Hi Brent, Oh you bet! Chopra and those like him have not done us any favors, but can we truly begrudge people from making a buck of a book that is a soft version of the ideas we are considering? Not all people are on the far right hand side of the bell curve.
Onward! Stephen From: meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:01 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 10:39 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, How beautifully said! This is a rediscovery of ideas that we find in many mythological systems. We are God that forgot what we truly are. Onward! Stephen Careful. Don't go all "Deepak Chopra" on us. :-) Brent From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:11 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 18 May 2011, at 17:38, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the "blanche machine", the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only differentiate consciousness. Are you claiming that every thought includes a memory? A memory of what? The immediately preceding thought? You lost me. I was pretending the contrary. I was with you on this. It is *because* a thought (a conscious thought) does not necessarily include a memory or a reference to previous thoughts that you can remain conscious when taking a drug which disconnect you from all memories. Ok. I mistook your point. I agree that memory is not necessary for consciousness - though I think it is necessary for self-consciousness. Mystics often distinguishes the "little ego" from the "higher self". Memory, and, usually, many bodies and things are needed for the little ego, but I am not sure memory is needed for the "higher self-consciousness". But this might be a word play. It is possible that consciousness is always the same as higher self-consciousness. In that case the (little) ego-consciousness appears when the higher self *forgets* its status, and begin to identify itself with the memories and the many things it believes it owns. Bruno What, you ask, was the beginning of it all? And it is this ... Existence that multiplied itself For sheer delight of being And plunged into numberless trillions of forms So that it might Find Itself Innumerably (Aurobindo) http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.