by Michael on Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:11 pm
I think everything said in the past couple of days makes perfect sense, that there are cumulative effects from normal sensory input below the level of the conscious that get regurgitated by our sub-conscious back up to the conscious in the form of what's been described by Klonk and Doc, such as "gut feelings", etc.
I also think that weisek makes sense when talking about visions because I've had the same experiences, so there is a meta-physical component, IMO. I want to address that for a minute and I'm pretty sure I'm touching on something that various schools of internal cultivation know quite well, but my P.O.V. is trying to figure this out from experiences because I haven't the specific training in this area.
All the levels of reality are connected by the mind of each person and I understand them as places where your mind can go, but those places are real and everyone else goes there. Just as we are all obviously here on the so-called physical world where the five senses are the dominant attention-getter of our minds, and we share many experiences in such similar ways that we can agree on most of them, we also share experiences in the other worlds, or planes/dimensions of reality.
At least two other places where our minds often go are in dreaming when asleep and in imagination while still awake. If everyone goes there, and obviously time does not function in those places the same as it does in the physical world, it is possible to have perception and shared knowledge with other people, perhaps even unintended knowledge that is equivalent to bumping into someone on the street in the physical world so you knew where they were at that moment. In the other planes of reality, it would show you where their mental focus was, which could be meaningful, and in such a place would usually not be a coincidence.
In the physical world, our unintended intersections with people are often meaningless, such as sitting on a bus next to a stranger, but in a world where your intention directs your mind without limitations of time and space, such intersections are the result of intention and not coincidence. I'll try to describe this by saying that if a person were literally flying through the air, their slightest thought could direct where their body would travel. In a world without physics, the mind goes exactly where and when it wants.
In the past few days, I was thinking mostly about the imagination world, a place where thought-forms exist. For example, if you can create an image of an apple in your mind, it actually exists on this imaginary plane of reality for as long as you focus your mind on it. This is part of the technique I use for qigong-type energy healing, to create an image of healing the person.
One time I sent energy to my late grandmother while she was asleep, and the next day she reported to her acupuncturist, my Tai Ji Quan teacher, that "Michael gave me a great big hug!" Many other similar experiences demonstrate to me that the mind is very powerful and exists in a multiple-level reality with everyone else, so that wherever we focus it, and whatever we imagine, has actual effects, consequences and makes connections to other people; it's real.
I think that some of our intuition is a result of contact with other people in the dream world or imagination world because of their mind being focused on us, or being focused on something that would have consequences for us. Because time operates differently in those places from the physical world, those interactions of the minds of separate people could become evident in the physical world in unpredictable or surprising ways. Perhaps this also falls into the category of extrasensory awareness.