Re: MD SubconsciousDear Rod,
Why do you think 'subconscious' and 'conscious' are separate parts of your
being?
I don't need that split. I don't even need the idea that 'I' is a subject
that 'runs' things or 'is run' by things (except to communicate with others
who are still under that illusion).
Can't we just think of ourselves as a room in which a lot of things are
going on in connection with things outside. There is a little candle in this
room illuminating now this, now that part. The part of the room that is
illuminated is not separate from the rest that is -for the moment- dark.
Where does the 'separate, conscious part of your being' go when you are
asleep?!?
The fact that everyone (not just children!) learns most things
subconsciously just implies that most learning is part of the 'latching
mechanism' of social patterns of values.
You wrote 20/8 0:45 +0100:
'we can all at times through our conscious will, do things which are not
good for our wellbeing or we can seek to control our subconscious responses
(the control of pain through meditation for example), we can go against the
experience/ flow of quality, but our subconscious will try to gain control,
to protect us from ourselves, to stop us damaging our bodies.'
WE experience and react both consciously and subconsciously. Our experience
of DQ and intellectual quality can induce us to break (make exceptions to)
social and biological patterns of values. The idea that we have 1 (one) Free
Will is problematic enough. It has to be qualified under the MoQ by saying
that we behave/act BOTH in a way determined by static patterns of values AND
are free to act/behave differently to the extent that we choose (consciously
or subconsciously) to follow DQ instead (at lower levels often mediated by
higher levels' sq). It unnecessarily complicates things to even suppose 2
Free Wills, a conscious and a subconscious one, as you seem to in the above
quote.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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