Anthony66 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:21 am
AshvinP wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 12:05 pm
Yet the latter is the decohered
final result of higher-order laws, of a more aesthetic and moral nature, weaving through our inner life.
But the thing with miracles is that there is a perturbation in the sensory phenomenon from their lawful ways, presumably due to perturbations of the higher-order laws. Do the higher laws sometimes have rostered days off?
Anthony,
We often mention that the higher worlds should not be understood as running parallel to the sensory world, indirectly influencing it in some way. What we perceive around us
are the higher-order laws, aliased into the fixed objects of the sensory spectrum for normal waking consciousness. A simple way to deduce this is from the fact that secular science cannot actually explain most of what we experience around us. It cannot explain how our idea of 'going to work' is translated into movements which actually take us from home to work. It can't explain how life arises on the physical plane. If we investigate deeper, we will find it is radically lacking in explanation for things we normally take for granted, such as chemical and biological processes and human anatomy. This only stands to reason when 2/3 of man's bodily constitution (the subtle bodies) are not known to exist, and the Ego (WFT consciousness) is thought to be mostly irrelevant to physical processes. None of this is to say the
findings of secular science are wrong, only they are radically incomplete, and the common 'explanations' have reified these radically incomplete observations into exhaustive understanding of the phenomena in question.
Discovering the higher-order laws allows us to
start making sense of the objects and processes we normally perceive in the sensory spectrum, which heretofore are mostly incomprehensible to modern science. This is why I mentioned 'synchronicities' before - most people would say a coinciding between 'subjective' inner experience and outer manifestations is a "perturbation" in the lawful ways of the world. But actually it is simply us becoming more conscious of what is
always happening. Synchronicities are not exceptions to the lawful order, but integral aspects of that order. The same thing applies to various other psy-phenomena like 'remote viewing', telekinesis, and such. That's not to say every claim of these things is a genuine occurrence, but that such phenomena are perfectly explainable within the framework of the higher-order laws in which the aliased laws of the sensory spectrum are embedded. But, as mentioned before, this is so unfamiliar to our modern thinking that it will be very difficult to imagine until we experience more of the inverted perspective. When I first read PoF and started taking spiritual science seriously, it took quite some time before I discerned just how lacking all conventional scientific theories, across the board, really are. They are mostly just restatements of how certain phenomena are correlated with other phenomena, with no explanation whatsoever of how the whole set of phenomena arise. This isn't just a metaphysical issue - it leads to erroneous methods of interacting with the phenomena with severe practical consequences, such as in medicine.
There are many more considerations which could be added here to then see how something like resurrection from the 'dead' also fits into the holistic order of spiritual evolution, of which physical evolution is the outer lawful manifestation. It should be noted that, in the most notable case of Christ Jesus, which is no doubt what people have in mind here, there is no mention of him reappearing to people in the same physical body which died. What we are dealing with here is indeed a rare occurrence because it prefigures something which has
yet to evolve in the course of humanity. We certainly need more flexibility of thinking in terms of our common assumption of the linear arrow of time, as Federica mentioned. But we can still discern how what has yet to evolve, and was prefigured by Christ, lawfully fits into the current body-soul-spirit constitution of man and its inner dynamics. It is our logical thinking consciousness, actively willed and imbued with feeling, which allows us to discern, not only what is 'past', but what is still 'future' and always playing into the present.