From: Rob Sacks (editor_at_realization.org)
Date: 2001-08-12 20:45:41
Hi Jim,
One of these days I really must keep my resolution
to fire up the old Brainmaster and experiment a bit
more with alpha-theta.
Thanks for mentioning the metaphor. Had to hunt
it down and realized that although I read Varieties
of Religious Experience in college, I've never
even glanced at Principles of Psychology. Plan to
do so in the next few days. Just began reading the
chapter in which the metaphor occurs and have
become entranced. Thanks for mentioning it.
Regards,
Rob
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> --- In buildcheapeeg_at_yahoogroups.com, "Rob Sacks" <editor_at_realization.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've noticed that old memories often surface
> > unexpectedly during meditation but maybe this
> > involves a different mental mechanism from the
> > attempt to deliberately recall something? Or
> > maybe childhood memories are different in this
> > respect from memories created in adulthood?
> >
> Rob--This often happens in alpha-theta training as well. I think
> it's partly because the "censors" that otherwise guard consciousness
> are relaxed and let things in that would otherwise be excluded.
> Also, in this state the mind is less directed by outside stimuli, so
> it is free to wander and follow old associative networks into
> "forgotten" corners, etc. Remember William James' beautiful metaphor
> of the bird flitting from branch to branch? It is definitely very
> different from deliberate retrieval efforts.
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