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I recently read about mention in the Bible of a female presence somewhere within the Creation account. But I think it might have been in a Bible book later than Genesis.

We tend to locate imaginal processes in the realm of subjective reality, but apparently Corbin thinks there is a different kind of objectivity to it and that it interfaces with the regular objective reality we are in. I think he is/was probably onto something there.

Replied simply to highlight for myself and contemplate further, later. Fascinating

Fits well with my own speculation about “soul” that I just expressed in a reply moments ago before seeing this very interesting share of yours. I love your ability to make me think and to challenge the thoughts I’ve had so far in my quest for understanding.

Just now got around to ordering book. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks, Thomas for the recommendation. I haven’t watch the two hour talk link you shared some time after this. Was taking forever to connect on my iPhone. May have to watch on laptop.

Interesting. Fits my belief that in our depth of being there is a natural convergence that allows for interconnectedness akin to relationships that women generally excel at as compared to agency (doing)-oriented males. Assuming soul is deeper inside us than regular “self” and regular thinking...

I have been using the undefined God Function to help me run lately during my training for a marathon soon after my 70th birthday. I’m only up to 8 miles now but need a well of hidden potential to tap into for help this old man. Amazing how an overthinker like me can even shut of most thoughts in...

A useful neologism might be “IDEAism,” without the “L”. The idea attracts positive reality. Mind over matter.

Right to the heart of my theme here. If we are open to the potential to love all (even as we fail to do so in actuality) then we may create a positive self-fulfilling prophecy of loving a whole lot more , if not ALL, people.

Case in point (and this may shed light on my willingness to be okay with “God function “ even though I do relate to it as an “Other,” because my normal thinking doesn’t go that deep, so it at least SEEMS like an other): Today at a church group gathering, a speaker testified how “God” gave her...

Talib-al-kalim, Very important point you make here. I agree that if we look at the person as a whole being, we see or sense POTENTIAL, which may seem idealistic or “utopian,” but allows for the possibility of a positive self-fulfilling prophecy of improved human development.

Divinity or not, “God” or “God Function” (that could be from depths of mind), the main question is whether what is called “spirituality”, which includes a great deal of empathy and other things that allow us to wholeheartedly be and do “good”, is cultivated by one’s belief. Aupmanyav’s talk of...

Thanks Light Within for the article. In Lynn McTaggart’s book, The Field, she sites research of a certain neuroscientist that led him to believe that some of memory even in animals must be stored non-locally. He basically chopped up animal brains and they were still able to how evidence of...

I like that a lot. Will process the rest later. Thanks

Yes, I like your use of the phrase “different state of mind.” I once had a dream of my spirit carrying my own decapitated head around. Some here seem to call the spirit different than the mind (as symbolized by the head in the dream?) but I like the notion that it is as you indicated a...

To me, accessibility and presence are functionally equivalent, and function is all we have to work with as physical beings who are of a different surface form than what lies deep within. The God function creates exotropy or neg-tropy in the midst of a reality prone to entropy.

I know we are guessing about metaphysics, but my best guess is that mind is a different dimension within the physical dimension, and as such is a portal to the “other side” that can be reached by going deep within directly, or indirectly by reclaiming a mental projection of the deeper dimension...

Yes. I’m okay with the notion of a kind of other within, as long as we believe the mind can go there and use that information and energy. It seems to me, as I have said repeatedly in various dialogues here, that self and other make no sense deep within consciousness. I think there is a substrate...

And what a divided world we create when we sit around and wait for saviors. What a waste to not use the very tool God gave us to unlock potential for growth and healing. The external locus of control has not served us all that well. If God is good, and power is secondary to that goodness, then...

I continue to be plagued by a semantics issue when it comes to my use of the word “mind.” I blame it on psychology that I studied. Psychology does not limit “mind” to conscious mental activities. Perception, including emotional experiences (the “heart”) and all kinds of physical regulation...