Welcome to week twenty three. This week, David and Anna explore the reticular activating system as a way of understanding the blueprint within us for our life's mission. This week's edition come with a practice that we'll follow up on next week.
Excerpt:
“I’ve been asking why, out of all the possible life missions I could notice, why this life mission, and why this person? Why did I even notice? I could have gone right past it. What chain of events or synchronicity brought this person and life mission to my life and awareness? I could chalk it up to the reticular activating system, and no doubt it is involved, and it’s more than that. As my field scans billions of bytes of information in my world, in my environment, what brought this particular one to me and made sure it got my attention?”
Anna touched my arm and I stopped. “Intention is everything and the reticular activating system is what?”
“It’s the mechanism that filters the scan of our senses, that determines what we consciously see or are aware of. The reticular activating system holds the idea of what fits our sense of self, which will send on information that is in alignment with our sense of self. What doesn’t fit our picture of what makes up our world is filtered out, just as if we’d never seen it. “The reticular activating system is also involved when anything becomes important to us. It alerts us to anything connected to what we have decided is important when it comes into our field of awareness. It animates or lights up for us. Out of everything we could notice, we notice particular things because our reticular activating system gets the message to alert us to it. It is like the search image in field research.”
The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 9, Life Mission, Vision, and Purpose: Assignments and Agreements, p.178
