"The Next Step" of previous Aeons.
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@RobertAllen said
"so, we are now tasked with transcending this individuality?"
Yes.
And, one might say, for being singular-distinguished and collective-indistinguishable at the same time.
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93,
Alrah said:
"I think it may be quite difficult to argue that human beings are evolving telepathic talents."
I knew you'd say that.Okay, now I'm close to being off-topic, too.
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Edward
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93,
A friend of mine coined the word 'telempathy.' Or if he didn't, he stole it from someone who did. Anyway, there is anthropological data, especially from early 20th Century studies of Australian aborigines, that such a phenomenon occurs in certain close communities. People within tight sects and orders report it with some regularity. Actually transmitting words or thoughts is a rarer phenomenon, but what we call hunches or gut-feelings that pan out are common enough that I don't doubt their validity.
To what are we tuning in? Telempathy implies something on Nephesh-level: picking up sensations, strong emotions that generate some type of field we can sense if we're already simpatico with the other person or group. True telepathy would, I think, involve a higher level of the Ruach.
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@Edward Mason said
"93,
A friend of mine coined the word 'telempathy.' Or if he didn't, he stole it from someone who did. Anyway, there is anthropological data, especially from early 20th Century studies of Australian aborigines, that such a phenomenon occurs in certain close communities. People within tight sects and orders report it with some regularity. Actually transmitting words or thoughts is a rarer phenomenon, but what we call hunches or gut-feelings that pan out are common enough that I don't doubt their validity.
To what are we tuning in? Telempathy implies something on Nephesh-level: picking up sensations, strong emotions that generate some type of field we can sense if we're already simpatico with the other person or group. True telepathy would, I think, involve a higher level of the Ruach.
93 93/93,
Edward"
Yes, this is very much what I mean. I suspect it will have several channels of expression - visual sensations with some audio clues but less and less need for the verbosity appears to be growing in a large scale context. If we believe that everything needs to have materialistic evidences and measures, then we now should throw out Art with Spirituality and Psychology (as I would expect with a purely materialistic worldview).
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@Alrah said
"Ok Takamba, but telepathy has not been scientifically proven as possible, has it? Until it is then any assertion that "telepathy is the one most obvious lateral benefits... becoming more and more active in the populations.." is going to crash into the cliffs of materialism!"
If God had wanted us to see in the dark, who would have someone invent a light bulb - but until then, it is scientifically impossible to prove the notion of seeing in the dark.
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93,
"Well - playing devils advocate, the argument is now about the materialists stance versus the spiritual one, and that could go anywhere, but is so god damned dull, that I'd rather not play yet again from either side. I opt to take the third way and have them both."
I think that point has been made here before, but it bears repeating. What we now consider 'materialistic' would, for all practical purposes, have been considered pure magick, and thus materially impossible 150 years ago. At one point, it was scientifically proven that the human brain could not function if the body it was in was traveling at more than 30 mph. And we all know that heavier-than-air flight was shown, repeatedly, to be an impossibility. Etc. etc.
The real enemy of materialism isn't credulity, but creative human imagination.
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Edward
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@Alrah said
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@Edward Mason said
"The real enemy of materialism isn't credulity, but creative human imagination."I've been told that materialism is all a matter of form.
"A bit off topic, but this last exchange got me asking this question:
Does it make sense to equate materialism with the goddess, Nuit?It occurs to me that there is no reason why the notion of materialism should not be considered as just another spiritual concept.
love and will
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93,
"Does it make sense to equate materialism with the goddess, Nuit?"
Nuit is totality. So yes, she incorporates form in all aspects and on all levels. Hadit might be more the expression of energy (or Ra-Hoor-Khuit), but I don't see how we could exclude energy from our concept of totality.
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@Edward Mason said
"93,
"Does it make sense to equate materialism with the goddess, Nuit?"Nuit is totality. So yes, she incorporates form in all aspects and on all levels. Hadit might be more the expression of energy (or Ra-Hoor-Khuit), but I don't see how we could exclude energy from our concept of totality.
93 93/93,
Edward"
Mater, matrix, material, MA...
The context within which our minds carry on the activity of thinking is the realm of the collective unconscious, the archetypes. Which is to say, we can think because of the cultural images we have inherited. So it should be possible to trace all our thoughts up the ladder, so to speak, to an archetype. In this regard, the concept of materialism should not be exempt, despite the fact that it seems to be anti-spiritual in intent. This intent is more a political difference than a difference of substance—the gods fighting amongst themselves. Materialism, for all of its materialism is still a manifestation in our minds of a spiritual reality—it is the expression of an archetype, a god.
I'm reminded of an assertion by James Hillman, and important psychologist of the Jungian school that the rise of materialism in contemporary society is probably the work of Hera. But then all the goddesses are linked in some fashion that is above and beyond them as individuals.
...way off topic, but I promise to keep my mouth shut now...
love and will
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