I suggest reading the earliest posts first

What is the relationship of the experience of synchronicities?

What is the relationship of the experience of synchronicities to the 'rational'? That question has been answered:

"Accompanying the more profound occurrences of synchronicity (is) a dawning intuition, sometimes described as having the character of a spiritual awakening, that the individual herself or himself not only is embedded in a larger ground of meaning and purpose, but also in some sense (is) a focus of it."
Richard Tarnas Cosmos and Psyche

The above quotation is embedded in 492 pages + 50 pages of endnotes, etc, little bitty print, not many pictures in the book.

"There is another world, but it is 'in' this one." Paul Eluard, Morris Berman, The Reenchantment of the World"

"Here again the dialectic that runs through the whole development of the mythical-religious consciousness stands out with particular sharpness....It is a fundmantal trait in mythical thinking that where ever it posits a definite relation between two members it transforms this relation into an identity. An attempted synthesis leads here necessarily to a coincidence, an immediate concrescence of the elements that were to be linked. " Ernst Cassirer, page 250, The Philosophy of symbolic Forms, Vol 2.

Concrescence is a term coined by Alfred North Whitehead
to show the process of jointly forming an actual entity that was without form, but about to manifest itself ...


"I saw not with the eye of the body, but the eye of the soul." Goethe; Theodore Reik's Fragment of a Great Confession

In discovering the other world, the hidden world, a very strange kind of conversation can be experienced but it's not the typical 'voice' that speaks in that other world. It's created artificially! It uses whatever is available to the individual, the specific individual.

This quotation is from War In Heaven by Charles Williams.

"When Mr. Batesby had spoken that morning it had seemed as if two streams of things: actual events and his own meditations had flowed gently together; as if not he but Life were solving the problem in the natural process of the world. He reminded himself now that such a simplicity was unlikely; explanations did not lucidly arise from mere accidents and present themselves as all but an ordered whole."
Read only the words in Bold-red. and that's the best example I can give of the process of 'abstraction' from embeddedness. This is an excellent description of synchronization as a life process. One's own meditations and actual events flow together and a new 'voice' speaks through this natural process.

Its an individualizing experience in every day life that has been named various names throughout history. C. G. Jung named it individuation, Emanuel Swedenborg had accurately identifed it as regeneration, a process that includes a life review.
An individuation process is not commonly recognized because its such a unique personalized life experience of one's own body and mind. You may be as surprised as I was to have to learn that the 'irrational' is what can't be scientifically validated because it's unique, ultra personal experiences that happen over a life span and science requires repeatability.
So the irrational is what ever isn't rational because science excludes personal analysis, the process requires repeatability. In fact the irrational is a wholeness of experience in that it includes the rational when the individuation process operates in a life or in lives. An individuation process is not commonly understood yet but I became aware of the process and the pattern without knowing about it myself!
How it creates a 'voice' and a conversation is the most personalizing life experience that can be experienced if it's recognized, because the form of its 'speech' is difficult to be discerned. Order emerges from chaos, literally over a span of time that may be decades in a life. It's speech is created artificially, the 'voice' aspect is created by a process of abstractions from every day life content. The bibliography at the end of a technical non-fictional book is in my opinion the result of that process of abstractions, its basically invisible to the author.
When quantum physics was 'discovered' that was a message that 'said': "The physical world is derived from another world" and: " there are no causes in the physical world, only effects." (Emanuel Swedenborg had already written that fact and other important details about the process of life, regeneration was his name for it, that he believed prepared a person for life after death.) One attribute of its speech is symbolic but literalness is also part of how the' voice' is created by a process literally of 'abstractions' , highlighted by the mind from every day life content, by a special function of mind that creates a 'second under lying context' automatically, with an extra 'sense'. The term 'second underlying context' was my own definition but a local Jungian psycyhiatrist told me it was an excellent term. Swedenborg's term, 'double thought' is appropriate too.

Only last year I saw an old movie (Blade Runner) and the process of 'abstraction' caused me to hear a remark made in it about 'tears lost in rain' with that 'extra meaningful sense' that I've noticed myself in my mind. It has helped me describe the undescribable invisibility of such events that occur, embedded in every day life until the 'extra sense' abstracts and highlights them. The 'jokes' that cause you to laugh most heartily are the simplest example I can give now. Television situation comedies in our time are popular from this mechanism's operations but that's just one of 'its' attributes.

There is a kind of rational logic inherent to the process, not Aristolean, or linear, because 'it' uses personal memories and experiences as the content of the process. But that's a fact that had to be recognized over a span of time when 'it' created in my life a consistent synchronization between inner content that was new to me, certain memories from my past and everything, every thing, outside my body.
The process itself was almost overwhelming for a few years until it was a new kind of 'normal', but not yet invisible. What's new eventually becomes normal but whatever is normal gets to be invisible eventually, its ever presence has made it invisible.

The process as I had to figure out myself, operates 'in' every day events. I believe it is a special sense that unites (synchronizes is the best word to use) the body and brain with what's outside the body, history and Time itself with the flow of what I believe is the 'ongoing endeavor of Time'. It may be a function of the unconsciousness itself to create the process of individuation, from the depths of mind but I'm not sure about that. But let me emphasize that I had to discover all, every 'bit of information' myself and notice how it was created from mechanisms of mind that alter 'thought' and the direction of attention. The most difficult to discover was that there is a kind of 'prompter within'. It created a new relationship with every day life events gradually.'

" The medium is the message." The extension in Time of an idea can be 'like' a signal, in my opinion.

The process of individuation is virtually unknown but I have experienced that the 'transcendental function' is in charge, it's building a future event: The Future. Sometimes long strings of events have to happen, widely spaced in time so that the personal 'meaning and context' can in some situations only be given decades later. I've had several events, separated by even decades happen, then a 'closing event ' completes the string and then an inner display retrieves them and assembles them in a flash of a second as 'insight'. Only then suddenly, it's obvious that part of me in the past somehow 'knew' the future.

I wouldn't abandon 'string theory' which F. David Peat wrote is an 'interactive force'. He did not write about or mention a process of individuation. I will have to describe in detail why I believe Sigmund Freud's 'discovery' of psychoanalysis was his experience of this individuation process and Carl G. Jung's much deeper experience was the result of recognizing the effects of the same pattern.

What ever "it" is that energizes my body in that 'kind' of event, which often happens as an ordinary situation, it's not always 'numinous' (feelable at the moment) or even unusual. It's 'feelable' when a creative 'function' of the unconscious mind that is not unconscious its self., 'highlights' the event or the memory of an event. I know it never sleeps, I've had more than acceptable evidence of that fact. That's where its possible to see evidence of foresight, when I see what happened when I was 'moved' by that function in certain specific events and finally realized I'd been alone when many of them happened.

The depths of mind is where an unsleeping part of me (and probably everyone else) is at work. Nothing materially changes but 'associations and understanding'. Its nearly impossible to detect that there's a vast space between upper regions of mind and the most remote regions of mind that produces content that is thankfully strangely visible. It uses symbols that the individual 'knows' or can recognize.

My main symbol is the moebius band in all it's forms. An impulse caused me to make my first one in 1941 when I was 9 years old. The same impulse caused me to discover its 'secret', it's hidden forms that day after I'd made the band with a 180 degree turn. "Cut around it lengthwise." was a thought and I cut it once lengthwise, surprised at the result. The thought words repeated : "Cut around it lengthwise." so I obeyed again. The result was two bands separated but joined in a knot that didn't look like it could be undone. The two bands were joined but separated. The impulse has caused me to look over my shoulder at just the right moment, in the right location and what it brings to my attention is ALWAYS a surprise, sometimes its a real shock, perfectly timed.

It's connected to a part of 'me' that knows where I am, what's in front of me, where I've been and 'it' knows my most private thought. That part evidently knows the future, it has foresight and 'it' or whatever it's connected to uses a different language than our words. But it's within me, looking through my eyes, and I'm not unusual.

The four world balloon was created from an impulse to do something irrational.

About the image of 4 balloons?

I had an impulse to create my own image to represent (re-present) of the four worlds that William Blake's Tree of Life allegory had brought to my mind. I described what I wanted to a young man in a craft store and he thought it was impossible to do what I had in mind. Yet he did it without too much trouble then he made one for himself.


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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

THE VOICE OF THE COSMOS AND ITS LANGUAGE

I have learned something real about how my mind was used to teach me an Idea that was designed by the Cosmos itself,  the purpose of which, was to reveal my connection to the Cosmos itself.  My mind is in my body. The beginning of a conversation that began to affect my body so that  I felt 'trembly' and driven by a powerful urge that originated in a problem in my home, to prove I wasn't crazy veered away from where it began in a real world to another world, a world within.

My first glimpse of it  (1982 as best I can date it)  generated a thought that it was a miracle. My second glimpse of it generated a thought  in my mind,  that it was a miracle slowed down, stretched out in Time,  so that I could watch it happen. That is what it was. A miracle stretched out in Time and slowed down in Time, so that I could notice details that I had never noticed  in my life and watch the advent of a change that changed not only my life, but life on this planet Earth. I was one drop of humanity,  selected , highlighted to be an active particle, a recipient of specific information that is embedded in any place where words occur in any time! 

The advent of the 'voice' that I began to hear  was concealed behind the  advertisements of the approaching  1984 Olympic Games played in Los Angeles.

"The second world is here and in the second world all the rules are changed."  I had never heard an advertisement the way I heard this one, it was how a person is heard.  I didn't think on the event until it occurred several times.

 My third glimpse of it generated the thought: "This is impossible. I don't believe another person but me would ever understand this.  How on Earth will I ever explain this? Who on Earth will ever believe me?" This thought, which I do not believe I generated myself was followed by a mass of information in the form of certain  specific memories abstracted from my past in  a flash, it happened in less than a second of time. But there was also  'new' material, that I experienced somehow without 'thought words' about what was  happening  at the moment, as well as what was going to happen. 

The passing of time and events that had not yet  happened made it obvious the future  was part of that event, when the future event happened,  in 1982. 

It was a seamless package, everything came as a single bundle that had to be 'sorted out' and 'categorized' in the next 25 years. All that happened was mental, but it was visible although it was 'given' in a form and in a location that I did not recognize until  later.  The packet  was in a different location in my mind, a great distance from the kind of perception I acquired  during the next 7 years as I lived my life. It was activity that was  visible but as I had to realize myself, was a great distance remote from consciousness and articulation.  The part that was visible remained firmly in memory afterwards because in 1989 another event happened that drew this 1982 event into very great significance. I remembered the event and understood what was 'said' to me, by implication.   It was a critically important event. The circumstances of that night were quite specific but at that point the first in  a long  'strange flow of events' had barely begun to be noticeable.

