Deepest Mind Secrets: Dark Psychology Facts You Need!
A book excerpt on how Skeletal Leap enables deep spirituality via energy healing, supported by science and psychology for mental health and self-improvement.
SKELETAL LEAP: THE MIND BODY EVOLUTION SERIES
Introduction:
In this post, I decided to jump into the complex interplay between neurology and psychology, exploring the fundamental question: where is the seat of the mind in the body?
Have you ever wondered about it?
I invite you to accompany me on a thought-provoking journey that examines how our instincts and emotions shape our lives and identities.
I start with a captivating hypothesis: the mind acts as a reviewing faculty of the brain in the domain of time.
Hence whereas the brain has its abode in the domain of space inside our skull, the abode of the mind is nowhere in space. It’s rather there in the domain of time acting as the seat of awareness creating a concept of free will that it conceives it has.
It means the mind does not generate original perception but rather reviews what the brain has already perceived in its own psychedelic manner.
This leads to a discussion on the importance of subjective meaning in our lives, as it helps us construct our unique narratives.
However, this process can become problematic when the mind’s free will is contaminated by fear, which often arises from our instinct of self-preservation.
Fear generated out of overemphasizing the instinct of self preservation can distort our perception of reality, leading to a misinterpretation of real threats to life.
As a result, the mind starts conceiving imaginary threats to life in its over-enthusiasm to protect life at any cost.
This misinterpretation can suppress vital instincts such as sex, curiosity, adventure, and interaction, which are essential for a fulfilling life.
That was why and how Sigmund Freud’s theories regarding life and death instincts came into existence. I compare them with contemporary views on human behavior.
You will discover how societal constructs often tame our natural instincts, resulting in a fragmented mind. These contradictory fragments keep fighting among themselves all day long, leading to fatigue and emotional distress.
I emphasizes the importance of recognizing and embracing these suppressed instincts to reclaim our joy and passion in life.
The discussion shifts toward the concept of skeletal meditations, a unique approach aimed at aligning the body and the mind to turn it whole.
By focusing on our physical posture and movements, we can foster a healthier mind-body connection that promotes personal transformation.
As the episode unfolds, I explain how our emotional states impact our physical well-being and vice versa.
I encourage you to engage in practices that restore balance and vitality to both the mind and the body, ultimately leading to a more authentic and joyful existence.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in understanding the deeper mechanics of their psyche and the transformative power of embracing our instincts.
Tune in to explore how we can break free from the confines of fear and rediscover our true selves through the lens of both, neurology and psychology.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
Brain vs Mind: I address brain versus mind aka instincts versus emotions.
Fear vs Guilt: Guilt steals its energy from the energy of fear.
Sexual Energy vs Piety: Piety downgrades the powerful instinct of sex.
How Emotions Affect the Body: Psychology tells us to be confident instead of being diffident.
Skydiving: Skydiving as an awesome physiological meditation.
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Transcript:
“Where is the seat of mind in the body?
Have you ever thought about it?
Here is a hypothesis.”
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
Today’s episode will tell you about neurology vs psychology respectively addressing brain vs mind or instincts vs emotions as far as human life is concerned.
Where is the seat of mind in the body?
Have you ever thought about it?
Here is a hypothesis:
Mind As The Reviewing Faculty of Brain
Mind is the reviewing faculty of brain. It never views. It only re-views what the brain has already viewed and acted upon. It happens efficiently, provided this reviewing faculty hasn’t negatively affected the spontaneous perception and action taken by the brain.
Why is reviewing required?
Reviewing is required to give a subjective meaning to the psychedelic perceptions and automatic actions effected by the brain. This subjective meaning imparts life with a sense of individual identity having a free will of its own. It makes an individual life a uniquely comprehensible story and thus makes it interesting to this reviewer that the mind is.
The Contaminated Free Will As Ego
There is a serious caveat here. The reviewer, that’s the mind, finds it so interesting that it holds this comprehension as being the real perception and real action. The mind decides to exercise its free will which ultimately turns into ego that it then starts identifying itself with.
