Happy Birthday. Molly. May you have as many as you choose to have. تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
-----Original Message----- From: Molly <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:50 AM Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Transcendental and Transactional Social (religion is no special case of either) Interesting quote. I like it. Seems to me corruption happens when the goal is finding a hybrid of the ominpresence/imagination and economy - making it something to buy and sell. This may occur at the hands of psychos who look to make their fortune or control through puppetry, or may happen with people just trying to find a profession that allows them to live the OI daily. It is never hard to see the ego in the message when looking from the outside and until folks can let go of egoic concerns, it is always there. We all learn through failure. Yet have a hard time tolerating the failure of others and sometimes even our own. But the experience of failure allows us to see the success from a much more multi-dimensional lens. And this can be helpful in reaching a point where the OI becomes our operating system. I studied visual imagery from many different disciplines in university, and freshman year stumbled on the notion of "watching" or being aware of a constant flow of colors in my minds eye in all may waking moments. It turned into a powerful mediation and because I was meditating while going through my daily life it opened a whole new viewpoint for me. That awareness of ominpresence with active (or awakened) imagination is a life changer. A simple technique like this can get you there but only if you are open to letting go of a chattering mind and the concerns of the ego. The mind and ego still operate when called into action, but are no longer constantly comparing self to others, judging right and wrong in all that is seen, etc. I really think it helped sharpen my visual recall also, which was 100% when measured my senior year. Now that I think of it, I may start this again. I'm getting ready to celebrate my birthday this weekend, and believe me, my ability to recall ain't what it used to be! Thanks for leading me here, Neil. On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 2:13:48 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/363/1499/2055 > > Once we realize this omnipresence of the imaginary in the everyday, > nothing special is left to explain concerning religion. What needs to be > explained is the much more general question, how it is that we can act so > much of the time towards visible people in terms of their invisible halo. > The tool for this fundamental operation is the capacity for imagination. It > is while searching for neurological evidence for the development of this > capacity and of its social implications that we, in passing, will account > for religious-like phenomena. Trying to understand how imagination can > account for the transcendental social, and incidentally religion, is a > quite different enterprise to accounting for the religious for itself in > terms of modules, or core knowledge, which, in any case, we share with > other primates. Unlike this, imagination does seem to distinguish us from > chimpanzees and perhaps also distinguishes post-Upper Palaeolithic humans > from their forebears. > > This is from a paper by Maurice Bloch. I have no problem in accepting > imagination. I wonder what we should do about religious stupidity in the > transcendental social and that stupidity that cannot distinguish the > transcendental and transactional social domains? Less corruption in both > would make life better. > -- --- 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.
