Scientists are discovering...

Today, I watched a programme on television about the power of the unconscious mind. It was called 'Losing Control'. The opening line was "Everything you see is an illusion. You're not really in control as you like to think."

The experiments were very interesting but I couldn't help think, it was rather a waste of technology and time. 'Why not just go to India for a few months?' I thought!

The experiments revealed that the unconscious mind does all the work (bar perhaps 1%) in perception and experience. They also discovered that our ancestors, the neanderthals and homo sapiens, used more of their unconscious minds for survival.

Whilst testing out a digital image of land from the sky, a scientist says, "If you relax you can let your unconscious do the work, it doesn't fail." That's pretty yogic!

However, there was something quite unsettling about the revelations. Maybe it was my unconscious creeping up? I wasn't wired to a machine so I can't tell you if it was (!!) but as soon as I expressed my doubts, the voiceover said, "Scientists want to control the power of the unconscious," with a clip about war and how this knowledge could help in battle. Is this the future of war? The future of advertising? (Or the present reality?) It's just a matter of wiring the brain with the right patterns. Or the wrong patterns!

How ironic, they give us the hint at the beginning of our potential power, only to subtly convey how powerless we really are!!!

I think I'll stick to India's greatest advertisement, yoga! It's a kind of wiring that liberates not ever harms or corrupts.

God bless India!!!