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"Whenever you get there, there's no there there.
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"Some kind of
dialog is now going on between individual human beings and
the sum total of human knowledge and...nothing can stop
it."
—Terence Mckenna
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Reality Carnival Unleashed
"Six-word news headlines that shatter the ice of our unconscious."
Cliff Pickover expands the classic Reality Carnival to include a team of bloggers and interactive comments.
Visit now for your daily dose of novelty.
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The Great Afterlife Debate -
Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
From Deepak Chopra's side of the debate:
"There are astonishing results in this area. One of the most famous,
performed at the engineering department at Princeton and validated many
times over, asked ordinary people to sit in the room with a random
number generator. As the machine printed out a random series of 0s and
1s, the subjects were instructed to try to make it produce more zeroes.
They didn't touch the machine but only willed it to deviate from
randomness. Did they succeed? Absolutely. Did other identical or
similar experiments succeed? Over and over. Does Shermer even touch on
this matter, so crucial to my argument? No."
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The Lazy Man's guide to Enlightenment - Full text and Audiobook read by author.
"Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the
universe all the time. A willing awareness will take us to heaven, a
loving attitude will make us free. Nothing else controls our fate. Good
or bad behavior is secondary. Whatever you are doing, love yourself for
doing it. Whatever you are thinking, love yourself for thinking it.
Love is the only dimension that needs to be changed. If you are not
sure how it feels to be loving, love yourself for not being sure of how
it feels. There is nothing on earth more important than the love which
conscious beings feel towards each other, whether or not it is ever
expressed."
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Death and Settling for Less
"The passage of time, the god of the Second Law, requires no meaning;
and so it bears no meaning. None whatsoever. Meaning-making is confined
to its makers, and with their extinction, meaning disappears. Itâ€s no
longer necessary. Infinity does not require it. Only human beings ask
the question, 'Why is there something, and not nothing?' Infinity
is in-itself. It requires no outside referent.
The same Second Law exists as a wall before our last-ditch fantasy of
escaping the planet. We will never escape the planet. We will die here.
Every last one of us will die, and when the last of us goes, we will
still be living on earth. You who read this now will not care when that
happens, because you will have already ceased to exist - as will I.
Our vessel is so small, and the ocean is so vast.
What's the point, then, after all?
Well, the point is, even in our universal non-significance, we do
exist. It matters a great deal, in the material reality of things, that
we are composed of the stuff of dying stars, that the great clock goes
only clock-wise, and that we are born and we die according to that
Second Law which existed before we ever gave it its juridical identity
or a sequence number.
It matters to us, if we are writing and reading
this."
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Team Hoyt - World's strongest Dad inspires millions.
"When asked what one thing Rick wished he could give his father, his
reply was "The thing I'd most like is that my dad would sit in the
chair and I would push him once."
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Meet Vivek - A homeless Prophet?
After seeing this video,I wanted to know more about the source - The following was found in 'Zachary Wolk’s blog' :
"We were looking for interesting Street performers to share with our TCTV audience when we
encountered Vivek. Nobody is aware of his heritage, career history, child
history or anything like that - what we ARE sure of is that this man is
Enlightened, I have quoted Vivek dozens if not hundreds of times since meeting
him, the nature of this video is that Brian and I were just kids fucking
with a homeless person - HOWEVER, his words, being captured on video has
given us the great fortunate opportunity to re-visit the experience, and
I've gone back several times to interact with this supernatural force...
he has changed most people that think about what he's trying to
communicate rather than writing him off in the first instant."
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DreamLines
Enter one or more keywords and this page generates an abstract painting - but watch closely, like a dream this
art work continues to evolve and morph into new things.
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Neuro-linguistic programming
"Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is based on the idea that with our senses we are only able to perceive a small part of the world. Our view of the world is filtered by our experience, beliefs, values and assumptions. We act and feel based on our perception of the world rather than the real world. NLP teaches that language and behaviors (whether functional or dysfunctional) are highly structured, and that this structure can be 'modeled' or copied into a reproducible form." Link |
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Erasing the limits of the physical body...
What are the limits of the human body? These amazing performance artists are not sure. Look what happens when they explore the boundaries. Link |
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Alternative Cosmologies and Altered States
"This fundamental difference between Western and pre-industrial cosmologies and their respective end-of-life technologies has profound consequences for how societies view living, dying, death, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. In this article, psychiatrist Stanislav Grof explores some of the key elements in pre-industrial cosmologies and their emphasis on transformative "technologies" for training in altered states throughout the individual’s lifetime. " Link |
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Mind Exercises from the Ouspensky Foundation
"- Practise: give someone what you think you are without. Explanation: sometimes
you may feel that someone should pay you attention, listen to you or respect
you. When you are stuck in this, switch the situation round and put that which
you think you are without at the disposal of the person of whom you expect,
demand or are trying to enforce something like this. " Link |
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Mouse Party
Find out how drugs really work by dosing up these cartoon mice. Link |
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Transcending the
Control System: True Reality Creation.
