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And if it is useful, works to make us feel and be more whole, more abundantly alive, how is that not a real thing? God is because God works. As you say, faith in God is useful, so God functions in our lives in a very real way. That doesn’t tell us the details of the reality, just its effects...

I totally agree. Well educated people whose basic needs (and then some) are met may need a little Buddha (who had it all but saw there was more) in the mix as well.

I agree that we do need to glean wisdom from the inspired text, but also believe that the Bible is mostly a divinely inspired meaningful myth (with some historical facts also). It is open to interpretation because, like Creation itself, much of its beauty and usefulness lies in the fact that it...

Speaking of potential being gradually actualized, it dawned on me that the way I interpreted the premonitory dream as saving MY life was/is egocentric because it is more likely that it saved the life of the farmer on a tractor that I would have run into on a curve in the road if I hadn’t had a...

Wisdom was mostly packed into Creation in the form of potential, potential for humans, the humans having the potential to become wise. I do think there is some information given from the “other side.” One premonitory dream saved my life. But mostly heads up on things that could help me grow...

Longfellow, you asked this; “Are you thinking that there actually is an Unknown Source, and the founders found it, or just how think that they imagined it?” I do believe there is an Unknown Source they found, but specific ways of conceptualizing the Source and ways of utilizing the Source was...

All religion is in my opinion anthropological and psychological, but that does not mean there is no metaphysical referent behind the human evolution of thought and experience and ways of being. At best, any religion is figuratively true because it approximates a true pattern of God working...

I have been contemplating the “project”. The founders of Abrahmic faith tradition lacked resources and went deep to find a means to survive and if possible even prosper. Resources and means to use them had to be Created, so their minds found an Unknown Source of creation. The unknown-ness of the...

I must have heard of it and conflated with Clark’s book. Clark’s God Reach is the one I read and am impressed with.

The human mind can sense Oneness and it also can sense difference. And apparently we need BOTH, not either/or. So, a depth dynamic view of overall reality that posits a difference in levels of convergence deep in vs out at the surface seems a good metaphysical concept that allows for a...

I agree. Down or in deep at our base is probably a non dual highly convergent Reality. That deep in, “self” or “other” does not apply, as they are from the relativistic surface of overall reality. In page 6 of the book Paths to Transcendence, that Thomas recommended to me, it says it a bit...

True. We don’t do well with the null hypothesis. We do tend to use reasoning to support what we want to believe. As a psychological defense mechanism, it’s called rationalization.

Yes, That’s the one I read. Fascinating use of concept of different dimensions, from two dimensional consciousness of animals, all the way up to a seven dimensional consciousness. Awareness of interactive energy flows and fields is a step up from regular view of a three dimensional reality. But...

I Misspoke on the name of Clark’s book that I read and liked. “Teach” was a typo. Supposed to be Reach, and the book I read I think was God’s Reach for Man, but he also wrote Man’s Reach for God, which I didn’t read.

Sounds like it’s very familiar territory for you. Do es the terrain get you partway or all the way where a modern mind longing for spirituality wants/needs to go? I certainly gravitate toward Nee Thought thoughts. An old Christian author by last name of Clark wrote a book called Man’s Teach for...

Your belief based on thin veil experiences matches the presentation except for the minds. Are they like directors of souls? More like soulless spirits? Interesting.

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I couldn’t find the part in the book where I recall that McTaggart reports that Pibram concluded that memory is stored OUTSIDE of the brain! I’ll keep looking. I stumbled though upon a section that claims there is scientific evidence of human minds affecting randomized computers to become...

And this (page 86) : … Pietsch (Paul, biologist) discovered that he could remove the brain of a salamander and although the animal became comatose, it would resume functioning once the brain was put back in. If Pibram were right, then some of the salamander’s brain could be removed, reshuffled...