posted on Apr, 29 2018 @ 11:06 PM
I am a believer that the mind is able to produce effects in physical reality through nothing but a sense of continuity between itself and the world.
This effect is mediated through the energetic experience of 'awe' that forms between the organism and the world. The affective state engenders a
phase-shift into a mode of being where the mind can learn to manipulate matter itself. Indeed, it is not a coincidence that we call the physical world
"matter", and that "to matter", means to "mean something". When something becomes significant, for whatever reason that we can discover, whether that
be the shape of physical space or the way that our minds experience itself in relation to an external reality filled with meanings, both the particle,
the atom, the molecule, the cell, the tissue, on up, 'matters' at the ontological scale, according to the particular geometrical logic, rotational
symmetries, and entrainment to higher scale events - such as the "effect of being known" in an interpersonal interaction - these are all things that
matter, and so becomes 'real'.
That said, "spirits", etc, appear to be elements of our own unconscious that uses our own brain-mind to communicate its stereotypical nonsense with
us. We waste our times bothering with these 'memes'; it is not just vain, it is lame: there is nothing of actual value in these relationships. These
'contents' all have an 'entropy' value, or a 'left handed' gravitational wave like function as its dynamism, which probably explains the way materials
can be coherently organized to 'bring about an effect' i.e. for the 'spirit'.
Evidently, our human minds lie at the interface between an 'extended realm' i.e. the physical world, and a 'potential realm', where past structures
that have 'passed through' our ancestors biology can be recruited in experience, or even 'contacted' in a purely probablistic way through
'channeling'.
To be clear, and to demythologize this language I'm using: the human brain-mind evolved with reference to a semiotically 'known' external world. It is
apparent that by the time Chimpanzees pass into australopithecus, that beyond this 'bottleneck', probably around the discovery of fire with Homo
Erectus around 2 to 1.5 million years ago, that 'existential feelings' begin to inform the perceptual and cognitive experience of a creature on Earth.
This constitutes a phase shift into a higher ontology. What 'matters' now can be explicitly articulated in consciousness, and over time, a
communication system between members of the species can positively reinforce the way existential perceptions are culturally processed through
language, and later on, with ritual.
Because of this, do not lower yourself to bother with what appears to be the human self 'giving over' executive control of his brain and functioning
to 'the other' - all for what? To prove that magic is real?
On the other hand (this being a different feeling I have), if you can get practical knowledge without being forced to 'do' anything in return (such as
ritual murder), then I don't see why one shouldn't do it. Indeed, 'knowing' reality should be something that comes naturally, and 'spirits' shouldn't
be experienced as anything other than those naturally emergent 'mediating' structures that bind our awareness to reality at various different
ontological scales.
There is always some 'qualia' to which the spirit is associated with, and hence, is 'archetypal' in that it, like all other 'spirits', constitute a
thermodynamic 'sink' that 'gurgles', as it were, from the gravitational waves in the quantum vacuum, to which the human conscious mind can 'form a
continuum' with by focusing on the pertinent archetypal 'object'.
There is thus a great deal of 'demythologization' required to change the way how humans relate to these phenomenon, and most importantly, to help
humans understand that immoral behavior vis-a-vis spirits is spiritual suicide, for the simple reason that they are nothing but 'hubs' which drink the
energy we pour into it; and from whence does that energy actually come - from where does it 'matter'? From recognition dynamics with positive others,
what psychodynamic psychology calls 'self-objects'. This is like taking an 'angelic' energy deriving from the inherent symmetry and complementarity
dynamics of human mentality, and giving it over to 'another side', which is just an energy guzzling entropy process without the capacity to release
energy in the world - just to take from the natural dynamics of human self-organization.
That said, the Dalai Lama is not as gullible as you present him in this piece. He may see the channeling process as having some scientific merit, but
I doubt he relates to it in the way that others are prone to do i.e. as outside the chain of biodynamical causality.
If you've read his works, he's pretty commited to physics based, neuroscientific and psychodynamic developmental research into the way the human self
works.