EtuMalku
Abn Iblis ابن إبليس
ARE YOU A FIELD?
A Talk to the Western Regional Conclave of the Temple of Set
July 31, 2004
Edward Jessup, Ph.D., Altered States wrote:
I’m a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get?
Everybody’s looking for his true self. We’re all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, get ahold of ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves.
Ever since we dispensed with God, we’ve got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life. We’re all weekending at est or meditating for forty minutes a day or squatting on floors in a communal OM or locking arms in quasi‑Sufi dances or stripping off the deceptions of civilized life and jumping naked into a swimming pool filled with other naked searchers for self.
Well, I think that true self, that original self, that first self, is a real, mensurate, quantifiable thing, tangible and incarnate. And I’m going to find the f*%^#r!
Various workings and rituals during this Gathering have a loose theme of the individual vs. otherwise: distances, life/death, preservation of ideas, survival. Therefore it seemed to me pertinent to spend some time on the question: Who are you, and what makes you you?
Why, moreover, should you exist at all? Why not “not exist” instead, as so nauseates Existentialists such as Sartre?
First let’s talk about your body.
It isn’t your body really. It is a bunch of stuff constantly rearranging themselves into your organization. For instance your liver and serum proteins are turned over every ten days, and the whole of the proteins in our 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. Your metabolic system, including the liquid‑based transmission of food and raw material throughout your body, is a raging furnace of renewal 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 electromagnetic fields throughout and within the entire body, altogether comprising a “master plan” field for the entire body. Dr. Harold Saxon Burr, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, Yale School of Medicine, called this the L‑Field. (The Fields of Life)
So what is a “field”?
Quote:
When something occurs somewhere in space because something else happened somewhere else in space, by no detectible means by which the cause produces the effect, the two events are connected by a "field".
How’s that for a definition?
In other words, “field” is the term you use to sound “scientific” when you haven’t the slightest idea why the linked‑phenomenon is taking place. You just know that it is taking place, reliably and repeatedly, and you have to call “it” something.
We know that the body’s organizing system cannot be chemical, because then it itself would be subject to the same tearing‑apart process. Thus there is more to a human being than mere chemistry. It requires an organizing field, not merely an accidental coming‑together of proteins. Thus the notion of gene randomness is invalid. Organization inherently requires a preconception based upon a purpose. Thus, human physical existence has a purpose; It is not accidental.
The human L‑field is an electromagnetic field, and thus is subject to external EM fields. This is your personal connection with the organizing master plan of the objective universe: fields within fields. Anything that can organize has to exist before what it organizes. Hence the mere removal of the resultant organism does not remove the field. Your L‑field doesn’t die when your physical body dies.
Conception creates nothing, since it is merely the fusion of preexisting organizations, the sperm and the ovum. An L‑field is naturally attracted or assigned, and commences the organizing process, then leaves upon death of the body. It may retain an “image” of that body and be detectable or even perceivable by other L‑fields under certain circumstances.
Hence “ghosts”.
If L‑fields are a natural constant phenomenon, this would account for the general cessation of human physical evolution at least 100,000 years ago [and possibly much longer], as well as for the basic commonality of all human physical construction.
We know also that simple Darwinism is inadequate to explain the extreme complexity of higher life, such as development of such mechanisms as Darwin himself called “evolutionary novelties” ‑ the eye and various complex organs. Even worse, many such “novelties” would have to occur simultaneously for the whole thing to work together. The odds against this are so high that evolutionists simply bypass the question.
L‑fields might be extraterrestrial in origin. This would explain the sudden appearances of new species on Earth at various times, as well as the invisibility of such “ancient astronauts”. Their stability despite Earth’s evolutionary forces, such as Ice Ages, would also account for the preservation or revival of certain species despite drastic environmental changes.
Let’s go back to that sperm and egg. How do they know how to organize something greater and more complex than themselves? They can’t. A superior organizing system ‑ an L‑field ‑ is required to know where specialized cells will be needed and how to organize them.
Now let’s talk about thought.
Science hates thought, because thinking and thoughts cannot be measured, are not quantifiable, and are not repeatable. You cannot think the same thing exactly twice.
And how do you know what you’re doing when you’re thinking? Do you decide what you’re going to think and then think it, or do you think something and then try to figure out what it was that you just thought?
What’s 2+2?
Just like the rest of your body, the nervous system is also constantly breaking down and being regenerated. So the material of your brain cells and connecting nerves may have been completely renewed about 100 times since you were taught addition. You haven’t been taught addition all over again 99 times. So how do you still know how to add?
Hence thought also has the properties of a field.
Not necessarily thought transmission/ESP, but thought organization and integrity. However, there may be additional field phenomena at work here too, such as your ability to sense moods, impulses, desires, attitudes of someone close to you.
What is love? T‑field symmetry?
