The materialistic view flies in the face of so-called primitive ways of understanding our physical bodies, and the material realms in general, as merely bio-spiritual epiphenomena created and sustained by spiritual energy.
aktually, Prof S, it's Triplets, as the Eastern sages have known for 5k years... ' Chinese medicine and Ayurveda have understood the importance of digestive health all along. Chinese medicine stresses the importance of preserving stomach-Qi as the most important treatment method, and Ayurveda, the ancient Indian healing system, believes that undigested and partially digested food lingers in the body, leading to the formation of “ama”, or toxins which cause disease in the body and mind.'
'Your Gut is Your Second Brain by Dr. Mercola
Your gastrointestinal tract is now considered one of the most complex microbial ecosystems on earth, and its influence is such that it’s frequently referred to as your “second brain.”
Nearly 100 trillion bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms compose your gut microbiome, and advancing science has made it quite clear that these organisms play a major role in your health, both mental and physical. Your body is in fact composed of more bacteria and other microorganisms than actual cells, and you have more bacterial DNA than human DNA....
Your upper brain is home to your central nervous system while your gut houses the enteric nervous system. The two nervous systems, the central nervous system in your brain and the enteric nervous system in your gut, are in constant communication, connected as they are via the vagus nerve.
Your vagal nerve is the 10th cranial nerve and the longest nerve in your body, extending through your neck into your abdomen.3 It has the widest distribution of both sensory and motor fibers.
Your brain and gut also use the same neurotransmitters for communication, one of which is serotonin — a neurochemical associated with mood control. However, the message sent by serotonin changes based on the context of its environment.
In your brain, serotonin signals and produces a state of well-being. In your gut — where 95 percent of your serotonin is produced — it sets the pace for digestive transit and acts as an immune system regulator.
Interestingly, gut serotonin not only acts on the digestive tract but is also released into your bloodstream, and acts on your brain, particularly your hypothalamus, which is involved in the regulation of emotions.
While we’ve known that the gut and brain communicate via the vagus nerve, researchers have only recently come to realize that gut serotonin regulates emotions in a much more complex way than previously thought. Not only can your emotions influence your gut, but the reverse is also true.
My thought on this is the intelligence of heart and head are associated with one another in a different way than the gut in tradition. Not that antiquity ignored the gut but I believe this is worth a bit of research, purposeful intelligence was not ascribed to it per se. Even so we do have folklore. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-gut/
In this article I wrote about Individualized Sovereignty, but it also covers what I consider a very important message to "Western Culture." The true nature of the physical existence absolutely depends on the formless / non physical force standing behind it.
All expressions of the human experience can be ascribed as "aspects" of experience, they are:
MIND (all seven sheaths of it are non physical, the brain could be a physical functionary)
LIFE (the heart center is the most powerful point of expression)
BODY (the outside expression to all the formless elements of being)
In ancient Egyptian, there are some expressions that point to the realization of “Eternal Self.” Here is a small excerpt from the Adoration of Horus written more than 5,000 years ago; this a portion from the book called Going Forth by Day misunderstood as Book of the Dead:
I am Horus traversing limitless years. I have commanded my seat. I rule by my mouth. Speaking and silent. I maintain an exact balance. ‘I am one coming from one.’ I open the door in heaven.
[heaven is found inside, eternally silent]
The condition of the sovereign “being” is a projection of the one-self into a physical birth; it is experienced by and for the sacred self. Human existence is a product of this sovereign experience. The true nature of being is formless, yet it is all there ever was, or could be. All physical forms are caused by a formless reality that is standing behind it. Temporarily participating in this experience called “human,” each experience of being are a focal point of infinite awareness. This makes each human being sovereign because the experience is observed from the vantage point of the Eternal Self; clothed in the ideation of Individual Hood. The Eternal “I,” True Being; that is both The Observer and The Observed, is One coming from Oneness. To stand within and observe the One in its myriad forms of Life; within the expression of Being, Consciousness, and Bliss. The fastest route to realization of this truth is Love. Our whole basis for Identity should be that of the formless nature of Consciousness; not human labels, or status based on appearances, since these are always transitory.
Another important note: "Intelligence" is NOT a product of the mental process, it is an immutable expression of Consciousness, which is what we really are. There is an intelligence to all the power centers of the body. Brain, Heart, and other vital portals are centers of attention. Some people would call these "Chakras," but I think people here in the west have over used the term.
Aside from text from links provided I rewrote a few different pieces I had cut and pasted in my notes. I tend to capture ideas and fit them into schema for fictions and go back and rework for Substack.
