Who Is In Your Cockpit?

A thought came to me this morning about the analogy of the brain as the body’s cockpit. Interestingly the night before, I dreamed I was flying a plane and actually succeeded at it. While I knew what a cockpit is, I nonetheless looked up its definition in my tattered Oxford dictionary which said: “The area in a plane, boat or racing car where the pilot or driver sits.” I then checked out some photos of a plane’s cockpit and indeed it looked like the brain of the plane with its control panels, flight and navigation displays. Likewise, the brain is the body’s cockpit or control room and WE are the pilots. This may be common knowledge to us but it’s amazing how we take it for granted which comes with some dire consequences as we shall see.

My emphasis on the need to inhabit the body includes the need to take back full control of our physical brain. Why’s this important? Well, you see, if you are not in your cockpit, then someone or something else is. If you’re not controlling your own physical brain, someone else is in the driving seat and they have succeeded in fooling you into believing you’re them or they are you. Confusing? It was for me too when I first realised the extent of mind manipulation that we have been subjected to ALL OUR LIVES. In this post, I’ll attempt to scratch the surface of the depth of this manipulation by giving you evidence of it but before I go on I’ll have to warn you that if you’re still attached to the status-quo and are comfortable with how your life is, this might not be pleasant information.

Firstly I would like to point out how very little we know about our own instrument (brain and body), and how it functions and how much less we know about how to control it. We learn many things in school but nothing to do with how to control our own instrument. We take it for granted that by virtue of having a brain and body we automatically know how to use them effectively. In his book The Human Machine, Arnold Bennett says, “… The truth is that, as a rule, men are interested in every mortal thing except themselves. They have a habit of taking themselves for granted, and that habit is responsible for nine-tenths of the boredom and despair on the face of the planet.”

Is it just me or do you realise how engrossed we are in living up to a dictated mode of life which leaves no time and energy for us to learn about ourselves and what this life is all about? Is there an underlying aim to this? That we are kept so busy, concerned about external things that we have no time to realise that our cockpit has been hijacked by someone else masquerading as us? Sounds farfetched?

Consider our daily thought patterns. Our thinking is so compulsive that someone has called it an illness and an addiction. What’s an addiction? My tattered dictionary is missing the pages with that word so I will use my own words: Something we cannot stop doing even when we want to. Most of us will admit that we cannot stop thinking even when we want to just quieten our brain and rest its neurons. Thinking seems to happen to us involuntarily. We cannot even control its contents because whatever appears in our heads is what we go with. This surely shows we are far from being in control of our own brain. Something else seems to control it, something that we SEEMINGLY have no control over. But what’s that something?

When you look at the diagram of a human brain, there’s a part called the R-complex or what is also called the Reptilian brain. It’s the oldest part of the brain that deals with the oldest preoccupation of man- survival. The diagram below illustrates the reptilian part of the brain and the mammalian part.

This part of the brain is said to be the seat of fear and anxiety that plagues each human. David Icke in his book The Perception Deception says of this part of the brain: “Mainstream science says that the reptilian brain represents a major centre of the nervous system, and produces character traits like aggressive and ritualistic behaviour, territoriality, and a desire for social hierarchies. Other traits of the reptilian brain include obsessive compulsive behaviour (addictions of all kinds), superstition, conforming to norms, and, as one writer put it, ‘all manner of deceptions’. Look at our society and even more so those that direct it and you see that all those traits of the reptilian brain dominate the human experience.”

            He further says that it’s this part of the brain that makes us obsessed with not just physical but financial survival including job and reputation. This part of the brain is activated every time we allow fear to run our lives. It’s no surprise to see how much fear runs people’s lives which in itself shows the dominance of this part of the brain.

            Another book that takes this phenomenon even further is Carlos Castaneda’s book called The Active Side of Infinity which chronicles his real life experiences with a shaman called Don Juan Matus. This shaman told him this: “…we have a companion for life. We have a predator that came from the depth of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners… It has rendered us docile, helpless…They (the predators) took over because we are food for them and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, the predators rear us in human coops. Therefore their food is always available to them…Think for a moment and tell me how you would explain the contradiction between the intelligence of man the engineer and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory behaviour. The predators have given us our systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed and cowardice. It’s the predators who make us complacent, routinary and egomaniacal.

