Late
Sunday morning. You just completed your thirty minutes of exercises on your
Fitbit Charge. This was after a short morning nap. – Amorella
1135 hours. At least the machinery works.
You’re
one to talk. – Amorella
1137 hours. Touché I like your humor Amorella
1208 hours. I have never ever written a love story.
You have not, at least not a traditional such story. Soki will write this one and it won't be traditional either. - Amorella
1214 hours. If it is about friendship alone I can handle it better.
No doubt, but it isn't. Are you going to post? - Amorella
1302
hours. Carol is still downstairs. I assume we are going to lunch and some
shopping eventually as we are out of bananas, a virtual stable around here. The
days is socked in with clouds and rather dreary – very much an Ohio Valley day
in Winter. We like the weather changes though, otherwise we would have moved to
Florida some time ago. What’s the next step in the drafting?
Make
a copy of draft two and keep only what is underlined or bolded in double spaced,
single line order, then number. This will be draft three. – Amorella
1310 hours. I’m glad I asked rather than to
make assumptions.
Start
with asking, it makes things easier for both of us. - Amorella
1350 hours. The work is completed for
draft 3.
Drop a copy in here and post. - Amorella
***
Draft Definition
of Spiritual Consciousness 3 - Outline to follow:
1. Only human
beings have immortal souls
2. One problem
with seeking scientific evidence for the soul is that there is no clear or
unique definition of what the soul is.
3. In order to perform its science—that only
the fundamental phenomena studied by physics exist.
4. Physicist Sean M. Carroll writes that for a
soul to exist: "Not only is new physics required, but dramatically new
physics. Within QFT, there can’t be a new collection of 'spirit particles' and
'spirit forces' that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have
detected them in existing experiments."
5.
Biologist Cyrille Barrette (fr) has written that "the soul is a word to
designate an idea we invented to represent the sensation of being inhabited by
an existence, by a conscience".
6. The soul is the spirit, which is considered
to be the real self;
7. The soul was considered the incorporeal or
spiritual "breath" that animates the living organism.
8. Rudolf Steiner differentiated three stages
of soul development, which interpenetrate one another in consciousness:
- The "sentient
soul", centering on sensations, drives, and passions, with strong
conative (will) and emotional components; [Heart]
- The
"intellectual" or "mind soul", internalizing and
reflecting on outer experience, with strong affective (feeling) and
cognitive (thinking) components; and [Mind]
The "consciousness soul", in search
of universal, objective truths.
9. Drawing on the words of his teacher
Socrates, Plato considered the psyche to be the essence of a person, being that
which decides how we behave. He considered this essence to be an incorporeal,
eternal occupant of our being. Socrates says that even after death, the soul
exists and is able to think. He believed that as bodies die, the soul is
continually reborn in subsequent bodies and Plato believed this as well,
however, he thought that only one part of the soul was immortal (logos).
10. Some of Avicenna's views on the soul include the idea that
the immortality of the soul is a consequence of its nature.
11. [Avicenna and Ibn al-Nalfia's] argument was later refined
and simplified by Rene Descartes in epistemic terms, when he stated: "I
can abstract from the supposition of all external things, but not from the
supposition of my own consciousness."
12. Concerning the human soul, [Thomas Aquinas’] epistemological
theory required that, since the knower becomes what he knows, the soul is
definitely not corporeal—if it is corporeal when it knows what some corporeal
thing is, that thing would come to be within it.. Therefore, the soul
has an operation which does not rely on a body organ, and therefore the soul
can exist without a body. Furthermore, since the rational soul of human beings
is a subsistent form and not something made of matter and form, it cannot be
destroyed in any natural process.
13.
In his discussions of rational psychology, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) identified
the soul as the "I" in the strictest sense, and argued that the
existence of inner experience can neither be proved nor disproved. "We cannot
prove a priori the immateriality of the soul, but rather only so much: that all
properties and actions of the soul cannot be recognized from materiality".
It is from the "I", or soul, that Kant proposes transcendental
rationalization, but cautions that such rationalization can only determine the
limits of knowledge if it is to remain practical.
14. In Hinduism, the Sanskrit words most
closely corresponding to soul are jiva,
Atman, and “purusha”, meaning the individual self. The term
"soul" is misleading as it implies an object possessed, whereas Self
signifies the subject which perceives all objects. This Self (Ātman) is held to
be distinct from the various mental faculties such as desires, thinking,
understanding, reasoning and self-image (ego), all of which are considered to
be part of prakriti (nature). . . ."For
the atman [the soul] there is
neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come
into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever –
existing and primeval.
Srila Prabhupada, a great Vaishnava saint of
the modern time further explains: the atman [soul] has no birth, he therefore has no past, present or future. He
is eternal, ever-existing and primeval – that is, there is no trace in history
of his coming into being." . . . Since the quality of Atma [soul] is primarily consciousness, all sentient and
insentient beings are pervaded by Atma, including plants, animals, humans and
gods. The difference between them is the contracted or expanded state of that
consciousness. For example, animals and humans share in common the desire to
live, fear of death, desire to procreate and to protect their families and
territory and the need for sleep, but
animals' consciousness is more contracted and has less possibility to expand
than does human consciousness. . . . When the Atma becomes embodied it is
called birth, when the Aatma leaves a body it is called death. The Aatma transmigrates from one body to another
body based on karmic [performed deeds] reactions. . . . In Hinduism, the
Sanskrit word most closely corresponding to soul is Atma, which can mean soul
Restated and reorganized from original 'soul' in Wikipedia
Restated and reorganized from original 'soul' in Wikipedia
***
While waiting for
Carol to go for a McD egg lunch and the grocery you have allowed me an opening
sentence: "Spiritual
Consciousness makes intimate unconscious familiarity among humanoids possible." - Amorella
1442 hours. We now have a quoted beginning. Now, what is spiritual consciousness?
