Merkabah

[muir]

Yes. It's supposed to be doing that...and it's happening in right timing during this ascension process. Also - keep in mind the ones in control of the media want it presented that way to keep people in fear.

OTH - I also am seeing an increase in the amount of facebook sharings of people all over the world doing compassionate and thoughtful deeds. They're coming together to create from a place of ccoperation and giving instead of greed. People are promoting the idea of love and joy - healthy food and relaxation - care for the planet and the creatures upon it - equality. There has been a huge increase in these kinds of posts in the last 6 months. I think I saw a headline in the Huffington Post the other day about how Conscious Awareness is becoming "main stream" here in the US and other western nations.

So try not to despair. After all.... it's what "they" want you to do.

I'm not despairing, i know that they are part of the archontic infection

I'm not necessarily speaking about portrayals of them in the media; i'm talking about people right here on the forum

 

[Kgal]

I'm not despairing, i know that they are part of the archontic infection

I'm not necessarily speaking about portrayals of them in the media; i'm talking about people right here on the forum

Yes. I have noticed an uptick in the amount of negative responses and comments bouncing around.

 

[muir]

Yes. I have noticed an uptick in the amount of negative responses and comments bouncing around.

There are those that know whats going on in the world and try to stop it, there are those that know whats going on and are trying to drive it forward and then there are those that think they know and just make the problem worse regardless of how well intentioned they think they are because they act as unwitting dupes through supporting things that are actually pulling humanity down

 

[Kgal]

There are those that know whats going on in the world and try to stop it, there are those that know whats going on and are trying to drive it forward and then there are those that think they know and just make the problem worse regardless of how well intentioned they think they are because they act as unwitting dupes through supporting things that are actually pulling humanity down

I hold to the point of view that:
Everyone is playing out the role(s) they are destined to play.
Each of us are on our own path. We are all Sovereign beings.

No one of us can tell anyone else what their path is....mostly because we aren't aware of the bigger picture. Yes...there is a bigger picture than either you or I know of.

All is well...and unfolding as it should.

 

[Eventhorizon]

Scientists believe we make up only about 5 percent of the known universe. Essentially making us a by product of the real universe. What if we are the cast off, the flotsam? What if we are all of the bad being discarded and left behind? Take arrogance for instance and believing we are so important that something like this isnt possible.

 

[sprinkles]

What if we're space weasels from another dimension?

What if we're space penguins from another dimension?

What if we're space weasel space penguins from space brought forth from the womb of the great galactic space narwhal from another dimension?

 

[sprinkles]

OMG OMG WAIT I got it!


SPACE UNICORNS!

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[BrokenDaniel]

Scientists believe we make up only about 5 percent of the known universe. Essentially making us a by product of the real universe. What if we are the cast off, the flotsam? What if we are all of the bad being discarded and left behind? Take arrogance for instance and believing we are so important that something like this isnt possible.

The search for meaning is optional.

 

[Skarekrow]

Awww....you're compassion is wonderful to feel Skarekrow. My heart is warmed and open after reading thyour words. Thank you for that gift. I had just finished listening to a song I've become obesessed with ever since he died and I had been crying but not enough. There was a tightness in my chest that went away after I saw what you wrote. Look at that! There you are being a healer even though you didn't have a scapel in hand. Hahahahaha... My god the world is damn fascinating....

Yes. The crying gig. Some days I can't stand it and I tell my guides "enough already...i need a break...!!" Believe it or not it does slow down for a while for me. :tongue:

I suspect - since you are a true healer - you're probably here for the same reason I am - and that is to help Gaia ascend by allowing and transmuting the dense (negative) energies in her field. Not only are we crying for our selves - but we are also crying for humanity - and ultimately for Earth. Even if you don't buy into the earth has consciousness - you could look at it from an energetic perspective. She has her own energy field fully encompassing the globe and extending outward in space. We are also within that field. There is so much darkness here to allow to bubble up and out of her field we came here to help.
I act as a conduit to clear the Dark and bring in the Light by allowing myself to feel the painful emotions and let them "move through me energetically" when I cry - scream some - and cry some more. When I do this for me - I am doing it for all of us on this planet -and the Earth becomes less dark.