It is important to keep in mind that a new kind of experiences began that night, and eventually they created an almost overwhelming confusion until I realized what was happening. What was happening was that a kind of conversation had been created in a way I had to notice, dimly at first, then become aware was creating 'words' (information) in a complex,  highly abstract language. The language is one that does not require any knowledge of the past at first, because it is complete in itself  I have very good reasons to believe.

My mind and body were not my 'normal' by then, but I believed the causes of my discomforts were due to real world problems: a complete hysterectomy  late in 1979; an uninsured fire caused many problems in my marriage. The problems associated with those circumstances  then a terrible blow on my head in an automobile accident early in 1981 seemed to have caused brain damage, because so much was changed in my 'head'. 

 After some time I felt that somehow I was not in control, that something else was driving me: it was a real force, a drive in my body to do things that would restore the losses of my 'normal' habits. I noticed many changes, but not immediately because everything was changed. A band of 'thought' about a dream (The Dream), had begun moving through my mind before that night in 1982. .

 It was not self generated thought I believe now but in 1982/3 such words as 'self generated' would have seemed like nonsense to me and have no meaning.  I watched and listened to the 'event' that night without knowing at that point, that it was emerging from a separate memory.  It  came from a place where I could not relate to it other than  to hear/see the content  when it emerged.  It emerged further yet than The Dream; it was a much greater distance from a point where I could speak even one word about it to myself! Or to anyone else.

The significance of this event was such that it was literally critical to the success of what was going to happen in the future, beginning as it did in every day situations in my ordinary life with people, some of whom I would not have suspected were not ordinary, psychiatrically speaking. And I knew nothing about psychiatric ideas in 1982-3 except that I had a name only familiarity with some of Sigmund Freud's ideas.

 Without any warning that within the mind, there exist  locations that can be 'looked into/ listened from', even spoken from, but not 'heard' or 'seen' by one's own ears and eyes,  a new kind of information was created.  It was about my future and what was just at that point beginning to emerge was given to me while I stood waiting for a square-dance class to begin, glancing around the room.

For the first time I noticed certain details in people in the room that I could have noticed before but had not. Then a flow of 'inner events' began, followed rapidly with  the 'thought words': "This is impossible. I don't believe another person but me would ever understand this. How on Earth Will I ever explain this?  Who will ever believe me?" Much happened between the first 'glance' and the thought words.  I have not been able to determine whether I thought those words or did I 'read' them. 

Saturday, May 29, 2021

The end of a period, change in a phase, the re-capitulation of an age

My first memory  was a moment in time, (I  was a few months older than 2 years) that was captured in its entirety and replayed in my mind at times when I was older.  It happened often enough that the repetition made me aware of it, then curious about why it flashed briefly into my mind. I didn't consider it as a photograph until I was in my late 50s.  It is still a photograph of  what I was looking at, what I felt  and heard since it included a thought, it was a complete record  of that minute and it was retriived often enough to prove to me that it existed permanently after the original event happened.

There are so many ways to interpret the title I chose  for this post.  Its my personal experience that formed it; so  anyone that reads it understands it from their personal experiences, that's where interpretations and understanding begin: with Time plus its content. A moment in time without including its content is meaningless, and space is where content occurs. But the fact that physical space is not the only space becomes a problem when inner mind-content is added to the definitions necessary in explaining my words to you.  The memories that re-occurred into my mind after the original event happened were installed were named by Emanuel Swedenborg as 'remains'..He wrote that remains are installed  for use in the process of regeneration but the word regeneration is a definition  of memory.   Swedenborg also mentioned 'double thought '  in a context that I have experienced as  an effect caused by a mechanism  of my mind its a switch, an on/off  or me/not me switch that I  acquired in a marriage bond that was suddenly broken.  I noticed many changes in my mind, my thought was different and I wondered if I was thinking the new thought.  It was new to me but everything was  was different so  it was years before I recognized the simple switch and a reflection of my mental activity that produced a double thought. My experiences with the mechanism that produced so many changes in my mind and my body also changed the  content of my habit of reading.  I have never been interested in real books.   I read  pulp science fictions, when I could find where my father hid them and Zane Grey westerns,  I loved the Hardy Boys so the change from reading fictions to non-fictions was a major change I was not choosing the books that came to my attention in odd places,  I had a distinct impression of words that were said to me:  "Pay no attention to whether you understand the words . Read them anyway." 
I couldn't  decide not to read the books that eventually I noticed had an unusual 

connection  in their titles:       '

   



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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

On Being at the Center of Life Conditions

I've not posted anything recently partly because what's happening in my individual life merged with everything that's happening in the world several decades ago and I've written so much already that I haven't anything new to write about.  What is new to me is connected to what happened in my past so deeply that my entire history is the data base. I discovered as though no person had ever encountered what I discovered a pattern. It's a pattern at work behind the events in a human life that many  individuals are writing about but I had noticed how this pattern affected individuals  when I was about 9 or 10 years old.  The main idea was always the same, the end of the world was at hand but the world never ended.   Although the pattern has changed in content but not the form, it is very evident in this time.  I write from a long spread in Time, more than 85 years. I've had an ongoing event, extended through more than 4 decades at this point. Changes have taken place that no person could have initiated.  I've come to believe collectively (perhaps) human life unwittingly creates some kind of feedback to the planetary influences.

One exception might be the weather in the exterior world, which has ironically become a kind of representation of the changes in my thought and in my inner image producing mechanisms.. Does individual or collective thought have an effect on the planet? In the planet?  From the planet?

The weather in the exterior world has become so tempestuous and destructive in some areas of the planet that it may have some connection to the changes in global thought and consciousness.We live in torrential storms now,  in our minds, that's how it seems to me. But lately I ask myself:  "Does some form of communication exist that tries to 'tell us about how we interface with an  Other' so we can enter into direct conversation with It?" An unusual object initiated the kind of conversation that I believe is possible because it happened to me.
This incident did not seem strange until later, after I noticed the foxglove was not like any foxglove I'd ever seen.  A quiet thought occurred into my mind which I didn't think about until  a few years later: "This foxglove will change all foxgloves."  I didn't know anything about symbolic information, but the fact dawned on me slowly as I lived the next few decades of events in my life that a foxglove is both a life saver and a lethal plant. 

Thursday, January 10, 2019

THE INVISIBLE PRESENCE

This following quotation came to me within the past 3 years,  It's the closest example I've found anywhere that agrees with my conclusion, about an intelligence other than our own that exists and has attempted to make its self known, through a pattern that is very commonly experienced in this time slot, especially. My experience is not similar to Anne Barings except at the pattern level, the form. The content is quite different. Her visionary experiences began early in her life, mine began when I was nearly 50 and have continued when a new vein of 'thought' was initiated  fully in 1984. It was a new world to me but it talked to me in a unique form. This is taken from one of her lectures:

 Unexplored Dimensions of Consciousness and the Visionary Experience: 
Parmeneides, Dante, and Jung’s Seven Sermons to the Dead.
Copyright © Anne Baring

"So to end, I am absolutely certain through my own experience and my long study of visionary experience that a wider, deeper consciousness than our own is trying to reach us, trying to make itself known to us.
It has been doing so for millennia. Parmeneides, Dante and Jung are three individuals who have acted as conduits for this consciousness.
As long as this universal dimension of consciousness is denied existence and dissociated from our own, it will act in the manner of an unconscious autonomous complex, influencing us without our awareness in all kinds of ways. As long as we believe that consciousness originates in the brain, we will never reach what we are capable of becoming — people who, like these three remarkable men, are in conscious communion with metaphysical reality.

ABOUT ME      About me, the author: I've had some professional therapy and  counseling since 1983. I began to read books the first psychiatrist had in his office, (authored by William Glasser)  and that triggered an ongoing pattern of reading nonfictional books on topics that were all  new  to me. I had neurological tests done in 1984 at Harborview in Seattle, and was seeing Dr. Robert Waters, a psychiatrist who ordered them.

By that point in time I'd become convinced I'd had brain damage as a  result of an accident. I'd also been  told I had 'severe menopausal syndrome' after a complete hysterectomy. I was not my usual normal and I was feeling very uncomfortable in my body, my  mind was a belt of  thought about a dream I'd had. I could not sleep because of the 'non-stop thinking'.  I rarely dream. Thought about the dream was my first complaint, but in therapy that was, to my surprise ignored. Nobody ever asked about the  dream or the stream of thought it produced.

That was a fact that I didn't talk about to the professionals, I  noticed that I could not initiate conversations or get answers to questions I had wanted to ask. I felt stifled, prevented, blocked which was exactly how I felt about the square dance caller in the dream.I couldn't talk to him but I had a powerful desire to talk to him.  I noticed as time passed and much happened in my life that I could not initiate and maintain a conversation with my husband either.

 The neurological test was an all day test. I was blindfolded in several tests and had to perform simple tasks with each hand. Other tests required doing something as rapidly as I could with each hand. Some required looking at a  kind of television screen (this was in 1983 keep that in mind) and interpreting what I saw. That one  took some time, because I couldn't do what I was supposed to do although I tried and my head felt like it would burst. Overall the tests seemed to be similar to intelligence tests I'd particularly enjoyed when I   was a student in grade school, finding  patterns, identifying sequences etc.
  The results of the tests were interpreted to me and I was  told that my handedness had changed. My left hand was dominate now, I've been right handed all my life and even then I wrote normally with my right hand. But my left hand had rapidly done tests that my right hand struggled to do, or could not do. My I.Q was high but I was also told that I did not have the problem solving skills that are expected of that level. I remember hearing Dr. Waters say that and it seemed I'd heard the same words before sometime in my life.  It was probably a deja vu event, which I will define as hearing something or seeing something that is already present in some form in my mind/body/thought echoed back to me from the exterior world.


                                                         WHO AM I?



Who am I?  I'm a 74 years old female at this point in Time,  2006. I was  born 1-2-32  during the depression to teen aged parents in a small town, Roachdale, Indiana. I work for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, in Final Assembly. I'm thinking about retiring this year, but I haven't set the date yet. I am divorced, I've two sons and a daughter. By the time I was 13 years old I had come to love classical music from having heard snippets of it as background in cartoons and occasionally in movies but I was very much affected by Roy Acuff, Hank Snow  and the Grand Ole Opry  music that my dad chose to listen to. My mother did not listen to music basically. I can't remember seeing my mother or dad read a book. My dad read magazines, lots of them and what he read, I read also.

