If you are following any of this, I am ready to take a big leap in theory. The last thing I wrote in here was the Bicameral Mind piece, so if you haven’t read that, maybe you might want to check that out and then come back here.
The bicameral mind supposed that at one point we had literally two minds, one more spiritual and conscious and one more ‘daily task’ oriented and robotic in nature. This meant that we as a race were not operating at a conscious level during most of our lives, but were mostly reactionary. The time frame for this is around one to four thousand years ago. About two thousand years ago, (give or take a few centuries) we managed to break from the bicameral brain, but lost the spirituality of the other half. We gained consciousness at the cost of our connection with our higher selves, but now the higher selves are finally starting to emerge or perhaps re-merge with us. This started decades or perhaps even a few centuries ago. It started getting more visible with TM and the Beatles, I think, and continued to grow from there. Meditation helps connect with the higher self, and we are now finding ways to connect with the spiritual half that was sacrificed.
In essence, we are (well some of us anyway) starting to re-integrate our brains and gain the ability to access information that was hidden to us. This doesn’t have to be anything spooky or too far out to accept. Think about the amount of information you are exposed to on a daily basis. Thousands, if not millions, of bits of information are around us. We don’t pay attention to them. We process a few thousand pieces per day, and most of that is lost to you within a few days, nearly all is gone within a month or two. I’m not talking about ‘lost’ as in it’s totally gone, but more that you just don’t know where it is stored or how to access it. It is deep inside your memory and you have lost the retrieval path. (Have you ever been talking to an old friend, and they talk about a shared moment? The time you were down at the shore (or at the store, or doing a chore…) at first you completely don’t have an recall of that event, but then you suddenly remember. It becomes clear; as if it only happened yesterday. That friend reconnected the path that was lost.) OK, back to the point.
Think about this for a moment. You had something you were working on sometime last month. Maybe at work, maybe at home, but something… can you recall something? (If you can’t recall anything, your memories may be buried deeper than most people.) So say you were learning a new piece of software. You mastered the basics and learned a bunch more tools. You then only use the software sporadically. You remember the basics, and all the other bits are lost in the gray folds of your brain. You might be able to figure something out by looking at the computer screen, but you may have to relearn it. (The relearn goes much quicker since you already instinctively know the path.)
Now take this to a different level. You have ancestral knowledge. You do! It has been proven that we have certain traits that are genetic. I saw a show on the Discovery Channel on a pair of twins who had the exact mannerisms, even though they were raised apart. This is an example of the knowledge I am talking about. The traits were inside, not taught. I, and many others, believe there is more available to us. Whether you want to view it as past life memories, knowledge from another plane of existence, or genetic race memory, it really doesn’t matter. In all these cases it is memory that could help us to become what we were born to be.
This is staggering. Take just the tip of the iceberg, if that is easier for the ‘let’s keep a tight grip on reality here, Rob’ people. If you could access all the information that you have been exposed to in this life, how might that impact your decision making process? Can you say ‘better informed choice’? We have all forgotten most of what we have ever learned. Many of us still are barely above the day by day robotic existence of our unconscious ancestors. First we access this life’s knowledge, then try for the ancestral knowledge, then the interconnected knowledge base of the human species, then maybe knowledge from another plane of existence.
If you can’t come to grips with this, join the club. I think we are at the beginning of a new phase of human understanding, and there is going to be much resistance to this. Certainly major religions are already speaking out against the new spirituality. Why? Do they not want people to be spiritual? I think the problem they see is that with inner spirituality there will be no need for the hierarchy of organized religion, and the handle of control is falling from their grasp. I think on the lower levels, individual pastors, imams and priests, there is no issue with the new spiritual growth.
Julian Jaynes placed the origins of religion with the hallucinations of the ‘spiritual half’ of the bicameral mind. The schizophrenic ravings of holy men were the basis of today’s religions, according to Jaynes. He didn’t accept that the messages could have been coming from anywhere but the ‘higher half’ of the human mind. BUT what if they were? What if there was a connection to another realm, and the bicameral split was natures way of protecting us from going mad from the voices in our heads. What if we needed to evolve mentally before those voices could be heard for what they were, and we could place a curtain between realms of our minds to protect us from mental mind stew?
If the outbursts from a turret’s sufferer could be compared to the ability to distinguish between reality and ‘revealed’ mind realms, then have we evolved to the point where we can handle having dualism in our thought process? Can we keep the realms separate? I think as a resource of knowledge it would be great to have access to unlimited information, but how do you keep a part of you as ‘you’ and how do you keep from getting lost in the plethora of data?
contact me with questions or comments
