If you can read this, the pipeline works.
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Quickly that means that just as our belief in a drug or therapy can help or heal us manifests in our experience as becoming healed, our belief in a physical universe manifests as our experience of a physical universe. More than that - how we imagine this world to exist is based on mind that is colored by many layers of beliefs and habitual pattern. This far more than just wishing or even believing you have a gold coin in your pocket. To go deeper requires a lot of unpacking. Actually, it requires a complete upending of how you view yourself, your mind, the universe and reality, but since we are just speculating, its fine.
Imagine if you will (key in the twilight zone music) that you are a mind, a mind with no physicality (that’s not that hard to imagine - just close your eyes and drift off - imagine no body, no space, just your thinking in isolation). Physicality is just something that your mind dreams up, just as things seem real in your imagined dreams. Imagine that this mind has always existed. We could possibly refer to this mind as a proto-mind or a primordial mind that is more akin to a state of being or a state of awareness than anything physical. You could say this state of awareness is like a wave in a field of awareness. Just as the uncertainty principle gives rise to random fluctuations of energy and matter in space and time, these are random fluctuations of “intensity of awareness” in this field of awareness. Just as subatomic particles are in reality, waves propagating through a “field of probabilities” (this is really no stranger than quantum field theory, its just a kind of ‘quantum mind theory’). It is the very nature of waves to be both (apparently) separate things from each other while simultaneously part of a whole. Aren’t waves on the ocean really just a continuation of the ocean? Where does one wave begin and the next end?
So think of this (your) proto-mind as a wave of awareness. And just as the ocean is a multitude of interacting waves, think of your wave-mind as an extension of this ocean-mind and inter-related to all the other wave-minds. It is not a truly independent entity nor are all the waves just “one”. There is an element of both separateness and of oneness. Just as the interactions of subatomic forces create a universe of endless diversity (or we could say that our perception of a universe of endless diversity results from infinite interactions of wave-minds) As the level of interactions increase in complexity so to does the perception of a complex world. I would argue that the complexity we see in the world is a result of the complexity of the mind interactions. Or that the physical world we percieve is a metaphor the wave
another way of saying this is that we are Dream Machines. As evidence I would offer our dream worlds that we all experience everynight. Though everything in the dream is our creation, we act as if its not (we believe its not).
]]>_posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.
Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:
YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP
Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and MARKUP is the file extension representing the format used in the file. After that, include the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.
Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:
def print_hi(name)
puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.
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