Late mid-morning and Brennan is talking away as his diaper is being changed. You have been playing with him for a half hour or so while Carol was sorting and putting in a washer load. He turned over for the first time yesterday and he has done . . . time for a car ride to put the little fellow to sleep.
At Kim’s suggestion you drove through the Fairmount Boulevard Historical District of Cleveland Heights to Luna, a busy coffee and bakery shop near the corner of Cedar and Fairmount (about a hundred yards from where Kim and Paul had their first apartment on Cedar).
1206 hours. I looked up some images of the historical district. I really enjoy the European flavored area of this ethnic eastside of Cleveland. If we lived in Cleveland this is the area I would live in – a less stately home than those in the historical area, but still similar in design to this one directly below.
You really have a love for the architecture and natural-like landscaping of these older homes, much more so than the desire to actually own one. Here is another in the historic district and one that, bumped out a bit, might just as easily be seen in the ‘newer’ sub-division of Shaker Heights.
And, what pops into that agnostic mind of yours:
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John 14:2
King James Version (KJV)
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
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I don’t know why Amorella. I don’t take the words literally and while I see Jesus as a prophet such as Ezekiel with a broader humanitarian tone, I don’t like the “I go to prepare,” because it sounds arrogant in tone, certainly it does not appear humble – it does not sound like the Jesus on the cross. In fact the words sound entirely human.
You, like everyone else, are entitled to your opinion; the difference is that you are not demanding everyone take your personal position. However, with a bit of introspection you find that saying “the words sound entirely human,” has an arrogance about it that you don’t like in yourself because it implies you know what G---D sounds like, and you know you do not. You know nothing about G---D other than SheanHe appears unknowable and you would just as soon keep it that way. – Amorella
That last comment (thought of mine) sounds even worse, even more arrogant. Thus, I find myself ‘stuck’ and wish you were further away than you are because like it or not I cannot completely disavow the inner intuition that you are more angelic-like than I would wish you to me. That is, you see me through and through, naked with no place to disappear to. Yet, I do not wish to hide, I wish to stand, human that I am, and be confronted by imagination or no because it makes me consider to know myself better in life. I’ll let death and mansions take care of themselves. – rho
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Metaphysics Summary
Lesson Five
Lesson Five continues with the question: “How does the soul exist?” – Amorella
Last night you were thinking about how planets exist, how they came into being in terms of up to date physics that you know of. What caught your mind for a second or so was ‘bodies attract’ therefore souls are as attracted bodies, intermediaries, if you will. This means a sun is involved, planets, rotations, ratios, solar systems, stars and galaxies – it is an extremely efficient (not by human standards because we don’t know the whole metaphysical organization, and what is beyond the) ‘systematic operation’. – Amorella
True, but that entails so much and I can only work with souls and how they exist, Amorella. Is there a relationship between the soul and something else as well as a relationship of the soul to the heartanmind of an individual with higher consciousness?
Yes. Cows. – Amorella
Milk, not honey?
Milk and honey. – Amorella
What? You are kidding me? A biblical allusion?
“How dare you?” [this] is your quiet thought, boy. – Amorella
Lesson Five is complete. – Now, post. - Amorella
I don't know what to say.
Who asked you to say anything? – Amorella
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Lesson Six
Day 1. I am beginning to be much more aware of how deeply culture is embedded in my basic psyche. One cannot free oneself from this without losing herorhis personal identity. Evidently, in this sense, it appears to me (at the moment) that the heart and mind buffer the soul, somewhat protecting it from the battering in/of the real world. If this is the case then it seems reasonable that the soul (while at the periphery of this world) needs the heart, then the mind (as the outer shield) in this world as much as the heartanmind need the soul in the non-physical world.
This is a reasonable assumption in context. There is a balance shown in your thought and given reason why there is no “middle” as far as heartansoulanmind are concerned. – Amorella
I realize this is solely from my perspective and thus not a generalization, but it does help clarify why heartansoulanmind are connected.
If others understand your observations here then it is also a generalization within the said metaphysics. Keep to the objectivity as we move along – expository writing is a necessity within these Metaphysics lessons. – Amorella
This is really interesting to think on. It is like I removed a bit of darkness from the metaphysical glass. No. I should not have thought this. It is prideful and besides it is not true. You are setting the path for my thought here. – rho
Keep this as a reminder of how human beings are. You are not alone in this kind of thinking. Knowing next to nothing and being blind have a lot in common. In such a circumstance personal insight and not outside sources such as Wikipedia become more valuable. - Amorella
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As you have decided to keep these lessons in a separate booklet let’s do it right by beginning with an introduction and preface and putting the lessons in order from the first forward. As this work is making you ‘more content’ mention your Muse and the little story about “Are you content?” at the beginning out of respect for the young lady and how she has influenced your writing life over the last ten years at least. – Amorella
I like to be organized Amorella. I am enjoying this diversion and hope I can put it to use in the last three books.
