Theos-Talk Archives (May 1999ar Message tt00153)

May 22 1999

Dallas offers:

Can we not say that "consciousness" means awareness ?  A
chemical element is guided by properties innate to it, and
those are regulated by its electro-magnetic composition --
so that certain chemicals react and others do not.

If that were all, it would be quite mechanical. However it
is observed in chemical  engineering that not all chemicals
react entirely, or that the results are absolutely pure and
free of their original combining constituents.  So an
equation for a chemical reaction reads with a double arrow,
one side pointing forward to the compound and the other
pointing back from the compound to the elements that were
supposed to combine 100%, and, are found in practice, not to
do that at all.

Is this randomness or indeterminacy possibly an example of
independent consciousness at the atomic or molecular stage?

There appear to be other levels of "consciousness" --- as in
the "sensitivity of plants"  Jagdish Chandra Bose
demonstrated this as far back as the 1880s and 1900s and
more recently I have read that there appears to be a
mysterious and instantaneous communication of sensitivity
between a "mother plane" and a "daughter plant" made by
rooting one of the "mother's" branches and then transporting
it hundred, even thousands of miles away from the "mother."

Experiments have shown that the reaction of the "mother" to
a stimulus is transmitted to the "daughter" over great
distances.  Why ?  How ?

And so on, other instances are in the animal and human
bodies where the cells, molecules, etc... show great wisdom
in their process of renovation and maintenance in the host
bodies.  Every body or being is made up of countless atoms,
molecules, cells, and other structures -- all are ruled by
intelligence -- but in each case there is evidence eof a
central guidance system and one wonders how that is done and
why the least of things is so well organized and  adjusted
to the rest of its environment.  What CONSCIOUSNESS rules
all this vast Universe and each smaller universe ?  Our
human bodies are said to consist on the average of 30 to 40
quadrillion atoms !  We certainly do not rule and adjust all
that, so some Intelligence helps to do that for us -- we are
tenants in a self-conscious dwelling house, and only
regulate what we do and how we behave when we are awake,
aware, attentive, thinking doing and acting -- and we do not
do that yet, very well !  When the body sleeps who keeps the
home-fires burning ?

All is cooperative in nature,  So why not Consciousness?

Dallas

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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 7:04 AM
Subject: Theos-World Question on Blavatsky Quote of the day


> Quote of the Day (for May 22):
>
> <<Esoteric philosophy teaches that everything lives and is
conscious, but not
> that all life and consciousness are similar to those of
human or even animal
> beings..>> Secret Doctrine Vol I page 49. By Helena
Blavatsky.
>
>
> In the Blavatsky quote of the day mentioned above, HPB
uses the phrase
> "similar to." Should we interpret that to mean "not equal
to" also???
>
> Louis
>
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