Right on, KD'C! My sentiments exactly, but expressed better than I could have done....
Bonnie ----- Original Message ----- From: Ode Wan Coyote <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 12:01 PM Subject: Re: CS>More truth > No correction here. > > I heard a visiting preacher say to another TV preacher, "We move in the > mind of God". The other preacher tried to distort this simple literal > statement of fact into a guilt/power trip by saying, You mean that once we > accept Jesus as our saviour, THEN we move in the mind of God" The first > preacher looked a bit pained and said "Yea, that's it" [It's your show, I'm > not here to steal your thunder and I know it's pointless to argue with a > made up mind] > > Ponder the application of a blend of holographic and fractal effect where > from apparent divisions in consciousness can arise according to point of > view. Examine apparent divisions in ones own personal awareness and > extrapolate into greater realms...as above , so below. > Imagine that you could project your consciousness into a hologram, then > forget you did it. From the original point of view, you would know that > it's just a light show, but from the experiential point of view, you could > actually bruise your leg on a holographic table and it WOULD hurt. > Why does dissociation [via hypnosis etc.] eliminate pain? > > If all separation of mind is an appearance and there are no "real" > divisions...how can one not BE what one is not separate from? > Obviously, there is much misidentification of self happening in this > universe. > Focus has more to do with not seeing every thing else than it does seeing > one thing clearly. It's a useful tool in it's own context but says little > about reality. > IMO, the brain works like a good radio, filtering out all but one channel > from billions...providing focus to this landscape of ideas. All the senses > are tools to help the brain verify that one channel. > The function of the brain is to pick out patterns from chaos and have > them verified by the senses in a feedback loop style...thus, a cohesive > reality is created by denial of all else. Absolute chaos and absolute > order are the same thing. The Alpha IS the Omega. > If the senses and the opinions formed from the incoming data were > accurate, one would never change their minds about anything or see anything > differently. Most refuse to anyway by eliminating conflicting data from > consciousness. Perhaps individualism is but a denial of communication where > a strongly individualistic person has but limited their points of view by > exclusion and developed what might be called a "well focussed identity". > But such an identity must always be defended. If it must be defended, it > can't be said to be secure. Unfortunately, the most common defence is an > attack. "I can only be right if someone else is wrong and I must be right > or I am not me"...on a personal/community/theologic/national scale...and "I > know" is really "I'm afraid to admit how little I know, so , you must be > stupid" > > "I cannot be who I think I am. If I am, my mind must never change > because if it did..I was never who I thought I was." > Time to think again, ey? > > The individuals mind and the greater mind of God are one and the same. > It is the greater mind of God taking an individual point of view. It is > done by using ideas of space and time, believing those ideas to be the > grand total of reality and verifying that belief with the tools invented > and formed for that purpose...by that one mind "seen as" many. > Nothing can exist 'as real' without creating artificial divisions, but, > there are entities who know they are doing it. They are not trapped by > their self erected limitations...nor do they feel guilty about playing in them. > God is but the completely undefended self sans all barriers. The mind > that includes all ideas. > The instant you completely forget who and what you think you are and drop > all the defences designed to validate those ideas.....such as 'being' a body... > There are no limits to experience and bodies are but useful tools. You > will find that you have as many as you want to serve whatever purpose you > desire. > KD'C > > At 04:40 PM 8/8/00 -0400, you wrote: > >It is a jab at the scientist's viewpoint that concousness (the mind) is > >nothing > >more than a biochemical process of the brain. Thus the mind is in the > >brain to > >them. But to anyone who has had an NDE, OBE, past life memory and so > >forth, it > >is apparent that conciousness is separate from the brain and continues to > >exist > >even after the death of the brain. > > > >It also can refer to the generalization that all physical matter including the > >brain can be considered nothing more than a materialization from the etheric, > >where the mind resides, whether we are speaking of an individual's mind, > >or the > >greater mind of God. > > > >Correct me if I am wrong Coyote. > > > >Marshall > > > >[email protected] wrote: > > > > > In a message dated 08/08/2000 10:04:19 Central Daylight Time, > > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > > Kinda catchy, but what on earth does it mean? I hate ambiguous statements. > > > << > > > Ode Wan Coyote wrote: > > > > > > > The brain is in the mind. > > > > > > Very nice quote. I will have to remember that one. > > > > > > Marshall > > > >> > > > > > > -- > > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > > > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > > > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