It is important to keep in mind if you manage to read what I've posted, and am attempting to describe,  that when I was a very young girl, I read every science fiction pulp magazine my father bought and he probably bought every one that was published.. He bought them then hid them from me for his own personal reasons which I never understood.  I had to hunt for them in order to be able to read them.  That also is an important detail about my experience  in 1984 and afterwards, that I had read so much science fiction but I had to find where he'd  hid each magazine. Everything I read and had to imagine as I read those 'fictions' has basically materialized.  It is also significant that I read boys books such as The Hardy Boys series and then later Zane Grey's books which put me into a 'strange' category at a very young age. The girls I went to school with read Nancy Drew and such books and although I tried to enjoy them, I could not.
I've grown up at the edge of darkness at sunset because one of my grandparents literally did not have electricity or an inside toilet. Remembering how they lived from sun up to sunset has become a significant part of my understanding about the past. They always had to be home well before dark to milk their cows and get the chickens locked up. Their mindset was close to being primitive, (outdated, obsolete from lack of education/information) and they were from Kentucky.   As a tenant farmer he got a place to live, a garden patch and ten dollars cash money on Friday night. They were very poor, were kind,  co-operative with each other and were generous with what they  had. At night we lived by kerosene lamplight, but it was fun to us. And they were my family.  But I didn't know anything about primitive mindsets. They were normal to me.
 My other grandmother was a Nazarene whose  influence on me was more than my own mother's, much to my surprise. I found that out as I lived my  adult life.  She lived quietly in the same town my parents lived. Her house was clean, she was a person that I never saw get excited, never heard raise her voice to anyone and I spent as much time with her as I could. She married a man who was an alcoholic (this information was kept from me so I had to find out about that 'disease' later). She reformed him eventually and this was accomplished without anger, without argument or recrimination in a way that may seem hilarious but it worked. I was a witness to how she retrieved him. My mother  drove her to the nearest city, Greencastle, Indiana where they hunted him down, and he being a docile man, let himself be led to the car, driven home. He watched as they searched the house for his stash of alcohol, murmuring to himself, not raising his voice.
If I made a mistake my Nazarene grandmother  didn't tell me about it, I had to recognize  it myself. She laughed a bit when I told her what I'd done wrong. She laughed a bit as she said to me: "I thought you'd figure that out." (There was only one other person in my life that let me 'figure things out my self. A teacher made a lasting impression by not telling me I had lied to her about something. I got away with being a liar. It was a small thing that as a child I wouldn't know she would know I'd lied, but as an adult I would certainly recognize  that. That memory was certainly stored away and was retrieved so that I had to think about it! That happened.  Recognizing her restraint years later, I felt a deep sense of shame but of very great appreciation.  I don't know what I would have said or done if she'd made me confront the truth.)
My point is that my grandmother was one oasis in my life. In her house anger, loud voices,  daily punishments, arguments and other  'bad' things did not happen. Not even once. When I told my mother a few years before she died, how much I'd been influenced by her mothers' quietness and calm  she was astonished. She did not remember her mother as being calm and quiet, her father was the quiet one. Later she changed her mind. Several times.
My home life was not very good but my impression of my  life now that I am awake, is that I had at least one real angel as a teacher for the first three years I was in school. Very possibly they were all angels. I can see there was a consistency in how I was treated and how I felt in school, they seemed to take care of me;  that makes me believe they knew my future,. Certain events happened when I was very young because of their apparent 'foreknowledge' of what was going to be required in my future. Little daily things, such as having the same teacher for 3  years; such as the teacher that told her version of the Christmas story;  such as the first male teacher I had, who told us  mathematics operated by fixed rules, that what's on one side of the '=' sign is the same as what's on the other side but the arrangement is different. Such seemingly insignificant events were critically important later in life.
One of my grandmother's last name was Risk, she was a Nazarene when I was young. These details are relevant to my experience in 1984 and afterwards although it's one embarrassingly trivial seeming relationship to Einstein's equation that her name was Risk. The relevance is from Albert Einstein's famous remark when a 'flaw' was found in his famous equation,  'Nonsense, God does not play dice!'. The name 'risk' is connected to my own experience that  'God'  or whatever 'it' is that has been experienced and named as 'God' does in a manner of speaking,  take risks,  i.e. play games, rolling the 'dice' in a certain way that has caused an  idea to be carried forwards constantly in Time and will eventually be understood.  When I was well into my 60's and had learned a lot about symbols, literalness and the several patterns associated with a process of individualizing the individual life, I noticed  the letters and symbols in Einstein's equation  E=mc2 can be arranged so that it reads literally =2 c me.  I had become convinced by then that 'God' has taken Risks, at least one of us.
 To be even more explicit, it may be that the symptoms of depression and mania are connected strangely together in this 'game' of life.
There's a children's game where something is hidden and everyone tries to find it. The person who knows where the thing is hidden advises the hunters whether they are near or far from it by saying: "You're hot" or 'You are ice cold.' depending on whether the person is moving towards it or away from it. I have recently begun to believe that the near inertia of severely painful depression such as I felt in the very early 1980's worked to change my habits. Then alongside the inertia that made me feel so sluggish,  a new kind of 'motor' drove my body, assuming control of my activities and passivities. I felt 'cold' in my 'normal' activities, everything that had been easy to do was difficult or impossible to do. There was an extra energy that motivated me to do things I never had  done, or even thought about.  I think of it as 'heat'. I was 'hot' in the new activities that somehow I did not feel I was 'willing' or 'wanting to happen'. I saw myself in a new way, not with a body but it was so new to me I couldn't name it for a decade as 'self observation'.

I believed a terrible blow on my head had caused brain damage, and I'd read that the brain can repair itself. In my simple minded way, this seemed to explain why I felt 'controlled' and felt forced to do things that normally were the opposite of what I would have done. The result was actually losing choice as well as personal volition. I saw and heard myself in a different way for several years, between 1982 and 1989, then slowly I began to believe I was understanding that I was being 'talked to', in a totally unsuspected form of language.  This was quite confusing, painful and puzzling. That particular way of hearing and of seeing my self has altered in the nearly 3 decades since 1980, as though a kind of 'continuum' was being experienced, precisely timed always with events in the real world. The shape of this continuum is like the moebius band with a half twist, so that if one idea moves around it, the contentof  the idea becomes its opposite. I made my first moebius band when I was about 9 years old after reading a definition in a dictionary or encyclopedia.

When 1984 approached, I had lived with and observed  unknowingly, another person move along this 'continuum of changes' for nearly 30 years prior to 1984. Offhand remarks that were made to me repetitiously, very repetitiously,  as well as other remarks that ought to have seemed very unusual were the only clues I had that this 'continuum' was shaping the life I lived when my mind  was changed. I had neurological tests done in 1984 that were interpreted to me. My handedness had changed from right to left handed but the content of my habits also reversed. That took some time to realize.

I can name easily many experiences that  for years I could not isolate, because everything seemed connected, nothing was separate. When I felt most nearly 'inert' there was a kind of 're-assigning' of  my every day activities such that I began to do many things automatically, seeing myself do them  as though I was watching another person. Occasionally I said things that I'd not thought about or planned to say, hearing myself say them but not being curious at that point in time, at the strange loss of volition. The 'loss of volition' in speech and body activity was something I had to discover and that requires noticing a certain kind of 'event' then learning to understand the 'message' in such events. They were being brought about by my own body at times, but more often there were many other people involved to the degree it cannot be said I was anything other than an observer and a kind of recorder of what a group of  people we knew were doing. My attention was not my own, and eventually  I noticed that the thing really began to explain itself. That included describing to me what I was doing physically in a way that was startling and almost hilarious when the first such 'event' happened. That event was a 'singularity', in the most real usage of the word. It was the first time I noticed that a long period of personal experience had built towards a single event in which the precise timing and utterly perfect interface of physical events with my  'mental world knowledge' was unmistakable. I carried a book  to a safety meeting. It was a book I'd begun to read after not being able to get interested in it over a period of years, but I had not thrown it away either....
 In 1984  a 'window in Time' was opened but it was a window that required a new kind of perception to identify it and although the new perception came directly through a family situation that I didn't suspect or know anything about, there were other people whose life interfaced perfectly with mine after about 1975.

The period between 1980 and 1984 was a long moment it seems to me now, a  period of time that cannot be called 4 years, it was a long moment during which time  many changes occurred in my body and mind along with a reversal of certain habits. The changes made life very difficult for me in ways I had to learn about, every detail of my life was affected after about 1983 but prior to that, the 'effect' was sporadic. The word 'effect' as I use it means I noticed something and felt 'strange' at the moment, but I didn't think about what caused me to feel 'strange' until a 'batch' or a kind of 'string of events' occurred. Then another effect caused me to really begin to wonder about what I was seeing and hearing and to try to understand it.

It was not difficult to discern within a period of about a year that another kind of 'role reversal'  happened, then I began to understand what made it nearly impossible for me to choose to read anything fictional. I felt that my body was not my own, I realize now I felt detached, in a somewhat living comatose state of mind, but alert.

Until about 1983, I read very little other than fictions and I read them almost rabidly. The event that caused me to begin to read non-fictions, not willingly or because I was interested was a seemingly simple circumstance: I had begun to see a psychiatrist and in a session I noticed a book, Reality Therapy by a William Glasser. When I asked what it was about he asked if I'd like to read it so with unexpected difficulty I read it. My head felt as though it would burst at times and ordinarily I would have put the book aside but for some reason I felt compelled to read it. The words seemed to fall into a black hole, a  term I remembered having read when I was in my mid twenties, One, Two, Three Infinity by George Gamow. It was about Einstein's theories, written for the layman and my new husband had just finished reading it. I could easily read every word in it but I noticed I couldn't understand anything in the book. This seemed mildly odd, to be able to read easily but not understand what I'd read. I had noticed that in the past, Shakespeare and poetry meant nothing to me.
When I returned that book he told me he had another by the same author and offered me the loan of it so I read it, with the same troubling effects on my body but the same somehow insistent urge to read it anyway. I did pause over one paragraph for some time, "Every behavior aberration is the result of an inability to take the responsibility or an evasion of responsibility  to satisfy the needs of the organism." This was the first time I'd read any reference to the body as an 'organism'. When I returned that book he offered me another book, titled The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by an Oliver Sachs of whom I'd not heard. I took the book home and read a few pages then returned it unread because it seemed utterly absurd, beyond anything interesting or possible.

About 7 years later I read the book, because I had become aware from experiences in my actual real world life, that the idea in the first incident Dr. Sachs wrote was not only not absurd, or uninteresting, it was more than possible for a man to perceive his wife as a 'hat' that he donned, figuratively to some degree, but literally also. The literal sense itself had begun to become evident to me by 1988-89 and that is probably the most important attribute of my experiences prior to 1984.

My body had become somehow visible in a way I can barely hope to describe and the activities in my mind had also become strangely visible although I realized after several years that what I was 'looking at/listening to' in my mind was literally inexpressible. I could not speak a word of that content to myself or anyone else. My body was 'in the scene' but strangely, and I could not describe then, anything that I am writing about now, because I believe I was looking 'at' depths content, material that was literally deep in a separate place, a different memory unconnected to  words that could be written or spoken at the time. I had an impulse that caused me to work, make an ongoing effort to capture one word and remember it long enough to write it down! Writing that content was possible before I could relate to what I wrote, or what I experienced in that level of mind!

