noting the non egoic churn

So what is new and different? I have been imbibing the thoughts of Robert Wright and David Eagleman and fitting their new stories into my unconscious and loosely modulated mindbrain churn. 

The root notion is that the info entering via the various limited sense organs is ongoing and calls for merging past experience with present circumstances so as to get what you want and to avoid what you do not want. 

The churn does not remain with a thought, feeling or mood (TFM) for very long.. Most people most of the time are carried along on speeding thought trains whose many carriages have different cargoes. This is why some people think that their mind has a mind of its own. The rational ‘me’ is not in charge. But things need not be that way. By being an ‘as if’ witness to what passes through the mindbrain the sting can be taken from the passing TFM.

And there is also the non-egoic state of ‘flow’ where higher levels of TFM give rise to quality ways of doing things with grace rather than with a grudge. (ref Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

These days I usually notice when the churn is about to begin. There is a feeling to capture the passing TFM but they tend to be too hopelessly trivial to make it worthwhile to focus on them.