Day 2. Your energy is renewed with possibility that this lesson business was going to be cool, cool and imaginative enough that you are now timid about sharing it; then of all things, that you are/were finally out of your mind and don’t want anyone to know (your thoughts): – ‘I’ll just shut up and go along – no one need know my thoughts – it’s just as well that human beings can’t read minds’. What do you say to this, orndorff? – Amorella
Nothing. I am willing to share on this blog, but it is not without offline reflection. I enjoy what I do just as I enjoyed teaching. I enjoy learning or in this case, attempting to learn how to think broader. I cannot imagine what else a mind is for but thinking broader. How else do you open personal vistas? I have no choice but to continue if I am to be what I am, an individual member of the species, Homo-sapiens. We are all Homo-sapiens. Heartansoulanmind is a part of what we are in my estimation, even if it cannot be proven scientifically. I enjoy thinking out the concept in a fuller sense -- and maybe though imagination seeing a bit more forest than the trees, at least for myself. - rho
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Day 3. Late morning. Yesterday you noted someone had read the post dated 21 May 12 and you realized that it was then that I asked you if you would like a conversation, thus it is the first day, the preface of the “Metaphysical Lessons”. To which I agree. [This is] A good date to remember, boy. Later [in this post] we will continue with Lesson Six in which the focus is still on the question: How does the soul exist? Post. Amorella
I think I may be a wee bit premature in setting the present dialogue aside, but I am ready to continue the lesson.
I have been thinking about the concept of the soul and heartanmind having a metaphysical symbiotic relationship. This may be simple enough but it takes my mind time to assimilate such an event in the metaphysical world as symbiosis presently relates to living-on-earth creatures. The central focus though is still on survival (I want to say, ‘of a species’ here) of . . . what is a good word here, ‘beings’ doesn’t fit. I almost want to personify the ‘parts’ of heartansoulanmind. I am at a loss of vocabulary, Amorella.
Use your thesaurus, boy; check ‘being’. – Amorella
I checked being, existence, actuality, essence even the words pneuma (the vital spirit, soul or creative force of a person) and quiddity (the inherent nature or essence of someone).
What is wrong with using ‘heart’ and ‘mind’? – Amorella
“The central focus though is still on survival of the heart and mind.” This is better than I thought it would be. I was thinking on ‘essence’ of the heart and the ‘quiddity’ of the mind.
Let’s deal with the soul first. – Amorella
How can the soul be contained (by the heartanmind) in the physical world and be a container (of the heartanmind) in the metaphysical?
If you remember, early on in the notes and first book I suggested that for humans being dead is being turned inside out – the heartansoulanmind are transparent for the metaphysical world to ‘see’. Many of the Dead hold up within the soul-shell for fear of being so closely seen – which generally means – ‘time’ for some self-reflection in the adjustment to new circumstance. Naked takes on a new meaning for the Dead. The ‘shell’ is a human-like protection for self-privacy and basic study of who-one-really-is-and who-one-really-isn’t. – Amorella
You really keep things in context. So, in a sense, this blog and books is I in a soul-shell.
You wanted to write the books and blog as if you were writing a response to an Angel who just asked you, “And, who are you?” As a Betweener I didn’t see any Angels so your fellow species will have to do. If the works and blog are not kept in context your insight will be lost. – Amorella
So, following . . . in this system of metaphysics it is possible for an Angel to intercede this individual heartanmind hiding within herorhis soul?
Define “angel”. – Amorella
Angel: an attendant spirit, esp. a benevolent one;” [from the Oxford-American software].
This will do in context. Would you not expect the next world to be ‘humane’ (as it were)? – Amorella
This would be the same for all higher conscious species.
As a statement you can say this in context.
The soul exists because the heartanmind exist.
No. - Amorella
What does the phrase “milk and honey” (Lesson Six reference) have to do with this?
What do you think? – Amorella
I immediately recognized this as a biblical illusion and felt as religion was going to be left out (or that is what I mistakenly thought) it was not right to bring it in even though I did and do not understand its significance in your context. Again, I am confronted by my cultural understanding of the words “milk and honey”. Reading the words in the original biblical context below I do not see the significance other than perhaps ‘the soul can make your heartanmind freer’ or something to that effect.
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7 And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains;
8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
From: Exodus 3:7&8 -- [mechon-mamre.org] online
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The soul is the land of milk and honey. How’s that for a definition unlike what you read in Wikipedia? – Amorella
The soul is the place of ‘substance’.
Have it your way if you wish. Words are a way to communicate figuratively and ‘humanely’ within these lessons. [Diplomat’s little AC is also ‘humane’ because sheanhe has a heartansoulanmind.] – Amorella
Reading words too literally adds more trees than forest.
No praise as this thinking is an expected conditional. This ends Lesson Six. - Amorella
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Lesson Seven
Day 1. Our question for the day: How does the attendant enter the soul? – Amorella
Does sheanhe leave at the same place?
The attendant does not leave. – Amorella
How come I have not seen examples of this event in The Rebellion? There are no attendants whatsoever.
