Impaired Consciousness?
Impaired Consciousness ?
Have you ever experienced a conversation where your partner’s face and body suddenly lost animation and the eyes were fixed on some point in the room, like a deer in the headlight? You said something but they didn’t respond.
He or she suffered from an impairment of consciousness, a dysfunction in the brain. He or she was both there and not there, in some way attentive, bodily present but consciously unaccounted for. Absent without physically leaving.
The matter of mind, in general, and of consciousness, in particular, allows us to exercise the desire for understanding and the appetite for wonderment about the very nature of ourselves as a human being.
Question: "Is the mind an object in the brain, or an inter- active process between our brain, body, and surroundings?
Is this process of mind more like a reaction and response to attention-energy (bio-photons) sent into our environment?
A response comprising of a series of streams of images and feelings, flowing through the body and brains and creating neural projections that we normally refer to as thoughts?"
Injury to a small region in the rostral dorsolateral pontine tegmentum was significantly associated with coma-causing lesions. In healthy adults, this brainstem site was functionally connected to the ventral anterior insula (AI) and pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC).
These cortical areas aligned poorly with previously defined resting-state networks, better matching the distribution of von Economo neurons. In patients with disorders of consciousness, connectivity was more disrupted between the AI and pACC, than any other brain networks.
Conclusions: This network of brain regions may have a role in the maintenance of human consciousness.
Schwaller de Lubicz concluded that the ancient Egyptians had a radically different consciousness from ours. They viewed the world symbolically, seeing in nature a "writing" conveying truths about the metaphysical forces behind creation—"the Neters," as Egyptian gods are called. It was a vision Schwaller believed we desperately need to regain.
At the center of this vision was Conscious Man, the King. For the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, Conscious Man was the crown and the goal of cosmic evolution, a perception many nature-centered mystics would dispute.
But the Anthropocosmos Conscious Man is not "woman/man as we know her/him today." It is the individual in whom the "intuitive intelligence of the heart" has awakened, one who has had the experience of "functional consciousness."
"Functional consciousness" is a way of knowing reality from the inside. Schwaller believed ancient Egypt was based on this inner knowing, very unlike our own outer-oriented one.
The ancient Egyptians were aware of the limitations of purely cerebral consciousness, the Set mind that "granulates" experience into fragments of time and space.