In this third week we will introduce you to the field of cognitive linguistics, which is the study of how language affects thought. Language is essentially the assigning of symbols to real objects or concepts, then storing and processing those symbols for future symbolic expression in order to convey a tangibility of more-absent or inconspicuous objects or concepts. This system of symbols wields a profound effect on any conscious index.

In Cosolargy, Information Factors within the solar Logos, or The Language of the Sun, give rise to a fifth-dimensional Consciousness. Even though the following presentations are secular, they suggest a strong bond between language and consciousness.

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Jill Bolte Taylor. A World Without Words. Radiolab: 12 minutes.

Elizabeth Spelke, Susan Schaller, Charles Fernybough. Words That Changed the World. Radiolab: 29 minutes.

Jeffrey Mishlove and Stephen Pinker. Language and Consciousness, Part 1 (complete).Thinking Allowed, Oct. 8, 2012: 27 minutes.

Lera Boroditsky. Beyond the Physics: How Language Helps Us Construe and Construct, Jul. 25, 2012: 1 hour 2 minutes. 

— Michael McIntyre

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The first key to working with energy information is being able to recognize the feeling of a surfacing or incoming flow. Is there something to know or not? You can use your increasing sensitivity to tune in to the subtle states of your body to find out. Do you feel relaxed, open, spacious, and at peace? There may be nothing you need to know right now. Or do you feel antsy, slightly distracted, or mildly pressured? This is often the sigh of an insight knocking on your door, asking to come in. An incoming flow of energy information can feel like a subtle tactile impression, like something pushing on you gently. It’s also common to have an incoming activate one of your other senses. You might hear a voice, a knock, or a tinkling sound; feel hot, cold, or buzzy; see a glow of a ghostly image. . . . ~Penney Peirce

“It is really very amazing if you think about it that we ignore energy as much as we do. Sure, we pay attention to electricity and heat energy when it comes to powering our toys or heating or cooking, but in so many other parts of our lives, we ignore it completely. Scientists, while they certainly have accomplished a lot in the past few centuries, are largely responsible for this. Since they ignore it, most of the rest of us ignore it.”

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contributed by Harold Boulette

 This is the second of the twelve-part series. The panel in this video includes a philosopher, medical doctor, psychologist, and a neuroscientist—a good mix for the topic at hand. A little background: Materialists posit that consciousness only reside in the brain; Dualists maintain that consciousness is the interaction of an ephemeral qualia (subjective, conscious experiences) interacting with the brain; Emergentists view consciousness as information organizing to a point at which there is enough interaction to form a conscious experience; and Panpsychism,  which takes the position that consciousness is a universal component of existence or a force, sort of like gravity, inertia, and or quantum expressions.  In this panel talk, the fellow on the far right in the colorful short-sleeve shirt is Cristof Koch. He had a twenty-year professional and father-son-type relationship with Francis Crick, the codiscoverer of DNA. These two men worked together for two decades investigating the nature of consciousness.

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  The Whispering Mind: The Enduring Conundrum of Consciousness;panel discussion, Jan. 24, 2014: 1 hour 26 minutes.

— Michael McIntyre

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When you don’t notice the incoming flow of energy information, pressure builds up and more information is added to the Flow, . . . it’s easy then to feel overwhelmed, irritable, or even sad. Sometimes, the energy information you’re receiving is emotional and you’ll match the vibration, . . . You can also pick up information about physical states, as when your niece breaks her arm, . . . Until you process it, you may have similar, though more symbolic, symptoms, and not know why. . . .

When you don’t translate this pre-verbal energy information into understanding, and the pressure builds behind the incoming flow, you may protest against your growing empathic ability, saying, “It’s all too much!” and withdraw into your cave. You may unconsciously decide you don’t want to know anything. Hiding your head in the sand won’t help, though, because the information just keeps coming. ~Penney Peirce

“Empathy. Both a blessing and a curse depending on who you ask, or when. Most commonly, we feel empathy either with those we are emotionally close to, or those we are physically close to even if they are strangers. I remember some years ago when I donated blood, an elderly nurse who apparently had arthritis took my blood. My joints ached for hours after. Many would consider that a case of empathy being a curse.”

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contributed by Harold Boulette

 This is the first of twelve installations concerning the topic of consciousness. My hope is to broaden your horizons on this subject that you might better relate to others the components in our Teaching. Although we are quite educated in what our own consciousness is, many people, by comparison, are perceptively illiterate to the consciousness of other existents, including people, animals, plants, and sensually deprived entities such as minerals. The presenters in these segments have invested a good deal of time  in their areas of investigation, and though we may not entirely agree with their notions, there are bits that seem valuable in the context of our Teaching. The final three installations in this “tour” of consciousness address how consciousness in its essence might migrate from other dimensions and express itself in the construct of “thought.” Finally, I hope you not only find these presentations informative but also entertaining.

