deviadah
07-20-2007, 04:26 AM
This is a long post... and I hope it is in the right place! Anyways I have been tripping all night on some stuff and here I have regurgitated it all. I am not sure about the name of this thread, but hopefully it will at least lead you here! :cool:
Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg)meditated regularly and developed the ability to leave his body and visit heaven where he conversed with angels and spirits. What he had to say about these experiences mirror closely modern-day near death experiences. For example he mentions a dazzling light that emitted a feeling of love, appearing before beings of light, and being enveloped by an all-encompassing peace and serenity.
Most intriguing of all is what Swedenborg witnessed when the newly deceased arrived in heaven to have their lives reviewed. He called this process the Opening of the Book of Lives. The interesting aspect of this is that he said the angel, that examined the deceased, did so with the deceased’s entire body since the information was recorded in the nervous system.
When the angels spoke their thoughts united into three-dimensional images (like holograms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologram)), often animals. For instance love could be viewed as a lamb and evil as scorpions and the like. This can easily be explained as a way for the angels to easily make humans understand what they meant using earthly animalistic archetypes – it does not imply that they themselves thought scorpions were evil.
These holographic thought balls, as Swedenborg called them, were a sort of picture language with each image containing a thousand ideas, and similar to the portrayals he could see in the wave-substance, or aura, that surrounds a person. The reason for this image-based language was because the speech the angels normally employed was so complicated that in was impossible for human beings to understand it. More than all this the most astonishing thing is that Swedenborg asserts that there were deceased individuals from other planets there as well.
Swedenborg talked about reality’s holographic qualities and that all human may seem separate but are in fact in a cosmic unity. In heaven we are all in miniature, in fact the whole physical universe is a microcosm of the greater divine reality. The visible reality that we see every day is only a wave-substance.
Rev. Dr. George F. Dole, professor of theology at the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, Massachusetts, notes that one of the most basic tenets of Swedenborg’s thinking is that our universe is constantly created and sustained by two wavelike flows, one from heaven and one coming from our own soul or spirit. He says that “if we put these images together, the resemblance to the hologram is striking.” He goes on to state:
“We are constituted by the intersection of two flows—one direct, from the divine, and one indirect, from the divine via our environment. We can view ourselves as interference patterns, because the inflow is a wave phenomenon, and we are where the waves meet.”
Contrary to the stereotypical beliefs of heaven Swedenborg saw it as a more fundamental level of reality than our own physical world. Heaven is the archetypal source from which all earthly forms originate, and to which all forms return, in short the material world is merely a frozen version of the thought-built reality of heaven.
Swedenborg writes that ”every created thing.., is by nature recipient of God ... it is suitable because it was created in God by God; and because it was created in this way, it is an analogue, and . . . is like an image of God in a mirror.” Rev. Dr. George F. Dole points out, in his essay An Image of God in a Mirror, that if “we take seriously the characteristics of the hologram, it becomes a trenchant and almost literal description of a radically significant fact. Every part of the universe is an image of the Whole.”
Holograms
From How stuff works (http://science.howstuffworks.com): If you cut one in half, each half contains whole views of the entire holographic image. The same is true if you cut out a small piece - - even a tiny fragment will still contain the whole picture. On top of that, if you make a hologram of a magnifying glass, the holographic version will magnify the other objects in the hologram, just like a real one.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/Holography-reconstruct.svg/250px-Holography-reconstruct.svg.png
The Brain: memory and hemispheres
Now if the brain stores information in a holographic manner, known as Holonomic Brain Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory), it would not be affected if its anatomy were rearranged. Dr. Paul Pietsch writes about an experiment to prove this in his book Shuffle Brain:
“In more than 700 operations, I rotated, reversed, added, subtracted, and scrambled brain parts. I shuffled. I reshuffled. I sliced, lengthened, deviated, shortened, opposed, transposed, juxtaposed and flipped. I spliced front to back with lengths of spinal chord, or medulla, with other pieces of brain turned inside out. But nothing short of dispatching the brain to the slopbucket – nothing expunged feeding!”
What he concluded from this was that “scrambling the brain’s anatomy did not scramble its programs. Meaning was contained within its parts, not spread out among their relationships. If I wanted to change behaviour, I had to supply not a new anatomy, but new information.”
