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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Your physical senses tell you that you live in a solid world of matter and objects, but of course we know that's just an illusion. You are energy sensing energy. However, you can only consciously perceive an infinitesmal subset of the energy flow you're being bathed in right now.
You can define the cells of your body as internal energy and the environment "outside" your cells as external energy, but that's a fairly inaccurate perspective because the signals intermix so much. So it can be more empowering to consider the perspective that all signals are internal to your consciousness. Whatever you perceive is a part of you.
A book that will help broaden your understanding in this area is The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton. |
Thanks for the clarification. I understand what you're saying, but of course still have questions that I'll probably mull over for a while (and most likely indicate I don't understand what you're saying).
It seems pretty arbitrary what you chose to designate as "you" in this system. Sounds like you realized it was fuzzy so you just decided not to draw a line at all and said "you're all encompassing."
I haven't quite wrapped my head around that one and how I want to reconcile it with things that, to me, seem like they're entirely outside of me. I can't understand how the things I'm completely morally opposed to are a reflection of me. Of course, if they exist and you define me as everything, then de facto it works. It just obviously doesn't feel like it's appropriate to draw the "me" marker that wide.
If you're talking about how my experience is determined by how I interrelate to certain phenomena, I could get on board. It's tougher when you're saying that I am certain phenomena.
To be honest, I'm not even sure I understand a word I just wrote. It definitely feels like I just engaged in dorm room philosophy. I'll let it sit for a while.
I almost bought the Bruce Lipton book a while back but became discouraged after reading the reviews written by other cellular biologists on Amazon. They didn't have too high of an opinion of him. They thought he was doing a pretty marvelous job of twisting somewhat banal biological facts into supporting a preconceived philosophical viewpoint.