Meditation: Pain is your friend (x2)
TYPE: Awakening (right effort)
PURPOSE: This Audio-visual Meditation Narrative is Spock’s lecture on the importance of wakefulness to efficacious agency. Good as a morning wake-up meditation.
CONTEXT:
Spoke put himself into a trance of ignorance an hour before. He’s been stuck there ever since. He cannot exit the trance by will alone. What is missing is pain.
When consciousness was first knitted in the womb of matter, she was a lowly impact “processor”—which means that impact is not result in a homogeneous and random distribution of that energy into the organism as heat. Some of it surely is, but some of it is harnessed and routed to a pre-programmed, wound-up, and easily triggerable deterministic cascade of material motion. The impact is routed to machines that activate machines that activate other machines—and the organism as a whole now “does something in response to ‘the’ stimulus.” Now the meaningless material motion becomes a sign and representative.
INT. SICKBAY
(Spock starts gasping for air.)
SPOCK: Nurse.
CHAPEL: Yes?
SPOCK: Hit me. The pain will help me to consciousness. Hit me.
CHAPEL: Hit you? No! I can’t
SPOCK: Blast you, strike me! If I don’t regain consciousness soon, it may be too late. Hit me. (she slaps his face) Harder!
(She does, with tears in her eyes.)
SPOCK: Again. Continue. The pain will help me to consciousness.
SCOTT: (running in and dragging her away) What are you doing, woman?
CHAPEL: Leave me alone!
SCOTT: Have you gone daft?
CHAPEL: Mister Spock needs me! Let go!
(M’Benga rushes in and helps Spock to sit up before giving him some pretty vicious hits across the face. Scott stares, astonished. Finally Spock grabs M’Benga’s arm.)
SPOCK: That will be quite enough. Thank you, doctor.
M’BENGA: Please, release her.
SCOTT: What’s this all about?
SPOCK: She was doing as I requested, Mister Scott. A Vulcan form of self-healing.
M’BENGA: As you saw, they must wait until the last possible moment then fight their way back to consciousness.
CHAPEL: Here, let me help you, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Thank you, nurse. I’m quite fully recovered.
CHAPEL: Yes, I see you are.
There are two versions of the Meditation—long and short.
METHOD (LONG):
Be Spock.
METHOD (SHORT):
Same as above but the slap density has been increased. Stay with it.