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Originally posted by Netties Hermit
Eh - just saw that ^ above.
My post will get lost in all that. That's ok. I'm kinda done-for anyway.
Just wanted people to appreciate the work that has been done by the OP.
Cause really, for myself, I don't care about the 'physics' of "God" rather than what it means for ME.
Which is a human trait afterall isnt it.
Originally posted by ImaFungi
reply to post by NorEaster
Do you think there is no greater collection of consciousness/knowledge/awareness/understanding of reality then humans on earth?,. if so, how can you say there are not ways consciousness can be much greater? that can come up with the idea of molecules/elements/light/patterns, color, basically I believe there is no sufficient excuse to think a human can understand the universe how/why/what it truly is, thus far
that is not to say a human or conscious identity cannot feel right at home and think life quite neato.
I also think the strangeness of the physical universe can be looked at as a whole separate case
then biological life, the reasons why and possibilities of knowing how and what life is, are also
impossible, thus far, but it seems to be a highly complex and sophisticated system, a stem of seedling ideas, evolve into all biological plant and animal, each successor created by luck, chance, faith and hard work, brought into this world by seed and nourished to a knower of the land, to act out a battle royal for sustaining ones own, and ones others energy,
i think any full belief in a continuation of a personal soul identity is nothing more then a hope, if God is good he'd let you be apart of reality again,
Originally posted by trekwebmaster
What you've just described in rather scientific terms is what a person experiences when they "awaken," either as an "image" of God (Christed,) if secular, or "Being One With The Creator," if not.
Amazing isn't it? Imagine a Perfect Image unconditionally duplicating itself (knowing that Before, none of any life-form ever conceived of would ever exist, if it didn't.)
Being that we are "images," Beholding the "Image."
Many Blessings,
Trek
Originally posted by Netties Hermit
reply to post by NorEaster
Incapable of true and factual discernment, the PCH perceives this overwhelmingly familiar manifestation and immediately recognizes what it knows/suspects about itself reflecting back, as it peers deeper and studies what exists before it. It "sees" that this wondrous entity seems to radiate with intelligence, humanity, limitless patience and a fully realized wisdom tempered with what must be pure compassion...
For the secularly inclined PCH, this segment of the Informational Continuum will most likely be viewed as being God. For the non-secularly inclined PCH, it will be viewed as being whatever that PCH allows it to be - The Universal Consciousness, The All, The Great Spirit, or whatever fits
Holy cow. This is finally sinking in after months of studying it.
I'm almost ... proud of myself.
I only have one question at this stage NE, and then hopefully I can build on from there ... that is ... if you come back.
Do you think it possible with an encounter between the PCH and The Residual, that the latter can acknowledge the PCH? However brief that acknowledgement may be?
Note: I do think it is possible that a particular PCH encountering the IC will NOT see it as "a conscious and dynamic intelligent supreme being" but just rather something that "is".
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by NorEaster
There is no law against believing what you wish to believe but there is no choice either, if it is believed then to you it is believed to be true.
However, if the 'truth' is known there is no more confusion.
There is great peace in that.
Originally posted by Xtraeme
reply to post by NorEaster
Well if you're looking for people to rip your book apart rather than providing critical feedback that isn't hard. I'm glad you're at least willing to admit, "Especially since the "headline" itself - and the overwhelming implications of that "headline" - was not even mentioned. If he'd read it, he would've led off with that bit of controversy." This is why I attempted to gently comment, "[Post-corporeal Human Consciousness] can be translated into the notion that self-awareness and human consciousness is separate from identity. Identity is something that's built based on experiences in an environment ... it doesn't tell us anything about the nature of something more grandiose like the concept of god or God."
Definitely if he'd wanted to school me by way of a detailed analysis of what my premise asserts.
I personally prefer constructive dialogue. I wasn't trying to "school" you on anything. Reading many of your comments it appears in most situations you prefer to brawl. So when you pout and wonder aloud, "Maybe this isn't the right community to bring this premise to? It presents itself as a gathering place of people seeking new breakthrough information, but as much as I try to see anything progressive in the majority of posters here, it's become fairly impossible to view anyone here as being open to anything new or revolutionary." Perhaps you should consider most people don't enjoy engaging with a person who has a confrontational attitude and an inability to think outside their own somewhat ludicrous zoo of acronyms. Heck you yourself admit on page 128, "Lets face it using the term human being - with all the subtle implications it could impose - would do nothing to keep the waters clear as we moved ahead. Just keep in mind that you are HTEC, or actually, your brain and corporeal body are HTEC, where as the real you is the Intellect that HTEC (your HTEC) generates." So what did we gain with this acronym? Not much.
Originally posted by NorEaster
The 1st assumption definitely runs into a buzzsaw when one considers the existential protocols that would be required to instantly reconfigure the entire intellectual structure of the person that's just finished the life-long effort of crafting its unique Identity, in order to imbue that person with the require correction to their inevitable ignorance concerning the true nature of reality. And it's not even the instant reconfiguration of a lifetime of erroneous assumptions that is most troublesome, it's the violation of the primordial survival imperative "Identity" that causes the most trouble with this notion. In essence, the individual is - once the body has been removed from the balance of contributing factors - what that individual has established as the way he/she views reality and his/her place within that reality. Learning is one thing, but a complete scrubbing and reloading of that level of holistic perspective is akin to eliminating the individual that was created and replacing it with one that doesn't see anything from the same perspective.
