Laura said:It's always astonishing to me how little knowledge of real history and archaeology and sociology and psychology biblical experts actually have. That is changing somewhat, but for most of the mainstream theologically committed types, it's not.
As regards the process for the transmutation of metals into gold, attested already in Chinese alchemy, it accelerates the temporal rhythm and thus contributes to the work of nature. As written in the 'Summa Perfectionis,' an alchemical work of the sixteenth century, "what nature can perfect in a vast space of time we can achieve in a short space of time by our art." The same idea is expounded by Ben Jonson in his play 'The Alchemist' (Act 2, Scene 2) The alchemist confirms that "lead and other metals... would be gold if they had time"; and another character adds: "And that our art doth further." In other words, the alchemist substitutes himself for Time.
goyacobol said:Raintree said:Nienna said:Q: (L) Well, they said the power for changing reality lies in the belief center of the mind. But then they also said something about emotions. Emotions that are limiting, and then emotions that help to progress... So, maybe the belief that one needs to cultivate - if any - is the belief in unlimited possibilities AND also in the benevolence of the universe and the process. Maybe that's what it is?
A: Yes yes yes!
This is really important, or so I think! Very powerful and something to strive for.
I think so too. Not sure how I ended up watching this video while reading, pausing, and then continuing reading this session today, but I never thought Jim Carey would say something similar to what you have bolded above and the notion of intending and receiving from the universe what you need in your life (his bike example) summarized at about 23 minutes into the video.
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNHzhhVaiU
Thank you for sharing this session.
Thanks Raintree. Who would have thought Jim Carey could find something so close to what we are finding. Of course his early years were not without struggles as most of us realize can be a way to learn and grow if we take a different perspective.
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I had a substitute teacher from Ireland in the second grade they told my class during morning prayer that when she wants something, anything at all, she prays for it and promises something in return and she always gets what she wants.
Well I'm sitting at the back of the classroom you know, thinking wow my family can't afford a bike you know, so I went home and I prayed for him and I promised I would recite the rosary every night in exchange. Broke it, broke that promise... but two weeks later I got home from school to find a brand-new Mustang bike with a banana seat and Easy Rider handlebars. Yeah, from fool to cool. My family informed me that I had won the bike in a raffle that a friend of mine had entered my name in without my knowledge whatsoever.
So that type of thing has been happening to me ever since. As far as I can tell it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. Your job is not to figure out how it's gonna happen for you but to open the door in your head and when the door opens in real life just walk through it. And don't worry if you miss your cue because there's always doors opening they keep opening. And when I say life doesn't happen to you it happens for you I really don't know if that's true, I'm just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way. You'll come up with your own style, that's part of the fun.
Oh and why not take a chance on faith as well. Take a chance on faith, not religion but faith, not hope but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is the beggar, hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it. You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors today you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
Courageous Inmate Sort said:goyacobol said:Raintree said:Nienna said:Q: (L) Well, they said the power for changing reality lies in the belief center of the mind. But then they also said something about emotions. Emotions that are limiting, and then emotions that help to progress... So, maybe the belief that one needs to cultivate - if any - is the belief in unlimited possibilities AND also in the benevolence of the universe and the process. Maybe that's what it is?
A: Yes yes yes!
This is really important, or so I think! Very powerful and something to strive for.
I think so too. Not sure how I ended up watching this video while reading, pausing, and then continuing reading this session today, but I never thought Jim Carey would say something similar to what you have bolded above and the notion of intending and receiving from the universe what you need in your life (his bike example) summarized at about 23 minutes into the video.
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNHzhhVaiU
Thank you for sharing this session.
Thanks Raintree. Who would have thought Jim Carey could find something so close to what we are finding. Of course his early years were not without struggles as most of us realize can be a way to learn and grow if we take a different perspective.
For those that prefer reading, I believe this is the Jim Carey quote mentioned by Raintree:
22:34
I had a substitute teacher from Ireland in the second grade they told my class during morning prayer that when she wants something, anything at all, she prays for it and promises something in return and she always gets what she wants.
Well I'm sitting at the back of the classroom you know, thinking wow my family can't afford a bike you know, so I went home and I prayed for him and I promised I would recite the rosary every night in exchange. Broke it, broke that promise... but two weeks later I got home from school to find a brand-new Mustang bike with a banana seat and Easy Rider handlebars. Yeah, from fool to cool. My family informed me that I had won the bike in a raffle that a friend of mine had entered my name in without my knowledge whatsoever.