Ad Hoc phase far too long. Andre BretonPollock 😉my master. Discipline is necessary now. Sir Phillip Sidney my new one. From Wiki-On Sidney's Apology for Poetry
Sidney's influence on future critics and poets relates more closely to his view of the place of poets in society. Sidney describes poetry as creating a separate reality. The Romantic notion, as seen in Wordsworth, is that poetry privileges perception, imagination and modes of understanding. Wordsworth seeks to go back to nature for moments recollected in tranquility. Sidney, like Shelley and Wordsworth, sees the poet as being separate from society. To Sidney the poet is not tied to any subjection. He saw art as equivalent to "skill", a profession to be learned or developed, and nature as the objective, empirical world. The poet can invent, and thus in effect grows another nature.
Sidney writes that there “is no art delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object”. The poet then does not depart from external nature. His works are "imitation" or "fiction", made of the materials of nature, and are shaped by the artist's vision. This vision is one that demands the reader's awareness of the art of imitation created through the "maker", the poet. Sidney's notion of "fore-conceit" means that a conception of the work must exist in the poet's mind before it is written. Free from the limitations of nature, and independent from nature, poetry is capable of "making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in Nature".
Sidney's doctrine presents the poet as creator. The poet's mediating role between two worlds – transcendent forms and historical actuality – corresponds to the Neoplatonic doctrine of emanation. A complement to this doctrine is the concept of return or catharsis, which finds a parallel in Sidney's contemplation of virtue, based on man's rational desire. Apology contains only elements of Neoplatonism without adhering to the full doctrine.
Thirdly, Sidney implies a theory of metaphoric language in his work. A recurring motif in Apology is painting or “portraiture”. Apology applies language use in a way suggestive of what is known in modern literary theory as semiotics. His central premise, as was that of Socrates in Plato's Republic, is that poetry is an art of imitation, that is, a "representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth" not unlike a "speaking picture". Sidney pays his homage to Aristotle also. Yet he develops his own idea of metaphoric language, one that it is based on an analogy through universal correspondences. Sidney's humanist poetics and his tendency to harmonize disparate extremes – to seek mediation – find expression in poetic works by John Donne.
Spirits in the Material World: Healing & Transformation through Consciousness
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5S8GbmI8lsQAm1GN2g5ZIz
The materialistic view flies in the face of so-called primitive ways of understanding our physical bodies, and the material realms in general, as merely bio-spiritual epiphenomena created and sustained by spiritual energy.
aktually, Prof S, it's Triplets, as the Eastern sages have known for 5k years... ' Chinese medicine and Ayurveda have understood the importance of digestive health all along. Chinese medicine stresses the importance of preserving stomach-Qi as the most important treatment method, and Ayurveda, the ancient Indian healing system, believes that undigested and partially digested food lingers in the body, leading to the formation of “ama”, or toxins which cause disease in the body and mind.'
'Your Gut is Your Second Brain by Dr. Mercola
Your gastrointestinal tract is now considered one of the most complex microbial ecosystems on earth, and its influence is such that it’s frequently referred to as your “second brain.”
Nearly 100 trillion bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms compose your gut microbiome, and advancing science has made it quite clear that these organisms play a major role in your health, both mental and physical. Your body is in fact composed of more bacteria and other microorganisms than actual cells, and you have more bacterial DNA than human DNA....
Your upper brain is home to your central nervous system while your gut houses the enteric nervous system. The two nervous systems, the central nervous system in your brain and the enteric nervous system in your gut, are in constant communication, connected as they are via the vagus nerve.
Your vagal nerve is the 10th cranial nerve and the longest nerve in your body, extending through your neck into your abdomen.3 It has the widest distribution of both sensory and motor fibers.
Your brain and gut also use the same neurotransmitters for communication, one of which is serotonin — a neurochemical associated with mood control. However, the message sent by serotonin changes based on the context of its environment.
In your brain, serotonin signals and produces a state of well-being. In your gut — where 95 percent of your serotonin is produced — it sets the pace for digestive transit and acts as an immune system regulator.
Interestingly, gut serotonin not only acts on the digestive tract but is also released into your bloodstream, and acts on your brain, particularly your hypothalamus, which is involved in the regulation of emotions.
While we’ve known that the gut and brain communicate via the vagus nerve, researchers have only recently come to realize that gut serotonin regulates emotions in a much more complex way than previously thought. Not only can your emotions influence your gut, but the reverse is also true.
When Things Go Wrong in the Gut-Brain Axis [...]
wakingtimes.com /your-gut-is-your-second-brain/
My thought on this is the intelligence of heart and head are associated with one another in a different way than the gut in tradition. Not that antiquity ignored the gut but I believe this is worth a bit of research, purposeful intelligence was not ascribed to it per se. Even so we do have folklore. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-gut/
In this article I wrote about Individualized Sovereignty, but it also covers what I consider a very important message to "Western Culture." The true nature of the physical existence absolutely depends on the formless / non physical force standing behind it.