The main characters in the story do not find it necessary to exchange with their attendants. When the attendants are forgotten they might as well be someplace else but they stay as foundation. – Amorella
This sounds weak, Amorella. How can I think (hypothetically) on how an attendant would enter the soul, when I have no information on the attendant? You have said you do not have substance as a soul does. Do these attendants have substance? What is the substance within the soul, I assume it is not harmful to the heartanmind. I am looking for consistency here. You have been consistent throughout the books and blog as far as I can see. Consistency is one of your virtues. – rho
We have to define ‘substance’ first. – Amorella.
We are going to have a problem. I assume this is the quick conclusion of a short experiment in the metaphysics of heartansoulanmind. If you can’t define something you cannot explain and/or describe the information at hand. Your first question: “How does a soul exist?” Your second: How does an attendant enter a soul? I am assuming that the second question gives evidence to an explanation that helps answer the first question. Is this so?
Yes.
I have to have a definition of the word “substance” because the word infers existence. For one piece of matter to enter another piece of matter both have to exist. It is not proper to describe something by what it is not.
Another question brought up is “How can the soul be contained (by the heartanmind) in the physical world and be a container (of the heartanmind) in the metaphysical?” An explanation by example was given.
This is the reason for working through an explanation of how the soul exists and how an attendant enters the soul. I define the soul by stating it is the land of milk and honey, and you counter that the soul is the place of substance. I agree that for this exercise’s purpose both of definitions are correct. – Amorella
The soul is constructed to exist in both the physical and metaphysical universe.
Yes.
Is a higher conscious being with a heartansoulanmind also constructed to exist in both the physical and metaphysical universe?
Yes.
The purpose in both cases has to do with natural process.
Yes.
Are “the land of milk and honey” and “the place of substance” exactly the same thing figuratively?
No, but the conclusion of both definitions is the same. - Amorella
Plato says that reality (physics) has form; substance; process/movement; and atomics. What are the counter examples within metaphysics?
Let’s work on “substance” first. – Amorella
I cannot get passed being and non-being, and substance and non-substance.
Tonight, think from the perspective of Diplomat’s alien AC. Post. – Amorella
Think from outside the human box?
Yes. Don’t you want to grow in consciousness, boy? You have an imagination, use it. - Amorella
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Day 2. I am coming to the conclusion that I have to include in this metaphysics my own observations in life. I want to be as objective and detached as I can be, but my reality is real within whether others can accept this or not is up to them, but to say, “orndorff, thinks it is real enough that he believes his senses down into his heartansoulanmind, then that is where he is coming from as an existential transcendentalist in his books and blogs.” This is awkward and I hope detachable.
Early this morning I flashed on several ideas, one after the other within seconds or a few minutes. Here they are in order: 1, Land of Substance; 2. Meaning of substance; 3, Dance (Amorella and myself); 4, Being and non-Being; 5. Enrichment; 6. Essential; 7, most Vital; 8, On and Off; 9, Full and Empty; 10, Full of Contentment; 11, Meaning; 12, Purpose; 13, Full of Spirit not Life; 14, Attendant arrives like a thought arrives; 15, Attendant arrives from an emptiness, from a hole in the heart; 16, the Oscillation of on and off allows spiritual energy to “appear” in physical reality; 17, This is how AC protects herorhimself – in the Dance; 18, The reason spiritual manifestations have an electric-like green glow, as seen within the aurora borealis; and, 19, like being struck by a thought as if it were a lightning bolt. Perhaps ten minutes later one more thought hit me: 20, Quantum Entanglement.
See, orndorff, you did come up with something. All you need to do now is put it together and form an hypothesis with which we can work – the conclusion of which, for now, will be placed values for basic ‘thing’; nouns – such as form; substance; process/movement; and atomics. - Amorella
Later. You are beginning work on your morning “flashes” and after you listed them vertically I suggest that you begin with: 1, the Dance with Amorella; 2, Being and non-Being; On and Off; 4, Full and Empty; 5, Full of Spirit not Life; 6, Oscillation of On and Off in Manifested Spiritual Energy; and 7, Quantum Entanglement. – Amorella
Thank you for your advice, Amorella. You are correct; I can see how these seven flow together before tackling the others. What an initial help. - rho
These seven will do for now. We will work on the others tomorrow (as nature permits). - Amorella
Here is your opening paragraph at present:
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Reality is primarily what I have consciously observed and felt first hand. My observations are soberly witnessed, selected life events are not completely objective, but they are firsthand, and from my perspective, empirical evidence demonstrating that the basic humanity of our species (and perhaps other highly conscious oriented species) is synthesized in spiritual trinity that I call the “heartansoulanmind”.
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Day 3. On 4 February 2011, “Notes – A Remembrance of the Mystical” I described one of the most important selected events in my life because my perspective was changed to the point where I began to realize I was a “transcendentalist” by unique personal experience. Otherwise, I had no explanation for the spiritual-like experience. (I was then and now an agnostic. This is not a contradiction.)
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Remembrance. During a singular mystical experience I sensed I existed and did not exist at the same time. I ‘understood’ this is a possibility because I experienced it to the point it was real enough to be accepted as real from my heartansoulanmind according to Amorella.