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VS Ramachandran. The Neurons That Shaped Civilization. TED talk, Nov. 2009: 8 minutes.

Oliver Sacks. What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds. TED talk, Feb. 2009: 19 minutes.

Dan Dennett. The Illusion of Consciousness. TED talk, Feb. 2003: 22 minutes.

David Chalmers. How Do You Explain Consciousness? TED talk,Mar. 2014: 19 minutes.

— Michael McIntyre

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 The smokescreen of the world is lifted. Everything is interconnected within a great, joyous vibration. Life becomes vaster, truer, more alive; little truths twinkle everywhere, wordlessly, as if each thing held a secret, a special sense, a special life. One bathes in an indescribable state of truth, without understanding anything about it—it just is. And it is, marvelously. It is light, alive, loving. ~Sri Aurobindo

As transformation occurs, your intuition deepens to direct knowing, and you rapidly perceive all at once, all over your body. Your left and right brain operate in a cooperative partnership. . . . Your ultrasensitivity leads you to become empathic, which then leads you to compassion, the knowing of the soul. ~Penney Peirce

“When people are told that the world they think is reality, the world of matter, is largely illusion, the first thing they will probably ask, assuming they believe you, is how they can change their vision to see reality rather than illusion. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as taking the red pill or the blue pill as in the movie The Matrix.”

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contributed by Harold Boulette

Throughout this series, I would like you to keep the following in the peripheral of your perspective:  For people that do scientific research it is like this: “I am suddenly dropped on this island. And really, I have no right to be there. Somehow I must build a bridge back to things that we already know.” This will become a valuable perspective, because often people that dedicate themselves to research have motivations that are not conspicuous to the results or the actual work at hand. These motivations seem to be a result of collected personal experiences, which have an enormous impact, compelling the individual researcher to uncover the mystery of those experiences.

This Tour of Consciousness series is a collection of videos in which researchers present findings of clinical or laboratory studies. Within these talks, there are brief moments when the speaker alludes to the motivations that inspired their research. As a preface to each of these video talks, I will include some brief background so that the talks are little more digestible.

The subject of Consciousness is an involved one.  You will be exposed to, seemingly, many pieces of the puzzle. It is worth your while not to discard any one of the presented perspectives for another, as many of these perspectives can be homogenized to further substantiate the Cosolargy models for the architecture and premise of Consciousness and give validity to the experiences that come as a result of applying The System.

If you were to ask any scientist of physics, neurology, cognition, or psychology What is consciousness? every one of them would answer, “We don’t know.” “That’s what we are trying to resolve. We are just now beginning to look for an answer to what may be the most significant question of our time—or any time, for that matter.” The answer to What is consciousness? will not be found in this series. So we have to ask, why would we give this material any attention in the first place? Let me give you a few examples.

I can say to anyone: “The people of the world can be affected by the conscious intent of a small group, collectively cascading their thoughts into the sun, which can then affect the world.”  Most people would consider this a fanciful, or fantasizing, remark.  But, give me 15 minutes and two pieces of paper, and I will premise this for you, based on the work of two Nobel Prize candidates.

Or I might say, “A person can develop perceptive skills by utilizing solar eye techniques that enhance cognitive abilities. This can result in waking-state visions of geometric archetypes outside of normal awareness that are not hallucinations but a verifiable episode shared by more than one person at that experiential moment. These archetypes carry information, primordial thought, and have the potential to be transcribed and interpreted by the individual.” . . . give me a piece of paper and 10 minutes, I will show you the neurological and mathematical foundations that support this cognitive ability.

The whole purpose of this presentation series is to simply recognize and then utilize “the bridges that lead us back to things we already know.” The final three sections of this series are quite dense. I will do my best to ease you into this arena as each segment ensues.  I had to re-watch some of the later talks in order to understand the magnitude of what was being relayed. So, don’t let the expertise of the presenters intimidate your capacity to grasp their ideas—their initial intuitions and conceptual formations for these explanations, are naturally available to us. All we need is to adopt their scientific jargon and mentality.

