Posts Tagged ‘mysticism’
Rupert Sheldrake on Memory
Memory is a relationship… across time between past experiences and present ones. The brain is… like a television receiver [which] doesn’t store all the images and programs you watch on it; it tunes in to them invisibly… The whole of the past is potentially present everywhere, and we access it on the basis of similarity……
Read MoreBrains and Branes
…[I]f the theory of consciousness presented in this paper is correct, then all the contents of consciousness — including our visual sensations — lie in a space, or brane, of their own outside the physical universe. Normal perception, in this theory, is mediated by the causal chain object–photon–retina–brain–(cross to a new brane)–visual field. Hallucinations involve…
Read MorePhase Space & Consciousness
It is suggested that objects in physical space enter our perceptual space via phase space. A hyperspace is a phase space with more than 3 dimensions. It is our conjecture that consciousness is better described in its relationship to hyperspace than to an anatomical place.1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201004/ [↩]
Read MoreImmortal Man
The Gnostic trinity of Father, Mother and Child was made complete with the birth of Immortal Androgynous Man, first and only offspring of Barbelo and the Alien God: “The Invisible Spirit gazed at the Barbelo… and the Barbelo conceived by it, and it begot a luminous spark consisting of light…”1 The light blossomed into a…
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