Theos-Talk Archives (March 2009 Message tt00479)

I thought this might be interesting for us to see how some scientists  
studying consciousness are beginning to catch on to the real  
theosophical nature of fundamental reality.

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> From: GREG NIXON <doknyx@shaw.ca>
> Date: March 16, 2009 1:29:30 PM EDT
> To: Leon Maurer <leonmaurer@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [jcs-online] Re: Panpsychism
>
> Wow, Leon, great nutshell post. You drew a very clear picture here  
> in a digestibly limited space. Your ideas soar, it seems to me, and  
> it was great to soar with them while reading this.
>
> GN
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Leon Maurer <leonmaurer@aol.com>
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009 1:22 am
> Subject: Re: [jcs-online] Re: Panpsychism
> To: jcs-online@yahoogroups.com
>
> >
> > On Mar 12, 2009, at 3/12/095:23 PM, bill.adams@waadams.net wrote:
> >
> > > Ralph seems incredulous that complete loss of self is possible.
> > > But it happens every night in dreamless sleep.
> >
> > I agree with Ralph.  The self, as our center of individual existence
> > and potential perceptive consciousness can never be lost... And,
> > all we do in deep sleep is lose our awareness of that individuality.
> > Which returns to phenomenal awareness the moment we dream or
> > awaken.
> >
> > During deep sleep our individual self simply merges with the
> > universal self -- and by tuning out all the sensory channels, allows
> > the higher order cosmic energies radiated from the Sun (that
> > penetrates through everything including the Earth itself) to
> > replenish our similarly higher order Chi energies, and recharge our
> > battery, so to speak -- which runs down during every wakeful day.
> >
> > Thus, the need for dreamless sleep to maintain optimum health. This,
> > incidentally (along with the need for consciousness to serve as an
> > absolute reference point) more or less affirms the necessity for
> > subjective consciousness (awareness, will)  to be entirely separate
> > from all aspects of objective matter-energy... And, therefore, we  
> can
> > assume it is a fundamental aspect of absolute (0°K) space that is
> > entirely static, and located everywhere at the center of all radiant
> > fields.  Thus, all energy fields, particles (standing waves) and all
> > living cells, organs, bodies, etc. are equally potentially
> > conscious "selves" at different levels of experience.  And,
> > paradoxically, all consciousness must be entangled at the zero-point
> > level of total space.
> >
> > Putting all that together, we can easily see that everything in the
> > universe is interconnected on the higher order field levels, and
> > through universal consciousness -- which not only resolves all the
> > hard problems, but also offers a basis for explaining whatever psi
> > phenomenal and psychic effects might be real... From telepathy, to
> > OOBE, NDE, mental healing, placebo, acupuncture, etc.  In addition,
> > it also gives credence to and serves as a rationale underlying  
> Jung's
> > ideas of synchronicity, psychological archetypes, collective
> > unconscious, etc.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Leon Maurer
> > http://canonizer.com/topic.asp/88/4
> >
> >
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> >
> >


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