Like a stuck
rudder, programs or surrogate motivators make it
difficult to get one’s “boat” traveling in the
right direction. Moving forward anyway creates
friction, which eventually heats and dissolves
the programs, but not without causing some
discomfort. Progressing without pain can only
happen in two ways: either you have already
evolved to the approaching level and are merely
retracing your steps, or you are struggling with
a fun attitude. Link |
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The Meaning of Life -
FAQ.
We don't have
direct access to the real meaning of
life. But whatever it is, it's a good
guess that the Minds on the other side of
Singularity have a better chance of achieving
it, so the Singularity is the interim meaning of
life. You don't have to know what the
meaning of life is in order to work towards
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Divine Cosmos - What is
Ascension?
The next
question is this: Do we just sit back and wait
for the “cosmic magic carpet ride,” or does
personal ambition and participation have
something to do with what we will experience as
this interplanetary evolution completes
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What is Mind??
You may find
that the appearance of the human brain is quite
unimposing. It doesn’t really look like one of
the world’s wonders, but rather like something
you might find washed up on a
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Reasons Why 'You' Don't
Exist
 "In our own
region of the universe, we've already developed
computers and the ability to simulate lifelike
forms using these computers and mathematical
rules. I believe that one day we will create
thinking beings that live in rich simulated
ecosystems."
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RAW Circuits
Throughout
history, the Biosurvival System has been
attached to the tribe. Since tribalism has
broken down and civilization has gotten more and
more abstract, the biosurvival urge has hitched
to "Survival Tickets", what we call money. It's
not just Americans, it's everybody in the
industrial world that is money-mad. We don't
have tribes, we don't have extended families, we
don't even have families anymore- so everybody's
biosurvival drive is attached to money.
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Who is the 'you'in 'You
Create Your Own Reality'
Jane’s “idea
constructions” weren’t a new concept, but rather
a contemporary translation of a perennial truth.
For example, the Idealist philosophers in the
West from Plato to Plotinus, Shelling, Fichte,
and Hegel all saw the physical world as a
construction by a hidden source domain. Plato’s
cave is a famous metaphor that compares human
perception to viewing shadows on a wall, while
the source “light” lies “outside” the cave.
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Robert Anton Wilson
1932-2007
Robert Anton Wilson
taught us all that “the universe contains a
maybe.” So maybe there is an afterlife, and
maybe Bob’s consciousness is hovering around all
of us who were touched by his words and his
presence all these years. And if that’s the
case, I’m sure he’d like to see you do something
strange and irreverent — and yet beautiful –- in
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The Basics of Quantum
Healing
So what's the
real nature of the world? What's it really like?
We can't trust the senses. They give us a very
distorted view. They break up that wholeness
into a small fragment and we call it reality. We
happen to agree about it. We even call it
"objective reality" and we have a whole
methodology that we call "science" to explore
that . If you really understand what science is,
then science at least until now has not been a
method for exploring the truth. Science has been
a method for exploring our current map of what
we think the truth is. And the map is not the
territory. Link |
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Immaculate Techniques
We can not
become our illuminated power charged selves if
we still are making most of our choices by what
we are afraid to do and not do. Link |
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Alternative Cosmologies
and Altered States
In
transpersonal experiences, it is possible to
transcend the usual limitations of the body,
ego, space, and linear time. The disappearance
of spatial boundaries can lead to authentic and
convincing identifications with other people,
animals of different species, plant life, and
even inorganic materials and processes. One can
also transcend the temporal boundaries and
experience episodes from the lives of one’s
human and animal ancestors, as well as
collective, racial, and karmic memories.
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Alan Watts - Beat Zen,
Square Zen ...
There was never
a spiritual movement without its excesses and
distortions. The experience of awakening which
truly constitutes Zen is too timeless and
universal to be injured. The extremes of beat
Zen need alarm no one since, as Blake said, "the
fool who persists in his folly will become
wise." As for square Zen, "authoritative"
spiritual experiences have always had a way of
wearing thin, and thus of generating the demand
for something genuine and unique which needs no
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Paul Levy - Delusions
of Separation.