I concur. It was real enough for Richard to feel completely honest about the event’s (subjective) reality. – Amorella. (For what it is worth, the event is real from my perspective. Richard did indeed dance for several seconds, moving in a tight circle from left to right while holding his right hand above his head as I held his right hand.)
I do not remember the direction but I did have my hand above my head and it was a tight circle. The dance lasted several seconds. I felt I was surrounded by a Presence, a spiritual Being, an Angel as I could think of no other being but G---D being Present. Yet, I still had doubt, but not enough not to dance. I existed and did not exist yet even while not existing I existed. The experience showed me that it may indeed be possible to survive physical death. My mind was expanded. I was an agnostic but could never again ever think or say I was an atheist (which I had said from time to time before this experience).
All for tonight. We will continue tomorrow. – Amorella
I really don’t know what I am getting myself into here but I cannot deny my memory on the above. No one has to believe me. I don’t care if a person does or doesn’t. Anyone who has felt such an experience, if sheorhe is honest, cannot deny it as at least a subjective human experience. Was the experience “reality”? How real are you? I am real enough to feel I am mostly imagination, especially after that particular experience. – rho
Day 3. Amorella, what if I were to deny that I am superstitious, I mean if I were among the recent Dead?
Hypothetically, you would find your ‘Attendant’ staring out at you as a mirror and you would be in an immediate hell of your own creation. You would have to work your way out. You know this you have been there, at least hypothetically. – Amorella
In my books everyone dead is eventually honest before an Attendant, who is there to help remember. People are responsible for putting themselves into situations and are thus responsible to account for their actions to themselves. Seems fair and just to me. - Amorella
Since we are on the topic, what about an event that happen as children and later affect the person’s life either positive or negative?
Well worded with the ‘positive or negative’ as raising children responsibly and/or not (which is usually the case) – once the child is an adult sheorhe must take on the role of personal responsibility and follow accordingly. As for illnesses, they are of the body (including the brain). The individual learns through coaching (as I have been doing with you) to work out the situation satisfactorily. The final outcome leans positively for the individual but then the individual has to be mature enough to accept who sheorhe is, all in all – that’s part of the accountability. Satisfied, boy? Amorella
I wish I could be as blunt as you are and remain human. – rho
Again, I’m glad you added “and remain human” because in a sense, from your cultural standard and in context, to wish to be like me is blasphemous. – Amorella
This preceding statement opens a door, Amorella. - rho
Then it is your personal responsibility to close it. – Amorella
Dread is just beyond my fingertips.
That’s how it works in here, my man. Let’s shut down for now. – Amorella
Gladly, thank you, Amorella. (If the reader is between the lines and smells burnt human flesh when it is not there you are a witness to one of these personal human experiences I do not wish to repeat. Automated self-hypnosis and the power of the mind perhaps, but it can be real enough. - rho)
Do not erase. – Amorella
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Day 4. Once at Dr. Paul A’s office at the University of Cincinnati (in the mid-eighties) I told him that I saw reality (a greater sense of reality) that way – a disconnect between frames, and that at times I think of seconds as pieces, that we do the connecting, rather the brain does the connecting, but the mind can ‘see’ time is here then it isn’t, it is here, then it isn’t. This is exactly what it felt like in the Dance with Amorella. Now, this doesn’t have to be a mystical experience at all, though that is what came and comes to mind – perhaps it is a natural occurrence that we don’t normally see, thus we don’t account for it. The experience may manifest itself (for some) in a thought such as this; “I see the world for what it is just like most everyone else – but something is missing. I am not seeing reality as it really is, a piece is missing or not accounted for.”
I understand your point. This early afternoon dream is reinforcement in your mind for what you just described – that even the recent Dead don’t see reality for what it is. - Amorella
Here is what you have presently, a homework assignment of sorts. We will continue tomorrow or when nature permits. - Amorella
It appears ‘being and not being’ at the same time is impossible but what if the ‘being and not being’ only appears to be at the same time because the brain senses the circumstance like an on/off switch. If time were a segment as a particle but the brain resolves this as a flow of motion because, for survival, this is how the brain has to think. It is a way to arrive at point B from point A, and it is a way to find and catch food on the move. That a hypothesis, I guess.
Later. On and off and full and empty may be aspects of the same event. If it were possible to know when the ‘spirit’ motivates us (and only the spirit) it may be possible to measure such a spiritual energy within our humanity, that is energy from the soul as separate from heart and mind. We do measure ‘mind’ through brainpower. We say a person has heart – we know what this means and sometimes it is measured in courage and fortitude. We even say, “heart and soul” but what is soul, determination? Online dictionaries suggest heart and soul means: “the most essential” and “with complete faith” otherwise I was looking at song lyrics.
