The Basic Human 'Problem'

So this is really bouncing off the comments about cigarettes and also, about actually using a technique (I am calling it a technique in here but it is just a faculty that humans have and have had suppressed for centuries).

The Maasai use these techniques, but they never allow outsiders 'in on the secret,' so to speak.

Basically, they have a star-map and do certain rituals prior to when they expect this person to turn up in the form of a human, but who is also a kind of a tall 'werewolf' and/or also a dog-like being who stands erect however.

The Maasai have retained cultural knowledge of this normal, if ancient, human faculty.

A Ducal Palace in Italy.
Next post, not this one, we will
look at a small book,
size of a cigarette pack.
You read 1 1/2 pages out (under your breath,
maybe) loud when you
sit down in your fav Bistro - 
and you will no longer be addicted
to anything.

Human society in most parts of the world, for over a thousand years, has given itself over to the demands, the immediacy of those demands - coming from a natural growth and concentration of the population in towns and cities where developing technology requires a huge amount of human effort and focus.

So we're stuck once again, with maintaining an important balance, but in order to do that, we first are required to acknowledge what it is we are forgetting about.

And what are we forgetting about?

Well, let's go directly to the experience of an addicted smoker...

That person is simply following their own natural drives and instincts to have pleasure in living, and doing something that provides them with a relatively immediate sensation, a feeling; and that feeling sits within their contextual references - their surroundings.

They might be working quite hard to make a living, or to raise children, and while those things 'might' provide some positive feedback at some future time, in the immediate moments everything can feel quite problematic.

So now if we place that individual in the context say, of a French Bistro, or Belgian Beer Cafe, then all of the surrounding sights, and sounds, tastes and felt textures will be made to fit into the neurotransmitter 'hit' provided when they 'do some action' that results in pleasure.

So their brain goes 'yes, this is logical: we do something and then we get the pay-off. That's how it's supposed to be. We'll keep doing that.'

Although everyone always says 'Dopamine' it isn't Dopamine. Dopamine is just the thing that clears away the path that will have been cluttered with neural pathway litter, so that Epinephrine and Serotonin flood into the sensory brain receptors and memory-circuits.

People who become addicted to nicotine, are naively-sensory, and I don't mean that pejoratively, I mean that there is a difference between complex-sophisticated reasons for pleasure, versus the actual straightforward direct sense pleasure signal process.

Do you think they are
enjoying themselves?
What do you think?
Could be.
Dunno.

By the time they realize that their Serotonin re-uptake paths have been adapted to the constant external Dopamine insertions, those surrounding elements (wooden panels on walls, bar-staff taking orders, the fluffy brain blur from the beer - say - the background sounds, the air) have all become entrenched into the experience requirements.

The pleasure hit doesn't work as well, but let's say we replace the sensory 'hit' with really strong mustard along with some slices of terrine...

Sure, your brain will register a 'hit' properly now, and you will get sensations of pleasure but then, so too will your brain-memory encourage you - not to just sit back and rest on the pleasure sensations from the food and the nose-clearing and brain-hurting mustard(!) which it fully registered - but to go light up a cigarette because that was what got you the Serotonin rewards in the first place.

When you're on a good thing, right.

The real underlying problem though, is not the constant Dopamine, and the sensitization to that.

It is the fact that no individual person is getting personally rewarded by other people in their so-called human 'society.'

So they have to treat themselves, because no one else will, or is doing it adequately.

Everyone's all caught up with their own ego-maniacal demands and totally forgetting about what it takes to be a human!

Funny movie this, and now extended
to a TV series.
All very weird - basically, 'Masha' is
sticking drugs into people's food.
Bad idea.
Don't need to do that.
Still, who funded it all?
LOL
Would it be, would it be -
Pharma on the quiet?
Dunno.
Funny though because
Psilocybin, the drug she was
using (in the film)
is now being 'researched' with
taxpayer money over
here to see 'if it can be
used' to treat whatever...

To be a human is to be social.

Now, we have slightly compounded the problem here, because all of you are completely on to that! 

You can see where others in society are going right off the rails.

And you cannot call them back; they are not listening.

So now you're all on your own.

And you know what the problem is.

And the rest of the people on the planet don't - but then, even if they were dragged kicking and screaming to the table and saw everything for what it was, they still wouldn't admit it and they wouldn't do anything about it.

The problem with Midas was that he was being unreasonable in his demands.

Rule Number 1 then, is to acclaim the flower.

And not to insist that it must be made of gold.

The second thing is that our own cast of mind tricks us all the time. We know that a thing works, that it should work, and that others say it is working for them - but it doesn't seem to work for us. Well that's because in the modern world we demand (Midas...) the science.

Well, modern science has proven that living human beings emit electron oxidation photons.

Not infra-red (although a living body does do that). We are talking about light, not heat.

Actual visible light. It's just that ordinarily, it is so weak, that our eyes cannot see it.

Jesus: 'I want you to have Life and to have it more abundantly.'

You have it on the authority of someone of importance now.

Jesse Michaels even said it all in one breath to Curt Jaimungal, the prominent physicist and mathematician: 'Plato, Socrates, lights as signs in the sky, the Eleusinian Mysteries, ET Aliens...' LOL I laughed my head off when he said all of that, in the same breath.

Oh, it works all right.

You'll get there.

Very hard to get a decent male vocalist in Dance Music (which is actually Trance music though, really):