Nature is strange.
It acts in ways that bedevils understanding.
While Science dabbles with Mind Control Telepathy ans declares them to be not Scientific, calls these phenomena as Para normal (Hinduism has no description as para normal, for them every thing is Normal in Nature),Scientists have discovered Fungi controlling the Minds of Ants !
Credit: David P HughesIn two sites in the Brazilian rain forest, researchers identified four new species of brain-controlling fungal parasites. These fungi infect carpenter ants and turn them into zombies, directing them to leave their colonies and die in places where the fungi can grow and spread. The zombifying fungus can be seen growing from the top of this dead ant’s head.
Source:
http://www.livescience.com/13045-zombie-ants-fungi-photo-gallery.html
It’s not so strange really if you get a grip on how thinking works. It is chemicals that cause our limbs to move and any chemical that could interfere with thoughts could drive an individual to do odd things. How many people have done ‘odd’ things when influenced by LSD or other drugs? How many do odd things when they are sleep walking?
This story is only shocking when we think our own brains impervious to such ills as we normally suffer on a regular basis, often voluntarily so.
For instance Love or adolescent crush is because of ‘Dopamine”
Yoga system of Hinduism throws light on Mind.
Please refer my posts on Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
I’m aware of Yoga (did you ever wonder why the guru in Star Wars was named Yoda?)
Even Yoga does not address the process and machinations of thought… not directly
It does.
I am yet to come to that Aphorism; i have just completed Aphorism 18.
I shall be posting shortly
Yoga does not look at the machinations, rather it sees the experience of the machinations and attributes them to external beings. I hold that this is wrong, no matter how ‘right’ Yoga might seem, it does not suggest that it’s revelations are possible without believe in external supernatural beings. It aims closely at what is happening in the brain without explaining it in terms of neurons and signals… the machinations. I am not saying that it is not worthwhile nor even caustic, but here I am saying that it does not address the physical matter of thought itself and its origins.