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ArtistLost
2008-12-17, 04:08
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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, Socrates, Jesus, Newton... and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." ~Emerson

These thoughts are based from my own personal education. This education includes schooling, the start of my still continued college education, and my attending lectures and seminars on adverse subjects (metaphysics, theoretical physics, Emersonian transcendentalist thought, quantum theory, conspiracy, and so forth). Also, I spend hours reading. Everyday I read. Regardless if it is 3 pages, or 3 books, it keeps the different parts of my brain ticking and exercised, and reading allows books to continually inspire my thought processes pertaining to reality as my individual perceives it.

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“If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises,
in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade, -- the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice, -- we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie, -- an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent him, but misrepresents him. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. And the blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. The weakness of the will begins, when the individual would be something of himself. All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essay IX “The Over-Soul”)

Emerson believed in a complex trinity that every man (man refers to a human being, non-prejudiced based on gender or race) adheres to. This trinity includes the individual, Divinity and the over-soul. The individual is mans personal knowledge in his existence, the fornication of spiritual/celestial body (the soul) and the material body (human), and the obligation of all to work for the greater good. Divinity is the “God being” in the scenario. Divinity inquires man to understand his individual nature against the divine, perceiving his placement among all life and realizing a center which has an infinite circumference. But how does a center of something have an infinite circumference? Wouldn’t this mean that the center still encompasses all that it is centering? Quantum theory and theoretical physics explain this. (I will do my best to describe the following with pure scientific “theoretical” fact. Found in scientific research, not of my own, but among my reading and exploring.) Quantum theory is hard to understand, and almost as hard to explain. Some will say it’s easy, I beg to differ. I explain it as follows: Imagine holding a pen, a pen that works, but does not write where you place it, instead, whatever is scribed, in the same moment, appears five thousand miles across the globe. Doesn’t make sense? Let me babble a moment, perhaps pointlessness, but it may paint a picture.

Babbling

Does time exist?

Some theorists describe a multi-verse theory. This theory states a potentially infinite number of realities. Think of each reality as a separate universe. So, in our universe, as you read this, the text should appear the color black. Now, in one of these infinite separate universes, everything as you presently know it exists exactly the same, but this text, AND ONLY THIS TEXT, appears RED to the reader. Ok, further this idea, and in another separate reality (remember there are an infinite amount of them) the text appears blue, orange, and so on. Then more things change. The background, which should be white as you now perceive it, appears purple, with green writing, or a yellow background with brown writing. The color of the reader’s shirt changes, shoes, hair, house, economic status, genealogy, species (i.e. in a separate universe human’s look like jellyfish) and so-on, etc., etc., etc. Now, moving back to the idea of whether or not time exists, according to this multi-verse theory, among these infinite universes also exists a universe depicting every “time” past, present, and future, for an infinite number of scenarios. This would prove that time does not exist on a dimensional plane which flows, but on a separate universe amongst the multi-verse which exists parallel to the reality we know. This means that traveling to a 1920’s flapper show would not consist of traveling into the past, but traveling to a very, very, very, VERY, VVEERRYY distant place. Other adverse theories describe time as a stationary “4th dimensional” object which the third dimension (our reality) flows through. Others believe that time is a matter of perception. Emanuel Swedenborg described in his essay a hypothesis regarding the mergence of the celestial world (spirits, souls, angels, etc.) and the natural world (humans, life as we know it). He called this hypothesis the Spiritual influx. “Spiritual influx, by some occasional influx, is from order and its laws.” This refers closely to the idea that the spiritual world flows into the natural world, and not the reverse. Swedenborg describes the soul flowing into the natural body, with it giving the body emotions, thought processes, conscience and so forth (the makings of a human). So, theoretically the soul could perceive a sense of time in its own “celestial reality” and with its fantastic merge into the natural body, it brings with it the idea of time. Not truly flowing, but giving the body a placebo like perception of time, adversely affecting natural reality.

Time-out, let me explain that the celestial world does not exist in the multi-verse theory, but is my own addition, placing it on a different realm, a higher plane or a superviseratory plane above the infinite realities (a heaven-like existence).

