Complexity → Simplicity → Quintessence

GENE KEY 23: THE ALCHEMY OF SIMPLICITY

Spectrum: Complexity → Simplicity → Quintessence THE SHADOW — Complexity

ADDICTION

THE GREAT GENETIC GLITCH

The 24' shadow, when correctly understood, explains much about the Shadow state itself as well as why human beings find it so difficult to resolve the deeper repetitive problems in their lives. This is the Shadow that keeps the psychology profession in business, and it is the Shadow that big advertising companies take full advantage of. We humans come pre-programmed for addiction, and the main culprit responsible for this is our minds. A well-known urban myth states that we only use a very small percentage of our brains, but any neuroscientist will tell you that this is untrue. In an average day we use almost all of our brains. It is not how much of our brain we use; it is how efficiently we use it. As it stands today, the human brain is still such unexplored territory for consciousness. The way in which you use your brain is determined by your genetics, so that some people think more logically and others more laterally. Let’s compare the circuitry of the brain to the 88 keys on a piano. We could say that the piano keys offer almost infinite potential for creating music and melody. However, in the case of our brains, we tend to find the tunes that we like and play them over and over. Many people don’t really think for themselves at all, but have learned conditioned patterns from their parents and their environment and keep following those patterns their whole lives. Of course everyone uses their brain all the time, but it is relatively rare for someone to find an entirely new way of thinking. Synaptic routes within the ganglia of the brain become as trodden and familiar as public pathways and the 244 shadow works hard to keep it that way. The mass consciousness of humanity is still dominated by the archaic fear and survival-based aspects of our brain. This fear is a powerfully pervasive force within the chemistry of the human body. The 24' shadow creates a low frequency rhythm throughout your whole being, and this frequency prevents you from thinking outside your comfort zone, which exists on a physical, emotional and mental level. We generally follow the same predictable paths in our external lives that our brains follow neurologically. This gives rise to the phenomenon known as addictive behaviour. When we talk here of addiction we are not talking about specific psychological disorders, but of an entire human behavioural code that is so self- limiting it does not recognise its own addiction. The fact is that all modes of thinking are addictive. You can be a left-brain addict or a right-brain addict, and you will be equally addicted. The only thing that breaks addictive thinking is silence — real silence. As we shall see, it is silence that gives birth to the 24'" Gift of Invention — the art of thinking and acting in totally original ways. All modes of thinking are addictive. Every cycle of addiction has natural gaps within it and human beings experience these gaps in awareness. They can occur at any time... THE SIDDHI — Quintessence