The Mental Lens (The Hostile Emotional World)

A proper understanding of this blog entry is necessary to understand my post 'Spiritual Sex Part 1'.

Definition: The Mental Lens = Tensions, frustrations and other similar feelings that are connected to the past and the future.

Introduction: When one is totally in the NOW, the current moment, one's sexual experience heightens. The NOW is a state of mind wherein one's mind is free of past bondings, frustrations, and worry about anything related to the future.
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A very good example of the 'direct experience of reality' is being in the NOW. The current moment. But this is very difficult to manage because of the(primarily hostile) emotional world of the human being, which forces him/her to live either in the past or in anticipation of the future.

Pink Floyd in their song 'Sorrow'(from 'Momentary Lapse of Reason'/'Delicate Sound of Thunder') sing:

A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking
He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise

He's chained forever to a world that's departed
It's not enough, it's not enough...
His blood has frozen & curdled with fright

They are singing about what I am talking about in this post....the 'mental lens', and the emotional world that leads to it's creation.

A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers
(Lack of acceptance of the current life situation, dreaming of a future nirvana.)

He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
Chained forever to a world that's departed, it's not enough it's not enough...
(Living in the past)

His blood has frozen, curdled with fright....
(The human emotional world tends to this so often in life....tensions, frustrations, fears....)

This sorrowful emotional world is what spiritual teachers call the 'mental lens'. This mental lens comes in the way of 'the direct experience of reality'. Or the clear perception of the surroundings and its people.

The human is not aware of this mental lens, and may not take this phrase seriously, but this is a reality. Calling this phenomenon a lens is not wrong because it distorts perception.

In other words, this phrase 'the mental lens' means that the average human lacks presence of mind. He is barely present. He is lost most of the time, in a mental haze, mental fog, the spooky realm of past and future.

For example, a drunken or drugged person can't see and hear properly. The surroundings may appear hazy etc. This is a glaring example of the mental lens...in the drunk person it has thickened due to the intoxication.

This hazy-foggy mental state is also the condition of the normal, un-intoxicated person, although to a lesser degree. But unfortunately it is not apparent to him. For example, when a pre-occupied person is at a beautiful hill station or at a beautiful beach, can he really see and feel the beauty around him? He can't. Because he is seeing everything through the 'mental lens'; his tensions, frustrations & sorrows are distorting & dulling his perception.

Summary:
All these emotions like tension, frustration & sorrow make up the 'mental lens' that comes in the way of clear perception of surroundings. Most of the time the human is not aware that his perception of the surroundings is dull.

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Update: The spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle coined the phrase 'the mental lens'.

Emotional pain is addictive. And there's plenty of it, in the person's past. His emotional world therefore guides him there. Pain attracts more pain, wants more pain, wants to give more pain. The past is a paradise, a painful paradise for a violent emotional world. So is a painful imaginary future.
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Click here to go to Spiritual Sex Part 1.

End Note: The Direct Experience of Reality is possible only when the mental lens wanes.

Eye Candy from India (Part 1)

I made this shockwave slideshow from random images I found on the internet; my favourite girl in this slideshow is the one with long horns, she's also referred to as the rural indian goddess...

This animation is 120 seconds long.

If you have a problem playing flash on your I.E. 7, please visit the following link:

http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/12/08/corrupt-flash-player-install-after-ie-7-upgrade/

In defence of George Michael

A friend of mine refused to analyse George Michael (the singer) beyond 'fag...homo....gay..'

Is George Michael a criminal because he indulges in homosexuality? Does George Michael not have depth as a human being because he has a drug-alcohol problem?

I do not endorse homosexuality, but I am not AGAINST it. I am neutral to it.

People who are 'PASSIONATELY AGAINST' homosexuality/bisexuality are, at some level, badly attracted to this mode of sexuality. If homosexuality STARTLES you, it means it turns you on at some level. The pure heterosexual is neutral to homosexuality. Neither for it nor against it.

If the reader is, by now, 'startled' by these statements of mine, and thinks I am crazy, I would like to draw his attention to the famous saying 'you lie so much you believe yourself'. Which means--a state of existence in which delusions and repression prevent the mental-emotional construct from realising its own desires.

The tragedy of human existence is that people do not understand and want to avoid thinking about what moves them at what point, and because of that they are very confused about their actions so many times in their life. They lie, not just to others but even to themselves about what makes them tick.

George Michael has drug problems...yes. Many things may go wrong in the drug-dependant's life. He may turn into a vampire that preys on his family or friends, emotionally and/or financially.

But it's not necessary that a drug dependant will become a financial-emotional vampire. There are so many drug/alcohol dependants out there, who lead productive lives and do not feed on other people. George Michael is such a person. He does not harm anyone and his music suggests he is a compassionate person who is very much worried about suffering of the people.

Charities supported by George Michael:
Barnardo's, ChildLine, Children with AIDS Charity, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Gray Cancer Institute, Help a London Child, Jubilee Action, Macmillan Cancer Relief, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Nottinghamshire Bereavement Trust, Outcome, Outline, Positive Nation, Rainbow Trust, Red Cross, Red Hot Organization, Rhys Daniels Trust, St John's Hospice, Swan Lifeline, Terrence Higgins Trust, The Food Chain, UK Thalassaemia Society, War Child.

There's Something About Monogamy...

Monogamy is perhaps nothing more than a lifestyle choice. It is a part of nature, but there is nothing 'natural' about monogamy. The existence of fighter/blocker/killer sperm seems to point to this.

The fighter/blocker/killer sperm exists for the sole purpose of preventing competition from impregnating the egg. Research indicates that 90% of the sperm is fighter/blocker/killer sperm. (Only 10% is designed to fertilise the egg.) This is also referred to as 'sperm competition'.

The fighter/blocker sperm builds a barrier in the cervix area, a barrier that does not allow sperm from a competing male to make it to the ovaries.

The killer sperm neutralises sperm from a competing male.

This scenario, of fighter/killer sperm fighting and killing each other over who impregnates the egg reminds me of jealous lovers fighting and killing each other over the woman..

Jokes apart, it is clear that nature has built into us mechanisms that are designed to ensure that a woman does not get impregnated by two males simultaneously.

Sounds like nature has given us the go-ahead to lead polyandrous/polygamous lifestyles, by offering this biological mechanism!

(Though this mechanism is not foolproof and there have been cases, although rare, in which human females have given birth to twins fathered by two different males.)

I read somewhere that just half a spoonful of semen is enough to impregnate a very large number of women. Perhaps this is a pointer that says men are allowed to get sexual with as many women as they want.

So:

1) Nature protects twins from being fathered by different fathers.

2) Nature has given the power to the male to impregnate a large number of women.

Current Hypothesis:

All lifestyle choices, polyandry, polygamy etc. are equally valid in the eyes of nature. Monogamy is just a choice, not the default.