An atheist is one who does not believe in God, or believes in inaccurate knowledge about God

David Chalmers on Consciousness

That extra-ingredient is an infinitismal point of energy, which is responsible for consciousness phenomenon. This is a reality that is ignored by scientific pursuit.

There has been a major belief in Scientific community that the consciousness is a derivative of biological/neurological process. So they keep investigating these processes. But they don't address as David pointed out why consciousness.

I have been following David from 1995. But from 1990, I was fascinated by the idea of consciousness as a non materialistic phenomenon due to an infinitismal point of energy. When consciousness is manifested, we experience mind, intellect, and memories, talents, etc.

This might be unthinkable for all those who believe in E = mc**2. This seems to be one major error, courtesy Einstein.
Why is that all energy is to do with matter? That is big assumption.

I liked David addressing the issue of consciousness as an exra ingredient.

The science of consciousness

The hard problem of consciousness

Evolution or no evolution, the Reality is energy in different patterns of manifestations.

God is not the creator of the energy of the Reality. He is just one pattern of energy. That pattern is a phenomenon of consciousness. That is the reason, He is a point of energy, which is also called Supreme Soul. Not that universal sky that pervades the cosmos.

The mind holds onto its creations.

I am not referring to the ownership issues here. When you watch your neighbour's car, you may fail to see four things. Your neighbour, the car, and his relation to it. And the fourth one is the observer of these three.

All these four things are also a creation of your mind.

Now it is interesting to notice the observer's feelings. He may be a just witness of these three. Or he may have a feeling of competition since his car is small. Or he may feel good about himself since the neighbor's car is smaller than his.

And the value system is also a creation of the mind. In other words, what makes the mind uncreative and dull are its creations.

Any thing that you observe is recreated in the mind.

The experiencer and experienced are also the creations of the mind.

The experiencer and experienced are also the creations of the mind.

Both the observer and observed in the mind are creations of the mind.

Our sorrow is due to our attachment with the creations of our mind

The role of God is to liberate or lead us out of our sorrow.

Both Science and Traditional religion have failed to recognize God as He is.

God is not above the Reality but is a part of it.

Truth is not shaped by God. It is an aspect of our awareness about Reality, with visible and invisible mechanisms in it.

God's personality is only an example of perfection. Our job is to realize it to lead us as an example.

What I learnt from God is to be Myself.

We need purity of the mind which is quietly unperturbed by situations

Justice or injustice is a limited way of seeing things through.

The truth or The Truth does not need justice as it Reality takes care of everything on its own.

The pursuit of truth is not for the sake of right or wrong. But for the exploration of the cognitive aspects of our identity in its conditioning.

Nothing is given, but created by the mind

We are conscious about things in certain relationship with it. That is trained conditioning through the language. So we live in a world that is out of the creation of the mind from its trappings in the cultural conditioning.

There is a way to beat all of it and enjoy yourself quietly without any noice.

We need to have a vision, and goals to direct our actions.

Tiredness is to do with body consciousness.

Depression is to do with body consciousness

Fear is to do with body consciousness.

All habits of thinking are rooted in body consciousness.

New awareness matches with the new Knowledge that the self is a point energy being.

The great and subtle intellectual exercise is in changing the consciousness to the new one (point awareness).

Meditation is an exercise to switch consciousness from body to soul(point) awareness

The mechanics of cognition are different in body consciousness and soul consciousness

You can be an observer in soul consciousness. You view self as a point being

You are usually an observer with body consciousness. But can be also an observer without body consciousness.

Ethics prescribe the rules of giving and taking.

Your goodness can be beyond the ethics

Ethics limits your goodness.

Transcendence cant be a goal in itself

The skill to transcend meanings is a way to clean up the mind of negativities.

Transcedence can be an achievement. But not all our achievements need not be transcendental.

To reduce wastage of time, we need ensure every moment contributes to our goals.

We need to move away from unporductive ways of spending time

For a long time, I have ignored the pursuit of goals, due to my main interest in the pursuit of knowing Reality as it is without any distortions

We need to constantly visualize our goals, and the ways of achieving them

The limitation is in our goals, and their realisation.

Goals and their compatibility with the reality needs to be achieved.

For any achievement, planning is needed.

Goals can have a structure and parts. These need to be explored and planned.

The subtle body consciousness can be consciously reduced

Here is the place you need the technique of meditation based on soul or point consciousness that helps.

The subtlebody consciousness behind positive and negative moods is to do with hope or no hope; faith or no faith.

Positive thoughts are also to do with subtle body consciousness.

Change to a positive mood by withdrawing froom subtle body consciousness which is behind tiredness, defeat, fear, depression, anxiety, hopelessness etc

Goals and objectives shall link to the ultimate Truth about the Reality

Pursuit of Truth about Reality shall link to goals and objectives in life

Reality is a big play between organic matter, inorganic matter and consciousness phenomena

Organic life is also a wonderful manifestation of energy.

