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We,The People, are not happy
12 - Brainjuice theory
Let’s go back to the beginning. All our life, we keep alternating between being awake and being asleep, like turning the pages of a book. Giraffes sleep only 10 minutes at a time because it puts them in danger. Koala can sleep for 20 hours. Humans are somewhere in-between with 8 hours of sleep per day. We have at least two things in common with animals. We need to eat and to sleep.
We have a body and a soul. That gives us two ways to communicate with the outside world. Without them we would be nothing more than the primitive cells in our oceans. Their life is centered around eating.
It would be presumptuous to assume that all the planets of all the galaxies have copied the Earth. They could have beings with more than two channels of communications, and every channel could open the door to a world that we cannot imagine. The same universe can be seen through different filters and experienced in many ways that we are not aware of.
During the day, our life is dominated by the material world of our body. It is a time when we can see, smell, touch and hear what is happening around us. Our sense organs are giving us a lot of information from the material world. Unfortunately, they represent only 5% of reality. It is a place of direct contact with the laws of nature. This is where we learn to think. Forget gravity and you get an instant reminder. Wherever we turn, Mother Nature is at our side to confirm (or correct) our way of thinking. This is what scientists rely upon. Every idea must be confirmed by experiments. Scientists always require Nature's approval.
The material world is also a source of energy. Our brain represents only 2% of our weight but uses 20% of the energy in our food.
The material world of the body is a good place to start. It is not a place to stay.
Fortunately, we can sleep. Our eyes are close. No noise. No light. This is where we find freedom, harmony, love, paintings, music and all those things that do not have shape, weight, color but are important in our lives. We can’t explain why our sense organs have been placed in our body when it is in our soul that we need them most. Imagine souls with their own set of sense organs. Souls could see other souls like bodies can see other bodies. No need to say “I love you”. It would show.
Sleeping could be the most important part of our life.
Humans have access to different domains of consciousness. This can happen when we get hypnotized or get a Near Death Experience or get hit on the head by accident like Jason Pagett. All those domains have something in common. They are totally independent of each other. We cannot transfer memory from one to the other. We may have some walls in our brain like we use walls in our computers. As far as we can tell, most of us are limited to two levels of consciousness: The body life and the sleep life.
What can we do with a body and a soul?
A dead man is a body without a soul. If we can accept the idea of a body without a soul, we should also accept the idea of a soul without a body. Nobody is perfect. Let’s assume that we need some improvement. That requires some energy and our best source of energy is matter. That would explain why so many souls decide to get associated with a physical body. (Einstein would approve). Every morning the soul changes into another channel of consciousness, gets into a physical body, gets dressed and goes to work. Some days we do something good and someday we do something that we are not proud of.
Then comes the evening. We don’t want to remain in a physical body for too long. This is not a very pleasant experience. The best we can hope for is that it does not hurt. We go there like we go to the food store to get groceries. We know that 20% of the energy in your food is sent to your brain. The best time of your day is when we go back to bed. We can get back to our sleeping state of consciousness and be ourselves again. Everything we need is at our disposal to improve our soul. We have the energy from our food. We have 86 billion neurons in the brain waiting to be used. We also have a certain amount of good and bad from your last day on Earth and all night to process it. This is the raw material we are going to use to improve our soul. Someday, we have a good catch, and some day, we would better stay in bed all day. The next morning, we are a little better or a little worse than the day before.
The general situation of human beings is as follows:
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During the day, we extract energy from our food.
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The brain stands for only 2% of our weight but uses 20% of our energy.
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When falling asleep, our brain is at the disposal of the soul:
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86 billion neurons waiting to be used,
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20% of the energy available from our food
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Memory of the ‘good and bad’ that was experienced the day before.
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One third of our time to process what happened the day before.
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This is more than a coincidence. We spend our days preparing the improvement of our soul at night.
Moreover, planet Earth may be the best location for such activity. We start every day with the experience gained the day before. Progress would be much slower if the Earth turned more slowly and we would have to operate on a cycle of 5 days awake and 2 days’ sleep. We benefit from what the bankers call ‘compound interest’. The slower the cycle, the higher the benefits.
Improving the soul is hard work. It takes many cycles of night and day.
Life on Earth is not forced labor, but it is a lot of work. It is not Hell, but it is not Paradise either. Earth would make a good Purgatory.
Earth would make a good purgatory
How many states of consciousness do we have?
Being awake and asleep is only a beginning. Before an operation we are put under anesthesia and very happy to skip a painful part of our life. There is also the Near Death Experience. It is a state where people can become conscious of another world that is hard to believe. Imagine a society where everybody is color blind. From time to time some people say that they can see colors. What do you think the reaction of the public would be? If they are not a danger for the society they may be tolerated but no more.
So far, we have 4 levels of consciousness: Being awake, asleep, NDE, and anesthesia. That is enough to look for some connections.
-Sleeping can help our thinking. When we have a problem, we know that it helps ‘to sleep on it’. That means that our brain keeps working while we sleep and we may be smarter asleep than when we are awake. We have access to our 86 billion neurons, and we don’t need our sense-organs. Could sleeping be the most important part of our life on Earth!
-Anesthesia is a way to disconnect our memory from our brain. This disconnection remains when awake. Could memory be part of consciousness? We have some grey matter along our nerves. Could we also have some memory in our body?
-People have NDE during surgery. That makes the connections even more difficult to investigate. They are under anesthesia and remember what happened! We think that they were unconscious when they were conscious of what happened around them in the operating room. After surgery, many of them can guess what other people are thinking. After being immersed in another state of consciousness, they bring back with them some new abilities.
There are connections between our different levels of consciousness, but they are limited. It is a question of level. The connection seems to happen at the level of consciousness and we don’t have full access to that level. We could compare that with thinking in animals. We know that animals are capable of thinking but their thinking is limited. So is our consciousness.