   “In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged in a stupendous manoeuvre. They gave us their mind! The predators gave us their mind which becomes our mind. The predator’s mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with fear of being discovered any minute now… I know that even though you have never suffered hunger, you have food anxiety, which is none other than the anxiety of the predator who fears that any moment now its manoeuvre is going to be uncovered and food is going to be denied…” 

            The mind that Don Juan says the predators gave us is the reptilian part of the brain I’ve mentioned above. These are not the only accounts that reveal this phenomenon. Many other ancient accounts talk about this like in the Nag Hammadi documents that are in public display for those interested.

            For some, this information will be scary but it shouldn’t be. Knowledge is power. This knowledge should instead encourage us to get more acquainted with our instrument so that we take back control from this predatory part of the brain and have full access to the rest of the brain (the neocortex) that is more evolved than the reptilian brain.

How to go about this? Most importantly, by getting more in touch with our own brain and body. Then by getting informed. In this information age, the platitudes that ‘Africans don’t read,’ or ‘There’s no time to read,’ are getting out-dated. While I fully appreciate the latter excuse, it comes down to this: no one will create the time for us. So there’s a choice to be made. We either float along in a brain and body controlled by someone else or we take back control of our beautiful instrument and allow ourselves to live up to our fullest potential. More on this in the next post.

Mind, Body and Control

To understand the actual relationship between the mind and the body, there’s something I have to bring to the reader’s attention. To do this, I’ll give two quotes from a scientific mind and one from a spiritual mind.

“If you want to understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nicola Tesla

“Every problem- whether psychological or purely material or chemical- the whole problem comes down to this: THEY ARE NOTHING BUT VIBRATIONS.” Mirra Alfassa or Mother Aurobindo

Nicola Tesla was a prominent inventor and engineer who is said to have invented alternating current electricity. Mother Aurobindo was a well-known spiritual figure. The reality of vibrations and frequencies is something one has to know if one needs to learn about who they are and the nature of reality. Short of this knowledge, one may have all the education they can attain but still remain powerless and have no control over their own mind, body and life. In truth, there’s an energy field that surrounds our bodies. Our bodies don’t end where the skin ends. This energy field extends perhaps a few feet beyond the physical body and it has various colours according to those who are able to see it. I consider the knowledge of this energy field to be fundamental and pivotal to knowing reality and who we are. Without it, it’s akin to attempting to understand complex maths without first understanding the basic maths. What intrigues me is that many people grow up and never learn about this part of their being. Yet they go around strutting their degrees, accolades, titles, and what not thinking they have pinned life AND themselves down! The gist is that if you’re not aware of this part of you, you have no control over it. If you have no control over it, someone else does!

Since a picture says more than a thousand words, here’s a photo of the energy vibrations that surround the human body.

Source: bostonbiofeedback.com

In Carlos Castenada’s book The Active Side of Infinity, it’s said that we are unconsciously aware of these energies that we radiate. An example is what we usually call ‘vibes’. For instance, you are in a place whose vibes aren’t pleasant. Or you are with someone whose vibes don’t feel good. It’s these vibrations we are sensing albeit unconsciously. This is a very wide subject that I will not go into because I’ll deviate from the essence of this post which is the relationship of mind and body. Knowledge of this energy field around the body is a vital step because nothing affects the body except through this energy field. In other words, anything that affects the body has to first affect the vibrations that surround it.

Enter the mind: As shown in the diagram, thoughts and emotions affect the state of this energy field which as a result affects the body. It’s said that the normal appearance of the field is an oval-egg shape. But when there’s discord in your thoughts and emotions, the field becomes rugged and the colours change as well. A scientist called Harry Oldfield invented a way of photographing human energy fields and in his work he showed pictorially how this field is affected by emotions, thoughts, and our actions. One particular intriguing picture you can see on youtube is how the energy field of a drug addict looks like- not a pretty sight, which explains why such people look gaunt and drained.