As L‑fields are distinct from the physical body, T‑fields are also superior to and separate from the physical machinery they manipulate and use. Here we are talking the basis for out‑of‑body consciousness, persistence of the psyche after physical death, and possibly the temporary or permanent attachment of subordinate T‑fields to other forms of matter, resulting in magical objects and haunted houses.
We also deduce that T‑fields have the ability to influence L‑fields, as in mental states affecting bodily harmony and health, and vice‑versa, as when your bodily energy affects your mental alertness.
Consider your brain, therefore, as a mechanism used by your primary and subordinate T‑fields for the cataloguing of sensory input and the storage of memory. These are results, not the thing itself, of your self‑aware “thinker”, the primary T‑field which is you.
Here again, note that the atoms and molecules of the brain are in a constant state of teardown and rebuilding, so the T‑field must assign to each an exactly reproducing field, and that is how you can still add 2+2.
Sensory areas of the brain must be more or less permanently wired to the senses, hence their injury or loss is quantifiable and somewhat irreparable. But learning and memory functions are not so localized, as long as enough brain cells generally remain to be usable. These are used only intermittently and at desire or need.
This is why your memory is such a strange thing. You can remember a lot more stuff now than when you were a child, but your brain is still the same size. You didn’t have to add more RAM or ROM to it. Also what you remember is very strangely selective. The words to a Beatles song you heard half a century ago, but not what you had for breakfast yesterday.
It may be the T‑Field’s inability to read/write to all the memory‑usage cells it wishes that accounts for Alzheimer’s, but once again the T‑Field itself as a conscious entity is not affected; it is merely losing access to memory tools.
Memory is the backbone of your current situation. It is how you conveniently decide who you are and communicate that to others, what you know about your state and everything else. But it is still not your soul, your personality. That is the thing that assigns meaning and value to both memory and current sensations.
While bodies’ L‑fields have not evolved significantly over the last 100,000+ years, T‑fields have evolved dramatically: consider the level of sophistication in your knowledge vs. that of a Stone Age homo sapiens.
T‑field individuality is indestructible as communicable during physical life. Your identity cannot be sucked out by someone else, or hacked up if you lose an arm or leg.
Here we have discussed a new framework for conceptualizing your psyche/ka/soul and relating it to your mind and body. We’ve pointed to neatly integrated possible explanations for several other mysteries, like our extraterrestrial origins and haunted houses, along the way.
A few more tools in the toolbox which is the Temple of Set.
_________________
Xeper.
ye Elder Pharos
A Talk to the Western Regional Conclave of the Temple of Set
July 31, 2004
Edward Jessup, Ph.D., Altered States wrote:
I’m a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get?
Everybody’s looking for his true self. We’re all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, get ahold of ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves.
Ever since we dispensed with God, we’ve got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life. We’re all weekending at est or meditating for forty minutes a day or squatting on floors in a communal OM or locking arms in quasi‑Sufi dances or stripping off the deceptions of civilized life and jumping naked into a swimming pool filled with other naked searchers for self.
Well, I think that true self, that original self, that first self, is a real, mensurate, quantifiable thing, tangible and incarnate. And I’m going to find the f*%^#r!
Various workings and rituals during this Gathering have a loose theme of the individual vs. otherwise: distances, life/death, preservation of ideas, survival. Therefore it seemed to me pertinent to spend some time on the question: Who are you, and what makes you you?
Why, moreover, should you exist at all? Why not “not exist” instead, as so nauseates Existentialists such as Sartre?
First let’s talk about your body.
It isn’t your body really. It is a bunch of stuff constantly rearranging themselves into your organization. For instance your liver and serum proteins are turned over every ten days, and the whole of the proteins in our 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. Your metabolic system, including the liquid‑based transmission of food and raw material throughout your body, is a raging furnace of renewal 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 electromagnetic fields throughout and within the entire body, altogether comprising a “master plan” field for the entire body. Dr. Harold Saxon Burr, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, Yale School of Medicine, called this the L‑Field. (The Fields of Life)
So what is a “field”?
Quote:
When something occurs somewhere in space because something else happened somewhere else in space, by no detectible means by which the cause produces the effect, the two events are connected by a "field".
How’s that for a definition?
In other words, “field” is the term you use to sound “scientific” when you haven’t the slightest idea why the linked‑phenomenon is taking place. You just know that it is taking place, reliably and repeatedly, and you have to call “it” something.
We know that the body’s organizing system cannot be chemical, because then it itself would be subject to the same tearing‑apart process. Thus there is more to a human being than mere chemistry. It requires an organizing field, not merely an accidental coming‑together of proteins. Thus the notion of gene randomness is invalid. Organization inherently requires a preconception based upon a purpose. Thus, human physical existence has a purpose; It is not accidental.
