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by Michael A Aquino


  There is one moment in your life, and it can come at any

  time,

  And you remember all of what went on

  From the instant you were born through your early years.

  And if you can fasten on that moment and expand through

  the afterglow,

  You can reverse your mind in time and travel back to when

  The Earth was formed, the sky was born, and the universe

  began.

  You have left your body; return when you may.

  Save it for another day - beyond you.

  - Paul Kantner, Your Mind Has Left Your Body

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  A. MindStar

  How then can each soul find and see itself, since it is a

  singularity which each individual cannot “get outside of”?

  This harks back to philosophers such as Descartes, who

  sought, one might say Quixotically, to “prove” their

  conscious existence. “Proof” is of necessity external, as

  discussed above, so Descartes’ famous Cogito Ergo Sum

  (I think, therefore I am) is futile: It is impossible to

  describe a “thought” which is not the composite of

  external sensory input.

  No, conceptual thought (Kant’s “pure reason”, Plato’s

  nœsis, Nietzsche’s “horizon building”) begins from the

  pure, unsupported apprehension of one’s conscious self

  as an existential reality: the ba of ancient Egypt, the

  psyche of the Greeks, the Golden Flower of the Tao, the

  soul of Judæo-Christianity, identifying, in the words of

  Dr. Raghavan Iyer, “... not the shadowy self or false egoity

  which merely reacts to external stimuli. Rather there is

  that Eye of Wisdom in every person which in deep sleep

  is fully awake and which has a translucent awareness of

  self-consciousness as pure, primordial light.”

  Indeed as this “pure, primordial light” is brought fully

  into focus, none of the above labels seems completely

  adequate or accurate. Some, like Kant’s and Nietzsche’s,

  address expression rather than essence. The Egyptian

  realization of the complete essence was multifold: not

  limited to the ba. For this discussion, therefore, I propose

  a fresh term, inspired by Dr. Iyer’s sublime description

  above:

  - 67 -

  ... being the self-contained, self-sustaining concentration

  of essence which exists as the core of the conscious mind.

  This new term not only frees us from the limitations and

  preconceptualizations of old labels; it is a constant

  reminder that the present examination is a fresh,

  evolutionary one in which we cannot be content to coast

  on inaccurate or inadequate myths or stereotypes.

  Thus emboldened, therefore, let us return to

  anamnesis to address the question of the MindStar’s

  ability to interact with a temporary physical body while

  not itself containing any element of the OU. [In

  conventional conversation this is often referred to as the

  “mind/body problem”.] The key we bring to this lock is

  that of fields.

  B. Fields

  1. Definition

  What exactly is a “field”? When something occurs

  somewhere in the OU because something else happens

  somewhere else in the OU, by no detectible means by

  which the cause produces the effect, the two events are

  said to be connected by a “field” [well-known examples

  being gravity and magnetism].

  Understandably OU scientists don’t like fields. To the

  extent they remain fields in defiance of all attempts to

  connect their events, they are inconvenient and annoying

  refutations of one of the most sacred OU cows: the law of

  cause and effect. Science’s fallback excuse is that the law

  must apply to every field phenomenon too; the medium

  just hasn’t been discovered yet. Sometimes, even more

  desperately, scientists hypothesize completely fantastic

  “missing links”, such as “gravitons”, to emulate Robert

  Anton Wilson’s amusing explanation of conventional

  religious jargon. Leaving both scientists and theologians

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  thrashing about in this terminological quicksand, let us

  proceed to a very special type of field: that integral with

  thehuman body.

  2. Life-Fields

  The human body is an electromagnetic machine. As

  such it both generates and is enveloped by

  electromagnetic fields (EMF), controlling everything

  from heartbeat and respiration to sleep and female

  menstrual cycles.

  To understand the significance of EMFs to the human

  body, it is first necessary to appreciate that each such

  body is not an inert, static clump of permanent matter. It

  is rather an organic complex in a constant state of

  reorganization and reconstitution. For instance, human

  liver and serum proteins are replaced every 10 days, and

  the whole of the proteins in the body about every 160

  days. Moreover these protein molecules are extremely

  complex devices, not mere raw material; not even a single

  amino acid can be out of place in the replacement.

  To put it another way, there are about 60 thousand

  billion cells in the human body, and every day about 500

  billion of these die and are replaced and rebuilt.

  Why? One possibility is that these molecules are so

  complex that they are inherently unstable and thus are

  continuously deteriorating. The metabolic system,

  including the liquid-based transmission of food and raw

  material throughout the body, is a raging furnace of

  consumption and regeneration.

