I was watching the Royal Institution Christmas lecture for 2019. The first lecture was how to get lucky by looking at probabilities and the spread of the normal distribution bell curve. Then I realised they were talking about giving our minds an advantage so we can get lucky all the time. It was really about the evolution of the mind. 

I had put this out in the past and suggested that the present evolutionary process is now ongoing in the mind. This is what the masters of the ancient world of spiritualism were suggesting.

After watching the RI lecture on BBC FOUR I realised what the masters of the past were trying to tell us. Give yourself an advantage in mind and release all the powers latent in you, become a “special”, and watch all the luck come your way.  So I had to update my “special” normal distribution curve for the evolution of the mind and saw what this thing I drew out really meant. It is what the whole thing about enlightenment is all about. Why enlightenment? because it expands all possibilities and the luck that the Cosmos and the natural law of the universe can bring to you. 

Easy Peasy. 

So I had to update the diagram above to add all the information I got from The RI Christmas Lecture (UK Gold Standard time of the year, BBC FOUR 26,27,28 December 2019).

So I took some notes down as another long lecture from me is not necessary as I see there is a baseline to everything is in this puzzle in the mind where everything and anything falls into place and I seem to be able to explain everything by placing it on top of this basic template in the mind. 

Discover this basic template of the mind. Make it an experiential discovery and why do I have to do this: to create a lucky mind. 

Notes from the RI lecture:

• “about being lucky”
• “Royal Institution Christmas lecture 2019”
• “How to get Lucky”
• You have 3 aspects of you, you can improve to get lucky:
• -your craft
• -your body
• -your mind

Your craft and body are limited as to how much lucky you can squeeze from them.

But your mind : 

• “go to the edge of your potential through mindfulness, optimism, confidence and calm”.

But, a caveat of mine is that the ancient spiritual masters are also saying you have this as a potential: becoming a Tathagata: If the unseen side or the spiritual intangible side of you is not developed and accessed yet and if one has not become one and WHOLE with the Cosmos, then one is not giving luck an opportunity to access your space to help you. To be a complete human being, and accessing one’s other mind spaces and being part of one’s TRUE SELF is a massive advantage to being an “all-knowing” sense of being. When you are an “all-knowing” sense of being, by finding the other mind spaces that you possess and living in them and experiencing them – one is definitely creating a wider possibility for oneself and luck really is probably just a possibility in the Cosmos that can now happen when one is a complete Tathagata.

So the RI lecture goes on with:

• “Thoughts”
• “train your mind”

I like this one:

• “strengthen the mind to deal with unknown”
• “extending the mind’s capabilities”:
• -emotion
• -thoughts
• -and the environment.

They did say that we cannot do anything about the environment, so concentrate on the emotion and one’s thoughts. But this is not true. As the TATHAGATA’s in the world increase and when one has reached the first 100 anywhere in the world, the rest will follow with lightning speed, as the latest trends in Fashion does, or Music, or Gadgets, or a Lecture you come across on Christmas day.

Accessing other mind spaces:

Having control over the personality mind to access the other mind spaces:

Creating a lucky Mind:

Reference:

 https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2019-secrets-and-lies/about-secrets-and-lies 

 In Lecture one, Hannah seeks to find the luckiest member of the audience. It seems a sensible plan. The biggest events in your life – finding the perfect partner or a job, staying healthy and happy – rely on a huge element of luck. Or does probability allow us to understand and predict complex systems?  

What you want?: A plate of chips or “being” lucky.

27 December 2019

26 December 2019

• Beyond the Horizon of Time – Is Reincarnation Buddhist?
• The Philosophy of VesakReturn to Tranquility
• Ariyamagga Bhavana Meditation Guide Level I – Selective Thinking
• Ariyamagga Bhavana Meditation Guide Level II – Tranquility of Mind
• Ariyamagga Bhavana Meditation Guide Level III – Seven Steps to Awakening
• Buddha The Radical Shrink – Buddhist Psychotherapy
• Did We Cross The Threshold of Hope

“He studied modern science and Western medicine in Sri Lanka and he obtained

two doctorates while in the United States, one is Western psychology

and another in Western philosophy and comparative religion. Bhante

Punnaji has made an in-depth research into the original teachings of

the Buddha which he thinks is different from all the modern schools

of Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana including Zen

and Pure- land Buddhism. This research was not only academic but

also experiential. Bhante also did research into the form of Buddhist

Psychotherapy which he thinks is the best way to introduce Buddhism

to the modern world. As Buddhism in its original form was not a mere

religion of faith and worship but a psychological technique of growth

and evolution of the human consciousness.”

