{"id":18463,"date":"2023-05-19T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/?p=18463"},"modified":"2023-12-22T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:36:01","slug":"consciousness-systems-theory-and-morphic-resonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/consciousness-systems-theory-and-morphic-resonance\/","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness, Systems Theory and Morphic Resonance"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
\r\n\u201cWe are seeing the emergence of a new image of the psyche, and with it an extraordinary worldview that combines breakthroughs at the cutting edge of science with the wisdom of the most ancient societies [1]<\/span>.\u2026Up to now, Newtonian science has been responsible for creating a very limited view of human beings and their potentials.\u201d [2]<\/span><\/p>\r\n~ Stanislav Grof, The Holotropic Universe<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The discussion of consciousness is troublesome.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Academia calls it the \u201cThe Hard Problem\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Oh yeah, it\u2019s that troubling. But that\u2019s only because consciousness can\u2019t be measured. And scientists love to measure shit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not only is consciousness unmeasurable but by its very nature, nature is complex.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But here’s the good news: consciousness is observable. You can see it in the thoughts, emotions and behaviours you experience every day.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Yeah, that consciousness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But the hard problem seems to be, where does consciousness originate from and how does it influence our thoughts, actions and emotions?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I\u2019ve had a crack at explaining why in the following content. I seek to explain:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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- How consciousness shapes our world view<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
- How the nervous system programs habits and creates conflict<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
- That the nervous system is the so-called subconscious<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
- Repressed consciousness causes fragmentation of the personality<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
- Invisible energy fields store memories that are inherent to humankind<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Strap in.<\/p>\r\n
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The Hard Problem of Dogma<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A neuroscientist once told me: \u201cThe collective unconscious doesn\u2019t exist\u201d. I didn\u2019t bother to convince him otherwise. At the time, I didn\u2019t have enough knowledge or evidence to debate his opinion with any real vigour.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But deep down, I knew it was there. I had experienced it. I had felt it!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The opinion of the neuroscientist in question was straight out of the mechanistic Newtonian science Stanislav Grof speaks of in the leading quote. By the very nature of his job, the neuroscientist had seen the brain at work through neuroimaging.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The technical behaviour of the brain cannot be questioned.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But dogma can shape a person\u2019s worldview.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It would appear that Newtonian-Cartesian science is turning out to be a pile of old dogma academia is refusing to shake off their shoes.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Fortunately, open-minded researchers are taking the opportunity to peer into the quantum world with great gusto. And the mechanics of the universe are throwing up all kinds of questions to which scientific dogma has a scant response.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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Consciousness has been slid under the microscope.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Thought leaders in the field of consciousness research are challenging established views \u2014 together with neuroscientists and their fancy technology. Because it turns out, that consciousness does not originate in the brain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
So, where does consciousness originate from?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
What is Consciousness?<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Consciousness is regarded as: \u201cInternal knowledge or conviction; the state or fact of being mentally conscious or aware of something\u201d. [3]<\/span> It plays a lead role in how we view the world, interpret reality and interact with our environment.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But that description is more befitting of conscious awareness. Consciousness as a whole has a much broader meaning \u2014 because our conscious awareness is influenced by our personal unconscious and the collective unconscious.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
One of the key ways in which consciousness shapes our worldview is by influencing our beliefs and attitudes and how we respond to the information that we receive from our environment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
For example, someone with a strong sense of self-awareness may be more open-minded and receptive to new ideas. On the other hand, someone with concrete beliefs is generally closed off to outside opinion and more inclined to resist, alternative ideas or new experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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Or someone who has strong opinions and is highly conscious of their biases and prejudices will accept information that reinforces their beliefs but will be more critical of the information that runs contrary to ingrained biases.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Meanwhile, someone who is less self-aware may be more likely to accept information at face value without questioning its validity, accuracy or relevance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
How consciousness shapes our worldview does not have many grey areas. Until that is, you start discussing the origins of consciousness and what it actually is.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This is when the room becomes divided in the halls of academia. World views are at stake.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Shall we examine what we do know?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Making of Memories<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The established view is that consciousness emerges in our brains when our sensory organs receive information from our environment.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Information taken from our learned experiences is then stored in \u201cmental memory banks\u201d which we can access. At least sometimes. Many of the experiences and information absorbed by our senses are often blurred, skewed or forgotten.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Sometimes, the information doesn\u2019t even make it into the memory banks at all. This is what Sigmund Freud called \u2018repression\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Freud\u2019s view of the unconscious is another established protocol. Psychologists estimate that between 90-95% of the decisions we make every day are unconscious \u2014 that\u2019s to say they are stored in the \u201csubconscious\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
