On consciousness
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On consciousness
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species 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.
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.
There 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
... See moreEarly, I used the term "fragment personality" simply to give you this idea that identity was not a unit that could be easily defined.
All consciousness is interrelated. It flows together in currents, rises and falls, eddies and breaks, mixes and merges. In this great interplay, however, each identity, however brief in usual terms, is never
... See moreImagine lots of buckets of water suspended in water, and that all of the water is conscious. The water in the buckets knows that it is constantly exchanging with the water outside of the buckets, yet by virtue of its being contained, it is aware of itself as distinct from the water outside of the buckets. Of course, the buckets are imaginary, but
... See moreIf 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,
... See morefetuses grow and develop — I am going slowly here because I am being tricky — and when innate consciousness merges with proper form, the conditions are right for the birth of a healthy child. When the conditions are not right, the child does not develop properly. Nature aborts it. The physical elements return to the earth to become the basis for
... 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 (the
... See moreAgain, cellularly-attuned consciousness generates dreams. Consciousness, riding on a molecular back, generates a physical reality and events suited to it. ... Thinking also rests firmly in the reality of cellularly-attuned consciousness. Thought takes time, and exists by virtue of cellular composition. Consciousness not focused in cellular
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