And, of course, one can be mystically materialist. Marx had everything solid melting into air. For him one had to go beyond the religious singularity, to proper material relations between people.The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection … If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer, but never a perfected, a truly great man. Christ had us in mind in my view.
And with anything, we can find problems. Marx was disgusting in India, believing the British had a duty to bring Asian civilisation to an end, England, it is true, in causing a social revolution in Hindostan, was actuated only by the vilest interests, and was stupid in her manner of enforcing them. But that is not the question. The question is, can mankind fulfil its destiny without a fundamental revolution in the social state of Asia? If not, whatever may have been the crimes of England she was the unconscious tool of history in bringing about that revolution. He was worse on our black comrades. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry. It is slavery which has given value to the [European] colonies, it is the colonies which have created world trade, and world trade is the necessary condition for large-scale machine industry. Consequently, prior to the slave trade, the colonies sent very few products to the Old World, and did not noticeably change the face of the world. Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. Without slavery, North America, the most progressive nation, would be transformed into a patriarchal country. Only wipe North America off the map and you will get anarchy, the complete decay of trade and modern civilisation. But to do away with slavery would be to wipe America off the map. Being an economic category, slavery has existed in all nations since the beginning of the world. All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. Einstein did some peculiar things too and had some odd relationships. But who wants to cast the first stone? We know from Einstein that observation is relative, unless one can escape as Molly experiences (which does have speed of light in space-time vacuum problems. I might come back from such with some equations, though not if I wash up in RP's unconscious unity. One obvious relative place of observation is watching how returners from experience behave. If you don't know much about Ancient Greece, for example, I would recommend this video as an experience to travel back from - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcyDBMgXPRg - I just have. In a class situation it often helps to get people to declare what they know before the learning experience. I would clearly go into Molly's experience as a novice, for instance, except on reading and my relative not-in-the-experience observations. We are generally so embarrassed by admitting ignorance we claim to have always known what we have just been taught. We have fairly regularly not been as hospitable to RP and Vam on a cultural basis as we might have been. Vam once threatened to squeeze my balls until they were black, having misconstrued me as a white supremacist, before Gabby related back what we had both actually said. We have not taken enough of Gabby to heart and she has tried to articulate some tough stuff. It is difficult to articulate against received silence and the shun. What of those things manners suppress? Mystic Marx was a racist good ole boy. I think we need more real history to imagine from in order to escape it. I don't care if this comes from a woman leaving a church experience hugging and setting my dog into a dream or people who can print the truth rather than legends from Gabby's 'American dream-time'. Or a coffee with Alan at 3 am or that dreadful tea with condensed milk if you drink that RP? I'm not keen on systems that stop questioning, but like people who stand up - hence I like Molly as someone stubborn enough to speak. I'm off back to my old world for a while. I've decided to give evidence in one of our corruption scandals. Started yesterday and was wishing I hadn't in minutes. Corruption is an odd business. I could spot it in the anti-corruption investigator before I sat down, with all my knowledge of thinking you can spot this better than a tossed coin. On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 2:32:35 AM UTC, archytas wrote:late > > Well, I've fixed the church's floor anyway Molly.They dance. We aren't > far from where the Shakers started here. There is room for quibblers in a > dappled philosophy. I don't experience unity other than as journey and > quest. The literature and oral history is legion. Surprising who has not > read or touched much of it. Language quibbling is inevitable from > different assumed absolutes. It doesn't really matter, though even > machines can tell many competing arguments all lack a great deal of detail > and are crafted into conflict by rhetoric devices and false evidence. .The > danger with reports like yours (and I don't mean yours here) is that we > know what people