06-07-2011, 12:01 AM
Because we observed it, it continued to exist.
This is how all of creation is~ so long as we sense it, it exists. ( And so the personal reverse is true~before we existed, when we are unconscious,and probably after we die, this physical world will cease to exist for us.) In any case, there is a clear and solid connection between matter and consciousness. Without consciousness to observe it, it seems that the entire universe of matter would dissolve back into energy!
Could the entire physical universe be a dream or thought in the " mind "of God, and that we are the eyes, ears, and senses of God!
It is unfortunate that in English we only have the word consciousness. There is no equivalent word for its reality. God answered "I am that I am " when Moses asked who are you ? A part of some continuum.
So if our thinking mind, our likes and dislikes, our opinions and fears- our thoughts- are not tools to help us connect with consciousness, but instead they keep us from it.
This would explain when a person dies( as we learn in the NDE's or shaman's death) and their thinking brain brain shuts down, they tell us there is no word in English for this consciousness.
"The entire universe is filled with the fire of life", they often say, "and I realized in that moment that I am part of it, seamlessly."
Aldous Huxley, in Doors of Perception, proposed that the mind serves as a filter, shutting out most of our awareness, closing the "doors of perception" so we can think. If we are fully aware , we can't think. When we're thinking, we are by necessity somewhat unaware!
When Jesus said that looking upon a woman with lust was the same as sleeping with her, he was referring to the danger of thinking of separating ourselves from the created world by our thoughts. Instead , he said very clearly, just be.
This is how all of creation is~ so long as we sense it, it exists. ( And so the personal reverse is true~before we existed, when we are unconscious,and probably after we die, this physical world will cease to exist for us.) In any case, there is a clear and solid connection between matter and consciousness. Without consciousness to observe it, it seems that the entire universe of matter would dissolve back into energy!
Could the entire physical universe be a dream or thought in the " mind "of God, and that we are the eyes, ears, and senses of God!
It is unfortunate that in English we only have the word consciousness. There is no equivalent word for its reality. God answered "I am that I am " when Moses asked who are you ? A part of some continuum.
So if our thinking mind, our likes and dislikes, our opinions and fears- our thoughts- are not tools to help us connect with consciousness, but instead they keep us from it.
This would explain when a person dies( as we learn in the NDE's or shaman's death) and their thinking brain brain shuts down, they tell us there is no word in English for this consciousness.
"The entire universe is filled with the fire of life", they often say, "and I realized in that moment that I am part of it, seamlessly."
Aldous Huxley, in Doors of Perception, proposed that the mind serves as a filter, shutting out most of our awareness, closing the "doors of perception" so we can think. If we are fully aware , we can't think. When we're thinking, we are by necessity somewhat unaware!
When Jesus said that looking upon a woman with lust was the same as sleeping with her, he was referring to the danger of thinking of separating ourselves from the created world by our thoughts. Instead , he said very clearly, just be.