Posted by Bruce Duensing
A Sentience Without A Sensate Form
One of earliest creatures of an intermediate and indeterminate realm known to our species that encompasses both the formalized range of human ruminations, as well as the intuitive senses held in the intelligence of the heart, (that instrument of cognition being of greater sensitivity than that of the intellect), is the Creature of Light, The Angel.
I recently read a wonderful post entitled "In Search of Nothingness" by Peter Fotis Kapnistos, which I highly recommend;
http://www.alienseekernews.com/articles ... gness.html
This post examines the counterintuitive concept (among other concepts) that everything that exists, even nothing has a material basis regardless if whether we can apprehend this by our sensory apparatus or not. If this is so, then our thoughts, knowledge, and emotions have a non-sensate material and energetic composition that bears further consideration. Perhaps if the next rung on the evolutionary scale is a form of sentience without form, such as that of an Angel, this non-sensate form of intangible materiality may be the realm of it's subsistence as they may be stationed between the realm of dreams and the realm of delimited potentiality, a quantum state we might call Eternity.
One could say the the difficulties of transcribing one form of sentience of a species to another in a coherent form is both astonishingly complex and nearly impossible to correlate, but this post examines a means in which this may not be so.
In both metaphysical and paranormal considerations, the underlying basis of comparison that both have sought in applying anthropomorphic attributes to this non human sentience, have created some amount of resulting abstractions as to the nature of this creature of the Imaginal Realm.
Just as we swim in an environment of invisible or if you will non sensory fields held behind the veil of forms or rather the surfaces or the semiotics that we utilize to describe them, this post is a consideration of a non human sentience that is the essence of organized energy as a form of intelligence that does not require an intellectual rational logic encased in a closed loop of mathematical constraints, or language as we understand language as a recombinant calculus.
What this post attempts to describe is an unseen world, just as unseen as your thoughts are invisible and yet it's effects can be measured so it may be so with the existence of these creatures whom I have followed and I suspect have followed me as well. Once, several years ago, I may have had an encounter with one, but more on that later.
In the last post I wrote about the limitations of the intellect in relation to perception and so this is a natural extension of those ruminations.
In the 10th Century,the Sufi Psychologist and Metaphysician, Al-Ghazali was one of the first to divide the sensory motives (apprehension) into five external senses (the classical senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch) and five internal senses: common sense (Hiss Mushtarik) which synthesizes sensuous impressions carried to the brain while giving meaning to them; imagination (Takhayyul) which enables someone to retain mental images from experience; reflection (Tafakkur) which brings together relevant thoughts and associates or dissociates them as it considers fit but has no power to create anything new which is not already present in the mind; recollection (Tadhakkur) which remembers the outer form of objects in memory and recollects the meaning; and the memory (Hafiza) where impressions received through the senses are stored. He wrote that, while the external senses occur through specific organs, the internal senses are located in different regions of the brain, and discovered that the memory is located in the hinder lobe, imagination is located in the frontal lobe, and reflection is located in the middle folds of the brain. He stated that these inner senses allow people to predict future situations based on what they learn from past experiences.
More recently science has discovered what is now termed, EI or Emotional Intelligence, Grahmn Brown wrote in 'The Smart Heart' that "Famous scientists have said that their discoveries seem to be merely following up the revelations of mystics from the past, and even the arrogantly sceptical Freud wrote, “everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me”. The poets and mystics have always known that true intelligence is a blending of head and heart, of thought and feeling and now psychology is moving towards a definition of what EI might be.It defines EI as including self-awareness, impulse control, zeal and motivation, empathy and social deftness; these are the qualities he identifies as prerequisites for success in career and in relationships. However the term EI was first formally defined in 1990 by the psychologists Mayer and Salovey as: “1) Knowing how you feel, how others feel and what to do about it. 2) Knowing what feels good, what feels bad and how to get from bad to good. 3) The emotional awareness, sensitivity and management skills which help us maximise our long term happiness and survival.” More recently they have updated their definition: “Emotional intelligence involves the ability to perceive accurately, appraise, and express emotion: the ability to access and or generate feelings when they facilitate thought; the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge; and the ability to regulate emotions to promote emotional and intellectual growth.”
When I use the term Imaginal Realm, I think one of the greatest difficulties that researchers face when the term is used is to immediately associate it with the formulation of non existent phantasms. However, this is but a reductionism of a more complex relationship that we also incessantly utilize as a necessary platform on which we operate under the assumption that we have a consistent and immutable self that is the locus of an organized autonomy in nature. As related in previous posts, neither perception nor the senses are continuous, they are in fact discontinuous and so a form of organic imagination makes these appear to be seamless.