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heart: 1 the central or innermost part the heart regarded as the center of a person's thoughts and emotions, esp. love or compassion: • courage or enthusiasm 2 the central or innermost part;
soul: 1 the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal. • emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, esp. as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance: 2 the essence or embodiment of a specified quality;
Edited from: Oxford-American dictionary software
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The words do not have the same meaning from my perspective. Yet their use shows that many think they are nearly the same, such as in courage and enthusiasm. If the soul is indeed immortal that makes it immensely different than anything in known physics. That’s how I see it. The “Being – Non-being”; the “on and off” and may be manifestation of the soul, which is not human but is instead an example of an ‘immortal spirit’. Heart and mind are human. I'll think more about it tonight, but it is good to get this into words in this particular context. (These are just ideas, concepts and hypothesis being worked, nothing more.)
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Day 5. Mid-morning. When you turned on your iPad this morning to add your daily blood sugar result you found ‘transubstantiation’ still up your Wikipedia Off Line, and it reminded you of your readings last night. – Amorella
It did, but I think my rebellious nature popped out. I need to shut off my thoughts Amorella It is not good for me to be so critical so quickly. I am afraid it comes with age and with not giving much of a damn about my thoughts. I can be polite, but being polite with thoughts not so easy, mainly because no one needs to know them.
You have no idea why I brought this ‘transubstantiation’ up. – Amorella
No, I guess not. I thought it was about my being critical of the concept because why does ‘transubstantiation’ have to stop with wine and bread becoming the blood and body of Christ? It reminded me of the spiritually romantic concept of the ‘Great Spirit’ being in everything living or otherwise. So, I thought you were calling me on it. – You have no comment, so perhaps I should erase this. – I do not have a good feeling about this.
Why don’t you erase it then? – Amorella
Arrogance slows me down. What else.
Now you can post. – Amorella
Why?
You wrote the paragraph for the wrong reason. You were actually rather delighted with your thought when it popped in last night. – Amorella
Okay, yes; I thought, ‘hey, that’s pretty good; I’d probably be in trouble for thinking something like this’. I know, it sounds like something I might say to a friend when I was in junior high school not as a late sixty-nine year old.
Does it? – Amorella
I sound like an angry and rebellious sixty-nine year old.
Now you're cooking, boy. - Amorella
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I covered 1, Dance; 2, Being and Non-being; as well as 3, On and Off; and 4, Full and Empty. I cannot help but think of Anaximander and logic. One can make observations and deductions, be seemingly logically correct at the time, only to later find the argument is not solid. That’s how I feel with Being and Non-being/On and Off and Full and Empty. In one of the Merlyn books it is suggested through a character (I don’t remember which) that time is as a droplet of water. Everything within the droplet appears to be flowing; time is as river water running one direction forward rather than downstream. However, as each droplet appeared to fall, the brain/mind picks up that time ‘trickles’ as it were, when it’s a continual drip. That’s the gist of the concept. I assume it is somewhere in “Pouch Text” because it sounds like something the marsupial-humanoids conjured up as an early story or myth. I was writing as fiction, but some of the ideas were plausible, or so it seemed to me at the time. As ‘editor in chief’ of Amorella’s work I insisted on plausibility as much as possible. Even in fiction such as Amorella’s it has to have an air of authenticity to it.
Number five to mull over is “Full of Spirit, not Life”. In my mind (in context) Spirit and Life are not the same thing.
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Spirit: 1 the nonphysical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; the soul: we seek a harmony between body and spirit.
• such a part regarded as a person's true self and as capable of surviving physical death or separation: a year after he left, his spirit is still present.
• such a part manifested as an apparition after their death; a ghost.
Life: 1 the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death: the origins of life.
• living things and their activity:
Edited from Oxford-American software
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Later. If a ‘person’ is full of spirit and not of life, then sheorhe is physically dead. Now, what if a person is partially full of spirit; that is sheorhe has an immortal soul. Immortal might not be the correct word here as forever appears to be an unknown as far as human can know or even imagine. It is a long, long time; that’s what some people may mean when they think or say forever. I cannot imagine being in an immortal’s vocabulary, if an immortal has the rudiments of a vocabulary as physical beings might work up over the centuries. I am often confused when I read of ‘projections’ of what an immortal would even be. This reminds me of those seventeenth century arguments on “How would one know if an Angel were in the room?” (Let alone if there were more than one. It is ridiculous.)
When you danced with me, orndorff, you honestly and sincerely felt/feel there was a Presence in the room with you. You even capitalized Presence. How did/do you know this if it is so ridiculous? – Amorella
This is a really good question Amorella. I wasn’t expecting this interruption. I was/am attempting to make a point.
So I am, boy. Answer the question. – Amorella
I will have to think on this.
Later. I am wondering when we get back to the original question: How does the soul exist? And the sub-question: How does the attendant enter the soul? But first, the immediate question: How did I know a Presence was in the room before the dance with the Amorella began?
If you were going to dance how did you come to realize a Presence was in the room? – Amorella
I don’t know. I’m going to bed.
