tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post8771994734363112075..comments2024-03-25T14:09:59.347-05:00Comments on Augoeides: The Universe as Hologram - Or NotScott Stenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-38288753826711411522013-12-23T08:36:42.285-06:002013-12-23T08:36:42.285-06:00Granted, you can put forth a philosophical framewo...Granted, you can put forth a philosophical framework in which everything is "illusion," both your body and the bus, but I'm of the opinion that doing so leads to, as Crowley put it, "a stupid kind of mischief." In effect, it mixes the planes in a way that leads to a lot of confusion.<br /><br />When Buddhism texts discuss "emptiness" they're not referring to nothingness. In Buddhism, things that are "empty" are impermanent. That is, they have a beginning and an end. This is so different from the early western interpretations such as New Thought and its variants that it's hard to believe they had any influence on each other.<br /><br />I'm of the opinion that one of the advantages Western esotericism has over Buddhism is that its delineation of microcosm and macrocosm is cleaner and better-defined. It's not that either is necessarily any more or less real, but rather that for the most part they exist on separate "planes" - and imaginary (microcosmic) wall is not going to stop a physical (macrocosmic) bus, for example.<br /><br />Chinese Qigong research is fascinating. One of the reasons I prefer Qigong to the yogic energy work methods that Crowley taught is that it's been subjected to much more experimentation, since in China it's just part of regular medical treatment.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-7334815773776236332013-12-20T18:32:12.134-06:002013-12-20T18:32:12.134-06:00"The World as Will and Representation" b..."The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer. Since he could arguably be said to have been exoterically cribbing Buddhism, we can say also The Daimond Sutra. The Sutra of Hui-Neng is also good on this topic as well.<br /><br />Heidegger and the phenomenologists call it "phenomenalism." That's what Buddhist ontology is as well. The "brain" exists in the universe, not vice versa.<br /><br />Yes, you need to jump out of the way of the bus, because you cannot wish the bus away. But then, you don't HAVE to. After all, your body is just as "illusory" as anything.<br /><br />Is this a forest or a set of trees? Well, either way your body is just as "real" as whatever you decide there. But I agree, it is no more or less real than the bus.<br /><br />As for "unified field theory," the only real one is in aether physics. Or "process physics" as they say nowadays. <br /><br />I knew a dude who wrote his phd thesis on Ruppert Sheldrake. Wasn't bad, but imo, Sheldrake's theories could use some background in metaphysics. <br /><br />If you want to see how magick can change "physical" reality, you should check out the qigong schools in China. They use "first person" methods of course, so their empirical methods is advanced beyond ours. They say that "reality" does boil down to quanta of experience, when you withdraw into conscioiusness and "slow down time."<br /><br />But to get your phd in qigong in China, you have to do stuff like, without touching it, remove the alcohol content from a glass of wine and put it into another glass. There are five of these tests, I can't remember them, because I'm tired. lol. Hold your hand over an x-ray film, covered by a towel, and cause your hand to be imprinted on the film. I'll look them up if you want.<br /><br />This is in Chinese Medical QiGong Therapy by Jerry Allen Johnson.Nerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393819034606674001noreply@blogger.com