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Old 05-04-2012, 03:13 PM
StephenK
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Originally Posted by whoguy423
I really do want to get to the crux of where conscious thought comes from.

Where it comes from is perhaps less relevant than what it takes to access it. Our lives are mostly lived in an unconscious mode. We learn to do
things...then we do them unconsciously, our feelings about things is driven in a very similar way.... much of our lives are lived via rehearsed tapes and a
lot of programing that was embedded within our unconscious before our brains awakened to "conscious" mode around the age of 6 years. (before
the age of 2 and in utero we were essentially in a hypnotized state... after two we were split between hypnotized and physically conscious) this
means that the core of our childhood was spent "absorbing" our environment without a conscious ability to question and prioritize.

Roughly 95% of our lives are lived via these recordings... our conscious self is buried in there as a guest participant.

If you want to access your conscious self you need to learn to become "mindfully present". We each have free will, but it's only accessible during
"present" decision making... if our thoughts are on the past and the potential future then, during this time, free will is effectively subjugated.
Our unconscious is like a 40 million bits a second processor, while our conscious mind works at meager 40 bits per second... it's instantly
overwhelmed/dominated by our tapes when we allow it to run our thinking-about-things.....

With the conscious mind in the fore we can help bring about conscious change, personal/global, with our unconscious in charge then we get what
those recordings provide...

Now there's little wrong with the unconscious in general terms..it allows us to walk without thinking about each step... but when it continually tells us
what to think and feel based on poorly designed assumptions... well that then needs to be addressed... :^)
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