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Day 6. Late morning. Earlier, before you left you came up with a cluster of thoughts which I’d like you to add unmodified here. An outline, you think of how to work your way through the rest of Lesson Seven:
1, As Mitochondrial DNA - attendant always in the soul; 2, Sense of Touch - hand in the air moving toward it from the couch; 3, as an egg of spirit – a dropping – as a drop in time; 4, Souls condensed from vapor as water; 5, Space –is dense or less dense – relative to substance - ‘gravity’ of souls; 6, Substance is what is worth for dignity and freedom to exist even within adversity – the seven virtues for example – Plato’s Forms
These are just raw thoughts, Amorella. Cluster is a good one -- one right after the other out of the blue, then done. I have not really had time to look them over for any kind of consideration.
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Day 7. You are ready and thinking about your conversation with son-in-law, Paul and Kim last night.
I began the conversation with asking Paul about what nerves and muscles are involved with my communication with you, Amorella and we went through the fingers, the radial and median and the sensory nerves and cranial nerve seven which controls the orbicularius oculi surrounding the eye, the only two avenues to yourself as far as I know. Then after a preliminary explanation dealing with Lesson Seven I asked, “How would you know a Presence was in the room?”
Paul mentioned the “sixth sense” and “fear”; then Kim added “fear and flight, the amygdala”, and Paul concurred.
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Fight or Flight
To produce the fight-or-flight response, the hypothalamus activates two systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal-cortical system. The sympathetic nervous system uses nerve pathways to initiate reactions in the body, and the adrenal-cortical system uses the bloodstream. The combined effects of these two systems are the fight-or-flight response.
When the hypothalamus tells the sympathetic nervous system to kick into gear, the overall effect is that the body speeds up, tenses up and becomes generally very alert. If there's a burglar at the door, you're going to have to take action -- and fast. The sympathetic nervous system sends out impulses to glands and smooth muscles and tells the adrenal medulla to release epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline) into the bloodstream. These "stress hormones" cause several changes in the body, including an increase in heartrate and blood pressure.
At the same time, the hypothalamus releases corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) into the pituitary gland, activating the adrenal-cortical system. The pituitary gland (a major endocrine gland) secretes the hormone ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone). ACTH moves through the bloodstream and ultimately arrives at the adrenal cortex, where it activates the release of approximately 30 different hormones that get the body prepared to deal with a threat.
The sudden flood of epinephrine, norepinephrine and dozens of other hormones causes changes in the body that include:
a. heart rate and blood pressure increase
b. pupils dilate to take in as much light as possible
c. veins in skin constrict to send more blood to major muscle groups (responsible for the "chill" sometimes associated with fear -- less blood in the skin to keep it warm)
d. blood-glucose level increases
e. muscles tense up, energized by adrenaline and glucose (responsible for goose bumps -- when tiny muscles attached to each hair on surface of skin tense up, the hairs are forced upright, pulling skin with them)
f. smooth muscle relaxes in order to allow more oxygen into the lungs
g. nonessential systems (like digestion and immune system) shut down to allow more energy for emergency functions
h. trouble focusing on small tasks (brain is directed to focus only on big picture in order to determine where threat is coming from)
All of these physical responses are intended to help you survive a dangerous situation by preparing you to either run for your life or fight for your life (thus the term "fight or flight"). Fear -- and the fight-or-flight response in particular -- is an instinct that every animal possesses.
From: science.howstuffworks
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And from Wikipedia (below)
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The amygdalae (singular: amygdala; . . . are almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep within the medial temporal lobes of the brain in complex vertebrates, including humans. Shown in research to perform a primary role in the processing and memory of emotional reactions memory of, the amygdalae are considered part of the limbic system.
Anatomical subdivisions
The regions described as amygdala nuclei encompass several structures with distinct functional traits. Among these nuclei are the basolateral complex, the cortical nucleus, the medial nucleus, and the central nucleus. The basolateral complex can be further subdivided into the lateral, the basal, and the accessory basal nuclei.
Connections
The amygdala sends impulses to the hypothalamus for activation of the sympathetic nervous system, to the thalamic reticular nucleus for increased reflexes, to the nuclei of the trigeminal nerve and the facial nerve, and to the ventral tegmental area, locus coeruleus, and laterodorsal tegmental nucleus for activation of dopamine, norepinephirine and epinephrine.
The cortical nucleus is involved in the sense of smell and pheromone-processing. It receives input from the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex. The lateral amygdalae, which send impulses to the rest of the basolateral complexes and to the centromedial nuclei, receive input from the sensory systems. The centromedial nuclei are the main outputs for the basolateral complexes, and are involved in emotional arousal in rats and cats.
Emotional learning
In complex vertebrates, including humans, the amygdalae perform primary roles in the formation and storage of memories associated with emotional events. Research indicates that, during fear conditioning, sensory stimuli reach the basolateral complexes of the amygdalae, particularly the lateral nuclei, where they form associations with memories of the stimuli. The association between stimuli and the aversive events they predict may be mediated by long-term potentiation, a sustained enhancement of signalling between affected neurons.
