12 - Link body soul
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We,The People, are not happy
If a human being is made of a body and a soul, there must be a link between them. Some civilizations believe that the link is in the liver. You can also place the link in the lungs because breathing keeps them in contact with the outside world. After much hesitation and looking in many places, the best help we could find came from the cracking tower of a refinery.
We introduce the oil in the center of the cracking tower. The heavy products move to the bottom. The lighter products, such as fuel for trucks, planes, and cars move to the top.
Let’s look at the human body. The input is the food that we eat. It gets separated into different products. There is some heat to keep our body at the right temperature - some energy to move things around - some new cells to replace the dead ones…. 20% of the energy that we extract from our food is sent to the brain.
The human body works like a cracking tower, extracting different products from a raw material provided by nature and separating what belongs to the material world from what belongs to the immaterial world.
The human body distills food and
sends 20% of that energy to the brain
NDE (Near Death Experience)
Being desperate makes it easier to remain open to new ideas. In the 1980’s, some people began claiming they could leave their bodies and remain conscious. It usually happened during surgery. They called it an NDE (Near Death Experience). They talk about pure bliss, perfect happiness, even a connection with God. We would not recommend surgery as a way of achieving perfect happiness, of course! This is only a testimony that it is much easier to reach happiness when the soul is free from the limitations of the body.
The first patients coming with such stories were not welcome. They were sent to the psychiatrists and put on drugs. When they realized that pills could become the main part of their diet, the best way out of their predicament was to blame the stress on the surgery operation. They decided to forget the whole thing and ask the psychiatrist to do the same.
This is getting far away from scientific rigor. We cannot produce any proof. We cannot measure anything. We are in the position of a detective looking for clues.
Another mystery
Our brain has more than 86 billion neurons. Most of them are not used during the day. If an organ is not used, it withers and fades away. In the past 300 000 years our neurons have had many opportunities to disappear. If they are still here, there must be a use for them that we are not aware of. If we don’t use them during the day, would it be possible that we use them at night?
Have you ever watched someone asleep? It is obvious that there is nobody home! We leave our body in bed like we leave the car in the garage. The driver is free from the limitations of his body. Freedom at last! Nighttime could be the best part of our life.
In the 1970’s Raymond Moody published “Life after life”. He is the father of the modern NDE movement.
Today the NDE survivors have meetings every month in the main cities of the world. They have their own organizations such as IANDS
- NDERF - ADCRF - OBERF. with their web sites on the internet.
For many of them it is an opportunity to talk about an experience that they kept secret for many years. In general, those people are not afraid of dying. Be careful if you go to one of their meetings. Many of them can guess what other people are thinking. Instead of “What a big nose” try to think “Beautiful hair”.
Let’s have some fun:
Our literature always ignores what happens at night. What a pity! We could take some famous plays and insert what the characters could have done at night. What they do during the day would remain the same. Their motivation would be different. For instance, at night, Juliet’s mother could tell Romeo’s father,
“Because we are having an affair during the night does not mean that our children should have an affair during the day. Everybody in town knows that there is a heredity in your family. Sometimes, it is transmitted by men and affects only women. Search ‘hemophilia’ for details. The most famous case happened in the Royal English family. It was transmitted by women and affected only men. All the men had the same blood cell disease, and the women were not affected.
I don’t want your family to contaminate my grandchildren. I can understand why Juliet and Romeo fell in love. I don’t want their love to go down to the material level. Love is between the souls – not between the bodies. We kept our relationship at the soul level. They can do the same. If you cannot keep your Romeo away from my daughter, I will send her out of town.”
The plays in our theaters are full of holes. Take a play you like and fill the holes. Enjoy!
Motivations.
Our long-term motivations may be the most important, but it is our short-term motivations that get most attention.
We have a body to care for. It is our priority. The human body is high maintenance. It must be fed three times a day. It smells bad unless it is cleaned every day. We must take it to the dentist, to the doctor, and to the barber. It needs clothing, shoes, and glasses, and the best we can expect after all this tender loving care is that it does not hurt!
Hiding behind this short-term motivation is a long-term motivation: “What is the purpose of our lives?” Every individual takes part in the same general evolution of human society. We are never alone. We can go even deeper and ask what the purpose of the Homo sapiens on Earth.
Civilizations rise and fall like flowers bloom and fade. We are familiar with Egyptian society, as well as Greek and Roman cultures. More recently, in the 15th century, Portugal was leading Europe. In the 16th century, Spain was the dominant power, followed by the Netherlands in the 17th, France in the 18th, and England in the 19th century. All these countries seemed to follow a similar pattern. The people living during those times were unaware that they were fulfilling the same purpose. They were not separate individuals; instead, they were part of a flow of people like a river moving through the centuries. They serve a common purpose, consciously or not.
