December 2018
Two track mindfulness, one a constructive labor, continuing to experiment, now with a “geo radiator”, while the deeper mindfulness focuses on wisdom of ages, (via PDF books read to me on mp3 headphones, thanks to technologies enabling the public internet). Here is my summary for 2018, a year of studying some particularities of the Theosophical movement, the worlds first eastern and western wisdom-integration by people who were determined to push through the misguided authoritarianism of the old world establishment, fossilized beleif systems.This well intended attempt deserves tolerant appreciation, even if it could not attain the stellar goal, (just then in the late 1800s).
A 2018 impression follows: The human condition seems trapped by habitual or emotional situations, like stuck-songs, when songs become stuck in the head. Some people are fooled by externally monopolized desires, or otherwise by overwhelming beliefs, or even kept away by confining world views. This might explain why few people develop an interest to explore options of focused consciousness development. The life energy to be gained with this development is unknown until the study is invested in a workable system. Some good life views struck home.
There are better ways forward, beyond stuck-consciousness, which can wear out heart and soul. Such automatism, (the performance of actions without conscious thought or intention), can erode free will and waste away a lifetime. Claims of spiritual liberation have provoked me to continually search for evidence of real advancement, however futile such hopes may have seemed. Wide ranging searches derived a sense of humanity’s struggling reach. Or if mankind was really detained and indulged, could we opt out? Are human life situations too adverse to consider an advancing and developing consciousness?
Perhaps it was only through mp3 audio replayed many times at manual labor tasks, that insights were sparked resonantly and gradually energizing a focus on theosophical texts. It became evident that this movement truly tested parts of wisdom even if its free-willed members lost sight of the unifying purpose and definitions, and therfore never developed a precisely consistent termonology which should have advabced more insights.
Disregarding that, it did inspire much needed discourse between Asian consciousness development and western scientific methodology which has done much much good for our planet earth. Widespread questioning of entrenched dogmas did actually begin, with many authors and presenters who spouted out their own versions of wisdom soon thereafter, and sometimes with tid bits of theosophy. Public thought was loosened up, at the same time that mass production of books diverted eyes from previously overwhelming theology of the west. Asia had its own upheavals within its own diverse cultures. After its internal disruption and final loss of unity, Theosophy became partly open sourced, using differently proposed expressions, instead of commonly shared explanations.
An edited theosophical extract may say: humans beings are born to inhabit several adjoined bodies, not just one body, where birthing immerses us into a physical body, plus the emotional body, plus the mental body, which all connected together equals one human being. Westernized thinking could thereafter release further from fossilized belief systems, thanks to the usefully experimental theosophical movement.
We may then consider the ancient, yogic notions of absorption into (emotional) subjectivism, which eventually claimed that matter we perceive is illusion, with various teachings bearing Sanskrit terms of much earlier traditions, (whose original meanings might differ), and the (modernized) term 'maya' became popular around the 1960s, when eastern philosophies were becoming very popular among the young people, who became attracted to yoga.
Parallel with particular yogic notions of illusory reality, (implying physical-matter is an illusion), we see a modern, technologized claim that reality is a simulation, (comparable to a computer game, instead of real physical existence). Liberation of thought may be good, but people might still be vulnerable to the next attractive framework they fall into.
Nevertheless your writer here tried out a variety of practices through intervening decades of study, along with a practical discipline of shifting mental focus while physically laboring. Refining life's purpose refined skills and perspectives, not the least of which were the abilities to multi-task life's duties, develop our homestead, earn some income, and develop some consciousness.
This expression "consciousness development" was found central in hylozoic essays, and immediately made sense from a seeker's perspective. Developing a three way balance of mental + emotional + physical bodies would be key. This validated all the earlier struggles, regardless of so many errors and lost causes. Emotionalized convictions had impeded the mentalized rationality, and the naturally developable-evolution. This is the preferable lesson and aim of east-west cooperation towards enlightment,(beyond the traditional entrapments which have typically stifled development of cosmic consciousness).
This balance of the three-part human is key to beginning transcendence, (graduating beyond reincarnation system, or "that trap" as some do feel unfairly stuck). Starting in the current life, we may prepare for the cosmic ladder of advancing life experiences, (as described by Pythagoreans, a close ancestor of Theosophy). This book study, along with practical application of such principles highly energized the work at hand.
