The Path of the Mystic ~ 23
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 15 May 1986 pm |
| location | Punta Del Este, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 50min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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| shorttitle | MYSTIC23 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, in the sixties and seventies neurologists became very interested in an area of the brain stem called the "reticular formation." It is said that this is the area that filters input into the brain while we are asleep. Thus, a mother sleeps through all sorts of noises, but wakes the instant her child cries -- this function was said to be achieved by the reticular formation. It seems that during sleep there is one element within us which remains awake. Does witnessing have any relationship to this phenomenon? Does witnessing belong to a part of the brain?
- Question 2
- Beloved Osho, when I heard you say that you wanted a hundred of us enlightened as soon as possible, I wondered why a hundred?
- A few months ago I saw on Spanish television a program where it showed a discovery made by an anthropologist and a scientist on some island. They had been watching some monkeys for years and they had observed that when one of them accidentally dropped a sweet potato -- which was their main diet -- into the water, thereby washing it clean of the earth they were used to devouring along with the potato, he discovered it tasted much better and tried to teach the others to do the same.
- Some young ones followed his idea; others rejected it. But the extraordinary thing was that when the hundredth monkey had accepted and started following this routine, simultaneously all the monkeys on other islands started to do the same. Can you comment?
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