Dr Manjir

🧠 Your brain is a Receiver, not a maker. A growing line of psychological inquiry is reshaping how we think about thinking itself. Rather than being deliberately generated, mental content often seems to appear on its own. Ideas, memories, and inner commentary tend to surface from layers beneath conscious control, arriving without invitation or planning. Neuroscience adds weight to this view. Brain scans reveal that the neural patterns associated with a thought activate just before a person notices the thought consciously. In other words, awareness follows the event instead of initiating it. Studies on meditation echo this finding, showing that when the mind settles, thoughts still arise naturally and dissolve once attention moves elsewhere. Seeing the mind this way can soften our relationship with stress, imagination, and self-criticism. When thoughts are understood as arrivals rather than decisions, it becomes easier to watch them without clinging or resistance. Calm may develop not through force or suppression, but through attentive observation. In this light, the mind resembles a receiver more than an author, tuning into ongoing signals rather than inventing them from scratch.

What if we’re surrounded by alien life, but lack the means to notice it? ✍️

A 'gigantic jet' was photographed from the ISS today ⚡️ An extremely rare form of upper-atmospheric lightning 📷 @Astro_Ayers

First X-rays From Uranus Discovered Credit X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Infrared: W.M. Keck Observatory Release Date March 31, 2021

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole worldfor the moment. - Max Planck (1858-1947)

The Universe Inside You, Your Connection to the Cosmos - Zoom talk by Dr Manjir Samantha-Laughton on 29 May. For details and booking see doctorhealer.org/phdi/p1.nsf…