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William Shakespeare: Study sheds light on Bard as food hoarder The Bard had his own problems. Cheers: Axil On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > The mind of man is a dark and murky place. Its mysteries have been under > development for over ten million years; one layer of complexity piled on > another, from the most basic and animalistic to the most human and > altruistic. As humanity struggled to overcome its animal nature shaped by > the wilderness from which we have sprung to the exalted pinnacles of > civilization where we aspire to be. > > But in that long march of time over the endless eons, none of the old > mechanisms of mind have ever been replaced; they have only supplanted by > evolution with the more modern machinery of thinking. > > The bottom line, we cannot fight our human nature; we can only learn to > live with it. > > A strategy for problem solving that is not consistent with our nature is > destined to be ineffective as a tool in meeting its ultimate goals. > > In the quest to understand ourselves, just how do our minds work: the > conscious, subconscious, and unconscious? And what is the difference > between them? > > The concept of three levels of mind has been around for some time now. > Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian psychologist was probably the first to > study the dichotomy of mind and popularized that study into mainstream > society as we know it today. > > Freud has bequeathed to us a useful model of the mind, which he separated > into three tiers or sections – the conscious mind or ego, the preconscious, > and the unconscious mind. > > One way to illustrate the concept of the three minds is by using a > triangle. If you imagine at the very tip of the triangle is your conscious > mind. It occupies only a small portion of space at the top, a bit like an > iceberg where only a fraction of it is showing above the water. It probably > represents about 10% of your brain capacity. This mental capability is > newly developed and untried in the march of our evolution where > communication of our thoughts requires some organization and logic to be > transferred onward to others. > > Below this is a slightly larger section that Freud called the > preconscious, or what some refer to as the subconscious. It is much larger > than the conscious mind and accounts for around 50-60% of our brain > capabilities. This mental process keeps our ancestors alive in their fight > to struggle out of the wilds of our first habitats and is usually devoid of > logic and science but the preserve of intuition and feeling. > > > The section below this is the unconscious mind. It occupies the whole > width of the base of the triangle and fills out the other 30-40% of the > triangle. It is vast and deep and largely inaccessible to conscious > thought, a bit like the dark depths of the ocean were the basest emotions > live. > > Your conscious mind is what most people associate with who you are, > because that is where most people live day to day. It is the thin veneer of > our being. It is the outer edifice of our existence that we expose to the > world. But it’s by no means where all the action takes place. > > Your conscious mind is a bit like the captain of a ship standing on the > bridge giving out orders. In reality it’s the crew in the engine room below > deck (the subconscious and the deeper unconscious) that carry out the > orders. The captain may be in charge of the ship and give the orders but > it’s the crew that actually guides the ship that does the dirty work, all > according to what training they had been given over the years to best do so. > > Our conscious mind communicates to the outside world and the inner self > through speech, pictures, writing, physical movement, and thought. > > The subconscious mind, on the other hand, is in charge of our recent > memories, and is in continuous contact with the resources of the > unconscious mind. > > The unconscious mind is the storehouse of all memories and past > experiences, both those that have been repressed through trauma and those > that have simply been consciously forgotten and are no longer important to > us. It’s from these memories and experiences that our beliefs, habits, and > behaviors are formed. > > The unconscious constantly communicates with the conscious mind via our > subconscious, and is what provides us with the meaning to all our > interactions with the world, as filtered through our beliefs and habits. It > communicates through feelings, emotions, imagination, sensations, and > dreams. > > It is where optimism is born and the kind of hope that just ignores the > enormity of the tasks that face us or the road blocks that stand in our > path. I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit > on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. It is the unreason of stubbornness, > the thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, > that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep on > thinking, to keep on hoping, to keep on reaching, to keep on working, and > to keep on fighting. > > It is the drive rooted in the instinct for survival that got us to where > we are now over the countless generations in an endless cycle of birth and > death. > > It is where these mystic chords of our passion lie that swell when > touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our natures. It > will not allow us to shrink from this great mission of life and the > emotions that life engenders. > > It is the part of us that says unto the latest generation that when we are > tested we refused to let this journey of survival end, that we did not turn > back nor did we falter to pass the gift of life forward; and with > unreasoned eyes fixed on the horizon, we are compelled ever onward to carry > forth, restore and maintain that great gift that cannot be squandered and > deliver it safely to future