Our Reality ...
A única atitude digna de
um homem superior é o persistir tenaz de uma actividade que se reconhece
inútil, o hábito de uma disciplina que se sabe estéril, e o uso fixo de normas
de pensamento filosófico e metafísico cuja importância se sente ser nula.
(...)
A maioria dos homens
vive com espontaneidade uma vida fictícia e alheia.
A maioria da gente é
outra gente, disse Oscar Wilde, e disse bem. Uns gastam a vida na busca de
qualquer coisa que não querem; outros empregam-se na busca do que querem e lhes
não serve; outros ainda se perdem.
Mas a maioria é feliz e
goza a vida sem isso valer.
Em geral, o homem chora
pouco, e, quando se queixa, é a sua literatura.
O pessimismo tem pouca
viabilidade como fórmula democrática.
Os que choram o mal do
mundo são isolados — não choram senão o próprio.
Um Leopardi, um Antero
não têm amado ou amante?
O universo é um mal.
Um Vigny é mal ou pouco
amado?
O mundo é um cárcere.
Um Chateaubriand sonha
mais que o possível?
A vida humana é tédio.
Um Job é coberto de
bolhas?
A terra está coberta de
bolhas. Pisam os calos do triste?
Ai dos pés dos sóis e
das estrelas.
Alheia a isto e chorando
só o preciso e no menos tempo que pode — quando lhe morre o filho que esquecerá
pelos anos fora, salvo nos aniversários — quando pensando e chora enquanto não
arranja outro, ou se não adapta ao estado de perda — a humanidade continua
digerindo e amando.
A vitalidade recupera e
reanima. Os mortos ficam enterrados.
As perdas ficam
perdidas.
Quando vejo um gato ao
sol lembra-me sempre do homem ao sol.
(...)
A metafísica pareceu-me
sempre uma forma prolongada da loucura latente.
Se conhecêssemos a
verdade, vê-la-íamos; tudo (o) mais é sistema e arredores. Basta-nos, se
pensarmos, a incompreensibilidade do universo; querer compreendê-lo é ser menos
que homens, porque ser homem é saber que se não compreende.
Trazem-me a fé como um
embrulho fechado numa salva alheia.
Querem que o aceite, mas
que o não abra.
Trazem-me a ciência,
como uma faca num prato, com que abrirei as folhas de um livro de páginas
brancas.
Trazem-me a dúvida, como
pó dentro de uma caixa; mas para que me trazem a caixa se ela não tem senão pó?
Na falta de saber,
escrevo; e uso os grandes termos da Verdade. Alheios conforme as exigências da
emoção.
Se a emoção é clara e
fatal, falo, naturalmente, dos Deuses, e assim a enquadro numa consciência do
mundo múltiplo. Se a emoção é profunda, falo, naturalmente, de Deus, e assim a
engasto numa consciência una.
Se a emoção é um
pensamento, falo, naturalmente, do Destino, e assim a encosto à parede.
Umas vezes o próprio
ritmo da frase exigirá Deus e não Deuses: outras vezes impor-se-ão as duas
sílabas de Deuses e mudo verbalmente de universo; outras vezes pesará o
contrário, as necessidades de uma rima íntima, um deslocamento do ritmo, um
sobressalto de emoção e o politeísmo ou o monoteísmo amolda-se e prefere-se. Os
Deuses são uma função do estilo.
(...)
Há uma erudição do
conhecimento, que é propriamente o que se chama erudição, e há uma erudição do
entendimento, que é o que se chama cultura.
Mas há também uma
erudição da sensibilidade.
A erudição da
sensibilidade nada tem a ver com a experiência da vida.
A experiência da vida
nada ensina, como a história nada informa.
A verdadeira experiência
consiste em restringir o contacto com a realidade e aumentar a análise desse
contacto.
Assim a sensibilidade se
alarga e aprofunda, porque em nós está tudo; basta que o procuremos e o
saibamos procurar.
(...)
Escrever é esquecer. A
literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida. A música embala, as
artes visuais animam, as artes vivas (como a dança e o representar) entretêm. A
primeira, porém, afasta-se da vida por fazer dela um sono; as segundas,
contudo, não se afastam da vida — umas porque usam de fórmulas visíveis e
portanto vitais, outras porque vivem da mesma vida humana.
Não é esse o caso da
literatura. Essa simula a vida. Um romance é uma história do que nunca foi e um
drama é um romance dado sem narrativa.
Um poema é a expressão
de ideias ou de sentimentos em linguagem que ninguém emprega, pois que ninguém
fala em verso.
