That is a pretty pretentious subject, I know. But the subject and the placement in this folder may become clear over time.
This is a stab at creating something of a grand unifying theory. A theory which ties together various subject matter of interest to me. I can prove little to none of this. It simply resonates with my limited human programming and desire to understand the world around me.
Mostly, I am writing this to capture my thoughts. But of course my friends in the Mist are welcome to read and comment.
Haisch's God Theory
In short, Haisch believes that there was an all powerful, all knowing entity, the God Head. The God Head was unfullfilled. After all, being all powerful and all knowing it had no way to experience the unknown and grow in any fashion.
So the God Head created our universe. It did this to create a self sustaining system that would support life. This life would experience things, good things and bad things. This life would engage in various actions and learning experiences. Again, some good some bad. The God Head was unconcerned about the good or bad of it. The God Head was interested in experiencing life through its "children".
Robert Monroe, Someone and Loosh
In Robert Monroe's 2nd book, he discussed an elaborate experience where he receives a rote that explains the purpose and origins of the Earth. In short, "Someone" decided to create a truely self sustaining and slowly developing world which was capable of providing energy. This energy, which is really emotion and experience is called loosh. Now it appears that this energy/force in the form of both positive or negative emotions, both map into this thing called loosh. Humans seem the most capable of generating it, and the premier form of loosh, pure/refined loosh if you will, is generated by love.
I find this to be an interesting theory. It implies that this handwaving description of mental energy that we refer to, may be more literal than we've long given it credit for. It also fits in with my hypothesis that mental energy is in fact a literal "force" in the dreampace. One which is coupled with electricity in our waking reality space.
Buddhism and Karma
OK. We can write volumes on this subject. I will boil it down. When we have experiences, we react in some physical and emotional way. There is a tendancy to create karmic threads based on these reactions. Our reactions in dreams, also have a propensity to either create or destroy these karmic threads. The more karmic threads we hold onto, the deeper and more caught up in life's fantasy we become.
Buddhism, to a large degree is about mental training, and the elimination of karmic threads. These threads do nothing but obscure the true understanding of our own minds and the purpose for our being here. The lucid dream world of course becomes a wonderful forum in which to eliminate karmic threads. It also serves to give us practice for the world we will enter upon death. The Bardos of death are said to be very much like the dream world. If one can eliinate negative and positive karma and master the dream world, they stand a good chance of transcending this world altogether, avoiding another reincarnation onto earth and entering a realm we'll simply refer to as Nirvana.
PSI
Again, one can read and write volumes on the subject. Let's take it as a reasonable fact that there do seem to be mental interconnections between people. These connections seem stronger among people who are more physically or emotionally linked. Yes. But they seem to exist between more arbitrarily related people are well.
Making our own Reality, Positive and Negative Trends
I'm not a huge fan of Oprah, but I do know she spends a lot of energy focusing on the subject of making your own reality. I've been around for 42 years. I have a fair amount of life experience. Enough to say ... that there does in fact seem to be something to this concept. It seems very easy to get locked into a negative trend, and have everything around you slowly fall apart. Conversely, we sometimes have very positive trends. All of the things in our lives slowly support one another and build continued success and support of our goals and desires.
It's seems to be an issue of momentum. But if we are truely making our own reality, it must be deeper than that. We must be influencing people and forces around us in some sense, such that the possible outcomes which affect our reality, gravitate in our favor. Again, this issue of interconnection.
With that said, aren't these trends wonderful loosh producers?
Dreaming and Loosh Feedback
So, why do we dream? When I read Haisch's book, I proposed a theory. I still like it by the way, though I think it requires expansion, which I will do here.
If you believe that the God Head Created us, then you must also think it's reasonable that we have an inherent need/desire/programming to create as well. Our dream world gives us a chance to project and create and allows us to experience things we otherwise would be unable to given the limited physics of waking reality space. So there is a nested relationship here. The God Head creates us as a projection of itself. We exist and provide experiential feedack to the Godhead. We furthermore, project and create and then receive deeper experiential feedback from our own creations of our mind.
Yes, this issue of feedback. Let's look deeper into that point. Let me also point out the obvious. Haisch's theory and the loosh concept are quite consistent.
So, what if the production of loosh is not unidirectional. If it exists at all, then you believe that the "God Head" or "Someone" absorbs and uses it in some sense. Well, wouldn't it make sense to modify our reality based on the received loosh? Maybe the God Head takes action, or maybe their is an autonomous feedback mechanism in place to modify our reality based on the need for maximal loosh generation. After all, loosh production would only improve if the factors that created it in the first place were enhanced. Positive trends would be outstanding loosh producers. Even negative trends would produce a fair amount of the stuff (volume would be good, but negative emotion based loosh is not as pure).
Let's say this feedback mechanism takes the form of mental interconnection. If I have a very positive trend goind on, I am producing lots of loosh. I transmit the factors that support this condition. The people around me are sensitive to this transmisison if only on a subconsouu level. There would be a tendency to influence their actions to continue to allow my positive trend of loosh production. Now to be clear. I am not suggesting that I can override their needs based on my requirements to product loosh. For example, if my loosh feedback mechansim required a friend to give up his job so I would get it. Well then clearly his own loosh production would suffer and my feedback mechansim could not possibly override that influence.
So I view this as a very complex set of multidimensional interdependencies. I propose that PSI is a manifestation of this system. I further propose that we do, in a very real sense influence our realities. But these influences are subtle. We can only influence in so much as we can affect some number of people and circumstances around us. Though it is unlikley we can truely override their needs and desires in the process.
Now, let's go back to Buddhism. If we can eliminate karmic threads and understand the ture nature of the human mind, then what has happened:
We've become lousy loosh producers.
There is very llittle need to have this person around anymore. They earn their place in Nirvana and move on.
The Non-Linearity of Space and Time
OK, many have discussed the apparent non-linearity of space/time which is realilzed in dreams, and most probably life itself.
What if our experiences could in fact feedback into the relative past. How would this manifest? Is there a mechanism in place, beyond the apparent mental inter-person inteconnection, that can influence our actions at any arbitrary perceived point in time?
What if our projections (dreams - literal and figurative, visions, desires) could in fact be read by the God Head. Would this entity feedback these actions and guide us in some sense, so as to maximize the likelihood of reaching that dream, that goal?
What would that feel like? Well, maybe it's a string of gut feelings. Maybe it's a series of dreams. Maybe it's a type of dream you've been having over and over again, which facilitates an investigation and understanding of this process. In short, it's divine intervention, in some way shape or form.
But such interventiojn would certainly not be obvious. It would manifest as a desire to read a particualr book. Or a gut feeling that such and such dream was important. Or a subtle interest in some technology. Maybe it's a feeling that a set of experiences have a deeper meaning than is obvious one. Maybe it's an effort by the God Head to direct you, and place you into a position where maximum loosh can be generated. After all, understanding the nature of your mind has the potential to create unlimited bliss. This bliss would indeed be a very refined form of loosh.
But therein lie the consequences. If one did truely tune into these messages, this guidance, and achieve this state, loosh production would thrive. But it would also meet its demise upon death. But that too, must be part of the cycle. The human reaches it's peak loosh production, then leaves this space entirely, bypassing reincarnation and the next trip through.
