2024-03-23T13:23:32-06:00

A friend and I were walking down a street in Seattle when I saw this hand-painted surreal billboard that showed brains emitting lightning onto a field of brain tissue. The billboard headline was "Brain Injuries Happen in a Flash." I had my friend take a flash picture of me before the billboard. A few days later, a guy on a motorcycle rolled up next to me, and it turned out to be my friend, Bryan, from my mountain climbing days, whom I hadn't seen in years. Later, I had dinner with Bryan and his new wife, Bitin. I discovered that she was the one who created the billboard as part of her work for a brain injury non-profit. Bitin's life had been affected on every level by a traumatic brain injury (TBI). She told me about her ongoing recovery process and her work with TBI survivors. CARD URL: http://www.zaporacle.com/card/neurological-influence/

Card #260 – Neurological Influence

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If you’re in a corporeal incarnation, your neurological state is a major factor.

The position of neurological materialism, that consciousness is an epiphenomenon or secondary effect of biochemical process in the brain, is a disproven failure. (see chapter links below) Nevertheless, for those of us enduring corporeal incarnation, brain health is a gigantic factor in our life experience. Take care of your brain! Avoid excess alcohol — even being a “moderate” drinker significantly undermines your brain. In any situation where people wear helmets, wear a helmet! Make sure you are getting enough Omega-3s. Be careful about any substance that crosses the blood-brain barrier. Don’t go to sleep with alcohol in your system — it wrecks sleep quality. Sleep is crucial for brain functioning. Aerobic exercise helps your brain in multiple ways. Stabilize your blood sugar (your brain lives off of glucose) by eating complex carbohydrates and avoiding refined carbohydrates and excess caffeine. To state the obvious, your heart and entire body’s health impacts your brain health.

If you’re having mood or other psychological issues, check your state of brain health and sleep quality before investigating other causes.

Consider this an auspicious time to look into your neurological influences.

See A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler for insights into how neural architecture affects your emotions.

For more on the failure of neurological materialism and our transforming relationship to body, see chapters 3 & 4 of my book, Crossing the Event Horizon — Human Metamorphosis and the Singularity Archetype. The second edition is available free on this site.

Chapter 3 Near-death Experience and the Singularity Archetype

Chapter 4, The Glorified Body: Metamorphosis of the Body and the Singularity Archetype

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More and more the imagination is where we spend our time. Theres a lot of talk these days about virtual reality. An immersive state of the art technology in which you put on goggles and special clothing and enter special environments and then you are in artifical worlds created by computers and this is thought to be very "woo woo" and far out but in fact, if you're paying attention, we've been living inside virtual realities for about ten thousand years. I mean what is a city but a complete denial of nature. We say no-no. Not trees, mudholes, waterfalls, and all that. Straight lines, laid out roads, class heirarchies reflected in local geography meaning the rich people live here surrounded by the not so rich people all served by the poor people who are so glad they're not the outcast people. So you know urbanization is essentially the first of these impulses where society leaves nature and enters into its own private idaho. And the growth of cities and the growth of the immediacy, i guess you would say, of the urban experience has been a constant of human evolution since urbanization began. Now the only difference that the new technologies offer is that we're gonna do this with light, not mortar, brick, steel, aluminum, and titanium, which are incredibly intractable materials. I mean it's amazing to me. We started with the toughest stuff and of course it costs enormous amounts of blood and treasure to work with such intractable materials. It's always been amazing to me that the largest buildings that human beings ever build are in a sense the first buildings humans ever built because the pyramids of egypt are enormous even by modern scale, and yet they were among the earliest buildings ever built. In virtual reality the difference between a hundred story building and a ten story building is one zero. What this should tell us is that in the domain of light, the intractability of matter is overcome. And so we are on the brink of a time. We have arrived, we are at the time where the human imagination now need meet no barriers to it's intent. And so we are going to find out who we are. We are going to discover what it means to be human when there is no resistance to human will.

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