So what’s the practical implication of this knowledge? We can have full control of our bodies and minds but this control is at the level of this energy field. The information about this level of ourselves has been suppressed by those who have used it to manipulate our minds and bodies. It’s this field that’s manipulated in hypnosis and the various mind control techniques like nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from television and computer monitors as explained quite elaborately in a United States Patent in 2003 by Hendricus G. Loos. Here’s an excerpt from this document: “Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near 1/2Hz or 2.4Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance.” The document goes on to say.. “ The observed effects include ptosis of eyelids, relaxation, drowsiness, the feeling of pressure at a centred spot on the lower edge of the brow, seeing moving patterns of dark purple and greenish yellow with eyes closed, a tonic smile, a tense feeling in the stomach, sudden loose stool and sexual excitement.”

This document warns that this knowledge can be used negatively to affect people’s minds without their knowing it. “This is unfortunate since it opens a way for mischievous application of the invention, whereby people are exposed unknowingly to manipulation of their nervous systems for someone else’s purposes. It is mentioned here in order to alert the public to the possibility of covert abuse that may occur while being online or while watching TV, a video or DVD.”

For those well-versed in the prevalence of mind manipulation of the masses, this is already happening. But this only affects us if we are ignorant of the energy field that surrounds and interpenetrates the body. Why? Well, because this is what these electromagnetic pulses are affecting. Diseases too first affect this energy field before they manifest physically. It’s very possible to live a disease-free life if you are in touch with this part of yourself and are able to keep it in a good state.

And how is that done? I’ll not bore you with the platitudes of positive thinking and here’s why. While thoughts DO affect this energy field and hence the body, the cause behind the nature of our thoughts is really this energy field. In other words, merely thinking positively will not have a sustainable effect in life if the energy field is of a low frequency or is negative. See what this means? When you work directly on the energy field and raise its frequency, you will be able to wad the harmful thoughts off more easily.

So how to go about it? Each individual has their most comfortable way of doing this so there’s no one-size-fits-all method. What I can do is give a few examples. I talked about the light that is emitted from the body in the last post. This light is emitted by the cells of the body. Using INTENT, one can FEEL this light increase in every cell of the body. Based on the experiment I mentioned in the same post, our energy field responds to our intent. The other method of strengthening the field is eating more fresh foods like fruits and vegetables because they have more ‘light’ than the cooked foods. This light increases the light in the cells and consequently in your energy field. Moderate physical exercise too does affect the energy field and the emphasis is on moderate because strenuous exercise weakens the field.

However all these can give only temporary effects. A permanent increase in one’s frequency vibration is possible only through an increase on one’s consciousness. If you’re comfortable living behind a veil and accepting life as you’re told it is by the media, your leaders, school education and society; if you’re not interested in finding out who you are, the nature of reality and what life is really about, you’ll keep your energy field frequency at a level that can be manipulated and taken over by other beings. Just like our body, everything is vibrations. Even ignorance is a vibration of a certain frequency. Knowledge too is a vibration. That’s why it’s said that knowledge is power. It strengthens our energy field. The subsequent posts will call for an open mind and a mind that wants knowledge. This information is to help us take back control of our minds and bodies. In the next post I will attempt to show the level of manipulation of both mind and body that we’ve been subjected to all our lives and how this manipulation has conditioned our perceptions about the body and its capabilities.

Knock, knock… anybody home?

 For many of us the body is nothing more than a necessary burden to haul around as we go about our daily activities. Being the adaptable tool that it is, it normally goes along with our demands. And when it proves to be resistant, we drug it into submission. To this end, a whole industry has been created- the pharmaceutical industry. We see the body as an ignorant slave we have to force to do our bidding forgetting the vital processes that go on within the body without our conscious participation in them. Obvious examples are respiration and digestion. Someone once said the body is the one thing we live the least. Why’s that? I think it’s more of a conditioning, a habit we pick up as we grow. No one told us the importance of consciously inhabiting the body because we are in a civilisation that someone defined simply as “lost in the mind.” This state makes us restless and unable to be with ourselves without any distraction, be it television, music, the company of other people, or some activity to keep us ‘occupied.’ Escapism is one way we avoid consciously inhabiting the body. Being fully present in the here and now is no fun for our incessantly active, conditioned mind. We are drawn out of the body on the wings of our thoughts and hurled back into the past or fast forwarded into the non-existent future. But this need to escape our own being has a similar effect that a house without its owner has: it exposes the body to external intruders.

