It is not the spirits of heaven and of hell which are the masters over physical nature, but the spirit of man which is concealed in him as the fire is concealed in the flint.
-- Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus the Great
Further Reading
You can ask a philosopher to describe what’s in a bigger picture and he/she will describe everything in it, except one thing – the awarenesses that go with it, and without which everything else within it would not be seen, i.e., perceived.
In fact, it is easy enough to prove that all specimens of the human species actually have awareness
You can ask a philosopher to describe what’s in a bigger picture and he/she will describe everything in it, except one thing – the awarenesses that go with it, and without which everything else within it would not be seen, i.e., perceived.
In fact, it is easy enough to prove that all specimens of the human species actually have awarenesses, but they are so commonly and redundantly present they are not seen.
It can also be stipulated that there are different kinds or types of awareness via which different things become revealed, and so it can justifiably be thought that a veritable, or virtual, or motherboard “ocean” of awareness does exist
The paranormal does not “belong” only to mystics, psychics, and parapsychologists. The paranormal is actually a “breath” in which we all live and function. Many myths and anti-myths have been created about the paranormal, all of which haunt our fears and disturb our understanding. In our current state, we are detached from the paranormal
The paranormal does not “belong” only to mystics, psychics, and parapsychologists. The paranormal is actually a “breath” in which we all live and function. Many myths and anti-myths have been created about the paranormal, all of which haunt our fears and disturb our understanding. In our current state, we are detached from the paranormal simply because we have certain paranormal myth-filters in our intellects, placed there by our educational processes.
These two mythologies—the pro-paranormal mythology and the anti-paranormal mythology—will crumble in this book through a direct appeal to two things that have seldom been appealed to during the twentieth century: common sense at the individual level and the psychic genius in every man and woman.