added by Alex Wittenberg · updated 2y ago
Forgetting the Body
Forgetting turns the dark on. Forgetting allows for embodiment because it allows us to forget we are immortal and non-physical, so we can pretend to be mortal, embodied humans. Our very existence in this world is because we entered a place where there is darkness … where we can forget all that we are and be the focus of our wider self.
from Do Not Fear Your Darkness — light Versus Dark Is an Illusion. by Story Waters
the explicit feeling of selfless minds may be tacitly accompanied by the implicit feeling of unlimited body, as two sides of the same coin. To put it provocatively: the only and unique occasion when one truly loses one’s self is when one’s body becomes a corpse (i.e. death).
Mary Martin added
- Consider how many of our thoughts and thinking are directed toward our body and its survival, security, nutrition, and image, not to mention affection, sexuality, and reproduction. Many, if not most, of the goals we attempt to advance using our brains have to do with our bodies: protecting them, providing them with fuel, making them attractive, mak... See more
from The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections by Ray Kurzweil
Juan Orbea added