So that type of thing has been happening to me ever since. As far as I can tell it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. Your job is not to figure out how it's gonna happen for you but to open the door in your head and when the door opens in real life just walk through it. And don't worry if you miss your cue because there's always doors opening they keep opening. And when I say life doesn't happen to you it happens for you I really don't know if that's true, I'm just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way. You'll come up with your own style, that's part of the fun.
Oh and why not take a chance on faith as well. Take a chance on faith, not religion but faith, not hope but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is the beggar, hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it. You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors today you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
bm said:Courageous Inmate Sort said:<snip>
For those that prefer reading, I believe this is the Jim Carey quote mentioned by Raintree:
22:34
I had a substitute teacher from Ireland in the second grade they told my class during morning prayer that when she wants something, anything at all, she prays for it and promises something in return and she always gets what she wants.
Well I'm sitting at the back of the classroom you know, thinking wow my family can't afford a bike you know, so I went home and I prayed for him and I promised I would recite the rosary every night in exchange. Broke it, broke that promise... but two weeks later I got home from school to find a brand-new Mustang bike with a banana seat and Easy Rider handlebars. Yeah, from fool to cool. My family informed me that I had won the bike in a raffle that a friend of mine had entered my name in without my knowledge whatsoever.
So that type of thing has been happening to me ever since. As far as I can tell it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. Your job is not to figure out how it's gonna happen for you but to open the door in your head and when the door opens in real life just walk through it. And don't worry if you miss your cue because there's always doors opening they keep opening. And when I say life doesn't happen to you it happens for you I really don't know if that's true, I'm just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way. You'll come up with your own style, that's part of the fun.
Oh and why not take a chance on faith as well. Take a chance on faith, not religion but faith, not hope but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is the beggar, hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it. You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors today you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
Thanks for that transcription, Courageous Inmate Sort. I thought that was clearly something that the C's have propounded on. Work hard at what you're aiming for but at the same time, believe that the outcome is not limited by anything, especially not what you think/want it to be.
Laura said:...
(L) And I think that comes back in a funny sort of way to this “Healing Developmental Trauma” book. One of the problems of early trauma is that children come to believe that the universe is not a safe place or it's scary. They just get completely wrong ideas which lead to thought errors. That's something that's preverbal…
(Pierre) And very limiting.
(L) And those are the kinds of things that probably the neurofeedback can fix more easily than anything else because those are things that produce certain brain waves that persist over time. There's no other way to get to them because you can't TALK your way through something that's preverbal! You can get into some kind of body therapy and spend years with a therapist, but why do that when you can just go directly and change the brain waves? And if you change brain waves, the brain's going to change. Right?
A: Yes yes yes!
(L) And those are the kinds of things that probably the neurofeedback can fix more easily than anything else because those are things that produce certain brain waves that persist over time. There's no other way to get to them because you can't TALK your way through something that's preverbal! You can get into some kind of body therapy and spend years with a therapist, but why do that when you can just go directly and change the brain waves? And if you change brain waves, the brain's going to change. Right?
A: Yes yes yes!
(Joe) Are they really suggesting that this whole radical leftist ideology is going to go to an extreme in Western society?
A: Like the Nazis, they will try.
(L) Well, they said the power for changing reality lies in the belief center of the mind. But then they also said something about emotions. Emotions that are limiting, and then emotions that help to progress... So, maybe the belief that one needs to cultivate - if any - is the belief in unlimited possibilities AND also in the benevolence of the universe and the process. Maybe that's what it is?
A: Yes yes yes!
MK Scarlett said:Thank you for this awesome session as there is a lot to think of, indeed!
This idea of Space-Consciousness continuum looks terrific to me as I sometimes thought that "time" - as the word with the meaning we know of it - could just be a figure de style with no real intrinsic state, so to say. Or in other words, "time" would be a symbolic word as words can be (and often are) symbolic, just as symbology looks like a key/language/information to body/mind medicine, for example. I'd like to share here where these "thoughts" led me to.
MK Scarlett said:This idea of Space-Consciousness continuum looks terrific to me as I sometimes thought that "time" - as the word with the meaning we know of it - could just be a figure de style with no real intrinsic state, so to say. Or in other words, "time" would be a symbolic word as words can be (and often are) symbolic, just as symbology looks like a key/language/information to body/mind medicine, for example. I'd like to share here where these "thoughts" led me to.
