liberating Consciousness
Liberating Consciousness and the SelfWhat allows humans to become more conscious? One can see that it is not a matter of how one expands his or her consciousness; it is how one can stop constantly restricting and narrowing it. Humans are creatures that already have a wide-open and infinitely interconnected consciousness built into them. The fact that they choose to interfere and refine consciousness affects their state of being. In Zen in the Art of Archery, this exact restriction is what caused Eugen Herrigel's struggle in his to attain the "artless art" of Zen self mastery. The narrowing of consciousness into habits of end-gaining mentalities is also what the Alexander Technique attempts to alter. The technique enables the mind and body to recognize and free itself from unconscious layers of muscular and mental habits. Human restriction of the conscious mind into an "end gaining" mentality resembles the view of consciousness as what Daniel Dennett calls the Cartesian Theater, where consciousness is narrowed !to a specific point of experience. In order to attain self mastery as "means whereby" one must abandon the notion of a Cartesian Theater, and view consciousness as an ongoing process of human experie
In conjunction with the multiple drafts model, the Alexander Technique views being as an ongoing means whereby, in which the process of attaining the goal far outweighed the narrow focus on the goal of correct posture itself. There is no central place in the brain/mind where everything is presented and decisions are made (the fallacy of the Cartesian Theatre). The "Cartesian Theater" is a stage where all consciousness occurs. A man who does n!ot stand properly forms a habit of standing improperly. Most people have developed habits that interfere with their natural coordination and functioning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Thus, Herrigel became caught in a restricted mind set in which he limited his consciousness to attaining the ultimate goal of hitting the target, and not the process through which the goal was to be attained. For Herrigal, each step that was required to reach the final goal of hitting the target was a conscious experience independent of the next step. After one step was presented onto the Cartesian stage of consciousness, it was pushed off the stage and into the post-conscious. This is why they end up being so unconscious. All other experiences besides the specific point of consciousness, the observer becomes oblivious to, thus creating in the observer a habit of perceiving all experiences as an anticipated goal that is independent of the any events leading up to that conscious experience. It is implied that the means of the purpose exist independent of the habit. Alexander's Technique uses the brain consciously for self-observation of habitual use of the organism, for conscious inhibition of habitual use, for conscious observation of an emerging, more integrated use, for conscious cooperation with the more integrated use, all this depending surely on the conscious linking of conceptual and motor functions in the brain, by choice.
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