Ok, there were a few thoughts on time. How about death? I won’t delve too far. Ok, so, I have read in many places, and done research which describes a very phenomenal occurrence. Scientists and researchers alike have made a peculiar discovery. First noticed on a high-tech surgical table, which indicates weight, and helped by an overly-paranoid medical-employee, it is found that at death the body looses .005 grams of weight. (I think it was .005, if it is a different number, I apologize, but for explanatory purposes, we’ll consider as stated.) After a few simple observations, it was moved further to include possible loss of gasses or waste of sorts. Scientists have created vacuum-like conditions around a body (unethical, but I was able to find the resources to prove this research) and at death, while still having the ability to exam the weight of gasses, the body miraculously lost .005 grams of weight at death. Inexplicably….Where does that weight go? Where is its existence manifested?
Done babbling. Make sense yet? Maybe, maybe not. Does anyone else remember what the topic of this note was?

I have explained now, the individual, and have hopefully introduced a glimpse on my interpretation of divinity. This topic however is going to be based closer on the Over-soul. Emerson believed that all living beings were interconnected through their souls in this ever encompassing Over-soul. Also being encompassed by the center of divinity in its infinite magnitude (refer to first paragraph). In this
Over-soul, all human souls are interconnected. This brings upon ideas which could theoretically prove the possibility of psychic thought, and telecommunication.

So, the topic of this note is Dreams. What happens when we are dreaming?

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ArtistLost
2008-12-17, 04:09
I have explained briefly my idea of the Celestial World. The celestial world is a conglomeration of many theoretical realities including Heaven, the spiritual world, the dream world, or whatever existence you want to believe is above the reality in which we currently exist as conscious man. I will refer to the celestial world frequently with my following interpretation.

As a person dreams, their soul, or their consciousness ceases existence in the natural world, and partakes again its conscious existence in the celestial world. The mind remains with the material body. Therefore, when a person dreams, they are tapping into the celestial world, allowing them to see a possibly true, fantastic, adverse reality. Think about the idea of Heaven. How can a place be truly perfect? Perfection only exists when it remains perfect through change. So Heaven would have to be constantly changing, in theory. So, when in a dream you are able to pull an airplane out of your purse, it is theoretically possible that in this “Heavenly” celestial reality, the constant change occurs when the perceiver requires it. So, the material body, spectating the celestial world, perceives a story or dream and it is remembered by the mind when the material body is once again conscious in the natural world. Ok, ever have someone tell you they had a dream about you? For months I silently tallied a personal observation. Every time someone told me they had a dream about me, I realized that at the “apparent” time of my inclusion into their dream, I myself was sleeping, and had no recollection of dreaming of my personal self. Does this indicate dreams truly existing in the sense that the mind is spectating amongst the celestial world, such as one would watch television. It does indicate, not factually, but so far in my observations that a persons celestial body may only exist in a single place at any given time, just the same as our material bodies. This would say that if a person is dreaming about you, and at the same time, you are witnessing your own celestial body in a dream, you are then witnessing the same place in the celestial world as the counter-observer dreaming of you. The opposite mind may be someone you never know, or never will meet. But perhaps this also explains the situations in which you definitely recognize someone, but never can understand from where. Also, in believing the celestial world exists above the multi-verse, and observes the multi-verse, (as explained early when describing the spiritual world flowing into the natural, and not the reverse), and then argument of whether or not dreams sometimes predict future events can be explained. The celestial world, observing the natural world, allows the material body, existing in the natural world, to spectate a celestial body observing a universe among the multi-verse, which exists as the “future” in our “present” known “timeline.”

What are dreams? Where is their existence based? Do people see the future? Can psychics tap into a “celestial world”?

In concluding this jumble of sentences, remember that it is by no means a complete theory. It is a conglomeration of personal ideas that have been inspired through countless hours of research and exploration. It is not based solely on any single belief, but instead on the inspiration I have exhumed from the many resources I’ve read. Each book and word in itself not leaving a direct imprint, but instead leaving inspiration and motivation for understanding further my own individual ideals. To-day I may believe this, To-morrow I may fully contradict what I’ve said. But right now, this is a glimpse and my present approach.