On consciousness
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On consciousness
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There 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 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 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.
Early, 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 moreConsciousness 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 moreRevelation unites you directly with God. Miracles unite you directly with your brother. Neither emanates from consciousness, but both are experienced there. Consciousness is the state that induces action, though it does not inspire it. You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe.
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.
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 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
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