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The Sacred Neuroscience of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson by TJ Clark
“And so, the three-brained beings of the planet Earth are not only, as we also are, apparatuses for the transformation of the cosmic substances required for the Most Great Trogoautoegocrat with the qualities of all the three forces of the fundamental common-cosmic Triamazikamno, but also, themselves absorbing these substances for transformation from three different sources of independent arisings, have all the possibilities of assimilating besides the substances necessary for the maintenance of their own existence, also those substances which go for the coating and perfecting of their own higher-being-bodies.2
Where, anatomically, in the planetary body of an ordinary human being are the three centers… moving, emotional and intellectual centers located? How are they connected in an ordinary human being and how could they be connected in a properly functioning and awake human being? What are the consequences of the abnormal connections and improper use of these centers and their effect on morbidity (disease) and the duration of existence of ordinary human beings? And, in contrast, what can be considered as normal?
“1. The brain determined by Great Nature for the concentration and further actualization of the first holy force of the Sacred Triamazikamno, called the Holy-Affirming, is localized in the head. “2. The second brain, which transforms and crystallizes the second holy force of the sacred Triamazikamno, namely, the Holy-Denying, is placed in their common presences, also as in us, along the whole of their back in what is called the ‘spinal column.’ “3. But as regards the place of concentration and source for the further manifestation of the third holy force of the sacred Triamazikamno, namely, the Holy-Reconciling – the exterior form of this being-brain in the three-brained beings there bears no resemblance whatever to ours”.4
“Great Nature was compelled little by little to regenerate this brain and to give it the form which it now has in contemporary beings.” (4) Implicit in this statement is that we are not as we should be and that the human organism perhaps was, but is no longer, constructed to readily serve its higher purpose. He states that in this being-brain, representing the emotional center or third holy force in the contemporary three-brained beings there is not localized in one common mass, “…but is localized in parts, according to what is called ‘Specific Functioning,’ and each such part is localized in a different place of their whole planetary body”.5
“…just in that place of their planetary body where such a normal being-brain should be, namely, in the region of their breast, and the totality of these nerve-nodes in their breast, they call the “Solar Plexus.”7
Indeed the structure and function of the human head-brain or cerebrum can be appreciated as a marvel of evolutionary biology yet, in the absence of conscious awareness, it is no more than what Gurdjieff has referred to a “typewriter”9, a “machine”10 or an “apparatus.”11 Today, he would likely refer to the head-brain as a computer.
Note, however, that the abnormal functioning of the thinking center includes activities common to each of us including fantasy, considering, identification and daydreaming—like an errant typewriter—and that efforts to struggle against these can lead to the harmonious connections between the centers. The spinal cord or “spinal marrow,” as Gurdjieff refers to it, conducts messages to and from the head-brain or the cerebrum regarding the sensations and movements of the head, trunk and limbs.
Regarding the localization of the emotional center, in the chapter THE HOLY PLANET PURGATORY, Gurdjieff states: “Concerning the place of concentration of this localization which serves the common presences of terrestrial three-brained beings as a regularizing or reconciling principle, it must be noticed that in the beginning these three-brained beings of the planet Earth who have taken your fancy, also had this third concentration, similarly to us, in the form of an independent brain localized in the region of what is called ‘breast.’”
Through the conscious and intentional fulfilling of Being-Partkdolg duty by beings of the three-brained system they can “…utilize from this process of Djartklom in the Omnipresent-Okidanokh, its three holy forces for their own presences, and bring their presences to what are called the ‘Sekronoolanzaknian-state’; that is to say, that they can become such individuals as have their own sacred law of Triamazikamno and thereby the possibility of consciously taking in and coating in their common presence all that ‘Holy’ which, incidentally, also aids the actualizing of the functioning in these cosmic units of Objective or Divine Reason.”16
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Proceedings of the 25th ALL and Everything International Humanities Conference, 2020 by The Proceedings aande 2020, TJ Clark, Josh Denny, Jan Jarvis, Richard Miller, Peter Apps, Trevor Ste… presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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