[MD] Reductionism

[MarshaV]

At 02:38 AM 6/30/2009, you wrote:
> > >Krimel:
> > >As for the crack on flattery I can only say I have to flatter my self
> > > since don't have a peanut gallery to outsource that to.
> >
> >Marsha
> >Though I sometimes disagree with you, I enjoy your posts.  They are
> >intelligent and interesting.  And as long as I can occasionally shoot
> >some seltzer in your direction, I want a front row seat in your
> >peanut gallery.  Give me K-R-I-M-E-L.  Yea Krimel!!!
> >
> >[Krimel]
> >OMG, with even just a mental flash of you in a short skirt with pom-poms, I
> >can die a happy man.
> >
> >A special shout out to Dave, without whose assistance, this moment of bliss
> >would not have been possible.
> >
> >More seltzer, please! I think I am going to spontaneously combust.
> >
> >Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...
>
>Marsha:
>Leave Dave out of this.
>
>Back to my question:  I do not understand what you mean by spiritual
>state of consciousness, please define?   Can you define or explain
>what you are criticizing?
>
>[Krimel]
>A woman who cheers and does not sleep... I am now a happy man in fear of
>death.
>
>States of consciousness are some times thought of as levels of awareness.
>The only common thread I find in any of the several hazy definitions of
>consciousness is the notion of awareness. So we can think of sleep,
>intoxication, meditation, hypnosis, depression, catatonia, arousal etc as
>states of awareness. Spiritual states of consciousness I would say aim at
>awareness of some kind of experience beyond the self.

Marsha:
Maybe it is simply awareness sans concepts.  Would you have a 
complaint if it were simply awareness sans patterns?   Simply seeing.

You are Krimel, I am Night.












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