So yes. I am told other people's energies can sometimes overwhelm. There is soooo much Fear and it's intense. Which is probably why you're feeling the intensity too.
I can't tell you how many times I've cried and I had no idea why......none...zero. Through my meditation teacher I had learned it's best not try to figure them out as they arise...that it was better to let it go. Well...for a long time when I let it go...the crying would stop. Now...however...I don't try to figure it out anymore. Now.... I hear the words "let it flow... we love you... let it flow....we love you so very much". It keeps me going and moving 'through' the crying....the feeling that needs expression and chance to move free.
Afterwards there is incredible bliss and peace. I can float in that for a long long time some nights.
I think I understand you when you say you have never felt more open...more happy...more out of body and head...but grounded like this....ever! It's amazing....isn't it? :bounce:

Yeh....I was appalled and devasted too when I began to see the truth. To me it shows your awareness is expanding outward in ever greater spirals. The trick to moving through all of the guilt and shame is to love it with compassion and kindness. We could come up with a million reasons why have done what we've done - up till now. But we did what we did with the consciousness level we had at the time....yes? The one sure way to walk the path is to show love and compassion for the part of us who feels guilt and shame and pain. As we do this - we also do it for the world. hmmm....We're like the ice breaker ships breaking a path for the tankers to follow behind.
Each time one of us has the courage to do this act and release pain and fear - we forge more paths to the Light.

I did it when I cried out my betrayal act of murder in another life. I was holding that pain within me here...in this now...and it was released for all time to be transmuted back in to source energy. My contract with him ended when I finished forgiving myself after his visit with me the other night. I am clear.
Because of this there is not much pain in our separation by his death. Do you see? The unconditional love flowing from his eyes while he gazed at me that night was more than anything I have ever seen in my entire life. Ever. There is sooooo much love waiting on the other side of the veil for me....what cause have I for grieving? I will always have love....always...and forever and ever.

You have people on the other side who love you too...and not only your Dad...you have a vast family waiting for the time when you can be wtih them. All of us do.

Hang in there Skarekrow. There is much yet to come. ...and there is much love...oh yes...love.

Yes. I've heard that message a lot lately. We ARE being tested.

I have almost completely emptied out my house now as I've brought everything from upstairs - downstairs. The entire upstairs is clear. Almost the entire other half of my house is clear too. Only things ready for boxes to the Women's shelter or my sister are there.

I walk around my near empty house and wonder what it is in store for me next.

You know Serenity...it's hard sometimes to remain in the calm center. Fear sneaks up on me as I wonder what else am I going to lose next....!!!

A friend of mine explained he felt we were in a good place when our Fear shows up - because it's a clear indicator the ego truly has no past beliefs to work with to project it's future. He maintians we are cleared enough of our old conditioning beliefs as to be blank slates....ready for the coming change.
Nevertheless - remaining calm in my center is a daily challenge as I work to recognize what I'm holding on to and then let it go.

Thank you for the wisdom.

I’ve had so many things correlate as of lately, I don’t think that what has been happening around me and to me is just coincidence.
We are talking odds greater than winning the lottery…it just doesn’t ever happen…the reverse does, but not this!
Sometimes I don’t know how great of a healer I am…it seems I fail to properly shield myself from the negativity forcing itself into our lives.
But, I am glad that it helped you…I was worried it would be too much too soon.

You have always been so kind and thoughtful in everything that you have ever said to me…I could never think of you in any negative context.
Just so you know.

