EPISODE · Mar 13, 2021 · 51 MIN
Altered states of consciousness such as mania are sort of like experiential learning
from Bipolar Inquiry · host Andrea
so the first random bit I want to talk about today is about experiential learning and how altered states of consciousness such as mania are sort of like experiential learning experiences so usually we try to learn by maybe reading or watching YouTube but it's another thing to have an energy take us over that causes us to behave in different ways that actually gets learning happening in our psychosomatic organism in our physiology in our neural plasticity so if I wanted to learn tennis and I practiced a lot of hours that would be embedded in my muscle memory as well as in my brain and neuroplastic changes in my brain certain areas my brain would be more connected or larger or light up when I'm in that action of tennis so in that way I feel like the universe is trying to get us to be some kind of player it's trying to get us to act and be in a different way and I talked before about how Buckminster fuller had a quote relating to the spontaneous social behaviors needed in order to save humanity and save the planet and I feel this energy is an energy that is creating some of those spontaneous social behaviors to save the planet and after a person has an experience like this at least in my experience it changed me a lot and I also had the thought that mania is sort of like disorganized kindness or or disorganized altruism a person to just popping around trying to be kind everywhere and being kind beyond one's bounds so for example I might in that state think that I should give all my money away because I feel like I have everything I need so i should give all my money to charity and while that's really wonderful and kind of me it is not going to help me function in a daily basis because i'll have no money to function so society is not structured the way that a person in mania feels it is it feels like Society runs on kindness and giving and sharing and love and that actually might be the underlying fabric of reality and how reality works naturally that's how we're naturally programmed from birth is to connect and to be kind to each other into care just like the mothers programmed to care for infant and the infant is programmed to respond so I feel like in that state that altered state called mania or maybe magic or mystery a person feels like they understand those underlying fundamental laws of reality and they are the laws of reality but they're written / by our clever human programs and so I also thought of this idea of how mania is kind of like its kindness and wonderful and lovely but a certain point it becomes altruistic anxiety it feels like one has so much to give and doesn't know how to give it and so it's almost like we implode because we have we just don't know how to be in that state all the time and perhaps because that state isn't the way society is designed it's a state we feel like we get to that state and it's like an infinite state and it's a timeless state so it feels like that's how it always is and that's how it always has been and that's just the way the world works but once reconnected to consensus reality we realized well as not the way it works but that state exists in a place beyond time it's always everywhere ever-present omnipotent it's something to do with the quantum hologram and it's like the underlying fabric but since that knot isn't how it is all the time we feel it just when we're in that state which feels like a timeless state but I still feel that that state wants to unfold and inform the material linear everyday reality so there's something to be harvested from that state and usually a person in that state it's too much energy there's way too much energy in that state and and I've talked in another video how it's like a person goes around dissipating all the energy until they crash and they usually crash lower than the baseline but it's because it's almost like it it is that painful to come back to daily reality from that timeless state and I'm not saying that's true this is just these are ju
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