We can free ourselves, but a person may benefit from a big energizer to jumpstart this sort of wisdom with an effective customization, to meet their particular requirements. One shoe never fits all people. My whole life had been nudging myself onward, seeking workable solutions along thenlighmentese lines. I know how unpopular such a study is as there are confusingly comparable, or emotionally-alluring, or simply lacking the individualized contexts, such that one is largely left alone to choose among them, and typically without a community working to help one another.
This is written as an encouragement, that a person can approach this realm solo, or with some tangible, human assistance. As a whole, humans have been recycling,(reincarnating), backwards, without advancing cosmically. We are spared of seeing thousands of previous incarnations which were a bit lagging, but now westerners are encouraged to awaken cosmically, by learning about balance.
Progress continues with puzzling together the meaning of life. Why should we develop consciousness? How would consciousness develop further? I found a tenable resource to share and it proposes a boundless spectrum of progress on our planet earth. It's not on TV, it's not on top sites, but it is easily found on the right links.
I read Pythagorean-hylozoics, non-stop for only four months before beginning this writing, and my understanding was still preliminary and it took a long time to finally edit this text accordingly. Having previously read from a very wide selection of sources, dating back to my youth in the 1960s, has stimulated my appetite for Laurency's works at first sight, just this year. I recommend this book for people wondering about their meditation options.
Food For Thought 
As an example of physical work mentioned earlier: We grow our tomatoes very rustically here, with low maintenance gardening. Life is too short for materialistic perfection. Exercising the body with many kinds of critical chores, provides freedom for that text-to-audio listening,(on small headphones).
Laurency's works are online for greater consciousness development thanks to the fine English language translations, by Adelskogh. A great digital-voice was found, with a relaxed English ancient, by the Mac app called Ghostreader, while we also have to tolerate a lack of refined grammatically correct reading with this 10 year old app.
This "less abstract" PDF book: "The Explanation" uses more common terms, for an easier introduction. I love all levels of explanations, as additional contexts can help convey such essential meanings.
Pythagoras is still with us, in more ways than one. Following is Lars Adelskogh's book on some key parts of Pythagorean hylozoics. An excerpt clarifies our human state of existence, in the original Pythagorean form. Following is a more developed context on active meditation, it struck me as an ultimate resource for contemporary consciousness development. May we liberate ourselves from misleading doctrines of old, with rationality.
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For all details, find the copyrighted PDF books,
available as free downloads from
http://www.laurency.com/
Translations of texts into other languages are found on this website.
http://www.hylozoik.se/english/english.htm
Lars Adelskogh translated all the texts of Henry T. Laurency, into English. (I do not understand Swedish). The original Swedish versions of Laurency's books, were initially introduced in the 1950s and were soon suppressed by marketers and those ones who hate real progress in consciousness development. This has been typical for planet earth, but concentrating on this subject will help heal our troubled times.
I listen to spoken texts read to me during regular tasks, as a gradual flow of hundreds of listening hours, heard successively with many replays, to train "my selves", (the word ‘envelopes’ is used for selves, as esoterics will explain higher perspectives of carefully defined words which can clarify intricate knowledge).
These envelopes are Laurency's word-meaning, referring to the usual, internal, faculties of humans, the emotionality, the physicality, and the mentality, each of which compile general consciousness and dominate human attention, which comprise one’s time on earth, but habituation under-developes higher possibilities which humans have. Instead, we humans maintain the elementary qualities of life (through the eons, through which humanity has existed, according to esoterics). Human evolution has been stuck in this primitive life habituation, instead of using the inherent possibilities as can be studied in hylozoics. We have better ways to remedy this situation today. I am barely beginning to understand these teachings and to understand that passive methods of meditation, at best, reach stages of mysticism, or sainthood, but lack the scientific balance. Pythagoras clarified, that "spirit is the same as the consciousness of matter". This key aspect has been lost for thousands of years, except in little known teachings, esoterics, (and not to be confused with the onrush of authors who too easily miss and lack this particularized knowledge). Today the comprehensive version is here, currently based in western languages, without need to constantly translate eastern languages for reading their forms of basics. Hylozoic basics are found here" laurency.com.
