--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > There's a school of thought that individuals pick up > thoughts the way radios pick up signals. Maybe we > find ourselves surprised at thoughts and actions > because they're not really "ours." > > I got to thinking about this upon reading the following > at the Wikipedia page for Rudolf Steiner: > > "In his epistemological works, he advocated the > Goethean view that thinking itself is a perceptive > instrument for ideas, just as the eye is a perceptive > instrument for light." > > What do people think of this? Does it jibe with your experience?
I sometimes find that I seem to know things I have no "normal" basis for knowing. It's odd because I don't have any sense that I came to know them in anything but the normal way. The information doesn't have a kind of aura that says "INTUITION" or "TELEPATHY" or anything like that; I seem to know it in the same way I'd know it if, say, I had read it in a book or someone had told me or I had discovered it from my own empirical observation. Because it seems so normal and natural, it took me quite a while to realize there's anything at all odd about it. It's only when I stop and ask myself, How do I know this? that I realize there's a discrepancy, that it seems to have bypassed the usual routes by which I acquire information. > > If so, it speaks to the influence of collective consciousness > on the individual. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
