We are praying all the time As long as intention and attention are at work, there is prayer. Even is the vaguest of claims, the shortest of attention spans, most phased, or out of it as we can be, there is still some quality of both intention and attention, though unjustifiably so. However the claim that it is low grade or ineffectual or unfocused, the stream of consciousness continues even if the claim is undisciplined, unstructured, un-claimable, spaced, indifferent, or unintelligible or on the other side called day-dreaming, fantasizing, desiring, conjuring, romanticizing, or even imagining, these all play into the action of prayer. Even if there is implied a moral principle of good to be able to call it praying, that is a justification at work. What makes loathing or vindictive or vengeful any less of a prayer? Even if there are claims based on intensity or appropriate topic of choice, that is really cultural or religious in nature but not evidentially different in the way the brain functions in doing so. If prayer is composed of neural elements as operative derived from mental and emotional components interactively at work and without regard to the protection of topic justification or the quality of the intent or the amount of attention applied or the emotional stir, then basically we are always praying while we are conscious and possibly beyond as even when we are asleep or even unconscious to a vague degree. True, we assign a standard appraisal to the notion of prayer and praying. It has its claimed modality of function. People could easily claim that they don’t know how to pray because they claim there is a set of rules for praying and that they are done consciously to secure its function. But really, praying may seek towards refinement but of what? To be guaranteed an end result? For reasons of personal experience? The comparative quality of the stream of consciousness? We are all contributing consciousness to something ongoing, even if it is vague and ambient or apparently dispersive by its nature. Just as we all weigh, we all pray. We all might, at one point or another, have prayed to be weightless but no matter how successful our prayer or how disguised by topic or by the appropriateness of our apparent behavior, neurologically, we all still pray.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:06:06 +0000
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