Tag: Health

 I stumbled across this image and wanted to share it with you.

What do you see when you look in your mirror?

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – The mirror reflects what is inside, not what is outside.

I spent most of the other day at the hospital, supporting my best friend as she had surgery.

Surgery is no fun, but the real problem is all the stress before it: Worry.  Signing living wills. Worst case sceaniros played out in your head.

Once you’re in the hospital, though, the procedure happens pretty fast (depending on your needs, of course).

I was amazed to see so many people come in and go out the same day. I was beginning to think I was sitting at a fast food place, watching people drive up, place their order, drive around back to get it, and then go home.

I asked one of the staff how many surgeries they did that day. I was astonished to hear sixty-four.

Sixty-four surgeries in one day?

In just one little hospital?

I’d call that drive-thru surgery.

What a wild, wonderful time we live in.

But what I am really curious about is the experience of having anesthesia.

I had it last January when I went through an emergency appendectomy.

I wondered about it then.

When they knock you out, where do you go?

It’s not sleep, as you don’t wake up refreshed.

It’s not unconsciousness, like when you’re blacked out from a fall, because you don’t recall anything at all; not even “blackness”.

It’s not a near-death experience, as there aren’t any white lights or ghostly beings, and you don’t recall a single thing.

I asked the anesthesiologist what happened during anesthesia.

“No one knows,” he said. “There have been numerous studies done but all we know is the mind disengages from the body.”

Rightly so, too.

The mind doesn’t need to be there.

But why?

How?

And where does the mind go?

I asked one medical doctor and he said:

“This is truly one of the hottest topics in academic consciousness 
studies. This very question is what has obsessed a couple of 
academics in this area, and led to one of the most interesting 
theories of ‘consciousness’, which relates to microtubules in the 
brain, which seem to be affected by anesthesia.

“It may be that *only* the witness is *awake* under anesthesia, and that the witness experiences only silence and *the void* under deep anesthesia, but there may be much more that happens, that we are not privy to, because it is too deep.

“This is one of the interesting correspondences with the ‘divided mind’ theory, or ‘division theory,’  which is well presented in what I consider one of the most important books of the 20th century, The Lost Secret of Death, by Peter Novak.”

Fascinating.

I still don’t know where the mind goes during surgery.

I’m just glad it goes someplace.

I’m going to fish for that book and see what it unfolds.

Meanwhile, stay healthy.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS —  In Zero Limits my coauthor and I talk about the “zero state.” Maybe that’s where the mind goes? It just dissolves into zero? It reaches the blank state of nothingness and “you” aren’t there? Hmmmmm.  

 Though over 1,000 people came to both talks today, the highlight for me when I spoke at Unity Church of the Hills in Austin was seeing art called The Laughing Jesus.

I’ve never seen this version of Jesus before, though Bruce Barton, the man I wrote about in my book, The Seven Lost Secrets of Success, must have.

He wrote a book called The Man Nobody Knows, spelling out how human Jesus had been.

I like thinking Jesus may have enjoyed a good joke along with his glass or two of wine.

Sure beats all the bloody, dying, sad, miserable images of him I had in my head before today.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – For more information see www.jesuslaughing.com And smile already. 🙂

One of the movies I’ve been filmed for is getting ready to be released. I was just moments ago told you can see the 5 minute trailer for it here: www.tryitoneverything.com 

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