GENIUS FORUMS

ChaoticMelody wrote:But I backup my arguements with Logical proof.

Christians use only fools proof... Circular logic

Their ignorance is ridiculous..... Despite mans evolution to what we are today, You still get people who prefer to live in the stone age.

What occured, in essence, was that Jane's everyday self stepped aside and her greater psyche, or consciousness, connected in some way to the world view held by William James. James was then able, in his rather formal yet open manner, to talk about his life in the twentieth century and what his life is like now, after supposed death.

James doesn't discover univeral laws upon his death, tenets chiseled in clouds awaiting human organization to preserve them. What he does find is a complex interaction of very much alive consciousness exploring its potential. Although by nature James is a philosopher, his observations are not philosophically obtuse. He describes the conditions of his existence, and his perceptions and understandings with an equal sense of serious consideration and self-directed humor. And by so doing, we discover the answers to questions most of humanity thinks unanswerable until after death, if then.

Take God, for example. James says, "Nowhere have I encountered the furnishings of a conventional heaven, or glimpsed the face of God. On the other hand, certainly I dwell in a psychological heaven by earth's standards, for everywhere I sense a presence, or atmosphere, or atmospheric presence that is well-intentioned, gentle yet powerful, and all-knowing. This seems to be a psychological presence of such stunning parts, however, that I can point to no one place and identify it as being there in contrast to being someplace else. At the risk of undertating, this presence seems more like a loving condition that permeates existence, and from which all existence springs...All theological and intellectual theories are beside the point in the reality of this phenomenon."

That refreshing description of God starts James' trek through a discussion of this atmospheric presence, or loving conditoin, or intelligent light, and whta it means to experience it. He says he knows that form this presense comes everything, that it forms itself into you and me, and James and others like him, not of the earth. All personalities emerge from it yet remain a part of it. "It is as if the universe were a mulidimensional cloth with infinite patters, and figures which did not remain flat but sprang alive, lived, moved, and died and came alive again, while the fabric of which they were made never wore out but miraculously revitalized itself and rewove its parts."

Does God have human emotions? Not as such, according to James, yet its nature is on e of exuberance and its basis is loving intent. It holds withing itself what James calls a "well-intentioned quality" that makes him feel completely safe no matter what the conditions of his immedieate experience. In trying to grasp the deeper significance of the atmospheric presence, James says it is not an entity, for it is everywhere at once, at every hypothetical point in the universe, yet it is still aware and responsive. He feels sure it "possesses a psychology far divocesed from any with which I have ever been acquainted..."

These characteristics of All That Is suggest a sensitve, thinking being or field of consciousness. That is not to say that All That Is thinksa nd feels in the same manner as its human offspring, which it graces with mind, the ability to analyze and the means to translate interpretations into feelings. All That Is doesn't need such machinations; its methods of psychological manuipulation are far greater that that.

A "psychological growing medium" is how James descirbes All That Is. He says the atmospheric presence seems to promote psychic growth "to the most advantageous degree," and in general creates the conditions most conducive to psychological expansion by consciousness, especially the sense of freedom. All of the qualities necessary for the creation and sustenance of life are found in the atmospheric--but that's no big surprise, is it?

Perhaps this quote of James sums up or rounds out a definition of All That Is that many of us have felt, but never put to words: "I theorize at times that it is the combined consciousness of the entire universe by whatever description, existing within all consciousness, yet apart. At the same time, I am sure that more is invovled. Nevertheless, in this (intelligent) light the conditions of existence are the most supportive and encouraging imaginable."

I am always suspicious of one who begins a thread with his first post. It is like a house guest who fails to wipe his feet when first coming through the door. Just an observation: usually this portends a short visit

HYPNOSIS wrote:Ketek,

Is Totality reduced?

A dictionary has the features of an God and can also be duplicated. Wherein, sums up the theory of Creationism in one single definition...While the entirety of earth is unpredictable, a God-like character in the making is entirely impossible-