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Editorial

The Genesis of Pain in the Matrix of Consciousness

Pain is the first disharmony felt by the body, the Vital Force or Life-Energy impinged on
the first anguish felt by the mind and the Matter to animate it. It must have initially resulted
first recoil from the AAnanda of existence. It in a tremendously violent reaction. The
comes in myriad ways, warns us of dangers inertia of the original physical substrate that
that attack us, makes us aware of our internal was the first to emerge from the Inconscience
malfunctioning and instils in us the seed of was a mighty slumber and carried the stain
caution. But it also motivates us to be free and stigma of the Inconscience. Moving it
from its clutches and paves the way from was not an easy task. There must have been a
disharmony to harmony. violent friction when the Life-Energy infiltrated
the inert matrix of material consciousness to
produce spectacular changes. That friction
resulted in a riot of variety, colours, and
odours; it catapulted in a diversity of creative
out flowerings that spanned from the amazing
variety in nature to the myriad potentialities
of the manifestation. The friction produced a
change of gigantic proportions which is still
out of our ordinary bounds to understand.
From the perspective of the evolution of That was the first friction in the matrix of
consciousness, pain is an ancient phenomenon. evolutionary consciousness.
It can be traced to the time when the Life-
Energy or Vital Force impinged on inert Matter. The memory of the friction in diseases
At first Matter evolved from the Inconscience
but this was a consciousness that was inert, However that friction which resulted in the
non-responsive and inanimate. Matter of course manifestation of the vital-physical plane of
was divided into forms for the hallmark of the consciousness is still carried in our being
material consciousness, was “accomplished as a terrestrial evolutionary memory. It is
divisibility (1).” Yet, without being energised, there, dormant and submerged in our bodily
Matter would always remain in its quiescent systems, in our organs, in our cells. It can
status. surge up at any time, much like a surging
up of past traumatic anxieties that happen
The first friction in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2)! That
is the memory of the original pain which we
At the next stage of evolution of consciousness, carry in the matrix of consciousness.

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