--- In [email protected], Denise Evans <dmevans365@...> wrote: > > I'm liking this idea of "parallel" or "other" realities. > > So in terms of consciousness and dispensing with the factor of linear time > and the question of which came first (chicken or egg question)...could one > say that consciousness and the universe/multiverse and "love" persay (and I > mean that in the context of "God is love", are one in the same? Â Same > energy, defined differently depending on purposes we are wanting to > interpret? Â
The answer to your question is, YES! But I would like to add what Thomas Merton said about God: He or She is everything that you can think of, but at the same time, It is NOT. > > > ________________________________ > From: John <jr_esq@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 11:55 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Mystery of Consciousness > > > Â > > > > > John believes the latter:ÃÂ > > > > > > "The paradox of consciousness is that it takes a highly developed sentient > > being to understand that it is the basis of creation of the universe." > > > > > > Sam spends a lot of time on whether "Something can come out of > > nothing"...or "can consciousness emerge from unconscious complexity" > > > > Heck, who knows? ÃÂ So, in my curiosity, I googled the question and lo and > > behold, the topic of multiverses. I did attempt to read the 4 Levels of > > Multiverses from Max and his wonky website. ÃÂ > > > > This may have been posted before, but here it is again. ÃÂ It is a > > cosmologist who explains multiverses as the soap bubble theory with > > umbilical cords that could give a scientific way to explain both the > > Christian God and Buddhist nirvana philosophies, for example. I think I may > > have grasped this concept.ÃÂ > > > > http://liberatedmind.com/2009/10/can-something-come-from-nothing/ > > > > But now I have forgotten...what is consciousness and how does it relate to > > the universe or multiverse?ÃÂ > > Denise, > > The multiverse can apply to all the various possibilities that apply to your > life. There are various universes that you can inhabit. For example, there > is a different universe which applies for the timeline relating to your > choices. That is, there is a universe in which you are married. And, there > is also another universe in which you are not married. The paradox is that > during your lifetime you have a choice as to which universe you choose to > manifest or live in. > > In other words, there is a universe that exists next to you in which Elvis > Presley is still alive. And, there is also another universe next to you in > which the Nazis won the WWII and we are all now speaking German and have the > swastika as our national logo. > > Furthermore, our consciousness can fathom the probability that our multiverse > can continue on forever. But at the cusp of infinity, another multiverse > could exist which we cannot contact or verify with our telescope. Hence, we > can only speculate that this neighboring multiuniverse could only exist as > pure potential floating in the Unified Field of all possibilities. > > So, there you have it...the whole extent of Consciousness. > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: tartbrain <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:08 PM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Mystery of Consciousness > > > > > > ÃÂ > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > The paradox of consciousness is that it takes a highly developed sentient > > > being to understand that it is the basis of creation of the universe. As > > > such, this same being can understand that consciousness is different in > > > various level of existence. For example, a dog has consciousness that is > > > less developed than humans. But a dog's consciousness is higher than > > > that of a tree. > > > > Consciousness is Consciousness. It does not develop. It does not become. > > > > > > > > Similarly, the tree has a higher level of consiousness than that of a > > > rock. This continuum follows through the minutest particles in the > > > universe. At the most profound level, one can see that there must be a a > > > consciousness that created space and time and that started the evolution > > > of matter from the quarks to human beings. > > > > > > If you graph the energy output of the universe from the beginning to the > > > end, you will see that the energy was at the infinite level at the time > > > of the Big Bang. This is the paradox that scientists do not accept or > > > understand since their equations break down at the instant of creation. > > > > > > Conversely, it appears now that the energy output of the universe will > > > continue to dissipate ad infinitum. In other words, the universe started > > > from infinity and will end in infinity. > > > > > > But throughout all of this cosmic lifecycle, Consiousness exists and will > > > continue to do so forever in the Unified Field. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > > > <anartaxius@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Sam Harris has published two blog posts on consciousness in the past > > > > couple of weeks. > > > > > > > > http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-mystery-of-consciousness/ > > > > > > > > http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-mystery-of-consciousness-ii/ > > > > > > > > As consciousness is occasionally a subject entertained on this forum, > > > > perhaps these essays will interest someone. > > > > > > > > > >
