{"id":524,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:17:47","slug":"impaired-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Impaired Consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever experienced a conversation where your partner\u2019s face and body suddenly lost animation and the eyes were fixed on some point in the room, like a deer in the headlight? You said something but they didn\u2019t respond.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He or she suffered from an impairment of consciousness<\/span><\/a>, a dysfunction in the brain. He or she was both there and not there, in some way attentive, bodily present but consciously unaccounted for. Absent without physically leaving.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The matter of mind, in general, and of consciousness<\/span><\/a>, in particular, allows us to exercise the desire for understanding and the appetite for wonderment about the very nature of ourselves as a human being.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Question: “Is the mind an object in the brain, or an inter- active process between our brain, body, and surroundings? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Is this process of mind more like a reaction and response to attention-energy (bio-photons<\/span><\/a>) sent into our environment?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A response comprising of a series of streams of images and feelings, flowing through the body and brains and creating neural projections that we normally refer to as thoughts?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Harvard study results<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Injury to a small region in the rostral dorsolateral pontine tegmentum was significantly associated with coma-causing lesions. In healthy adults, this brainstem site was functionally connected to the ventral anterior insula (AI) and pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

These cortical areas aligned poorly with previously defined resting-state networks, better matching the distribution of von Economo neurons. In patients with disorders of consciousness, connectivity was more disrupted between the AI and pACC, than any other brain networks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/span><\/span><\/span>: This network of brain regions may have a role in the maintenance of human consciousness.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Schwaller de Lubicz<\/span><\/a> concluded that the ancient Egyptians<\/span><\/a> had a radically different consciousness from ours. They viewed the world symbolically, seeing in nature a “writing” conveying truths about the metaphysical forces behind creation\u2014”the Neters,” as Egyptian gods are called. It was a vision Schwaller believed we desperately need to regain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the center of this vision was Conscious Man, the King. For the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, Conscious Man was the crown and the goal of cosmic evolution, a perception many nature-centered mystics would dispute.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But the Anthropocosmos Conscious Man is not “woman\/man as we know her\/him today.” It is the individual in whom the “intuitive intelligence of the heart” has awakened, one who has had the experience of “functional consciousness.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Functional consciousness” is a way of knowing reality from the inside. Schwaller believed ancient Egypt was based on this inner knowing, very unlike our own outer-oriented one.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ancient Egyptians were aware of the limitations of purely cerebral consciousness, the Set mind that “granulates” experience into fragments of time and space.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

read more …<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Have you ever experienced a conversation where your partner\u2019s face and body suddenly lost animation and the eyes were fixed on some point in the room, like a deer in the headlight? You said something but they didn\u2019t respond. He or she suffered from an impairment of consciousness, a dysfunction in the brain. He or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}