Mind Players Under Anesthesia

 

By Ricardo Johansson
   

    As I was scheduled for surgery, my Challenger challenged me to remember the names of all the staff (from beginning to end of procedure) in order to send a thank you note afterwards to the surgeon and all of her staff.

    I had taken a ‘Memory’ self study course back in 1975 by Dr. Bruno Furst that is based upon number-image relationships.  Therefore, I was predisposed to numbering each staff member as he or she came along.

    The first was Victoria who provided me with the required garb, the second was Bronwyn who carefully confirmed all my details, the third was a couple: Steven and Melissa (the anesthetist and assistant), the fifth was Anna Marie who welcomed me back into consciousness, the sixth was Colleen who provided me with coffee and sandwiches, and seventh was Alexi who escorted me to the front desk for discharge.

    After the process I started to write the thank you letter.  I was quite pleased with myself in that I could easily remember all of the names of the staff and what they did.  However, I quickly became very much aware, as you probably have as well, that I had ‘skipped’ number four.  Initially, I was a bit disappointed with myself, and self-embarrassed, for forgetting a number.  I was in a sort of ‘wheels spinning’ dilemma.

    As I have now trained myself, I took out my Mind Player Chart and looked around at all my Players.  I asked “Who would be interested in this ‘missing number’ issue?”  It was quickly obvious that they were my Observer, Helper, Perfectionist and Problem Solver.  Through their eyes I carefully went through what I had experienced in hospital.  And there it was (very clearly): there was a ‘forth’ step that I had completely overlooked.  It was the surgery itself.  Circling around me during surgery were a number of "other" staff - the names of whom I was not aware.  My Observer and Perfectionist were certain that there was ‘no’ mistake.  My Helper and Problem Solver made me aware of the fact that the administering of the "anesthetic" (right after step number "3") had temporarily disconnected all of my senses (hearing, seeing, smelling, etc).  Therefore, I was not "physically" aware of that "forth" step.

    When I "awoke" my Mind Players, apparently updated by the unconscious right hemisphere – which was not affected by the anesthetic at all – assisted my conscious mind to immediately go to "step 5" as they should have done.  Hence, the domain of my Mind Players, the conscious left hemisphere "conscious" mind just went along with the update at the time without any other concern.  It was only later that, looking back, I really thought that I had made a mistake.

    Therefore, I found (for the first time) that anesthetics don't seem to interfere with the unconscious mind that is connected directly with Source.  They seem to interfere with just the physical senses of the vessel that help allow the Spirit Being to experience this miracle of life via the ego or perceived self or self-created reality.  For another "mind-expanding" experience, you may wish to take a look at some of the latest lucid dreaming research: http://www.lucidity.com/.  Another interesting thought is that the dream (or imagination) is simply the unconscious mind using the Mind Players as familiar references so that we may make sense of the dream when awoken.