Robert Monroe - Ultimate Journey - Chapters 5, 6, 7 - Discussion
Chapter 5
-Start of the chapter Monroe found it impossible to get over the loss of his inspec friend. He tried many times to meet again and the contact point was empty.
-With the Inpsec connection seemingly dissolved, Monroes goal of becoming a member of that speices dimmed.
-Monroe was now supposed to take a new direction but he had no idea or clue as to what that meant.
-Monroe gets into the Earth-Life system when carbon-based life began to appear and expand into various forms, every form had a prime directive: SURVIVE.
-The Earth Life System is seen as a food chain predator system..... Grow and exist as long as you can......... Get what you need to exist........ Maintain your species by reproducing.
-Monroe mentions - Every participant is a predator and the process cannot be altered or changed as long as the Earth-Life System Exists. Survival is difficult if not impossible without predatory action.
-Monroe talks about the evolution of human beings on Earth.... an unusual spark appeared in one life-form. It could have happened to any one of the thousands of other species, but why it happened to this one no one as yet knows. This new mutation had to endure hundreds of thousands of years before they became aware...... More than just another animal.
-Humans became a mind-consciousness foreign to Earth Life System itself.
-As time goes on, again and again, the alien-human mind began to express and demonstrate elements completely incompatible with the Earth Life System.
-Because human beings know that they are more than mere animals living and dying in the Earth Life System, little has been achieved as a result.. So humans as a whole remain unfulfilled and restless.
-At the end of the chapter, Monroe asks "What is the missing Basic?
Chapter 6
-At the start of the Chapter Monroe asks again... So....Where is the missing basic?
-Monroe asks, "What are we really? Monroe starts to break down the human mind, like an onion, working from the into the out.
-Monroe then breaks down common signs of the Core Self that may emerge through the layers.
-Near the end of the chapter, Monroe gets into the Big L "Love"
-Monroe says with the heavy emphasis on sexual arousal and the myth of romance, it is no a surprise that so many claim to experience what we may call the Big L in their relationships. Not so. The only way you can obtain it is through shared life experience, and even then there is no guarantee.
-The main characteristic of the Big L is that it does not diminish with physical death and you cannot extinguish it during physical life.
-After Monroe reflects on all this, he thinks that the source of the missing Basic is now clear----the Core Self. But how do you really get to know you?
Chapter 7 - Tour Guide
-As the search for the missing Basic continues.
The Earth Life System, for all its shortcomings, is an exquisite teaching machine.
-Monroe gets into left brain and right brain
-Our left brain process is the part of us that gets things done. It is the intellectual, analytical area of function. Here lie our mathematical and speech centers, our logical reasoning, our scientific method, our organizational talents and teaching skills, and much more. It is our left brain activity that makes us different from animals. It is the source of our "can do" optimism.
-Our Right Brain is the opposite. From this come to our perception of form and space, beauty, intuition, emotions, plus everything else the left brain cannot understand or categorize, including love, friendship, inspiration, etc. -The right brain is horrified at the idea that a left brain formula can be produced to quantify and qualify love and friendship. That is right-brain sacred territory. Paradoxically, our right brain is the generator of our feelings and negativity.
-More recent concepts hold that our human consciousness flickers back and forth between left and right brain as situations arise during our daily physical life.
-Peak performance comes when both left and right brain thinking are integrated, unified, synchronous. (Hemi-Sync) Tools Monroe invented.
-Human right brain has not changed for millennia, it has not grown or evolved. Left Brain consciousness has been steadily evolving, either by design or necessity.
-Left Brain = Human Mind modified by the Earth Life System.
-Right Brain = Expression of the Core Self, the timeless, nonphysical part of us, untouched and unaffected by the Earth Life System.
-The trick is to get both left and right brain into simultaneous and synchronous action.
-The sexual reproductive drive is the most powerful animal instinct of the Earth Life System. Designed specifically for physical survival of the species.
-This is the way I understood it----------Towards the end of the chapter --Monroe gets into the goods and bad of being human and living on Earth. --The polarities of Earth and life.
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