By “Jax”
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This “Paradox” is getting a lot of attention of late. Ultimately I think the answer to the paradox is there is no Body, on the deep ontological level. But since we live in a Relative Reality we perceive the Body as a physical entity. So let’s start to unpack this topic as good ol’ Tavis Smiley would say. Some suggested reading on the topic, which also shows how old it is conceptually, Timaeus is a good source. Look for the part where Plato talks about the creation of Mundus and humans, especially the Athenians. There is a considerable amount of mainstream academic info coming out on the subject. A few years ago I heard a fellow on NPR talking about the nature of reality and how it is created in your consciousnesses. The ideas of Eugene Wigner are also very relevant. This article is an attempt to peer into the topic in “layman’s terms” more or less, however the author does have a BA in Psychology with 24 credit hours in a Biology Minor. As a preface, let’s go over some things this one has been thinking and some information being ‘unveiled’ from the study of Human Phenomenology. Some time ago we read an article stating that test subjects would begin moving their fingers toward keys when prompted before the actual stimulus to do so traveled all the way from their brain to their fingertips. They were all wired for nerve and brain activity monitoring. The researchers could not explain the results, but they called it Pre-Cognition.
While contemplating this issue, this one recalled an experience from playing co-ed, city league softball in Eugene, Oregon many years ago. There was another fella from Texas on the Symantec team and we sort of paired off for warm up early on because we had a camaraderie of being looked down upon all the time by the Oregonians. Most of them stereotyped Texans as ignorant hillbillies that just liked to drive their pickups over non-white people and such. I put that in ‘cause I thought it was funny. But also, we happened to be the best two players on the team as far as experience. So, during the first or second game warm-ups we were zipping the ball back and forth pretty well and “Tex”, as he was called, said, “Burnout?”
Now Burnout is not a very nice game if you play the cutthroat version. The goal is to throw as hard as you can and try to handcuff the other guy and bean him in the head or nuts, make him bail out or miss the ball; that kind o’ thing. But if you make a bad throw that the other guy couldn’t possibly reach, you have to shag. This game is not recommended unless you had a boring childhood and spent a lot of time just playing catch. So, we had our ritual where you start out fairly close tossing slowly until you get the blood flowing to limbs, cerebellum and Chakras, so to speak. So, we would rock back, catch, step throw, at first, and, you’re also trying at this point to target, not aim, at the other guy’s glove as best as we can. So, it is like a dance, with breath in, backstep, catch; step, exhale, throw. It is like a mediation phasing you into the Zone. Move back and start firing. We both had pretty good arms and could hit the mid-eighties for sure, and throw first to third with no arc. The other thing you do which makes it kind of like Kendo, is always catch the ball square in the pocket of the glove; one so it doesn’t hurt so bad, and two so it makes a loud pop. When our gloves started popping, people would stop and look at us like what are those crazy guys doin’? We were all like, this what we Texican do that you can’t. They would get away from us and warn each other from standing behind us. Finally, one of the guys that knew Tex pretty well said, “Why don’t you ever play catch with me like that”? (yeah, that sounds funny). Tex just gives him this dead pan stare, comes back with, “I’d Kill you.” The other fella looked kind of bent and walked away. I just laughed and laughed. It was all really my favorite part of the whole season. Tex and I never hung out or anything outside of the park, that was just our thing we did as a stress reliever and kind of Bro Dance, I guess.
However, what Tex said was possibly right because that fella was no great shakes as a ball player and had not had about 20 thousand practice throws like we had which is probably about what it takes to play burnout at that level. I used to play catcher in Little League as well and he played short stop, but we could field every position. Our Chakras, as well as our “Mind Bodies” were trained for the task. If you’re close to major league players warming up, you’d be pretty amazed at just how fast they really throw and they do the same thing at first when warming up, rhythmic breathing, sway-stepping, homing, meditating.
So that gets us to the Chakras. Softballs aren’t that soft, but they are light and they’re fat so they can take weird, unpredictable movements especially at high speeds, as can be seen, if your eyes can follow, in college softball, but the players are so skilled, it is not as apparent to the naked eye. There were times I recall flash bulb memories of my hand adjusting to late movement on the dank throws Tex was taking at my head. Those adjustments just happen. You are not catching the ball; your glove is moving to the ball unconsciously, instantly. This one has a degree and studied Psychology as well as Biology with focus on the brain and behavior mechanics. The sodium-calcium channels fire very fast in the nerve walls but it would take at least a tenth to fifteenth of a second, if not a little more, for the image of that late ball movement to be processed in the visual cortex then sent to the pre-frontal cortex to ‘issue the command to adjust’, then to the cerebellum for further processing, signal, then run from the cerebellum down to the hand for adjustment to the ball. The cerebellum doesn’t do it by itself because it has no ID or ego preservation, that must come from the pre-frontal cortex. The cerebellum is a signal translator and processor-director. If I’m waiting for all that, the ball nicks off the heel or thumb of my glove and smacks me in the head, or even goes straight into the head if you’re a novice. If you have the opportunity, perhaps ask some skilled players what they think about the above explanation.
So, what is happening that allows for such speedy adjustment? Your Mind and Thoracic Chakra, but mostly Mind, is extended outside of your head and body; working up, and on, that image. Your Cerebellum is helping maintain consciousness of your hand’s position, as your visual cortex is helping maintain a cohesion of memory and imagery of the whole flight of the ball as well as your hand position. But the main part; the image cast by your Chakra continually to the consciousness point in your head is doing the work, and it does it outside of your head. The ‘game’ is taking place where the hands, ball and glove are ‘in that precise moment’. You imagine it in your head. Your visual field spans the whole requisite time and light field during the event so you think you see it occur in space. Just as in the above study, wherein the Chakra is interacting with the keyboard and your fingers are receptors like an antenna in either case. So now we have Consciousness, Agency, Interpretation, occurring outside the Mind Body; very important. The Chakra must be the agent. Your fingers are receptors, receivers from and for the Chemical Mind or the Field Chakras in either direction in Time. Which Agency is Primary, the Chemical or the Field? Can the Field operate without the Chemical and Vice Versa? How does this information relate to Klaus Schwab’s talk of ‘Avatars’?
Some sources – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1991284/
Another avenue of interest to the reader might be the institute that teaches blind children to ‘See’ which I think is possibly evidence of the electromagnetic spectrum acting directly on the children’s Chakra, for lack of a better current ‘scientific’ term:
superhumanfilm.com Which I am sure is labeled as conspiracy and hoax, but falls in line with what some academics are saying.
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