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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-281
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Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
Knowledge is not transported like material artefacts between noetic beings; it clearly jumps right across at times, and in fact this doesn’t necessarily involve encounters with another Thou, whether actually present or by means of media like letters, books, or obscure online fora.
This is a very tricky topic to discuss. Any serious analysis must question what exactly ‘knowledge’ is supposed to mean, and how it does come about, and doing that leads quite literally to the rim of the known universe, where apparently simple terms and notions cease to make sense. I’ll thence not try to embark on a deep dive but shall be content with some very brief sketches of the phenomenon at hand. However, readers of obscure online fora will rightly be not, so let me apologize to you for any inconvenience here.
The most striking example I am aware of concerns crystal formation. Crystals are thought of as regular lattices of atoms (or complexes of those), but in reality things are a bit less neat and tidy. Go visit a mineralogical museum if you happen to find one; I think most universities with a geo branch would have at least some kind of collection which you can study. These things are strikingly beautiful and strangely touching for some, so it’s worth keeping in mind what Plotin said about stones – that they experience yearning, too.
As things stand, I have to interrupt myself at this point for a freak anecdote that is still right on the matter. I learned about the idea that stones experience yearning some ten years ago, when it was first revealed to me in a dream which I had while asleep on a mild dose of LSD. The situation resembled what some people describe as alien abduction, though for me it clearly came in a dream state. A friend was with me at the time, and she woke me from it as I was trembling uncomfortably; my experience however was very non-scary. Half jokingly, two aliens invited me over for a chat on their spaceship to share this insight with me, in stating that “See! the creatures, the plants, and the stones have it too, but they are lacking your language to express themselves through”.
I was a bit stunned, but also impressed by the very idea, which would have seemed beyond far-fetched to me before. As it went, the thought turned out to be a major opening into later conceptual developments for me, and those about me as well. I only recently learned that Plotin had written the very same thing; it’s in Ennead 3.8 if memory serves, where it is the very first sentence.
As I should add, such instances of helpful ideas suddenly appearing either out of nowhere or related by some kind of helpful beings are not rare or unusual when speaking in terms of parapsychology. As is Jungian synchronicity upon closer and open-minded inspection, we’re seeing it right on this thread in spades.
But back to the crystal lattices now. They form under certain conditions such as pressure and temperature with a specific likelihood, underlying a statistic process which can be computed to some degree by chemists and observed in a laboratory, where the ease of forming a lettuce lattice shows as speed of growth. Material sciences does this kind of research a lot. Now the strange thing is that some types of crystals, which are grown in labs under conditions that are alien to the natural universe, exhibit rates of growth which are non-steady, but accelerating. It doesn’t matter which lab where on the planet at what time (in the future) repeats the experiment for the effect to show.
The nearest idea of what’s happening I can think of is that some kind of platonic notions are coming into being as the crystal grows, and henceforth will float about in the collective subconscious, to which apparently all noetic beings are having access, the stones among them. At the same time, future repetition of these experiments does exhibit the so-called decline effect, which is encountered throughout in psy research (but not yet understood).
Now let’s take that notion and see where it gets us. Inventor’s gatherings are notorious for instances of jumping, I hear. Milder forms of immaterial transmission are very much common, but often overlooked; it appears in footballing teams, jazz bands, and when you’re walking a dog. It’s happening when learning a language, and there are quite a few reports of people with neurological damage who suddenly speak in a different language, without ever having acquired it at all. Many scientific inventions came to the studious folks of a sudden, and among mathematicians of all people it is almost trivial to find novel ideas and insights hitting home when you would normally least expect them, especially when the mind is in a relaxed state, often when doing things like housework or brushing teeth. Robert Monroe, of Chicago, who invented binaural meditation, gave courses on how you can learn to better tap ‘Source’ for helpful ideas, irrespective of your field of interest; it works just as well in, say, business administration. I have no reason to expect you somehow need Mr. Monroe’s courses to achieve success, I saw it working out on myself without much methodical training, simply by … yeah, it’s hard to formulate, but I liken it to training one’s antennas, to receive what you order from Source, almost as you would order something from Amazon. And they deliver.
It is, however, remarkable and worth pointing out that we also forget, or find ourselves being forgetful (to make use of the english language advantage in expressing this thought). This is, on a very foundational level, not an accident or a shortcoming, but a feature (rather than a ‘bug’). That opens another question of course, but I wanted to just add it here in light of the above discussion.
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 24 2024 23:50 utc | 49
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