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This isn't a photograph.  Science has many images similar to the religious 
in it.

On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 6:27:13 PM UTC, archytas wrote:
>
> There could always be a dark matter halo around Allan RP - one must keep 
> options open!.  This group would struggle to focus on a light at the end of 
> a tunnel.  There is a difference between taking a drink and being an 
> alcoholic and opening a few boundaries, or killing some pain, and being a 
> chaotic druggie.  Molly has just played what is either evidence or an 
> evidence excluding card in her last paragraph on mystic experience  not 
> making perfect people.  Prioritising helps sometimes, as in triage, but 
> look above at Marx prioritising economics and the USA ahead of bring 
> slavery down, or his clown notion on Asiatic society at the British.  He 
> was, in my view,  an unconscious Christian mystic with delusions on what 
> economics was in his own time.  
>
> A plan for the many not the privileged few is a mystic statement without 
> real, detailed planning.  A group of mystics poncing around in 
> rationalisation, might sound a lot like Marx on the 'nigger' (his word) as 
> essential to the economic plan of history.  My apologies for the term, 
> though not to anyone who can't see its necessary context here.  Even the 
> family might not be a good thing RP, in terms of wider green 
> responsibilities to each other and how it generally 'inflicts' childcare on 
> women.
>
> On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 5:22:59 PM UTC, RP Singh wrote:
>>
>> You have lost the direction of the discussion in this foolish business of 
>> halos.Pursuit of experience of what you call spiritual experience by taking 
>> drugs or concentration is just so much waste of time and energy. It yields 
>> nothing except smugness of achieving what you call the experience of 
>> non-duality. All this at the expense of finding time to fulfill your 
>> responsibility towards your family. You have to get your priorities right!
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:11 PM, andrew vecsey <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am not sure what you want me to ask an artist, but if you mean that I 
>>> should ask the artists how to interpret their works of art, they should be 
>>> insulted. They would i think like to believe that there are as many 
>>> interpretations to their works of art as there are eyes that behold them.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 5:21:27 PM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ask the artist.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: RP Singh <[email protected]>
>>>> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 4:20 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Einstein and the Mystics
>>>>
>>>> I don't see why religious people should be honored , how and in what 
>>>> way are doctors, engineers and social activists inferior to your 
>>>> God-knowers?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What I have been trying to tell you is halos are and artist rendition 
>>>>> type of thing.  Have little or nothing about reality.  
>>>>> Why not let people just be people and not read ideas into images..
>>>>>
>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: RP Singh <[email protected]>
>>>>> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]>
>>>>> Sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 3:43 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Einstein and the Mystics
>>>>>
>>>>> By your reasoning people who talk a lot about God, about their 
>>>>> experience of God are holy people! I have known a lot of such people to 
>>>>> be 
>>>>> thieves and vagabonds thriving on the gullibility of the masses, Osho was 
>>>>> one such and was rightly booted out of the States. Maybe I should put a 
>>>>> halo around you because you claim to have met God three times.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you think a lot of the political leaders of today should be 
>>>>>> admired and follow their moral behavior..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What you just said is thieves are murders should be admired..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: RP Singh <[email protected]>
>>>>>> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 3:18 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Einstein and the Mystics
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If that is the case why don't they have halos around so many dead 
>>>>>> dignitaries like the American Presidents, Indian Prime Ministers and 
>>>>>> social 
>>>>>> activists?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The purpose of the halo is to draw attention.. To the Person or 
>>>>>>> being in the picture or drawing. It does not mean that it exist in 
>>>>>>> physical 
>>>>>>> life.. It is simply a symbol of honor.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: RP Singh <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 2:55 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Einstein and the Mystics
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I don't see any around you, my friend!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think you need to check the paintings of Indian deities. Looks 
>>>>>>>> like a lot of halos to me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: RP Singh <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> Sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 2:27 PM
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Einstein and the Mystics
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What can be gained by the experience, it is a lot of hard work and 
>>>>>>>> takes much time. You can see Molly, Vam and many others, they are just 
>>>>>>>> like 
>>>>>>>> us, at least I don't see any halo around them, maybe you do. We have 
>>>>>>>> so 
>>>>>>>> many responsibilities in this world and instead of taking care of them 
>>>>>>>> we 
>>>>>>>> are engaged in this fruitless exercise. We need to have our priorities 
>>>>>>>> right!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:45 AM, archytas <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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