I study deep subjects while gardening, and just cut the weedy vines at the base, where these interfere with good crops, and wish the natural pests would do this weeding, in exchange for favors. Is human capability too primitive, to make synergetic relationships possible? Bring such harmony to earth?
Raising our consciousness development might open possibilities. Provide keys to develop better living-processes, if we reach for better guidance from higher planes. If we actually discover the tools of causality. Humans fell away from higher consciousness development. Yet consciousness development which is work towards internally for one and all.I accept that earlier meditation practices very likely missed key parts, which are now available. These were held back by higher selves, (beings, 'monads' in hylozoics), because free-will lost its way. This hylozoic system connects particular advances of western scientific and eastern consciousness with Pythagorean additives, all unified together, to be internally exercised, as a further result, of reading texts by Laurency, Adelskogh (and possibly earlier related works of esoterics, from the east and the west).
Many esoteric authors have covered some of this subject area, but Laurency and Adelskogh clinch the best way to expand consciousness development, by adding more expedient methodology. As human development has been too wild and stray, without such guidance.
The original founder, as a person, was Pythagoras, whose poor-reception in our world, has indicated that humans would need extensive self development, before reconnecting with higher-evolutionary realms. Much more is clarified in the books. A " hierarchy of further developed selves" invites humans to graduate consciously, successionally, to higher unified states above the singular-self-consciousness, to higher kinds of selves, to find unity, (instead of constantly overplaying the lower competitive states of life, as most humans have held on to, so far). There is no publicly-active-corporation of this today, no authoritarian control to mandate this process. Discussion and groups are unofficially-open-sourced and can become based on Laurency’s epic works, now published in several international languages. An internal association with higher selves may grow. Ultimately a higher organization for humanity may come of it, from my understanding so far.
Individuals or groups are free to study, practice and possibly present the content to others and to mutually develop consciousness, further. Yet we are seriously warned to expect the powers that be, in all its guises, to complicate true self-conscious development. We are not to robotize our selves or to fear, but rather to steer energies above the diaphragm, to finally overcome the pitfalls of our nerve centers below, from the addictive passions below the diaphragm, (any of the physically addictive habits generally). Our heart center needs to focus on higher nerve centers of the body. Humanity needs to develop higher emotional states.
Why is society suffering without natural, rational, healing efforts? I look at some problematic influences which could be handled. On the societal side of the equation we may see:
globalist hoarding of resources
mass produced obsolescence in products
dictatorial enforcement of low standards
globally promoted, backward materialism
hoarding of fake economic values
Only raised consciousness can perceive the roots of problems and remedy the chaos. Obsolescence builds massive land fill dumps, promotes war industries and pollutes the whole world, dwindling our natural resources.
Recently, the plastic recycling market has been largely diminished locally! Suddenly this summer, most of the trashed plastics are no longer accepted for recycling, because it is not profitable and subsidies are short lived. How is it that industrialist cannot see the responsibility for this, along with financiers and government with massive military wastes.
Absorption in the Pythagorean readings this summer had to navigate through a variety of complex studies simultaneously. This helped tolerate labor endurance which otherwise can seem dreary. Some of the work in system changes are briefly described in succession, as follows. First is the biggest physical system, with it's progress challenges:
After a winter of uselessly building a more traditional heat exchanger system, a simplified, partially geothermal heat pump system was pondered and innovated. The product selection was not ideal as generic, "water to water heat pumps" are rare. That means a lot of guesswork and results were lacking. Actually most heating systems are sold to boost oil and centralized monopolies. The oil industry conducted civilization into a larger, wasteful monopoly.
Only recently have heat pumps been made popular in the market, but using cold air as the heat source, and during the coldest northern temperatures, the promoted air-to-air heat pumps loose their advantage of economy during the coldest periods. So backups like resistance heaters or stoves are preferable. We happen to have plenty of well water for heat sourcing, which keeps the heatpump far more economical than extracting heat from extremely cold air. This was the motivation to attempt experimentation with geothermal innovations.