Memories of emotional experiences imprinted in reactions of synapses in the lateral nuclei elicit fear behavior through connections with the central nucleus of the amygdalae and the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis (BNST). The central nuclei are involved in the genesis of many fear responses, including freezing (immobility), tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), increased respiration, and stress-hormone release. Damage to the amygdalae impairs both the acquisition and expression of Pavlovian fear conditioning, a form of classic conditioning of emotional responses.
The amygdalae are also involved in appetitive (positive) conditioning. It seems that distinct neurons respond to positive and negative stimuli, but there is no clustering of these distinct neurons into clear anatomical nuclei. However, lesions of the central nucleus in the amygdala have been shown to reduce appetitive learning in rats. Lesions of the basolateral regions do not exhibit the same effect. Research like this indicates that different nuclei within the amygdala have different functions in appetitive conditioning.
Memory modulation
The amygdala is also involved in the modulation of memory consolidation. Following any learning event, the long-term memory for the event is not formed instantaneously. Rather, information regarding the event is slowly assimilated into long-term (potentially life-long) storage over time, possibly via long-term potentiation. Recent studies suggest that, while the amygdala is not itself a long-term memory storage site, and learning can occur without it, one of its roles is to regulate memory consolidation in other brain regions. Also, fear conditioning, a type of memory that is impaired following amygdala damage, is mediated in part by long-term potentiation.
During the consolidation period, the memory can be modulated. In particular, it appears that emotional arousal following the learning event influences the strength of the subsequent memory for that event. Greater emotional arousal following a learning event enhances a person's retention of that event. Experiments have shown that administration of stress hormones to mice immediately after they learn something enhances their retention when they are tested two days later.
The amygdalae, especially the basolateral nuclei, are involved in mediating the effects of emotional arousal on the strength of the memory for the event, as shown by many laboratories including that of James McGaugh. These laboratories have trained animals on a variety of learning tasks and found that drugs injected into the amygdala after training affect the animals' subsequent retention of the task. These tasks include basic classical conditioning tasks such as inhibitory avoidance, where a rat learns to associate a mild footshock with a particular compartment of an apparatus, and more complex tasks such as spatial or cued water maze, where a rat learns to swim to a platform to escape the water. If a drug that activates the amygdalae is injected into the amygdalae, the animals had better memory for the training in the task. If a drug that inactivates the amygdalae is injected, the animals had impaired memory for the task.
Buddhist monks who do compassion meditation have been shown to modulate their amygdala, along with their temporoparietal junction and insula, during their practice. In an fMRI study, more intensive insula activity was found in expert meditators than in novices. Increased activity in the amygdala following compassion-oriented meditation may contribute to social connectedness.
Amygdala activity at the time of encoding information correlates with retention for that information. However, this correlation depends on the relative "emotionalness" of the information. More emotionally-arousing information increases amygdalar activity, and that activity correlates with retention. Amygdala neurons show various types of oscillation during emotional arousal, such as theta activity. These synchronized neuronal events could promote synaptic plasticity (which is involved in memory retention) by increasing interactions between neocortical storage sites and temporal lobe structures involved in declarative memory.
Rorschach blot 03
Research using Rorschach test blot 03 finds that the number of ‘‘unique responses’’ to this random figure links to larger sized amygdalae. The researchers note, "Since previous reports have indicated that unique responses were observed at higher frequency in the artistic population than in the nonartistic normal population, this positive correlation suggests that amygdalar enlargement in the normal population might be related to creative mental activity."
Edited from: Wikipedia: Amygdala
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Upon reading this material it shows (thankfully for me) that science can do much of the explanation as far as Amorella’s pathways are concerned. A good example of this is a selection from the report (from three or four years ago) I received from my neurologist Dr. T. X.:
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Here is what Dr. T. X. said as she went through your MRI brain scans and blood work.
You have a small benign tumor between the two halves of the brain. Not to worry, as it should not grow further as you are older. Your cerebellum looks very healthy. The rest of your brain looks good except for a bit of hardening of the arteries at the top left of the lateral ventricle (the central cavity). This has been caused by high blood pressure even though the blood pressure has been treated on and off since 1960 (mostly on since 1972). You have no autoimmune diseases and no inflammations in the brain. You do not have multiple sclerosis though this was suggested as a problem. You do have:
12.6: Occipital neuralgia
The IHS description of occipital neuralgia is the following: occipital neuralgia is a paroxysmal jabbing pain in the distribution of the greater or lesser occipital nerves, accompanied by diminished sensation or dysaesthesiae in the affected area. It is commonly associated with tenderness over the nerve concerned. Diagnostic criteria are:
A. Pain is felt in the distribution of greater or lesser occipital nerves.
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Indeed, and a scientific explanation is preferred. This can be taken back to the mid-nineteen eighties when you had your only ‘adventure’ in a hospital under the direction of Dr. Paul Payne who was searching for a ‘multiple personality disorder’ at your request after the Indian Hill students' observations of the variety of your handwritings on the chalk board during the day of lecture. At the hospital a nurse noted that you had a glitch in the left temporal lobe on the screen, but nothing ever came from it one way or another. This was before I was consciously on the scene. - Amorella
Later. Again, the original question: How does the soul exist? And the sub-question: How does the attendant enter the soul? But first, the immediate question: How did I know a Presence was in the room before the dance with the Amorella began? Today's material above shows the various channels I probably went though to note your Presence in the room, starting with the initial suspicion that someone/something is watching me.
