The Cosmic Serpent: Shamanism and Biotechnology

[NuSapiens]

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[human2]

Very interesting ideas. I've glanced over some of your stuff and I am generally impressed with your philosophy, ideas, and outlook. You are one of those who is adapting to what science has told us of late, evolving a new set of constructs and way of thinking and viewing...

Nusapiens it is...

[vela]

NuSapiens said:

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The spiritual mind possess a certain "knowingness" which is inscrutable to the rational mind.

[NuSapiens]

vela said:

The spiritual mind possess a certain "knowingness" which is inscrutable to the rational mind.

Many Western scientific breakthroughs have been made by people using nonrational thought. Einstein attributed his intuitions to thinking with muscles, which sounds odd. When they dissected his brain, they found that he lacked the Silvian fissure, which divides areas associated with mathematical and visio-spatial cognition in ordinary brains.

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Rationality is great, but it's not worth much in isolation from other cognitive processes. For the age of genomics, I think we need some metaphors other than the Adam and Eve stories. Imagining DNA as a hidden, serpentine "intelligence" is a pretty aesthetically pleasing metaphor, to my tastes.

[vela]

NuSapiens said:

Many Western scientific breakthroughs have been made by people using nonrational thought.

You got that right! I remember a book that made on me a lasting impression, which is Higher Creativity by Willis Harman 1984. It tries to explain what it calls the breakthrough phenomenon, by which many of the greatest scientific insights, discoveries and inventions appeared first to their creators in the form of fantasies, dreams, trances and other non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Not a new book, but worth reading!

Einstein attributed his intuitions to thinking with muscles, which sounds odd. When they dissected his brain, they found that he lacked the Silvian fissure, which divides areas associated with mathematical and visio-spatial cognition in ordinary brains.

I’ve read about some of the studies carried out with Einstein’s brain. One of the things that surprised me to know at first was that he didn’t have more “gray matter” than the average human as it would be normally expected, but rather he had a higher proportion of “glial cells”, a specialized oligodendrocite involved in supporting and aiding the neurons.

Of course there are all kinds of speculations about the meaning of all this, which goes to show that there’s still a lot to be learned about the human brain and the way it works.

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Rationality is great, but it's not worth much in isolation from other cognitive processes. For the age of genomics, I think we need some metaphors other than the Adam and Eve stories. Imagining DNA as a hidden, serpentine "intelligence" is a pretty aesthetically pleasing metaphor, to my tastes.

Talking about metaphors and Adam and Eve, there are a couple of verses in the book of Genesis that I’ve always associated with a veiled message to the secrets of DNA. Read:

3:22. Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

3:23. Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

3:24. So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Besides the fact that Yahweh God (Elohim) is saying that “man has become like one of us”. The imagery that catches my mind’s eye is the flaming sword which turns every way to guard the tree of life. Somehow that continual turning of the flaming sword reminds me of a “helix”.