Designation To One Body

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hmmm.  This was quite weird.  Anyways, here we go.

I believe that when we are born we are born in a state of enlightenment and have no sense of self.  Over time our bodies develop giving more capacity to our senses and we are also tended to, good or bad by our parents and the physical world.  We are named and spoken to and through this we slowly develop a sense of self and lose touch with awareness/oneness. 

The only problem I had with this was "If I am really just awareness, why have I been assigned to experience the physical world through this body, why not my friend ricks body, why not scott's body, why not my sisters body or some one I've never even known?"

Then I remembered an experiment by a guy called Dr. Masaru Emoto where he would take water and have people say positive or negative words to it and quickly freeze the water.  If the water had been exposed to positive comments the crystals would show a pleasing symmetrical form.  If they had received negative comments they would show a warped and messy crystalized form.

 

 

Now I have no idea if this experiment is valid or not but it sparked a realisation in me that although I had considered this before, I hadn't really seen it from the angle I was now considering it from using the water consciousness test as an analogy (although it could actually be more analogous than we think if the test is valid).. 

Our sense of self/ego is formed in the same way that those water crystals are formed and our sense of self/ego are as much who we are as those crystal formations are the water.

What gives me the sense that I am this body, is unique, like every formation of a water crystal, but it isn't real, not one bit.  

Hmm I need to ponder some more about this.

If anyone else has any thoughts as to why we are 'designated' a particular body, please share.

 

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1 hour ago, Pinocchio said:

Your starting point in your reasoning is still physical reality, i.e. the dream. But duality makes no sense, there can be only consciousness. So your starting point should be consciousness.

Consciousness exists, physical reality doesn't. The same consciousness is 'designated' to all apparent bodies, because it's the same consciousness that makes them all up.

Each body represents a different dream, of a life lived from its perspective. Nonetheless there can be only one dreamer.

So, are you saying that everyone else does not exist, only I exist, or you depending on how you want to look at it, and I/you play only one part in the dream?

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3 minutes ago, Pinocchio said:

You tell me.

Haha.  Good answer

[Dash Us Pain]

the problem here is the first line of your spiel. "I Believe" these two words are as much the devil as "I Think" stop believing and thinking and start living. you have a single opportunity to live your life do not waste it on needless pursuits like beliefs.

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30 minutes ago, Dash Us Pain said:

the problem here is the first line of your spiel. "I Believe" these two words are as much the devil as "I Think" stop believing and thinking and start living. you have a single opportunity to live your life do not waste it on needless pursuits like beliefs.

Stop worrying about my beliefs, I don't exist.

[Dash Us Pain]

no-one does.

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I'm still struggling to intellectually understand why awareness is experiencing through this body and not all bodies...  Kinda feel like I'm making progress but also re evaluating areas that I thought I understood intellectually about this journey.  Is it only the ego that ties me to this one body?  If that's the case it kind of feels like we are creating a paradox by saying that the ego isn't real. 

Edited April 14, 2016 by step1