Dear Dr. Germine

I agree with the ideas in your third paragraph. Your fourth paragraph is interesting, as well. I was surprised it doesn't include a definition of the subconscious, which seems to be consciously unaware, at least during the immediate events influenced by it.

love, Heath

Mark

ok..but what is a banana?

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In other words: When Mr./Ms. Being wants to know something he/she does not do it with ideas.He/She becomes that something. He/She eats it, bones, blood, flesh, hide, fur. Not one hair of it is left lying outside of the body of Being.

Within the flowing-momentary.....the opacity of the membrane clears....and the world is seen in all of its pristine originalness.

The conceptual world comes in direct contact with the non-conceptual world....the phantom attempts to pull the clarity into its personal realm by giving it a name.......and the opacity returns.

No worries.............That's the nature of the game.

The Universe is self-cleaning.

Eventually all membranes rupture..... and the knowing-flowingness embraces what It Is.

Sat-Chit-Ananda

Existence-Consciousness-Bliss

Mark that is awesome, since your a psychiatrist, it is safe to say, and we can rest assured that were not all crazy for thinking this way?

I have always suspected we are all crazy, but the insane ones simply don't realize it. :)

I think a good sign of insanity would be contributing to the creation of a world with violent conflict, fear, and separation.

Beings full of love certainly have a grasp on reality.

A planet suffering from psychosis, so many not realizing who they / we really are.

I wonder what we would write for a prescription, something if we could help them to become lucid in the waking dream.

"I wonder what we would write for a prescription, something if we could help them to become lucid in the waking dream."

I would say that you are suffering from egoic grandiosity.

Help your Self.... be awake....that's the only way you can make a real difference.

Toonwadu, thanks for the advice, I am just a reflection of all the greatness in you. :)

Hi Mark,

Thank you for sharing your story that communicated to my whole system of heart, mind, senses and body. Your story is rooted in whole body (also whole brain?) experience and carries a deepening and expansive effect. Your story inspires.

I just came in from my garden and was drawn to check in on this blog. Why? I asked myself. I have a lot of other things to do today. The answer is that this blog is just like my garden. It is an open space in which to till soil, plant seeds, weed and nurture. My garden is an eco-system, a whole system. I am its caretaker. This blog is a collective garden. Each one contributing has a role in its seasons of abundance.

We are all blessed through forces of fire, water, air and earth. We are an eco-system of parts within a whole; and a whole within parts. The environmental quality of our personal garden is reflected back to us from the outside world.

Digging into earth massages our Mother; weeding provides space for plants to grow and supports their natural rising upward to sky our Father; harvesting the fruits blesses heart/mind bodies. Gardening is a ceremonial and sacred act.

And so it is each moment of one's day. What is the quality of my seed thoughts, words and actions? Am I planting seeds in healthy soil? Are they positive and nourishing? Am I weeding through open eyes of awareness that looks within at personal weeds first? And am I harvesting and celebrating when seasons present themselves?

Am I care taking the parts and the whole; the whole and the parts. An inside out/outside in weaving of life's serpentine dance.

Trish

Don: Are you again playing with Intent? What nonsense was that as Mark?? I had told you there is a huge population of screwed up spiritualists, but it is not black and white. Mind you!! a small % can see the crap, can chaff it out.

Good one.

Hello Dr. Germine. Very interesting and nice to see you here. I think time is a containment spell. Oh goody a psychiatrist.

Ricky Ponting: Speak for yourself. The truly wise sense (not see) craup and divert their eyes. For 'twere we to look, we would promulgate. ;)

Said the walrus, or the carpenter? O non-Austens, may the wash of the three-quarter moon's light purify you and lighten your burdens. Maybe I'll see you in the conga line, following the current mambo session.

I see that "liquor" has surfaced via language. Sooner or later demons underground rise to be seen and heard. Let them rise! We wrap around these false gods that create havoc and pain-- alchemical imbalance--in this world. We inject the sick parts with light. There is more than enough love to infuse matter.

Hot spots are erupting through individual personalities and through collective war zones. Our beloved Earth Mother and her children are in a healing crisis.

The demons, the wars, the darknes is old news and old patterns. It's all very boring.

How do we sooth the walking wounded? How do we heal the land? Through intention of new stimulation.

Trish

Love, Peace, and Happiness to all,

My experience was not in any altered state, I had no alcohol and felt quite normal.

Re: the unconscious. I think that there are levels of experience all the way down to the most fundamental physical entity, and that consciousness emerges from these fundamental experiences, through what I have referred to as nested hierarchies of experience expressed on surfaces according to the Holographic Principle (reference below). The lower levels of experience are not strictly determined, and I think the unconscious is of the nature of the quantum wave function in that it is a superposition of potentials which are only realized as actualities with observation of a knowing entity. I think we are all one knowing entity, in the sense that "thou art that," and that ego consciousness is an illusion created by our identification of our our personalities as this knowing entity. I call this apotheosis of the ego, the elevation of the ego to the status of God or Self. The ego is the "fallen angel" separated from Self, becoming Selfhood (William Blake). This separation is a sort of mass delusion (Albert Einstein).

Mark Germine

Reference
1. Germine, M. (2007) The Holographic Principle Theory of Mind. Dynamical Psychology. An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Complex Mental Processes. http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2007/holomind.htm.

