1 The Dilemma: Mind-Brain
It takes some doing to acquire the discipline of seeing everything as having been produced before it could be there. This is true of the sentence I have just written. As I write, I enhance and mobilize some of my energy e.g. thinking, concentration, and some of my somatic energy (required for writing). By working on and with what I have, I give it a form which I — and others — can see as separate from me. Once our sight is disciplined we see that creation takes place all the time. Indirectly, this lost awareness has already been at work in all religions which have needed a Creator so that the world can be. Since that awareness was only lost, it only needed to be recaptured. The fleeting nature of speech takes away the ease of catching ourselves as the source of our own utterances that serve as vehicles for our thoughts or for the expression of our feelings. A moment of reflection will suffice to bring us back to the realization that we utter our own words — even if we do not know how we manage this — so as to serve us as the vehicle for our expressions. In our research we have all along used a specific technique of study, and have found that it yields valuable and considerable crops. We transfer to the issue being studied that which we find active in other situations. If we see, for example, the mind as the inventor of all the items that get patented as genuine new inventions by the government’s Patent Offices, we can ask: “Was the mind doing similar things before inventions took place?” that is, earlier, both in the social setting and in the case of individuals?
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