Comments on: Lie to Me, Please

By: Alice

Alice — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:27:04 +0000

Have watched the show and am hopeful it will last long enough to smooth out some of the patchy stuff, because I like the premise. What rushes through me reading this post, though, is, “How do I lie to myself about I experience my experience, can I find my own ‘tells’, and how can my body help?”

I’m not particularly advanced in these considerations, but I already have the cue that any time I feel Very Certain, I am almost certainly Very Wrong in some fundamental way. I’m grateful for my own obviousness in this particular consciousness tic. Though I’m still not able to anticipate what the wrongness will be, I’ve learned enough to accept Certainty as a signal that I need to pay attention differently because there’s something else to see/feel/know.

It’s tricky because some part of my personality likes to think it Understands, takes comfort from that, as though a snapshot of a moment isn’t instantly history rather than present. Tries to get “it” Right, with no real consideration of why I care about that “it” so much in the first place. Just a perfunctory drive toward Doing A Good Job.

Thanks Jerry, I can always count on you to leave me feeling less Certain and more Open!

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:22:38 +0000

Jerry , I have just been listening to your “Seven simple steps towards enlightenment” , track 1 and 2 of cd 1.

First impressions … “hmmm … not sure”

Enlighten me if you can Jerry , you said on the cd that Light travels at approx 186,000 miles per second , and sound travels approximately 1000 feet per second …

Now this is included in your lead up to asking a question “do you want to trust the pictures in your head , or do you want to trust the conversations in your head or what you hear”?

I am confused by this .. because “inside your head” there is only neurological activity , which is composed of signals patterning their way through neurology.

And they all happen at the same speed , the speed of whatever rate that neurological signals move.

And its these signals that give rise to consciousness , in that for something to be in consciousness there must be active neurological signals that “construct the elements of the details of the perceptions of that which we can “shine our consciousness” on.

So .. for me “light and sound happening inside my head” … is meaningless because my reality is constructed at the speed of the neurological signals being processed through neurology , and the result is the pictures and conversations inside my head.

And given that the constructing medium is the same speed for both pictures and sound , I immediately “rejected” the conclusions of your opening tracks.

A personal dilemma , that obviously reveals “where my perceptions are focused”.

I had this immediate thought and decided to share them.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Regards

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:07:42 +0000

Tapped into Lie To Me – by chance – the first night it was on. Loved it! Thanks for the clues on kinesthetic awareness… your words helped crystalize something I had been vaguely aware of … and now, can’t wait to do it deliberately. Time to play. Cheers!

By: Peter jones

Peter jones — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:57:41 +0000

Jerry,
I’ve been using focused kinesthetic feedback (as described in Applied Kinesiology/muscle testing /occipital drop experiences) in my practice. The growth or expansion of this awareness into a whole-body knowingness would seem to be implied the more I use these bofeedback tools. Is this (one of the reasons) why you emphasize Qi Gong exercises? Is the presence of a teacher vital, or are the exercises learned from video the teaching in themselves/or the door to the self-teaching?

Thanks,
Peter