But what do I mean by ‘inhabiting the body?’ In simple terms it’s feeling the aliveness of the body. This may seem obvious at first but to test if you’re really in the body, try this exercise. Closing the eyes may help: Can you feel your arms without looking at them? How about your legs? Some of us are so out of touch with our body that we need to be pinched to feel our legs or arms. Inhabiting the body is feeling the life force in the body. You feel it as a tingling sensation with your attention. But why do we even need to inhabit the body anyway? What’s wrong with losing our attention in the head? Why is there a need to create time and space to become better acquainted with the body- this creative force that we have been conditioned to loathe, despise, belittle and bemoan.

In 1923, a Russian medical scientist called Professor Alexander G. Gurvich discovered that there’s a light emitted by the human body. He called it ‘mitogenetic rays’ but it was later called biophotons. More evidence of this photon field emitted by the body was given in 1974 by German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp. Over the years more scientists have researched on the application of this light in fields like cancer research, early disease diagnosis, testing the quality of food and water. But what I found most intriguing about this finding was that we can affect this light with our thought or intention. A study was carried out where a number of people were put in a darkened room and were asked to simply envision bright light. According to the study this significantly increased their biophoton emissions. This supposedly proved that we can affect the light with our intention. (See references)

So what’s so special about this light given off by the body? EVERYTHING! It proves that there’s something to the body beyond what the we can see with our eyes. When I discovered this about my body I was so excited I spent days on end working with this light. The results? Whenever I would spend an extended period of time intensifying this light, I would get comments from people about how bright I looked. In particular there is someone who told me there was a light that radiated from my body without them knowing anything about what I was doing. To act as a control experiment, there were some days I relaxed this practice and surprisingly (or not) this same person told me the light had diminished. Now this may sound outlandish but like I mentioned in the first post, this blog is about my own experiences with my body coupled with research based on scientific findings and ancient spiritual teachings. But please don’t take my word for it. You can prove this through your own practice.  

Far from being a machine made up of atoms and electrons, the body is a conscious being responsive to our conscious intention. It will be whatever we intend it to be because its role is to reflect back to us our inner state of being. If we see it as a machine that’s here to manufacture offspring and toil for its survival, it will be that and nothing more. This brings the mind-body connection that I’ll talk about in a later post.

With the awareness of the light emitted by the body, let’s explore the physical benefits of inhabiting the body. From experience and supported by Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now, inhabiting the body strengthens the immune system to an exceptional degree. Tolle says, “The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejoices. The body loves your attention. It is also a potent form of self-healing.” He adds that, “Most illnesses creep in when you are not present in the body. If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there. When you inhabit the body, it will be hard for unwanted guests to enter.” He further says that when we inhabit the body, it’s not just our physical immune system that’s strengthened, but also our psychic immune system is significantly improved. Psychic immunity protects us from mental and emotional attack from other people or external forces. Case in point: I’ve been researching on the numerous mind control techniques applied on the masses and my oh my, the scale of mind manipulation that is happening among the population is positively astounding. (More on this in a later post.) Inhabiting the body anchors our consciousness and protects us from mental and emotional manipulation by any external forces.

Now if you’re one of those who would rather not go through the debilitating experience of ageing, you’ll want to be more in your body. This again is something I have first hand experience in. You see, the body’s cells rejuvenate regularly using what science has called stem cells. I’ll discuss more about this extremely interesting discovery in a later post. Suffice it to say for now that these new cells the body produces have the ability of renewing the body on a regular basis to the extent that the body is kept youthful even with the passing years. What stops this rejuvenation process is our conditioned habit of being more in the mind than we are in the body. Here’s what Tolle says about this: “As soon as your habitual state changes from being out-of-the-body and trapped in your mind to being in-the-body and present in the Now, your physical body will feel lighter, clearer, and more alive. As there is more consciousness in the body, its molecular structure actually becomes less dense. More consciousness means a lessening of the illusion of materiality.” He continues to explain that when you inhabit the body you are not lost in the past or the future so you don’t burden the cells with the baggage from the past and the fears about the future. To quote Tolle: “The accumulation of time as the psychological burden of past and future greatly impairs the cells’ capacity for self-renewal.” 

