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CHAPTER 25. JESUS – THE ONLY SAVIOR WHO NEARLY SAVED HIMSELF
Now, before Sigmund Freud, people thought that Buddha was just imagining. But Freud was
not a religious man in any sense. He had a scientific mind: he proved the existence of the
subconscious, the unconscious. Jung was not a religious man; he proved the existence of the
collective unconscious. Now some other scientist is needed to prove the cosmic unconscious.
And he will be coming soon, because if it is a fact – and it must be, because if this man Buddha goes
about finding the fourth absolutely correctly, there is no reason to doubt that he is correct about the
fifth. And if he is correct about the downward ladders, then why should he not be correct about the
upward ladders?
But to move upward you will need the religious mind. The scientific mind will not be enough.
The scientific mind can go more towards things. And this is how you are going to move towards
things: from the conscious mind you have to come to the cosmic unconscious mind. Perhaps
things have a cosmic unconscious mind, absolutely dormant, but it must be there. Otherwise how
is it possible that you eat food, which is dead, which is a ”thing”, but it feeds your brain, your
mind, and keeps them functioning. Somewhere, some part of the things you eat is releasing some
consciousness, some mind quality to you. Otherwise from where do you get your mind?
They say if you don’t breathe for six minutes, and oxygen does not reach the brain, the brain starts
deteriorating. Its cells are so delicate that at the most they can survive without oxygen only six
minutes.
It happened in the second world war that a few people had heart attacks, just a psychological
heart attack: a bomb fell just in front of them, exploded and killed many people. When you see so
many people dying – suddenly an explosion and so many people dying – it is possible to have a
psychological heart attack. You may fall dead. You are not dead, but amongst so many dead how
can you stand alive? You can’t be an exception. You are not the only begotten son of God; you
are just an ordinary human being, and when everybody is dying what are you doing here? Just the
shock may stop your breathing.
They revived many people like this in Russia in the second world war. If the person was revived
after six minutes had passed, he became alive, but he never became conscious. He remained in a
coma because already the brain had broken, but the whole body came back; everything else started
functioning.
I have seen one woman who had been for nine months in a coma, with everything functioning. She
was breathing, her pulse was normal, everything was good, just somehow her brain had gone into
nonfunctioning. The doctors said she could live years. If you went on supporting, helping, feeding
her, she could live for years, but there was no hope that her brain could be restored. And we don’t
yet have banks for brains, to put somebody else’s brain in your skull.
But somebody else’s brain will bring somebody else’s personality, not your personality. That is a
difficult problem. Even if one day we can manage to have banks of brains, those brains will be
carrying memories of somebody else, his education.... Perhaps he was a mathematician, a poet, a
painter; perhaps he was a beggar or a very rich man: he will have different kinds of memories.
From Ignorance to Innocence 359 Osho