Senses blunted by conditioning and conflating without context

In a way most of our senses have been allowed to be blunted by, to use the terminology of JK, 'conditioning of all kinds'; besides, every individual's 'genetic memory' (read somewhere) also may carry certain preferences. 

But modern science, I have observed, through reading highly recommended authors and catchy titles, conflates various factors without contextual relevance, like the brain being used interchangeably with the physiological or neurological and psychological aspects of the brain with mind, emotions, pleasures, feelings, collective consciousness, etc., and in this melee, the individual or personal reactions/feelings-based experiences are pushed to the back seats. 

Of course, connectivities may be included but not overlapped or presumed. 

However, on thinking, the use of the brain in perception, etc., has been very well explained by Pierre Le Compte du Noüy in his wonderful book Human Destiny (a person who deserved a Nobel Prize for both physics and chemistry).

colours, conditioning and craving to classify everything

 

The human brain has psychologically conditioned itself to facilitate its understanding through references based on past or familiar experiences.

This inevitably requires  naming or labelling everything, classifying and defining as essential and vital tools for documenting, recording and communicating to others and preserve for posterity avoid repeating the processes of understanding.

However, there are several experiences, emotions, feelings, sensations which are too personal and hence may elude or deviate from these predefined or prefixed names and classifications.

.“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody [I may add only through intellectual analysis/verbal communication].”― Aldous Huxley

 

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”-Shakespeare.

“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything"- Richard Feyman 

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles.  Meantime within man is the soul of the whole: the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE.  And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.  We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul." Excerpt from The Over-Soul, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841.“

 

It is more so, regarding tastes and sensations felt, observed, realised, experienced by the five senses.

“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.” -Idries Shah

 

 

In fact, fundamentally, human beings have not even named completely the entire gamut of senses [ the most very well explained is by Guy Murchie he classifies 32 senses with excellent explanations http://www.this-magic-sea.com/PERCEP32.HTM ]

 

That is the reason, most language have not ventured to come up with too many words for sense of smell

https://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2015/11/why-only-few-words-for-smell-in-most.html

 

[a dog who has sniffed, say, a man's cap can later recognize any other part of him and easily follow his trail because there are recognizable olfactory relationships between body parts as well as between species, races, sexes, ages, diets, diseases, neighbourhoods, occupations or almost any other classifications of life”.

 

“If you want to avoid being tracked by a dog, then the first thing to do is wear brand-new shoes or cover your old ones with untouched plastic bags, so that the fewest possible molecules from your feet are left on the ground. But, in an actual case, even if no telltale molecules from your body get left behind (something manifestly impossible) an experienced dog may be able to follow you by smelling the freshly crushed grass or disturbed soil where you stepped, for this is the dog's specialty: he carries his nose close to the ground and the smelling part of his brain is not only disproportionately large but specialized to detect tiny traces of substances such as aliphatic acids in sweat that seep through shoes and diffuse steadily outward in air. In fact, smell to him is a little like sound to a bat, giving him a degree of what we seeing creatures call visualization.”]

 

 

 

Brain, thought, memory, perception, interpretations, words, conditioning, philosophy of life ultimately is in synergy

 

Conditioning

 

Human beings all over the world are conditioned by some form of ideology or religious identity superimposing over the fundamental and intrinsic values of human beings as a species with certain unique faculties.

 

Conditioning, leading to some ideological identity, is it necessary?

Can we avoid or escape from it?

Can we deny or defy it?

In my opinion these are tough for various reasons.

 

 

This conditioning which is universally practiced by all religions, ideological political outfits, institutions of all hues and colors. As JK repeatedly says this condition creates a screen through which human beings observe the world.

Therefore, the very observation is not what is actually there. Then, based on this colored observation born out of conditioning, specific frames of realities are generated based on which we build the ABCD of life

 

Accommodate and Adjust,

Believe and Bind,

Chose and Classify,

Decide and Deliberate,

Express and Extrapolate,

Form faiths and Frames of references  

Grasp and Get along,

Harbor hospitality and Help habitations,

Intellectualize and Internalize,

Justify and Jump to conclusions,

Kindle our interests and Kindly deal with others,

Like or Love something or someone and Live along with it,

Manifest in many realms and Mark that conditioning in all of them,

Nurture habits and Nicely develop social networks,

Operationalize activities and Obsessively overrate them,

Prioritize preferences and Proclaim and parade them with pride,

Question social actions and Queue up to react,

React to issues and even Reason based on these identities;

Shape our sensitivities and Sense of significance

Tolerate and Take inside our ‘mind space [time]’ to synergize,

Understand and Use it [conditioning] to connect with the world

Validate various values systems and Vilify those not falling in line

Work our ways to Weave life patterns validated by these identities leading to

Xenial relationships and Xenophobic exclusions,

Yield to pressures of political correctness and Yonder into fantasized future,

Zealously engage in all hypocrisies and Zip file them for future conditioning.

