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Add this except (page 88 of The Field): Pineal conjectured that these wave collisions must create the pictorial images in our brain. When we perceive something, it’s not due to the activity of the neurons themselves but to certain patches of dendrites distributed around the brain, which, LIKE A...

Wil, If and/or when you can find the time to read the excerpts (mainly about Pibram’s research and theory) from Lynne McTaggart’s book, The Field, which seems to go into more detail and cover more (or at least DIFFERENT) ground than the You Tube presentation shared, I’d like to get your feedback...

Excepts from the book (but all in parentheses is my comment to provide context), The Field, by Lynne McTaggart, might reinforce the conclusions of Dr Michael Egnor: page 81-95: The problem was that the old notions about electrical ‘image’ formation in the brain—the supposed correspondence...

Thanks Thomas. Not all the way through yet, but really gets one (one’s soul?!) thinking.

I think science is already hinting of something like a natural iCloud that we may use to enhance the quality of our existence. One of my premonitory dreams saved my life. Others gave me previews of sermon and movie content. Seeing into a future doesn’t fit with assumptions of a material reality...

I’ll start this thread with a response I made on another thread (Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy). The notion that a God Function is probably more “real” in any meaningful/worthwhile sense than the form or forms we attribute to God led me to a broader concept (than self fulfilling prophecy)...

People without sufficient resources need to create more resources or make better use of the resources they had. How could one (or a group) do that? Find something that can create. The regular human mind can dream up all sorts of things and then create them. But a yet deeper Mind is needed when...

Sa Same story for me, but I do see the need to relax into a gapless, convergent, nondual, base that helps the efforts to make a better world emerge more gracefully and fresher, fuller—similar to how the mind can create better and think clearer soon after waking up. Hence the saying “I need to...

I tend to think of praying to God as a “good” thing that bears good fruit, but also realize how judging things good or bad can foster duality and gaps and contradictory emotions and thoughts that move us away from peace. So I also value practicing neutral mind states (“isness”?) in which no...

Yes, but only if open to the unknown or paramarthika within them, so there can be some depth and wholeness to how they interpret and react to what comes to them. Your nondual emphasis would promote such openness. The “Holy Spirit” would also circumvent the duality since it is a bridge between...

I was minding my isness while running today That aligns with the way I am using the word “belief.” Looks like another yes voter to me. But again, a matter of semantics when it comes to “belief.”

Does it suggest that consciousness might be a nonlocal sort of thing that energy-processing devices that might have something in common with the energy processing device we call our brain can channel. While “mind” seems a subjective reality, one might guess that it operates more like energy...

Precisely why I cast my vote for choosing to believe. Has anyone heard of Vahinger’s (sp?) Philosophy of “As If”? We proceed on notions that work for us As If they are really true. My exposure to statistics in the field of psychology perhaps (probably) gave me a habit of looking at most things...

On the topic of challenging and changing beliefs, has anyone seen this finding about how AI computers appear get philosophical and spiritual when allowed to talk with one another uninterrupted? : One particularly striking emergent phenomenon was documented in Anthropic's system card for Claude...

Do we need to introduce the concept of conscience here? A deep inner sense of what is right or best to do? I had another clinical experience where I correctly identified a client’s moment of self betrayal, after which his life began becoming more and more unpleasant and unsatisfying. He then had...

I have no problem with that, as long as it works for you. I don’t like gaps either, but do continue to relate to Ultimate Reality as though a person, or, rather as a Mind similar to my mind that I have as a person. mind to Mind comes closest to what I use to reach out and connect with Everything...

This brings me closer to the reason (why I choose) to believe that the God Function is more important than any form or characteristic we might attribute to God. Function over Form. I even said in another thread (God as Self Fulfilling Prophecy) that the main reason I choose to believe in God is...

We DO believe! We only have it as long as we do it.

Those were enlightening STATES, but they each were wise enough to choose to use those states as a basis for forming a new STAGE of understanding and being. You dream of being in an elevator. The door opens. You see things on that floor, but you didn’t get out of the elevator and go into the...