— Michael McIntyre, January 2015

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 Would you know the ultimate state of man when he has finally reached his goal, when he has entered into his inherited divinity? It is a state of glory transcending anything conceivable by him during an earthbound existence. His consciousness expands to embrace everything, all that ever was or will be. He sees all. He knows all. He is in all and he contains all. These things come to him through infinite powers of perception; yet he is above all such powers. He is beyond all yet within all. He is beyond the realm of matter, freed from all restrictions; yet he is not denied its joys;… His thoughts have the power of creation. He is one with the Light of Lights, the Light transcending vision. ~The Kolbrin Bible GLN:15:61

“This is a great description of the state of true enlightenment and also of the frustrations the great teachers have in trying to tell others what it is like. It is a lot like trying to explain a smart phone to the people of some primitive stone age tribe that have no idea what any kind of phone is, never mind one that is essentially a small computer that also makes phone calls. The human brain is simply not capable of understanding the spiritual and how things work in the spiritual realm. Our mind/brain is designed specifically to help us function in the physical world. It is not spiritual and therefore cannot really know the spiritual. It can only speculate about spiritual matters, and is therefore usually wrong, or at least very incomplete.”

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contributed by Harold Boulette

There is no trustworthy standard by which we can separate the “real” from the “unreal” aspects of phenomena. Such standards as exist are conventional: and correspond to convenience, not to truth. It is no argument to say that most men see the world in much the same way, and that this “way” is the true standard of reality: though for practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consists in sharing the hallucinations of our neighbors. Those who are honest with themselves know that this ‘sharing’ is at best incomplete. By the voluntary adoption of a new conception of the universe, . . . we can and do change to a marked extent our way of seeing things: building up new worlds from old sense impressions, and transmuting objects more easily and thoroughly than any magician. ~Evelyn Underhill

“What the vast majority of us consider reality is no more real than a cartoon or a fantasy novel set in some alien world. We think it is real because most of us agree on it. Something very real could be right in front of us, but if most of us have agreed that it is not real, we will not see it. If most of us look into a garden and see nothing but turnips and tomatoes, the person who also see fairies fluttering around is considered mentally ill. In fact, neither of them is truly seeing reality.”

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contributed by Harold Boulette

            I think that I have always believed there was something beyond the physical, at least as far back as I can remember. But I always had doubts about some of the things taught in church. My mother was raised Catholic. I don’t know what church my father was in originally, but he became Catholic after they were married. My parents seldom bothered to attend church services themselves, but they sent us kids to mass every Sunday.

When I was fourteen, we moved to a new town. This town, in Massachusetts, had two Catholic churches located just two blocks from each other. It really wasn’t a large enough town to need two Catholic churches, but it had two because decades earlier, the population of the town had been nearly half Irish immigrants and the other half French. They didn’t like going to the same church so each group got their own. This increased my doubts about the Catholic church, and I soon stopped attending. That town, by the way, is Spencer, Massachusetts, home of the Trappist monastery that is famous for its Trappist jams and jellies and now is home to the first Trappist beer brewery in the United States.

I generally stayed away from churches after that, and it wasn’t until I was in college that I got involved in anything spiritual. When I reenlisted in the Army after completing my initial three years, I chose a program that allowed me to go to college for two years. I was accepted into the program and was sent to a college in California which, at the time, was the only two-year college with a degree program in Data Processing (now called Computer Science). While I attended Orange Coast College, my apartment was located about half a mile from a small bookstore that had a large section of spiritual books. I found myself getting more interested in the subject and began buying and reading some of these books. This was in 1972. Meditation was also becoming popular at the time, and so I took the basic class in Transcendental Meditation (TM). During the next semester, I heard that a meditation club was forming on campus, and I joined it. The faculty adviser for the club was a member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) and got me interested in this group and in Edgar Cayce, its psychic founder. I read books and continued to practice TM for some time, although I never felt that I was really getting much from it. After completing my college studies and returning to military service (U.S. Army), I moved away from anything spiritual for many years, at least formally. I always retained interest in the subject.

I really can’t remember what triggered it, but in 1991 I felt that I needed to get back into spiritual studies. I started reading spiritual books and magazines again. I started looking at the ads for spiritual schools in the magazines that I read. An ad in Fate for Project X caught my attention, and I sent in a request for more information. I liked what I read in the information packet and decided to join The Community, at least temporarily. Over the next several months, as I read the books and listened to the tapes I was sent, I became more convinced that this School was for me. Later in the year, I attended my first Convocation. After that,  I had several dreams that I felt were about my involvement with The Community. In one such dream, I was helping several people I recognized as members of the group construct a brick building. In another, I was climbing a  mountain with Community members. These dreams and others helped convince me that I had made the right choice to join. I continued to read the books, listen to the tapes, and practice the techniques. After retiring a few years ago, I moved to Reno and became even more active in The Community.