We are never alone.
In the 21st century, this flow is speeding up. It is a waterfall. That doesn’t make us smarter. To answer the question of “What are we doing on Earth?”, some people turn to religion. Others decide they will be happy once they have enough money or become famous. Everybody is searching for love. The problem is that they don’t know where to find it. Looking for love can’t be a daily activity like going to work.
Could we find motivation implemented in Nature?
Let’s use a maze. First, we use water to fill the maze. It fills all the dead ends and finds its way to the exit. Water is driven by gravity.
The next step is to replace the water with slime mold, a sticky substance that spreads on dead trees in the forest. It has no head or brain. It will fill all the dead ends of the maze and reach the exit. It will go even further. It will remove what fills the dead ends. Slime mold is driven by the search for food.
Now, let’s place humans at the entrance of the labyrinth. They are unaffected by gravity. They are not looking for food. They lack true motivation. They might not find the exit.
Motivation may be the key to success. It has no shape, color, or weight. You will not find it in the physical world. The key to success is within the soul. Our motivations control our lives. They are not part of the material world. They can be compared to heat, which is essential but invisible. They exist beyond the scope of science and can even go beyond the boundaries of the human brain. What governs our lives may be buried deep in our subconscious.
Human feelings
Feelings can run below our level of awareness. Publicity influences what we buy. We use logic to justify decisions based on feelings.
Let’s see what motivations could be hidden behind some of the things we do:
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Skiing
We met gravity the day we were born. It has been with us all our life. Skiing is a way to assess our relationship with our master. We want to go as fast as possible without losing control. A free fall would mean complete freedom from gravity, but that is going too far. We are testing a law of nature: “Use but don’t abuse.” We are assessing our freedom from gravity.
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Sunbathing
Could we get our energy directly from the sun? Without any intermediary?
We are prisoners of a natural cycle. The sun makes plants grow, and we get our energy from the plants. This process is not very efficient. Plants could absorb only a limited part of the sun’s light. Think of all the solar energy wasted around the Earth. It is also a very slow process. There must be a better way. There must be a way to bypass the use of plants and connect the sun directly to our bodies. The sun not only provides light but also heat, which makes us feel warm and comfortable. There must be a better way to absorb the energy of the sun than cooking and washing dishes. Sunbathing is our way to show interest in a better use of the sun’s energy.
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Exploring other planets
The first step is to get free from gravity. What comes after that? Do we have to change our idea of time? Space? Exploring other planets is opening the door to a completely different world. It satisfies a basic need for freedom.
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Sleeping.
Mother Nature must have a good reason for taking up one-third of our time and putting us to sleep. It cannot be a complete waste. She also must have a good reason for concealing what she is doing. Sleeping is one of those things that we are compelled to do, whether we want it or not. It is Mother Nature saying: “You are not here to be happy. There is a better use of your time.”
Touching
We would let a surgeon cut into our body faster than we would allow someone to touch our skin. There is something special about touching another person. Could the outside of the body be connected to the core of the soul? Could that be an association of opposites?
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Wars
Over the last 300,000 years, we have experienced thousands of wars that killed millions for no good reason. That was an external manifestation of an internal struggle to dominate our craving for sadomasochism.
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Visiting other countries
Do you remember Plato’s allegory of the cave? He describes people trapped inside a cave their entire lives. Fortunately, Plato offered a way out. There was a door. Our need to visit other countries may come from the desire to find that door.
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Parade
It is a way for people to feel part of a community. We hide behind a uniform. The parade fulfills our need to belong. We need a balance between our desire for individuality and our need to be members of society.
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Moving - Dancing.
“Those who don’t hear the music think that the dancers are mad”. Dancing helps the music penetrate the body. Moving is an acknowledgment of the association between time and space. Our brain would rather separate them. Our body knows better
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Cats and dogs
Why do we become so attached to our pets? We build a fence around ourselves as a protection from abrasive interactions with others. This fence also isolates us from genuine contact with our fellow men. Cats and dogs might not have this fence. It may be easier to form bond with them than with other humans.
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Unconscious motivation
Throughout centuries, cities and civilizations were created, flourished and disappeared. After the battle, both the winner and the defeated were carried away by the same current, beyond their control, and implementing the same human evolution.
It seems that we have a group soul following a general motivation and individual souls implementing the details. Consciousness and freedom start when we become conscious of our motivations.