The cerebral hemispheres of the brain have different functions and the branch of science that deals with this are is known as split-brain research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_brain). Colin Wilson writes in Starseekers “if the knot of nerve fibre joining the two halves is severed – as it may be to prevent epilepsy – the patient virtually turns into two different persons.” He continues to explain:
“If he is shown an apple with the left half of the brain (which is connected to the right visual field) and an orange with the right, and he is asked, ‘What have I just shown you?’, he replies, ‘An apple.’ Asked to write what he has seen with his left hand (connected to the right hemisphere), he writes, ‘An orange.’ If he is allowed to see what he has written, and he is asked what it is, he replies, ‘An apple.’ … the left and right brains behave like two different entities; in fact, like two independent minds.”
LEFT
Rationalist
Logician
Scientist
Language
Concerned with particularities
Solar
Western man
Microcosm
RIGHT
Intuitionalist
Apprehender of patterns
Artist
Non-verbal
Concerned with emerging patterns
Lunar
Poetry, magic and irrational
Macrocosm
DNA
I quote Terence & Dennis McKennas book The Invisible Landscape:
"...DNA seems to store information holographically, in that the nucleotide sequence of the molecule is identical in every cell of a given organism."
Jungian stuff
Synchronicity (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=1690) is a a kind of psychic factor, independent of space and time, that indirectly can guide us in our lives. For more on this just google Jung... anyway he also talks about the collective unconscious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious), which is a sort of storage of the experiences of our species past, present - perhaps future too (?).
A sort of conclusion
So where am I going with all this. Well it seems to me that the Lost Speech and the communitative DNA, telepathy and astral travel, the collective subconscious and the holographic brain together with the micro- and macrocosm of the left and right hemispheres all blend into one single unity. Add to this the possible afterlife - heaven if you will - and what I have read on the Body of Light (although I would like m1thr0s views here since I can't pretend I know much about this... or perhaps I have only called it something else).
Anyway all this is still processing in my brain... best thing is to throw it out and see what happens. I am not trying to teach anything. My agenda is to attract the BRAINS of this forum, because they can throw light on things I left in the dark, correct or verify other aspects of all this - or perhaps even flip it up-side-down!
I await ya'll with great anticipation!
:yinyang:
Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg)meditated regularly and developed the ability to leave his body and visit heaven where he conversed with angels and spirits. What he had to say about these experiences mirror closely modern-day near death experiences. For example he mentions a dazzling light that emitted a feeling of love, appearing before beings of light, and being enveloped by an all-encompassing peace and serenity.
Most intriguing of all is what Swedenborg witnessed when the newly deceased arrived in heaven to have their lives reviewed. He called this process the Opening of the Book of Lives. The interesting aspect of this is that he said the angel, that examined the deceased, did so with the deceased’s entire body since the information was recorded in the nervous system.
When the angels spoke their thoughts united into three-dimensional images (like holograms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologram)), often animals. For instance love could be viewed as a lamb and evil as scorpions and the like. This can easily be explained as a way for the angels to easily make humans understand what they meant using earthly animalistic archetypes – it does not imply that they themselves thought scorpions were evil.
These holographic thought balls, as Swedenborg called them, were a sort of picture language with each image containing a thousand ideas, and similar to the portrayals he could see in the wave-substance, or aura, that surrounds a person. The reason for this image-based language was because the speech the angels normally employed was so complicated that in was impossible for human beings to understand it. More than all this the most astonishing thing is that Swedenborg asserts that there were deceased individuals from other planets there as well.
Swedenborg talked about reality’s holographic qualities and that all human may seem separate but are in fact in a cosmic unity. In heaven we are all in miniature, in fact the whole physical universe is a microcosm of the greater divine reality. The visible reality that we see every day is only a wave-substance.
Rev. Dr. George F. Dole, professor of theology at the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, Massachusetts, notes that one of the most basic tenets of Swedenborg’s thinking is that our universe is constantly created and sustained by two wavelike flows, one from heaven and one coming from our own soul or spirit. He says that “if we put these images together, the resemblance to the hologram is striking.” He goes on to state:
“We are constituted by the intersection of two flows—one direct, from the divine, and one indirect, from the divine via our environment. We can view ourselves as interference patterns, because the inflow is a wave phenomenon, and we are where the waves meet.”