Fernando Pessoa
Excertos
de “Livro do Desassossego“
A única
realidade para mim são as minhas sensações.
Eu sou uma
sensação minha.
Portanto
nem da minha própria existência estou certo.
Posso
está-lo apenas daquelas sensações a que eu chamo minhas.
A verdade?
É uma
coisa exterior?
Não posso
ter a certeza dela, porque não é uma sensação minha, e eu só destas tenho a
certeza.
Uma
sensação minha?
De quê?
Procurar o
sonho é pois procurar a verdade, visto que a única verdade para mim, sou eu
próprio.
Isolar-se tanto quanto possível dos outros é respeitar a verdade.
Fernando
Pessoa
In
“Textos Filosóficos“
The Brain:
A Record of the Past or the Map to the
Future?
Memories,
Habits, Fantasies, Fears, Hopes, Skills The Brain: Record of the Past or Map to
the Future
(1)
Everything that makes us up; the "you”
and the "me”- our thoughts, our
dreams, our memories, our hopes, our secret fantasies, our fears, our skills,
our habits, our pains and our joys - is etched in the living lattice work of
100 billion brain cells.
If
you learn even one bit of information today, tiny brain cells will make new
connections between them, and who "you"
are will be altered.
The
images that we create in our mind as we process different streams of
consciousness leave footprints in the vast endless fields of neurological
landscape, which contribute to the identity called "you”.
For
the "you" as a sentient
being is immersed and truly exists in the interconnected electrical web of
cellular brain tissue.
How
our nerve cells are specifically arranged by what we learn, what we remember,
what we experience, what we feel, what we envision, as well as what we think
about ourselves defines us individually and it is reflected in our internal
neurological wiring. We are a work in progress.
Here
is what I mean. According to the working model of neuroscience, mind is the
brain in action.
Mind
is the brain at work. It is the product of brain activity when it is animated
with life. With 100 billion nerve cells seamlessly wired together, it becomes
apparent that we can produce many different levels of mind.
For
example, the mind we use to treat patients is different than the state of mind
we use to drive our car.
We
make the brain work differently when we brush our teeth compared to when we
play the violin. Equally, we make a different mind when we play the victim in
contrast to when we demonstrate joy. All of this is so because we can, quite
simply, force gangs of nerve cells to fire in unique ways.
Not
more than thirty or forty years ago, there was a unanimous belief in biology
that the brain was hardwired, meaning that we are born with a certain amount of
neurological connections and the finality in life was that we were going to
turn out like our parents.
It
was an accepted perception that this delicate organ was unable to upscale its
hardware. But with the advent of the latest technologies in functional imagery
it is apparent that it is very possible to make the brain work differently.
In
fact, the research out of the University of Wisconsin has proven something as
simple as attention or focused concentration is a skill just like golf or
tennis. In other words, the more you practice being conscious or mindful the
better you get at it.
Neurons
In
addition, functional imagery has clearly proven that we can also change the
brain just by thinking differently.
For
example, people that never played the piano were divided into groups.
(2)
The first group physically played one-handed finger exercises like scales and
cords, and as a result of the new activity, their brains changed. The before
and after results of the functional brain scans showed new areas of the brain
activated.
In
essence, not only did they make a new mind, literally new brain circuits
flourished.
However,
when a second group was asked to mentally rehearse the same scales and cords in
their mind for the same amount of time, they grew the same amount of brain
connections as the group who physically demonstrated the activity. Simply put,
when we are truly focused and attentive, the brain does not know the difference
between what is happening in our minds eye and what is happening in the
external world.
Other
research has proven similar results not only in the brain but in the body as well.
These
tests have shown that there is veritable a mind-body connection - in fact, the
mind changed the body. In one study, subjects who were asked to do a finger
exercise against the resistance of a spring over the course of four weeks for
an hour a day showed a 30 percent increase in muscle strength.
(3)
Nothing special here. However, the second group never lifted a finger. They
mentally practiced the same activity for the same length of time and
demonstrated a 22 percent increase in muscle strength without any physical activity.
Happy Meditator
This
research is significant because it clearly showed that the body as well as the
brain changed before the experience of really pulling the spring.
In
other words, without touching the spring or physically doing the exercise, the
body was stronger to reflect a mental effort not a physical effort.
These
two studies show that physical changes can occur by our thoughts, our
intentions, and our meditations.
So,
when you take the time out of your busy schedule and begin to intentionally
dream a new reality, plan a new life, set a new practice goal, or design a new
event for you to experience in your future, just remember that your brain is
rewiring itself to your desires and your body is being reconditioned in order
to prepare itself for that new event.
