Thursday, October 18, 2007

completeness requires an additional note

My prescription, just completed (with abundant explanation of why it works, for which, please see the previous "post") amounts to this: sending nerve impulses to various parts of the body (in the form of instructions to allow circulation) and also listening to nerve impulses from various parts of the body (thus completing a cycle, and enabling nerve impulse circulation) is the basic health maintenance activity. (This may sound excessively esoteric, so, if this is the first thing you are reading about my theory, please read that explanatory material in its defense.)

I also asserted that that activity will give the practitioner of it all the information he or she may need to develop a complete health regimen. In saying that, I think I omitted something.

In addition to sending nerve impulses to and listening to them from various parts of the body, it is possible to send them to, and listen to them from, various parts of the world (or universe). This is done in the form of thoughts. This should make more sense as a complete resource for information.

It also also sounds esoteric. Really, I think there is a place for simply mentally sending thought around the world, and mentally listening to thoughts from around the world. I think that esoteric practice is immensely valuable. It is also true, though, that, even if we accept the validity of the esoteric (and a reasoned argument for doing so is on the list of topics for this exposition), it is a basic tenet of mysticism that it is always connected to the material and the practical, so it might even be just as useful to think of the discipline of sending and receiving thoughts in terms of things like letter writing, reading, academics, conversation, networking, and so on. That would be like saying, encourage yourself to get involved, or be in touch, with the world. (Being in touch could be a first step, when getting involved is hard. Hints like that may be a part of the blog, too, in time. Always, what we are seeking is methods that make the impossible suddenly possible, and, indeed, easy. Note that, if you can find an easy way to do something, it becomes possible. I love this interpretation of the old adage "where there's a will there's a way:" the "way" that's referred to is an easy way, a method, and it's not about "force" of will, except inasmuch as that means the will to find the way.)

There did arise, here, an opportunity to begin the defense of my esoteric assertion that simply sending and receiving thoughts has value: if you are undertaking some practical kind of communication, say, a meeting, you can practice by rehearsing the event in your mind, which is very much like - and, I would say, actually the same as - sending and receiving thoughts to and from the world.

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