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Post by paul on Jul 20, 2013 8:33:22 GMT 9.5
So now that we know that the mind is a sense organ what sorts of uses can we put it to?
The mind is useful for detecting traffic problems that are out of sight.
It is also useful for detecting better times to do things. Put your attention to a future event e.g. a holiday. Visualise the event as an energy field and push it forward through time (day by day or month by month) until it feels a comfortable fit.
I did that recently for a pilgrimage around energy places and the first night turned out to be the solstice and as we sat under the stars below the energy line, the energy field reached down to us without any action on our part other than being available.
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Post by paul on Jul 21, 2013 14:25:56 GMT 9.5
Comets seem often to have heralded great events such as plagues.
""Comets are vile stars. Every time they appear in the south, they wipe out the old and establish the new. Fish grow sick, crops fail, Emperors and common people die, and men go to war. The people hate life and don't even want to speak of it." -Li Ch'un Feng, Director, Chinese Imperial Astronomical Bureau, 648, A.D."
In this case I do not get a sense of disease but would not be surprised if a significant government fell.
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Post by paul on Aug 5, 2013 7:33:39 GMT 9.5
An interesting exercise using the mind as a sense organ is when planning to plant some seeds for the garden.
Visualise pushing the seeds towards the planting bed, on each of the days of the coming week.
Is it easier to push the seeds there on some days more than others?
Why is it so?
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Post by LorrB on Aug 5, 2013 8:29:33 GMT 9.5
I know the answer to this one, and have used it in my own garden with great success.
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Post by paul on Aug 5, 2013 8:40:20 GMT 9.5
It may not be necessary to know all that stuff and more e.g. rainfall prospects. I expect that all we need to do is to feel if the seeds want to be planted on that day.
But I can see that farmers need to plan much further ahead than I do.
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Post by paul on Nov 10, 2013 7:53:55 GMT 9.5
I find that some propositions have feeling of solidity to them while others do not. I often use that in a short series of experiments to decide how to proceed. Here is one such experiment - to be spoken out loud: - Make a statement that you know to be true - Make a statement that you know to be false Can you tell the difference in the sense of solidity? Now make a statement that you are unsure of. Does it feel solid or not? It seems that no one was willing/able to make the experiment. Perhaps now is a good time.
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Post by paul on Nov 23, 2013 7:17:31 GMT 9.5
The energy of the phoenix is anchored particularly well in the Mallard duck - for example the blue and green in the male One of the curious things I have noticed is that literal statements are taken as symbolic and symbolic statements taken as literal. The mind, used as a sense organ, can be trained to distinguish the Real from the Unreal. As a trivial example, many years ago I used to walk a mile or more to the train station, often in significant warmth. I was always on a tight schedule and had to walk rather quickly. Now if I was a bit late, I would be in a sweat by the time I arrived at the station, and that was pointless if the train was a few minutes late. So I learned to use the mind as a sense organ. I would feel (visualise) along the up track to the previous station. If I felt a blockage then there was a train at that point. Thus I only walked at top speed when the train was on time. After I got the hang of it, I did not mis-take the situation over several years.
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Post by paul on Nov 27, 2013 7:15:39 GMT 9.5
I was speaking to a friend the other day and she asserted that she only thought in words. I doubt that is true.
Any offers?
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Post by LorrB on Nov 30, 2013 12:41:44 GMT 9.5
I have been experimenting with the above ... and I still don't know the answer. Seems to me to be a mixture of the two .. or even something different again.
Like standing both sides of a fence and sitting on it at the same time.
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Post by LorrB on Nov 30, 2013 12:43:36 GMT 9.5
Yes, Paul, what do you get over Comet C/2012 S1 To Come Close To Earth In 2013, Bringing Spectacular Sky Show www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/07/comet-c2012-s1-earth_n_1945462.html And is this part of the Kachinas of the Hopi Indian Prophecy, and one of the purifiers As this is supposedly {According to NASA} like less than 90 days for being brighter than the full moon in the sky!!!! Is this the one that did not survive the trip past the Sun?
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Post by paul on Nov 30, 2013 15:46:15 GMT 9.5
I have been experimenting with the above ... and I still don't know the answer. Seems to me to be a mixture of the two .. or even something different again. Like standing both sides of a fence and sitting on it at the same time. It was really a trick question. For example almost everyone can think about what they want to eat without forming words in their mind. The alternative is that it is impossible to think about things for which we do not have words. If so, do babies have any thoughts?