Contrary to the stereotypical beliefs of heaven Swedenborg saw it as a more fundamental level of reality than our own physical world. Heaven is the archetypal source from which all earthly forms originate, and to which all forms return, in short the material world is merely a frozen version of the thought-built reality of heaven.
Swedenborg writes that ”every created thing.., is by nature recipient of God ... it is suitable because it was created in God by God; and because it was created in this way, it is an analogue, and . . . is like an image of God in a mirror.” Rev. Dr. George F. Dole points out, in his essay An Image of God in a Mirror, that if “we take seriously the characteristics of the hologram, it becomes a trenchant and almost literal description of a radically significant fact. Every part of the universe is an image of the Whole.”
Holograms
From How stuff works (http://science.howstuffworks.com): If you cut one in half, each half contains whole views of the entire holographic image. The same is true if you cut out a small piece - - even a tiny fragment will still contain the whole picture. On top of that, if you make a hologram of a magnifying glass, the holographic version will magnify the other objects in the hologram, just like a real one.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/Holography-reconstruct.svg/250px-Holography-reconstruct.svg.png
The Brain: memory and hemispheres
Now if the brain stores information in a holographic manner, known as Holonomic Brain Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory), it would not be affected if its anatomy were rearranged. Dr. Paul Pietsch writes about an experiment to prove this in his book Shuffle Brain:
“In more than 700 operations, I rotated, reversed, added, subtracted, and scrambled brain parts. I shuffled. I reshuffled. I sliced, lengthened, deviated, shortened, opposed, transposed, juxtaposed and flipped. I spliced front to back with lengths of spinal chord, or medulla, with other pieces of brain turned inside out. But nothing short of dispatching the brain to the slopbucket – nothing expunged feeding!”
What he concluded from this was that “scrambling the brain’s anatomy did not scramble its programs. Meaning was contained within its parts, not spread out among their relationships. If I wanted to change behaviour, I had to supply not a new anatomy, but new information.”
The cerebral hemispheres of the brain have different functions and the branch of science that deals with this are is known as split-brain research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_brain). Colin Wilson writes in Starseekers “if the knot of nerve fibre joining the two halves is severed – as it may be to prevent epilepsy – the patient virtually turns into two different persons.” He continues to explain:
“If he is shown an apple with the left half of the brain (which is connected to the right visual field) and an orange with the right, and he is asked, ‘What have I just shown you?’, he replies, ‘An apple.’ Asked to write what he has seen with his left hand (connected to the right hemisphere), he writes, ‘An orange.’ If he is allowed to see what he has written, and he is asked what it is, he replies, ‘An apple.’ … the left and right brains behave like two different entities; in fact, like two independent minds.”
LEFT
Rationalist
Logician
Scientist
Language
Concerned with particularities
Solar
Western man
Microcosm
RIGHT
Intuitionalist
Apprehender of patterns
Artist
Non-verbal
Concerned with emerging patterns
Lunar
Poetry, magic and irrational
Macrocosm
DNA
I quote Terence & Dennis McKennas book The Invisible Landscape:
"...DNA seems to store information holographically, in that the nucleotide sequence of the molecule is identical in every cell of a given organism."
Jungian stuff
Synchronicity (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=1690) is a a kind of psychic factor, independent of space and time, that indirectly can guide us in our lives. For more on this just google Jung... anyway he also talks about the collective unconscious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious), which is a sort of storage of the experiences of our species past, present - perhaps future too (?).
A sort of conclusion
So where am I going with all this. Well it seems to me that the Lost Speech and the communitative DNA, telepathy and astral travel, the collective subconscious and the holographic brain together with the micro- and macrocosm of the left and right hemispheres all blend into one single unity. Add to this the possible afterlife - heaven if you will - and what I have read on the Body of Light (although I would like m1thr0s views here since I can't pretend I know much about this... or perhaps I have only called it something else).
Anyway all this is still processing in my brain... best thing is to throw it out and see what happens. I am not trying to teach anything. My agenda is to attract the BRAINS of this forum, because they can throw light on things I left in the dark, correct or verify other aspects of all this - or perhaps even flip it up-side-down!
I await ya'll with great anticipation!
:yinyang: