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Yes, I like your use of the phrase “different state of mind.” I once had a dream of my spirit carrying my own decapitated head around. Some here seem to call the spirit different than the mind (as symbolized by the head in the dream?) but I like the notion that it is as you indicated a...

To me, accessibility and presence are functionally equivalent, and function is all we have to work with as physical beings who are of a different surface form than what lies deep within. The God function creates exotropy or neg-tropy in the midst of a reality prone to entropy.

I know we are guessing about metaphysics, but my best guess is that mind is a different dimension within the physical dimension, and as such is a portal to the “other side” that can be reached by going deep within directly, or indirectly by reclaiming a mental projection of the deeper dimension...

Yes. I’m okay with the notion of a kind of other within, as long as we believe the mind can go there and use that information and energy. It seems to me, as I have said repeatedly in various dialogues here, that self and other make no sense deep within consciousness. I think there is a substrate...

And what a divided world we create when we sit around and wait for saviors. What a waste to not use the very tool God gave us to unlock potential for growth and healing. The external locus of control has not served us all that well. If God is good, and power is secondary to that goodness, then...

I continue to be plagued by a semantics issue when it comes to my use of the word “mind.” I blame it on psychology that I studied. Psychology does not limit “mind” to conscious mental activities. Perception, including emotional experiences (the “heart”) and all kinds of physical regulation...

If mind senses what God reveals, then in my book (my way of seeing) God is at least in THAT mind. The mind has some characteristic that allows for the revelation. That CHARACTERISTIC is in mind. And if it is a doorway for God, unless God is a relative recluse and doesn’t visit many minds, then...

See. That left me scratching my head, willing to see how that works according to Thomas’ reasoning. So at least there is room for dialogue about that. If explained before, I either didn’t understand or I’ve forgotten. My guess is that you believe God transcends but includes mind. Whereas you...

The many Gods branch of Hinduism is probably also caused by thinking in terms of discrete physical objects (what I call “thinking like matter”). Different functions related to different modes of energy or different “frequencies” are identified as separate Gods instead of understanding that they...

I think that (about Hinduism) is true because it thinks like energy (that is, in terms of energy flows and fields, both of which are far more overlapping and interconnected than logic based on matter than tends to inhabit stand alone objects that have what Whitehead called “simple location.” The...

I agree with that statement. Minds merge at their deepest level. And yes, duality has to go when or if mind senses a reality we call God. I’m not sure you and I are as on different pages as we appear to be. I think the human mind is a chip off the old Universal Mind Block. Our only difference...

True. But the mind PERCEIVES, senses, that which is beyond conceptualization. It’s still the mind that senses God, and that’s all we have. Anything else is to anthropomorphize by projecting a category of otherness—something that human beings in relationship with each other and with classical...

If a laptop computer accesses the Cloud while doing its computing, I consider that the computer’s potential, not just the cloud’s. The computer is my only way of utilizing the Cloud. Whether there is something outside of mind (the computer) is irrelevant as long as mind (the computer) is my only...

Maybe we have a semantics issue? I think that anything sensed at a deeper level than conscious mental activity, and even deeper than the activity experienced during sleep/dreaming is still what I call mind, albeit a much deeper and purer level of mind that I would not be opposed to calling Mind...

God’s grace is traditionally thought of as forgiving us of our sins. If sins are related to “missing the mark” morally and spiritually (stunted growth), then forgiveness seems related help, as a teacher or coach would help a student or player learn to better hit the marks/goals of whatever...

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...