My body did things I could see I didn't choose to do, but I watched and listened to everything it did, without any sense of concern for several years! I heard words come out of my mouth a few times in the early 1980's that I didn't even realize were quite odd and seemingly meaningless things for me to say.

But I remembered those 'odd, apparently meaningless things' and later wondered why I had said them. (These events happened in a limited way, only certain people and situations brought them out.)

It is likely (I can see this now but at the time it would not have been possible to 'see' ) that an instinct (a pattern)  to search for and to  know the 'truth' was 'initialized'. The 'role reversal' began in an every day relationship with a real person, whose 'change of life' had the effect of 'initializing' this pattern. It was a change that reversed 'mountains into molehills' almost instantly. Everything that had been 'monumentally important and significant' was reduced to such triviality that it was not necessary to be concerned about anything. A 'worry' filled mind became 'thought-less' and an other 'thought' -less' mind became 'thought full', literally, not symbolically. The unit of life is a male and a female, so 1 + 1 = 1 in this 'shared mindset' which I believe occurs frequently without anyone noticing the 'roots' and the effects of such a change.

There are certain facts about my earliest years that link with something I read in Paul Davies book, Other Worlds in 1986: "What is to happen in the future determines what happened in the past."  In the same book, he mentioned 'the importance of an observer', but I didn't read that until 1986, so the idea I grew up and lived with in a particularly visible way is what shaped the few important memories of events that happened  my earliest years.: These few events created a memory that re-occurred afterwards, flashing into my mind at  odd moments so that eventually I noticed them and wondered about them.  They were aimed towards the future, and the name of the 'idea' I was given in the first 'mindquake' was headed by the words: , "the importance of an observer".

Fictions that my father read were critical elements in my life after 1984. I believe he bought them all, then hid them from me for some reason, I've never known why. I used to hear people say that any fiction was 'escape material' but in 2004 I cannot see any fiction in the pulp magazines that were filled with the product of the authors so called 'imaginations'. They were violent adventures, a bit sexy which may account for why my father hid them from me,  but I have witnessed the slow process of materialization into every day life of much of what I read in those 'fantasy world' stories.  In the early 1980's  I was trying to type on an old manual typewriter, agonizing and isolated in my misery because I could not type one line that I could read. 

Three years later  neurological tests were done that resulted in my becoming aware that my handedness had changed from right to left. When I got home, I picked up a pen to see if I could write with my left hand and was astonished to see my hand write my maiden name in reverse as fluidly as I would have done correctly with my right hand. The change of handedness was evidence of a change, one that literally caused me to see 'in reverse' in a certain way but my mind had changed, my body had changed, everything seemed different to me. My first computer was an amazingly inexpensive package, complete with a printer for 350 dollars.


Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Synchronicity: An explanation of how 'meaningful coincidences' can be a communication to an individual.

How Ouspenskys' writing about ‘Re-currence’ and Emanuel Swedenborgs' short doctrine of ‘Remains’ relate to a process of individual life personalization that is presently diagnosed as various kinds of pathological thinking and behaviors.

 An event happened in 1984 in which time  two advanced and challenge square dance clubs were trying to introduce higher levels to the reluctant mainstream dancers. All gender roles are removed at higher levels.  I was unaware of Jung or his ideas and knew nothing about philosophy  or ….anything psychological, history or philosophy..

Many authors begin a book by telling about an event that happened when the author was very young that became a lifelong influence. This document is about my experience with that Influence, which is an intelligence, and how I became aware of Its attempt to make Its self distinct. The use of an impersonal pronoun, ‘it’, in one memory of an event that happened when I was about 9 years old, set in motion an idea that is in my opinion embedded in my body, I am that idea materially.

P.D. Ouspensky in  his wonderful book,  A New Model of  the Universe wrote  in  the first paragraph of the  Introduction:

“There exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them. Several such moments always recur to my mind together and I feel then that it is these that have determined the chief trend of my life.”

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C. G. Jung described a few incidents that happened when he was less than 10 years old that in my opinion were his ‘remains’,  installed early in life for the processes of life long experiences of individuation/regeneration/Fourth Way (Ouspensky/Gurdjieff and authors they influenced, i.e. Rodney Collin, Maurice Nicoll, etc.).
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Emanuel Swedenborg’s Doctrine of Remains was written in the language of his time:

 “The Doctrine of Remains” from Emanuel Swedenborg

“Remains” are not only the goods and truths that a man has learned from the Lord’s Word from infancy and has thus impressed on his memory, but they are also all the states thence derived such as states of innocence from infancy…..…These states together with the goods and truths impressed on the memory are called remains, which are preserved in man by the Lord and are stored up entirely without his knowledge, in his internal man. …That there are remains and that they are stored up in a man in his interior rational is wholly unknown to man; and this is because he supposes that nothing flows in, but that everything is natural to him and born with him, thus that it is all in him when an infant, when yet the real case is altogether different. Remains are treated of in many parts of the Word and by them are signified those states by which man becomes a man and this from the Lord alone.”

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Isaac Newton wrote that if a future event is described hundreds or thousands of years before it occurs, the event when it happens will be evidence that proves the existence of Divine Providence and not human foresight.  He was writing about the messiah who was expected to come to be the king of the Jewish people. Isaac Newton had an experience that gave him an idea, it has been recorded that it happened when he saw an apple fall.  When Jesus was born he was not the kind of king that was expected but C. G. Jung wrote that he believed a pattern was installed in the mind of men. He was correct, the pattern has become well known, but not as a natural process of life that establishes relationship with the Intelligence that I became aware of in real life experiences.  I noticed the pattern when I was less than a teenager. It was always a man that began to proselytize that ‘the end is near’ but he knew the way to be saved.

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 “Is there some way the past can communicate with the future?” Winston asked in Orwell’s 1984.

The past may not really exist.  The future may not really exist except as an idea that is useful and necessary to the human being in a body.  How can events that seem to have happened in the past prove we, or some other Intelligence does have apparent foresight into the future?

By describing what the individual is doing ‘now’ and naming in some personal code, that individual.
 
 I’ve had several ‘mindquakes’, huge masses of information that used my history, my marital bond, and real world events to produce valid proof that every moment of my physical and mental past can be retrieved and assembled as a kind of thought content that related to my physical location at any moment. 
 
An event happened in 2000 when I attended the 50th alumni gathering of my class in 1950 that I could not have created or foreseen. I can’t doubt such proof that foresight other than my own drives individuals and the lives of the human race.

I experienced events when I was less than 10 years old that were clearly intended to have meaning in the future.  I  believe Swedenborgs’ Doctrine of Remains and Ouspensky’s ‘re-occurring memories’ are applicable  to those events.
My first memory and my first thought occurred when I was a few months past my second birthday. It was a vivid snapshot of what I was looking at, a thought that occurred in my mind and how I felt.  “I am in a cold place.” I had awareness of where I was. The memory re-occurred into my mind after I was in my twenties as best I can remember until I wondered to myself why that memory of a moment in my life, complete in every detail was regenerated in my mind for no reason I could see. There were a few similar memories, each different in content but I didn’t notice them until I was in my twenties and later, as best I can date awareness and curiosity about them.

In an opposite way an event that happened when I was 13 years old vanished from memory until 1984 when it was retrieved, complete in every detail just as I had experienced it:  what I felt and a thought that occurred into my mind.  I had not thought about that event even once although it was extremely unusual and different from anything I experienced until 1984. I had ridden my bicycle to my favorite field.  I was laying in the grass enjoying the hot summer sun when suddenly the sky above looked like blue bowl and I felt smaller than a speck of dust, on a huge ball hanging in space, surrounded by so much space that it hurt ‘in the pit of my stomach’. A thought occurred into my mind:  “All humans think, thought is the common denominator of humans. Thought must do something and we must be ‘in something’ or ‘on something.” The memory was about ‘thought’ and I had not mentioned the event because I didn’t remember it until it was retrieved.

Another event happened when I was about 9 years old that introduced the words  and the idea: “when it came it did not come as it was expected to come.” The words  came into my mind after  my Sunday school teacher told her version of the Christmas story. She explained why Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem and why the expected messiah was born in the lowest of all places, adding that ‘when it came it did not come as it was expected to come, it came in the lowest of all places.” I noticed the use of an impersonal word, ‘it’ which seemed inappropriate rather than the masculine ‘he’. A thought occurred in my mind:  “The Messiah was not an ‘it’, she should have said ‘he’, not ‘it’.” and that became part of the event. The words my teacher had said and the additional thought that occurred spontaneously apparently from me, a self-generated thought became  a unit in the re-generated event. I didn’t wonder about their retrieval in my mind until decades later.

The memory of that event was one of a few similar events that happened when I was less than 10 years old, that re-occurred in my mind until I became curious enough to wonder to myself, why does that moment in my past  regenerate in my mind exactly as it happened?  As time passed and I lived my life, the inappropriate pronoun, ‘it’ related to other events although I didn’t see a connection between them. A long string of different events that I’ll describe more fully were in my future. That event linked to future events and others scheduled to happen later in my life. Other important events vanished from memory after they happened but obviously they were stored in memory because they were retrieved in minute detail complete with my feeling content later in my life.

I’ve experienced what I’m writing about, during a span of decades from my first memory to the present time.  I’m going to be 84 in a few weeks.

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 “I AM” is an idea that I didn’t know about until one day in 1981 we were in Roseville, California.  I walked through the rows of vendors, not feeling very well when I turned back to a box of books on the asphalt. I felt myself lean down to pick up a small tan booklet, imitation suede that was so old there was no printing on the spine or the cover.  I looked inside and read the book was the 10th printing in 1895 by the Sun Printing Company, there was no author’s name. I paid the quarter and put the booklet in my pocket. Later I opened it, and read the first lines, then quickly put it back in my pocket because I felt a real shock when I read the words:  “To you who reads, I AM come.  To you who reads, I AM speaking.”

I had never read such words or such ideas as I read in that book which told me that I was an idea, that I was to make manifest. The word ‘manifest’ was familiar to me as a paper document related to shipping; other definitions did not come to my mind for a few years. I watched my minds content which became very different as the idea that had been developing in my life, embedded in normal, to me  it was material of normal life involving other people, who acted and spoke as though my story was shared by them, some authors who lived hundreds of years before the book 1984 was written.  

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This essay is primarily about Emanuel Swedenborg’s short Doctrine of remains’ and my experience with memories of events that happened only once, early in my life, but the memory of the event flashed into my mind later in life, so persistently that I noticed them and eventually became curious about them. They were what Emanuel Swedenborg described as remains.  These ‘remains’ are established, he wrote, to be used by the ‘angels’ that are with a person in the process of regeneration. Because these few memories of events that happened when I was less than 10 years old re-occurred  when I was in my late 20’s and 30s that implies foresight and purposeful intentions…not mine.

