Have you
ever wondered why in all those adventure and fantasy movies, the hero has to
pass through a labyrinth or a maze-like structure to reach the heroine…? Why in
all these movies and video games, one needs to solve certain puzzles?
Have you
ever wondered why our intestines, guts and brain are shaped like labyrinthine
noodles? Is there a connection between the two?
Just as a
crumb of bread travels through the esophagus, reaching into the alimentary
canal and further travelling through the noodle-shaped intestine, the hero in
movies travel into mazes, labyrinths, mountains and deserts and seas to reach
the heroine and fight for her.
Similar to
all these metaphors, the human mind or the psychological world too is a noodle
city where our point of attention travels through the labyrinth of our
thoughts.
If you take
a bowl of noodles and try to untangle one noodle from the other, it is quite
possible that you may be able to do it. But when it comes to untangling a human
mind, it is next to impossible. Besides, you don’t even need to do that. It is
designed only in that way. Yes, human mind is the greatest and brobdingnagian
noodle city.
The more we
think a certain thought, the more electricity fires in that particular neural
trajectory, and this is how, a whole electrical circuit is formed in our brain,
which, if we could witness, then it would surely look like a noodle city, an
electrical noodle city. Our mind is a part of the subtle body, not the gross
body. Hence, even though we can’t see this electricity, it is there like the
current in a wire.
Just as the
hero navigates through a labyrinth, our point of attention navigates its way
through this electrical noodle city, and we feel this process in the form of
thought after thought popping and streaming in our mind.
Each time
we take a decision, each time we resolve a confusion into clarity, each time we
make a plan or recall a past memory, or simply each time when we are
daydreaming or thinking, what we are actually doing is taking a short trip
through this noodle city of our mind. The thinker is the traveller. As the
process of thinking begins, the thinker travels through this noodle city, and
each time it reaches at the centre of this noodle city, the process comes to a
completion.
In
astrophysics, there is a process called as spaghettification, or the noodle
effect. In this process, an object near or falling into the black hole, under the
influence of the gravitational force, experiences vertical stretching and horizontal
compression like thin spaghetti noodles, to the point that it is ripped apart and
lost and dissolved completely into the black hole.
This is the
image of an astronaut going through this process. See that the astronaut is
vertically stretching and horizontally compressing like a noodle till the point
that it ceases to appear.
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The noodle
city of our thoughts also depict this noodle effect. When one meditates, then
the magnetic gravity of the space of our awareness stretches, compresses and
magnifies our thoughts to the point that they are ripped apart and dissolved
into the awareness. And then one is able to step away from the thinker identity
and the whole noodle city.
So, each
time you feel confused, directionless, indecisive or overwhelming, just tell
yourself, that I am just travelling in the great noodle city, but there is
always a way out!
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