A
medium. - Amorella
1445 hours. How about an avenue?
You
had your Egg McMuffins and are waiting for Carol at the Kroger's on
Mason-Montgomery. We need a word that fits with an overall physical analogy. -
Amorella
1538 hours. I key worded 'analogy' and this
is what we have so far.
**
**
Here is an analogy to
serve as a purpose of understanding. Think of a soul growing like a tree; it
develops rings as it grows but each ring of interior growth shows the presence
not of time but of a heartanmind absorbed into the soul. Each tree soul is root
connected to others that also developed ‘rings’ of growth (witness, as it were,
of one heartanmind after another). Each individual human heartanmind is
attached either in branches and/or roots as human genetics flower and evolve.
Along the way connections reflect through inevitable human settings and
conditions. Similarities are seen are recognized every so often. To humans this
is as soul-mating; to souls this is as evolving lines within souls. – Amorella
You go too far, boy.
Even if matters are such in an analogy or so, there is no distance between any
heartanmind with the inner/outer ‘shell/shellessness’ of the soul and the
heartanmind. Space and time do not exist inside or out as far as souls are
concerned. Survival and adaptation for survival have no bearing on souls or
Betweeners in here, young man. – Amorella
[From
December 2016 notes.]
**
**
1542 hours. I can see the 'tree analogy'
-- perhaps roots or limbs rather than avenue or medium? Wait, the other night
when Carol turned off the lights I looked at the ceiling and saw masses of thin
worm-like things floating/swimming in a medium similar water. It could have
been a smaller image such as looking at bacteria through a microscope or an
electronic microscope. Several shapes and sizes but most were worm-like like
pulling a pile of fishing worms out of a moist medium for fishing. I
consciously reached up to get a better perspective as to how far this imagery
was from the ceiling. I reached up arms' length and it was beyond that but about
a foot below the ceiling.
You
are now at Walmart -- Carol is searching for a skin moistening lotion for you. Both
stores are packed. - Amorella
1600 hours. I was going to go in but there
are no places to park; I am illegally waiting in a disabled parking area in
diagonal yellow zone. I do have my sign up though.
Let's
go with 'roots' as this hallucination was open-eyed.
1607 hours. I'm surprised I didn't write it
down. The hallucination was very vivid. Tangles of exotically moving inorganic instruments
of communication neither electrical or magnetic in origin. Move they did --
wiggling as if looking for something other than food. Air, water, iron, even
gravity, anything material would have floated in this medium. Movement without
time or space. Dimensions within and without exist. Alice, the rabbit, the very
hole of the author's imagination could not exist in this non-existence.
You
spent some time raking more Osage orange leaves at dusk, interrupting your
thoughts of hallucination recollection above. - Amorella
1737 hours. I was grabbing at any intuitional
imagery that might work. It was a non-existing atmosphere the worms thrived in.
This river of atmosphere stayed about a foot below the bedroom ceiling and was
about two feet in diameter stretched across the top of the room for about ten
or twelve feet -- tunnel-like with some small movement at the edges. The
'vibration' seemed to separate it from physical reality. I could see this with
both eyes -- it seemed 'pasted' into reality -- two dimensional-like.
This
is 'something' from nothing, boy. It is completely dark now. You turned on the
Christmas tree lights. Fitting -- each light as a universe, that's what you
wrote last Christmas season. Now, this 'river' as it were wraps and intervenes between
and within the tree limbs, roots and lights of the physical. Take a break,
young man. Post. - Amorella
Time to take out the trash, boy. Post. - Amorella
2033
hours. 'Transmigration' - "The Aatma transmigrates
from one body to another body based on karmic [performed deeds] reactions. .
.." This obviously is a spiritual
movement between two points that in spiritual reality do not exist because
there is there is no time and no space.
Yet, in your hallucination there appears to
be a sense or illusion of time and space. - Amorella
2040 hours.
Yes, an illusion of time and space; the mind creates the illusion in order to
add human comprehension to the illogical concept. This is what we do, it is
like when born a person 'sees' things upside down but within a day the
brain/mind does a reconstruction so that what we originally saw as upside down,
becomes logical/reasonable upside down. The mind adapts to what reality is or
appears to be.
You took out the trash. The difficulty was dealing with
the six Ace paper sacks with leaves. You took three large black plastic bags
and put a paper sack with leaves in each then tied them shut and pressed them
flat on top. The next three paper sacks went on the bottom three so rain and
moisture would not soak through the bottoms. On top of the three paper sacks
also pressed down on top you cut up a fourth large black plastic sack to cover
the top three paper sacks from rain and placed a board on top of the plastic so
the top would not blow away. You are hopeful and feel good about coming up with
a solution for the problem in less than a minute. - Amorella
2130 hours. When you say it, it doesn't sound like
bragging -- what I am pleased about is that my mind is not completely exempt of
reason and this necessary project is a said proof, at least to me. (Personally,
I would have just put them all out without cover, but Carol wanted them covered
or she was going to get up early (about four o'clock) to take them out after
the rain had stopped but before the crews arrived about four-thirty to five).
Bragging was never your intent. All for
tonight. Post. - Amorella
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