In the Begin There was Light
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
From my uneducated, but knowledgeable perspective, I can surmise that an unborn human fetus has a soul, but is not conscious of it at all until well after birth. To understand this concept, try to go back in your mind to your earliest childhood memories: Do you remember when you first tried to walk, but fell? Or the reaction someone gave you when you said your first words? Do you remember anything about the actually moment of birth?
So, you may have been conscious physically during these moments, but you just can’t remember these rather significant events in your life. And, you know that this is alright because it did actually happen whether you can remember it or not. At an early age you began remembering, but at an earlier age you were already expressing yourself to the world around you even though you had no knowledge of it. For most people this type of knowledge is a trivial, unimportant, and useless, but to the developing soul it is was very important. My point here is that; Just because you have no knowledge that something happened to you, such as being given a spirit, it doesn't necessarily mean that it didn't physically nor metaphysically happen.
So at birth, I have a spirit, which I am able to express to the world while I’m awake, but when I can no long stay conscious to the physical realm, due to the chemicals in brain triggering a relaxation and slow down in certain areas of our body’s activities, I fall asleep. Most individuals, although asleep to the physical world, are still conscious to the metaphysical realm, and we know this because we all have experience lucid dreams which we can remember. This allows our souls to continue to seek out harmony to problematic issues which have caused a chaos in our mind was away and fully functioning. Simply, dreaming is a way of shorting out problems when our bodies are at rest.
Psychologists for some time have been looking at what makes a person conscious, and one psychologist in particular developed an hypothesis which argues that the human mind once assumed a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind. [1] In 1976, a Professor at Princeton University, Julian Jaynes, presented this idea in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral. Jaynes argued that the change from bicamerality to consciousness (stemming from linguistic metacognition) occurred over a period of ten centuries beginning around 1800 BC, and that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind only as recently as 3000 years ago.
Psychologists for some time have been looking at what makes a person conscious, and one psychologist in particular developed an hypothesis which argues that the human mind once assumed a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind. [1] In 1976, a Professor at Princeton University, Julian Jaynes, presented this idea in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral. Jaynes argued that the change from bicamerality to consciousness (stemming from linguistic metacognition) occurred over a period of ten centuries beginning around 1800 BC, and that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind only as recently as 3000 years ago.
Jaynes asserted that the self-awareness characteristic of consciousness as most people have today, was not generally experienced until roughly the times written about in Homer's Iliad. It was when man developed a bicameral mind that he first began to focus on the Metaphysical reality of God. This development of a bicameral mind is the same reason that you were not fully conscious in your early childhood. Jaynes’ bicameral mind hypothesis is a complex analysis of the cognitive awareness of what is conceived to be the metaphysical presents of God, and has been highly controversial.
The primary scientific criticism has been that the conclusions Jaynes drew had no basis in neuropsychiatric fact. For example, it fails to explain one of the central mysteries of a disturbed mind, the madness of hallucinations. But Jaynes has gained the support of many proponents for the idea that language is a necessary component of subjective consciousness and more abstract forms of thinking. It has been said critically that Jaynes defines consciousness as "that which is introspectable." which similarly follows in the philosophic traditions of Locke and Descartes.
I believe that in order for a person to see the true beauty of things and see signs of God, that person must look inwardly in order that they may see the harmony that is brought to our souls through our five senses, our sub consciousness bicameral minds, and metaphysical nature of our universe. I believe that it is the feeling within our souls which give us the guidance for our belief in God, and it is only though being at harmony with the universe will your soul feel the touch of God, as I have.
I thank the reader for your considerate time and attention, and may God bless you for it.
I thank the reader for your considerate time and attention, and may God bless you for it.
References
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"Bicameralism (psychology)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 9 Mar. 2015. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
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