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A CULTIVATED BLIND SPOT : BUDDHISM , SCI-ENTIFIC COLONIALISM & THE SCIENCE OF THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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Dissolution:


The dissolution of a meaning is a phenomenon in which ameaning dissolves into awareness and thus disappears in the moment thatit is known by awareness.CAUSAL SEQUENCES1. When the mind represses a thought, it causes a multitude of thoughts toimmediately appear in the stream of consciousness:

Repression of Single Thought → Many Thoughts Arise in SoC

1. When the watcher has nondual awareness of a thought, that thought willdissolve:
Nondual Awareness of a Thought —> Dissolution of that Thought

1. When the watcher holds onto, or attaches, an emotion, a mood that isidentical to that emotion will appear in the stream of consciousness:


Attachment of an EmotionAppearance of Mood


1. When the Watcher has nondual awareness of an emotion, that emotionwill dissolve:


Nondual Awareness of an Emotion —> Dissolution of Emotion


FUTURE OF THE SCIENCE OF THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESSThe study of the stream of consciousness is, in a modern context, a new eldof scientic inquiry. More studies will have to be done to create a comprehensivescience of the stream of consciousness and establish its empirical validity.One of the virtues of developing the science of the stream of consciousness isthat it will oer new approaches to studying a number of psychological phenom-ena. Just as the science of genetics has been used to investigate any numberof questions — e.g., the causes of cancer, the evolutionary origins of homosapiens, the manufacture of vaccines and more — the science of the stream of consciousness can be applied to the study of a number of essential psychologicalquestions. Here are just a few examples of the phenomena that can perhaps bebest studied by the science of the stream of consciousness:

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1. The nature of the healthy mind2. The cultivation of a healthy mind3. The eects of the various mind rituals4. The origin of the stream of consciousness5. The function of the stream of consciousness6. The mechanism, modes and uses of self-awareness7. The causes of mental illness8. The prevention of mental illness9. The dissociative states of mind10. The psychological eects of the idée xes generated by the egocentric mind11. The sociopolitical eects of the conicted dynamics of the egocentric mindCONCLUSIONSIn closing, this paper has tried to briey introduce and make three points:1. It is possible to empirically study the phenomena that appear in thestream of consciousness and develop a valid science of the stream of con-sciousness.2. To truly understand Buddhist psychology, it is imperative to explore,evaluate and replicate its science of the stream of consciousness.3. There is much that both modern science and humanity can learn fromtaking up the empirical study of the stream of consciousness.The time has surely come for modern science to take up the study of thephenomena that appear in the stream of consciousness. An excellent rst stepwould be for one or more universities to establish research centers that focus onstudying the stream of consciousness.


 
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