I didn’t ‘think’ all of the ‘thoughts’ that occurred into my mind in the past but that fact did not become evident until I was in my 60’s. That was an idea that would never have occurred to me, it was shown to me. I had to discover that fact as well as learn how this information was created and conveyed to me. The phenomenon that F. David Peat wrote about as an interactive force, had other names in the past but he was correct that it is an interactive force that created a conversation in an unexpected voice talking to me through the ordinary events in our lives. Many other individuals were used to create the voice and its contents.  They seemed to speak to a level of my thought and say things that matched that content exactly!

Carl G. Jung wrote that the first half of life is preparation for the last half of life. That implies there is foresight in our lives.   A few events happened in his life when he was young that I believe were installed for later use, they were his ‘remains’. He was very young when the incident happened in which he saw the giant turd falling onto the church at Basel.  He saw a thought before he could think it, he stopped it for some days, then he permitted it to emerge.  (Was that the birth of  ‘Holy Shit?’)   He was very young when he experienced the incident where he saw a giant phallus on a throne and heard a female voice (his mother’s voice) speak: “That is the man eater.”  These are a few examples of his early life experiences that can reasonably be regarded to be ‘remains’. He wrote about a few ‘coincidences’ but that word never occurred to me until I had read many books that affected me in my body, for  no reason I could see, one of which contained  Swedenborg’s term, ‘double thought’.

Swedenborg had written about a process of re-generation which I had experienced as a kind of life review that began when I was in my early fifties,   I am 85 now. Its only with hindsight that I can describe how I became aware of a Purpose at work.
There were changes in my mind, my body and my thought in real world experiences and situations that related to early life memories eventually as I lived and worked at Boeing after 1985.  The ‘data base’ of my specific life was used in an internal process that takes place in the external world life of the individual  as preparation for life after death according to Swedenborg.  I don’t know if that is a truth yet.

 It’s been written about in different ideas about human activities and processes that can be experienced as spirituality. Many individuals describe being controlled and moved by a mechanical controlling ‘other’.  Many individuals experience this ‘other’ in various relationships in their external life without suspecting the real origin is not ‘terrestrial’.   It may be in preparation for life after life in a body and perhaps life before birth.  The individual may be selecting ones’ real home after death, if Swedenborg was correct about a life after life in a body. It is a retrieval of memories from the individual past in a subtle form of non-verbalized, non-articulable thought that creates a life examination, a real life re-view, literally.  Swedenborg described this as ‘influx’. I experienced it as words that were not articulable because the location was obviously very deep in my mind, galaxies of inner space from speech. I wrote to Wilson van Dusen to verify that this ‘pre-thought’ content is like a fragrance of words at first sight. He responded that I was correct although he seemed unimpressed that I had discovered what I knew and suspected, he said everyone should know ‘this stuff’.

I had to discover that deep location when an impulse caused me to try to capture one word and hold it in memory long enough to write it down. It was a task imposed on me as a compulsion; it was a process that did not seem to be my decision. (Norman O. Brown wrote that emotions become conscious by becoming attached to words.  I believe the result of that meeting of the content of one’s emotions with words, circumstances and specific content in the exterior world is where ‘meaningful coincidences’ are created. )

The word ‘regeneration’ literally means to retrieve something, to replay that something, to re-view, to literally re-produce that something. This is what David Bohm wrote was necessary to do when he wrote Wholeness and the Implicate Order: “lift events and ideas out of their normal contexts and see them and interpret them as though for the first time”. That is not a simple task.

Memories are a retrieval and a replay of content from the past.  In the re-play of a few re-occurring memories as I experienced them, I was shown in my life, and was actually told by someone who had obviously noticed in his own mind that a function and a mechanism of mind was at work in my mind. “Your mind is playing tricks on you.”, was what he said one day. (We had a mental bond that I didn’t suspect although I heard myself describe it one day using my limited knowledge and vocabulary in a psychiatric session.) This person had experienced this ‘trick’ mechanism that may be a switch, a ‘me’ or ‘not me’ switch created in my mind,  a replay of content that created a ‘second underlying context’ automatically and instantly usually.

I  didn’t decode these incidents, the new meaning and context was a real ‘reflection’ of the original content.  Wilson van Dusen helped me to understand this mechanism and what it accomplishes when I wrote to him in 1993. The function selected those events from my past, used  that material, literally re-used it to create a personal  new context, new meaning and eventually it formed a completely new understanding of that string of events. It created a conversation literally from that abstracted material, a steady flow of event in Time carries this conversation through the human life.

An excellent word to use to describe that abstracted content is ‘echo’, although the reflected content was batched, into a unit;  it occurred in a super-flash of time and  in the reflection this effect was not easy to see. It happens so rapidly it was almost impossible to identify because the retrieved content is batched; there is no space between the words, the content is compressed into a single unit in ordinary time. P. D. Ouspensky described how he experienced some mental states in which the space between words was so vast that he couldn’t remember the previous word. Also for a span af about 9 years,  I experienced the batched content was turned around towards me and is directed towards the person as though another person spoke the content. Wilson van Dusens’ books, The Presence of Other Worlds and The Natural Depths of Man had given me helpful information before I read anything Swedenborg had written. Discovering an event that happened in my own mind was a task that seems to me to have been already well planned when I was born in1932.

I couldn’t describe what I had experienced in 1984, but I was driven to do that. (Later I read the  story in Genesis about Adam having to name what was brought before him . I  felt this might be a reference to the compulsion that drove me to “name everything, describe what you see.”)  I  had to discover that event as though it happened in different galaxy, remote from the moment it had happened, in an area in my unexplored thought world. I became aware of vast distances and different levels in my mind that produced content, not dreams but other thought and effects that alter everything. The distance was marked by a kind of visibility of inner content but no ability to speak it, write it down.

One day I remember reading about a musician that heard the entire piece he was going to play as a single unit of ‘round sound’, a gestalt when he prepared for a concert. That was a clew in a book I would normally not choose to read.  

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 Early in the 1980’s I had a very great change in my mind and I was trying to understand and describe what had changed in my mind  because I had a strong impulse, to ‘write about your life, describe what you see’.  I had no words to use, but eventually I recognized they seemed to come to me as though they knew where I was.  I didn’t know the words I needed so they came in books I chanced to notice and surprisingly through people I knew and met at work or in other situations.
That idea of a ‘gestalt’  gave me a clew about what had happened in my mind in 1984. I named it a mind-quake when I had the second and third events in 1989 and only then I had to recognize the real source of my experiences was not my family or people we knew or anything visible in itself on this planet. Evidence that points to this invisible intelligence come to me through many things I did but had not decided to do myself. I lost personal volition and became an observer of my own body and its inner content. A drama began to emerge while two small groups of individuals tried to introduce challenge level square dancing to the reluctant mainstream dancers in clubs we belonged to.

I felt a powerful motor that drove me to describe what I saw in my own mind and in my life.  It began in one relationship with a real person that I felt a need to get to know, he was a stranger so I didn’t understand such a strong need because it was not a  romantic interest.  I was puzzled about why I began to feel a deep sense of grief that was excruciatingly painful in my body about something I saw in that one man’s relationships to the people in his life at that point in time. (This strange attraction caused me to lose control of my body but I observed and listened to this body as though I was both actor and audience beginning in 1984 to the present time. I’ve had 3 major mindquakes after 1989.)

Something new was beginning to be taught by this man and another man, the operated their own square dance groups. They were both introducing a new level of  square-dancing above the mainstream level. That situation was an essential circumstance; it was a perfect setting for the event that happened in 1984.

I’ll give  examples because events  happened to me many times before I realized for certain what a mechanism in my mind was doing with words I heard  only one specific person say, the one square dance caller whom I felt I needed to know. I don’t remember the exact date when one evening he suddenly seemed to know andrespond to what I was thinking about, wondering about but had never said anything to anyone about!  I had to learn slowly and painfully from therapists I went to, that this kind of event where I heard a person or an object use words that seemed to be a response to my unspoken thought and inner content, is a commonly experienced symptom known as ‘thought broadcasting’.

I believe the sense of being ‘talked to’ by an other, a real other is the activity of a pattern.

My mind had a mechanism at work:  reflecting the content back to me so that I heard it the way I had normally heard people, not objects that use words such as books, radios, television, movies, just people, real people. That was a confusing kind of event, to begin to hear objects that use words the same way I’d heard people.

As time passed and I began to become familiar with the accumulation of new content, a new understanding emerged.  It was created from a real echo of content but a new personal context and meaning emerged automatically in the ‘reflected content’. New information was created re-using old information…  I will describe as best I can the slow process at work, it built an understanding that was new to me, paralleling my normal understanding. This new understanding was confusing to me because both seemed plausible.
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My first thought occurred when I was not yet 2 and a half: “I am in a cold place.” The memory of that thought, what I was looking at, what I was hearing and feeling re-occurred into my mind for no reason I could see until I noticed it and became somewhat  curious about the retrieval and replay of  that event into my mind. I was in my second and third decade when I wondered to myself about this repetition of one moment in my toddlerhood. What I saw and what I felt was the retrieved memory. It was a vivid photograph of what I was looking at, a light bulb hanging above me, but it included the thought, “I am in a cold place.”, the wind blowing outside, but also and this is the strange fact, knowledge of where I was:  laying on a bed where my new baby sister  was laying, and we were in an old garage that had been converted into living quarters in 1934.  My parents rented this garage and in 1989 I found it the day before it was to be destroyed. I talked to the woman who had rented it to my parents when she was very aged but she remembered my parents and many other people that I’d forgotten.

This was only one of my reoccurring memories, each was different in content that emerged into my mind. I was in my 60’s when I first realized these memories  marked the depths of a level in my mind into which I saw and from which I ‘heard’ mental content. This was proof that what I thought, what I felt, and what I saw in the physical world had been recorded in some great data base for later use and evidence that my physical body could be located precisely and accurately. That idea evolved very slowly.

Many authors, Douglas Hofstadter is one modern example, began their book with an example of a memory of an incident that happened when they were very young that was important to his future. Carl G. Jung wrote  (in MDR) that at the age of 6 through his 11th year he was intensely focused on the desire to solve the mystery of the human personality. He experienced a few incidents during that span of time that were significant only later in his life.

Emanuel Swedenborg wrote that from the age of 4 through his 10th year he was intensely focused on religious matters.

C. G. Jung described a few incidents in his Memories, Dreams, Reflections that happened when he was less than 11 years old, i.e., the thought that he didn’t want to think, that he finally allowed to emerge when he had the vision of the giant turd falling from the sky onto the Church of Basel; and the vision of a giant phallus and his mothers’ voice. 

I believe the above paragraphs refer to a few memories of especially significant events that happened when I was young, up to the age of about 13 years old although most of them happened when I was 9 years old.  Some were photographs of the moment, complete in every detail:  how I felt, what I thought and in a few events, comments on what I was looking at, very brief words such as ‘common denominator’ which was one of the re-occurring memories. One was the memory of a movie serial I saw when I was very young, the words of the title and the plot of the serial occurred as a unit, ‘missing link’. This was the name of an old movie serial.  The Missing Link in which a female scientist was looking for the link between man and ape in a jungle setting.  