N.B.<\/strong> Psychologists use the terms unconscious and subconscious interchangeably. They essentially mean the same thing, even though, in my opinion, they shouldn\u2019t. The subconscious and the unconscious have two different functions which are beyond the scope of the article, but you can read about them in the article: Subconscious v Superconscious: What’s The Difference?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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Ordinarily, memories that are stored in the subconscious emerge into conscious awareness every day or fairly frequently. We make a decision based on that information.\u00a0Our habitual nature is the result of stored memories.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Master Mind Content calls this function of Mind, subconscious programs.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
We can also access some memories from our past. They may not be in conscious awareness every day but are either triggered by something in the environment or a nostalgic conversation. Other times they pop up randomly.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The function of the psyche is what Jung calls the personal unconscious. They are memories that are created in our past and shape our personality, relationships and view of the world; the types of memories that probably contribute to our subconscious programs.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
We also store information from our past that we are totally unconscious of. However, depth psychology and other techniques like meditation and hypnosis have shown that unconscious content can be made available to the conscious mind.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Sigmund Freud called this process repression. When information taken from the environment is \u201crepressed\u201d, some part of the experience is \u201ccut off\u201d from conscious awareness.\u00a0The information doesn\u2019t make it into the memory banks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
And this is where Newtonian physics falls down in the consciousness conversation. If the nervous system only processes the information it accepts and doesn\u2019t build a synapse for information it rejects, what happens to the split-off consciousness and the energy it drives?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
According to Wilhelm Reich, amongst others, repressed consciousness takes on a life of its own and creates a conflict.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\nThought-Provoking Quote<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\n\u201cIn a patient where part of the personality had failed to go along with the total development toward adulthood, thus remaining in the earlier stage of sexual development. This results in \u2018fixation.\u2019 What happens then is this isolated part came into conflict with the remainder of the ego, by which it was held in repression.\u201d [4]<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n~ Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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This means that unconscious content continues to have an influence on our behaviours \u2014 we just don\u2019t know why we do the dumb shit.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This is why psychologists estimate that around 90-95% of the decisions we make every day are unconscious.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
For this reason, Master Mind Content include \u201cfixations\u201d as habitual patterns of behaviour and this is a subconscious program the ego identifies with even if you don\u2019t realise why you doing it.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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It is this part of our programming that lies behind our destructive habits and behaviours.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This theory contradicts established science that has persisted with the idea that our behaviours are determined by our genes. And the theory is backed by mechanical science that can be measured.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Let\u2019s have a little look at epigenetics. This relatively new field of science is also casting doubt on the old paradigms.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It\u2019s Not All In Your Genes?<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It has been a long-held theory that our behaviours and illnesses are influenced by genetics.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In the last thirty years or so, biologists in the field of epigenetics have found evidence to the contrary. Academia is slowly coming around to accepting this revelation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
They are not helped by the fact that no one has discovered and proven that a single gene is responsible for a specific action.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Epigenetics also supports the theories presented by those pesky consciousness researchers who are hell-bent on destroying another scientific dogma.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
One consciousness researcher asks:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\nThought-Provoking Quote<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\n\u201cAre genes alone sufficient? Or does development depend on nonmaterial organising principles as well?\u201d\u00a0[5]<\/span><\/p>\r\n~ Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Epigeneticists show that established theory should be reconsidered when conflicting evidence emerges. History shows that new ideas get shut down. The pig-headed ignorance of academia is pissing off groundbreaking “pseudo-scientists”.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
So what\u2019s the new story on genes?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Our cells do play on role in how we behave, but their involvement appears to be mechanical rather than causal. How genes function is determined by the information taken from the environment, processed and stored in said cells.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
That is to say, genes only determine our behaviour based on past experiences. And as Freud established, these experiences are stored in the subconscious.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\nThought-Provoking Quote<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\n\u201cThe part of the human brain that most define us is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the last to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience.\u201d\u00a0[6]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n~ Robert Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Genes are known to code information that is responsible for producing the proteins that keep us alive like transferring oxygen, pumping blood and digesting food. [7]<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But genes don\u2019t determine behaviour. How we react is largely determined by neurochemicals. For example, oxytocin elicits prosocial behaviour and makes us more charitable, Vasopressin enhances paternal behaviours, testosterone boosts impulsivity and risk-taking and so forth.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In other words, cells are programmed by neurotransmitters \u2014 chemical messengers that store the information collected by our sensory organs.<\/p>\r\n
\r\nThought-Provoking Quote<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n
\u201cBehaviour is the product of the nervous system, whose actions were shaped by sensory cues minutes to hours before, and how the brain\u2019s sensitivity to those cues was shaped by the hormonal exposure in the preceding hours to days.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>[8]<\/span><\/p>\r\n