Anarchistbanjo's World

What often happens is that as we construct our personal paradigm we create an artificial system which may or may not reflect actual life experience. We avoid or ignore any inputs that challenge our belief structure. This is the danger of a paradigm. A matrix is an open ended structure that does not avoid anything. ALL INPUTS ARE VALID! We just need to understand in which context they are valid.

I’ve found two books by George Makari extremely useful in understanding both sides of the issues of what is conscious awareness and what is the soul. These are “Revolution in Mind; the creation of Psychoanalysis” and “Soul Machine; the invention of the modern mind”. George Makari is director of Cornell’s Institute for the History of Psychiatry, associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, adjunct associate professor at Rockefeller University, and a faculty member of Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center.

The most important takeaways from these fascinating books are the realizations that no one really knows what causes conscious awareness and what the soul really is. No matter what the materialists may say or think, the debate on these things continues. There is no clear winner. Most of these arguments go back to the 16th century!

Julian Jaynes in his amazing book “The Origins of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind” may be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century in the understanding of the soul and the observer self and the role of reading and writing in the development of creative consciousness. He taught Psychology at Princeton University but is now dead.

Richard Dawkins in his book “The Greatest Show On Earth” proves the evolution of physical life on earth, but does not in any way disprove the evolution of the soul or human consciousness. He simply is looking at one side of a two-sided coin.

Melanie Phillips, former left wing award winning journalist, has written many books including “The World Turned Upside Down; the global battle over God, truth and power”. She confronts the question of if we are living in the age of reason why are we behaving increasingly irrationally.

Just a short excerpt from the back of this book:

“The loss of religious belief has meant the West has replaced reason and truth with ideology and prejudice, which it enforces in the manner of a secular inquisition. The result has been a kind of mass derangement, as truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down.”

In this extremely brief overview I can share that what seems to be missing in modern society is the belief and awareness of the true nature of multi-dimensional reality and how human awareness can both at times act like a particle with a tight focus inside the body and at other times act like a wave that extends across the entire universe.

In my next post we will explore some of that science.