Installation began with the general idea in my inadequate installer manual. My pre installation questions to the vendor went mostly unanswered and limited rules were resorted to. Finally, after installation, my start up tests developed problems. Finally they got someone to answer this type of call. I just couldn't find the specific settings for the specific pump, nor an overview for diverse installation examples. I was amazed that progress is so chancy in our world, held back by lack of clearer specifications and generic hardware applicability in the efficiency-marketing systems. So it is left to us to discover better directions during our short life times.
Chancing at guesses for unlisted pressure settings, the heating finally functioned for a while. It turned out that far more capacity and far less line resistance was actually key. I had splurged six months on guesses and errors. So now a smile was needed to "learn the hard way", about the closest available system design for our home upgrading. Here was the gratifying innovation experience, the parts that work well:
I explore creative ways to innovate construction methods. I avoid costs and reduce pollution, by avoiding the polished result and by using some salvaged materials. Multi- functional parts also "builds more with less". Results usually look crude and cheap, but these results cause less pollution of the earth. Modern consumers have no awareness of the ongoing ecocide resulting from the modern, marketed life styles. One's hands seem to learn this style of building and repair, while one's mind is freer to explore for deeper knowledge.
My long drawn out winter project, provided exercise for the body and mind and some more provoking reading. Listening to books downloaded from the internet, as PDFs, and then converting these into mp3s, to play on mp3 headphones.
I had an opportunity to split my focus on two endeavors, through the quite of a winter, enabling me to get some physical labor done. I could manage multi-processing my brain, to make better use of time in the physical world. Working somewhat detached on a geothermal heating system without sufficient research before hand, resulting in the wrong approach. Later on I dismantled the pictured heat exchanger .
January 2018: I
love the awareness spurts which seems to open up, in some dream
visions. Most nights i still have my older, basic dream style.
These were usually reviewing life refections. In my dreams, the
unrelenting prototype-builder struggles to perfect things, within
the imperfect universe. See if materialism becomes improved. I strove to become a better dream observer, by voice-activated recorder to clarify audible dream occurrences.
I start 2018 sharing my learning from "The Real Unuverse", which was an oddly-surfer-slanged presentation. We can disregard the focussed narcism and plagiarism (lacking attributions), if the content eventually maps out dead end roads, to avoid. I tolerated this style with patience, to consider its accounts of the 'astral' or emotional world, which indicate prisons of lowered emotionality. His fantasy as a norm indicates trapped worlds of lower emotionality.
One dimensional thinking enslaves us. Two dimensional projection decorates our illusive indulgences. Coming soon may follow three dimensional projections, as this lab demonstration reveals ,( already). Projectors of belief & simulation are powerfully pushed in this world. Do people learn and expand awareness? Are we conned?. . . Are we strung along?.... Are we 'taplined'? . . . (Some of the books jargon).
Is reincarnation a trap? (I explored these kinds of explanations for a while, but felt that the NU Presentation used fanciful distractions, targeting the unaware consumer-oriented-masses. The trap-bait attempts to distract people from truer guidance.)
I was fortunate to begin learning about predatory madness in our world, at an early age. I avoided "the system", right from the start, but it took many decades to see these extended details, friendly-skeptical about everything including accounts of serial-life learning. Is serial learning from life after life compounded consistently? Keenly exploring which accounts reveal more knowledge. How is this explained by various authors? What can be learned between the blissful claims and claims that we are trapped in a challenging puzzle. Are we free to explore ways out of slavery?
From a related genre of authors.
People are free to restrict themselves. What in the world gets
out of control?
Who accepts a self demise? Who wakes up to exit fearfulness?
The NU Presentation translated a few interesting ideas into slang and apparently had plagiarized its best parts, without helpful attributions, attempting to reach an unwitting audience for profits. I tolerated its mix of flaunts and fictions, for some months, which were supposed to advance consciousness. At the least this spurred my needed catch up with far eastern, consciousness-references. A plunge into heavy ideas has been a useful encouragement, as the truer roots can eventually be found, partly through crude kick-starts, which actually energizes consciousness more abruptly, to clear up what is not true and what truer paths can be located. With patience this can help distinguish facts from fallacies.
Here is my pictorial home page, of my rambling website.
(Written with incompatible software apps and much needed corrections made in 2024)