Foreword

Buddhist meditation, as taught in this retreat, is not a

mystical practice. This technique of meditation is for people

who are living a secular life as householders, who go to work,

have responsibilities, and who are involved in various social

relationships. What such people need is freedom from stress,

and freedom from worries and anxieties of life. They need

peace of mind, healthy relationships, self-confidence, success

in life, and efficiency at work. This means learning to gain

control over the emotional disturbances that prevent them

from thinking clearly or acting rationally. These problematic

emotional disturbances come in the form of anger, lust, worries,

fears, and anxieties. The form of Buddhist meditation taught

here helps one free the mind of emotional disturbances and to

think clearly and act rationally.

It involves a systematic technique of consciously

purifying the mind. All impurities arise from self-centred

emotional states. The pure mind is the tranquil mind. When the

mind is purified, one experiences an inner happiness, a physical

comfort, and a kindness and compassion that one has never

experienced before. The happiness referred to here is not a state

of emotional excitement, but a tranquil undisturbed state of the

mind. The kindness and compassion taught here is not based on

attachment. It is a state of unselfishness. Emotional excitement

is not true happiness, and attachment is not true love. Happiness

and kindness are attributes of the pure and tranquil mind.

Therefore, the aim of this method of meditation is to

purify the mind and relax the body resulting in happiness,

kindness and a mature intelligence. However, the mind can

only be purified by first restraining the behavior in the form of

sila.

The rest of the book in PDF is in the link below:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pgMXw2PEOESIEV6WcaV7sbnO-KmZpltd/edit 

The video above is him explaining the dream of existence. His work is both knowledge and experiential in nature. So one would get lots of insight from him. He writes clearly and simply so all is easily understood. I gather Buddhism was never a religion to him but a practice of the mind and through observation to get to a stillness of mind and to see how it can be taken to its pure clean clear state of mind that does not trigger thoughts and emotions in mind and body and control emotion. 

He passed away on July 27, 2018, but left behind lots of experiential information on the human condition and mind, and how to get it to its purest state of being. 

16 December 2019.

Earlier this year they had recorded speech signals in the auditory cortex of the brain to see where in the brain they were present. They were signals measured from the speech centre of epileptic patients’ brains who were already undergoing surgery. These experiments are normally done in a non-invasive manner but this time they took advantage of an open skull where other work had to be done and decided to ask the patients to read aloud and also read silently as they wanted to see where in the auditory cortex these signals we recorded so they could use this data in the future. Especially in those patients who could not communicate verbally with them. These self-talk inner sound recordings were not sounds that were vibrations in the air or sounds that have gone past the hearing system. Silent speech were inner sounds that were also shown to make an impression in the auditory cortex that can also be recorded.

But what they have done here is really showed us that silent speech has a place in the auditory cortex that records its intentions. It helps some of us who are saying that thinking is really silent speech first, or sound first, also has a place in the brain where it tells the brain what it wants to think. The brain needs to hear what you want to think first for it to start processing one’s thoughts. In fact, the brain needs to hear what you want to think through silent self-talk first before you can continue to think at all. No self-talk first then no thinking. If the brain does not hear what you want to think then it cannot continue to process your thoughts. 

In fact, see if you can read a sentence or comprehend what is read, without also having to self-talk first. You will feel the slight flutter of your vocal cords or the soft sound of your chest cavity while you are thinking. In this experiment earlier this year they showed us where in the brain sound, not from the vibrations in the air or through your hearing, but sound within your inner self which is also recorded in the brain. Why would the brain want to know what you are self-talking to yourself? Because thinking itself is self-talk and it needs to hear you first to process your thoughts, or to spin it into an idea. It needs to know what you want of it. This is an anomaly in oneself that one can use to bring on a silent mind in oneself as they do in meditation. Stop self-talking and then no thinking which brings on the silent mind. Use the anomaly to your advantage. Don’t think if you do not have too as in psychological thinking.

