MindStar
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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:
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... 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.
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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.
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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
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[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