  How does the body know precisely how to recreate

  each cell and molecule? It cannot be within the object

  itself, because an object cannot “organize itself”.

  The answer lies in the existence of an entire layered

  network of EMFs throughout and within the body,

  altogether comprising a “master plan” EMF for it. Dr.

  - 69 -

  Harold Saxon Burr, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, Yale

  School of Medicine, named this the L-Field (for “Life-

  Field”/LF). 30

  In the case of the human body, its organizing system

  cannot be chemical, because then that system itself would

  be subject to the same entropic process. Hence there is

  more to a human being than mere chemistry. It requires

  an organizing field, not merely an accidental

  accumulation of proteins; thus the notion of “gene

  randomness” is invalid.

  3. Telos

  Organization inherently requires preconception

  based upon purpose. Conventional academic doctrine is

  that living beings’ purpose is selectively the result of

  environmental survival needs: Darwinian “natural

  selection”: There is no inherent purpose to life-forms

  beyond passive/reactive survival, avoidance of pain,

  seeking of pleasure, and instinct to reproduce.

  Prior to Darwin’s theory of passive natural selection,

  the French biologist Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829),

  while not denying such passive evolution, augmented it

  with what he term
ed “soft evolution” (in modern parlance

  “Lamarckism”). According to this theory, characteristics

  developed or acquired by a given living being can be

  inherited by its progeny, thus adding the element of

  intentional purpose to evolution.

  If Lamarckism is allowed to operate according to

  human intellectual will, of course, then the principle of

  purpose on the individual human scale is established.

  This in turn suggests that there may be a greater element

  of purpose above and beyond the individual.

  30 Burr, Dr. Harold Saxon, The Fields of Life: Our Links with the

  Universe. NY: Ballantine Books #23559, 1972.

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  While heretical to the Darwinian establishment, such

  a master-principle of purpose was neither unknown nor

  repugnant to the ancients, who by the time it had reached

  Greece from Egypt referred to it as telos.

  Teleology is the doctrine that final causes of

  phenomena exist. Further that purpose and design are a

  part of or are apparent in nature. Further that

  phenomena are not only guided by mechanical forces

  (e.g. passive natural seletion), but also move towards

  certain goals of self-realization.

  The opposite of teleology is mechanism, which

  describes phenomena in terms of prior causes instead of

  their presumed destination or fulfillment. [Modern

  science is thus mechanistic.]

  The existence of Life-Fields establishes that humanity

  is teleological, not mechanistic, in its physical design and

  development. The species is not a “random OU accident”

  just stumbling onward through equally-haphazard

  “survival of the fittest”. This simple and obvious truth is

  shattering to mechanistic science, because it inevitably

  mandates an intelligence establishing and guiding the

  telos: the Egyptian neteru, Pythagorean/Platonic Forms,

  or in vulgar simplification “gods/God”.

  But the scientists’ teleological nightmare gets worse

  [or better, depending upon one’s point of view] ...

  4. Thought-Fields

  As it turns out, human thought also has the properties

  of a field. While Dr. Burr was conducting his 40 years of

  research regarding what would eventually emerge as L-

  Fields, other academicians were examining mental

  activity and discovering that it too does not behave as a

  “linear machine” [as, for instance, electronic computers

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  running programs of “artificial intelligence”]. 31 Among

  these findings:

  (1) Memory is not localized in the brain, except

  where it is connected to a very immediate,

  specific, and continuous sensory function

  (e.g. perception of heat). Destroying select,

  even major areas of the brain does not have

  a traceable effect upon the general memory

  function; other parts of the brain simply

  “take over”, and even appear to be re-

  learning and re-refining supposedly-excised

  m e m o r i e s . I f t h e s o u r c e f o r s u c h

  reacquisition is not physical, then it defaults

  to a field phenomenon.

  (2) Access to memories is also non-linear. One

  may forget what one had for dinner the

  previous evening, while having a crystal-

  clear recall of information/imagery decades

  previously. The process by which memories

  are so assorted [as it is a grey-scale

  spectrum, not an either/or action] remains

  unknown.

  (3) Memory access is instantaneous, its age or

  complexity notwithstanding. This again is

  non-linear, as computers must go through

  31 Dr. Harold Saxon Burr’s L-Field research was summed up in his

  The Fields of Life: Our Links with the Universe (NY: Ballantine

  Books #23559, 1972). The first collection of research extending this

  “fields” concept to thought was Design for Destiny by Edward W.

  Russell (NY: Ballantine Books #23405, 1971). Russell was a former

  newspaper reporter with an interest in speculative science. While it is

  admittedly hypothetical, Russell does a commendable and exhaustive

  job of identifying and citing both scientific and philosophical sources.

