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I actually used this in a mind experiment while running. I imagined my run to be the finishing miles of the future marathon I am training for (to do a marathon at age 70). My focus was on two things: the mental energy sense behind/within the images and thoughts, and on the future. Result is...

Not sure what the experts in psychology say, but as one taught in the field and who practiced clinical psychology, I said in this post something to the effect that God is a projection of our mind (which stores human potential) and that we use this positive projection (pushed/projected outward...

I plan to read that book. Thanks for the recommendation. Never heard of it. Perhaps ideas from optimal psychology (“self-actualization” — Maslow? Or Erickson?) will meet those spiritual ideas and practices in the middle somewhere, converge. mind/Mind, in such a way that the “Other Side” and this...

Yes, If mind is allowed to go deep enough into its base and essence, the specific content (images, thoughts) become artifacts to Mind Itself. Can regular human mental habits allow that? No. But human minds do have the potential to transcend regular mental (thought-laden) processes. Our minds are...

Powessy, I find your take on ultimate (or overall) reality quite interesting. Above you said you believe that Mind is foreign to our being but has a symbiotic relationship with us. Then you say you believe we do have a soul (presumably not mind, and if not, what IS it!) and that it interfaces...

God’s creation (after awhile) of the prefrontal cortex is a neuropsychological tool for whole essence and integration. It helps with spiritual and growth. I can’t see such gifts as being irrelevant to God or the pursuit of alignment

At the moment the boulder is zooming towards me, I’ll continue to count it as real. Perhaps later, in meditation, I’ll see an advantage in it being an illusion. One other possibility however is that I learn to levitate objects during meditation, and can do so quickly enough to stop the boulder...

Thomas. I seem to lean more to a psychological perspective of how God works, with the assumption that God’s or Ultimate Really’s fingerprints are in the creation called the human mind that psychology and spiritual thought/theology sufficiently converge to work back and forth between each other...

Is this in line with Powessy’s “figuring its self out?” Something akin to the self’s immutable spirit or soul (or operating from deepest level of overall reality, from Brahman?) may facilitate Siddhi.

Powessy, I interpret your phrase “figuring itself out” as being the mind (chip off the old Block—Mind) taking the form of the less potent dimension. It is like catching a big fish with a lightweight fishing line. The mind has to reel the fish in gradually and oh so carefully. Because the limited...

Powessy, You seem to be in the philosophical Idealism camp with me, that Ultimate Reality must be something like mind as we experience our own minds to be, but at its deepest level as Mind that is bound to no thing, and is thus boundless. My stock worker theory of time, which sees time as the...

BTW, I call my overall approach to growing spiritually, “Depth-Dynamic Being”

Related to both the Christ envisioning exercise and the positive self-fulfilling prophecy concept, I made this comment in the post about death transcendence. It fits I well here also, since my mind is busy processing ideas from both threads (and real doesn’t care all that much from which...

I did a mind exercise while running yesterday. I imagined being at the base of physical being (the matter me), as though in continuous incarnation. Between the “God” or deep Unknown zone and the physical zone. Since it was my mind doing the imagining or autogenic visualization (feelings in there...

I agree with non-duality as more real than divided reality. But that does not mean that the lesser reality of divided matter is only an illusion. The boulder that is about to fall on one’s head is very real and the hard and heavy boulder is different and separate from the human at risk of being...

Author Diekman, in Rober Ornstein’s anthology , The Nature of Human Consciousness, postulated a “receptive mode,” in contrast to an “action mode.” Yes, being receptive could transcend regular conscious “mind/mentality”

You seem to use “figure itself out” as a positive thing, but being mysterious, beyond words and regular understanding may be spiritual and something worth bringing about intentionally so we don’t take our own existence and life for granted

Somewhere here you also emphasize non duality. Which would sacralize the mundane because it is attached to all that is. While this is an embrace of material environment, that unified field stretching out and connecting oneness mental activity of non dual seems to be more of an energy concept...

Whateverland When the mind goes deep to God or into the great unknown I know it will yield a harvest, but not sure where the plants are grown. Are they grown in a peaceful meadow that’s a hidden part of me? Or in vast plains that stretch across eternity? I place my bet on the...

Poem about the God function, regardless of it’s metaphysical status: Whateverland When the mind goes deep to God or into the great unknown I know it will yield a harvest, but not sure where the plants are grown. Are they grown in a peaceful meadow that’s a hidden part of me? Or in...