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By now, you might have worked out the solution to the hand experiment all by yourself.
The answer is very easy to put into words, but is very difficult to Perceive.
By concentrating on the cells as individual beings and
yourself as an individual being I distracted you from the fact that both you and your
cells are manifested together as one part of a single communications web, integrated
within your system and within the world surrounding you.
Your "being" both collective and individual, is the process
of intercommunications.
All of your cells and you (as a collective) are created as part of a
single process by the flow of information through the communication network as you and
your cells interact with your internal and external environment.
Think about it.
You read a series of words
suggesting you perform the finger to nose
experiment. The words were visual environmental
parameters that formed detailed signals from
the retina of your eyes to the billions of
neurons of your brain. Because you learned
how to read English, the communication network
between neurons manifested the correct patterns
to evoke learned patterns of behavior, cascading
messages to build new interpretations. You
knew what the letters spelling out "finger"
and "hand" represented. You understood
the suggestion of touching your nose because
the cellular communication network created
both the thoughts (your mind) and the directed
communications from the intrepreted
language presenting the concept. This
flow of information resulted in redirected
signals to the muscle cells responsible for
making a fist, extending the index finger,
and moving the finger tip to the tip of the
nose..
There was no separate "self" communicating with the cells.
Self and cells are manifested together as part of a continuous web of intercommunications.
We see you and we see the cells, as independent objects. What we can't perceive without
highly sophisticated scientific equipment, is the communication web creating you and the
cells. We cannot sense the communication web directly because the web of communications is our hearing, seeing, feeling, touching,
thinking.
You appear from moment to moment as the cumulative behavior
of all of your cells. The way the cells shape themselves and the messages they send in the
form of molecules, electrical impulses, and even microwaves create - and are created by -
the web of communications existing between them, and between you and the environment
around you.
Mind and Matter
This web of communications not only gets the cells to hold
their physical forms in just the right position to create your total form, it is also the
fabric of your mental activity. The web of cellular communications creates your mind at
the same time as it creates your form.
When "you" decide to do anything at all, the
decision is a process within the whole web of communications existing between all of the
hundreds of trillions of creatures that make up your collective self. The web of
communications is your larger, total mind. It manifests the body and the mind of each cell
and the whole collective based on the cellular capabilities created during your growth
from egg to adult.
We can prove this in two ways.
First of all, we could inject curare into your body, even a
tiny amount. This would not damage the cells, but it would short-circuit the communication
web between the cells. Tests, conducted by Amazonian Indians who use curare on their
blow-darts, show that when the cellular communications stop, the individual being stops
moving, stops breathing, and the whole individual and all of the cells die, decompose, and
vanish.
A less drastic proof is available. It is to expand your
awareness to a larger share of the mind that created your form and maintains it from
instant to instant. This so-called larger mind is accessible in the same way that you can
experience your cellular communications by moving your awareness into any part of your
body. You can try this immediately, by "feeling" the big toe on your right foot.
Or moving the center of your awareness to the palm of your right hand. Or lightly touching
your fingertip almost anywhere with a very sharp pin.
This proof comes from participation in the other
experiments of the Thread of Awareness Web. It is proof by experience, the gaining of a new perception. You
have to do the experiments to become adept at the perception.
The
hand experiment and related information
can be found in the story of the Keop's BBQ
in Moira in Papua New Guinea.
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