Emotion
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with
one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get.
--Bertrand Russell
…it has also been
discovered that other areas of the body have high concentrations of almost every
neuropeptide receptor known to exist. These areas include the “dorsal horn” or
back side of the spinal cord in a pattern analogous to the charkas. In fact,
virtually every location where information from any of the five senses enters
the nervous system, there are high concentrations of neuropeptide receptors.
They are called “nodal points.” The…nucleus of
All sensory data coming
into the body goes through a “filtering” process that may or may not reach the
frontal lobes. It is in the frontal lobes that the sensory input enters our
consciousness. The efficiency of the filtering process, which chooses what
stimuli we pay attention to at any given moment, is determined by the quantity
and quality of the receptors at these nodal points. The quantity and quality of
these receptors is determined by many things, one of the most important being
your experiences.
In other words, biochemical
changes wrought at the receptor level is the molecular basis of memory. When a
receptor is flooded with a ligand, it changes the cell membrane in such a way
that the probability of an electrical impulse traveling across the membrane
where the receptor resides is facilitated or inhibited, thereafter affecting
the choice of neuronal circuitry tat will be used. The principle is important
not only for understanding how memories are stored in the brain, but that they
are also stored in a psychosomatic network extending into the body itself! It
is also the underlying principle of imprinting. Just like a printed circuit is
embedded in a computer chip, so are our brains AND our bodies programmed by
chemistry and electricity. The decision about what becomes a thought, rising to
consciousness, and what remains an “automatic circuit” pattern is buried deep
within the body and mediated by the receptors. And memories are stored with their
respective emotional content. The emotion can bring up the memory, and
conversely, a single “cue” element of the memory can bring on the emotion –
even if the memory itself never becomes conscious!
What this means in clearest
terms is this: many memory processes are emotion-driven and unconscious; but
they can sometimes be made conscious.
[…] What this also means in the plainest terms
is that you can “feel love” when the right ligand bonds to the right receptor
stimulated by whatever you are programmed to be stimulated by; you will feel it
in all the areas where this receptors are clustered; and you will be certain
that it IS a positive experience because it “feels so good.” It doesn’t matter
if the ligand is being stimulated by a logically consistent experience or by an
illogically inculcated program. And until an element of knowledge and logical
analysis are brought into the picture, it’s anybody’s best guess where the
feelings come from.
And that is all fine and
good IF it is a positive experience. But statistics of our world in practically
every arena of life clearly demonstrate that it is very likely that most of
humanity DON’T experience “real love” when their “love ligands” are binding.
[…] More frightening than that is the fact that
higher level negative beings can most definitely control our emotions by
controlling our chemistry…This means that they can cause us to feel love or
hate or aversion or attraction based on their agenda, not our own.
[…] Clearly, based on research, we can see that
repressed emotions are stored in the
body via the circuit creation effected by the release of neuropeptide ligands.
It is also proposed that when the soul finally “seats” in the body, it’s
“wounds” or “scars” will energetically affect the body, producing any number of
neuropeptide stimulating frequencies that then “lay circuits” of their own that
cannot be related to present life experiences. Hypnosis, yoga practices, deep
tissue bodywork, can all be methods used to heal or change the circuits without the conscious mind ever figuring out what is
going on. The drawback is to that, not knowing what is going on prevents the
conscious mind from avoiding recurrence.
Emotions constantly
regulate what we experience as reality. The research suggests that the nervous
system scans the outer world fo material that it is prepared top find by virtue
of its already laid circuits, its internal patterns of past experience
including early imprinting in infancy. The superior colliculus in the
mid-brain, another nodal point, controls the muscles that direct the eye-ball,
and controls which images are permitted to fall on the retina! This means that
an emotional center of the brain literally controls what we see!
[…] What seems to happen when yogis and fakirs
learn to control their perception of pain is that they are able to gain access
to this area of the brain with conscious intent and to RESET the pain
threshold. That is to say: reframed by conscious expectations and subconscious
beliefs, pain can be abolished by being interpreted as either a neutral
experience or even pleasure.
And this is our Ace in the
hole. We can make ourselves unavailable for food; we can change our systemic
responses so that the Matrix “unplugs us” and dumps us out of the system just
like Neo was unceremoniously plucked from his pod when he “woke up.”
[…] It seems that emotions that are generated
and /or suppressed due to lack of knowledge can be deadly. Since emotional
expression is always tied to a specific flow of peptides in the body, the constant
generation and suppression of emotions results in massive disturbances of the
psychosomatic network. Many psychologists have said that depression is really
suppressed anger or even anger directed against the self…it is essential to
learn to transform emotions. We can learn to only have positive emotions.
