Body, Soul, Consciousness & Beginning of Life

The debate goes on:

• Where does life begin?
• When does self-reflective consciousness begin?
• Where does consciousness reside?

I do believe it has been proven that early conditioning begins in the womb as the fetus and its (consciousness, psyche, soul) are subjected to the mother's responses to her experience. These responses can be emotional, energetic, physical (muscular contractions [patterns], chemical, mental attitudes), and who knows what else. There is but one undifferentiated consciousness at this point that contains mother and infant. Many wonder, question and pursue knowledge of past lives. I have observed many hours and opportunities in this life wasted on concern with past lives. Of course, the constant projection of the past onto the present by the conditioned (normal) mind means that over 90% of the population is actually involved in the living of a past life.

Fetus Image by Jess Artem

"Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath myself, now a god - dance through me!" "There are no facts, only interpretations" "one must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a dancing star." "Without music, life would be a mistake." "A man's maturity - consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play." - Friedrich Nietzsche

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him? - Chuang Tzu

Body Sin & Sex

With freedom of expression running rampant, in large part due to the Internet, I wonder about evolution and devolution of consciousness. A person at home in their own skin seems a rarity these days. The body is used and seen as more of a commodity than an organism of consciousness. Many will think it strange to even refer to the body as an organ of consciousness. We hear the phrase body-mind quite a bit, but that is still further out on the onion than the actual state of affairs. Most of us are quite attached to the body, but treat it with less regard than our favorite old t-shirt. Even with all of the sexual permissiveness, exploitation and "freedom" of the past 50 years, many still suffer from the plague of "body sin."

I thought I was the quickest mind alive and the quickest with words but words cannot catch up with these changes, these changes are beyond words, beyond words, beyond words. While I repeated these words I felt the waves of pleasure like those of the most acute pleasure of lovemaking . . . I felt the impossibility to tell the secret of life because the secret of life was metamorphosis, transmutation, and it happened too quickly, too subtly. - Anais Nin

Electric flesh-arrows . . . traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. - Anais Nin

The physical body is the visible manifestation of the so-called Subconscious Mind. The body is the fingerprint of the soul, a Rorschach of the Self. Nothing can be hidden. The body communicates it all. These last two sentences may be the motto of David Cronenberg's work; the unconscious is never as un-conscious as we like to think. - Antero Alli

What do you have to say about the body, consciousness and the soul?

Image by Peter Sharpe