Taking this concept further than ourselves as an example, nothing in nature is autonomous. The other perspective in this is the concept of a contingent nature which all things whether we consider them to be dead or alive share, which is co dependence.
"What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A metaphysical phrase for this relationship of one form of energy being reciprocally digested and\or fed by another is termed living in poverty. What this means is that is essentially as related to our own situation, we have nothing of our own, so to speak and that we are entirely dependent on the entire system of energy exchanges, as one could say a hummingbird or a solar system is a transceiving station and not an immutable entity.These energy exchanges both ascend and descend on a ladder or scale that could be considered from a certain point of view a spectrum, and rather than the varying shades of color as in the spectrum of a rainbow, we see in this process, a scale of velocities, densities and irradiance.
From the iron core of our planet, through the semisolid layer of magnesium, to rock, to crystal, to sedimentary layers to soil, to bacterial to cellular, to invertebrate to vertebrate and then downward from irradiated energy to the magnetosphere to atmosphere to water, etc. And so in this exchange within a spectrum of processes, we envision these creatures as representative of a station that consumes energy from living creatures. What energy is this and where does it arise? When we look at this systematizing hierarchy of transceiving stations of energy in terms of density, we also come upon a corresponding and parallel scale of sensitivity. A leaf is more sensitive than a rock, as well as the fact that this causal chain becomes more complex in terms of the energies each station requires to produce or if you will as step up transformers, produce increasingly more sensitive and complex energies.
Now we as sentient creatures in this process are the sole transformers of energy that consume from all the other groups such as mineral,bacterial, cellular,invertebrate, vertebrate etc to produce what? If you examine the intellect in great detail and compare it to the "heart" or our emotional sensitivity or intelligence, you find that in terms of intelligence not only does it not require the artifice of the intellect and broadcasts on non linguistic level. Those who study the paranormal for any considerable amount of time hear such phrases as "pregnancy is the womb of intuition" or that intuition is related to mediumship and precognition, or the other areas such as "sympathetic magic".
When one reads the details of the long running PEAR experiments with random number generators and the results derived during moments of global catastrophe, one immediately "gets" the concept that as an aggregate sum of our species we irradiate a field that not only provides the carrier wave of the intellect but reaches a wider distribution in the range of it's frequency. This being said, in certain metaphysical circles, this field is a form of food for those creatures we call the Angels. It may be these creatures uphold a world that is enfolded into ours as we are enfolded into the microscopic or bacterial realms. Perhaps to coin a pun, this is food for thought.
One day, as nameless as there are stars in the firmament, I was tracing a route of errands as autonomic as it is wearing and one of my required destinations was the grocery store. On that particular day, I was having an inner dialog or more accurately, an internal debate over how unnecessarily complex my life as well as others were, especially in terms of how unnecessary all this seem to be, in a self pitying diatribe of existential angst.
Honestly, I dont recall what particular item I was there to retrieve, however with great clarity I recall being overwhelmed by the enormous variety of variations of the same commodity that seemingly went on forever on shelf after shelf.I was intently mulling over how surrealistic all this was when I sensed and then confirmed that a very elderly gentleman with long white hair and deeply penetrating blue eyes was practically looking over my shoulder. I was caught unprepared and felt silly that I was probably blocking his way. I commented to him that there was too many selections and choices. He looked me squarely in the eye and said, "That's the point .....isn't it? To have as many choices as possible?"
I was taken aback as such an answer was unanticipated and instead of a amusing or clever reaction, I was stuck without being able to recollect an appropriate response. For a moment, I fixated my attention on a box of product just for a few seconds to regather some focus and when I wheeled around to find there was no one next to me, unlike my usual behavior of simply letting such an odd remark go, I felt compelled to find him as if to reconfirm that what just occurred in fact did occur.
I looked high and low to no avail. Unless he was sprinting, I could not account for his seemingly impossible exit and disappearance. This event still causes me to ask, "What was that?" His comments had the effect in their resonance as if he had taken a surgical knife to my private and self absorbed ruminations. As quickly as he appeared over my shoulder, he was gone.
In Part Two we will examine the mythology of these creatures as to ascertain commonalities toward a revised conceptual map of their ecology as well as examine the utility of their purpose. Of course, this is all a play upon our possible suspicion that they could they exist.
http://materialintangible.blogspot.com/ ... gy-of.html
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