http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/09/are-you-sure/ Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/09/are-you-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Steve Mon, 30 May 2005 20:40:32 +0000 http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/08/are-you-sure/#comment-33 How do you know that the alternate perception resulting from breaking down our western sense of identity is more accurate? Dualism and a sense of individuality do not preclude an awareness of interconnection. Is interconnection the issue or is it the reality of the boundaries between perceived entities? Either way, there is research showing a relationship between parietal lobe functioning and a human's personal perception of individuality. What if the Tibetan techniques have their affect on consciousness because of their influence on specific brain structures, especially those responsible for "recognizing" and consequently believing in the accuracy of our perceptions? Is it possible that the new perceptions are not more accurate but just feel much more "true"? How do you know that the alternate perception resulting from breaking down our western sense of identity is more accurate? Dualism and a sense of individuality do not preclude an awareness of interconnection. Is interconnection the issue or is it the reality of the boundaries between perceived entities? Either way, there is research showing a relationship between parietal lobe functioning and a human’s personal perception of individuality. What if the Tibetan techniques have their affect on consciousness because of their influence on specific brain structures, especially those responsible for “recognizing” and consequently believing in the accuracy of our perceptions? Is it possible that the new perceptions are not more accurate but just feel much more “true”?

]]> http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/09/are-you-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-32 robert Mon, 30 May 2005 18:52:27 +0000 http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/08/are-you-sure/#comment-32 to know that what the brain receives is only what our senses deliver to it, is tantamount in starting the process of accurate data gathering. most prople seem to forget that sensory input is only that, that what we perceive is only our personal interpretation of what is called "world", and is affected by our moods (brain chemistry), life experience, how we perceive ourselves, it is all relative to our personal identity. tibetan yoga and secret doctrines, a book by evans/wentz goes a long way towards breaking it down, some of the yogas described are extremely dangerous in practice, to the western mind in particular, because our sense of identity in the west is what needs to be irradicated in order to allow for accuracy of perception...we must detatch from our lower selves to "see" that duality is the problem, and that in fact everything is connected, and that which can see the truth within us is more than the individual as defined by western thought, complicated but worth checking out, i'm driven by accuracy and the need to perceive truth... to know that what the brain receives is only what our senses deliver to it, is tantamount in starting the process of accurate data gathering. most prople seem to forget that sensory input is only that, that what we perceive is only our personal interpretation of what is called “world”, and is affected by our moods (brain chemistry), life experience, how we perceive ourselves, it is all relative to our personal identity. tibetan yoga and secret doctrines, a book by evans/wentz goes a long way towards breaking it down, some of the yogas described are extremely dangerous in practice, to the western mind in particular, because our sense of identity in the west is what needs to be irradicated in order to allow for accuracy of perception…we must detatch from our lower selves to “see” that duality is the problem, and that in fact everything is connected, and that which can see the truth within us is more than the individual as defined by western thought, complicated but worth checking out, i’m driven by accuracy and the need to perceive truth…

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