've been in ceremonies. And I'm
finding that living deliberately is more enlightening than any of the
miracles I've ever experienced. But without them, perhaps I would
still be foolish enough to think that I was in control over my life and
that the man in the mirror was just a projection.
We live in a state of sensory deprivation where we never look at
ourselves in the mirror, and can't see our faces or most of our bodies.
We don't even know if we are being honest with ourselves either without
being hooked into a lie detector, and can't gauge our emotional
responses to circumstance. We just go with the flow and never take
control over our own failures. Well I'm fighting back.
But today I found the cure. The mirror and lie detector have not been
enough. The side effects from the medication I take are too much for
me to control my own behavior, and they cause me to chainsmoke, and
behave in obsesive obsurd ways. Then I remembered a post I made about
the answer to life the universe and everything, which I believed was
the tooth brush. So I got a cup of water, and a bowl and began to dip
the tooth brush in the water, brush my teeth, and spit in the bowl.
I've been doing it all afternoon without smoking a single cigarette.
I think I will be able to cope now, without ever posting to usenet
again!
JL
Corey...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> We live in a state of sensory deprivation where we never look at
> ourselves in the mirror, and can't see our faces or most of our bodies.
> We don't even know if we are being honest with ourselves either without
> being hooked into a lie detector, and can't gauge our emotional
> responses to circumstance. We just go with the flow and never take
> control over our own failures. Well I'm fighting back.
Try setting a mirror up near your telephone so you can watch yourself
talk on the phone. I did not think much of the idea when it was
suggested in a psych.101 type class but was surprised when i tried it.
>
> But today I found the cure.
"The cure"? or "a" tool of recovery?
You probly have no interest in another book recomendation but there is
a book called "Mind Magick" by the ouroboros insitute. You might find
it helpful, also Masters and Hustons "Mind Games" was, for me, very
helpfull in getting a more foucsed responce from "meditation".
---
JL
Corey...@gmail.com
JL wrote:
> Corey...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > We live in a state of sensory deprivation where we never look at
> > ourselves in the mirror, and can't see our faces or most of our bodies.
> > We don't even know if we are being honest with ourselves either without
> > being hooked into a lie detector, and can't gauge our emotional
> > responses to circumstance. We just go with the flow and never take
> > control over our own failures. Well I'm fighting back.
>
>
> Try setting a mirror up near your telephone so you can watch yourself
> talk on the phone. I did not think much of the idea when it was
> suggested in a psych.101 type class but was surprised when i tried it.
>
> >
> > But today I found the cure.
>
> "The cure"? or "a" tool of recovery?
>
> You probly have no interest in another book recomendation but there is
> a book called "Mind Magick" by the ouroboros insitute. You might find
> it helpful, also Masters and Hustons "Mind Games" was, for me, very
> helpfull in getting a more foucsed responce from "meditation".
> ---
> JL
I think I will buy those books because I have to admit I'm powerless to
the man in the mirror, and to my addictions. The tooth brush is just
keeping it at bay and making my mouth sour at the same time.
thanks
JL
Corey...@gmail.com wrote:
> JL wrote:
> > Corey...@gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> >
> > You probly have no interest in another book recomendation but there is
> > a book called "Mind Magick" by the ouroboros insitute. You might find
> > it helpful, also Masters and Hustons "Mind Games" was, for me, very
> > helpfull in getting a more foucsed responce from "meditation".
> > ---
> > JL
>
> I think I will buy those books because I have to admit I'm powerless to
> the man in the mirror, and to my addictions. The tooth brush is just
> keeping it at bay and making my mouth sour at the same time.
>
> thanks
In many traditions there is a paradox, you have to find you dont exist
to begin with in the first place before you can even begin to invent
yourself. The Gertrude Stien Paradox, "There is no there there".
Consciousness, like most any thing else in nature is made up of parts,
it is more a process than a thing, and when this process is fully
grapsed, "down shower the barren thoughts".
We choose to be who we are, "we are what we think having become what we
thought"
I choose to be an idealist, knowing full well that people have choosen
to be nihalists, dualists, mystic monothiests, radicle extrmeists, but,
like Seneca, i expect to be dissapointed by my choosen path of
idealism, most likely as it relates to myself, disapointing myself, but
i would be surprised if the human race dont some how or another shoot
itself in the foot, so to speak. With the advent of modern technology
and an over reliance on computers it is as likely to happen
accedentally as by any design or error of judgment.
Perhaps rather than trying to find yourself, you try to define what you
want to be. And once your clear about that take those necessary and
probly obvious steps twords the goal. Instead of trying to find some
obscure and esoteric part of yourself that probly only has its being in
non being, if at all, and that expressed poorly, if at all, as an
influence or shading to ones 'personality' or lack there of.
It seems to me a lot of legends, myths, folk lore & etc speak of a part
of the self that is like a spirit or soul, and there seems to be a
consensus about its connection to diety, and its immortality.
Yet some other myths question its existance, see the idea of it as a
delusion and a trap. At least the idea of it being an object,
existant, rather than the result of an ever changing process. More
akin to radiation than that physical phenomina that produces the
radiaton. And any conscious awarness but the peak moment of an wave
form.
Some so called "primative" legends speak of the need to create, nurture
and maintain this "soul" or spirit, that it is as much or more work to
maintain its existance than it is our mere physical bodies.
It is thought that a physical body is capable of creating a
disincarnate awarness but that this is not an automatic process.
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JL
JL
JL wrote:
>
> It is thought that a physical body is capable of creating a
> disincarnate awarness but that this is not an automatic process.
> ---
> JL
Which is NOT to say it can't happen naturally. In those rare souls of
previouse lifetimes experiance.
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JL
Corey...@gmail.com
Check out this website:
http://www.headless.org/English/main.html
JL
Interesting site, i wlll perruse it more fully later. I am curious if
it mentions any ideas of what may be 'there'.
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JL
Corey...@gmail.com
The idea is to stop fixating on your head as the center of your being,
and shift awareness to living within your body and finding your center.
Within your head is the entire universe, and complete emptyness at the
same time.
If you look into the mirror it is the only time you can see your face,
but the question is, can you really trust the mirror. If you move the
mirror farther away your face eventually disapears and you would be
looking at a mirror that reflected your whole environment.
That's one exercise on the site.