Inner speech. Covert speech. Verbal thinking. Self-talk. “Speak Thinking”. Different words for the same thing. All inner sounds recorded in the auditory cortex of the brain. But we can very easily prove to ourself if thinking itself is also all of these things above. That thinking itself is sound first. That the brain needs to hear you first for it to know what you want to think and that the thinking process can only proceed of it is also simultaneously followed by self-talk of your intended thoughts. 

‘They’re not thinking a sentence, they are speaking a sentence silently,’ says Mark Huckvale, head of the Research Department of Speech Hearing at UCL. 

‘They’re imagining how they would speak a sentence and, in doing so, they would excite the motor cortex related to moving the articulators.’ 

This same mechanism could work the other way, similar to how cochlear implants work to help deaf people now.

‘Somebody with a set of electrodes in their auditory cortex could get sensations of sound,  even though there were no physical vibrations of the air,’ says Huckvale. 

‘The reason it’s possible in the auditory cortex is because there’s quite likely to be a sensible, straightforward mapping between the characteristics of the sounds and places on the auditory cortex.’

Yes, but thinking itself is self-talk. There can be no thinking without simultaneous self-talk. There can be no comprehension in reading if there is also no simultaneous self-talk.

These experiments have shown us that inner speech has a place and a purpose in the brain. We either speak aloud so someone can hear us or we silently speak what we want to think so the brain can hear us and process our thoughts.

(self-talk thinking is only one aspect of thinking. As a personal observation: it is mainly our frontline thinking process that is an interactive form of thinking where we can take an observation and spin it into an idea, drives creativity in oneself, and creates the rest of the shenanigans in us.

There is also pictorial thinking and intuitive thinking which are non-interactive: daydreaming a form of pictorial thinking of just watching; intuitive thinking a similar non-interactive thinking process. Pictorial thinking can seem to ride the intuitive wave or is part of it. Psychological thinking can seem at times to be pictorial daydreaming in character and at other times interactive in nature.

One can stop the interactive self-talk thinking easily by stopping the sub-vocal speech. This brings on the silent mind and my experience is that the mind with time remaining in the silent mind state will also see pictorial thinking and intuitive thinking disappear altogether resulting in a no-mind state of just being and consciousness awareness of just observation and watching with a kind of non-judgemental state of being and with no interaction with anything one observes. If one remains in this state, the mind and memory of it all disappear completely into nothingness. There is no memory of existence itself until the mind returns from the void and the whole dream of existence returns which reminds one that reality and life itself is just an illusion of the mind.)

 https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/04/human-telepathy-natural-progression-communication-10683038/ 

Source of the article in the link above.

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37359-z 

Diagram below:

Overt speech: speaking aloud.  Imagined speech: silent speech, self-talk

Diagram from: Reference 16 from the source article:

 16.  Martin, S. et al. Decoding spectrotemporal features of overt and covert speech from the human cortex. Front. Neuroeng. 7, 14 (2014).

 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneng.2014.00014/full#F9 

9th December 2019

Here he goes into enlightenment and truth but I was interested here in how he comes to it via the existence of the opposites. 

At the end of the video above he says:

“The ultimate thing which is truth is not to be achieved through time. It can never be achieved. It is there or it is not there.”

It is interesting that he comes to this, “it can never be achieved. It is there or it is not there” by looking at opposites. Take vanity and humility: One cannot say that I am humble. You cannot create true humility. One can create a lie in one’s head that one has humility in him/her but the fact of both these opposites is vanity. Vanity is easily seen that one is vain: it is a fact. But when vanity disappears then humility is. It cannot be achieved like vanity. It has to filter through and exist by getting rid of its opposite.

He also uses the example of violence and non-violence. One is violent; we can see that clearly. It is a fact. But when violence naturally disappears then non-violence ensues.

If you take all the opposites and work on them, look at the fact and naturally make it disappear then what stands before you is the Truth. As the Truth cannot be achieved but it has to come about in oneself. So that is a lot of opposites to start working on before the Truth shows itself.