  - 72 -

  selection/exclusion sequences to answer

  memory-questions.

  (4) As Plato illustrated in the Meno, the

  underlying basis of all knowledge - the

  primal building-blocks upon which learning

  and reasoning depend for their accuracy

  and coherence - are inherent to each

  incarnate intelligence: anamnesis -

  “recollective awareness of the neteru/

  Forms”. In non-metaphysical terms,

  humans know “instinctively” whether they

  are thinking reasonably and with validity.

  [This is not the same thing, obviously, as

  processing thoughts on the basis of invalid

  information.]

  Of course much of what humans know as day-to-day

  thought is [at least assumed as] linear [the precise term

  being “algorithmic”]. Human brains coast through each

  day largely on sensory stimulus/response “autopilot”,

  about 95% of which is subconscious. If the avalanche of

  daily sensory data had to be dealt with consciously,

  anything resembling normal human activity would be

  quite impossible.

  As with Dr. Burr’s L-Fields, Mr. Russell’s “T-Fields”

  met with something less than thunderous enthusiasm in

  established/conventional scientific circles. It was bad

  enough for Burr to discover an external and purposeful

  intelligence behind human OU/bodily organization and

  evolution. It was far worse for the most essential

  elements of individual human presence-of-mind to be

  completely removed from the physical brain. In this

  devastating one/two blow, Darwinian mechanism had

  been completely exploded, with the terrible spectres of

  “intelligent design” and a metaphysical “soul” returning

  - 73 -

  [absent Judæo-Christian trappings] from their post-

  Enlightenment banishment.

  As these [re]discoveries could not be invalidated or

  discredited, they met with the academic establishment’s

  fallback response: they were simply and persistently

  ignored.

  Except, of course, here.

  C. Egyptian MindStar Emanations

  To this point we have first cleared away the

  conventional religious and materialistic wreckage from

  the popular concept of the “soul”, and established both

  the metaphysical existence of the MindStar (MS) and its

  means of interaction with the OU brain and body.

  We are now in a position to identify the elements or

  “emanations” of the MS as the Egyptians apprehended

  them. This is thus the “core” of this book, but it cannot be

  overemphasized that this is not a mere recitation for the

  reader’s bemusement. It is a doorway, a map, by which

  the individual can redirect the power of discretionary

  consciousness to its source, purification, and realization

  of immortality.
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  Each of the following eight emanations proceeds from

  the [more] OU-linked to the [more] SU-linked.

  Predictably this makes the more basic ones that much

  easier to identify based on their familiar, if subconscious

  OU-usage. A comparison may be made to Plato’s

  “pyramid of thought”, which in his Dialogues he stratified

  as Eikasia (primitive emotion), Pistis (ordinary active/

  reactive thinking), Dianoia (precise, logical, enlightened

  thought), and Nœsis (intuition and apprehension of the

  Ultimate Good ( Agathon).

  The Egyptian priesthoods knew that each living

  creature was possessed of several existence-emanations

  above and beyond the metabolic mind/body. All sentient

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  beings possess the first four ( khat, ren, khabit, ab).

  Beings endowed with the Gift of Set (awareness of isolate

  self-consciousness) the next two ( ba, ka) as well as in

  those of initiatory capacity and attainment the next one

  ( sekhem), and in unique instances the ultimate one ( akh).

  Accordingly each of the following expositions is meant

  not just as something to be read, but as a personal

  application exercise. Upon being alerted to each

  emanation, redirect your thought “inward” until you find

  and recognize it in yourself. You may be surprised at how

  effortless this is. [As effortless and self-evident, indeed, as

  all of the “great truths” presented in MindStar, each of

  which you find, perhaps to your surprise, that you “know

  already”. Welcome to anamnesis.] It is a gateway, a map

  to your personal Grail Castle. Once you know that it exists

  and is there to be quested and found, you have only to:

  Descende, audas viator, et terrestre centrum

  attinges. Kod feci.

  Descend, audacious traveler, and you will reach

  the center of the Earth. I did it.

  Arne Saknussemm, in

  Jules Verne,

  Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864

  1. Khat

  The body-emanation. The khat is integral with the

  being’s physical body, and is the original of what later,

  lesser cultures would represent as the “energy body”,

  “body of light”, “astral body”, etc. In current field theory

  it constitutes the life-field of the person, controlling and

  directing its material counterpart’s organization,

  regeneration, and span of existence. During physical life

  it is coextensive with its material counterpart. After

 

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