Any of us, at
any moment, to the extent we fall into our
unconscious and become entranced by the
reality-creating function of our own mind,
become bewitched by our own projections and the
meanings we imbue them with and fall prey to
ADS. Who among us can honestly say that we have
never fallen into our unconscious and reacted
against our own reflection as it appears in the
outside world? Link |
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Castaneda - The Second
Ring Of Power
The Nagual said
that we die because our layers become
separated," la Gorda said. "Jolts are always
separating them but they get together again.
Sometimes, though, the jolt is so great that the
layers get loose and can't get back together
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Organelle -Metaphors of
‘what the Sun is’
The Sun is not
an exploding ball of gas. It’s something we lost
a generally accurate concept of thousands of
years ago. The concept we lost was not academic
or scientific — it was relational. A slightly
better metaphor of the Sun might be something
like ‘living source of that from which knowers
and knowledge are spawned.’ Link |
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Waking the Dreamer
From going from
the ordinary state of perceiving the world to an
extraordinary state of perceiving the world, I
would think, so this is what it’s really like!
Of course the next day when I was back in the
usual state, comparing the two, I realized, of
course, that wasn’t what it was like and this is
not what it’s like. They’re both mental models
or simulations. It’s something that was very
important for me in terms of understanding the
power of the mind and seeing how just changing
some of the operations parameters in the
perceptual system could lead to a radically
different view of the world. Link
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God's playing a new
game. (From WIE.)
The point is
that these are authentic spiritual experiences,
but they are culturally
molded. And if somebody’s taking their
spiritual experience and saying, “This is universally true,”
they’re lying. It’s culturally created and
molded, yet it doesn’t look like that to the
person having the experience. So they’re caught
in one version of the myth of the given. A
scientist is caught in the same thing. If a
scientific materialist says, “Anything I can see
in the sensori-motor world is real because
that’s what’s really given,” he or she is also
caught. It isn’t given; it’s constructed.
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Osho speaks on ego
Our whole life,
the search for money, power, prestige, this and
that, is nothing but a search for new props, a
search for new supports, to somehow keep the
fiction going. And all the time you know death
is coming. Whatsoever you make, death is going
to destroy it. But still one goes on hoping
against hope -- maybe everybody else dies, but
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In the Presence of the
Past. Rupert Sheldrake
Well, certainly
the idea that memories aren't stored in the
brain opens the way for a new debate or new
perspective on the question of survival of
death. Most people assume memories are stored in
the brain, simply because this is the
mechanistic paradigm that's very rarely
challenged. There's hardly any evidence for
memory storage in the brain, as I show in my
book, and what evidence there is could be
interpreted better in terms of the brain as a
tuning system, tuning into its own past. So that
we can gain access to our own memories by tuning
into our own past states. The brain is more like
a TV receiver than like a tape recorder or a
video recorder. Link |
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Bhutan - the Himalayan
Buddhist Kingdom
In 2005 the
Australian monk Ven S Dhammika was invited to
the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and spent
ten days visiting the countries monasteries,
shrines and temples. We present some of the
pictures he took while in this rarely visited
land and hope you enjoy them. Link |
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Exploring the
'Singularity'
Nature and
technology are not just evolving; they are
competing and combining with one another.
Ultimately they will become one. Link |
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Shifting Through
Time
This dream
shows me how anyone can inside the dream state
revisit scene's in his life, look at it, switch
back and forth in time, look at it again and by
that alter his perception of the past. I first
was tempted to think: maybe this guy died and is
looking back at his life, maybe when we die,
after we died we do this to look at life again.
But then I realised: we might do it then,
but...we also can and do it now.
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Organelle - Cognitive
Activism
There are a lot
of interesting and unexplored questions relating
to the rise and embodiment of complex
representational sentience in our species. Some
of them have to do with ‘what had to occur
elsewhere for this to happen and sustain
itself?’, and others that I am fond of pursuing
have to do with ‘is there a better sort?’. In
other words — are there existing examples of
more intelligent intelligence, and more sentient
sentience — than the human models and examples
we are accustomed to? Link |
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Krishnamurti on
love
The demand to
be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow
and fear. This seeking for security is inviting
insecurity. Have you ever found security in any
of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want
the security of loving and being loved, but is
there love when each one of us is seeking his
own security, his own particular path?
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Eight basic winner /
loser scripts - R.A.W.
Winner: "I am learning
more about everything, including how to learn
more."
Loser: "I can't solve
my problems."
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Seth speaks on
dreams
Individual
life, or the life of the present individual,
could be legitimately compared to the dream of
the entity. While the individual suffers and
enjoys his given number of years, these years
are but a flash to the entity, the entity is
concerned with these years in the same manner
that you are concerned with your dreams. As you
give purpose and organization to your dreams,
and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from
your dreams through they involve only a part of
your life, so the entity to some extent directs
and gives purpose and organization to his
personalities during their existence, And so
does the entity obtain insights and
satisfactions from his existing personalities,
although no one takes up all of his attentions.