can be cued to say and indeed hear. One soon learns in > chemistry about theoretical yields and the cheating on has to do to bring > about these in a lab. You know me well enough to know I don't disbelieve > you. I have heard your description many times and we have shared a lot of > reading. The lack of willingness to share is not yours. I've been to this > local church for a rather odd reason. One night, walking Max, my cop brain > saw what I thought might be a robbery there. I quickly realised my > mistake, but had crossed the road to help if I could. I never said a word > about my suspicion. Two lovely black women came dancing out, not looking > much different than some I'd seen leaving the old Nile Club years before. > One of them was cuddling Max before I could even ask if anything was > wrong. The lad was swooned. It was now obvious I had not interrupted > anyone unloading the place (it was nearly midnight). Kids run out of this > place beaming with delight. The minister is an ex-student of mine I had to > put some pastoral time in with. In some ways, without a few more pages, > this is enough touch with the network for me. Without me at the right > time, no minister. > > Any area without empirical adequacy is going to have trouble in > demonstration. We are seeing example after example of institutional fraud > based on people *unlike you) claiming to do god's work - from Blair and > Bush to the banksters. I think we need some quibbles and probably > ructions. And some simple techniques. In a more intellectual sense the > questions are epistemological, usually connected with the reliability of > testimony and its intentionality. I don't agree with the brick in your > handbag on excluding people who would quibble with language as not really > interested, but doubt I would try to stop you swinging it around some > heads. The deep end isn't here, just some paddlers. Not really believing > in quantum I don't feel them. It's sheets of space-time and no time > spontaneity for me as histories collide. Some people could barely drink > water if they could see it in my time observation, before I tell them why > WC Fields said we shouldn't drink it. Your experience in my world might be > playing chess intuitively (in fact the game bores me) rather than cranking > my logic or counting without numbers and relying on shapes. I too can fly > to the Moon on a beetle, but would not sit on such a creature. There is > something in mystic descriptions - especially tabulations - that reminds me > of billiard ball chemistry -- a sort of half story that lacks what is found > in more detailed experience and suspension of the mundane. Freud has his > time with cocaine too. I don't need much beyond a warm bed.. > > On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 10:26:10 PM UTC, Molly wrote: >> >> You are asking for a description of a mystical moment? Feeling and >> knowing (also beyond those) the very being of every aspect of creation, >> every person, planet, plant animal atom quantum; unity with all life and >> all lives lived in awareness in the moment. It can come in peaks and is >> hard but not impossible to sustain. The longer it is sustained, the more >> the ecstatic becomes the place of peace and eventually fear subsides with >> the integration of a non dual or unity viewpoint. It is not impossible, but >> may seem so to someone that has not experienced it or does not believe it >> can be sustained. Anone needing to quibble over the language of the exp, >> though even ,achinerience isn't really interested in it. >> >> Reading the biographies of Timothy Leary's group was interesting to me. >> Although I hated the fact that he dumped LSD into the mainstream and >> thousands of unstable personalities were never the same, I knew some of >> them. But the exploration of that group into altered states of >> consciousness led a generation of Americans who were willing to take the >> risk a glimpse into the mystic, even if it was substance induced. Not >> unlike shamanistic rituals all over the world, although those substances >> are generally local and natural. Aldous Huxley was, I think, the most >> articulate of the group to explain it (his Doors of Perception is a good >> start). He left the world after being administered a massive dose of LSD on >> his deathbed. Ram Das is still beating the religious drum. John Lilly was a >> wacko but his Mind of the Dolphin was OK. Stanislav Grof is still teaching >> holotropic breath work as a means of entry into the mystic naturally. >> >> Ultimately, the peak experiences are sustained and integrated into a life >> viewpoint, now referred to as non dual. there is a ton of reading to be had >> there if anyone is open to it. >> >> Bill Hicks the comedian preferred psilocybin after his mystical >> experiences and left the world laughing his ass off with it. >> >> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 12:45:05 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: >>> >>> Not my work Allan - comes from a study of 