Even this wouldn’t have been much of a problem, had this free will not been contaminated. Most often, it gets contaminated by an element of fear that stems from an overrated core of life preservative instincts. Life begins with an innate fear of losing itself.
It is this fear that is at the root of contaminating this free will, thereby reducing it to what Richard Dawkins calls the ‘selfish gene’.
It gets subjectively attached to its own faulty apprehensions of what constitutes a threat to life.
This fear is a reaction to something that is not a real danger and the brain may not even perceive it as a real threat. It is rather a conceived threat that the contaminated free will of the reviewer attaches to its comprehension.
The contaminated free will is not as intelligent as the spontaneous brain. Along with the instinct of self preservation, the brain also hands a complete list of other instincts over to the reviewer.
Instincts That We Are Born With
This is done so that the mind can review, cognize and comprehend those instincts as the basic tenets of life, like:
Eating | Drinking | Excreting | Curiosity | Movement | Play | Adventure | Interaction | Love | Grouping | Sex | Reproduction | Parenting
All these different instincts need to be given overall inclusive emphases in an equally exclusive manner. None less, none more!
But as we saw, the reviewer gets subjectively attached to its faulty apprehensions of threat to life. It does so at the cost of ignoring, and at times, even suppressing a few other instincts.
The main victims to this fear of the mind are the instincts of sex, adventure, curiosity and interaction. It apprehends them as challenging self preservation. Sex is such a strong instinct as can make one even ignore one’s safety and security. In fact, sex falls under the category of death instincts as opposed to the instincts of self preservation.
This categorization of mine is in contrast with the categorization conceived by Sigmund Freud as life instincts and destructive death drives (Thanatos), as opposed to death instincts. In fact, he had earlier started working along the idea of death instincts before he moved on to conceptualize death drives or Thanatos.
And at that time, he had categorized sex as one of the prime death instincts.
These were conceived as death instincts since they tended to do away with ego which overemphasized instincts supporting self-preservation. As per this initial concept, mind - as ego - apprehends these death instincts as capable of killing its hegemonic existence. Obviously, it would never be ready to welcome or even accept them. And even when it does so, it does so in a very lukewarm and half-hearted way. I find this earlier concept of Freud’s more meaningful than his later concepts. Hence I have developed my concepts along his earlier line of thought.
Here is a quote from Life and Death Drive; Freud’s Thanatos and Eros Theory:
Sigmund Freud’s theory of life and death drives evolved throughout his life and career. Initially, he described a class of drives known as life instincts that he believed were responsible for much of our behavior. Eventually, however, Freud came to believe that life instincts alone could not explain all human behavior. With the publication of his book ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle‘ in 1920, Freud concluded that all instincts fall into one of two major classes: life drives and death drives—later dubbed Eros and Thanatos by other psychologists.
As a result, human culture and society tag sex as the basic sin, acting from that fearful mind’s apprehensions.
The same is true of the passion and joy of adventure. Adventure is an instinctual drive to jump into an experience that is unknown.
The more the passion, the less one is susceptible to get tamed. You can tame a bullock but never a bull. Human culture and society, constructed over the most basic foundations of fear, needed to tame their individuals. If they don’t get tamed, they may jump into life-threatening adventures out of passion. Adventure and safety are two diametrically opposite things. In fact, passion and joy are the hallmark of all death instincts, sex and adventure being the most magnetic among those. That is how and why passion and joy are closely associated with sex and adventure.
Curiosity is something that questions culture and society’s training programs designed to provide their individuals with safety and security, even at the cost of turning them into cogs of ever turning wheels. The human education system is the worst example of this where students must follow a regimen rather than satiate their curiosity. Regimen insures what students must know in order to safeguard their future. On the other hand, curiosity flows like water toward unknown horizons, rewarding one with insights. That is when one turns truly intelligent. Mind prefers knowledge to intelligence. But knowledge without intelligence and insight amounts to nothing more than stupidity and nothing less than insensitivity.
