---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Of course given how fragmented science is, hacking the brain may have
a delayed side-effect of turning people into raving axe wielding
psychopaths. :-D
>
On 8/28/2014 12:19 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
>
I hope they aren't doing the research in America, it'll take longer
before we notice!
>
So, why didn't your research in Britain notice what was going on in
Rotherham? Go figure.
'Rotherham abuse scandal: Key dates'
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28955170
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On 08/28/2014 06:59 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...
<mailto:turquoiseb@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
This really is exciting stuff -- being able to hack the brain on a
physical level to change the emotional component that we *attach*
to a memory or an experience. There is nothing inherently good,
bad, happy-making, or fear-making about the memory or experience
itself; our reaction is based on what we *bring to it* in terms of
attachments. Being able to change those "attachment links" from
negative to positive could be beneficial.
Although it's not quite the same thing, I'm reminded of a common
experience during my days with the Rama guy. He liked movies, and
both attending them and discussing them as metaphors for the
spiritual process were a big part of studying with him. So a new
movie would come out, a bunch of us would go to see in on opening
night, and then we'd wait for the next center meeting to find out
what he thought of it.
Well, I never found my opinions of these movies to be greatly
colored by his opinion, but other students certainly did. For
example, I'd run into friends before the meeting and they'd be all
excited about this new movie they saw. Hearing I'd seen it, too,
they'd talk about all the scenes or one-liners they liked the
best. Clearly, remembering them was a link to a positive
experience for them, because the more they talked about how much
they liked the movie, the happier they got.
Then the meeting would start, and sometimes Rama *didn't* like the
movie in question. He'd take a dump on it from on high. And then
after the meeting, I'd run into these same people I was talking to
before the meeting, and they'd have done a complete 180. Now
they'd be talking about how crappy the movie was, *using the same
scenes and one-liners they'd raved about before* as examples of
why they hated it.
Go figure. On one level, that's just cult thinking playing itself
out -- think the way you've been told to think. On another,
something happened that "flipped the circuits" these people had
associated with the memory of the movie -- from positive to
negative. Or vice-versa, because sometimes the Rama guy would love
something they'd previously hated, and they'd flip-flop over that,
too.
The most fascinating thing is that none of these people, when
called on this flip-floppiness, would own up to it. They flat-out
denied having ever said they'd loved the movie they now claimed to
not like because Rama didn't like it.
If this ability to reverse the nature of the attachments we have
to memories could be developed and standardized and made safe, I
would see it being of far more value than TM or any other generic
technique of meditation for the treatment of memory-related
disorders like PTSD. You *can't* get rid of the memories, or the
things in the present that trigger remembering them. But it
appears that you *can* change the association you have with these
memories. Change enough of these associations from negative to
positive, and you've got yerself a whole new way of looking at the
world.
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*From:* salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
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*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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*Sent:* Thursday, August 28, 2014 2:32 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Out-evolving the amygdala!
Now here's some cutting edge mental health therapy. Talk about
neuro-linguistic programming! This is a major re-write.
_Scientists find secret of reversing bad memories - Telegraph
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11059605/Scientists-find-secret-of-reversing-bad-memories.html>_
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11059605/Scientists-find-secret-of-reversing-bad-memories.html>
Scientists find secret of reversing bad memories - T...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11059605/Scientists-find-secret-of-reversing-bad-memories.html>
Bad memories could be reversed after scientists discovered the
part of the brain which links emotions to past events
View on www.telegraph.co.uk
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11059605/Scientists-find-secret-of-reversing-bad-memories.html>
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