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Showing posts with label higher consciousness. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

In Search Of The Miraculous - Esoteric

UDCC will take a slight diversion today into another dimension - put on your afterburners - time for a Sunday ride into the country, like in the good ole days.
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The title of today's post, is the title of a book by P.D. Ouspensky written many many years ago - *(before your mother was born) - about his search for `esoteric' knowledge held by humans here on planet Earth. What he found was the supposed esoteric knowledge of G.I. Gurdjieff - who elaborated on many `truths' about mankind and his condition within the world and universe. Indeed, Ouspensky found his miracle which he described with just five words on page 261 that I will never forget:

`And then, the miracle began.'
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I'm going to get back to Ouspensky momentarily - but - the phrase `In Search Of The Miraculous' (ISOTM) certainly can be applied to the whole field of anomalous actualization's from UFOs to Bigfoot, Ghosts and beyond - perhaps. `Imagined' or not - when humans come across some `space' of what I call `the able to not be' - within them or around them - it may seem that the word `miracle' is the only word that is appropriate.

I think of Blossom Goodchild believing she was being told a `alien contact date'. I think of the exopolitics folks being convinced that a web bot was suggesting Nov. 27th, 2009 as a `alien contact date'. I think of Stanley Fulham and his `special contacts mentally' which brought to him a process of `alien contact dates'. And on and on and on.

I am of the belief the some events are miraculous - to the singular human observer/experiencer. Events that are embedded with the quality of `real' as humans think they experience it. But which, are events that simply `cannot continue' within our phenomenological structure upon the loss of a certain quality associated with their space actualization.

For Ouspensky, like Goodchild and probably like Stanley - `the other' `spoke' `within them'. An other that somehow one was able to objectively separate from our own internal space/body/actualization. Something, that when it happens, almost compels one to `report' about it.
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But, back to I-SO-TM, - today I was looking at the reviews of the book on Amazon (link later) and wanted to feature a few of them:
First, the Amazon Description:
 Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff's thoughts and universal view. This historic and influential work is considered by many to be a primer of mystical thought as expressed through the Work, a combination of Eastern philosophies that had for centuries been passed on orally from teacher to student. Gurdjieff's goal, to introduce the Work to the West, attracted many students, among them Ouspensky, an established mathematician, journalist, and, with the publication of In Search of the Miraculous, an eloquent and persuasive proselyte.

Ouspensky describes Gurdjieff's teachings in fascinating and accessible detail, providing what has proven to be a stellar introduction to the universal view of both student and teacher. It goes without saying that In Search of the Miraculous has inspired great thinkers and writers of ensuing spiritual movements, including Marianne Williamson, the highly acclaimed author of A Return to Love and Illuminata. In a new and never-before-published foreword, Williamson shares the influence of Ouspensky's book and Gurdjieff's teachings on the New Thought movement and her own life, providing a contemporary look at an already timeless classic.
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First, an admission; I first became aware of O and G from the book called `The Fourth Way' - as potentially an `esoteric' book as you are ever likely to encounter, that led to reading many works by O and a couple more by G. These are books, as the Amazon description above said - inspire folks. Inspire folks to think that their brain can be organized in perhaps a different manner than what is normal accepted.

Indeed, these books inspired a `movement' (with devotees probably like those who ascribe to the coming Thrive Movement perhaps) of folks that EXIST TO THIS DAY - who get together in almost cult like groups to `practice' THE WORK. ----- Yes, the esoteric thought about ones mind for folks following O and G is called `The Work'.

I know, I went to a few `meetings'. Or. This one knows, this one went to a few meetings.