[…] Denying the realities of the “real world” –
denying the reality of the naturalness of the existence of “darkness” is the
same as being manipulated to have negative emotions while, at the same time
being taught to suppress them. It will still exist; and it will “back up” in
your system and become the chief part of your reality because, like blocked
emotions, it cannot be “released” so that positive emotions can take its place.
…most people misunderstand
the difference between "feeling" and higher "emotion."
Emotion being, as has been suggested, "movement." When you "emote" you move from one
state of being to another.So, it is probably better to not mix the terms. Most people already think that
"emotion" is, necessarily, a "feeling." It is not.
It is true
that emotion can produce "feelings" since it is coming from the top
down - the movement of being from state to state affects the chakras which then
affect the endocrine system, which then produce chemicals which then produce a
physical state. The point of making it "fun" when learning, is to get
to that place where this higher state is experienced in a pure way with no
shift in the chakras or affect on the endocrine system unless the individual
chooses. To be able to, as the Sufis
say: keep a cool head... to transition from state to state with NO
"feeling," but simply observation and experience in the higher
realms.
Unfortunately,
many people are affected by "feelings" which are simply looped
programs. The chakras are affected by
external impressions from this world, which then affect the endocrine system
which then produce chemical, which are then perceived as feelings, which then
control thinking. To be able to live in the higher mind without any of the 3rd
density effects is the objective.
Laura
Knight-Jadczyk The Wave, Part 13
The development of the
emotional centre is the principal object of esoteric culture…it is only through
this centre that man can find the key which will open the door to give him
access to a higher life.
Boris Mouravieff, Gnosis,Vol.I, 1961/1989 Praxis Press
Access to the higher
emotional centre is access to the level of consciousness of the real individual
“I.” Access to the higher intellectual centre raises us to the level of
Consciousness – that is to participation in the universal “I” and the interior communion it permits.
Boris Mouravieff,
Gnosis, Vol.I, 1961/1989 Praxis Press.
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow,
joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion than by reality,
authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De
Oratore, III, 100.
…there
is the "knightly type" that has plenty of emotion, and that seems to
be the problem. ’Their emotions are more highly developed than their intellect,
and they suffer the torments of the damned because they have idealized views of
reality - wishful thinking - that are supported by usurpation of sexual energy
which is fed into "fantasies" of the intellect which is not grokking
the world as it really is“.
And
these fantasies align us to STS who relish the idea of such a juicy flow of
loosh being channelled and manipulated into its maw “by our own free-will.”
This destruction of our potential can be avoided by the "adjustment of our
energy" which involves the transmutation of our negative emotions.
[…]
"We
do not register the messages of the higher centers which are ceaselessly
working in us at full capacity. This is not only because our lower centers are
under-developed, but also because they are not equilibrated."
This
is begun by the process of discerning between the STS and STO influences, which Mouravieff calls the "A"
and "B" influences. The connection to the higher
centers is established gradually, starting with the lower emotonal center
which, by being purified and developed. It then makes contact with the higher
emotional center, and through this higher emotional center, connection is
made with the higher intellectual center. And here is where we come to another
truth corrupted by religions and the New Age gang: Escape is possible only
via the heart which is why cultivation of the emotional center dominates the
attention of the esoteric tradition.
Once
the magnetic center begins to grow - as a result
of discerning and ”collecting” (acting on) STO influences - it establishes
direct ties between the lower centers so that the individual centers begin
to act independently, but under the strict supervision of the magnetic center
which ensures their coordination. We then stop being victims of impulsive
actions to impressions and shocks from the outside, and become more reflective
and conscious.
This
evolution of the magnetic center can be a long process - an "uninterrupted
combat." But the result is nothing less than the transformation of the
individual…
[…]
If
we resist such tests, such lies, such illusions, if we consistently choose the
STO influences, the *I* of the personality will come more and more into
alignment with the magnetic center of STO. The more the *I* of the personality
remains in that magnetic center of STO thinking, and the more it identifies
with it, the more the growth of the center will progress.
The
more the magnetic center grows by the conscious work to discern and choose
alignment, the sooner it begins to absorb the lower emotional center while
"drawing toward" the higher emotional center, all the while balancing
the lower intellectual and moving centers. This CONNECTING of the Emotional
Centers by the magnetic center results in man # 5. [This represents the
crossing of the second threshold or the second Birth where the True Way
begins.]
