Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

The beast stream feeds very much on our thinking. Just like how spiritual teachers like Eckhart Tolle say that we almost have become possessed by the thinking mind.

And I noticed a sneaky thing which is that in order for the thinking mind to go on so forcefully, it relies on us feeling bad, or numb, in our bodies. One antidote, then, is to move consciousness into the body. And of course Tolle and others have talked about inner body awareness practice. The new insight I had is that the thinking mind needs the body to feel awful, unpleasant or numb in order for it to hijack our conscious attention.

Another insight that Tolle often talks about is that the thinking mind is a necessary stage of development for humanity. It's just that it has become too dominant and taken over our awareness too much and shoved us into its own little box of thoughts.