Okey, dokey salyavin, but you were the one who was wondering about Ganesh. Go figure!
Why wouldn't there be a connection between your brain and an old poem?! Do you only get something from contemporary poets? Nothing from Shakespeare either? On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:55 PM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: I just didn't think the elephant/brain was a very convincing idea but it was the best in the book which is why everyone uses it as the first example, I don't think much of King Tony's ideas at all. If I'm going to read a book on human physiology I'll get one that's full of fascinating facts about the brain and what it does, there are tons of those. Wild speculation about Indian literature leaves me cold! Would depend what you mean by vibration and resonance I suppose. Things vibrate for sure but is there an actual connection between things in my brain and a poem someone wrote 1500 years ago? I like my science empirical you see and the claim that the universe is fundamentally subjective or made out of consciousness makes no sense to me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Salyavin, for the sake of brevity, I only mentioned one example. There are lots more. Then it begins to look like more than just a coincidence. So you don't believe in vibration or resonance?! In the simplest terms that's all that's being claimed and recommended. But I'm with you about Purusha. Though for me it would be Mother Divine. I love the relative and that's that! On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:12 PM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: You call them insights, I prefer hopeful coincidences. I remember the Ganesh illustration and thought the brain looks more like a cauliflower. To say it's an insight would mean it had some sort of profound meaning, he is claiming an awful lot for this. For instance, chanting sections of the ved is supposed to affect the part of the body where it resides. And it's supposed to affect it because of it's relationship with what is claimed to be a fundamental part of the universe - the ved itself. This ved is creating us. Apparently. On a related note, I heard the ved while meditating once. Or rather experienced it, it was long before I'd heard of the concept or been to any TM courses or lectures so it came as a complete, and mindblowing, surprise to suddenly have a nice meddy interrupted by the opening up of a vast, nay infinite, inner space and this loud, omnipresent humming noise. Only lasted a second but it made me jump out of my skin and I nearly fell off my chair. To most people that would be a confirmation of King Tony's ideas, but not me. I get very wary when unrepeated experiences are held up to be something amazing like that. I have no idea what happened really but my rationalist instincts suspect it's just something the nervous system does at certain times that got incorporated into, or started the huge mythos we all know and love. After discussing it with our local "raja" I was also told to go on Purusha where experiences like that could stabilise and I'd become a rishi myself! Couldn't be bothered though, all those weird guys. Weirder than me some of them.... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : salyavin, I think you were the one asking about Ganesh. Dr. Nader's insights begin on pg. 341 of his book on Veda and human physiology. Makes me appreciate his genius again. The illustrations clearly show the resemblance to the human brain and even specific parts: the pons, medulla, cerebellum, trigeminal and other nerves. On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:59 AM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Yes, we have no religion. The trouble with your interpretation is that it sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it. Best of both worlds. Trouble is, it isn't what he means. I read his first book of discoveries and the claim is that vedic literature is present in human physiology. Not a metaphor, actually present. And responsible for. He claims to have a one-to-one correlation between Indian stories and the human body. I bet I could find similar coincidences with, say, the works of Steven King. Just read the section on jyotish, all the planets have a direct connection to parts of the brain, this is offered as an explanation for the "physics" of astrology but not all the planets are represented because the ancients didn't know about anything beyond the orbit of Saturn due to them not having telescopes. You can go through the whole book like that, it makes no sense and is astoundingly poor science, but it's used as justification for "modalities" like MVVT and other new age dropsy like yagya's. Believe one and you get an idea of how the rest of it works. Except it doesn't. Obviously, not beyond the expectations of a placebo anyway. And the idea of deities as "aspects of natural law" sounds unfortunate to me, because the laws of nature are even less likely to change because of prayers than the god's appear to be. This is because they are laws rather than reasonable beings, laws don't change, that's what makes them reliable and stops the universe falling apart. (Note I clicked on the 'show message history' bit so you know what I'm talking about. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : My interpretation of what he said is that the Ramayana can be seen as (among other things) an extended metaphor for how the human nervous system operates, with one-to-one correspondence between various literary/plot elements in the book, and actual aspects of our physical nervous system and how the parts interact. So, from THAT perspective, the battles of the Ramayana can be seen as taking place in our bodies. L