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Post by paul on Jan 6, 2014 19:02:07 GMT 9.5
My mail box is some little distance away and I find it useful to check for mail before going out to get it.
I put my visual attention inside the mail box and feel around for letters etc. I can normally feel if there is something filling up the space - generally detecting the approximate size and location of the object in the mail box.
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Post by LorrB on Jan 8, 2014 8:56:47 GMT 9.5
I can sense how people feel, despite the words they are using .. does that fall into this category?
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Post by paul on Jan 8, 2014 9:48:26 GMT 9.5
Generally feelings are considered to be emotional - in which case you are describing the emotional body as a sense organ.
On each plane of existence we can develop sense organs - if we have sufficient light body substance and can coordinate it.
The mind as a sense organ does not have the spatial or temporal limitations of the emotional body.
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Post by paul on Sept 9, 2014 15:02:17 GMT 9.5
Arguably all senses are actually products of the mind as seen with synesthetes who may experience qualities with the wrong sense organs (seeing sounds and hearing colours) Further, numbers may have a spatial context: "In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SynesthesiaThis suggests that the mind may have more properties than usually acknowledged. For example, when faced with options, can the mind sense the options that fit better into the future events? If so, the mind, when properly trained, would not need to rely on logic but could use sensate processes to verify propositions. I wonder if we have any experiences that might confirm that possibility. "I have grapheme-colour synaesthesia. Numbers, days, months and letters (and by extension, words) have their own very distinct shades. The examples above are my own: L could only ever be blue. This is the most common form of synaesthesia, and it wasn't until I was in my early twenties that I realised not everyone sees the world this way – indeed, the assertion that words have a certain colour can be met with sneering scepticism. Yet I simply know that Wednesday is dark green, for it always has and always will be. Talk to another synaesthete, however, and they’ll often disagree with you howlingly about the colour, or even the precise shade. One friend has tastes and textures as well as colours for words. While I find my synaesthesia has little impact on my day to day life, for her, it’s a curse as much as a blessing. There are words she can’t say without physically cringing" www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140904-i-see-songs-in-colour
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Post by paul on Sept 9, 2014 15:06:07 GMT 9.5
Painting with synaesthesia and original scene
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Post by paul on Mar 21, 2015 7:32:00 GMT 9.5
This thread is relevant to those doing the Flame in the Heart exercise - although the proposition that the mind is a sense organ is a bit confronting for some.
One of the subtexts in the exercise is practicing the sensory faculties of the mind. For example, feeling when the light moves easily or not through parts of the body.
Later the same skills can be applied on different planes and subplanes
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Post by paul on Jan 5, 2016 14:22:29 GMT 9.5
I bought a secondhand bike the other day and spent some time cleaning adjusting and repairing.
A couple of days later I thought about the bike and immediately tasted oil. That happens each time I think about that bike. (I put a lot of oil through the chain cleaning out the grit)
Then I thought about apple and immediately had a sharp apple taste on either side of the tongue at the back.
Just now I thought about a printed book and immediately had a slightly dusty smell of paper.
Is that just me?
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Post by paul on May 4, 2021 12:08:37 GMT 9.5
This is a reasonable thread for the following experience.
I was meditating and usually I first check in with a female advisor recently provided from afar. So I looked at her and she gave me an image of swapping places with her. So I did and looked at myself using her "eyes".
I saw in front of my pelvis a hemispherical arch coming outward from a narrow base. When I measured its density it was 7.1 - highest of the physical etheric. The density was a surprise.
So I looked around at local humans and they generally have something similar - but quite elongated, like a circular pipe about 2 feet in diameter with the bottom half of the circle missing.
From looking at younger and older humans I concluded that the length of the energy structure indicates a greater focus on sexual/sacral energy in relationships - as if the easiest way to relate were to approach under the pipe.
So I have sorted out mine and only the pattern remains with the etheric substance released.
My advisor seems pleased, coming somewhat closer.
I wonder what other improvements she has in mind. As I type that she indicates a not-too-bright cube of energy near my head. I shall investigate.
Update: I looked at the cube and resolved it. I noticed that before, when I looked at humans from different racial groups I was looking at their cultural background as a source of identity. Now it seems that I look to see from what spiritual source they come. The racial background now seems superficial in some cases - as if their identity arose before the racial groups
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Post by paul on May 5, 2021 5:53:32 GMT 9.5
By racial I mean classifications such as: black, brown, yellow and white. There are of course many other ways of distinguishing human groups by race.
It seems that the spiritual origin of individual humans is more important than their cultural group - for me at least
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