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- Thu May 30, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
- Replies: 25
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Your paraphrasing\rephrasing of my POV is baffling and can't respond to that . . . not sure what you are referring to re 'uncreated' or 'losing consciousness' or 'dropping consciousness' . . . I have not used these phrases . . . 'dropping consciousness' is not desirable. Re 'astral vision' and wheth...
- Thu May 30, 2024 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 324
Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
In the latter link above - you refer to astral vision . . . are you suggesting that abilities (ie astral vision) are baked into self? By 'baked into self', I mean part of our essence and identity, who we are. By 'baked into self'. I mean astral vision (and perhaps other abilities) is not a sensation...
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 324
Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Imagine a person sitting on a couch in a dark room and holding a tablet. He sees only the screen and instinctively touches it, navigating through apps, the internet, etc. The person says: "These movements on the screen just appear. There's no force that I can know, which is responsible for the...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 474
Re: This forum
Clearly, there are people who are much less awake, present, etc. within the flow of experience than others. All of these things exist on a gradient. It is quite possible that an infant never fully awakens to its life as the coherent center of be-ing that most of us take for granted (so much so that...
- Thu May 23, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 474
Re: This forum
What you are referring to as 'states of consciousness' is CA that has been learned instinctively . The reasoning here is similar to a mathematical virtuoso who can simply do calculations 'in his sleep' saying, "There is no conscious activity here, I don't need to invoke anything, mathematical ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 474
Re: On the Gradient of Thinking
'speak to the forms' I mean they don't address the existence of immortal ideas and forms (ie Platonic Ideas) Obviously they speak to other people, saints, animals, etc For myself, I don't believe these immortal forms exist except as an artifact of a culture or religion. For example, a mass of folks...
- Thu May 23, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 474
Re: On the Gradient of Thinking
'speak to the forms' I mean they don't address the existence of immortal ideas and forms (ie Platonic Ideas) Obviously they speak to other people, saints, animals, etc For myself, I don't believe these immortal forms exist except as an artifact of a culture or religion. For example, a mass of folks ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 474
Re: On the Gradient of Thinking
These quotes\references point to the direct perception and appreciation of the unboundedness of Being in all things and all beings. I am That, this is That, all this is nothing but That. This appreciation can have a flavor of a culture or a deity, or a master. There typically is a spirit of devotion...
- Thu May 23, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 474
Re: On the Gradient of Thinking
Lorenzo, you seem to adopt a nihilistic position denying the manifested world of forms, and denying the activity of consciousness that creates the world of forms, any value and reality. The Reality of Consciousness is like two sides of the same coin - what Consciousness is and what it does - and bo...
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:48 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 474
Re: On the Gradient of Thinking
in Sanskrit the word for intellect (buddhi) is used differently than how we use the word in the West, buddhi is not a conscious activity.
Atman: It's who we are, not who we think we are.
Atman: It's who we are, not who we think we are.