Now you may say it’s all nice and dandy what inhabiting the body does but how on earth do you go about inhabiting the body in the first place? It doesn’t help matters that we’re plagued with a civilisation that is slave to the mind and its incessant thinking. Eckhart Tolle gives a simple but very effective exercise in the book The Power of Now. I’ll summarise it for you. It should take only a few minutes. The best times for this are just before you go to sleep at night and just after you wake up in the morning but before you leave your bed.

The process is: “Flood” your body with consciousness. Close your eyes. Lie flat on your back. Concentrate your attention for about fifteen seconds on different parts of the body one at a time: you could start from the feet, legs, thighs, abdomen, chest, head etc. As you focus on each part FEEL the aliveness of each part as much as you can. After concentrating on different parts, focus the attention on the body as a whole and feel the aliveness running through the body from the feet to the head and back. This can take just a minute or so. During the practice you should feel your cells coming to life. The trick here is to FEEL instead of think. Not an easy one initially but it’s very rewarding if you try it even once.

To recap, in this post I have attempted to show that the body is more than just a survival machine. I have talked about the need to get more acquainted with the body and learn to inhabit it rather than lose ourselves in the mind. In the next post I’ll talk more about the mind-body connection.

References:

1. Biophotons, The Light in our Cells, Marco Bischof, 1995
2. www.thespiritscience.net
3. www.greenmedinfo.com: Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with and is made from light.
4. The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: National Centre for Biotechnology Information

Body Beautiful.. the journey begins!

A journey starts with one small step... I could say this is my first specialized step towards an issue that is dearest to my heart. The Body Consciousness! My hands tremble and my heart beats in delightful anticipation as I write these words because this is something I've been looking so forward to sharing with the rest of the world- something I've lived first hand and wish for others to experience for themselves if they so choose. Why now? A few minutes ago I had a chat with my young sister, Victoria, who gave me the idea to start this blog. I remembered a TEDx talk I listened to where the speaker said if you get an idea and you don't start implementing it in the first 10 seconds (or was it 10 minutes?) then chances are you'll not implement it at all. So immediately after the chat, I registered Body Beautiful and so here we are. I'm so excited because I have lots to share that will boggle the mind and yet liberate the spirit.

So why Body Beautiful? The body is undoubtedly our constant companion throughout life. Yet do you notice how much we avoid being within the body? Avoid being in the body? Whatever do you mean, you ask. Do you notice how much our mind takes up all our attention; how we lose ourselves in the head most of our waking time? Do you notice how very little attention we give to the body except when it manifests aches and pains to get our attention? Notice how quickly your attention runs to the stomach when you have stomach ache; or to the chest when you get chest pain. Do we have to wait for dis-ease before we can give the body the attention that’s due to it?

Of all the creations on earth, the human body is the most evolved and yet we are told we use only 5% of our DNA! Part of my research and experience that I will be discussing involves life changing information about the rest of the 95% that science calls junk DNA and the gradual process that activates it. I’m absolutely excited to be sharing this. I’ll give you a clue why: Part of the 95% of the inactive DNA involves the ability to prolong the life of the physical body so that ageing and its symptoms are no longer inevitable; it also involves the ability to heal yourself through stem cell rejuvenation… and many, many more abilities that the conditioned mind would call miraculous.

But first and foremost, the aim of Body Beautiful is to encourage you to love your body whatever state it’s in right now. “Oh, I will love my body when I lose these sordid love-handles,” you say. “How can I love my body when I’m riddled with this illness?” “I’m 60yrs. My body is falling apart already. It’s beyond repair. How can I love it?” “My last pregnancy ruined my body. I can barely look at myself in the mirror.” If there’s anything I would like Body Beautiful to do it’s this: To help us fall in love with our own bodies. I would like us to realise that there’s a creative force within the body that is waiting to be discovered and allowed to blossom. This is the same force that multiplied the embryonic cell to make a full grown body. Oh how I wish we could realise the untold treasures hidden in the unseen world of our cells! Knowledge that’s been concealed for ages! I welcome you to the treasure hunt. I welcome you to Body Beautiful.