Therefore,
if you would mentally rehearse daily what it would be like to experience any
event (just like the piano players), there would be internal changes taking
place as if you were already beginning to experience your dream.
By
applying this understanding to the quantum model, which states that our
subjective mind has an effect or control over our objective world
(consciousness creates reality), we can begin to explore the idea that if our
brain and our bodies are evidencing physical changes to look like the
experience has already happened as a result of our mental efforts well before
the physical manifestation has occurred, then theoretically the experience will
find us!
By
Dr. Joe Dispenza
As
seen in Science to Sage E-Magazine
Dream a New Reality
"The
Brain: A Record of the Past or the Map
to the Future?"
©2014 Encephalon, LLC
Matter and Consciousness:
How Our Thoughts
Create Our Reality
Dr. Joe Dispenza claims that every time we learn
something new, hundreds of thousands of our neurons change, which affects the
state of our physical body.
Dr. Dispenza is
known worldwide for his original theory of the connection between mind and
matter.
The scientist
gained his greatest fame after the release of his acclaimed documentary “We
know what makes a signal” in 2004.
His research helped disclose the extraordinary
possibilities of consciousness and its ability to create synaptic connection
with a strong concentration.
Just imagine: with each new sensation, vision or
emotional experience a new connection between two of more than 100,000 million
brain cells is inevitably formed.
But to really make changes, one needs to concentrate
on the reinforcement of the conditioned reflex.
If, within a short period of time such an experience
takes place again, the connection will be strengthened.
If the experiment is not repeated for a long time, the
relationship will become weaker or disappears at all. Science regards the brain
as something static and fixed, but in fact it has a strong ability to change.
Recent studies in neuroscience have shown that the
effect of each body experiences in our thinking organ (fatigue, fear, joy,
cold) acts to change our brain.
“What if just by thinking we make our inner alchemy
out of the normal state so often that the self-regulation system of the body
eventually considers this abnormal state to be the normal one?” – Asks Dr.
Dispenza in his book “Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind”
published in 2007.
Dispenza insists that the brain is not able to
distinguish between a physical sensation and an emotional experience.
Thus, when our minds are always focused on the
negative thoughts, our “gray matter” can easily be deceived and bring the body
into a painful state.
Dispenza proves his point with the help of the
experiment, during which the volunteer pressed a springy device with his ring
finger for an hour a day, during four weeks.
After the experiment the finger became 30 percent
stronger. At the same time, another group of volunteers had to imagine doing
the same, but in fact they never saw or touched the device. Four weeks later
their fingers were also strengthened by 22 percent!
For years, scientists have been studying the ways in
which consciousness controls matter: from the placebo effect (when a person
begins to feel better after allegedly taking drugs) to the practice of Tummo
(the practice of Tibetan Buddhism, as a result of which the practitioners are
sweating, meditating at a temperature below zero). Such an influence of the
practice on physical condition is just a by-product, which appears as a result
of chemical reactions between neurons.
The research of Dr. Dispenza was interrupted by the
onset of the crisis in his life. When riding a bike the doctor was struck by a
car. To gain the ability to walk again, he had to go through a procedure that
might be causing him chronic pain for life. Dispenza decided to challenge
science and get himself out of this situation through the power of his
thoughts, and it worked. Nine months later Dispenza was able to walk again.
Inspired by this success, he decided to dedicate his life to exploring the
mind-body connection. Determined to explore the ability of the power of mind to
treat the body, Dr. Dispenza interviewed countless number of people who had
experienced what he calls a “spontaneous remission.” These were people with serious
illnesses who had chosen to ignore the traditional treatment, but never fully
recovered. Dispenza came to the conclusion that all these people had the
understanding that their thoughts determine their health condition. When they
focused on changing their thoughts, their diseases disappeared in an incredible
way.
Regardless of the fact that Dispenza managed to
demonstrate the ability of thoughts to transform the physical condition, yet
many are skeptical about his ideas. His theory of “faith in one’s own reality”
seems to be related to pseudoscience and does not sound very scientific.
Perhaps the science is not yet ready to recognize that
the physical condition can be changed with the help of the power of
consciousness, but Dr. Dispenza, however, argues that this is really happening.
“I don’t expect that science will allow us to go
further because if we do, then it will turn into a form of religion. We should
remain “outsiders” and do something supernormal. When we have complete
confidence in our abilities, we will create a new science”, says Dispenza.
Tito
Colaço
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