3000 reported mystic >>> experiences in a book called 'The Relevance of Bliss'. You can't really >>> deny it by coming up with another category. This amounts to saying all >>> chemistry is wrong because it doesn't contain my account of not liking >>> salt. The mystics tend to discount like this, in order to have their >>> purified, authentic form, like the 'precious' many kids have or as in Lord >>> of the Rings. >>> >>> When it comes to observation we don't even know what water is, unless >>> looking at a lake. >>> >>> >>> It has been suggested that H1.5O may better reflect the formula at very >>> small (attosecond) timescales when some of the H-atoms appear invisible to >>> neutron and electron interaction. The experimental results have since been >>> questioned and described as erroneous , but have been more recently >>> confirmed and thought due to a failure of the Born-Oppenheimer >>> approximation (this assumes that the electronic motion and the nuclear >>> motion in molecules can be separated) Thus the formula H1.5O is incorrect >>> but such suggestions do, however, add support to the view that observations >>> concerning the structure of water should be tempered by the timescale used. >>> The stuff is always moving and highly promiscuous. >>> >>> We rarely know the nature of things, if at all. RP is assuming >>> unconscious unity, but as we can hardly report back from this achievement, >>> it is posited and we might posit a more dappled condition-reality than the >>> one. >>> >>> There's a guy in Finland with Molly's imagination, turned to a >>> biocentric dark matter and energy field view which implies dark protons >>> running in our 'blood' or magnetic selves. He's a serious physicist >>> admitting he is speculating. .Nice bloke, lovely kids. No use thinking >>> this stuff while wiring a circuit and he knows. >>> >>> Should I assume, from the lack of description of actual mystic moments >>> (Tony apart) that people in here don't have them but rather like claiming >>> to have had and believe in them? I've done some interviews in which people >>> very kindly went on at length and were hospitable to questioning in a >>> feedback loop. I must get out more. The local Methodist minister does >>> some very African stuff. I promised to fix his floorboards after the last >>> event got a bit hectic. Will go and do this now. That session made me >>> cringe - but I have a lot of shots of non-verbal language and what I think >>> of as out of body reasoning. Morality seems to be a lot about that, >>> including coercive moralising. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 6:43:58 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>> >>>> You for got one.. none of the above. Or find something you were not >>>> looking for. Or as a Buddhist might put it like walking through the gate >>>> less gate not knowing it is there. >>>> >>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: archytas <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Sent: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 7:25 AM >>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Einstein and the Mystics >>>> >>>> These were the categories out of 1000 people who had had mystic >>>> experiences naming the 'cause'. >>>> >>>> Depression, despair 183.7 >>>> Prayer, meditation 135.7 >>>> Natural beauty 122.7 >>>> Participation in religious worship 111.7 >>>> Literature, drama, film 82.0 >>>> Illness 80.0 >>>> Music 56.7 >>>> Crises in personal relations 37.3 >>>> The death of others 28.0 >>>> Sacred places 26.0 >>>> Visual arts 24.7 >>>> Creative work 20.7 >>>> The prospect of death 15.3 >>>> Silence, solitude 15.3 >>>> Anaesthetic drugs 10.7 >>>> Physical activity 09.7 >>>> Relaxation 09.7 >>>> Childbirth 08.7 >>>> Happiness 07.3 >>>> Psychedelic drugs 06.7 >>>> Sexual relations 04.0 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 6:15:01 AM UTC, archytas wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Certainly logic in that RP. Physics has got very interested >>>>> (speculatively) on observer-observed 'interactions' and quantum-jumping >>>>> in >>>>> 4 sheets of space-time shadows of 8 dimensions and a role for dark matter >>>>> in biology. You have to be pretty clever to follow it and pretty dumb to >>>>> think you understand it, and that understanding requires some sort of >>>>> notion of ourselves as electro-magnetic fields in instantaneous >>>>> connection >>>>> with distant aliens (these claims on a non-scientific basis are found in >>>>> some 'primitive dreamtimes') - as well as more material-organic. Someone >>>>> was standing next to me when I saw my Mongol horde and she didn't see it. >>>>> My mind distinctly placed the scene as 'outside me' yet clearly it was >>>>> inside my virtual space. >>>>> >>>>> There has long been talk of misplaced concreteness and the bifurcation >>>>> of reality (AN Whitehead here, deep in Eastern history). Reality is >>>>> structured and so is the concept of duality. Rapture and bliss may be >>>>> good >>>>> for us