Reclusland

In conjunction with that large quote I posted recently from Colin Wilson’s biography of Wilhelm Reich, check this out  article that Klint Finley linked to over at Renegade Futurist:
When people are bored they have high levels of brain activity, Andrade says. “When you’re bored, you think nothing much is going on, but actually your brain is looking for something to do.”

So we daydream. But daydreaming takes considerable mental effort, particularly when we get stuck in a daydream. “So that sucks mental resources and energy away from the other task we’re meant to be doing,” Andrade says.

Which ties in nicely with what I’ve been told is the standard classroom explanation for how quantum particles go from a 100% state vector to multi-state vectors when they slip into superposition.  That is, what particles are doing when they go into a quantum state is getting bored and exploring other states simultaneously.  And when they are observed via measurement, they drop back into a single state here and now.

What I think this points to is the fact that we are not using our brains at all as well as they could be used.  What the mind is, I would hypothesize, is our way of exploring other states.   Whether it’s day dreaming, hallucinating, or going on a shamanic journey, our mind goes into various superpositions throughout the higher dimensions (See the Imagining the 10th Dimensions animation to see what kind of higher dimensions I’m talking about here).

Our mind might be our way of exploring possibilities, but we have yet to full integrate this function of “mind” with the physical reality around us, upon which we depend to stay alive.  Because, unlike those quantum particles, a large part of our existence is dependent upon our body.  When the mind and body are more fully aligned, then we can act as the universe’s way of reaching into those higher dimensions of possibility and pulling down potential into physical consensus reality.  We exist as a combination of two states: the lower physical realm of the body and the higher emotional->mental->spiritual realm of the mind.   By aligning our mind with our body, we are serving to more fully integrate these two realms back into a ever-more-perfect whole.

Perhaps I’m confusing a few planes there, but I think it works as a jury-rigged way of explaining the mind body connection, why we need to get the two working together and how quantum physics might tie the whole equation together.  It makes best use of our ability to think and imagine while not denying our ability to act from and enjoy the physical aspect of our existence as well.  It can serve as a bridge between the patterns recognized in quantum physics, and those recognized in metaphysics, and gives us a different way of understanding exactly how the mind can and should best be used.  Only by reaching a single-pointed awareness can mind act as a true portal of possibility, lifting the singular physical realm, via the pathway of the body, to higher and higher levels.

Just to show that this isn’t only some crazy idea I came up with, check out this article from Discover.  I’ve cut out the best parts here on my of my notes pages.  Read the part about the way energy travels through plant cells with 95% efficiency and try to tell me that “only when the energy had reached the end of the series of connections could an efficient pathway retroactively be found. At that point, the quantum process collapsed, and the electrons’ energy followed that single, most effective path” doesn’t sound a lot like an imaginative brainstorming session.

And I love the ending of the article: “many human experiences, Hameroff says, from dreams to subconscious emotions to fuzzy memory, seem closer to the Alice in Wonderland rules governing the quantum world than to the cut-and-dried reality that classical physics suggests. Discovering a quantum portal within every neuron in your head might be the ultimate trip through the looking glass.”