 

If this conditioning and wearing an identity on us is universal and is an inevitable aspect of the social milieu wherein we human beings [as social animals] are born, then we cannot avoid it or escape it through hyper philosophizing it as a collective wisdom.

 

It is these identities which manifest in the majority of human activities and also glue societies together in various forms of regional/national traditions, cultures, languages, practices, customs as well as international interactions.

 

So, without all these human beings, culturally and psychologically will hover in suspended animation with ‘inane vagueness or vague inanity’ or take up counter or anti-conditioning camps.

 

Therefore, the best we can do is to avoid succumbing to it totally and not allow it to overpower us so much as to stifle our growth, freedom to frankly express and lead a life as we deem it correct or calm or conducive to cohabit.

 

Hence, those types of conditioning which are fundamentally having a very negative, harmful and violent impact on all the above listed activities must be made to reform and transform from within , failing which , everyone must have at least the freedom to withdraw to secure sanity for the sake of humanity.

 

 

Conditioning and limiting beliefs

“Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:
first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;
second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;
and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

 “All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. Its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.” Grace Speare.

Human beings all over the world are conditioned by some form of ideology or religious identity superimposing over the fundamental and intrinsic values of human beings as a species with certain unique faculties.

 

Conditioning, leading to some ideological identity, is it necessary?

Can we avoid or escape from it?

Can we deny or defy it?

In my opinion these are tough for various reasons.

 

 

This conditioning which is universally practiced by all religions, ideological political outfits, institutions of all hues and colours. As JK repeatedly says this condition creates a screen through which human beings observe the world.

Therefore, the very observation is not what is actually there. Then, based on this coloured observation born out of conditioning, specific frames of realities are generated based on which we build the ABCD of life

 

Accommodate and Adjust,

Believe and Bind,

Chose and Classify,

Decide and Deliberate,

Express and Extrapolate,

Form faiths and Frames of references  

Grasp and Get along,

Harbour hospitality and Help habitations,

Intellectualize and Internalize,

Justify and Jump to conclusions,

Kindle our interests and Kindly deal with others,

Like or Love something or someone and Live along with it,

Manifest in many realms and Mark that conditioning in all of them,

Nurture habits and Nicely develop social networks,

Operationalise activities and Obsessively overrate them,

Prioritize preferences and Proclaim and parade them with pride,

Question social actions and Queue up to react,

React to issues and even Reason based on these identities;

Shape our sensitivities and Sense of significance

Tolerate and Take inside our ‘mind space [time]’ to synergize,

Understand and Use it [conditioning] to connect with the world

Validate various values systems and Vilify those not falling in line

Work our ways to Weave life patterns validated by these identities leading to

Xenial relationships and Xenophobic exclusions,

Yield to pressures of political correctness and Yonder into fantasized future,

Zealously engage in all hypocrisies and Zip file them for future conditioning.

 

If this conditioning and wearing an identity on us is universal and is an inevitable aspect of the social milieu wherein we human beings [as social animals] are born, then we cannot avoid it or escape it through hyper philosophizing it as a collective wisdom.

 

It is these identities which manifest in the majority of human activities and also glue societies together in various forms of regional/national traditions, cultures, languages, practices, customs as well as international interactions.

 

So, without all these human beings, culturally and psychologically will hover in suspended animation with ‘inane vagueness or vague inanity’ or take up counter or anti-conditioning camps.

 

Therefore, the best we can do is to avoid succumbing to it totally and not allow it to overpower us so much as to stifle our growth, freedom to frankly express and lead a life as we deem it correct or calm or conducive to cohabit.

 

Hence, those types of conditioning which are fundamentally having a very negative, harmful and violent impact on all the above listed activities must be made to reform and transform from within , failing which , everyone must have at least the freedom to withdraw to secure sanity for the sake of humanity.