Mid-morning.
You are ready for a nap due to interrupted sleep last night cause by cat
commotions, i.e. playing chase at odd hours . . . on and off the bed during
chasing . . . both of them.
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hours. Sometimes we are body warm furniture, other times just furniture. It is
a very dreary morning and easy to get in a nap mood anyway. For two nights now
I have gone to sleep listening to a locally flavored radio station in Sri
Lanka. I like to listen to Sanskrit chants. -- Right now I am listening to
Annapoorna Stotram on Youtube:
You listened to about a half hour of chants,
boy and your mind interacted with the artwork and scenery shown. To be without
desire is not to be without passion sublime. Post. - Amorella
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hours. I am out of the bath and just performed an experiment. While sitting in
the tub up to my neck with warm water I listened (with eyes shut and shades
down) first to: 'Annaspoorna Stotram' by Shravan K. Manyam and then to: 'hey
govind hey gopal' by Sumit Jain. Within a few seconds of notes of 'hey govind
hey gopal' my lower eye muscles, the ones Amorella connect to me without using
the washer and string, swayed with the music on their own accord. What an
unexpected surprise. This lasted 3 to 5 seconds several times and I tried to
focus my mind on a specific image but to no avail; however, when I focused: 'my
mind is blank like an erased blackboard' the rhythm returned. I could keep this
for up to 5 seconds or so then it would stop because I lost the focus. (1117)
When we talk . . .
The music turned off. I had it on to check the names of
the songs. It stopped after "When we talk . . .". A coincidence I am
sure, but certainly a timely one because understood (flowing into
consciousness) were the words 'turn the music off'.
This is indeed what you witnessed. This was
not a coincidence boy. No need for me, the Amorella, to go on when the words rose
up in your head. You would have stopped the music but it suddenly stopped on
its own. - Amorella
Hit
Grey's Anatomy so we can take care of this (one more time). - Amorella
It is the extraocular muscle in each eye that loops the
eyeball up, down and around, two of the cardinal directions. The muscles
develop along the fatty tissue of the eye socket (orbit). The rocking motion
(like the light side by side rocking of a canoe) involuntarily began and kept
with the rhythm of the music for up to five and perhaps seven seconds then it
would involuntarily stop. (1143)
The
'rocking' motion is used in book two Running Through Chapter Nine, "Pouch Text". this was my reflection after the
motion stopped the first time and before it started again. The
Soki is speaking: (The reference is in the 'knowing' between good and evil, so
it is different in focus but the rocking motion is there.)
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The Saki is speaking to the Reader:
Imagine
you are on a platform in the middle of a large body of sand. The sand appears
to be floating, but that is not the case. You can sense the rocking motion. At
least, I the Soki can; a gentle rocking like being rocked in a crib. It is very
pleasant is it not? Think of your favorite color. And,
you
are stable again. This is the Platform you have to be on to sense this
circumstance in your head. The rocking motion is Salt and Pepper, not really,
of course, but it will have to do here. Salt represents Good in this story and
Pepper represents Evil. This is a marsupialese story not an earthbound one.
This is the way they are taught the story when they are young, so I am
forwarding it to you in the same manner.
We
are on a Platform continually rocked back and forth in a very gentle manner, that
is what the children imagine as they sit rocking back and forth for fun. The
teacher then says, ‘you are on the Fulcrum of the Balance of Good and Evil. It
is a calming effect. You can almost sense the rippling water nearby as you sit
in a quiet boat.’
It
is a simple devise, a technique. You can be there in a moment when you want to
relax. Now, you have to want to relax in the first place, really relax.
Otherwise, you will be caught up in the whirlwinds around you. The reason,
according to the marsupial tradition, is because when you get too caught up in
something you become out of balance, and you either try too hard to be good or
fight being bad to the point you torture your mind with indecision and torment.
You can come out of the relaxation with a blink of mind.
The
reason we are on the Platform is to get a closer sense of Salt and Pepper as
stabilizers, as the keel of a sailboat if will. Salt and Pepper keep the
universe upright and on course to wherever it is heading. Only Godofamily knows
where, according to this marsupial narrative. We are the boat with the visible
and invisible universes, if you will, and everyone knows we are on the move.
