Archive for July, 2011
Functional Brain Anatomy
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Coming around full circle; brings us back to neurobiology. A recent book, My Stroke of Insight by neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, recounts the author’s subjective experience
of a massive hemorrhage that systematically extinguished her left brain functions over a period of several hours, leaving her with only right brain consciousness.
Because of […]
Reckless Spiritual Arrogance
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Zen Buddhism warns about a hazardous state of extreme spiritual imbalance that involves getting stuck in the Transcendent realm: a state of total attachment to the Transcendent dimension and denial of the other realms, an intoxicating condition of absolute freedom beyond the law of cause and effect. The affected person […]
Cultural Dissociation
Thursday, July 21st, 2011When a person or a culture attempts to plunge entire realms of experience so deeply into the shadows that their very existence is denied, we have a problem akin to dissociation. Denial of the Karmic, Energetic and Transcendent dimensions in the mainstream culture and especially in the scientific world can be […]
Dissociation and the Transcendent Dimension
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011By its very nature, the Transcendent realm cannot be split into separate parts, so dissociation is impossible within the Transcendent dimension. However, separate voices or split off personalities can develop that limit access to or completely exclude certain dimensions to avoid the threat of overwhelming pain. Since the separate self […]
Moving In And Out Of Our Bodies
Thursday, July 14th, 2011It is generally easier for us to move in and out of our bodies when we are children, adults who survive car accidents or near death experiences will often recall observing the event from outside the body as if they have already died and left the body behind. They notice a […]
Dissociation in the Karmic Dimension
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Many years ago I recalled a medieval past lifetime in which I was a young shepherd boy who lived alone with his father in a remote mountain cabin. Bandits came along one day and broke in, threatening us. One of them swung a club at my father. I jumped in front […]
Benign Ghosts
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Not all attached spirits are negative, sometimes benign ghosts of the dead acting as guardian angels can attach themselves in response to cries for help in crisis situations, imparting the extra energy needed to survive. Psychic practices like trance channeling can also be seen as a benign form of voluntary […]
Dissociation in the Energetic Dimension
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011What if some dissociated voices really do originate outside the self? This is the point at which we leave the conventional dimensions and move into the Energetic realm of unseen presences. In shamanic practice we encounter embedded negative energy forms that float around in the environment and attach themselves to […]