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Chapter Two
Our Superconscious Powers
Living This Life with Our Afterlife in Mind
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I traveled through my spinal cord to my
extremities. I went down my right leg no problem. I tried to go down my
left leg but there was no connection to my leg. I came up through my
viscera and into my heart, circled my ribcage, down my arms and back into
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The Eternal Self. Do we ever cease to exist?
In order to deal with this question we would naturally seek advice from science. Unfortunately most scientists believe in the dust-to-dust Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Thankfully, however, there is the white light of the reports of the continued existence of the self after so-called "death." More than ten million have been collected on various websites. These reports have been made by persons who are generally unknown to one another, and the vast majority of the reports are not religious in nature. Here are three. The reader is urged to read a hundred more.
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"I saw everything is alive, intelligent and conscious, even the light itself."—Gregg "I was floating above the water, looking down at my body laying on the beach."—Mark "I was not alone but saw no one. I was not afraid. It was as if someone said, 'See.'"—Dave |
Our publisher, research psychologist Dan Mahony, has examined hundreds of afterlife reports. He claims that at least three things can be said of nearly all of them:
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The self continues to exist after "death." Other selves exist in the afterlife. There is communication among selves in the afterlife. |
Reaching Our Superconscious Powers. Perhaps the large number and the independence of individual afterlife reports serve as an argument that the self is infinite. So perhaps the self's highest powers—god—exist both in this life and in the afterlife at the same time. As gods we naturally we want to be able to utilize such great powers.
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"We come into life having knowledge which we acquired before birth, and afterwards we recover that which we previously knew. That which we call learning is a process of recovering our knowledge. "―Socrates "Superconscious: that level of the unconscious which generates all that is highest and most meaningful for a human being."―Roberto Assagioli "It has also been called the 'universal subconscious mind' and the 'collective unconscious.' The great Austrian psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, referred to this as the 'superconscious mind'. He felt that the collective wisdom and knowledge of all the ages was contained in this superconscious mind and was available to everyone. Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to it as the 'oversoul' and wrote: 'We live in the lap of an immense intelligence that, when we are in its presence, we realize that it is far beyond our human mind'."―Brian Tracy "Hindu psychology recognizes three states of mind―the unconscious or the subconscious, the conscious, and the superconscious."―Oneness Committment "Tragedy and comedy, in fact, all the higher forms of art, free man from the bonds of his finite individuality, and through laughter and tears reveal to him by immediate intuition the infinity of his larger self."―Boris Sidis |
Some afterlife reports suggest that imagination is the reality of afterlife existence, so it is logical that we try to reach our superconscious using our imagination.
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Imagine sitting alone in a classroom. At the front is an empty blackboard. Have a teacher appear at the blackboard. Allow whoever appears to be the teacher. Ask the teacher a question. Then have the teacher write an answer on the blackboard. Allow whatever happens to happen. Or try this: Do the same, but now imagine a person in the afterlife who you knew to appear at the blackboard. Maybe this: Make a calendar with each week or month consisting of a new path, a new spiritual guide, a new belief system, etc. After a year you may be much more knowledgeable about choosing a path or a branch from your path. After all it was only one year. Or perhaps create an appointment book with scheduled exercises from many different paths to personal growth, day to day, week to week, month to month. Maybe even this: Another way to choose a path is to use a random method of selection. One of the ways the scientist insures the objectivity of an experiment is through the use of the random sample. Make a mental list of different paths and then roll imaginary dice to choose one. After spending some time on that path, make a new list of paths connecting to the one you are on and then roll the mental dice again. Or perhaps stay on the path a while longer. You can even use the mental dice to decide whether or not to stay on the same path a while longer: even number stay, odd number stray. Use your imagination to invent your own exercises either as variations of the above or completely different. Do one, some, or all of the above at least once per day for at least a month. Better still, just do them. |
One Esther Hicks says she gets messages from a gods in the afterlife who have formed a group they call "Abraham." They seem to say we are gods. (See Wikipedia.) We excerpt here those of her / their thoughts we think support the idea we are gods.