 

[Skarekrow]

Why waking up in a morgue isn’t quite as unusual as you’d think

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In Poland, a 91-year-old woman has shocked her family — and the public at large — by waking up in a morgue after being refrigerated having been declared dead.
Despite 11 hours of cold storage, Janina Kolkiewicz was discovered to be alive and well after mortuary staff detected movements in her body bag.

Speaking as an anatomical pathology technologist (or mortuary technician) I can thankfully say that has never happened to me when I’ve been on duty.
But it does happen.

In January this year a 24-year-old Kenyan man, Paul Mutora, was pronounced dead after swallowing insecticide; 15 hours later he woke up in a morgue, causing staff to “take to their heels, screaming”.

In March, Walter Williams, a 78-year-old man, was found alive and literally kicking in a body bag at a funeral home in Mississippi.
The discovery came as staff were preparing to embalm his body, so he was just spared the gruesome fate of having an artery sliced open and his blood replaced with formaldehyde to preserve his tissues — a process I’m certain some Hollywood stars will eventually adopt in order to stay youthful.

Williams had been declared dead as he had “no pulse”, but it was just a few hours later that he began kicking in the embalming room, causing staff to immediately call an ambulance.

So how does it happen?
In Mutora’s case it was thought that the atropine he was given by medical staff to counteract the insecticide may have made him appear dead (it slows heart rate).

With Williams, meanwhile, much has been made of the fact that the coroner who pronounced him dead, Dexter Howard, was an elected official who didn’t have a medical degree, as is the case in many US states.

UK coroners may also have a medical or law degree, but the difference is they don’t have the power to pronounce people dead.
That is left to medically trained staff — and for good reason.

Even within the medical community there is debate over what really constitutes death, and it is seen less as a single event and more as a process.
It involves several different mechanisms ceasing, not just one, which is why there can be ethical arguments around brain stem death — when the person is in fact deceased but their tissues can be artificially kept alive.

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When the heart, for whatever reason, stops beating, the tissues it services are deprived of both oxygen and glucose, and are subject to a build-up of toxic waste products.
This gradually kills the cells.

When enough of them die there is major organ failure and the body as a whole is said to be dead.
The delicate cells of the brain are particularly susceptible to a lack of oxygen (anoxia) and they will usually begin to die in around four to six minutes.

However, a reduction in temperature can extend this period considerably: the cold decreases the cells’ need for oxygen and glucose and they go into a type of hibernation state. Many examples of this preservation and recovery exist, from people drowning in icy water to becoming suffocated beneath an avalanche, or simply becoming unconscious and hypothermic until they are found and revived.

Conversely, the cells of the skin, for example, can remain alive for 24 hours after the heart has stopped beating, although the idea that nails and hair continue to grow after death is myth.

Now it is becoming clear how the unfortunate Polish woman was able to wake up after 11 hours in this hibernation state with no severe physical damage and nothing but a craving for hot tea and pancakes.

The fact is, she is not a modern-day Lazarus who “came back from the dead”, as some headlines are screaming: she quite simply wasn’t dead in the first place.
She probably did have a very weak pulse, and was unconscious owing to a medical issue.

Some people have a condition called catalepsy, for example, a nervous disorder that replicates the stiff muscles of rigor mortis, slows breathing and decreases sensitivity to pain. This means gruesome archaic tests for death, such as shoving needles beneath fingernails and slicing nostrils, may not work on the cataleptic patient. (This condition was written about extensively by Edgar Allen Poe, who was terrified of being buried prematurely — a very real fear during the 19th century.)

So people can be mistaken for dead, but it is very rare indeed — and for the most part our sophisticated medical tests and equipment ensure it doesn’t happen.
And, as illustrated by the above cases, those unlucky people tend to wake up in mortuaries anyway, and certainly don’t reach the stage where they would be buried alive.

But then again, we wouldn’t know about those unfortunate people, would we?

 

[Skarekrow]

Déjà Vu

Déjà vu is the feeling of being certain that you’ve already experienced a certain situation previously.
It’s as if what has happened is repeating itself in a new moment.
A lot of the times, this is because it actually has.

