Tart, Chapters 1 & 3

Tart-

While reading the material by Tart on the "Stabilization of a State of Consciousness," I was very much surprised when he stated the four ways of stabilizing the d-SoC system, and how that relates to controlling others. I thought the way Tart described the loading and thinking process was very clever. He stated that in order to make yourself at ease in the d-SoC stage you don't know your doing this but you actually think clever thoughts about yourself and of which results in self relaxation. I find myself doing this alot not paying close attention to what is going on around me but if one sound or movement occurs out of the ordinary some how that movement or sound catches my attention and I clue into what is going on at that time. What also was interesting in this reading of Tart was the paragraph on Positive Feedback Stabilization. Tart illustrates the negative and positive affects of stabilization in reference to driving home late at night, at which the hypnangogic state intertwines with positive d-SoC and explains how the learning stage acts as a cushion in helping you maintain your alertness while driving.

Chapter 1-

While reading Chapter 1 I came across some interesting topics one of which that struck my attention. The picture on page 8 with the closed caption about telepathic twins. During my summer vacation I had a movie night with some of my friends and we rented the movie " I know who killed me." Lindsay Lohan was the main character and in this movie Lindsay being a teenager is faced with some odd behaviors as to why certain things are happening to her that are un realistic. To make a long story short she feels that their is someone out their experiencing the same feelings as her and she goes out to find this person and when she does not knowing she is born a twin she is re united with her sister. The paranormal also is a quite interesting topic why certain things happen for un known reasons. Creativity is a gift I believe every person has they just have to find it in themselves. I also must agree with Hughes when he speaks, "Creativity begins as an imaginative construct and ends as an external object."

Chapter 3-

Consciousness is constructed out of nothing more than the four of five sense's we has human beings have seeing, hearing, feeling, and smelling. While reading about the sense of smell I came across something I may have never knew. Salmon use their keen sense of smell to back track thousands of miles to where they were born. One other thing that interest me was their is three to four parts to the human brain the brainstem that controls breathing and heart rate, another is the limbric system that controls emotions and primitive reactions, finally the cerebral cortex where we understand and interpret the world around us, store memory, and where speech and sight are controlled. Finally with the brain I was amazed that the right hemisphere of the brain controls the functionings the left side and vice versa. On the topic of, " The divided self" I was very easily confused that one person may have the capacity of sixteen different personalities?? That is a little bit odd and rather strange if you ask me! What I would like to know is how can someone be in that altar state of mind that they try or other words state they don't know who they were and some how easily say their this type of person...