You see, you are forbidden to use the word `I' when attending one of these meetings and are `reminded' EVERY time one speaks in such a manner. And, it really, meaning `the work', IMO, is built upon building awareness via following certain guidelines (and understanding the reasons behind how they build awareness-consciousness). And, as one into the whole consciousness saga, I enjoyed nearly all of O's and G's readings I came across or could find.
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The book ISOTM has over 70 Amazon reviews and the average is nearly a FIVE - it's that good a read. Nonetheless, here's some reviewers words:
The core of the "work" is a powerful methodology, but no more so than, say, vipassana, zen, dzogchen or other solid, meditation-based tradition. There is nothing about the fourth way that is any more "esoteric" than these other traditions (that's right, nothing). The biggest difference is that Gurdjieff left behind a legacy of fraudulent teachers and cults, whereas there are many Buddhist and other groups that are reliable. (Certainly, Buddhist and other groups, being made up of people, have their flaws, and there are things to be learned in some (not all!) Gurdjieff groups, but decades of hard-won experience allows me to say that the Gurdjieff tradition is peculiar in attracting power-hungry charlatans who exploit the "rascal sage" idea to gather suckers around themselves. It happens in other traditions, but there, it tends to end in disgrace. In fourth way groups, duping people seems to be a point of pride.) Even groups that are not necessarily exploitative or fraudulent tend to attract people who especially like the idea of being "esoteric," to use a term Ouspensky used, but which was far more appropriate eighty years ago than it is today.
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At the very end of his life, Ouspensky seemed to repudiate "the System", as he understood it, although glassy-eyed disciples in that time and this try to rationalize that fact away. Perhaps he realized that any systematic approach to developing our consciousness is impossible, since if we are on a road with a known destination that destination can only be our own projection of what we imagine it to be. No matter. The ability of this man Ouspensky to think systematically was indeed his great strength, and it lent all his writing a clarity and throughness simply unmatched in all of twentieth century "occultism". Nowhere did he need it more than in this reporting of the early teachings of Gurdjieff, when that particular unique idiot was at the zenith of his own development.
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 discovered this amazing gem in a used book store and interestingly read it at the same time I read Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions". I couldn't possibly heap too much praise on either of these books. Both are life-transforming for those of a scientific bent, and for others too. I opened Ouspensky at random and started reading about the distribution of knowledge among people. He cured me of untold anxiety concerning why so few people have a clue when he said that knowledge has power only to the extent it is concentrated in a few people, how the mass of humanity freely discards what little knowledge is allotted them, and particularly how at certain times humanity discards vast amounts of knowledge in favor of mass insanity.
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So, yes, I'm using the bully pulpit to push some `knowledge' at you. LOL. As I know that when UDCC did our focus on those who follow this blog - many have an esoteric bent. So, IF you are not familiar with O and G and you have been warned that the knowledge may make you join a cultlike train of thought - then you are approved to dig into any of the offerings below.
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Oh, thanks to the TWO people who picked up THEIR OWN 2012 UFO Calendars - YESTERDAY. Link at the top of the page.
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Begin Your Own Mind Trip Today
 - The book about The Work
Find out what G did To O.
Another view of both of them.
 A G book of interest.
G's most known work perhaps.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

From Reductive Materialism to Knowing the Primacy of Mind

Today's post turns to my inbox (mailbag in the (G)olden days) and a e-mail from The Rhine Institute - who is having a speaker in the near future who's focus is `The Primacy Of Mind'. As Clockers may know, in UDCC's opinion, at least PART of the UFO phenomena is mental perceptual (and perhaps many parts) - of the total phenomena - in all its extensions. So, to that end, below UDCC will reproduce the mailing. IF you are close to Durham N.C. - please think about attending a Rhine event.
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From Reductive Materialism to Knowing the Primacy of Mind

~ A Neurosurgeon’s Remarkable Near-Death Experience
an evening with Eben Alexander III, MD
Friday October 7 , 2011
Stedman Auditorium on the Duke Center for Living Campus


7:30 -9:00 pm


Dr. Eben Alexander III has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years on staff at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He firmly believed in the conventional reductive materialist view of the world. This left little room for acknowledgement of the existence of parapsychological (or psi) phenomena.
He had dealt with hundreds of patients rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, infections, or stroke. None of them offered insight about their experience. Early on November 10, 2008, he became a comatose patient.
It remains obscure why he was overcome by a fulminant bacterial meningitis and was comatose, on a ventilator, in the Intensive Care Unit within hours. Bacterial meningitis provides the most efficient means of mimicking human death by selectively destroying the outer surface, or neocortex, which is the part of the brain that makes us human.
His physicians were stunned to find that the culprit was E. coli, a bacteria that almost never causes spontaneous meningitis in adults. After six days on triple antibiotics, showing no response and with little neurological function remaining, his physicians were close to giving up. Chances for meaningful recovery were very slim.


