tom o'brien's List: consciousness

• The whole world of inner experience (the world of the humanities) long rejected by 20th century scientific materialism, thus becomes recognized and included within the domain of science."
• The whole world of inner experience (the world of the humanities) long rejected by 20th century scientific materialism, thus becomes recognized and included within the domain of science."
• The whole world of inner experience (the world of the humanities) long rejected by 20th century scientific materialism, thus becomes recognized and included within the domain of science."
• Abandoning this effort as fruitless, he became famous for his theory that behaviour is determined by an unconscious mind, of which the waking mind is unaware. In 1923, in The Ego and the Id, he developed the concept of "psychic energy" as the energy by which the work of the personality is performed.

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• From  my experience,  your natural experience is  already unconditional peace, bliss and love.  But because of your  identification with your mind, you cannot experience it.  You have  separated yourself from it.

  • today i was thinking about how to stay 'straight' alingned in the moment in order to steer a better course and it occured to me that this might allow me to experience my natural state of peace - acceptance is one of the steps
• If  you look at what is here beyond the thinking, you will find that  there is a feeling that you exist in this present moment.  And you  are aware that you exist.   In fact, existance at this level and awareness are the same thing, you cannot separate the two.

  • his doughnuts comment is quite interesting

• One  of the easiest ways to experience this is through meditation.  And  there are two things you need to be succesful in your meditation: 

   

  The  first is simple teachings that point you in the right direction.   And there is plenty on this page to get you going.

   

  The  second is "Enlightened  Energetic."   Call it "Grace,"  "Shaktipat" "Spiritual Energy," etc.   If you were lucky enough to sit with someone who  is fully enlightened, you would find that their blissful presence  naturally rubs off on you, making it easy for you to experience deep  states of blissful meditation.  Their blissful presence is what I  am calling Enlightened Energetic.

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