On consciousness
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On consciousness
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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 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, fo
... 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 t
... 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.
According to Seth, our own desires, focuses, and intents dictate what inner information we draw from the endless fields available; for he sees all knowledge existing at once, not as dry data or records, but enlivened by the consciousness that perceives it. The minds of the past and future are open to us, or at least their contents are, not in a par
... 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 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 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 construc
... See moreConsciousness possesses the most unimaginable agility without ever losing any potency. Those units of consciousness, for example, can mix and combine with others to form a million different sequences of memory and desire, of neural achievement and recognition, [of] structure and design.