On day seven he started to come back, to the great surprise of his doctors. Like a newborn, he had no functioning language, nor knowledge of this world, of human culture, or of the loved ones surrounding him. Foggy-minded for several days, he steadily improved and began writing his recollections of the experience.
The most extraordinary part of his journey happened deep in coma. His earliest recollections were of strange, hyper-realistic experiences in an awesome realm. They involved no recall of his life before coma. How was it possible for that rich, vivid experience to originate in his badly infected brain, especially with his neocortex shut down?
Reports of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) have been limited in their value of elucidating what occurs after actual death. The treasure trove is in teasing out what death is like, not near-death. In the midst of his week in coma, he had an extraordinary spiritual experience, one that irrefutably proved the primacy of the realm of mind and consciousness.
He has been blessed with a complete recovery. In analyzing his experience, including the scientific possibilities and grand implications, he envisions a profound reconciliation of modern science and spirituality as a natural product. The keystone is in the nature of consciousness, and what his experience revealed about the relationship of mind and reality.
Enlightened science will acknowledge the primacy of mind and the existence of psi phenomena. Thence on to pursue the grander elucidation of truth, and the fundamental nature of reality and existence. His will be a critical addition to the understanding of NDEs, the spiritual realm, and psi phenomena in general. He is writing a book about this most powerful, life-changing story, which should be available in 2012.
For more information, go to http://www.lifebeyonddeath.net/.


Eben Alexander III graduated from UNC 1976 with a BA in Chemistry, graduated from Duke University Medical School in 1980, and completed his neurosurgical residency training at Duke in 1987. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1988 through 2001, achieving the rank of Associate Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) by 1994. He then directed the Movement Disorders Surgery Program (Neurosurgery) at UMass Medical School. He moved to Virginia in 2006, where he continued in neurosurgery, including work as director of global research for the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation in Charlottesville, VA.
Members $15.00
Non-members $20.00
We do expect this event to be sold-out.
Please purchase your tickets in advance
to ensure your seat at this special talk.
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Monday, June 20, 2011

UFO/Orb Over Sydney, 6-19 (Video) --------- `Confetti' UFOs In Florida, 2007 (MUFON Report)


I guess of even more interest is that the Sydney guy was filming clouds because of an imagined UFO shape, and, lo and behold - an Orb comes into view during the daytime.

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Part of the calling Orbs phenomena?
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And, now, the strange Confetti UFO report - http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/manage_sighting_reports.pl?mode=view_long_desc&id=29629&rnd=897571308574301 - which supposedly occurred on 8-8-2007:
Me and my daughter just got home. We were in driveway in front of my parents house. Sun was down but sky was still lit. The full moon was coming up eastern horizon about 1/3 up. She got to door I was looking at birds fly in front of moon and asked her to come look at them. We saw black buzzard like birds. Then a flock of sea gulls flew past. Then from higher above these birds came down what look like confetti. They came spiraling down then all would fly off in a different direction and disappear. All except for two. they came down spiraling like others except turned south and flew in a straight line. One slightly higher than other. Parallel to each another. The bottom one was slightly ahead. They then stopped and just sat there. My daughter and I were watching and kept staring. I asked her if she sees what I see and she described it the same way. We were just puzzled but not scared. Told her wanted to make sure I'm not seeing different. After 3-5 minuets they faded from sight. When she couldn't see them to well she said I don't want to look away or I won't find it. That was funny to me and I said I was just thinking .... concludes at the above link provided.
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Remember, UDCC checks the latest MUFON Reports for you daily at http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/manage_sighting_reports.pl?mode=latest_reports - so, you can catch the best right here.
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UDCC has a new `follower', Gib, and this is his UFO take on things - http://ufoconnection.blogspot.com/ - welcome aboard Gib. You will find a somewhat different take around here about Mr. Greer if you dig into the archive.
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With a hittip to TDF (The Debris Field) - I bring you about 60 posts related to alien abduction told from a first person point of view. http://alienexperiencer.blogspot.com/2011/06/well-its-been-long-time.html - UDCC, all `disclosure' covered.
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THE MODERN DAY UFO MOTIF IDENTIFIED BY UDCC - THE ANSWER TO 99% OF UFO EXPERIENCES

The `UFO Motif' is a vigorous plasma Orb that catches ones attention - morphs, often into a structured shape as it comes very close to the observer location - then it often morphs one more time into a structured `Neighborhood UFO' (aka an Impossible Craft perception) - this is where folks then `see' low flying, slow moving `Triangles' or other UFO shapes - often followed (after departure) by `helicopters' or `military jets' - both of which are simply part of the total perception. The `Neighborhood UFO' then often passes out of perception range to NOT be reported `downstream' or `upstream' usually - proving that it is a localized experience (often tied to intentionalities on the ground and with humans). EXTREME close encounters can easily produce the perceptions of missing time.
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Note The Dictionary Words Associated With The Very Concept Of A Motif
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a short succession of notes producing a single impression; a brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed.

design, pattern, decoration, figure, shape, device, emblem, ornament

a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition

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