This is the marsupial myth.
From: Orndorff, Richard H., Running Through, Chapter 9, "Pouch
Text".
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This material on the string and washer can be found in earlier unpublished notes.
1344
hours. I found more information on the extraocular muscle.
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Muscle Description
Muscular tissue is the basic tissue characterized by the ability
to contract upon stimulation. Muscular tissues are vascularized tissues chiefly
composed of elongated cells that are excitable and contractile, and usually
arranged in parallel. In the body, there are three types of muscular tissue:
skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle.
Smooth Muscle Description
Smooth muscle is composed of
sheets or bundles of relatively short, spindle-shaped cells, in a staggered
array. Smooth muscle cells are not striated, and have a single central nucleus.
In some smooth muscle, the cells are interconnected by gap junctions.
In cross section, smooth muscle cells are circular. Diameters of
cross-sectional profiles differ; the largest profiles display a central
nucleus.
Smooth muscle (How it
works)
Smooth muscle contraction is
involuntary. Physiologically, smooth muscle is often described as being either
multi-unit or unitary. In multi-unit smooth muscle, such as the muscles in the
iris, the cells are not interconnected by gap junctions. These cells are
individually controlled by the autonomic nervous system.
In unitary smooth muscle, the
cells are interconnected by gap junctions. Contraction of unitary smooth
muscle, for example, in the walls of the intestines, is often described as slow
and rhythmic. The rate and force of contraction are modulated by the autonomic
nervous system and hormones.
Excitation of smooth muscle cells, either by autonomic nerve
fibers or through gap junctions, causes extracellular calcium ions to enter the
cytosol. Calmodulin binds calcium ions and activates myosin light-chain kinase,
which phosphorylates a myosin light chain, unmasking myosin's actin-binding
site.
From: http://wiki.medpedia.com/Muscular_Tissue
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You
had been working, then napping to more Sanskrit chants, and working again. Now
you have 365 words, one for each day of the year. Let's drop it in to show your
progress. - Amorella
1629 hours. Within the hour we are, once again on a
Wednesday, going to supper at the Brazenhead Pub. I am feeling much better
about this attempt at Grandma 13.
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Grandma 13 (a drafting in progress)
I have a little story for you,
noted Grandma. This narrative takes place in a narrow area of India in the
sixth century. Thar stands tall along the upper Krishna River in the
Maharashtra state in the Western Ghats mountain range. The eight hundred mile
river flows east to west across India to the Bay of Bengal. To the far north is
the Indian desert of Sahara-like sand dunes. To the Krishna River’s far
southwest coast of India in the present day Kerala state are coastal
semi-evergreen forests. This limited area of the subcontinent has the Indian
Ocean to its west and the high Western Ghats Mountain to its east.
Gangly Thar and his still
beautiful full-bodied, long black haired partner, Malabar sit eating some fruit
on a large ash gray boulder on the south shoreline of the Krishna. Behind them
about three hundred feet is an ancient temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. The
temple has long been destroyed but it has a near twin still standing and in use
in the state of Bihar, the Mundeshwari Devi Temple. Both towered temples were
built for the worship of Lord Shiva in the early first century. A younger
couple, Goa and Comorin, come out of the entrance to the small temple and see
the backs of the older couple lounging on the rock.
An ever so slight wind, a seeming
inconsequential breeze with a flit of bliss, accompanies Goa and Comorin on
their now judicious walk to see their friends and to innocently ask how it is
that Thar and Malabar long ago had come to be married and to live in such peace
with one another.
Thar
rose and stood loincloth naked while Malabar sat. In solemn tone he declared as
he had many times in the years before, "There will be great floods from
these mountains to our north."