Laura Knight-Jadczyk on Emotions
An emotion is a
tendency to feel, and an instinct is a tendency to act, characteristically,
when in the presence of a certain object in the environment. But the emotions
also have their bodily “expression,” which may involve strong muscular activity
(as in fear or anger, for example); and it becomes a little hard in many cases
to separate the description of the “emotional” condition from that of the
“instinctive” reaction which one and the same object may provoke.... Every
object that excites an instinct excites an emotion as well. The only
distinction one may draw is that the reaction called emotional terminates in
the subject’s own body, whilst the reaction called instinctive is apt to go
farther and enter into practical relations with the exciting object.
William James Psychology: The Briefer Course, 1891.
It
is not an exaggeration to say that negative emotions are mainly responsible for
the fact that human beings age and die prematurely. To combat old age and
death, one must combat the negative emotions in oneself. ...When treated
according to precise rules founded on a strenuous psychical discipline, these
very same emotions, though harmful, can become an abundant source of the fine,
active energies whose presence is NECESSARY for the development of the
Personality.
[…]
…the
atrophy of the negative part of the intellectual center prevents man from
having any doubts, it also partially blinds his intelligence and takes away his
capacity for appreciation, criticism and comparison, etc.
The
same may be said for the emotional center. Its negative part is necessary to
ensure its complete functioning: while the positive part responds to agreeable
impressions coming from the outside or the inside, the negative part responds
in the same way to disagreeable impressions.
This
is the normal role of the negative half of the emotional center - which might
be called its "positive role."
If
the awakened and pure emotional center were deprived of its negative part, the
affective life would be impoverished and disoriented. This situation could be
compared to one in which we would be able to feel heat without being able to
feel cold, or see light without being able to distinguish shadows. When it is
awake and functioning normally, the negative part of the emotional center is an
organ in the psychological structure of the Personality which is just as
indispensable as the positive part.
Boris Mouravieff, Gnosis Vol.I, 1961/1989 Praxis Press
Sensuous
contentment (improperly so called) which rests on the satisfaction of inclinations,
however refined they may be, can never be adequate to that which is conceived
under contentment. For inclinations vary; they grow with the indulgence we
allow them, and they leave behind a greater void than the one we intended to
fill. They are consequently always burdensome to a rational being, and, though
he cannot put them aside, they nevertheless elicit from him the wish to be free
of them.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
…Emotions are
culturally specific and variable. It also supports a systematic theory of
emotions which could encompass other psychological phenomena as well. This
theory, known as activity theory, maintains that emotions are cultural
phenomena because a) they are socially constructed artifacts which are functionally
independent of biological determinants; b) their characteristics reflect
(recapitulate) the social organization of activities and the cultural content
of concepts; c) emotions are formed through socialization which ultimately
reflects social activities and cultural concepts; and d) emotions support, or
reproduce, cultural activities. Specifically, emotions rest upon a biological
substratum which potentiates a wide range of emotional reactions but does not
strictly determine any of them. The socially organized ways in which people
act, think, and are treated in their cultural activities -- e.g., their
responsibilities, rights, obligations, behavioral norms, opportunities, rewards
-- stimulate the development of emotions, are reflected in the characteristics
of emotions, and are the ultimate function of emotions.
Emphasizing
the activity basis of emotions produces the most vivid description and
explanation of emotions because it ties them to the vibrant richness of real
life. It relates emotions to the dynamic changes which are occurring in the
world economy, to the kinds of governments and legal systems people live in, to
the manner in which medical care is dispensed, to changes in family relations
and the educational systems children grow up in, to the art that is produced
and the media that people are exposed to, to spectacular technological
innovations/artifacts, and to the changing physical infrastructure of towns and
cities. Overlooking activity leads to overlooking many specific cultural
features of emotions. It also leads to incomplete explanations of emotions'
characteristics, formation, and function.
emotions
[lie] within the realm of rational analysis and transformation. Inappropriate,
debilitating, and antisocial emotions can be overcome through altering their
cultural characteristics. Since these characteristics rest upon cultural
concepts and activities, substantive emotional change among large numbers of
people requires changes in cultural activities and cultural concepts -- as
historical evidence on anger, fear, and love demonstrate. Changes in
socialization practices are vital to enhancing emotionality. However, such
changes also require broad improvements in social activities and concepts.
Disregarding activities prevents altering the social fabric that fosters
particular emotions. It thus consigns people to living with inappropriate,
debilitating, and antisocial emotions.
Of course,
individuals can change certain aspects of emotions without considering their
links to cultural activities and concepts. One can express anger less intensely
and love more intensely without engaging in a cultural analysis of emotions.
However, these changes are superficial in the sense that they do not challenge
the basic content, or quality, of emotions. They do not challenge the cultural
content of love to make it more realistic, rational, and socially oriented.