All expressions of the human experience can be ascribed as "aspects" of experience, they are:
MIND (all seven sheaths of it are non physical, the brain could be a physical functionary)
LIFE (the heart center is the most powerful point of expression)
BODY (the outside expression to all the formless elements of being)
https://nefahotep.substack.com/p/individualized-sovereignty-and-political
Some small excerpts:
In ancient Egyptian, there are some expressions that point to the realization of “Eternal Self.” Here is a small excerpt from the Adoration of Horus written more than 5,000 years ago; this a portion from the book called Going Forth by Day misunderstood as Book of the Dead:
I am Horus traversing limitless years. I have commanded my seat. I rule by my mouth. Speaking and silent. I maintain an exact balance. ‘I am one coming from one.’ I open the door in heaven.
[heaven is found inside, eternally silent]
The condition of the sovereign “being” is a projection of the one-self into a physical birth; it is experienced by and for the sacred self. Human existence is a product of this sovereign experience. The true nature of being is formless, yet it is all there ever was, or could be. All physical forms are caused by a formless reality that is standing behind it. Temporarily participating in this experience called “human,” each experience of being are a focal point of infinite awareness. This makes each human being sovereign because the experience is observed from the vantage point of the Eternal Self; clothed in the ideation of Individual Hood. The Eternal “I,” True Being; that is both The Observer and The Observed, is One coming from Oneness. To stand within and observe the One in its myriad forms of Life; within the expression of Being, Consciousness, and Bliss. The fastest route to realization of this truth is Love. Our whole basis for Identity should be that of the formless nature of Consciousness; not human labels, or status based on appearances, since these are always transitory.
Another important note: "Intelligence" is NOT a product of the mental process, it is an immutable expression of Consciousness, which is what we really are. There is an intelligence to all the power centers of the body. Brain, Heart, and other vital portals are centers of attention. Some people would call these "Chakras," but I think people here in the west have over used the term.
This post was all you writing, wasn't it Stegiel.
You know how I sometimes get confused.
It is great writing, things that sprang to mind in reading it would be explained in the very next paragraph.
Aside from text from links provided I rewrote a few different pieces I had cut and pasted in my notes. I tend to capture ideas and fit them into schema for fictions and go back and rework for Substack.
So mainly mine
I am still in the business of recognising your voice
Like an artist of many styles.
You are currently in your surrealism phase.
Ad Hoc phase far too long. Andre BretonPollock 😉my master. Discipline is necessary now. Sir Phillip Sidney my new one. From Wiki-On Sidney's Apology for Poetry
Sidney's influence on future critics and poets relates more closely to his view of the place of poets in society. Sidney describes poetry as creating a separate reality. The Romantic notion, as seen in Wordsworth, is that poetry privileges perception, imagination and modes of understanding. Wordsworth seeks to go back to nature for moments recollected in tranquility. Sidney, like Shelley and Wordsworth, sees the poet as being separate from society. To Sidney the poet is not tied to any subjection. He saw art as equivalent to "skill", a profession to be learned or developed, and nature as the objective, empirical world. The poet can invent, and thus in effect grows another nature.
Sidney writes that there “is no art delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object”. The poet then does not depart from external nature. His works are "imitation" or "fiction", made of the materials of nature, and are shaped by the artist's vision. This vision is one that demands the reader's awareness of the art of imitation created through the "maker", the poet. Sidney's notion of "fore-conceit" means that a conception of the work must exist in the poet's mind before it is written. Free from the limitations of nature, and independent from nature, poetry is capable of "making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in Nature".
Sidney's doctrine presents the poet as creator. The poet's mediating role between two worlds – transcendent forms and historical actuality – corresponds to the Neoplatonic doctrine of emanation. A complement to this doctrine is the concept of return or catharsis, which finds a parallel in Sidney's contemplation of virtue, based on man's rational desire. Apology contains only elements of Neoplatonism without adhering to the full doctrine.
Thirdly, Sidney implies a theory of metaphoric language in his work. A recurring motif in Apology is painting or “portraiture”. Apology applies language use in a way suggestive of what is known in modern literary theory as semiotics. His central premise, as was that of Socrates in Plato's Republic, is that poetry is an art of imitation, that is, a "representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth" not unlike a "speaking picture". Sidney pays his homage to Aristotle also. Yet he develops his own idea of metaphoric language, one that it is based on an analogy through universal correspondences. Sidney's humanist poetics and his tendency to harmonize disparate extremes – to seek mediation – find expression in poetic works by John Donne.
Loved this post. That would be a heartfelt response.
Relates to recent Substack comment on a Mark Crispin Miller post, about someone considered to be "brain dead", and therefore ideal organ donor.
That all organ donors have a beating heart at time of parts being removed. That there's no such thing as brain dead.
I could look for the interview link if you want me to.
I like your point about the heart beating before a brain exists.
And why stop at the heart. Am I not also my hand; my hand has a big opinion on what I do and how I feel about what I do.
https://youtu.be/l7NgJJtJ-mI
That's the interview.
I didn't actually watch it all, but the message was clear early in.