are the mind and body seperate things? is there a mind, or is it all chemicals in the brain? does the mind affect the body? is the mind eternal? answer any of this, or none of this, ask questions.
well, shit. id like to think of the mind and body as two seperate things, even though technically your mind is in your body.
On my last acid trip I came to the conclusion that the mind and the body ARE two seperate entities. I came to the conclusion that the mind is you, everything you are in your head, your emotions, your thoughts, your desires everything. Its the part of you that no one, no matter what, will never see and what goes on here think of a room, which we will say is life, that you could do anything you could ever imagine to do, anything you would ever want to do, say to someone anything. But your body is seperate. It is also you but in a different mannor. This is the part of you that has to deal with life on this earth as a person. It takes all the wear and tear and is the thing that everyone else out in the world actually sees as you and connects your mind to you. I came to th conclusion that to find happiness in life you have to learn how to find that fine line where the mind and the body can work Almost (but never is) as one, where they sort of lean on eachother equally and you will fall into a state of apathy in your life and you will just drift though. This is what i believe to be the point where you can be happiest in life along with how your beliefs and thoughts are. This is what ive come to believe after that trip and it makes sense to me.
Greetings Sandwich, The echoes of your question reverberate across the chronicals of humankind nearly to the very dawn of consciousness, and at times the two positions have virtually been at war, so adamant were those who claimed to knowledge of the answer in full certitude. The "I" of mind, the "me of I?" It is the "personal aspect of mind, that seems to be the trouble, there seems there is this persistant, enduring quality of "me-ness" that has always been there for as far back as I can remember, b b6tttttt6454tt I believe the issue is this "consciousness" specifically and not mind in general, the "I" of mind, seperate and distinct from the trinity of intelligence, personality, and emotions, here am I, and there are you, but where is that? the answer to that question is by far the most fundamentally mindblowing, exoticly elegant, generator of pure hightest wonder, I am convinced anyone can ever encounter. Peroxide is doing strange things to m keyboard and I must go, but let me leave you with this to consider. the question, the issue, the entire matter is entirely invalid, it makes as much sense as talking about space and time, when in reality there is only spacetime. Mind is an epiphenomen of brain. there is only mindbrain. sorry I gotta git . besides this is gonna take some thinking. An interesting fellow, in the introduction to a fascinating book*, put it like this...... The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes - The introduction of which can be read here. "
I believe they are seperate, and that the mind has complete power over the body. As the saying goes, "mind over matter".
Half A Sandwich, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (although better known for his theory on morphogenetic fields) proposed that possibility some years ago. He believes that the brain is not the seat of human consciousness. He's probably the leading expert on mind/body separation, So if your interested in doing some research on the subject - look em' up. Hotwater
Don't understand how people think they are seperate. The mind/body/universe are all one. It does seem that the seat of many peoples conscious is between their legs and not in their brains.
