Those with an interest in exploring and understanding how the human
brain operates, and the relationship between brain and mind, generally
operate with an overriding assumption – that the human mind is alone,
isolated from all other minds except for communication processes
relying on the five physical senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell and
taste, and the ability to speak, write, draw, gesticulate, etcetra.Some
enthusiasts also posit extra-sensory perceptions, human to human, human
to animal, and sometimes human to other entities. Such investigations
are not held in high regard by the general scientific and medical
community, I believe largely because of their assumptions that other
entities do not exist, and that all processes are determined entirely
by operation of the physical brain.Leaving out, for now, speculative
ideas like ESP, five physical senses would be enough for simple
communication and interaction. However, this neglects the possibility
that a considerable amount of human interaction is of a much more
direct, though largely unconscious nature. Such neglect is one result
of another common assumption – that human beings do not have a spirit
that is not merely a function of the mind or the brain.Let us put all
of that aside for now and examine a hypothetical scenario. Just suppose
that:
- humans have a spirit,
- there exist other entities that have, or are, spirits, and
- spirit can communicate directly to spirits.The question I now want to
ask is: what type of faculty within a human being would be needed for
such spirit to spirit communication to take place?Because a spirit does
not have a physical form, the physical senses are not likely to be of
much use. Rather, I suspect that some form of direct transfer of
information would be more likely. In other words, what one
entity "sends" to the other would simply "appear" within the receiving
entity’s mind.Note, I am not talking about what is usually called ESP.
Most of the explanations that I have seen for ESP ability assume some
form of brain to brain transfer, perhaps by means of electromagnetic
waves. This is analogous to normal human thinking being enhanced by
some form of radio system controlled by the mind, allowing the thoughts
to be transmitted to another person. What I am considering here is a
more basic ability, but it might also provide a better explanation for
what has been thought to be ESP phenomena as well.Most understandings
of the nature of spirit allow it to be unconstrained in some degree by
time and space, so a physical transmission medium would not be
essential. Rather, two spirits might simultaneously occupy a single
conceptual space for the duration of their interaction. Again,
here "space" is not necessarily physical relativistic space. If it is
actually physical space then an alternative possibility is that spirits
might have access to relativistic dimensions apart from the normal
Einsteinian space, such as are commonly drawn on in current attempts by
physicists to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. This
is a subject I will write more about another time.Let us now go back to
our question of the nature of the faculty the human mind would need to
support spirit to spirit communication and to provide a
spirit/mind/brain interface. From the perspective of a person receiving
such a communication, the "message" would simply appear in the mind as
a thought, picture, memory or emotion, or by the impression of a sound,
smell or physical sensation as the body responds to the
information.Similarly, transmission would occur by simply thinking,
visualizing, feeling, etcetera, the content to be communicated.
Interestingly, visualization has become a popular technique among some
New Age and humanist groups in the attempt to try to change reality.
Such use and abuse of visualization is something else I will write more
about later, but suffice it to say that even in its misuse the
principles remain the same, only the motive or the intended recipient
has changed.The human mind already has a faculty that appears to
fulfill all of the functions described above. It is called the
imagination.In Imagine That! - Part 2 we will explore further the role
of the human imagination in perceiving the spiritual realm.

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Posted By Mal to a reasonable mystic at 2/04/2007 08:15:00 PM