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Terence Mckenna speaks
on the novelty of time
We are moving
toward the most profound event a planetary
ecology can encounter.
We
are about to witness the freeing of life from
the chrysalis of matter. Link |
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Interview : The Self
Aware Universe
Now, the
opposite view is that everything starts with
consciousness.That is, consciousness is the
ground of all being. In this view, consciousness
imposes "downward causation." In other words,
our free will is real. When we act in the world
we really are acting with causal power. This
view does not deny that matter also has causal
potency—it does not deny that there is causal
power from elementary particles upward, so there
is upward causation—but in addition it insists
that there is also downward causation. It shows
up in our creativity and acts of free will, or
when we make moral decisions. In those occasions
we are actually witnessing downward causation by
consciousness. Link |
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BookRings : From
Organelle
Tracing these
threads experientially, creatively, and
playfully leads to windows. Those windows look
out on what rationality considers to be
impossible. When opened, experientially, they
become doors. Link |
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Krishnamurti :
Observing Without the "Me"
Then what is
one to do, knowing most of us are made up of
these many fragments, which fragment is to act?
Or are all the fragments to act? You are
following? Or action by any one of the fragments
brings about contradiction, conflict and
therefore confusion. Right? Are we communicating
with each other? Link |
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Going Back
"When getting
high was swinging on the swingset"
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The power of thought -
from 'Star Stuffs'
"Science has
discovered startling new possibilities regarding
how we think, feel, love, heal and find meaning
in our life...research suggests that the heart
thinks, cells remember and that both of these
processes are related to an as yet mysterious,
extremely powerful, but very subtle energy.
Science may be taking the first steps to
understanding more about the ancient
shamans/healers/leaders - the energy of the
human spirit and the coded information that is
the human soul." Link |
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'How to slow down time'
by Anne Brewer
Imagine
combining the law of diminishing years and the
quickening of the Earth's heartbeat. No wonder
we feel like runners on a treadmill as we plow
through each speedily passing day! It's no
surprise that life is stressful in this
fast-paced mode. Let's examine the average
forty-year-old: If we compare the rate of
passing time today, for that forty-year-old, to
that same person at the age of five, they are
living approximately five and a half times
faster than they did in childhood. That means
that each day equates to five and a half days
thirty-five years ago. Link |
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'Psychedelic Christmas'
- from Gnostic Media
The ancient
Shamans of Siberia would go to the houses of the
people in the community on the winter solstice
and bring to them the Amanita muscaria
mushroomit was their tradition. The Shaman;
dressing in the colors of the mushroom (red with
white trim), and carrying a huge bag full of
mushrooms that he had picked and dried during
the previous season (enough for the entire
community) would go door to door and give to the
community the mushroom experience.
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Akashic Record
Player
"Think big or
stay home." - Ms. BERNIE, Boulder Corporate
Executive Link - on
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Light, Matter and the
Zero-Point Field
But let's take
this even one step further. If it is the
underlying realm of light that is the
fundamental reality propping up our physical
universe, let us ask ourselves how the universe
of space and time would appear from the
perspective of a beam of light. The laws of
relativity are clear on this point. If you could
ride a beam of light as an observer, all of
space would shrink to a point, and all of time
would collapse to an instant. In the reference
frame of light, there is no space and time.
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Secrets of Pronoia
Thousands of
things go right for you every day, beginning the
moment you wake up. Th rough some magic you
don’t fully understand, you’re still breathing
and your heart is beating, even though you’ve
been unconscious for many hours. Th e air is a
mix of gases that’s just right for your body’s
needs, as it was before you fell asleep. You can
see! Light of many colors fl oods into your
eyes, registered by nerves that took God or
evolution or some other process millions of
years to perfect. Link |
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Alan Watts - The Joyous
Cosmology
Decision can be
completely paralyzed by the sudden realization
that there is no way of having good without
evil, or that it is impossible to act upon
reliable authority without choosing, from your
own inexperience, to do so. If sanity implies
madness and faith doubt, am I basically a
psychotic pretending to be sane, a blithering
terrified idiot who manages, temporarily, to put
on an act of being self-possessed? I begin to
see my whole life as a masterpiece of
duplicity—the confused, helpless, hungry, and
hideously sensitive little embryo at the root of
me having learned, step by step, to comply,
placate, bully, wheedle, flatter, bluff, and
cheat my way into being taken for a person of
competence and reliability. For when it really
comes down to it, what do any of us know?
