From my ongoing experiences, I have come to the conclusion that my brain is the “interface” between my Mind/consciousness and my physical body. I learned that my brain could be extremely handicapped, but I was still me - just extremely challenged if I had to interact with the 3D world, as I sometimes express it. Is there any real consciousness in my physical brain alone? I tend to think there isn’t.
Is it a spiritual mind or perhaps a super consciousness above the purely mammalian ”instinctive” consciousness. But we’re learning that in many other life forms can be found examples of a strong sense of responsibility and even a conscience, if that can seen by helping even other lifeforms in distress - particularly the very young.
Going back to the bell curve, would it not be possible that all material life has some degree of both material and non-material consciousness? And that in all worlds this bell curve exists. I remember being very excited to learn that our Sun has a pulse, of sorts for example. If all life has some degree of consciousness, what about death? Wouldn’t the bell curve of consciousness exist there too? And, if we agree with Russell, rhythmic balanced interchange between positive and negative is key.
You wrote, "The warp and woof of the great cobweb of existence seems indeed to imply a dualistic principal in conjunction with a Weaver and the All."
I cannot imagine that a weaver is needed to create the web, but rather that the mesh (oyster? collective consciousness?) is created by these two opposite forces within ourselves and, if we allow them to manifest, the web grows through that questionable reality of time.
Will there be "time no longer” one day?
I had a dream a long long time ago. I think it’s the oldest one that I remember. I was a member of a ship that was a short distance away from another ship. We would take turns diving with a lit torch, and swimming under water to light the other ship on fire. (Yes, I did realize at the same time that that action is not realistically possible but anyways … ) The targeted ship would sink, and then the reverse was done to our ship by one of their crew, and so on. At the end, I was running along the shore alone, although I think that there were a few others doing the same. It took me some time to more fully understand that dream.
I read R.D. Laing’s Knots ( http://www.oikos.org/knotsen1.htm )when I was in high school, so when I came across Neil Douglas-Klotz’ translation of the Lord’s Prayer from the original Aramaic ( http://www.songofhome.com/Klotz.htm ), it made more sense. I’ve posted a sample below, taken from the book Prayers Of The Cosmos:
6. Letting Go, Heartbeat by Heartbeat
Wahboqlan khaubayn (wakhtahayn) aykanna daph khnan shbwoqan
l'khayyabayn
(King James V version: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors)
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
as we release the strands we hold
of others' guilt.
Forgive our hidden past, the secret shames,
as we consistently forgive
what others hide.
Lighten our load of secret debts as
we relieve others of their
need to repay.
Erase the inner marks our failures make,
just as we scrub our hearts
of others' faults.
Absorb our frustrated hopes and dreams,
as we embrace those of others
with emptiness.
Untangle the knots within
so that we can mend our hearts'
simple ties to others.
Compost our inner, stolen fruit
as we forgive others the spoils of
their trespassing.
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
as we release the strands we hold
of others' guilt.
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And I can’t resist adding "Games People Play" by Joe South, which came out the same year as R. D. Laing’s Knots … 1969 - lyrics in the notes below the video (link below):
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