Meditation and Streams of Consciousness | |
ICF 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The term “stream of consciousness” was first used in psychology, to convey what was taken to be the flow of conscious experience, of what William James called “mind stuff”, in the brain. The term was introduced in James’s The Principles of Psychology (1890) to denote the continuous flow of thoughts, feelings and impressions which, he believed, is what makes up our inner lives. James was aware of the complexity of this “stream”. It does not consist of a single stream of consecutive items; many items may coexist. The stream is divided at any moment into those things that are the focus of attention and those which are part of the field of consciousness even though they are not consciously attended to. |
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ICF 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “We may dance toward it and away, achieve glimpses, and even dwell in its beauty for a time; yet few are those that have been confirmed in that knowledge of its ubiquity which antiquity called gnosis and the Orient calls bodhi: full awakening to the crystalline purity of the bed or ground of one’s own and yet the world’s true being. Like perfectly transparent crystal, it is there, yet as though not there; and all things, when seen through it, become luminous in its light” (Joseph Campbell 1968) |
ICF 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | By focused intent we gain access to our individual stream of conscoiousness and collapse that wave which we choose to ride, it is entirely up to us where we choose to reflect our attention. Where the attention goes, our energy flows. We are creating all the time, consciously and unconsciously. The key is that we need no masters, no guides, no hierarchy, only our intent and we recieve that which we will, it is us. I venture a world with untapped streams or infinite streams of conscious thought running all directions in this world, and we have the ability to tune our atonement to the stream we resonate to. Most do this unconsciously and are influenced by peole who understand this phenonmenon and choose to keep this knowledge buried. All one needs to do is have confidence that you are worlthy of greatness, and you shall have greatness, when you refuse to believe you are anything but perfect. |
ICF 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There is no chaos amid the turmoil of this life when you stay attuned through meditation to a higher calling, that internal tug toward greatness, the christ stream is available as are others, choosing which energy flow you would have is the gift of free will and it is at your fingertips, the stream awaits. |
ICF 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This paper explores consciousness from metaphysical sources of information and describes the method by which thoughts are the `observation´ which collapse the wave function. The Body and its Brain are an electromagnetic pattern, poised in a web of probabilities experienced as corporeal, at an intersection point in space and time. There are basic Units of Consciousness which are vitalized `aware´ energy, so small they are undetectable by instruments. They can exist in many places at once, move faster than light, and have an innate propensity for organization of all kinds. These Units appear in our system as electromagnetic energies and in one form function as light. The unusual qualities of light as `purposive´ and endowed with qualities of consciousness have been explored by researchers such as Arthur Zajonc in CATCHING THE LIGHT, and Arthur Young´s THE REFLEXIVE UNIVERSE. French physicist Jean Charon has proposed that every point in space-time is `conscious´. If the photon has attributes of consciousness, this could explain how it `knows´ when there are two slits in the double slit experiment, and the apparent non-local connections in the EPR experiment. These units form what is described as Mind, around which the brain structure is formulated. The units permeate the brain. They constitute a quantum Energy Wave Function as waves of electricity and magnetism, originating in the Pineal Gland, and in conjunction with the activities of the Pituitary, Thalamus and Thyroid, meeting in the Cerebral Cortex, undergo conversion -- one converts the other to its Nature. An essential part of this process is that the electrical impulses or currents reaching the cerebral cortex are converted through thalamic moisture or secretions. (See S. Hameroff on microtubules and water molecules, etc. JCS 1 No.1-104. Also Rodolfo Llinas). The question has often arisen, if the brain functions according to quantum mechanical principles, how is the collapse of the wave function accomplished? THOUGHTS FLOW, just as electrical impulses do, in straight line formation through the cortical channels of the brain, changing trajectory synaptically, with intermittent breaks or gaps separating the flow and causing individuated THOUGHTS or STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, capable of collapsing the wave function originating in the group of glands above mentioned. Consciousness then can be further defined as a condition where high frequency light/intelligent energy becomes aware of its own Nature via the Pituitary, which is the translator or spokesbeing for the Body-Self. The foregoing is but a brief sketch of the highly co-ordinated processes of the mind and consciousness which are outlined in detail by sources claiming to have first hand knowledge. GIDDIUP! |
seeker 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | auuuuuuuuuuUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm wherever you are, there you are.... Jesus: "The Father and I are one" … "The kingdom of heaven is within." Today is the greatest Day I´ve ever known Can´t live for tomorrow, Tomorrow´s much too long.... ~Billy Corgan, "Today," Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins album), 1993 Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Having access to that formless realm is truly liberating. It frees you from bondage to form and identification with form. It is life in its undifferentiated state prior to its fragmentation into multiplicity. We may call it the Unmanifested, the invisible Source of all things, the Being within all beings. It is a realm of deep stillness and peace, but also of joy and intense aliveness. Whenever you are present, you become "transparent" to some extent to the light, the pure consciousness that emanates from this Source. You also realize that the light is not separate from who you are but constitutes your very essence." From: [link to peacefulrivers.homestead.com] |
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zacksavage 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Where the attention goes, our energy flows. We are creating all the time, consciously and unconsciously. The key is that we need no masters, no guides, no hierarchy, only our intent and we recieve that which we will, it is us." Hm,...better meditate on that a little more. Programming is strong and hard to shake. Many refuse to fight for control of their own minds,...and then cast aspersions at those that do fight. Z |
ICF 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I see no point in submitting to a defined way to enlightenment, because as individuals we each have our own pattern in the eternal. We certainly gain great insight from those who paved the way, but even unto today there is no direct connection available to God that has not been contaiminated by mankind/temporal over spiritual, meditation and disipline seem the best methodology available, but each can anoint thyself with oil and pray in a closet, no need to hawk your wares for profit. There are genuine prophetic peoples and many who preach a false doctrine, the key is YOU, and resonating to truths that define your individual blueprint, and masters have achieved for themselves a certain freedom through thier pattern, but we each individually must come in our own time in our own way, that is true freedom, divinely given and choice is ours. It is not about control, it is about free will. That is the most important lesson as I see it in my path. |
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