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Part II: Page 2 of 10 |
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If discomfort is felt, one quickly learns to push it aside because ‘it leads nowhere’, and you do not get a high position and a Mercedes by sitting and speculating, right? But here and there individuals exists who has not forgotten, not a 100% anyway. They often drop to pieces and almost automatically drift towards the corner of the library where other books than ‘10 tips to get the promotion’ and ‘I got the job of my dreams and everybody loves me’. This is the corner where all the “foolish” books are, which with some luck can keep the spark a flame until you are old enough to navigate in the information jungle, and e.g. finds gnosis.org on the Internet and hear Stephan Hoeller tell about the old gnostics, who were so foolish that they just had to be burned alive. Still, they managed to hide a few of their scriptures which suddenly appeared from a cave in 1945. The scriptures were written with some very obscure symbols and were at first sight rather incomprehensible. It was almost like they were afraid of talking freely. E.g. you read:
In the beginning you knew Then you pretended to forget Then you pretended to forget that you forgot Then you forgot you pretended Remember?
And in this way they go on, strange mysterious words which of course has no relevance for us today. So we turn on the TV or spend the time on something more sensible, e.g. the books that the school recommends. Or we work a little extra, they do say that we must think of our retirement. If we are in the religious mood we read a little in the bible, of course the one that are officially approved. Unofficial bibles may not be trusted.
But no matter how many veils that are thrown either by one self or others, it remains a fact that modern man has a split personality to a high degree. As this is the rule and not the exception, it is something that for most people has passed unnoticed. Apparently it is hard for the fish to discover the water it is swimming in. But many truths which have spend a lot of time in dark caves, comes to light in these days. All you have to do is pick them up.
However, for psychologists the split personality is commonly known. Among the most well known experiments are the socalled split-brain experiments performed in the 1960’s. A group of people suffered from very severe epilepsy, which the known medicine had no effect on. Previously doctors had successfully cut off some of the nerve connections between the two brain hemispheres, but this had no effect on these patients. As a last desperate solution the doctors tried to cut all the nerve connections between the two brain hemispheres. Before the operation, tests were made on rats and cats, which did not change their behaviour after the operation. Still, it seemed like a prette severe operation. How would the patients react when no direct communication were possible between the two hemispheres?
Nothing unusual was noticed! They woke up and behaved completely normal, and further more, their epilepsy attacks stopped. Not even the wife noticed any difference. Hence, it seemed to be a surprisingly effective solution to the severe epilepsy. But then something strange was noticed. When the patient held something in his left hand, e.g. a cup, he could not say what it was. If he then changed the cup to the right hand there was no problem. |