In my last post entitled OUR REALITY According to QUANTUM PHYSICS I spoke of reality as it actually is and as we seem to be when looking at it through the prism of our space time dimension.
My purpose was to underscore: the part of us that thinks,
that is cognitive, is not the brain. It is our mind which transcends time and
space. The object was to underscore this: When we experience the losses that
accompany Dementia that loss is to the body, that part of our body that is the
brain, an organ in our body. We to not lose the power of cognition we lose the
ability to translate our transmission of cognition from our mind, through our
brain and into our world.
When dealing with the losses and limitations from Dementia
doing damage to our brains, we should keep in mind our cognition remains free
of that damage. One way to overcome the losses and limitations of our brain is
to tap into the brain’s ability to replace pathways when one is lost and additionally
to regenerate new brain tissue to replace that lost.
The first in this series of posts is entitled This is
Brain Boggling. In this post Rudolph Tanzi a Harvard neurologist discusses
a book he is writing with Deepak Chopra about the similarity of their views,
one of a scientist, the other from a metaphysical point of view. Tanzi’s is the
scientific point of view; Deepak’s the metaphysical point of view as understood
by him from the eastern understanding of the cosmos. I will probably finish
this run of posts coming back to the mutual view of the makeup of matter as
seen both by science and cosmology
This current post refers to an essay I wrote about a year
ago entitled: It's All in the Learning, that is Plus and Minus which I have
posted in my archive. Click on the title to go there to read about.
This essay has significance to the subject matter being
discussed by me in this series of posts for this reason:
We come into this world with a body primed to get along in
this unique environment of time and space. This environment defined by Time and
Space is altogether different than any other part of Creation or Cosmos. We somehow
spontaneously became here by way of conception and birth.
What we seem to be as we come into this world is a individual
person whose body needs to grow and adapt to living in this space/time
environment to sustain itself; to gain physical skills and to grow to become
self-sufficient which we are not at the Get-go. As such we live in a
progression of time and occupy space. Everything about us is dynamic, on the move. We grow over time;
we acquire, we communicate with this environment we find. We do all of this to
fit in.
Our minds are in even worse shape than our body when it
comes to survival in this environment. It has everything it needs to learn. It
knows little if anything at the start. It is however equipped to use the
cognitive power it recognizes to learn as it grows into self-sufficiency. It
learns what it needs to get along in this world and hopefully to gain
understanding of its purpose in this world.
It is this process of thinking that I discuss in this post
and refer you also to second essay of this series I have posted: OUR
REALITY According to QUANTUM PHYSICS.
We must grow into the use of our intellect, our cognition,
by personal application of ourselves in learning and living here. In doing so
we go through three major stages. In each of these stages we concentrate on a
primary goal.
In the first stage our goal is to learn our way here. We
learn to walk, talk, interrelate, and proceed with the acquisition and the
ordering of data. It is the storing of data that we refine by categorizing,
linking, and doing anything with regard to it to make it accessible and such as
it can be easily accessed and applied it to any comparable data that we encounter.
From this data bank we start analyzing it, comparing it and in
many different ways we massage it to expand what it means to us and how it as
knowledge fits into this world we occupy. This is education.
As our body grows, becomes more sophisticated, operates for
us in this world, exercises our senses, our minds prompt us to think of what we
want to do in this world, what we want to be. It is this process that we call
our so-called right brain into action. Our left brain is the data keeper. The
right brain is the analyzer. It is that part that has cognition which is called
by the dictionary: the power to create in one's mind.
It is this side that creates, intuits, sees in concepts, recognizes art, beauty
and the refinements of living.
With the right brain we imagine what it is we want for our
future. It is that process that finishes us with our Education and Qualifies it
to be whatever it is we become for the period of our middle years.
It is during the middle years that we work hard at what we
have become. By that time we have become many different things. These things we
have become each has a set standard we have learned that must be performed to
become that which we work on. This can be any and many of what we have become,
each one having a pattern leading to its fulfillment, each pattern that must be
worked at to achieve. We become adults, spouses, parents, job holders, members
of various groups each with its own pattern for becoming and for continuing to
be that pattern.
All of our time in these middle years is taken up with
working our patterns, holding on to what we have become, acquiring the things
we are meant to acquire, then holding on to them, doing the duties required of
each station our patterns have placed us in.
This takes so much time, so much effort; we have no time for
anything else.
When we reach that point that we have completed this
mid-life stage; when our accumulation of years take us into the final stage,
the senior years, all of our responsibilities subside. We have more time than
we need to fulfill what it was we had to do in mid-life. It is that time our
minds, could, might, sometimes do, turn to wonder. We ask ourselves “What’s it
all about?”
By this time we have gathered all we need to gather,
acquired whatever it was that had the importance of striving after, become
whatever we set out to do, fulfilled all of those future plans that spurred us
through the middle years.
Then this happens if we are lucky. Others never quite get
there, some of them holding on to work, profession, style of life or job of
acquisition and never lift their head above the fray. Others get so caught up
with the negative events that can accompany the senior years they have no time
away from their lamentation.
The fortunate ones have the time to do their “Sums.” It is
in this time, in response to the question asked: “What’s it all about” that we
review the lifetime here and endeavor to see if it makes any sense to us. This
is what is called acquiring Wisdom.
It is in the exercise of this wisdom that we start seeing
what it is all about, seeing the transcendence of that part of us that is not
really of this time/space dimension. It is in this realization that we start
seeing the reality of Reality.
Dementia is the catalyst that brought me fully into the realization
of Reality, into knowing why I have lived and what it added up to. As I write I
am doing what was primarily intended of me. Taking the blessing that I can
still analyze and write about it, I am sharing an otherwise horrid experience
in my final time in this life with the hope it does someone some good! I have
the satisfaction, the sense of fulfillment available in making this otherwise
terrible time the most meaning event of my life.
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