Interaction is another victim to the hegemony of self-preservation. The more one interacts with strangers or unknown situations, the more one exposes oneself to the risk of getting harmed. This apprehended risk gets generated out of the fear of the unknown. Hence human culture and society prefer regimented relationship to spontaneous interaction. Relationship is conditioned, with set protocols to follow, turning it mechanical and dull sooner than later. Interaction is unconditional, creating its own unique designs every time one has it afresh, turning it aesthetically much more creative. Relationship is safe, interaction is risky. Relationship is swimming in a pond, interaction is swimming in an ocean.
Hence, human culture and society are structured on the foundation of curbing these instincts either overtly or covertly.
This is why I place these four instincts of sex, adventure, curiosity and interaction under the category of death instincts. These are the very instincts that tend to kill ego in the mind. That is why and how they appear to be death instincts to the mind, in the first place.
Super-ego Comprising Morals
When these instincts are suppressed, their energy gets suppressed as well. Mind has a powerful tool to do so. The super-ego! This super-ego is a new faculty that the mind generates, comprising morals that ought to be respected. If not, another new entity we call guilt coaxes it. Surprisingly, guilt steals its energy from the energy of fear. The mind, through super-ego, has thus created these two entities, fear and guilt, that are forms of another faculty that the mind generates – emotion.
What happens when energy is suppressed? And, not only suppressed but also repressed at times. Repression means pushing the consciousness of its suppression to the unconscious mind so that it just forgets everything about it.
But the repressed energetic content of instincts still keeps knocking on the doors of the conscious mind. And whenever it finds an opportunity, it pushes them. Soon, it enters consciousness stealthily when the guards sitting at the doors are snoozing. That is what our dreams are.
Not only this, even during their exile in the unconscious, these repressed instincts don’t become fully inactive. They retain their capacity to affect the decisions taken by the unconscious mind against its conscious reasoning.
Now, let’s get back to the question: what happens when energy is suppressed or repressed?
The content and energy of said suppressed and repressed instincts gets downgraded. A few different morals are constructed to achieve this. Piety downgrades the powerful instinct of sex. Mind understands how powerful and inevitable sex is. Hence it creates another sub-moral of piety called marriage as a spiritual union.
It is designed to be a monogamic sexual relationship between one man and one woman for the rest of their lives. Humans are not designed to have their quota of sex rationed like this. But under the respectable pressure of piety, they accept it at the conscious level. However, their unconscious mind always keeps attracting them to others outside their marriage. It is not only about getting attracted but also about having sex with them mentally, if not physically…and stealthily. Thus, we see another example in which the mind has transformed an instinct – sex – into an emotion – sexual desire.
The Fragmented Mind
Mind fragments itself in many parts, all fighting with one another all day. This infighting continually tires ‘us’ even when ‘we’ haven’t done that much work to justify ‘our’ tiredness. We never get as tired when we enjoy doing something as we do when we don’t enjoy it. In fact, we almost don’t get tired while enjoying, even while doing the toughest of jobs.
The mind constructs quite a few other morals to covertly downgrade the content and energy of other death instincts as well.
It does so to curiosity and its questioning attitude through morals such as obedience, faith, reverence, loyalty or devotion in order to avoid questioning the authority.
Real Passion Turns to Distorted Conceptual Emotions
Let’s get back to passion and joy that are the hallmarks of death instincts. What happens to this passion and joy when the instincts turn into emotions? At worst, passion gets distorted and joy loses its smoothness to the harshness of said emotions. At best, instinctual joy turns into the ‘idea’ of joy which we call happiness.
Happiness needs to be defined as waiting with hope to experience joy at some point in the future. When we are actually enjoying something, we don’t need to be ‘happy’ as we are simply enjoying it right then and there. We can experience joy while being sad as well. Like, our skin will always enjoy the touch of winter sun even if we are grieving.