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Peter Ragnar - 'If
You're Conscious, How Can You Die?'
It's very
simple to see how people kill their bodies with
their thoughts—it's a product of their
unconsciousness of causes and effects. If we're
conscious of our thoughts—I mean luminously conscious
of our thoughts—those thoughts then impregnate
the cellular structure of our body in a way that
is very, very difficult to explain. When you
have an abundance of life force inside you, it
pours out of your eyes. It comes out of the
palms of your hands as heat, as healing heat. It
radiates as if you swallowed the sun, and you
are different. Now, with that type of dynamic
and powerful energy inside of you, how can you
die? Link |
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Brenda Anderson -
Tuning In
When another
person makes the effort to tune in to me, I feel
energized, appreciated, and heard. Think about
the doctors and dentists you've particularly
liked. It's probably because they looked you in
the eye and saw you as a person, not as a
diagnosis. Do the same for the people you love
most. Link |
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People of 2012 - from
derKi.com
Now at this
point two feelings come across us. First is
person’s need to be approved. We are creatures
constructing ourselves mainly with the approvals
coming from the people around and it is not
quite easy actually to construct oneself with
self-approval. Link |
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"Man, became
man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom
as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who
became therefore the magician, man the creator of social
reality, will always stay the great magician, will
always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth,
will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his
music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die. "
---- Ernst Fischer (1899-1972)
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“It portrays
the new consciousness seeing itself unique and separate,
evolving from the tree of life and therefore able to
examine its fruits, to see itself for the first time as
different from others, like the serpent who crawled upon
the surface of the earth. Man came forth as a creature
of distinctions.
In so doing he quite purposefully
detached himself, in your terms now, from the body of
his planet in a new way. A part of him very naturally
yearned for that primeval (louder) knowing unknowingness
that had to be abandoned, in which all things were given
– no judgments or distinctions were necessary, and all
responsibilities were biologically foreordained.
“He saw
himself as rising above the serpent, which was a symbol
of unconscious knowledge. Yet the serpent would always
mystify and attract man, even though he must stand upon
its head, symbolically speaking, and rise from its
knowledge.
“With the birth of this
consciousness came conscious responsibility for the
fruits of the planet. Man became the caretaker.”
--- Seth (The Nature of Personal
Reality, session 646.) |
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“The fact is
that the whole self is constantly experiencing data from
all of the inner senses. The inner ego is of course
aware of this. The subconscious is sometimes aware of
this, and the outer ego is aware of very little. I have
explained the reasons for this in past sessions. The
outer ego must concentrate much of its energy toward
survival in and manipulation of the outer camouflage
world [Framework 1]. This world has already been created
by the inner self, and its continuing existence is
determined by the constant vigilance of the inner self
[i.e. the inner self is primarily causal, not the body
or brain]."
“Only when a certain level of
confidence is reached can the outer ego afford to become
familiar with these inner workings, at least on your
plane [Framework 1]. Otherwise you would falter. As a
rule, even though the whole self is capable of
organizing the data from all of the inner senses, the
subconscious can rarely receive such communications full
blast; and the outer ego, concerned as it is with
camouflage pattern, and really born [co-created] to deal
with camouflage patterns, simply could not stand the
shock of realization that a complete set of inner senses
would bring."
---- Jane Roberts / Seth |
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end trance (on exhibit at the hive gallery in
L.A.)
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And as much as
we, as you and I, might wish to transcend mere
translation and find an authentic transformation,
nonetheless translation itself is an absolutely
necessary and crucial function for the greater part of
our lives.
Those who cannot translate
adequately, with a fair amount of integrity and
accuracy, fall quickly into severe neurosis or even
psychosis: the world ceases to make sense—the boundaries
between the self and the world are not transcended but
instead begin to crumble. This is not breakthrough but
breakdown; not transcendence, but disaster.
But at
some point in our maturation process, translation
itself, no matter how adequate or confident, simply
ceases to console. No new beliefs, no new paradigm, no
new myths, no new ideas, will staunch the encroaching
anguish. Not a new belief for the self, but the
transcendence of the self altogether, is the only path
that avails.
--- Ken Wilber
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Huge
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Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing
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"This website
is dedicated to the expansion of the human mind,
in all directions, in every sense, one brain at a
time. Brainsturbation was founded as a public
outreach program by the Backwoods Institute of
Psychological Technology."
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Excruciatingly
Large
Things
From
the site: "Absorb The Huge Entity osmotically and
rejoice; let its hugeness envelope you, be reborn
in alternate realities, grapple with mind altering
concepts, invest your internet surfing time in
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