With
her feet dangling in the cool water and turning her head slightly to her left
and up to see her husband's eyes looking down, Malabar grumbled, “There are always
floods, Thar," then with a twinkle in her eye, added, "And droughts
too; nevertheless, we cannot wade across the Krishna without getting our feet
wet." - 365 w
***
I
wonder what it is that is going on within heartansoulanmind when the smooth
lower extraocular muscle below the eyes slowly sways as it did again while I
listened to more Sanskrit Chants on YouTube? They rocked gently to the chant
and for longer duration, perhaps up to fifteen or so seconds at a time before
ebbing, then after a short time swayed again several more times. The feeling
was so refreshingly relaxing that I describe the feeling as the opposite of
intense. (1642) - rho
Later, my young man. Post. - Amorella
This
was fun today, more like real research. I am so glad I have kept all my notes
-- 25 years worth of notes. Once I complete these three books I can go back and
put them all on a disk. That should take me to my inevitable conclusion.
Otherwise I have to think of something else to do until then. When older Owen and Brennan can do with the notes what they want. (2200)
1930 hours. We had a great supper at Brazenhead Irish
Pub. We like the food and the pub atmosphere, especially on dreary mid-week
evenings.
You asked your friends on Facebook about the
Sanskrit chants and the involuntary swaying motion. Most have been fun
responses which you more or less expected. - Amorella
True, but there is always a chance someone else will
have this happen too. Why not? Anyway, the only thing to do is ask. They are
'friends' after all.
Carol is washing her hair because she and
her friends have breakfast at First Watch tomorrow. Let's go back to your
earlier question:
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I
wonder what it is that is going on within heartansoulanmind when the smooth
lower extraocular muscle below the eyes slowly sways as it did again while I
listened to more Sanskrit Chants on YouTube?
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While settling in on the chant, before you
actually began the involuntary movement, there was no empty blackboard thought
like earlier when you were attempting to consciously induce the slowly swaying
movement. It happened unexpectedly with the movement beginning at bottom center
and moving to the left then back to the right. The total muscular distance from
left to right and right to left is less than one/eighth (maybe one/sixteenth)
of an inch but it feels like about a quarter inch to your conscious self during
the full movement from left to right or right to left -- it is as if the top of
your brain is a metronome and you have two small pendulums swinging below it.
The length of the pendulum 'wires' is about five inches from brain top to the
extraocular muscle sensations of movement. These sensations are produces by the
oculomotor (superior and inferior branched) nerves within the specific area; at
least this is how I read it in 'wiki/Extraocular_muscles'.
Now,
more to the point, what is going on within heartansoulanmind (the part of your
brain/mind where the fingertips touch the keyboard) while your extraocular
muscles are involuntarily swaying with the chant?
Note: You think of all this description as
a subjective response while I think of it as an objective response. - Amorella
The
rhythm is unconscious but the sensation is as plain as day. The movement causes
the sensation of not thinking, thus the brain is relaxed. This is analogous to
'sound masking'.
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Sound masking
is the addition of natural or
artificial sound (such as white noise or pink noise) into an environment to
cover up unwanted sound by using auditory masking. This is in contrast to the
technique of active noise control. Sound masking reduces or eliminates
awareness of pre-existing sounds in a given area and can make a work
environment more comfortable, while creating speech privacy so workers can
better concentrate and be more productive. Sound masking can also be used in
the outdoors to restore a more natural ambient environment.
Sound
masking can be explained by analogy with light. Imagine a dark room where
someone is turning a flashlight on and off. The light is very obvious and
distracting. Now imagine that the room lights are turned on. The flashlight is
still being turned on and off, but is no longer noticeable because it has been
"masked". Sound masking is a similar process of covering a
distracting sound with a more soothing or less intrusive sound.
From: Wikipedia - sound masking
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When
the swaying stops, instantaneous thought appears to recovers and the brain/mind
is again 'busy'. It is always busy because while you are alive that is its
primary function, to keep you alive and conscious. This swaying is an
involuntary conditional and thus, existential. - Amorella (2011)
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(2152) Carol wanted to watch a couple of shows, last
night's "NCIS" and "Body of Proof". I somewhat forget what
we were doing.
We are done for the night, boy. Post. - Amorella
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