When we think about what we do or say each day, a lot of the times it’s repetitive.
I’ve had so many moments where I have to ask my friends if I’ve already told them a certain story I’m in the middle of.
Half the time – I have.

Sometimes, some of these experiences have happened in a dream and a specific object or word reminds you of it.

Déjà Vécu

Déjà vécu is similar to Déjà Vu but it is much more immersive.
In a moment of Déjà Vu, it’s something you’ve SEEN before, but in a moment of Déjà Vécu, it’s something you’ve FELT before.
It brings forth senses of smell and sound in greater detail.
It is a more intense version of Déjà Vu.

Déjà Visité

Déjà visité is an amazing feeling of familiarity with a place you’ve never been.
If you’re walking around a new city or perhaps forest and you have this strange feeling of being there before – well maybe you have in a dreams state or on a higher frequency.
I was walking around a neighborhood in Santa Cruz – a place I never thought I’d visit.

I had a completely overwhelming feeling of being here before.
I had actually thought of this place as a kid, and it had more to do with the feeling of being here rather than what everything looked like.
The experience was amazing and brought me to tears as I was overcome with feelings of gratitude.

Déjà Senti

Déjà senti – stemming from the word sentimental, is the phenomenon of having “already felt” something.
This sometimes translates to thinking you just spoke but then realizing you didn’t say anything at all.
It happens inthose moments of daydreaming, when you think you just did something but snap back into reality and realize you were just sitting there the whole time.

Jamais Vu

Jamais vu – this is a crazy one.
It’s like the opposite of Déjà Vu, where something isn’t recognized.
This experience happens all the time when you say a word over and over and you just can’t even believe it’s a word anymore.
You begin to doubt if it’s spelled correctly and it becomes a foreign sound of jumbled letters.

This first happened to me when I was about 6 and said the word ‘finger’ over and over.
It freaked me out how much I didn’t recognize it after repeating it.

Presque Vu

Presque vu this is that annoying sensation of something being ‘on the tip of your tongue’.
You can just almost grasp the word or idea you’re trying to remember but you can’t quite get it.
This is a very strange experience – it’s like you can see parts of the word in your mind but its jumbled and can’t be grasped.
That moment of pulling it into your consciousness and expressing it is quite special, what made you able to put the connections together to retrieve the information?

L’esprit de l’Escalier

L’esprit de l’escalier – literally translating to ‘staircase wit’ is that awful feeling of knowing what to say AFTER it’s already too late.
In the moment of trying to say a witty comeback but it just won’t come to mind, and then after the conversation is done THEN you know what to say.
It’s happened to all of us.

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[Skarekrow]

Science and spirituality: Jeff Lieberman at TEDxCambridge 2011

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Jeff Lieberman, an MIT-trained artist, scientist and engineer, makes a scientific argument for mystical experience.
He asks us to challenge our perception of what we are, our relationship to the universe, and our relationship to one another.
Our minds are "thought-generating machines."
What we would happen if we could turn off the machine?
If we could transcend our individual experience of the world?​

 

[Skarekrow]

Consciousness is a Mathematical Pattern

[video=youtube;GzCvlFRISIM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GzCvlFRISIM[/video]

“As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as “food, rearranged.”
That makes his answer to complicated questions like “What is consciousness?
” simple: It’s just math. Why? Because it’s the patterns, not the particles, that matter.” -TEDx​

 

[Skarekrow]

All machine and no ghost?

The more we look at the brain, the less it looks like a device for creating consciousness.
Perhaps philosophers will never be able to solve the mystery.

The philosophy of mind is concerned with fundamental questions about consciousness - about its existence and nature.
The science of psychology is concerned with its empirical workings - how one mental thing leads to another, basically.

