Transpersonal Philosophy

  When a part of the body is anesthetized, for example, the legs, the feeling that I am not the legs is clear. To consider that I am the body I have to feel it. Actually, I am calling “my body” the nervous sensation that my memory has cataloged as my body. My grandfather had his leg amputated due to gangrene. My father had not told him that they were going to amputate his entire leg, and he went into surgery thinking that they were only going to amputate a couple of his toes. As the anesthetic wore off from his system, he began to complain that he had pain in a foot that he didn't have. This is called in medicine the persistence of a phantom limb. But the entire physical body is like a phantom limb that appears or disappears in images of joy or pain. At this very moment, your cerebral cortex appears only as a concept from this phrase, but in 10 minutes it will disappear like a ghost. You don't feel it and for it to exist in your experience you have to make a menta...

  Cuando nos anestesian una parte del cuerpo, por ejemplo, las piernas, la sensación de que yo no soy las piernas es clara. Para considerar que yo soy el cuerpo tengo que sentirlo. Realmente, estoy llamando “mi cuerpo” a la sensación nerviosa que mi memoria ha catalogado como mi cuerpo. A mi abuelo le amputaron una pierna por gangrena. Mi padre no le había dicho que le iban a amputar toda la pierna, y entró en el quirófano pensando que sólo le iban a quitar un par de dedos del pie. Según la anestesia se disipaba de su sistema, comenzó a quejarse diciendo que le dolía un pie que no tenía. Esto se llama en medicina la persistencia de un miembro fantasma. Pero todo el cuerpo físico es como un miembro fantasma que aparece o desaparece en imágenes de gozo o dolor. En este mismo instante, tu cortex cerebral aparece sólo como concepto a partir de esta frase, pero en 10 minutos desaparecerá como un fantasma. No lo sientes, y para que exista en tu experiencia tienes que hacer ...