“…it became clear we had rediscovered the soul.” Epiphenomenalism, paradigms, science is like religion, Experience as Divinity “What quickly had to be faced is that the thousands of year old assumption … as old as there has been history … idea that the brain results in consciousness … that consciousness is an epiphenomen, or a byproduct or result of brain activity … was completely wrong. In fact, the world with this new information in it made no sense at all unless one considered this miraculous idea that the opposite was true: that the brain, that is, that matter … and following from that the entire physical world … was an epiphenomenon of consciousness activity. That is, that the world is a byproduct or a result or an offshoot of the events in consciousness, better said, Experience.” “In this paradigm, awareness is seen as a byproduct of observable electrical and chemical events in the brain, which … and here is where [scientists] showed themselves to be the real sorcerers … magically, as it were, results in the sense of self. And, oh, how that can happen is some kind of mysterious process, which one must accept on faith … showing their endeavor to have been more religious than the scientific they claimed it to be.” “…like true wizards, they alluded to consciousness and self as being some kind of naturally occurring thing based on the mere magnitude of the number of chemical and neurological events involved. Like religionists of old did in asserting a belief in God … the old-fashioned one and the old-fashioned religion … they pointed to unknowable events as the basis for the belief in their paradigm. ...the way this paradigm is explained is that selfhood is seen to be an epiphenomenon of brain activity. They figured … lots and lots of brain activity and … poof! Consciousness out of a hat! In fact, the best and most aware container is no container. No-Forms. All capsulation … becoming form … amounts to a limiting of that awareness … a focusing of that awareness onto a specific life, with parameters much like a game, which are much more limiting than the “game,” if you will, in the no-form state. So life can be even more aware in a seed, a sperm cell, and so on. And it can be most aware when not limited by any form at all … allowing it free and total rein. No rein or Total “freedom” — total inclusion or participation — is rarely desirable, for we, as Divinity, enjoy the lesser states just as much, perhaps more so. Some amount of limitation is usually adopted even in the No-Form state. Divinity enjoys having the playfulness that comes with adopting separate personalities. Still, this rein of No-Form awareness can be so expansive … up to and including that of God. https://facebook/notes/michael-adzema/it-became-clear-we-had-rediscovered-the-soul-epiphenomenalism-paradigms-science-/10152590514508138
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