The Ouspensky quotation is from the introduction to a book I’d read before  I chanced to re-read it, only then pausing to wonder what the author was trying to define. But this time I saw that my attention was drawn to this paragraph at a point when it could mean something.  I had become aware of certain inner content in my mind that I didn’t produce myself. I had begun to recognize that my mind was working independently of my conscious self and it was methodically using memories from my past to communicate with me.

The method was difficult to recognize because I had never experienced or thought about my mind and inner content, in fact my head had been empty until about 1982. That changed after a dream that was unlike any I’d ever had; my head was ‘thought full’ afterwards. I had by then noticed the re-played memories and become curious about them.

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I had neurological tests done in 1984 because I knew something was wrong.
I had believed I had a head injury and I’d been told I had severe post menopausal syndrome but as I found out later Swedenborg had written long ago: “Only effects, not causes are perceived on this planet. And he wrote that every thing is tremulations. And ‘fire’ is little mathematical points.” Quantum physics ‘says’ the same thing. When the results of the test were given to me, I was told my handedness had reversed, from right handed to left handed. I had never heard or read anything about right brain or left brain functioning and did not know about it until several years later.

Everything was different by then, my body felt different, a subtle change altered every thing out side of my body and also what I thought, saw, heard and understood in my mind. I looked carefully to see what was changed but couldn’t see anything different.

Eventually something I read in a book and a situation that evolved in the physical world caused me to be certain the change was in my own head. , it actually happened in a square dance setting in which many other individuals were intensely involved. Emotions were strong in this situation. 

The situation in square dancing developed when two small groups of individuals were introducing advanced and challenge levels to the mainstream dancers. Only a few of we mainstream dancers were struggling to learn the higher level, which removed all gender roles from the dance. This seemingly simple change outraged the mainstream dancers and callers.

At the higher level it was also necessary to learn ‘concept calls’, one of which required learning to dance with phantoms, people who were imagined, they were not real dancers. I was anguished because I was unable to track these phantom dancers, but I didn’t know it had never occurred to me to notice even the formations used in the dance! When the caller chanted: “In your phantom set up” every dancer had to notice their location in a formation then add the number of phantoms that the particular call required and interact with them as though they were real. I stood rooted in place and felt I caused the dance to fall into chaos.

At some point I read a reference to a book, A New Era of Thought by Charles Hinton in Petr D. Ouspenskys’ A New Model of the Universe and I found a copy somewhat easily which was odd because that was before the Internet. Book searches were time consuming and often didn’t result in getting the book. It had a diagram of an experiment that Hinton had designed to ‘subtract himself from what he saw’ outside of his body.

I had already noticed a thought grow in my mind, that I should ‘subtract my self from what I saw’. Let me repeat this very important fact: I had already noticed a thought grow from faintly sensed words to real words in my mind, that I should ‘subtract my self from what I saw.”  This was a new idea to me.

His diagram was a matrix arrangement of cubes similar to the Rubik cube but much larger and each edge joined to a different color. The experiment required him to visualize what colors were joined when he inserted his perception into any location.

It doesn’t seem accidental that I found the book with the diagram in the back, because this precise timing has happened so many times.  An example is that I had read Contact by Carl Sagan at least twice without noticing the several mentions of pi in it.  There are no mentions of pi in the movie. A kind of blind spot that’s not under my authority seems to open up at just the right point in Time, so that I ‘see’ what could have been seen before. Sometimes I wondered why I notice ‘this’ which has come to my attention only now.

Mixed signals are at least somewhat visible in one’s mind/body/activities. If there are mixed signals there are signals.

In my past, a person I knew very intimately in a long term relationship had mentioned to me one day when I tried to talk to him about a problem we were having, that my mind was playing tricks on me. I didn’t know what he meant until much later. It became obvious that he had noticed the same mechanism in his own mind. However  as time passed, he forgot much that he said to me. I remembered things he’d said and done in the past that were important to me, in the future.

The first time I noticed an event that was created by that mechanism was when he had been whistling over and over the music to a popular commercial. I asked if he was trying to annoy me but he was honestly bothered by it himself because he said: “I wish it would go away but it just won’t go away and stay away.” The jingle was “What will you do with all the money you save?” I had never in my life, even once formed a relationship between a commercial and something relating to what was happening at the moment, in my life, but this time I heard the words as though they were being said to me. They were clearly about the problem we were having, about money.

One memory was a vivid complete re-play of how I felt as well as what I was doing at a certain time in my life. I was in school, trying to copy the perfect examples of letters and numbers in the tablet we used and I couldn’t make a row of nice letters or numbers. I felt anguished, and was trying so hard, scrunched over the paper: “I can’t do it. I can’t write like other people!” The thought, the anguish in my body, the sense of trying so hard to make perfect letters and numbers was retrieved, complete in every way;  a regeneration of the original event. I relived the moment. .

Most of the original events happened when I was less than 10 years old. A few happened when I was in my twenties.  A few important future oriented events happened only once but I had no memory of that event until it was retrieved much later in life. The important event happened when I was 13 and I forgot it, never thought about it! That event in particular was retrieved in 1984, the event that had happened when I was about 13 years old and felt isolated in my body on the Earth.  It did not re-occur later into my mind but it should have. I forgot it had happened until it was retrieved in 1984 as a preface to my first mind-quake. The memory was complete in every detail, even a thought that had occurred into my mind.

But this fact is where I’ve had a lot of personal anguish: My first mindquake was the result of living with a person who had already had an inner event happen to him. He described it as ‘sitting under the apple tree with his maker’. As time passed and we lived our life as a family, his attitude towards that event changed from being extremely important to being of no importance, not worth talking about when I realized his experiences were the same pattern I was trying to describe.

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Deep levels of mind were made evident because I’ve had to travel great mental distances since 1984 in my own mind. There is space between thought producing levels and hearing my own speech; seeing my own body do things and say things that I could in a peculiar way ‘see/hear/understand’ but not relate to until much later. “Now” is not a fixed point in different levels that are not connected.

I began to hear myself say things I’d never thought about but these incidents were sprinkled into my every day life, until after 1984. After 1984 this kind of hearing was my new normal.

What can make a certain event memorable, different from other events? If that event re-occurs in memory often enough over a span of years, that is enough to arouse curiosity about its re-occurrence.
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In 1989 I located the one car garage where my first memory was photographed into my memory bank.  My husband and I talked to the woman that had rented the garage to my parents at that time. The garage was overgrown with weeds and when I asked if I could have the carved panels from the door she laughed: “Take the whole garage if you want it because it’s going to be bulldozed down tomorrow.”

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 It has been my experience that a life review was created in fragments, by retrieving certain memories when the content was similar in some way to what I was doing in my life at that moment as I lived in the material world.

What I was doing was at times described in this way as though a person was telling me it could see me and knew the most intimate content of my mind.

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 I read the short Doctrine of Remains that  Swedenborg wrote sometime in the 1990’s but by then I’d read a lot of his writings and had recognized other authors who may have experienced ‘remains’ themselves, but who had no knowledge of Swedenborg or his interpretations of the stories in the bible.  When I read certain books, I began to understand what my mind was somehow purposefully doing, working to tell me something. I felt a response in my body when I read that Douglas Hofstadter began his Pulitzer Prize winning book with a story about how he became fascinated by ‘three-ness’ when he was barely beyond a toddler.

Different  names and  concepts are used in psychiatric definitions for many ideas about the mind; about thought that is not self-generated;  I had to notice and become curious about  ‘influx’ that is not yet words that can ‘fall’ into speech; about different levels of understanding in the mind that Emanuel Swedenborg described literally, and accurately in his time. One such word is ‘regeneration’, used in a very broad context. His language was of his time. Psychiatry and psychology in modern time uses another language that considers but does not eliminate the personal, the ‘subjective’, the irrational. However he accurately described a process of regeneration, a preparation for life after death although I’ve experienced this process in life, in every day circumstances and I don’t believe I’m unusual.

 I watched a movie last night, in which one of his ideas, i.e., the plot was the ordeal of an individual confronting the authority of the ‘powers that be’ as it affects the female (and a helper male) on the path of discovering one’s true self: it was a book in a  currently popular series for young adults by Veronica Roth: Divergence!

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I’ve had several ‘mindquakes’, the first one happened in 1984. I will describe it later but it was ‘like’ an earthquake in many attributes. It exposed two fault lines, neither off which had any relationship to my real life, they were the lives of Eve and Greek goddesses, written about but not as real  history. I had two large ones in 1989, a few months apart, as well as smaller events between 1984 and 1989. Overall after 1989 they  informed me in a specific form that I had learned to understand and get new to me  information from unwilled activities in my own mind; information that I had not known although most that was new to me  was well known and written about in books I’d not yet read.  (I lost all volition and felt driven n a way I couldn't control.) ((I also saw everything differently than normal for me, and my hearing seemed to be turned up in volume at times, such as happened in this story.))

That’s a big problem, almost unimaginably  important because of what a person ‘understands’, using the word ‘understanding’ in Swedenborg’s contexts. A few of my  remains are impulse generated events that happened in my life when I was less than 10 years old. I had developed habits from the impulse, that were as natural as breathing by the time I chanced to notice Petr Beckmann’s book, The History of Pi in 1989 when I passed through the  library and decided to read it. The pi symbol  was used by my employer, the Boeing Corporation.

Many important people had been dead hundreds of years before I was born when I read their ideas with a new eye and ear when I was in my 5th and  6th decade.

“Behold, I make all things new.” There are methods of interpretation that I didn’t know about when a hidden world began to function in the situations and locations where I and other individuals lived in the late 1970’s.

 Let me give an example of what I mean: Almost 20 years ago I was looking at a flower, a white peony that had streaks of magenta in its creamy ivory center. I leaned down to smell it but my body leaped backwards suddenly and I was afraid. But of what? I thought for a moment then I saw something move on the flower. It crept up from the underside: a spider with creamy ivory legs, a pure white pearl shaped body that had magenta parenthesis shaped markings on its back. It was exactly the colors of the flower.  I had not seen it myself, but obviously a part of me had seen it and re-acted instantly.

 A thought emerged into my mind: “It was invisible until it moved, because it was embedded within something that is its own color.” The words generated by that event affected me in a slightly different way than ‘normal’ thought. They remained in my mind and were used later in a different context. I had to recognize the words were about different content producing levels in the mind and that content is  inserted, it’s received from an other.

 It is one kind of influx, embedded in my thought  but it’s from another intelligence. It was invisible because it was embedded but it began to move early in the 1980s. I named it the Larger Domain sometime in 1988.  It is experienced as ones’ own ‘thought’ because  that content is embedded in its own ‘kind’. The words were re-used in a different context than a spider embedded on a flower that was the same color. This was one of  several similar incidents that happened to make me aware of one important fact: I don’t create all of my inner content.