The former is a branch of metaphysics, the latter of dynamics.
The central defining property of the mind is consciousness, so philosophy of mind is concerned with the existence and nature of consciousness: what is consciousness, why does it exist, how is it related to the body and brain, and how did it come into existence?

These are big, difficult questions.
Focus on your current state of consciousness - your experience of seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, willing, and so on - and ask yourself what kind of being this consciousness is, what its function might be, how it is related to the activity of cells in your brain, what could have brought it about in the course of evolution.

Allow yourself to feel the attendant puzzlement, the sense of bafflement: now you are doing philosophy of mind.
Try to imagine a world with no consciousness in it, just clashing quanta in the void and clumps of dead, insensate matter (the way our universe used to be); now add consciousness to it.

What difference do you make to things, what is the point of the addition and how can you add consciousness to a world without it?
Do you somehow reassemble the material particles?

I predict it will seem to you that you have made an enormous difference to your imagined world but you will not understand how the unconscious world and the conscious world fit intelligibly together.

It will seem to you that you have performed a miracle (contrast adding planets to a world containing only gaseous clouds).
But does our world really consist of miracles?

We can distinguish five positions on consciousness: eliminativist, dualist, idealist, pan*psychist and mysterianist.
The eliminativist position attempts to dissolve the problem of explaining consciousness simply by declaring that there isn't any: there is no such thing - no seeing, hearing, thinking, and so on.

There is just blank matter; the impression that we are conscious is an illusion.
This view is clearly absurd, a form of madness even, and anyway refutes itself since even an illusion is the presence of an experience (it certainly seems to me that I am conscious).

There are some who purport to hold this view but they are a tiny (and tinny) minority: they are sentient beings loudly claim*ing to be mindless zombies.

More subtly, there are many who insist that consciousness just reduces to brain states - a pang of regret, say, is just a surge of chemicals across a synapse. They are collapsers rather than deniers.

Though not avowedly eliminative, this kind of view is tacitly a rejection of the very existence of consciousness, because the brain processes held to constitute conscious experience consist of physical events that can exist in the absence of consciousness.

Electricity in the brain correlates with mental activity but electricity in your TV presumably does not - so how can electrical processes be the essence of conscious experience?

If there is nothing happening but electrochemical activity when I say, "My finger hurts," or, "I love her so," then there is nothing experiential going on when I say those things.

So reduction is tantamount to elimination, despite the reductionist's intentions (it's like maintaining that people called "witches" are nothing but harmless old ladies – which is tantamount to saying that there are no witches).

The dualist, by contrast, freely admits that consciousness exists, as well as matter, holding that reality falls into two giant spheres.
There is the physical brain, on the one hand, and the conscious mind, on the other: the twain may meet at some point but they remain distinct
entities.

Dualism may be of substances, properties, or even whole universes, but its thrust is that the conscious mind is a thing apart from, and irreducible to, anything that goes on in the body.

When I think, my brain indeed whirs but the thinking stands apart from the whirring, as clouds stand aloft from the earth or magnetism exists separately from gravity.

Dualism proposes to give the mind its ontological due but the problem is that it has difficulties organising a rendezvous between the two spheres: how does the mind affect the brain and the brain the mind?

Whence the systematic correlation and interaction?
And how did the mind come to exist, if not by dint of cerebral upsurges?

Dualism makes the mind too separate, thereby precluding intelligible interaction and dependence.
At this point the idealist swooshes in: ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing but mind!

There is no problem of interaction with matter because matter is mere illusion - we merely hallucinate brains.
The universe is just one vast spirit, or perhaps a population of the same, consisting of nothing but free-floating consciousness, unencumbered and serene.

Stars and planets are just perturbations in this cosmic sensorium.

As an imaginative fancy, idealism has its charms but taking it seriously requires an antipathy to matter bordering on the maniacal.
Are we to suppose that material reality is just a dream, a baseless fantasy, and that the Big Bang was nothing but the cosmic spirit having a mental sneezing fit?

