Paranormal Powers :: The Universe Obeys Me (reply)

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Rayzorblades wrote at 14 May 2011 08:43 PM GMT: Pinpointing the higher self, all descriptions and stories I've ever heard attributed to it read like a chapter on the functions of the subconscious from a psych textbook. If the vox populi doesn't know exactly what something is or how it works, as per Clark's axiom, it must be magical. Once you realise the basis behind a concept however, it's no longer magical, it's an established fact. The problem I've found in the new age community as well as religion is that people are desperate to hold onto this notion of "magic" or "faith" and make it a part of their egos. Once you do that, there's no changing your mind, the ego will KILL to protect itself (hyperbole about the killing, but it is harsh).

And also, without any kind of evidence, you can construct anything as a hypothesis and link that to any new age philosophy/religion.

I could say I have a pretty good idea that the universe is a ham sandwich, the bottom slice is the physical realm, the ham is the mind, and the top slice is the subconscious mind, and that's jibes with Jews not eating pork.

One of my issues with meditation for communication to the "higher self" is that (as I've posted on here briefly), meditation affects the reticular formation of your brain. The RF is the information filter, the barrier that separates your conscious awareness from your subconscious mind. When you meditate and open that floodgate a crack, the awareness of the SubC starts to bleed through and you begin to communicate with your subconscious mind, this further underlines the synonymous relationship between the notion of "higher self" and the SubC.

</span> Quote: To the rest, it might be interpretted as nothing more than an anomaly in the frontal lobe, bearing in mind of course that they don't take into consideration that the brain REACTS, and does not originate.

Beethoven's Symphony 9 didn't originate in his brain Wink <span class="postbody">The stream of consciousness that makes up your current self/awareness is a collation based flow of all of your memories/experiences, instincts and impulses, and current sensory data.

This collation of data is where ideas originate from. Saying the brain reacts but doesn't originate seems kind of like a flawed analogy. Without the creation of ideas we'd still be cave men.

My first instinct to your Beethoven comment is to say "EVIDENCE. PLEASE.", however as it was at least partly tongue in cheek, could you just expand upon it?
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