Love, Peace, and Happiness to all,

My experience was not in any altered state, I had no alcohol and felt quite normal.

Re: the unconscious. I think that there are levels of experience all the way down to the most fundamental physical entity, and that consciousness emerges from these fundamental experiences, through what I have referred to as nested hierarchies of experience expressed on surfaces according to the Holographic Principle (reference below). The lower levels of experience are not strictly determined, and I think the unconscious is of the nature of the quantum wave function in that it is a superposition of potentials which are only realized as actualities with observation of a knowing entity. I think we are all one knowing entity, in the sense that "thou art that," and that ego consciousness is an illusion created by our identification of our our personalities as this knowing entity. I call this apotheosis of the ego, the elevation of the ego to the status of God or Self. The ego is the "fallen angel" separated from Self, becoming Selfhood (William Blake). This separation is a sort of mass delusion (Albert Einstein).

Mark Germine

Reference
1. Germine, M. (2007) The Holographic Principle Theory of Mind. Dynamical Psychology. An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Complex Mental Processes. http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2007/holomind.htm.

Love, Peace, and Happiness to all,

My experience was not in any altered state, I had no alcohol and felt quite normal.

Re: the unconscious. I think that there are levels of experience all the way down to the most fundamental physical entity, and that consciousness emerges from these fundamental experiences, through what I have referred to as nested hierarchies of experience expressed on surfaces according to the Holographic Principle (reference below). The lower levels of experience are not strictly determined, and I think the unconscious is of the nature of the quantum wave function in that it is a superposition of potentials which are only realized as actualities with observation of a knowing entity. I think we are all one knowing entity, in the sense that "thou art that," and that ego consciousness is an illusion created by our identification of our our personalities as this knowing entity. I call this apotheosis of the ego, the elevation of the ego to the status of God or Self. The ego is the "fallen angel" separated from Self, becoming Selfhood (William Blake). This separation is a sort of mass delusion (Albert Einstein).

Mark Germine

Reference
1. Germine, M. (2007) The Holographic Principle Theory of Mind. Dynamical Psychology. An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Complex Mental Processes. http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2007/holomind.htm.

Love, Peace, and Happiness to all,

My experience was not in any altered state, I had no alcohol and felt quite normal.

Re: the unconscious. I think that there are levels of experience all the way down to the most fundamental physical entity, and that consciousness emerges from these fundamental experiences, through what I have referred to as nested hierarchies of experience expressed on surfaces according to the Holographic Principle (reference below). The lower levels of experience are not strictly determined, and I think the unconscious is of the nature of the quantum wave function in that it is a superposition of potentials which are only realized as actualities with observation of a knowing entity. I think we are all one knowing entity, in the sense that "thou art that," and that ego consciousness is an illusion created by our identification of our our personalities as this knowing entity. I call this apotheosis of the ego, the elevation of the ego to the status of God or Self. The ego is the "fallen angel" separated from Self, becoming Selfhood (William Blake). This separation is a sort of mass delusion (Albert Einstein).

Mark Germine

Reference
1. Germine, M. (2007) The Holographic Principle Theory of Mind. Dynamical Psychology. An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Complex Mental Processes. http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2007/holomind.htm.

Love, Peace, and Happiness to all,

My experience was not in any altered state, I had no alcohol and felt quite normal.

Re: the unconscious. I think that there are levels of experience all the way down to the most fundamental physical entity, and that consciousness emerges from these fundamental experiences, through what I have referred to as nested hierarchies of experience expressed on surfaces according to the Holographic Principle (reference below). The lower levels of experience are not strictly determined, and I think the unconscious is of the nature of the quantum wave function in that it is a superposition of potentials which are only realized as actualities with observation of a knowing entity. I think we are all one knowing entity, in the sense that "thou art that," and that ego consciousness is an illusion created by our identification of our our personalities as this knowing entity. I call this apotheosis of the ego, the elevation of the ego to the status of God or Self. The ego is the "fallen angel" separated from Self, becoming Selfhood (William Blake). This separation is a sort of mass delusion (Albert Einstein).

Mark Germine

Reference
1. Germine, M. (2007) The Holographic Principle Theory of Mind. Dynamical Psychology. An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Complex Mental Processes. http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2007/holomind.htm.

Dear Mark

Thank you very much for your expansion of the topic.

love, Heath

Mark Germine, remember we met in Germany last yr?? LOL!

Ricky Ponting!

Here is a review from the NY Times you might be interested in. It's on a book about neuroplasticity, called "The Brain That Changes Itself", by Norman Doidge...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/health/29book.html

love, Heath

I would like to address your comments in Paragraph 4. "Consciousness includes the MORE SUBTLE LEVELS OF INTUITION as well as the more explicit awareness of thought, feeling, and experience."

I have been studying the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians (those who studied in the Mystery Schools). They viewed the world symbolically, seeing in nature a "writing" conveying truths about the metaphysical forces behind creation.

At the center of this vision was CONSCIOUS MAN, the King. Conscious Man was the crown and aim of the Universe. But, CONSCIOUS MAN WAS THE INDIVIDUAL IN WHOM " THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE HEART" HAS AWAKENED, one who has had the experience of "functional consciousness".

Without the acceptance by the rational mind of the worth of the intuitive faculty, the creative acts which aid in illumination will be stifled.