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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Everything is interconnected. "Psychic bodyguards" couldn't exist: if somebody is impure, they are a possible target of violence, NO MATTER WHAT. In other words, they could be all around whomever they are guarding, and THEY are protected, doesn't mean that guy in the middle doesn't take a bullet to the head. Also, somebody who is immune to violence would not work for somebody who isn't, especially not in the capacity of protecting him, since that would also constitute an inversion of principles: greater cannot be dominated by lesser, and perfection cannot be dominated AT ALL.

Truly understanding the human experience leads unerringly to the blueprint to implementing personal perfection in one's being and the development of these characteristics. But philosophy is not the key: it uses concepts. Concepts are not real, they are imaginary. They depend on the human belief in them in order to claim some sort of value. What I speak of is of Absolute Reality, and has nothing to do with the imaginary.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Your explanation for why there could be no psychic bodyguards makes sense to me, especially with my current understanding of life-affirmation and life-negation. Especially that last bit, how what is greater cannot be dominated by what is lesser. That has been my personal experience in this world. However, I'm not sure I agree with your view of imagination. Imagination is more than just "mental image-ing" and conceptualizing, but this comes from a few select experiences of mine. Like, I have been in a flow-state and have utilized the tool of imagination, and it was rejuvenating. I was immediately made aware of the interconnectedness of reality. From that state, I first came to use the phrases life-affirming and life-negating. It's a tool, like logic, reason, and all other sensory data manifested as "feeling". The problem with it, and you said it yourself so astutely... it is NOT Absolute Reality. I have met many who think that it is... I DO believe that it is an integral part of the human experience, like a maze you must traverse before coming to the hill or clearing or grove at the end. Most do not even attempt to traverse it, and very few ever seem to come out with a firm grip on the ABSOLUTE. You do understand the problem with philosophy and conceptual actualization... it leaves much unsaid and it leaves even more untouched by the mind. It does not "connect" everything that is truly connected. I don't mean to say that I understand this human experience, just because I have been seeking to. I'm well on my way to understanding parts of it, but I am no guru or master. In fact, I have had more of an interest in philosophy primarily because some (SOME) of the philosophers spent their entire lives seeking insight in this regard. I do not take their words as absolute truth, but I do find them interesting to sit with and converse with. I have definitely grown as a person by studying philosophy, and I have learned that it has some of the most dangerous pitfalls out there.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think there is a subtlety that has led to confusion as to what I was asserting:

Concepts are ONLY imaginary, and as such have absolutely no bearing on reality, other than their sometimes 3-dimensional-ness. As such, concepts and imagination can be successfully used in engineering, for example, because the physical plane is also 3D. And that has led many to assume that concepts are inherently useful, while in fact they are ONLY useful in such instances of inferring how matter will behave.

However, not all mind phenomena are of the realm of imagination. Consciousness is able to be anywhere, anytime. This is an unalienable fact of consciousness. Most of the time, ours is fixed behind our eyes, between our ears, but that is just a (very important) characteristic of the human body.

The problem with consciousness is that because most people have adopted concepts as having informational value, their consciousness mostly or only refers to concepts, when in fact they are of extremely limited use. But once freed from the shackles of the concept-based mind experience, consciousness can do other things.

The most revelatory experience is when one has fully nullified the hold that concept as as general category has on their mind, and the consciousness is able to meld DIRECTLY with the Objective Reality of the Universe. This (obviously?) allows innate knowledge of anything, even the most unknowable of unthinkable facts.

Maybe we should continue this discussion in s/consciousness ?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I put up a post with some more of my thoughts on that sub, and I mentioned you in the OP. I love the new dimensions you are bringing to the table... I know very few people who have the ideas you are presenting to me, and I'd love to hear more about them.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Indeed very few people have them, for I am personally close to the instigator of these views, which are the key to the next iteration of mankind. Thank you for your kind words and yes, this stuff only gets more interesting the more you look into it.