What about the “sixth sense” that Paul mentioned? – Amorella
I looked up ESP on Wikipedia.
I selected the one section that is relevant in your situation, and the only one on which you also agreed to first. - Amorella
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Extrasensory perception and hypnosis
There is a common belief that a hypnotized person is able to demonstrate ESP. Carl Sargent, a psychology major at the University of Cambridge, heard about the early claims of an hypnosis–ESP link and designed an experiment to test whether they had merit. He recruited 40 fellow college students, none of whom identified themselves as having ESP, and then divided them into one group that would be hypnotized before being tested with a pack of 25 Zener cards and a non-hypnotized control group that would be tested with the same cards. The control subjects averaged a score of 5 out of 25 right, exactly what chance would indicate. The subjects who were hypnotized did more than twice as well, averaging a score of 11.9 out of 25 right. Sargent's own interpretation of the experiment is that ESP is associated with a relaxed state of mind and a freer, more atavistic level of altered consciousness. [citation needed]
Slightly edited from Wikipedia: Extrasensory perception
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In a further online search I found an article in Psychology Today, April, 2009:
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Visceral Fear of Harm
Although it can occasionally seem similar to anxiety, there is one kind of nervous reaction that does not give many false alarms and that you must never doubt. I call it visceral fear of harm. It's a feeling in your muscles and in your gut that you will be physically injured. Unlike anxiety, which is based in part on your imagination, visceral fear of harm is a response to physiological cues that your brain picks up when you are close to someone who feels aggressive. This visceral feeling comes over you more abruptly and with greater intensity than mere anxiety about having a bad evening or even a dread of distress, depression, and other worries that go with conflict or emotional abuse.
Visceral fear of harm is not cognitive; you sense aggressive impulses in others before your brain can formulate thoughts about possible danger. That's why you get tense in certain situations, like seeing certain strangers, without knowing why. Women, like the females of most social animals, have a heightened sense of this early-warning system, which is why your man remains perfectly calm and might even get annoyed with your nervousness as you walk near a stranger in a darkened parking garage.
From: An Early Warning that Conflict Might Turn Dangerous
Your body senses danger better than your head.
Published by Steven Stosny in “Anger in the Age of Entitlement” in Psychology Today, April, 2009
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Although I feared no harm in ‘sensing’ a Presence in the room it still may have been the source of connecting my unconscious awareness to consciousness. (I remember this [the above] was also a part of last night’s conversation with Kim and Paul.) Does the above material posted today answer your question Amorella?
It will do as you sincerely feel that you have established a scientific-like, (thus to you a more credible) response for publication here. More questions; next, let’s return to the “How does the attendant enter the soul? Post. Amorella
Later. How does the attendant enter the soul? I have in mind the attendant is as an endosymbiotic spiritual presence. The spiritual symbiotic relationship is similar to that I used in the development of Diplomat’s AC. In other words, the spiritual attendant (at least since the time of higher consciousness in the physical world) has always existed. References below:
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in organelles called mitochondria, structures within eukaryotic cells that convert the chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Most other DNA present in eukaryotic organisms is found in the cell nucleus.
Edited from: Wikipedia
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The endosymbiotic [symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms lives inside the other] theory concerns the mitochondria, plastids and possibly other organelles of eukaryotic cells. According to this theory, certain organelles originated as free-living bacteria that were taken inside another cell as endosymbionts. Mitochondria developed from protecobacteria and chloroplasts from cyanobacteria. . . .
Primary endosymbiosis involves the engulfment of a bacterium by another free living organism. Secondary endosymbiosis occurs when the product of primary endosymbiosis is itself engulfed and retained by another free living eukaryote. Secondary endosymbiosis has occurred several times and has given rise to extremely diverse groups of algae and other eukaryotes. Some organisms can take opportunistic advantage of a similar process, where they engulf an alga and use the products of its photosynthesis, but once the prey item dies (or is lost) the host returns to a free-living state.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia: endosymbiotic theory
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This will do as it is reasonable in construction. Now, the final question for this Lesson Seven: How does the soul exist? – Amorella
The soul exists as a condensed spiritual dropping formed from a vapor of a natural decorum, a foreshadowing of light, a halo if you will, of Presence. As dignity forms into substance it communicates ‘humanity’ in the form of the spiritual thought: dignity and freedom exist even within adversity. As the attendant exists in the soul to receive the flowering heart and mind, thus protecting physical individuals with higher consciousness from spiritual death after the physical body has perished so does dignity and freedom exist with the heartansoulanmind of those beings who have evolved and developed a higher spiritual consciousness.
This will do, thus concludes Lesson Seven. - Amorella
If there are degrees of Presence (in context) I do not know how to graduate the degrees of Presence.
In here, boy, Presence is never more than Presence need be. – Amorella
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