By ROBERT SAPOLSKY
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/this-is-your-brain-...
"Our brains are wired to confuse the real and the symbolic. And the implications can be as serious as war and peace.
A single part of the brain processes both physical and psychic pain.
What are we to make of the brain processing literal and metaphorical versions of a concept in the same brain region? Or that our neural circuitry doesn’t cleanly differentiate between the real and the symbolic? What are the consequences of the fact that evolution is a tinkerer and not an inventor, and has duct-taped metaphors and symbols to whichever pre-existing brain areas provided the closest fit?"
Do we dance the brain or does the brain dance us... what's a metaphor for?
Religion, Science and Politics are often immured in an arrogance of ignorance, i.e., promoting cliché as self-evident, eh, in that they define their percepts with allusions of their own creation, managing their metaphors in a sort-of Möbius-strip logic —a self-fulfilling prophesy!
In the phenomenology of Love coupled with the visceReality of joyousness which frissons up the spine, what remains is our own courage to change the world from inside out withoutta’ doubt, that lost Art of interior-design … it starts with wonder imbued in awe, unbound by the language of ‘reason’ nor by the fatal-skin we’re in, uncluttered with the pitter-patter of patterns promulgated by all of our bad education nor spoilt by the cliché of tribal-mediocrity!
In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was Theos ...
Another 'meaning' of 'LOGOS' was 'MIND" and 'WORD' was an extension, the action of mind ... because 'thought' was imbued with 'LOGOS' and therefore 'THEOS' stirred. The word became a sort of Magical creation on its own. ... and the Word was God! Ergo the 'word' as LOGOS could actually change things; where the idea of incantation Magic comes from like the AbraCadabra Myth.
Goethe was, among other things, an Alchemist. As such, he was aware of the principle of 'Sympathetic resonance' found in the Emerald Tablets of Hermes Trismigistus, a line of which is, 'As above, so below'. Even words are imbued with potential, acting as agents of change.
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." -- Goethe
Heartfelt words of magic, igniting Grace to action. The Alchemy of Word.
I do not think Goethe was intending any singular future for those individuals he was referring to in the above quote. Rather, I believe his intention was to 'free' the person from imposed personality constructs, both from within and from without. Neither compelled from the past, nor future beckoned! Free to become who they ought to be; in God’s image, you see.
Simply put, he believed that we are all Gods, but we have forgotten this over lifetimes of uncertainty and fear; the veil of ignorance; and that by the miracle of Love and Courage, and our God given freedom to choose, we can become again as Gods. It is this, in which he beckons us, with the quote above.
We're Masters in the making. Yet we're fools of our own predispositions; a veil of ignorance covering our sight from the very Heart of it; the bliss of this sentimental-reality.
There are Alchemical principles which can turn our very base proclivities and experiences into this Bliss of Gold through the catalyst of 'Constant Remembrance', Sankalpa – Subtle idea – the inner name of God. We become what we Think in Wonder and Joy! With Grace and Love we become whom we ought to be, Simple and in tune with Nature, naturally.
Man is what he loves.
If he loves a stone he is a stone;
If he loves a man he is a man;
If he loves God--I dare not say more,
for if I said that he would then be God,
ye might stone me! -- St. Augustine
Ghandi stated, 'to be the change you want the world to become.' Dr. Wayne Dyer said, 'change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.'
Quantum physics has shown that depending on the observer, light is either a particle or a wave. (Quantum entanglement theory) It is a strange power that the observer has, is it not? How we see ourselves and others would have similar consequences, n'est-ce pas?
-- what was it that Einstein pondered when he spoke in a mathematical show 'n tell? "if I rode on a beam of light through the deep dark reach of space, what would I see? what would I be? would I be anyplace?" then he chuckled, stuck out his tongue, made his eyes go wide, "I'd be everywhere at once, bent toward the infinite, really deep inside."
A word can convey a meaning and change a mind, infused with 'Joy' and 'Love' it can change a Heart and that's forever!
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