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You are a Physical Extension of that which is Non-physical. |
Priests Mullahs Gurus and Guides. All too often we confuse the power of knowledge itself with the personal power of a teacher who passes powerful knowledge along to us. The result of this confusion, all too often, is that we "follow" guides and gurus and the like.
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":Even if a teacher has achieved a high degree of personal evolution, this does not mean that said teacher will be able to cause any student to do the same. Teachers may work well on themselves, but that does not mean they be able to help anyone else."—Will Rike |
On the other hand, whether ahead or behind us, still a particular teacher might prove helpful. So here is a possible strategy: our accumulated knowledge and/or superconscious powers may be able to help us decide whether to stay with a teacher for a shorter time or longer time. The reader might want to use the above exercises to assess a particular teacher. But sooner or later we must return to the path under foot and leave the teacher's sphere of influence. As they say: "take the knowledge and run;" "it's not the college it's the knowledge."
Forming Support Groups. At first we considered urging any
reader who might come to agree that he or she is a god, not to form any
organization for such a purpose of spreading this idea. The last thing the we
gods need is another religious organization. The ideas in this book should be
cast off to sink or swim on their own. No?
On the other hand, there is the power that a supportive community can give
to willing participants. Should individual gods, who agree with the
idea that they are indeed gods, form communities for supportive purposes
such as to further their personal
evolution?
It has been
suggested to us that the best type of community for such a purpose should be
structured like the various addiction recovery groups which typically describe
themselves as follows:―
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There are no social, religious, economic, racial, ethnic, national, gender, or class-status membership restrictions. There are no dues or fees. Most members regularly contribute small sums to help cover the expenses of meetings, but such contributions are not mandatory. The organization itself is non-religious, and each member is encouraged to cultivate an individual understanding—religious or not—of “spiritual awakening." Central is the emphasis on practicing spiritual principles. |
Such a self-governed federation of individuals, without a wealth & power hierarchy, might escape the fate of the many dysfunctional religion corporations described by Dan Mahony in his Wealth & Power: Assets or Addictions?
The reader is, however, urged not to urge anyone else to accept this idea.
How Else Might We Seek Guidance? Perhaps the power of prayer derives from our superconscious too. Using our imagination we might:
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Appeal to gods we know in this life. |
"The hardest path to find is under foot." Every one of us lives within a locality that contains a continuity of modern and ancient energy. Yet too often we seek wisdom elsewhere in the world. Perhaps we can access right under our feet a powerful energy deep within our locality.
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"American Indian mysticism is not something alien from American culture. It's a deep submerged hidden root of it."—Robert Pirsig |
Americans, for example, might be able to access the spirituality under foot of the great Penacook Federation. Without doubt its greatest contribution to the world was its discovery and continuation of government by consent of the governed. This principle was eagerly adopted by the European immigrants who were warmly welcomed into the Penacook homelands of what we now know as New England. The flags of the early Euro-American governments often displayed images of Native Americans or their symbols. Today twenty-six of the United States have names derived from Native-American words, and government-by-consent-of-the-governed continues to be "the shot heard round the world."
But perhaps an even more important aspect of Native American wisdom is the idea that our superconscious powers include the control of nature itself. The godly accomplishments of Jesus are well documented; less known are those of Passaconaway, the great leader of the Penacooks (see Trees Danced). (See also America's Search for Liberty in Song and Poem.)
Reverence Replaces Worship. Reverence is the application of pure intention and care in all of one's actions. We must revere each other as gods. We must approach everything we do with reverence in our hearts and minds. The following compilation of dictionary definitions may help us better understand reverence.
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"To honor, admire, esteem, regard, respect, appreciate, cherish, prize, treasure, value, exalt, magnify, enjoy, regard as worthy of great honor, admire profoundly and respectfully, with a corresponding depth of feeling, tenderness of feeling, presuppose an intrinsic merit and inviolability in that which is honored, express in words or ceremony implying love."—Selected Webster's and Oxford English definitions |
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