Where did consciousness come from, if not from pre-existing matter?
Did God just create centres of consciousness ab initio, with nothing material in the vicinity?

Is my body just a figment of my imagination?

Perhaps we would do better to dial idealism back a bit: it is not that everything real is mental but that there is more mentality out there than meets the introspective eye.

Perhaps all matter has its mental aspects or moments, its local injection of consciousness.

Thus we have pan*psychism: even the lowliest of material things has a streak of sentience running through it, like veins in marble.
Not just parcels of organic matter, such as lizards and worms, but also plants and bacteria and water molecules and even electrons.

Everything has its primitive feelings and minute allotment of sensation.

The cool thing about panpsychism is that it offers a seductively silky explanation of emergence.
How does mind emerge from matter? Why - by virtue of the pre-existence of mind in matter.

Mind is all around, so we don't need a magic mechanism to spirit it into existence from nowhere - it was already present at the time of the Big Bang, simmering away. (What did the hydrogen atom say to the carbon atom at the time of the Big Bang? My ears are ringing.)

The trouble with panpsychism is that there just isn't any evidence of the universal distribution of consciousness in the material world.
Atoms don't act conscious; they act unconscious.

And also, what precisely is on their microscopic minds - little atomic concerns?
What does it mean to say that atoms have consciousness in some primitive form (often called "proto-consciousness")?

They either have real sensations and thoughts or they don't.
What is a tiny quantity of consciousness like, exactly?

Panpsychism looks a lot like preformationism in biology: we try to explain the emergence of organic life by supposing that it already exists in microscopic form in the pre-life world - as if the just-fertilised egg has a little, fully formed baby curled up in it waiting to expand during gestation.

So where does this leave us?
The available options all seem to encounter fairly bone-crushing objections.

Here is where I entered the picture, 25 years ago.
I could see the problems with the standard theories but I couldn't accept that nature adores a miracle, or that it is simply unintelligible.

Consciousness must have evolved from matter somehow but nothing we could contrive or imagine seemed to offer the faintest hope for explanation.
Hence, it occurred to me that the problem might lie not in nature but in ourselves: we just don't have the faculties of comprehension that would enable us to remove the sense of mystery.

Ontologically, matter and consciousness are woven intelligibly together but epistemologically we are precluded from seeing how.
I used Noam Chomsky's notion of "mysteries of nature" to describe the situation as I saw it.

Soon, I was being labelled (by Owen Flanagan) a "mysterian", the name of a defunct pop group, and the name stuck.

I am not against the label, understood correctly, but like all labels it suggests an overly simple view of a complex position.
At first the view was regarded as eccentric and vaguely disreputable but now it is a standard option - though one with very few adherents.

Its primary attraction lies in the lack of appeal of all the other options, to which supporters of those options are curiously oblivious.
People sometimes ask me if I am still a mysterian, as if perhaps the growth of neuroscience has given me pause; they fail to grasp the depth of mystery I sense in the problem.

The more we know of the brain, the less it looks like a device for creating consciousness: it's just a big collection of biological cells and a blur of electrical activity - all machine and no ghost.

Latterly, I have come to think that mystery is quite pervasive, even in the hardest of sciences.
Physics is a hotbed of mystery: space, time, matter and motion - none of it is free of mysterious elements.

The puzzles of quantum theory are just a symptom of this widespread lack of understanding (I discuss this in my latest book, Basic Structures of Reality).
The human intellect grasps the natural world obliquely and glancingly, using mathematics to construct abstract representations of concrete phenomena, but what the ultimate nature of things really is remains obscure and hidden.

How everything fits together is particularly elusive, perhaps reflecting the disparate cognitive faculties we bring to bear on the world (the senses, introspection, mathematical description).

We are far from obtaining a unified theory of all being and there is no guarantee that such a theory is accessible by finite human intelligence.