Laura said:Q: (Pierre) So what is so special in Laura that makes her have an influence on random events like the color of the cards?
A: Born that way.
Q: (Artemis) Maybe she's born with it...
A: Genetic endowment for PK.
Q: (Artemis) And there have been really weird times where I was looking for something in my room, and I realized I was holding it in my hand and I know I wasn't holding it before. I was weirded out by that, and I think it's related maybe.
A: It is genetic coding.
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Q: (L) Well... The question I have - and I'm not sure that I ever really asked it in such a direct way, or if it was ever really answered - is: What is a Semite?
A: Central Asian genetic type formed from two main lines.
Q: (Chu) Which lines?
A: Kantekkian and Homo Sapiens.
(Artemis) Are we Semitic?
A: Yes
Approaching Infinity said:MK Scarlett said:Thank you for this awesome session as there is a lot to think of, indeed!
This idea of Space-Consciousness continuum looks terrific to me as I sometimes thought that "time" - as the word with the meaning we know of it - could just be a figure de style with no real intrinsic state, so to say. Or in other words, "time" would be a symbolic word as words can be (and often are) symbolic, just as symbology looks like a key/language/information to body/mind medicine, for example. I'd like to share here where these "thoughts" led me to.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "no real intrinsic state". If time is equivalent to consciousness in some way, that would make time/consciousness the most intrinsic state possible, IMO.
kenlee said:MK Scarlett said:This idea of Space-Consciousness continuum looks terrific to me as I sometimes thought that "time" - as the word with the meaning we know of it - could just be a figure de style with no real intrinsic state, so to say. Or in other words, "time" would be a symbolic word as words can be (and often are) symbolic, just as symbology looks like a key/language/information to body/mind medicine, for example. I'd like to share here where these "thoughts" led me to.
Rather then looking at time as being "symbolic" of something it might be more accurate to look at time as a condition and limitation of our perception of a higher space. Our perception of time (that is, the way in which we experience this higher space) could change in accordance with different factors such as our states of consciousness (the type and quality of energies working thru us in the moment), our breathing, and other factors. So its not that this higher space is not real, there is something there. It's just that that the way we experience it thru our body is limited and we experience/perceive this higher space with limitations and conditions that we call 'time'. For example, we experience 'time' with conditions such as, we experience it as sequence of moments going in the direction of increased probability, we experience it as irreversible (the condition of before/after), we experience it in terms of the law of conservation of energy and so on. So, imo, I guess you can say that 'time' is a condition/limitation of our perceptual apparatus regarding how we perceive a higher space and we call this limitation of our perception 'time.'
Approaching Infinity said:At the most basic level, consciousness is experience: the sense of existing as a being in the world. In the recent interview between Jordan Peterson and Iain McGilchrist, McG said he's working on a book around the idea that there are no "things", only processes. That idea tracks back primarily to Alfred North Whitehead (and some peeps like William James and Henri Bergson before him), who developed "process philosophy" as a way of reconciling science with religion and other basic human experiences like truth, values and consciousness.
His basic idea is that there is no "matter" - that's merely a scientific abstraction (same as what Collingwood thought). All there is is processes, which have an objective "pole" and a subjective "pole". The objective pole is what we experience as objects in space (atoms, molecules, chairs, other people, our own bodies). The subjective pole is the individual, subjective experience of being. Whitehead was a panpsychist. He argued that everything has some level of consciousness, even particles and atoms. They too are processes - they have some rudimentary level of experience and actualize possibilities like position in space, interactions with other atoms, etc. And a process is the most fundamental type of experience: in every "instant" of time, the mental pole is presented with all possibilities which it can manifest. These possibilities are determined to a large degree by what possibility was manifest the instant before. If an particle is a proton one moment, chances are pretty darn certain it will continue to be a proton in the next instant.
Basically, what we experience as the past are prior actualizations of possibilities. The present is the moment of actualizing possibilities. In that instant - or process - our mental pole has access to memory of previous objective/subjective states and to future possibilities, one of which it actualizes. The future is the totality of the possibilities open to us in our present state - virtual futures.
That's the bare-bones, super-simplified version, but if anyone's interested in a more detailed treatment, David Ray Griffin goes over all the details in his book on the problem of consciousness: Unsnarling the World-Knot. But basically, our experience of time comes down to our experience of existing - of being aware/conscious. At least, that's my understanding of what Whitehead was saying!