> > > > > What the "hard problem" is *about* is something very > > > > > simple, very immediate, very transparent--that there is > > > > > *something it is like* to be you, to be me, to be Dennett. > > > > > You may have to sit with that phrase for awhile before it > > > > > makes sense; but once it does, a whole lotta crap just > > > > > falls away. > > > > > > > Share: > > > > But my speculation is that it might have something to do > > > > with the vibratory nature of energy and matter, something > > > > yet to be understood by modern science. > > > > > > > > Though I think ancient rishis experienced it and wrote > > > > about it... > > > > > > authfriend: > > > Experienced what and wrote about what? Everybody with a > > > functioning mind experiences qualia, and loads of people, > > > philosophers and scientists, have written about them... > > > Richard: > > It looks like Share hit the nail on the head with this one: > > the whole TMer notion of cosmic consciousness is based on > > the vibratory nature of the qualia. > > authfriend: > Uh, no. Don't encourage her. She's confused enough already. > Uh, yes. Share hit the nail on the head. Maybe emptybill was confused. Go figure.
"Maharishi's idea of the expansion of the "I" to cosmic dimensions is not founded upon Shankara's Kevala Advaita but rather upon the teaching of Kashmiri Shaivism. It is this teaching about Shiva's "Aham" (I) contracting through Anava mala to become the illusioned and powerless individual (anu) and then expanding to realize it's real status as Shiva that is the source of this idea. He received this view from Swami Lakshman Joo and not from SBS. That is why SCI has little to do with Shankara's Advaita. This is likewise true of MMY's Rig Veda bhasya which reads like Kashmiri Shaivism couched in psycho-quantum mechanics." - emptybill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/345270
