On consciousness
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On consciousness
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Your experience changes constantly, and so does the intimate context of your life — but you concentrate upon points of order, in your terms, that actually serve to scale down the context of your experience to make it more comprehensible. There are no such limits naturally set about your consciousness.
If you want to sense the motion of your psyche, it is perhaps easiest to imagine a situation either in the past or the future, for this automatically moves your mental sense-perceptions in a new way. Children try to imagine what the world was like before they entered it. Do the same thing. The way you follow these directions can be illuminating, fo
... See moreThere are three dimensions in which all of the manifestations of consciousness operate. Consciousness operates only within the dimensions of time, space, and frequency. All matter in the universe, visible or invisible, is the result of the stress point developed by the mixture of time, space, and frequency. It is a unified field. This is how the la
... See moreThere are organizations of consciousness, however, that leapfrog the species, that produce no arts or sciences per se — yet these together form the living body of the earth and the physical creatures thereon. Their products are the seas upon which you sail your ships, the skies through which your airplanes fly, the land upon which your cities spraw
... See moreOf rhe four Hayoth of the Cabbala, the four "sacred animals" of Hermeticismthe Fagle, the Man, the Lion and the Bull-we find three amongst the signs of the zodiac, i.e. the Bull, the Lion and the Man (or Waterbearer). But we do not find the Eagle. The Eagle's place in the zodiacal circle is occupied by the Scorpion. There, where the Eagle
... See moreSeth's conception of consciousness certainly corroborates my own experience, and I think that sometime or other each of us finds bits and pieces of "other conscious-ness” in our minds, lying there like odd shiny pebbles on the shores of our awareness. As children we may have reacted with delight and astonishment, turning such thoughts over and
... See morespecies possesses within itself those inclinations which will flower. It means also that you are limiting the range of your knowledge by not taking advantage of such methods. It does not mean that in your terms all knowledge already exists, either, for knowledge automatically becomes individualized as you receive it, and hence, new.
Consciousness feeds consciousness. It is hard for you to understand this concept because you feed yourself with food. The food for some beings is consciousness. All food contains consciousness at some point in its own development, whether you fry it, boil it, or pick it from the garden; you ingest it to keep yourself nourished. Your emotions are fo
... See moreIn contrast, Tibetan Buddhism enlists the imaginal mind of its followers. It accepts the forest of images that we live in and teaches its adepts to plunge in, travel through, and eventually come out on the other side of the forest. The ultimate goal of both great paths is enlightenment by detachment from all forms, verbal or imaginal.