 One other relevant event was a sentence embedded in  Carl Sagans’  book, Contact: Ellen Arroway has just been told the signal that’s been picked up is not ‘local’, it may be extra terrestrials sending it:  “In her mind she thought she heard one joyous shout amidst a clamor of other voices.” I had a feeling close to being a shock. There are several similar incidents on this ‘string’ that fed me the idea that was and is embedded in my  mind,  it’s the only one I know really, there is embedded one thought producing  level that ‘speaks’ its content in a variety of ways. I don’t dream the kind of dreams or visions that many people seem to have so this is different than trying to get meaning from dreams.   

Subtle differences about thought have been described by Wilson van Dusen in his Presence of Other Worlds, and The Natural Depths of Man. I wrote to him in 1993 to ask him several questions about  what Swedenborg meant when he wrote about ‘thought that is not yet real words’, thought that is near speech that can fall into words’,  about  influx’; some  symptoms of certain mental disorders that have been named as mental illness symptoms;  and Carl Jungs’ ideas about meaningful coincidences. His reply validated my hunches. I have the letter in which he confirmed the mechanism I’d noticed can create ‘self reference’ among other effects. This function almost certainly creates many problems to individuals who don’t notice their inner content and changes in life that occur  or should occur naturally.  I believe it creates self observation and new information and much more.

I’ve discovered since then that most of my life, and particularly after 1984, I experienced thought that I could ‘see’ but not relate to immediately. Memories of those events were retrieved later and only then did I wonder about why I’d said and done what I’d observed my body do and say.  That was a fact until about 1988. By then I’d experienced a steady flow of confusing new to me inner content, but I’d become aware that events that had happened early in my life were being ‘used’ as reference points.

The fact that nobody knows but me and the other is that these few memories re-occurred into my mind, their individual re-occurrences marked them.

Overall, I experienced a kind of voice telling me what I was doing, It was created by a mechanism that probably explains paranoia, which I believe is the reverse of metanoia moving in mental space on a  moebius-like continuum that operates in my mind. There’s a point on the simplest moebius band where direction changes into its opposite. The upside becomes the downside, the back becomes the front. I made my first moebius band when I was 9 years old after reading a  definition in a dictionary. The impulse caused me to make a moebius band. I wondered what could be the use of such a thing then the impulse to cut the band around its center , once then again caused me to discover its hidden secret: two bands were joined by a knot but were separate because the knot could not be undone. It represented the diabolical situation where one thing can seem to be two different things, the thing turned against itself, much like our immune system which in many diseases doesn’t recognize its ‘ self’.

 It also represented Swedenborg’s concept of the goods of truth and the falsities of evil. Quantum physics at the quark level involves the lattice of moebius bands to explain the confinement of quarks, which sum to 0, 1 and in some interactions, 2.

Symptoms that I didn’t know were commonly experienced by others happened to me and those symptoms created the voice effect.   These symptoms are basically regarded as pathological thinking and  of mental illnesses.

My intent is to form a connection to those symptoms and ‘re-generation’ not only as a process of life but  to a mechanism in the mind that literally ‘echoes back certain content’, automatically creating a new context for the  reflected content. This is artificial intelligence but not the kind Alan Turing developed.  The content was a ‘re-use’ of what I had thought or was seeing, reading and hearing. This thought is a reflection in a literal sense.

It has created a real life re-view, limited somewhat of course to what I  can understand but  it’s not like the NDE’s that are reported now.  I read about theosophy, went to AA meetings, went to investigations into Near Death Events, and worked at Boeing where the biggest change in building airplanes was just beginning when I was transferred to Final Assembly. The New Generation 737X body had a single tube shaped body, not the two sections that had previously formed the 737.

This mechanism can create a life review and create real new information in one specific persons’ mind.  That implies that persons’ location and activities are known. 

I believe the idea of ‘karma’, can be explained in a different way by this process and its mechanisms that create moments of “I’ve been here before, I’ve done this before.” i.e,  déjà vu and ‘meaningful coincidences’, different names for the same kind of event. The inner content meets its exact content somewhere in the exterior world, the inner is already there, waiting, a sense of already knowing was felt so often I almost lost  my bearings. The sense of seeing a life review, of being shown the content of my past was in the background, behind the steady flow of what seemed to emerge spontaneously without my will or intents. I had to notice that attribute of the flow of events.

I’m writing about a different kind of event, one that arises spontaneously from real world activities. It’s been described as an ‘interactive force’ at work by F. David Peat and it was his book that introduced the word ‘synchronicity’ to me, only  after  I had  become aware that certain symptoms of mental disorders are or can be the result of experiencing individuation/regeneration events. Mr. Peat did not connect his ideas to or mention an individuation process.

I knew almost nothing about C. G. Jung when I read Peat’s book; especially his idea about the ‘shadow’ as he interpreted it. I’ve had experiences in my life in which the ‘shadow’ was attached to  a very different idea. And it was important that I’d no knowledge of Jung’s ideas because the ‘shadow’ as I understand it now is related to an old comic book character, a radio show and then a movie:

 “Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of mean? The Shadow knows. The Shadow has the power to blind men’s mind so they cannot see him.”

“Cast a shadow..”  I had  begun to be an an avid challenge level square dancer when one caller, and only one from many that I knew, chanted the name of a square dance movement named ‘cast a shadow’.  He was the man I felt such a strong need to get to know; he was the man in the dream which initiated the never ending stream of thought about the dream. One evening I noticed a quiet voiced thought occurred, it repeated those words after he chanted them. Then  afterwards this happened every time this caller chanted those words. Eventually I became curious about my re-hearing of those few words. I’m certain I didn’t notice the quiet thought words spoken in my mind the first time they occurred. This was a highly selective mechanism, a detail that took some few years to be certain was happening.

It was not easy to discover that my inner content was not my own productions but is a kind of output from another source, input to me. Information is revealed and conveyed to me, sometimes literally. Other times by retrieving memories from my past that in some way related to what I was doing and thinking at that moment. I had to discover that relationship.

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I noticed a continual link to the life of Theodore Reik and his books as time passed. It lead me to his Fragment of a Great Confession eventually. In that book he described an event similar to what I’d experienced, a ‘double thought’ that he recognized and described. That’s a term Emanuel Swedenborg used in his writings.

I’ve mentioned that Jung experienced several incidents early in his life that I believe are ‘remains’ but he didn’t recognize then although according to Ellenberger, he did ‘devour’ some of Swedenborg’s writings. The incident that comes to my mind happened when he saw a giant turd fall onto the Church at Basil. (‘Holy Shit’ perhaps was illustrated or being re-presented?) He ‘saw’ a thought in his mind and prevented ‘thinking’ it until he permitted it to occur.   

I have written to Wilson van Dusen about my experiences and he verified that what I’d come to understand was correct. He was surprised that I didn’t know already what I had learned so painfully and in such a confusing material world  experience! I have his letter but it seems to me he didn’t fully relate to the fact that I had discovered privately, from experiences of my own what he seemed to believe everyone already knew. Or should know.

The ‘meaningful coincidences’ that so many individuals experience and the ‘psychosis’ that many experience are the same kind of event. I’d been told by a Jungian therapist that I called one day that ‘thought broadcasting and another symptom, ideas of reference’ and other symptoms are the meaningful coincidences’ that Jung somewhat wrote about. This therapist had experienced those symptoms himself. His name is Dr. William Levy. I asked him why he’d not published what he knew and he told me (1988) that ‘nobody WANTS to know this stuff’.  A thought occurred into my mind that he earns his living from what individuals like me did not ‘want’ to know.

I had formed my own name for what he named ‘ideas of reference’ and other so called symptoms of mental disease, and he told me it was accurate and appropriate: they were ‘second underlying contexts’.

I’d lost volition basically over my body but I ‘saw’ in a new way my own  body.  I believe that now but then I had no words to use.  In this situation it was as though I and everyone in our life at that point were actors in a movie.  I was the only person in the audience however.  I had to discover that fact. Other people told me what my life story contained, they read some content that must be 0, 1 in our bodies, non-verbal communication seemingly, but only in appearances.

The script unfolded in activities we (two groups of challenge level square dancers who were introducing advanced and challenge levels to the extremely reluctant local mainstream clubs)  shared or seemed share, because in my mind my unspoken thoughts were or seemed to be known and responded to. That was confusing for a few years.

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My marital ‘bond’ was in a horrible condition then, but other events that were not seemingly connected to my personal life began to capture and hold my attention. Then in 1984 when the  Los Angeles Olympic  games were being played I had the first mindquake. Under the guise of the advent of the games, I’d begun to hear the advertisements in a new to me way, as though objects that use words were speaking directly to me!

What is a ‘mindquake’?  Memories of an event that happened when I was 13 years old was the first content of the first mindquqke. What followed was masses of memories retrieved that told a story about my marriage. It opened up two fault lines in my history as a woman, but they had nothing to do with me as an individual, it was a psychological interpretation beginning with Eve. The result was like a movie, but it happened in a condition Swedenborg described in Conjugal Love, two individuals functioning as one.

I had recognized this myself;  in very  naïve words I described it and was told I had ‘remarkable insight’  long before I understood this binary unit (1 + 1 = 1) had formed in me, a new mind.

I saw my mind at work, in a way I later read about in a book by Theodore  Reik (Fragment of a Great  Confession in a chapter titled In Small Packages. He is replaying in his mind a bridge game, reconstructing the sequences of the game, using words commonly associated with bridge. He notices his mind seems to be stuck on certain words, and a hidden meaning emerges that relates not to the bridge game but to his relation with his wife. He dismisses those points as ‘magical thinking’! They were actually details about his life being ‘said back’ or’echoed’ to him.

The book is about his secret obsession in his teen  years, with Goethe. When Reik was 18, he’d read everything Goethe had written but he kept that obsession to himself, for no reason he understood. He experienced other ‘remains’ that I can identify when he was about 9 years old. (The Creation of Woman was the result of one such event.) He ‘heard himself blurt out something he’d not thought about and had no intent to say, just the way I experienced in my life a spontaneous eruption of words and actions.
The words and ideas connected to all levels of square dancing are what I experienced in a similar way to the way words became ‘stuck’ in Theodore Reik’s mind.

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Examples of my remains: 

My first memory at age 2 and a half was vivid photograph of what was in front of me, a thought that emerged: “I am in a cold place.”, and an impression of where I was, laying: on a bed with a  new sister;  in a garage that had been converted to a home, in 1934. I found that garage in 1989, a day before it was to be demolished!

A memory of a Sunday school teacher who told her version of the birth of Jesus that produced a thought in my mind and a response to the thought. All aspects of that event re-occurred as a unit, flashing into my mind at times for years, for no reason I could see..

