The things you think about at 1 in the morning! Pondering on a few things at a time....that seemed to bring together an idea that whenever its presented (as is has been in the past) tends to produce something almost fearful because it almost borders on madness. Or does it?
I was talking with a friend a couple of nights ago about the banning of home natural remedies and how alarming it was. She made a comment about all the energy forms of healing coming down the spiritual grapevine and maybe thats why so much of it was coming through....
So I'm sitting there thinking away thoughts like - 'could this really work that well? could it actually replace surgery eventually? Then drugs and herbs and the like would not be required at all - would they? etc etc'.... I remembered seeing people on various articles on TV and in the media who had healed themselves when the doctors had said, 'not a chance'. So I start thinking, 'if you can do it by accident - can a person do it deliberately?'
That brought to mind a documentary I saw on Buddhist monks who can deliberately change their body temperature. There was a story about a monk who decided to stay and finish meditating when it began to heavily snow and in his meditation he prevented the snow from settling on him. This attracted a couple of scientists who went scientifically monitored some Tibetan monks while they sat drying wet clothing (that had been draped around their bodies), with their own body heat....and wallaaaa......clear evidence of deliberate use of mind over matter.
Ok, then I'm remembering another friend with his book that details the psychological causes of things, such as diseases and even things like when you repeatedly crush a certain finger. Quite an extraordinary manual and when you hear what the psychological reasons are for something - even though it makes you squirm a little - you generally have to agree.
And, on a slightly different tangent, I start musing over an old Sumerian legend - very close to the story of Adam and Eve. How a god created two people who lived in the garden of the gods and how they ate of a forbidden fruit and were made to leave. The interesting piece for me is the discussion between the gods concerning these two people. It was said that they must be made to leave before they ate of the second tree, the tree of immortality, and then became 'as the gods'. If the eating of the first tree created a psychological awakening into self-awareness, perhaps the second tree would also cause a psychological change....a realisation of how much of our bodies we could actually control. What if the so-called tree of immortality didn't gift immortality persay but gave the awareness that we have more 'power' than we realise. Could the story be a metaphor for the true stages of human spiritual development?
And there it is.....humankind has mulled over this idea for thousands of years. We know that mind over matter is a fact. The question is.....how far could we take it...how much could the human mind really be capable of.....and if people like the Buddhists monks in the snow can do something like deliberately raising their body temperature and slowing their heart rhythms down - why would they stop there? What would stop them from literally telling their bodies not to be sick - not to age? Perhaps somewhere in the world - there are people who have managed that....could it really be possible?
How scary is that?
Just a little light reading on the monks
http://www.openbuddha.com/2004/07/14/scientific-study-of-tibetan-meditation/
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