Some modern philosophers pride themselves on their "naturalism" but real naturalism begins with a proper perspective on our specifically human intelligence.

Palaeoanthropologists have taught us that the human brain gradually evolved from ancestral brains, particularly in concert with practical toolmaking, centring on the anatomy of the human hand.

This history shaped and constrained the form of intelligence now housed in our skulls (as the lifestyle of other species form their set of cognitive skills).
What chance is there that an intelligence geared to making stone tools and grounded in the contingent peculiarities of the human hand can aspire to uncover all the mysteries of the universe?

Can omniscience spring from an opposable thumb?
It seems unlikely, so why presume that the mysteries of consciousness will be revealed to a thumb-shaped brain like ours?

The "mysterianism" I advocate is really nothing more than the acknowledgment that human intelligence is a local, contingent, temporal, practical and expendable feature of life on earth - an incremental adaptation based on earlier forms of intelligence that no one would regard as faintly omniscient.

The current state of the philosophy of mind, from my point of view, is just a reflection of one evolutionary time-slice of a particular bipedal species on a particular humid planet at this fleeting moment in cosmic history - as is everything else about the human animal.

There is more ignorance in it than knowledge.

Colin McGinn is professor of philosophy at the University of Miami.
His latest book is "Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics"

 

[Kgal]

I’ve had so many things correlate as of lately, I don’t think that what has been happening around me and to me is just coincidence.
We are talking odds greater than winning the lottery…it just doesn’t ever happen…the reverse does, but not this!
Sometimes I don’t know how great of a healer I am…it seems I fail to properly shield myself from the negativity forcing itself into our lives.
But, I am glad that it helped you…I was worried it would be too much too soon.

You have always been so kind and thoughtful in everything that you have ever said to me…I could never think of you in any negative context.
Just so you know.

You got it!

Uhhh.... I don't know about shielding ourselves against the negativity. I have heard many conflicting perpsectives on this. I tend to lean towards "let it flow on up and out" and then beam my own unconditional love for my self and my world so as to fill my sphere of energy field.

Aww...it's ok. ...I know.

 

[Skarekrow]

Colin McGinn - Mysterianism and the Mind of God


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Respondent: Roger Scruton

Which aspects of God’s mind are mysterious and which are not?
Do the mysteries of God’s mind parallel the mysteries of the human mind?
The mystery of the mind-body connection will not apply to God’s mind, since God has no material body-- though the consciousness of God itself might pose mysteries in its own right, such as the mystery of intentionality.

But the mystery of free will can be expected to apply equally to God, as it does to humans.
How God can have free will in a world either deterministic or indeterministic is just as problematic as the analogous problem for human freedom.
On the other hand, all is not mysterious, either for humans or for God, since some mental faculties do admit of understanding: the language faculty, logical reasoning, geometrical competence, and moral and social cognition.

God presumably possesses each of these faculties, and so the theories that apply to humans will carry over to God, mutatis mutandis.
For instance, God’s language faculty will involve a combinatorial system built from a finite base and extending to infinity.


As to the problem of divine intervention in the natural world, I see no metaphysical reason why this should be more difficult to understand than the intervention of the human will in the natural world (which is not to say that this problem is easy).

In both cases we are confronted with a physical world governed by natural laws that appear to proceed without volitional causation–how then can volitional acts, human or divine, affect what happens in the natural world?

COLIN MCGINN’s
interests include philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics, philosophy of physics, and the philosophy of literature and film.

He has taught at Rutgers University, Oxford University and University College London, among other places.
He has published over twenty books, ranging from consciousness to evil, Shakespeare to sport, film to logic, Wittgenstein to imagination.
He has written extensively for the general reading public, as well as publishing two novels.
He lives in Miami, where he paddles and plays tennis.
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[Skarekrow]

How to induce an Out Of Body Experience - part 1 - Sleep Paralysis

[video=youtube;0-9hETPjJlo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0-9hETPjJlo[/video]

This is the first video in a series of however many I need to make...
It will give you a very easy technique to induce an OOBE (Out-Of-Body Experience).