The human L‑field is an electromagnetic field, and thus is subject to external EM fields. This is your personal connection with the organizing master plan of the objective universe: fields within fields. Anything that can organize has to exist before what it organizes. Hence the mere removal of the resultant organism does not remove the field. Your L‑field doesn’t die when your physical body dies.
Conception creates nothing, since it is merely the fusion of preexisting organizations, the sperm and the ovum. An L‑field is naturally attracted or assigned, and commences the organizing process, then leaves upon death of the body. It may retain an “image” of that body and be detectable or even perceivable by other L‑fields under certain circumstances.
Hence “ghosts”.
If L‑fields are a natural constant phenomenon, this would account for the general cessation of human physical evolution at least 100,000 years ago [and possibly much longer], as well as for the basic commonality of all human physical construction.
We know also that simple Darwinism is inadequate to explain the extreme complexity of higher life, such as development of such mechanisms as Darwin himself called “evolutionary novelties” ‑ the eye and various complex organs. Even worse, many such “novelties” would have to occur simultaneously for the whole thing to work together. The odds against this are so high that evolutionists simply bypass the question.
L‑fields might be extraterrestrial in origin. This would explain the sudden appearances of new species on Earth at various times, as well as the invisibility of such “ancient astronauts”. Their stability despite Earth’s evolutionary forces, such as Ice Ages, would also account for the preservation or revival of certain species despite drastic environmental changes.
Let’s go back to that sperm and egg. How do they know how to organize something greater and more complex than themselves? They can’t. A superior organizing system ‑ an L‑field ‑ is required to know where specialized cells will be needed and how to organize them.
Now let’s talk about thought.
Science hates thought, because thinking and thoughts cannot be measured, are not quantifiable, and are not repeatable. You cannot think the same thing exactly twice.
And how do you know what you’re doing when you’re thinking? Do you decide what you’re going to think and then think it, or do you think something and then try to figure out what it was that you just thought?
What’s 2+2?
Just like the rest of your body, the nervous system is also constantly breaking down and being regenerated. So the material of your brain cells and connecting nerves may have been completely renewed about 100 times since you were taught addition. You haven’t been taught addition all over again 99 times. So how do you still know how to add?
Hence thought also has the properties of a field.
Not necessarily thought transmission/ESP, but thought organization and integrity. However, there may be additional field phenomena at work here too, such as your ability to sense moods, impulses, desires, attitudes of someone close to you.
What is love? T‑field symmetry?
As L‑fields are distinct from the physical body, T‑fields are also superior to and separate from the physical machinery they manipulate and use. Here we are talking the basis for out‑of‑body consciousness, persistence of the psyche after physical death, and possibly the temporary or permanent attachment of subordinate T‑fields to other forms of matter, resulting in magical objects and haunted houses.
We also deduce that T‑fields have the ability to influence L‑fields, as in mental states affecting bodily harmony and health, and vice‑versa, as when your bodily energy affects your mental alertness.
Consider your brain, therefore, as a mechanism used by your primary and subordinate T‑fields for the cataloguing of sensory input and the storage of memory. These are results, not the thing itself, of your self‑aware “thinker”, the primary T‑field which is you.
Here again, note that the atoms and molecules of the brain are in a constant state of teardown and rebuilding, so the T‑field must assign to each an exactly reproducing field, and that is how you can still add 2+2.
Sensory areas of the brain must be more or less permanently wired to the senses, hence their injury or loss is quantifiable and somewhat irreparable. But learning and memory functions are not so localized, as long as enough brain cells generally remain to be usable. These are used only intermittently and at desire or need.
This is why your memory is such a strange thing. You can remember a lot more stuff now than when you were a child, but your brain is still the same size. You didn’t have to add more RAM or ROM to it. Also what you remember is very strangely selective. The words to a Beatles song you heard half a century ago, but not what you had for breakfast yesterday.
It may be the T‑Field’s inability to read/write to all the memory‑usage cells it wishes that accounts for Alzheimer’s, but once again the T‑Field itself as a conscious entity is not affected; it is merely losing access to memory tools.
Memory is the backbone of your current situation. It is how you conveniently decide who you are and communicate that to others, what you know about your state and everything else. But it is still not your soul, your personality. That is the thing that assigns meaning and value to both memory and current sensations.
While bodies’ L‑fields have not evolved significantly over the last 100,000+ years, T‑fields have evolved dramatically: consider the level of sophistication in your knowledge vs. that of a Stone Age homo sapiens.
T‑field individuality is indestructible as communicable during physical life. Your identity cannot be sucked out by someone else, or hacked up if you lose an arm or leg.
Here we have discussed a new framework for conceptualizing your psyche/ka/soul and relating it to your mind and body. We’ve pointed to neatly integrated possible explanations for several other mysteries, like our extraterrestrial origins and haunted houses, along the way.
A few more tools in the toolbox which is the Temple of Set.
_________________
Xeper.
ye Elder Pharos
