The other was my decades ago reading of the original "Course in Miracles"...not the Marianne Williamson version of "A Return to Love. Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles" but the original channeled Helen Shucman text, but mainly the later workbook and manual for teachers of the course. It used a kind on mental conditioning and repetition process of looking at each object in a room and learning to basically not see it as real but a mental projection of your belief that they are real..very challenging process but fascinating.
As I am trying to understand Karidad's comment on Object Oriented Otology...
This quote by Graham Harmon was helpful.
Graham Harmon:
"If the human perception of a house or a tree is forever haunted by some hidden surplus in the things that never becomes present, the same is true of the sheer causal interaction between rocks or raindrops. Even inanimate things only unlock each other's realities to a minimal extent, reducing one another to caricatures...even if rocks are not sentient creatures, they never encounter one another in their deepest being, but only as present-at-hand; "
I love this discussion. I feel that everything is alive. Everything.
You’ve given me some new ways to explore it.
For years I’ve Had sessions with students in which we bring heirloom objects and pass them around without letting anyone know who owns what or any of the history.
We see with great detail moments from the lives of those who owned the objects. Some objects go back to when they were trees in a forest or metals in the ground.
We see bits of consciousness in everything. It is a miracle. I know that I’ve seen scenes from the lives of people who have long since passed just because they once were in contact with those objects.
I love that you believed your toys were alive. It delights me and I feel it is true. When they tore down my old Highschool it was really hard for me. I felt that the kids need the voices in those walls to keep them grounded in the wisdom that earlier generations can pass along to them.
In fact, the creative process becomes an extension of my intuitive mind as I mix colors, reach for brushes and give way to the brush stroking oil on canvas. There's something transcendent about the process of making art. -- Bluebelle
Love this, Lorie. Making art can involve the same process as using intuition - a creative process that happens in the body.
I love this! And as both a creative arts blogger and as a quilter, both styles of quilting I now do (freeform liberated and art quilting which basically means I use techniques not use patterns) are actually known as "intuitive quilting."
We are drawn to our hobbies and passions for a reason.
Why panpsychism is the Jedi Philosophy:
One of the most iconic elements of the Star Wars universe is the Force. That mysterious energy field that permeates the galaxy, which all lifeforms interact with but only a rare few can harness. It gives the science fiction series a mystical punch and serves to make our heroes a little more compelling. Not merely action heroes, they have a deeper connection to the cosmos they protect.
http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/why-panpsychism-is-the-jedi-philosophy
"Panpsychism is the view that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. The view has a long and venerable history in philosophical traditions of both East and West, and has recently enjoyed a revival in analytic philosophy."
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
When you see or hear the concept of animism or agency in the discussion of consciousness or nature, or art, or spirituality, or in relation to the natural world and consciousness, it is this same analytical expansion of consciousness and thought which gives the power of agency to all parts of our natural world and by extension all connections;if there is agency in a tree, extend it into wood, if there is agency in wood, extend it to the table, the chair, the fence post, the whittled wooden doll and do on.
Connected to animism:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related. Plato
Growing herbs is and has always been my transcendent passion. The physical yearning to mostly live for being outside, getting my hands in the dirt, and becoming part of nurturing and tending the growth of plants has always been a part of me. Early on I related it to my Mennonite heritage but later suspected it also came from my other parent’s ancient Irish and English roots, too. The simple kinetic need is entirely spiritual, too. It’s where I find absolute abandon, release, and peace.
I see and feel the energies of the herbs. There have been periods of time and places when and where some herbs grow and not others, and I believe it is because of the energies of the plants that I needed to connect with in that time and place. The herbs in my gardens are spiritual creatures; they energize me. When I drive sometimes I pull in the green living life through my palm chakras; it energizes me. Sometimes, I just soak up this energy and give it to others as called. I was blessed this morning to be able to send it to Vida for healing and strength.
Stones and crystals are similar, although I know others who are better at working with their energy, there have been times that just placing a large geode on my stomach has been so healing. Sometimes I sleep with rocks. I completely agree with all that Michelle has written and entirely relate to the Plato quote. I have never felt called to witchcraft, but I feel a very strong identification with the work of herbalists and midwives and feel my spiritual home is somehow elfin. You should see my ears! They’re like radio telescopes decked out on a flying elephant. I always sense there’s some finer listening element behind them, if that makes sense. I feel the earth as the Mother; the Feminine Divine, as expressed by Quan Yin and Mary, although I have a strong connection with a divine Father, too. I relate to the concept of Christ consciousness in its symbolic and energetic forms. To me, they are different forms of loving, healing, growing connection.
There have been times when I’ve worked with the energy and it has taken light and animal shape even transforming into dragon flame energy. I share it as light with the person’s higher soul self. I work in other people’s gardens, too; it’s my way of healing and sharing love; it brings balance. I deeply sense that my learning in this lifetime for next lifetime is related to this passion; the concept of it excites me and makes me happy and feel blessed.
Found a very informative article on Panpsychism, and I don't think it's already been posted here, so posting it now for safekeeping and reading.
https://awarenessact.com/science-now-believe-that-the-universe-itself-is-conscious/
Thank you Laura! And Gracesinger, yes, yes, yes!