Ironically, unlike passion, emotions always exist as pairs of opposites:
Happiness - Sadness | Bravery - Cowardice | Courage - Timidity | Confidence - Diffidence | Hope - Despair | Excitement - Boredom | Attachment - Detachment | Anger - Guilt | Pride - Shame | Anxiety - Depression | Fear - Greed
One might wonder how fear and greed are opposite emotions. Isn’t it the fear of losing that turns us greedy to hoard, to insure us against loss? Isn’t seeking immortality, for example, the greedy antithesis of the fear of losing life?
Positive psychology tends to categorize emotions as positive and negative, always siding with the positive ones. But these are the two sides of the same coin. In fact, the negative ones are more basic, born out of the frustration of passion. Their positive counterparts are just feel-good facades that we wear so as not to get intimidated by them.
Let me give another example here. Psychology tells us to be confident instead of being diffident. I agree that being diffident harms us. But how does being confident help us? Let’s take a hypothetical example. Suppose you and I are to arrive at an interview for the same job. And both of us are equally confident. So our confidence is not going to help us at all, simply because one of us is bound to lose. And even if both of us are diffident, one of us is bound to win. So this advice of being confident is not really a fool-proof one.
We need to be confident only because we are basically diffident.
Isn’t it a better thing to be neither and just be natural, ready to face what naturally comes to us?
That is why all emotions are futile. They are not natural.
They are the constructs of ideas and not the realities behind them.
Satiating real instincts generates passion and joy instead of emotions like excitement and happiness.
Happiness as an emotion plays with the idea of joy rather than real joy, which only passion can generate. Being happy for the next moment instead of enjoying this very one is like masturbating instead of having real sex.
Everyone always feels like they are missing something in life but no one knows what!
What we all are missing is joy right now, which only passion can generate, not any emotions.
Psychology has made the mind an unnaturally complex pattern making it seem much bigger than what it really is - a reviewer. And thus, the mind ends up negatively affecting the brain’s physiology through its nervous system across the entire body.
Let’s see exactly how.
How Emotions Affect The Body
The mind, in its evolution along human culture and human society, has fragmented itself into many parts. These fragmented parts are always in a state of war with one another. The result is that they keep wasting their energy. As a further result, the organism is thrown into a state that lacks energy.
Anatomically, this mind-induced state of low energy shows up as a habitually unnatural posture of the skeleton, especially at its joints. Every single one of the skeleton’s 360 joints ends up tucking ‘in’. Gravity plays its own part in this process by dropping those joints ‘down’. Interestingly, in army training throughout the world, they exacerbate this problem further. They train soldiers in tucking the shoulders ‘out’, thereby taking the effect of the mind out of the picture, while leaving them still drooping down. This leaves the soldiers aggressively violent rather than passively timid; a connection no one else seems to have analyzed yet. But it has been serving their purpose of turning their soldiers ‘brave’ and they are happy with it. This gets further worsened by the muscles in their vicinity getting rigidified and thus changing their habitual anatomy. The same follows for the nerves and blood vessels attached to the joints in question.
And this is what gives birth to those infamous closed chakras - or as I call them, just chakras - all along the length of the spinal cord. If we look at it from a neurological perspective, it stops the vagus nerve from carrying signals effectively. They block the dialogue between the gut and the brain much needed to keep the nervous system functioning properly, materialistically speaking. From a vitalistic point of view, this results in Kundalini being blocked in its flow between the root and the crown chakras via Sushumna.
Maybe the two approaches are ways of looking into the same reality from two different angles!
Time will tell.
Regardless, the deformed psychology of the mental structure affects the physiology of the human body negatively. It compromises the capacity of the tenth cranial nerve to carry signals, i.e., Kundalini flowing smooth, in an uninhibited manner. The result is a neurophysiologically compromised nervous system of which the brain is the most central organ. That is how a compromised mind compromises the brain as well.
The brain loses its spontaneity to think in the moment as the mind pushes it toward past and future thoughts.
What’s the way out?
Either we change the psychology of mind or the physiology of body to put it back on the right track.
If the mind can affect the body negatively, the body can affect the mind as well and positively, at that.
How Body Can Affect The Mind
Changing the psychology of the mind is an uphill task, mainly because it is vague. It very easily makes us stray along its functional complexities without even giving any feedback. Thus, it keeps us guessing blindly if we are on the right track.
The probability of being right is way less than being wrong. It is because there are many wrong but only one right way and we are trying to hit the bullseye blindfolded.
On the other hand, let’s look at a miraculous physical activity that changes the psychology of the mind instantaneously.
Skydiving, apart from being an awesome sport, is also an awesome physiological meditation. Under conditions of free fall, people tend to stop breathing. They CAN breathe although they don’t need to. Whatever little oxygen they require is absorbed by their skin through osmosis in their system. Its only limitation is that it is there only for the duration of 6-7 minutes it takes to touch the ground. As this intense experience instantly changes the body’s physiology, it also instantly changes the mind’s psychology.
Here is a firsthand account of a first-time skydiver:
I was OUT…everything mentally ended…over…started…me…perhaps more dead than alive…perhaps more alive than I will ever be…breathing just as I had been taught…wind…wind and breath…until wind and breath became indiscernible, became as one…and yes, almost weightless…it was true! …weightless and so surreal…there was the earth, neither coming at me, nor me at it, …no up…no down…no me, in the ego sense of me, just some thoughtless consciousness…and yes, it was awesome simply to be…or not. The sky was in my lungs and it never once occurred to me would the parachute open.
Sounds like the skydiver is describing an out-of-body experience instead of a free fall! We may be moved to think it was actually so if not for the references to wind, earth and the parachute. Swiss scientists have recently discovered something. They sent a very weak current to the back, right part of the brain. It triggered an out-of-body experience for the patient. This out-of-body experience is also associated with the sensation of levitation. They found that it could be recreated at will whenever a particular part of the brain was stimulated by an electric current. Scientists also say that a human body has a naturally weak electric field. Its disruption causes disease. Therefore, drugs are being designed to restore this weak field. But the exact nature of this field is not yet fully understood.
In the process of changing its psychology, the mind needs to empty itself of all its beliefs, including morals and emotions.
It needs to be kept limited to reviewing and comprehending what the brain supplies it with, i.e., instincts. In other words, it needs to turn truly agnostic. It is not easy. It scares the mind to death, quite literally. The mind really considers it as its death. That is why it stealthily keeps turning all meditations into new visualizations, imaginations and beliefs instead of the old ones. It sheds old beliefs and embraces new ones like old wine in a new bottle. And it does so just in order not to get caught for trying to keep its death away.
That is why and how mental and spiritual meditations, at times, get reduced to performing pious rituals alone.
Skeletal Meditations Are Meditations of Body As Opposed to Meditations of Mind
The ways of the body are concrete, however subtle they may be. We can always put a finger on them, sometimes quite literally, guiding them back on the track, as and when required.
We don’t need to go for rituals of limited durations.
We need to learn and be in the right meditative state 24 x 7 x 365. And we need to do so in order to make it the first nature of our mind-body system.
It is much easier to do it with the body than the mind. This way, every single moment can be the moment of meditation without the need to celebrate it as some kind of achievement.
Skeletal meditations work physiologically, aiming to turn the anatomy and physiology of the body and the brain back to their natural functions. They’re meant to stay that way consciously 24 x 7 x 365 until they become one’s first nature.
This can only happen when the mind has shed all the psychological myths it had been living with all through one’s life. It needs to accept the brain as its guide in its only role as reviewer and comprehender of its perceptions.
Being tangible, skeletal meditations are much faster and simpler than mental or spiritual meditations. We just need to understand how to rightly posture our skeletal joints and then make it our first nature.
Once this is successfully done, Skeletal Leap is in place.
We are on the verge of revolutionizing our bipedal evolution, taking it to its culmination via Skeletal Leap.
Let’s do it for ourselves today and for the sake of our next generations tomorrow.
Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, I will tell you about how skeletal postures affect mind through distorting skeletal joints.
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