Matter is a wonderful manifestation of energy.

The intent of science/rationaliy is to ignore what is not measurable or demonstrable.

Its bogus and naive to claim that God created everything.

Engergy is eternal. Its patterns of manifestation are also eternal. Living cell is a one complex and eternal pattern of energy

These days, some talk about Electric Sun

I love Wittgenstein's early work on relations of Language and Meaning

Consciousness is a pattern of energy manifestation

Energy of the Reality has different patterns of manifestation

If there is a beginning like Big-Bang, what about before that beginning

Equating God to all energy of the Reality is a blunder

You are a consciousness phenomenon, and so also God

God is a part of the Reality

Respect for the truth of Reality shall imply the respect for God

Consciousness phenomenon is distinct from the form from which it manifests

Animate forms are linked to consciousness

Inanimate forms

Animate forms

Forms/geometry fill the space

Consciousness is all about space/geometry

Geometry is at the root of our behaviours

The cognitive process for impurity are based on 2 and 3 dimensional geometric objects

Cognitive processes for purity are based on geometric object: point

Traditional religion and spirituality does not address cognitive processes for purity and impurity

Cognitive aspects of purity and impurity

TBD

Supersensuous joy is possible when the mind is free from the influence of subtle forms

Happiness is due to identification with forms

Suffering is due to identification with forms

Forms are the basis of vices and virtues

Forms are important since these are the basis of our behaviour

Form and its subtle-form are temporary, though the mind of the subtel-form is an expression of eternal point source

Concentration is a way for good memory.

TBD

Transcendence is about clearing the mind of subtlebodies

Subtlebodies are means for body(senses) and mind interactions

Forms have subtlebodies in the mind.

TBD

God existence is for redefining man's personality

TBD

Is modern science sinful?

this question arises because, its assumptions or beliefs can be possibly false, in spite of all those great technological or scientific advances.

When do we lie?

Insecure
Lack self esteem
Greedy
Egoistic
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Process has form and also a designer

TBD

Deep meditation is to show the connection between the conscious and unconscious mind

TBD

Sin is an action that ignores or discards truth knowingly or unknowingly

TBD

Form and its designer

We see many forms around. These forms are either man made ones, or those naturally occurring.

Behind a form, we see the intelligence of a designer, who is responsible for it. Well, for man made forms, the designer is visible. And for the natures forms, the designer is invisble. Some resort to believing in God as a designer. That need not be.

A form's designer is a meta-physical element. And that element has some level of consciousness. That makes the designer to be intelligent one. But the intelligence can be different levels, and hierarchical too. God fits in that hierarchy.

Consciousness can be in hierarchy. Then an interesting question arises: Who designs these meta-physical elements and their varying levels of consciousness?

That question can be endlessly repeated.

Or in a simplest way, accept the wonder of creation with one level of meta-physical elements, with their consciousness on a hierarchy. This is what I learn from my Raja Yoga discipline.

Form and its abstraction

The idea of form as a manifestation of an invisible thing/force is also seen in Taoism. This thought The 10,000 forms are an expresion of an invisible force repeats in Lao Tzu's thinking.

We often forget the abstract thing behind a form. Separation of the abstract from the form is one main aspect of Raja Yoga Meditation philosophy. That is the reason they teach that a humanbody is different from the soul that sits in it. In other words, you are a soul, a pont of ennergy, which is different from the body.

Today, we are conscious of our forms, rather physical bodies in which sit and act or play our parts. Our identity is now the physical form. The abstract one, which is a soul, that is responsible for our identity has been killed due to the success of scientific thought, or materialistic thinking. I would say, in the rational tradition.

When we look at a flower, its beautiful form is a manifestation of an invisible force. The abstraction behind it is different from the form. I also wonder about the role of an entity that is responsible for the design of the form. Is this entity separate from the abstraction itself? Yes, I consider that.

Look at the human body. The shape of a nose, and its design is due to some entity. the same entity may be responsible for the entire structure of the body. And the soul is a different force that occupies and rides the body. For me, a soul is a meta-physical force that is responsible for the phenomenon of consciousness, which is responsible for thinking, personality, feelings, memories, cognition, blah, blah.

What I am saying is not really original, though I have not copied their ideas. There are some modern biologists who believe that the functioning of cell is not mainly due to bilogical or chemical processes within it. There is an outside element which guides these processes. This is breaking from the traditional rational thinking, and its tools of reductionist approach to systems engineering.

Today, our cognitive behavior is rooted in the forms. In other words, all vices are to do with the forms. As we have totally forgotten about the relation to the abstract entity, called soul, our awareness is engrossed in the form of the body. The mechanics of the vices are rooted in the form. Our suffering is rooted in the association with the forms. When we once again get back to the recognition of the form as separate thing from the soul, and accept our identity as a soul, an abstraction, we have new behaviours in the absence of viciousness that we face in our sorrows, frustrations, pains, fears, anxieties, etc.