like breast-feeding, but seem unlikely as much other than a >>>>> variation in human experience. However, I do think some kind of first >>>>> contact might be made, even in trying to have such experience. >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 3:48:25 AM UTC, RP Singh wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> The state of bliss or rapture is just a state of awareness of a human >>>>>> being, it cannot be called non-dual or God-state. If you look at the >>>>>> very >>>>>> word 'non-dual' it means absence of two and in effect one. In any state >>>>>> of >>>>>> consciousness or awareness there are always two--the observer and the >>>>>> observation, there is the one that is aware and the bliss or rapture. >>>>>> Non-dual expresses a singularity, the 'ONE', where there is no other, in >>>>>> effect a state beyond consciousness or maybe just a permanent state of >>>>>> unconsciousness. It is not death but the supreme state from which the >>>>>> entire creation streams out following the big bang or whatever. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:17 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Indeed you are a god to me Tony - just don't fall on my spot at the >>>>>>> bottom of the precipice or break Allan's coffee machine on the way >>>>>>> down. >>>>>>> One could fall to grace. The Russians stopped drilling into the >>>>>>> Earth's >>>>>>> core at about 8 miles. Some believe this was because they could hear >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> screams from Hell. In fact, their drill just hit a pot of Allan's >>>>>>> double >>>>>>> espresso and Gabby was scalded on the floor below. We have had to keep >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> trap-door shut since then, though we now get messages she has made her >>>>>>> own >>>>>>> hope and sunshine, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If the mystics are mystic, why do they keep copying each other like >>>>>>> management textbook writers and gurus? I sort of want something >>>>>>> different >>>>>>> and if I had the experience would be really pissed off if I could only >>>>>>> describe it as though I'd just come out of a Tom Perter's session. Of >>>>>>> course, I haven't be purified yet or got a licence to fly the higher >>>>>>> plane. If it's VTOL I promise to drop by and take you on the ride. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There has to be more to mysticism than the Soylent Green type and >>>>>>> the sales pitchers of its nutritional value. Maths with no numbers >>>>>>> does a >>>>>>> bit of it for me, but as we know, Allan zeroes out. We use light to >>>>>>> remind >>>>>>> mice about good times and they return to them. Thought a lot on >>>>>>> Andrew's >>>>>>> framework down by the river. A couple of young girls were hugging Zak >>>>>>> - >>>>>>> his now rather done in back legs got a temporary cure and he bounded >>>>>>> with >>>>>>> the mystic eyes of pleasure for a bit. Max went to round the old guy >>>>>>> up so >>>>>>> we could go home, but the girls' dad was telling them about river >>>>>>> otters, >>>>>>> so we stayed a while. To the girls' delight, the dogs went into the >>>>>>> river >>>>>>> to demonstrate. It's out there somewhere. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 9:35:33 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I happen to be very humble. Sometimes proud of it. I did not >>>>>>>> answer myself. Anyone reading that has to resharpen their senses so >>>>>>>> as to >>>>>>>> make a more simple response quite profound. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Clearly their is something at work here which requires me know to >>>>>>>> "adjust" my dispenser orifice. My narcissistic arrogance was not >>>>>>>> present >>>>>>>> at that age since I mostly found myself fighting off gangs from other >>>>>>>> blocks in my urban neighborhood. Very little time to think past which >>>>>>>> alley way is the quickest route home. Being careful not to become >>>>>>>> cynical, >>>>>>>> I weave my way around and find no alley way. Expounding on this any >>>>>>>> further >>>>>>>> would probably cheapen the experience. Fascinating! Thinking there >>>>>>>> might >>>>>>>> be a deity involved would be a first step, thinking I might be my own >>>>>>>> deity >>>>>>>> is not a step but a precipice. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 5:13:36 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Knowing more than Tony is easy. Like Zaphod Beeblebrox, his ego >>>>>>>>> is bigger than imagination from a slice of Proust's angel cake that >>>>>>>>> took >>>>>>>>> him back to an aunty's. Using such power to visit an aunt reveals a >>>>>>>>> lack >>>>>>>>> of knowledge or a very dull boy. As Tony cannot be the latter, one >>>>>>>>> presumes the former, though this does not exclude the possibility his >>>>>>>>> ego >>>>>>>>> is bigger than the universe itself. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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