The memory of the plot of a movie serial, The Missing Link that I saw when I was about 8 or 9. It was about a woman scientist leading an exploration to find the missing link between man and ape. Only the two words “missing link” and the memory of the plotoccurred into my mind.

The development of a memory, it evolved gradually throughout my first 25 years, of a thought about Beethoven, Einstein and Mark Twain, that ‘bore first fruit’ in 1988.  A most astonishing event happened over a span of  almost 5 decades!

An example from a book:

I’ve mentioned that Theodore Reik described an event that happened when he was 9 years old, in which he ‘heard himself say’ something he’d not thought about or intended to say that later resulted in his book, The Creation of Woman. It’s about the two versions of the creation of Eve, in Genesis. He is listening to his grandfather and elderly friends discuss and reason in the Jewish form when Reik hears himself suggest  the second version is a reversal, it’s the ‘second birth of Adam’ into the world of men, out of the world of the mother. It’s not about Eve it’s a reversal of gender.

 In the introduction to Douglas Hofstadter’s prize winning book, Godel, Escher and Bach, the author tells about his first memory at age 3, that triggered a life-long endeavor. Many books begin with a similar idea; an incident that happened at a very young age cemented into the authors’ mind and influenced that person in adult life.

These were significant events that happened really only once but afterwards the event flashed rapidly into my mind. Some were complete in every detail, including a thought I’d had in that event. This was a thought that I didn’t tell anyone about and didn’t think about myself until I was more than 50 years old. It was about a secret about the insane basically that I had observed as it was created in my mind in the late 1970s.

There are several ways to describe my ‘re-occurring memories’ but I need to use   my limited knowledge of computers and terms and a few ideas that I’d learned when I took data processing courses in the late 1960’s. That’s when the first generation of computers was just giving way to the second generation.  Programming was somewhat introduced, I learned that addresses and slots had to be named to receive data, much like post office boxes are named and numbered. The memories were simplistic but if I’d not learned at least that much about computers, well I wouldn’t be writing this.

The re-occuring memories were retrieved obviously from a location in a memory that contained them, a slot in which they had been stored away because they had to be retrieved as a packet. The packet was opened; the complete event was then regenerated rapidly in my mind, in a flash as a unit.

They did not stand out as different for almost 6 decades, because they were embedded in ‘thought’ and I was basically thought less until I was in my early 50s. At mid life a great change in my family occurred, but other aspects of our lives began to enfold my new thought filled minds’ content. That was nearly overwhelmingly new and confusing for at least 5 years, between 1984 and 1989.

Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings came to my attention during that time, the first mention that I remember  reading contained the words ‘double thought’. I paused briefly to wonder what he  meant. It was years later that I saw this as a remarkable ‘coincidence’ because I was experiencing the effect that created the sense that turned my thought  and whatever content was selected, highlighted so to speak before I knew computers and software had that capability. My attention was directed, not purposed by my intents.

Wilson van Dusens’ Presence of Other Worlds came to my attention after I’d read Paul Davies book, Other Worlds. The titles of the two books had an unusual connection to my thoughts at that time, but that connection has continued, even now in 2013  (2015 today) through the strange experiences described in certain fictions that were written for teen agers! I had a Twilight based mindquake 4 years after I read those books, it was different.

I’ve had several ‘mindquakes’.  They are batches of memories and ‘new to me’ information that triggered me to think about something implied but not directly stated anywhere. I was told to ‘think about the ‘whole thing’, think about the implications of the ‘whole thing’ in 1989, one day when I tried to rest a few minutes in a toilet cubicle at work. That’s where Martin Luther was when he received his revelation! (Life Against Death, Norman O. Brown, The Excremental Vision)

I don’t have the kind of dreams other people seem to report. “Seeing” ones’ inner content when there’s so much activity, can be distressing and that’s a fact I had to learn, seeing the strange shapes that were produced in my own mind, not ‘things’ but somehow ‘shapes’ that made no sense and I felt a terrible grief for years.  

My mind became connected to other minds in a way that Swedenborg mentioned in his book  Conjugal Love. Which I had not read and didn’t know existed but some psychiatric texts do mention conditions such as ‘folie aux duex’ and other names for basically the same psychological bonds.

John Bradshaw has described this inter-generational family connection in his talks, Family Secrets, but I found it is also in the Bible in Jeremiah and in other places.

The ideas of quantum physics, family chemistries and bonds are very much in the news today, but the surprise is that they are written in the bible too.   The idea of ‘instruction’ and the form in which ‘instruction’ can occur is also in the Bible. Jesus described it in detail.

Today the word ‘coincidences’ or ‘synchronicities’ in my opinion is about how ‘instruction’ occurs and one’s ‘remains’ are used as proof that this is ‘not me thinking’,  it is ‘divine providence’ at work.

 Synchronization between thought, certain thought and what’s happening outside of my body has caused me to develop a new understanding, the old understanding was replaced.

“Behold I make all things new.” is in the Bible.

I noticed my remains throughout the first 4+ decades of my life with the barest degree of attention,  without curiosity and this very slight degree became obvious over a period of decades.  I was in my forties when I began to wonder to myself why those ‘ghost memories trekked along the backroads of my mind’ for no reason I could understand.

 Both of the quotations I began this post with were written by different men who lived in different times.  I did not notice either quotation the first time I read it in their respective books. Only later was I curious enough to pause and wonder what the author meant, when I chanced to re-read the books that contained them

 Noticing something specific in a book I’ve read once, but not noticed at first reading is almost common now. There is a remarkable element of precise timing involved. When I can understand what I didn’t notice in the past, then an interest leads me to re-read a book at a point when I can not only understand it, I can notice the precise timing. I had to discover that;  it was one critically important fact that I had to notice myself. There was no sign anywhere that told me to ‘NOTICE THE TIMING IS PERFECT”. I had to notice that aspect myself.

The timing could not be explained when this happened:

Law and Order 

One evening a few years ago, I went to bed with a book to read during commercials of a program I liked. The book had been in a box of books in my garage but I’d not read it. I noticed it one day and took it into the house, intending to read it sometime.

The book was so interesting I didn’t give much attention to the television show when it ended and a different show began, a show I never watch, the Law and Order series.  I don’t like the way they profile of the ‘perpetrator’ in the style of an almost prophetic insight and certainty.  And the  misuse of psychiatric  ideas and terms in the show is absurd imo. I was absorbed in the book, not listening to the television when suddenly the words being spoken on the television caused me to glance up. I heard:  “Do you recognize anyone?”

 The screen showed a page in a high school year book on which a young girl’s senior picture was prominent, they were talking about her. But that’s not what I saw.  At very first glance I saw a name I thought I recognized below a picture adjoining hers of another senior in the class:  Andrew Samuels.
 It was only a glimpse so I wasn't certain but the book I was reading at that moment was The Plural Psyche by Andrew Samuels.  He's a well-known (but not to me) Jungian author. What a surprise this was when I remembered how long I’d owned the book  but had not read it even after I'd brought it into the house. How odd that on this particular night I decided to read it!  

But was it really Andrew Samuels? Probably not, I decided and gave no more thought to the incident.

However within a few weeks that particular show was in progress several times when I browsed the television!  It just happened to be on when I flipped channels, not once but several times. So I was able to prove to myself that I had not read the name incorrectly. It was Andrew Samuels. 

I’ve not seen it after I captured the scene with my camcorder, although I recently bought the 13th season. Episode 2, Law and Order: Shangrila was about Fiona Reid. Isn't it odd that a search on the name of a fictional character in one episode in a series actually finds that name on the Internet?

 Consider what has happened:  I had just begun to read a book I'd owned for some time, the night of that showing of an episode that was several years old.  It was very odd, even extraordinarily unusual to happen that the show just seemed to be there so many times when I wasn’t looking for it. (The same thing happened when the movie Amadeus which I hated, kept showing up until I re-viewed it, but that’s another long story.)  
Now consider this fact about that incident: I wasn't watching the show.  I was reading my book until the question was asked by a character on the show:  “Do you recognize anyone?”  I looked up and recognized someone; the author of a book I was reading at the moment, who had the same name.

I felt that the question had been asked by someone talking to me, conversationally, borrowing the words and re-using them literally to ask me a question.  It’s an artificially created voice but it talked’ to me!.  I used to feel very strange when I experienced this kind of 'voice', it was a real shock for more than a few years.  The source of the ‘voice’, used what I was hearing to create its own voice, interrupting my reading.

That kind of coincidence is not new to me but it took a long time and many events happened before I thought of them as a voice speaking directly to me, using (or re-using) the content of what I was doing at the moment. It obviously knows me, everything about me. It wants something.

But wait, there’s more:  the first page of The Plural Psyche had interested me especially because the author mentioned that any author writes about the essential events that are happening in the  time they are living, as well as what they are doing themselves, whether they know it or not.

Few artists or authors or those who read their books have that degree of self knowledge.  Theodore Reik wrote Fragment of a Great Confession about Goethe’s love for a   young girl but did not recognize until he was elderly himself that he had woven his own love story into his version of  Goethes’ romance.
 
In fact  in a chapter titled In Small Packages Reik described how his ruminations of a bridge game developed a ‘double bottom’, a ‘secret meaning’ when certain words normally used to talk about bridge games occurred, then lingered in his thought.  He recognized they triggered thoughts about his relationship to his wife and how her frail heart had affected their life. The words that developed a ‘secret meaning’ were in my opinion highlighted by a mechanism of mind that created information relevant and significant to him by reflecting back the selected,  abstracted content  to build a conversation.
This kind of event was not nature at work, it was a function of his mind/brain/body  that used the words, to ‘talk’ to him.  The mechanism created a kind of re-view literally of a circumstance in his life. The word  ‘re-generated’ is a good word to use for how this mechanism functioned. 

The concepts that I had to learn when I left mainstream level square dancing were used to begin a conversation that used the names of square dancing at advanced and challenge levels.  When technology brought computers into the mainstream home  the language forced every one to learn the words attribute, object, and understand them in a different way.

 When this event happened I’d come to understand that myself.  I’d experienced that people actually say more than they realize and at times they say a lot they don’t  remember, perhaps don’t even hear themselves say, in normal conversations. I’d learned that too.

Fragment of A Great Confession was intended to be about a romance between Goethe and a young girl but in his elder years Reik recognized the details of his own relationship to his wife had formed the structure of the book! I’d thought it very odd that Theodore Reik wrote an entire book about another person but had not recognized he was telling his own life story. He was a psychiatrist. Doesn’t a psychiatrist know that as matter of fact?

Reik is a special influence in my life plot, he has written books unlike anything authored by Freud or Jungian influenced authors. By the age of 18, Reik had read everything Goethe had written, but had kept his obsession a secret for reasons he didn’t understand himself. Why would he be ashamed to admit he had an obsession like that? He wondered belatedly in life about that, but he’d also written that he could not learn from his own or others experience.