generations. > > Our subconscious is the work desk of our mind. Controlling and directing > it is the key to personal change. > > Our subconscious is a bit like the RAM in your computer; the short term > memory in a computer and its job is to hold the programs and data that are > currently in use so they can be reached quickly and easily by the computer > processor. It’s a lot faster than the other types of memory, such as the > hard disk or CD-ROM. > > Your subconscious works in a similar way to computer RAM. It holds short > term memory and current daily used programs. > > > Apart from short term memory, the subconscious also plays an important > role in our day to day functioning. > > It works hard at ensuring you have everything you need for quick recall > and access to when you need it. Things like – > > Memories – such as what your telephone number is, how to drive a car > without having to consciously think about it, what you need to get from the > shop on the way home etc. > > Current programs you run daily, such as behaviors, habits, mood > Filters (such as beliefs and values) to run information through to test > their validity according to your perception of the world > > Sensations taken in via your 5 senses and what it means to you > > If it doesn’t happen to have a filter or reference point in its RAM for > some bits of information that come in, then it has a direct line to the > storage place of the mind – the unconscious. It will ask the unconscious to > pull out the programs that it best associates with the incoming data to > help make sense of it all. > > The subconscious is also constantly at work, staying a lot more aware of > your surroundings than you realize. In fact, according to the NLP > communication model we are assaulted with over 2 million bits of data every > second. If our conscious mind had to deal with all that you would very > quickly become overwhelmed and not be able to get anything done. > Instead, our subconscious filters out all the unnecessary information and > delivers only that which is needed at the time, around 7 chunks of > information. It does all this behind the scenes so you can perform our > daily work uninhibited. And it does this as logically as it can; based on > the programs it has access to in your unconscious. > > The subconscious is where most problems are solved. These solutions flash > into the conscious mind in a flash of inspiration, logic of the conscious > follows the intuition of the subconscious. > > It then communicates all the results into consciousness via emotions, > feelings, sensations and reflexes, images and dreams. It doesn’t > communicate in words, it flashes insights that we feel come out of nowhere > to help us solve problems. > > One of the truly great things about the subconscious (and one which we > need to take advantage of to affect change) is … it obeys orders! > > People often erroneously think that the subconscious is in charge and you > are merely at its mercy. In fact it’s the complete opposite. Your conscious > mind gives it the direction, the environment if you like, for which it > operates in. The subconscious will only deliver the emotions and feelings > of what you continuously think about. > > Now I’m not saying it’s as easy as changing what you think of in one > moment and your entire life will be changed. In most cases your default > programs have too much energy attached to them to change instantaneously. > It can be done though – such as after a massive life altering event or if > enough pain is associated with the old behavior – but without a major shift > like that it is likely the old programs will reemerge. > > As an example of how the subconscious mind works, let us look at on of the > greatest minds to have ever lived to see what formed it and what made it > tick. > > Leonardo DaVinci was a great painter, designer, scientist, futurist and > thinker. He also had the gift of dyslexia. > > One remarkable indication that Leonardo was dyslexic is in his > handwriting. Leonardo was constantly sketching out his ideas for > inventions. Most of the time, he wrote his notes backwards. Why did > Leonardo write from right-to-left, in mirror image? Although unusual, this > is a trait shared by many left-handed dyslexic people. Most of the time, > dyslexic writers are not even consciously aware that they are writing this > way. > > Leonardo's spelling is also considered erratic and quite strange. He also > started many more projects then he ever finished - a characteristic now > often considered to be 'A.D.D.' > > The way the world entered DaVinci’s mind forced his subconscious programs > to compensate. How this process worked is not known but his genius was not > developed on the conscious level. It was a miracle of adaptation. > Everyone has their own talents and abilities that have been formed by > their nature and nurture. We must identify who can do the job needed to be > done and let them do it. > > The shaping the subconscious mind is a lifetime of effort. > > Let Einstein understand the universe, Michelangelo build St. Peters > cathedral, and William Shakespeare write the plays. > > In this struggle of life our dies are cast; we must learn how to match the > job with the right person. > > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mt dear Friends: >> >> I have just published: >> >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2013/04/not-lesson-but-discussion-with-young.html >> >> It is about logic and synthesis applied to LENR, informatiom aimed >> for the many future LENR researchers and an exercise for a future >> paper about LENR Meta-theory. >> You will easily discover that it is a long article, perhaps much too long. >> I hope some of the readers will discover other dimensions of this paper >> too. >> Please do not forget, it was written in order to initiate discussions. >> Peter >> >> -- >> Dr. Peter Gluck >> Cluj, Romania >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >> > >
