Brain's Default Mode Network (DMN) = Monkey In The Head

Lots of meat in this post!

Also, our double knows vast amounts of information beyond the purview of the body and it's immediate surroundings and horizons.

So the second attention includes MUCH more than we can encompass at a single point in space-time.

And the third attention is so far beyond the second, that it's pointless to even analyze it. There's too much/more than enough to explore in the second attention for multiple human lifetimes.

> accessing Brain's default mode network = First Attention

Your first attention can focus on the real world, instead of only the internal dialogue.

But it's not a bad theory, in terms of helping people try to escape.

As for the DMN, Fancy, my inorganic being, would claim we have no body at all.

Once in a while she tries to prove it to me.

Which is always entertaining.

"Mystery", the new IOB Cholita dumped in my room, who hid under the bed for a couple of weeks, is talking to me now.

He tells stories. I suspect he moves the assemblage point that way, until it's in a more favorable position (for him).

In one story, we got stuck in these bodies by mistake. Started as a bubble on emanations, the eagle commanded us to take a look inside and see what we have, and over time we got so complex, we could travel in there as if it were physical space.

We were exploring infinity, and visited here, got too attached, and were stuck as babies.

But it agrees with hints by Don Juan and Carlos, so you never know if they're just remixing stuff you already knew, or telling you something you didn't.

Doesn't matter much as long as they interact with you, so you can get their dark energy.

Carlos did say in one of his last books, that causality was an illusion caused by neer moving the assemblage point out of its normal position.

DMN sounds a bit like self-absorption:

He said that human beings carry the command of taking an inventory to its logical extreme and disregard everything else. Once they are deeply involved in the inventory, two things may happen. They may ignore the impulses of the emanations at large, or they may use them in a very specialized way.
The end result of ignoring those impulses after taking an inventory is a unique state known as reason. The result of using every impulse in a specialized way is known as self-absorption. Human reason appears to a seer as an unusually homogeneous dull glow that rarely if ever responds to the constant pressure from the emanations at large - a glow that makes the egglike shell become tougher, but more brittle.
Don Juan remarked that reason in the human species should be bountiful, but that in actuality it is very rare. The majority of human beings turn to self-absorption. He asserted that the awareness of all living beings has a degree of self-reflection in order for them to interact. But none except man's first attention has such a degree of self-absorption. Contrary to men of reason, who ignore the impulse of the emanations at large, the self-absorbed individuals use every impulse and turn them all into a force to stir the trapped emanations inside their cocoons.
Observing all this, seers arrived at a practical conclusion. They saw that men of reason are bound to live longer, because by disregarding the impulse of the emanations at large, they quiet down the natural agitation inside their cocoons. The self-absorbed individuals, on the other hand, by using the impulse of the emanations at large to create more agitation, shorten their lives.

I think it should be MITB.

Thanks for the new research tangent, have not looking into this for a decade or two.

How I learned debating politics and religion is pointless. FMRI!!!!

The weird thing about this post, is that I've noticed that I seemingly require less calories as a result of practicing forcing silence... This would make sense if my default mode network is less engaged (since that is what is burning a lot of the calories your brain produces). I basically only eat beans and rice and I am eating at a 750 calorie deficit, but still seem to have trouble taking off weight.

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The default mode network (DMN) is a network of interacting brain regions that is active when a person is not focused on the outside world, measurable with the fMRI technique.

(DMN) is thought to be activated when individuals are focused on their internal mental-state processes, such as self-referential processing, interoception, autobiographical memory retrieval, or imagining future.

Brain is always very busy doing its own thing while in the so-called ‘resting’ state, and interrupts itself when it needs to attend to an external stimulus or engage in a particular task.

Upwards of 90% of the energy consumed by the brain is used to support the DMN (Raichle & Snyder, 2007)

The main point of interest for this section is that people are totally unaware of the massive amount of unconscious processing that is continuously done by the DMN. To mistake the activities of the DMN for rest demonstrates how far outside of consciousness it operates.

Also some other stuff i found in web:

• Depression is just over activity of DMN .

• All Psychedelic drugs do is that they stop DMN from operating .

• Long term meditators have low activity in DMN.

I love how scientists can clear things up for us ! I am even more motivated to practice silence !

Here some of my guesses : ( i may be wrong )

• Accessing Brain's default mode network = First Attention

• Accessing rest of the Brain and the Body = Second Attention

• Accessing beyond brain and the body ( cosmic intelligence ) = Third Attention

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Thank you.