Mind and Schizophrenia

We are familiar with mind related ailments..

An expert of that field wrote a three-part-blog, and I tried to comment in one of them, with a spiritual-oriented-thrust...

May be it is of interest to you!

http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/wellness/schizophrenia-causes-and-symptoms-part-1

http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/wellness/schizophrenia-part-two

http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/wellness/schizophrenia-concluding-part

My comment:

All the three articles make an interesting and informative reading...

While providing amazing clues to even a non-affected person, it does not try to 'impose' any information on the reader, and that is a wonderful aspect of the articles!

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I find a certain depth of 'patience' in the author! (Usually, patience is misconstrued in a great hurry, and often misconstrued to be merely the waiting period of the mind to boil out--into thoughts, words or actions--and dismissed as 'nothing more than that'.. which is perhaps not so true! It is the inner-stability too, and perhaps a little more than that... and that is what I find in the choice of words of the author while responding so gracefully to the comments!)...

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Now, I am a non-expert, unqualified, and therefore incompetent person to comment on a professional-article by a qualified person. And.... above that, my unconventional and unorthodox style of approach, perhaps, might make it all the more illegitimate (in the ethical sense), to try to make any 'comment'...! So I shall try my best to make it sound like a mere humble response only!

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I had my share of experience with volunteering for those aspirants who sought to deepen their own spiritual pursuits...

Some of them, came for merely a little more of 'peace of mind'.. such people found instant and amazing results from the spiritual-oriented programs, where I too offered the 'volunteering'...

Some of them found a yet better reason to stay on to the practices, if it would offer something more... such people found their 'patience' wearing off, and most of them dropped off over a period of time, but very slowly and very gently, ... and gracefully attributing the dropping off, to their own lack of tenacity-of-purpose!

Very few decided to stay on! They had that inner urge, to goad them a little further! And not without 'any' rewards... Also, not without 'side-effects' too (mind game!)...

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The spiritual practices makes an impression about some kind of 'deeper' understanding of our inner design, which is purely experiential... The 'explanation' of what is 'actually happening' within is quite elusive, for want of that audio-visual help we get usually, when we attempt to understand the external objects and the experiments we try with them...

And now my guess work. It is, for me,... only a guess work, because, the understanding of it is without the technical details of the inner design.. but otherwise, the experience seems to be quite firm (so far, this far.. at least :) ....).

The brain, along with its nerves, neurological design, etc is powered by a certain kind of energy, the life energy, in its various forms, various patterns of storage-systems etc.. And the very same energy, when it manifests in a subtle form, gathering the past impressions, and also retains its own unique 'creativity' (unique to humans, human-form, human-design) becomes what we try to call it as a 'mind'... Without that self-awareness, 'the' mind, which we attribute to a human being, a normal human-form, is not present in other life form to that extent, and therefore we do not expect a similar 'processing' functionality out of their 'awareness/alertness'... Interestingly, the level of this awareness (not self-awareness), in other life forms is also in distinct varieties.. Apes and monkeys come amazingly close to our kind of mind! (that is where the researches attempt to juxtapose the findings, and then to arrive at an argument concerning similarity!)..

Now, since I am a non-expert, let me use a very crude and simplistic but 'only-an-indicative' example to tell what I look at it as.....

We have seen varieties of blinking lights connected as series, to give us that decorative lighting effect flashing different designs, patterns, when they flash on-and-off, alternatively... If the power is correctly connected, and the flow of energy is to the very right-kind-of volume and velocity, the design produces the visuals of the exact kind sought of from it... What if one of the bulbs mal-functions? What if the power-flow gets reduced between two 'resistance' modes?... Possibilities are numerous, in the distorted visuals that we get to see! The energy that powers the mind to do its own functions depends on physically-manifested intermediaries of the human body, the entire network of nerves, neurological responses, the perception and processing at the brain-level, and then the 'data-delivery' to the mind! When it comes to the mind-level, the entire power-management itself becomes heavily complex-ed! Its own creative power (this is the mystic part which eludes even the medical sciences), functions and mal-functions according to the power-management ability... And this is where the 'study' branches out from physiology and gains a certain unique kind of 'independence' while studying the mind itself (the name is psychology, .... psychiatry, perhaps the application or applied-functionality of this study...) The bulk of relief sought to be given to person whose design-of-mind malfunctions (here 'malfunctions' is a term to be looked at as more-of-convenience, rather than its 'appropriateness' .. if we seek to be judicious in our study and claims... we often encounter cases where deeper perceptions are also-misconstrued as 'malfunction' due to undue-haste! )...

Now, let me try and make it a little more complicated, not too much :)

Going back to that example of series of lights and bulbs,.....what if the wire itself, the bulbs itself, improve their capability to sustain and also enhance their ability to 'display'/manifest the transformed light-form of that power?... The gauge(thickness)and quality of wire decides the volume of power it can transfer... we have superiority of copper over steel/aluminium wires, and also other mediums for super-conductors... We have certain freak-bulbs which illuminate a little above average due to some filament becoming better-functional than the contemplated-design... It is here that our ancient science of 'mind' seeks to explore deeper.. it seeks to improve the network of physical nervous system, the 'clean' physiology, the enhanced functionality of human frame, the peak-performance levels of brain endeavoring to further deepen its receptivity plus processing capability.. in two ways... improving the power-receptivity-capability, and sharpening the processing-capability... and second, to create that 'space' the potential, to become receptive, to enhance that receptivity of subtle forms of energy (not within its range of perception in its natural/inherited form of design 'by-birth'... in some cases, the 'mind' manages to manipulate even the potential 'during-birth' itself, that is where we find the child-prodigies!)... The purpose all this, to ultimately merge with the universal source of power, the creator itself!...

As a by-product, we have the 'findings' from deeper experiences to be useful to afford a little relief, a little cure even (that is where the study through sensory level perceptions finds its limitations to afford calling it 'a cure'...!), to a few of our own fellow-beings... where it is found that the 'situation allows it so'!

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I guess, it is already rendered quite long, for an eager and curious person to take a look at it, and then to 'assess' if it makes any sense!.. But, I thoroughly enjoyed this response, even when I attempted to verbalise it! For me, it feels to be already a thoroughly rewarding experience... And now, I patiently shall wait for any 'bonuses' in the form of brickbats even!

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Thanks and regards,

psn