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originally posted by: NobodySpecial268
a reply to: Terpene
ETA: Just thinking now. The title of the thread is: The Collective Unconscious and The Doomsday Conspiracy.
This assumes a collective unconscious.
Does such a thing exist?
And is it unconscious?
In any case, what would be the best way to avoid these negative thought outcomes
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: CloneFarm1000
Mental concepts are idols......
It is said that 'no idols should be made'.
Can it be noticed that you have made an idol of yourself?
In scripture, they are referred to as powers & principalities, and they can be erected by mass will, they can be torn down by the power of prayer. If left unobstructed, they can cause immense harm to human beings.
The realm of science is rife with semantic problems. Here, Freud and Jung force us to make a distinction between the "unconscious mind"(can't we call it the subconscious? let's do that instead) and unconsciousness(meaning without consciousness).
I would venture to say that the subconscious is not so passive as we all have repressed memories of trauma and mundane experience alike, and these repressions do affect our behavior and random thought clutter and ideology, the degree to which is dependent on the level of awareness of ourselves we are able to afford. Meditation is an exercise to rein in the subconscious so it doesn't cause us so much problem in our conscious experience.
I would certainly suggest our organs and cells have a nonclinical consciousness a kidney can not reason, but it does for sure communicate with the rest of the body via nerve signal and endocrine, and it's not one way communication. People have developed complete control over such organs, like commanding the heart to beat,
or reversing the action of the digestive system.
I think the distinction is vague already, and mostly applicable to human consciousness. I would also postulate that it's more of an awareness thing than we being "un"conscious.
The, let's call it tulpa, does not seem to have this layered access to it's consciousness. It seems to be comprised of all the consciousness actively maintaining it.
I can not make out any individualistic consciousness that would define the whole as an individual, some seem to have an awareness about their Form, like a membrane defining the container for the diffrent human consciousness.
Some get imprinted by individual humans more and can even adapt the personality to the point where it appears to have an individual consciousness.
Then again, if I create a tulpa of my self, i can't make out any diffrence to my consciousness.
A thought form double? Or something that is "ensouled" by a foriegn desire?
In scripture, they are referred to as powers & principalities, and they can be erected by mass will, they can be torn down by the power of prayer. If left unobstructed, they can cause immense harm to human beings.
Interesting concepts.
These ganzfeld studies indicate that an altered state of consciousness may be supportive of telepathic receptivity, and perhaps of paranormal experiences in general. As psychedelics are known for inducing powerful alterations in consciousness, with effects that include increases in mental imagery, empathy, alertness, awareness, attention, spontaneity, suggestibility, openness, intuitive thinking, and emotional flexibility (see review in Luke, 2012), there is reason to believe that the psychedelic state could be conducive of telepathic experience. Neuropharmacological research has demonstrated that, perhaps counterintuitively, these psychedelics-induced alterations in consciousness correlate with general decreases in brain activity (CarhartHarris et al., 2012), while also increasing the number of long-range
cortical connections (Petri et al., 2014).
Thus, a human brain affected by classical psychedelics will be both relatively quieter and more integrated, with an increase in topologically long-range functional connections. Carhart-Harris et al. regarded their finding of a psilocybin-induced decrease in overall brain activity as being consistent with the reducing valve model of the brain that Aldous Huxley (1954/1994) developed on the basis of Henri Bergson’s work (1896/1990), which posits that the brain has an active altering mechanism constraining our experience of the world to that which has value for immediate survival. The
observed reduction in brain activity during psychedelic influence may therefore involve a reduction also in filtering activity, enabling a state of unconstrained cognition that is perhaps beneficial for experiences of telepathy and other psi phenomena.
So it would appear that we don't have to be in an unconscious state or any state, only that the brain filter needs to calm down significantly.