They do not challenge the conceptual underpinning of anger which holds people
personally responsible for harm which they inflict. Substantial changes in the
characteristics of emotions require understanding and altering the cultural
activities and concepts which organize them. These are the practical
implications of a cultural-psychological analysis of emotions from the
standpoint of revised activity theory.
Carl Ratner from his paper on A
Cultural-Psychological Analysis of Emotions,
2000
…There are quite a number of people who do not like to read about what they call "negative" things. They don't like the material we produce that exposes the Matrix. They don't like to read "negative" things because they only want to read or experience "positive" things. They perceive the material we have gathered as "negative" because it "induces fear" or they describe it as "fear based." What never occurs to them is that there is a REASON for this. It is only in the process of repeatedly being exposed to "negative emotions" and learning how to transmute this energy that there is any hope of achieving freedom from "warm and fuzzy lies" and achieving "ascension."
Laura
Knight Jadczyk,’s article ‘Ascension: The Search for the Holy Grail‘ – with
extracts from: Ancient Science: A
Radical Reassessment of Myth, History,The Legends of the Holy Grail, and the
Science of Ascension – please visit:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/c%27sbook.htm
We are made addicts inside
our own skins.
Laura
Knight Jadczyk, The Wave, Part 13e
Two people can look at the same
object and yet receive a completely different impression of the object.
Language expresses our IMPRESSIONS. No language can BE the
"original." It is only a copy.
Knowledge and Truth are part
of the unchanging Spirit World. Thus,
the "essence" of a thing that exists in this "Platonic world"
is unchanging. This is a "B"
influence or impression. The difference
in the impressions brings out the difference in the movement of the soul.
The more a Human Being is
subject to or influenced by his desires, cravings, or the domination of his
physical senses as "led" by prejudice, belief in authorities who may
be lying, or self-conceit, the less "accurate" his copy of the
essence of a thing will be.
Receiving impressions,
forming ideas, communicating ideas are all parts of the "copy of the copy
of the copy of the original" process. Language operates in accordance with
the perfection of the being.
Collecting and assmilating
"B" influences consists in correctly understanding the essence - of
being able to "see" the original or to "cognize" the
original in one's imagination - even if the "copy of the copy of the
copy" is faulty or bad, or misrepresents the "original."
[…]
Talking about the
"heart" and the "intellect" from one conceptualization
would mean talking about chemical emotions and the workings of the brain. That is to say, purely material functions.
Yet we have been talking quite a bit about the "emotional center" or
the "heart center."
Are we making good
"copies" of these essential things, or do we have very poor
copies? Do we really understand what the
"emotional/heart center" really is?
We know that we can feel
happy or sad because we receive certain "impressions" and these
impressions produce "movement" inside us. One person can see a man walking down the
street wearing a blue cap and experience a very
positive feeling about this
totally neutral event because it evokes in him the memory of a friend with an
identical blue cap.
Another person can see the
man walking down the street wearing a blue cap, and feel a surge of fear
because it evokes in him the memory of the fact that he was mugged last year by
a guy in an identical blue cap. How many millions upon millions of our
"impressions" of the world around us are similarly
"influenced" by our previous experiences?
And we call what is evoked
in us "feelings." We say
"I get a good FEELING from that guy."
Or we say "I get a bad FEELING from that guy." But in neither
case is this "feeling" - if evoked as described above - a
"B" influence. Whether we know
it or not, we are judging the guy by the context of the Blue cap.
So, the point is, when
talking about the "heart" or the "emotional center," we are
talking about something essential that MAY be pure in its energy, but it is our
organism - our material senses - that "translate" that energy into
"effects." The Effect of the
Energy of the "heart center" is to "read" the clues a
certain way. And these clues may be true
or false.
If we could KNOW by some
other means the TRUTH of the essence of the man walking down the street in the
blue cap, without the "input" of our senses which are programmed by
our previous experiences - our context - and the concepts we have formed out of
them - then we would be "in touch" with or "reading" the
"B" influences.
If a Human Being would not
be obstructed by the coarser organization of their physical bodies, they would
recognize the impact of the finest of the finest of impressions. Then, language as we know it would not be
necessary. There would be "direct cognition."
If we could look at the man
walking down the street wearing the blue cap and directly cognize him - make
contact - without copies of copies of copies - there would be direct transfer
of the "original" soul to soul.
Developing and growing this
"intelligence of the heart" is the object of "assimilating B
influences."
Laura
Knight Jadczyk on Eckartshausen and Assimilating “B” influences