As for your spirit guide - given that such a guide exists, of course - I do know exactly who and what that guide is, and why it hangs around with you. Your guide was a corporeal human at one point, and he/she passed into the eternal realm with the same informational limitations as we all do. That guide knows what it knows to be true, but that's all your guide knows. Not all of it is true, but not all of it isn't. The tough part is determining which of it is true and which of it isn't.
I'm going to share something with you that I've discovered, and until now have only alluded to. I'm doing this for no reason other than I feel it's important to reveal
Originally posted by Xtraeme
reply to post by NorEaster
The truth is that I didn't recognize any of what he described.
I was simply trying to share that it might be easier to get some of your concepts across by analogy, and to also impart that your OP leads most people to believe that God is the full informational continuum as an undifferentiated totality and that's that ‒ end of story (somewhat mimicking your allegory of the C# note in the greater symphony).
This is problematic in that the majority of people believe in a personal God with positive characteristics, being all loving, all powerful, all knowing, and so on and so forth. Obviously the qualities vary by culture, but that's why I mentioned the Greek pantheon. Axioms of "God" as an all powerful personal entity are held by most people to be as implicitly true, yet you never bother to address these beliefs. This why you're seeing contrary remarks. You won't get past the average person staring at you blankly (or angrily) till you address other peoples underlying assumptions.
I'm wondering if he might've confused my book with someone else's book.
If you need a refresher on my original comments. Here's the original feedback:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by 1littlewolf
In response to your critique to Darkblade’s spirit guide insights, I believe that if I were to pass over from this current physical existence and was 'flushed' with all knowledge of the truth concerning the nature of physical (or indeed the totality of) reality then any 'erroneous assumptions' which I had built up over my brief time spent on the physical plane would be quite easy to let go of. People have complete 180's in their worldview all the time without dying. These assumptions are not your identity. As a father/grandfather (having read some of your prior posts) I am sure you are aware of how much personality one has even hours after being born onto this physical plane. If one were to continue on has an individual consciousness without a physical form then I see no reason that they could not continue to do so with this all encompassing knowledge but yet remain as a separate identity.
If one were to be reincarnated back to the physical plane then this all encompassing knowledge would I believe only serve as a hindrance.
I am also curious to know why you believe such guides would once have had to existed as corporeal humans? I do not think it is so far-fetched that an intelligent enitity could exist without ever having a physical form.
Originally posted by grey580
reply to post by NorEaster
Ack! I've been having the sneaking suspicion that when I'm done here I'm going to be working in the after life lately.
Your post kind of drives that suspicion home.
And it makes me nervous.
I have the fear the work to be done won't be pretty.
Originally posted by 1littlewolf
Finally to echo many of the posters here many of your well thought out concepts are completely mind blowing. But this is only partially due to the content. I'm not an idiot, but I find myself having to re-read everything you post 4 or 5 times before I can fully grasp it.
I'm going to share something with you that I've discovered, and until now have only alluded to. I'm doing this for no reason other than I feel it's important to reveal
I'm not that old and have only begun to look into any of this in any depth. As Netties Hermit said you are the kind of poster I come here to learn from. But if your message is as important as you state then I do not see why you find it necessary to complexity it to the point where it can often be incomprehensible. I do not have a problem with you being a cynical old bastard, that's part of your charm. But I think you may well have a lot more fans and meaningful dialect with others if you simplified the language you used to convey your ideas.
I mean honestly what is the point of doing years of research, and writing lengthy posts, indeed sharing any of what you know if it simply flies over the heads of all those who try to read it? To quote Toad (who I notice you don't have much time for )
"Anyone can complicate a given subject, but true genius is in simplifying to its basic form."
And I do believe your insights border on genius. But as it stands I don't think many will ever know.....
Tommy coughed and waved his hand against the cloud of Winston non-filter. He was a lot of things that ran proper Catholics to their rosaries for divine protection, but one thing he wasn’t – he wasn’t a smoker. Something in his childhood maybe. Probably how his old man used to smoke while he beat him. That smoldering square perched to the left of his tight grimace as the bastard had sent those inner demons through his fists and into the oldest of the toxic brood he'd left to the world. It'd been what it took for the guy to get a shot at sleeping off the drunk he'd wandered into that evening, and even now Tommy felt that old pain whenever Phil exhaled his poison at him. Phil knew it, and Tommy knew that Phil knew it. And Phil knew that Tommy knew that he knew it. The two had a complicated relationship.
Originally posted by NorEaster
reply to post by Americanist
Duly noted. Not sure what you're suggesting, but I've noted it nonetheless. The brain is not the mind, even though the brain physically generates the unit bursts of intellect that gather as the mind. Beyond that basic statement, I have nothing to say in response to what you've posted here. It simply doesn't apply to the subject at hand.
Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis and describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities (known as alters or parts), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.
If what we know of existence was initiated by an intelligent mind, then that mind does not, and cannot, physically exists within the confines of that which it initiated.
Originally posted by Hootsmanwheresmaheid
reply to post by NorEaster
Absolute Tripe! God isn't self aware? Garbage!!!