But what if we can take all the unwelcome opposites in oneself in one go and destroy them in oneself. This will be a much easier and a faster route to enlightenment. Agreed? 

Then seriously, all we have to look at is the theory-of-everything baseline of the thinking mind and see what it does: where the frontline thinking of verbal thinking is: the creation of ideas and subjectivity that is creating all the violence as it falsely show us that we are different in our minds and we take action and cause suffering based on this falsehood in our minds. One needs to see how the mind works and find the other mind spaces and the existence of the silent mind where compassion and humility can naturally come into being and exist. 

We need to experience these other mind spaces and know that they exist and see how they work. We cannot only live by spinning everything out of control with the frontline verbal thinking mind and thinking that this is all there is to it. There is an opposite to even this state of the mind of chaos which is the silent mind. 

All your opposites exist in these 2 compartments in your mind: one, the violent, destructive, subjective and chaotic spinner of the frontline self-talk thinking mind: The Lie in You.  The other the silent mind of conscious awareness: The Truth in You. The more time one spends in the silent mind state and through conscious awareness and as one filters through and “tunes” oneself to the “intelligence” of the Cosmos and into the repository of its natural laws, the mind starts to see ALL its disruptive opposites for what it is, unreal and an illusion in oneself made up by the frontline thinking mind and is a lie in oneself. The end of this is that the Truth slowly filters through as one sees The-Truth-in-the-Lie-in-You and humility in oneself naturally ensues.

When one sees all this in an instant and in anything that is in existence and debunks all that chit chat and rituals in mysticism and religion and becoming – it really is difficult to remain humble but one share’s it anyway just in case others might see it and also have an aha moment and see how everything starts to shuttle into place in their life’s when everything starts to point in the right direction. 

When one has a whole town pointing in the right direction just by the simple process of exploring other mind spaces and lining up with the repository of the “intelligence” in the Cosmos then transformation ensues and everything changes through a brother-sisterhood who do not know each other, but have thing in common and that is they are all pointing in the same direction in their minds.

7th December 2019.

J. Krishnamurti following the thought.

Just because it has never been said in the past does not mean it does not exist and that is thinking is silent self-talk and if one does not simultaneously silent self-talk what one wants to think, then one cannot think at all. This anomaly is a sure way to stop your thoughts in its tracks if you don’t want to use it. Thought is sound first. Not very different from speaking aloud. It makes sense that they both evolved simultaneously and together: one to be heard and the other for privacy.

When one has definite and instant control over thinking and with the advent of the silent mind, other mind spaces easily open up and are exposed for one to observe: intuitive thinking, consciousness awareness and pictorial thinking. These are a bit more difficult to control but can only disappear with time as one spends more time in the silent mind. Now you can observe them working and disappear as one starts to ignore them as they come up. It is more difficult to end compared to verbal-thinking as there is no anomaly to take advantage of, to use against it. But in meditation, one can see it disappear as the mind becomes “nothing”.

The magic about seeing this anomaly in verbal thinking is that you can use it anytime and not just during cross-legged meditation. When psychological thinking starts to bother you – put it away in an instant by remaining silent in silent self-talk thinking. The self-talk is observed by the tiny flutters of the vocal cords where one is verbalising your thoughts and if you do not verbalise there is no thinking as you know it. Leave it long enough this way with no thoughts in your mind and other mind spaces will open up in the silent space. explore them too by remaining silent and observing. It is all there in front of you: your whole world to Travelodge and explore in your own home. You will see how one’s mind creates everything that is you and then disappear at the end of the journey, lost in memory at the edge of the mind’s horizons and then it all appears again when you return to the present. It is a shocking reminder of the reality of the present moment in mind in oneself as life continues. All that thinking back again.

6th December 2019

Subliminal test pattern. It is a repeat recording so the message gets reinforced with time. The repeat recording can be anything it wants to be depending on circumstances. Seasonal purchases. Voting Subliminals. Silent sound subways, unseen and undetected, coming in under the radar and into the mind taking advantage of the limitations of the hearing spectrum 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz: low infrasound to high-frequency tinnitus ultrasound all coming in at the edges of the hearing spectrum. So are your perceptions really your own.

5th December 2019