03-18-2013, 12:01 AM
trinsic1 wrote:My thread got hijacked by off topic stuff. Anyway Just wanted to report that i still cant seem to take control of my dreams, but I have been working on mediating each day listening to my guide it seems to be helping i dont get so caught up in day to day stuff as easy now. I have been reading about losing the human form. I was wondering if anyone knew how do you know you have entered the second attention? and what does it take to reach it?
The first attention is the way we ordinarily perceive the world. We can equate this roughly with the rational mind or the left-brain style of processing. In the first attention we think more or less logically, we see the world as a sequence of discrete events happening along a timeline from past to future, and we use syntax to describe and summarize energetic happenings. While the use of syntax is very handy for filtering out the enormous range of perceptual inputs our organism handles in any given second, it also means that in this frame of mind we are not experiencing the world directly.The second attention is what Castaneda called non-ordinary awareness. The second attention could roughly be likened to the dreaming mind, the right-brain style of processing, or the deeper frequencies of mind such as theta and delta The second attention also includes “the mind that is in the body” — the things we know and experience physically that we often don’t know how to put into syntax. Inner knowings, feeling as if time doesn't exist and being in a dream like reality while awake . Other trance-inducing practices such as drumming, prolonged dancing, plant medicines, meditation, yoga, martial arts and the like are designed to access the second attention.
The first attention is the way we ordinarily perceive the world. We can equate this roughly with the rational mind or the left-brain style of processing. In the first attention we think more or less logically, we see the world as a sequence of discrete events happening along a timeline from past to future, and we use syntax to describe and summarize energetic happenings. While the use of syntax is very handy for filtering out the enormous range of perceptual inputs our organism handles in any given second, it also means that in this frame of mind we are not experiencing the world directly.The second attention is what Castaneda called non-ordinary awareness. The second attention could roughly be likened to the dreaming mind, the right-brain style of processing, or the deeper frequencies of mind such as theta and delta The second attention also includes “the mind that is in the body” — the things we know and experience physically that we often don’t know how to put into syntax. Inner knowings, feeling as if time doesn't exist and being in a dream like reality while awake . Other trance-inducing practices such as drumming, prolonged dancing, plant medicines, meditation, yoga, martial arts and the like are designed to access the second attention.