This first video deals with the most important aspect; inducing the gateway state needed to achieve a full blown OOBE which is what the medical establishment term 'Sleep Paralysis' amongst other things... I call it 'The Vibrational State'.
I started having sleep paralysis at the age of 11... a very scary experience at first, but after a while I learned that I wasn't so paralysed; I seemed to be able to separate my consciousness from my physical body.

This is a no bullshit, non-new age way of inducing it... no meditation needed... no money to spend on a 4 week course... no rubbish about Chakras and no silly or useless audio tapes to listen to.

It's the only technique I have used for 25 years and the same technique I've taught, (or rather 'shown') to friends, family and online strangers - some of whom I have made good friends. It has a pretty much 100% hit rate for success... even if it doesn't it can be tweaked to fit different lifestyles.

The overall creepy ambience and imagery of the video actually serves the purpose of letting the uninitiated or anyone who has never experienced OOBEs or Sleep Paralysis to know what to expect. They are scary... Check out imanselmo's videos... he is pretty much on the ball with the fear factor:http://www.youtube.com/user/imanselmo

The noises and presence aren't demonic, evil or dangerous... learn to ignore them... I did at the age of 11 and I haven't come to any harm; If you average 3-4 OOBEs a week for 25 years... You do the math. All of these thousands of OOBEs have amounted to a good content for a book... Which I am writing.

Master the Vibrational State... endure it. Once you pass through the state into the OOBE... it's worth it. Trust me.

OOBEs have become a massive influence on my life... I have grown up with them... it's my second life.


How to Induce an Out-Of-Body Experience - Part 2 - Separation


[video=youtube;iKglrf2-co0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iKglrf2-co0[/video]

As promised, part 2... Separation.

There is so much more information to give regarding Separation. Too much for a Youtube video.
However, the info in this video is enough regarding what you need to know right now.

There are a few things I should point out... I have said that in the 2nd Phase OOBE it's possible to visit other worlds, times and dead people... I can not know this for sure because of the subjective nature it.

To put it one way... the worlds visited seem to have rules of their own and don't change no matter how many times I visit them... they are consitent in nature.

In other words they seem to be independent realities. Still I can not rule out the fact that I may be creating them... if so, then I must be an imaginative genius who can conjure up other worlds... which is very highly unlikely. I am pretty normal.

If you are skeptical about the reality of these experiences, then I beg you to try these techniques so that you may experience OOBEs for yourself... after which you have a right to make valid comments...

I have offered you a chance to try....

If you don't attempt experiencing an OOBE then save your unfounded opinion to yourself.
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[Skarekrow]

The Day I Died - NDE Documentary Part 1 of 6

[video=youtube;u1vWoUoiaP4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u1vWoUoiaP4[/video]

The Day I Died - NDE Documentary Part 2 of 6


[video=youtube;xsvkJeX5OE0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xsvkJeX5OE0[/video]

The Day I Died - NDE Documentary Part 3 of 6


[video=youtube;37JLnVt-AoE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=37JLnVt-AoE[/video]​

 

[Skarekrow]

The Day I Died - NDE Documentary Part 4 of 6


[video=youtube;t27da61dJ88]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=t27da61dJ88[/video]

The Day I Died - NDE Documentary Part 5 of 6


[video=youtube;X3TB--jo7fU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=X3TB--jo7fU[/video]

The Day I Died - NDE Documentary Part 6 of 6


[video=youtube;gVjfhsBaups]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gVjfhsBaups[/video]​

 

[Skarekrow]

Near-Death Experiences of Children

[video=youtube;YEwkYuQm-LE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YEwkYuQm-LE[/video]

NDE Researcher Dr PMH Atwater with KMVT's "Present!" host Mel Van Dusen.​