--- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems that awareness is necessary for thoughts to happen but > > thoughts are not necessary for awareness to happen. Awareness > > without thinking is still awareness of something, only there are no > > thoughts. Can't really think about it but I'm sure we have all > > experienced it. > > > > Rick Carlstrom > > **** > > A few years ago I had a long lasting experience of just witnessing > without any discernible thoughts as I had used to have. As this state > had lasted for may be 3-4 hours, while I had been all the time doing > my normal daily chores at home, I felt a suggestion to come from deep > inside to go to cycling in the city to see if the state lasts. I went > for a 15-20 minutes ride and it lasted. > > Later I have analysed this experience and come to the following > conclusion: Thoughts by words following each other in time actually > were not there, but another form of more effective thinking that > happens not by words and sentences. We all have this kind of thinking, > but we observe only the grosser level thinking by words. > I think this way also animals think or make sense of the world, > although with the human brain capacity this kind of thinking can be > much more cognitively advanced. > I think all my deeper insights and ideas have come this way. Also in > my work in engineering. > > But if you want to share these ideas with others I must find words to > describe them. This is usually the much more difficult part. Insights > usually appear spontaneously in a blink of an eye. The laborious part > is to find expressions in words, if I want to share my insights. > > Irmeli
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