The Burden of Proof Lecture
III
Housekeeping
Lec PPT
What Dreams May Come (contd).
Surviving the Storm
The Five Koshas
Sheaths /
Layers
Divisions of
consciousness
One in all
Annamaya
Physical Body
Biology
Keeps us separate by the (illusion we must compete with
others who are isolated bodies)
Brings us closer to wholeness (through cooperation,
community, shared ideas, etc).
Pranamaya
(subtle breath / life force)
Binding force keeps nature together
Flowing intelligence (the one eco-system)
Keeps us separate through imbalance (disrupted ecosystem,
pollution, over-crowding)
Brings us closer to wholeness (kinship with other living things,
empathy, compassion)
Manomaya
Mind (
you know who you are by the way you think
)
Ideas, thoughts, emotions, sensations memories
Separates us when (through divisive beliefs in politics, religion,
mental boundaries of fear and hatred)
Brings us closer to wholeness (through shared beliefs in
conditioning, religion, received opinions, connection to others,
love)
Vigyanmaya
Identity (
level of identity dominated by “me” and “mine”
(ego / intellect)
)
Ego brings identity into being (mind and ego often do
battle)
This is the level of the archetypes
Separates us when “us versus them” (personal alienation, loneliness,
addiction, repressed emotions)
Brings us closer to wholeness (through sense of one humanity, heroic
quests, need for self respect, dignity, and inner worth)
Anandamaya (body of bliss)
Hum of the universe / basic vibration
Afterlife no need for body (possible to see thru illusion of body before death)
If we can do this more and more - we learn to just enjoy being
No separation
Wholeness is revealed (through love, joy, and ecstasy >> where separation no longer
holds any attraction)
“You” dissolve into PURE BEING - without an experiencer
What does this all mean?
Home in Consciousness
Our awareness began in pure consciousness, and as we travelled into this life
layer by layer through different dimensions, each one gave us a new sense of
self.
But we possess an entire self-system.
Thus, when we connect with these layers, can bring about profound shift
in our awareness.
This brings us to basic trust!
Guides and Messengers
Projection
Projection: What is it?
Projection is our world is it
not?
Rishi’s and Projection
“Projection is the mechanism by which consciousness creates
reality”.
“Everything that is real at one level of consciousness is unreal at
another”
If we want to make angels we must project them.
Projections affect all levels of the Kosha’s
One eye: One god...
• Three - in one rule - of consciousness
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Seer, seen, or processor of
seing - YOU occupy all of them
• Paradox - god is the creater and the
creation
• “Observer effect”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcT8YLE-zM4&feature=related
Projection, Angels, and the
Devata Effect
Mystery of creation lies in the
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Gap...
Between the observer and the observed
Lets What’s the Devata Effect in
Action....
Angels
The Dream
Continues
Reincarnation
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Window of time “remembrance” (start remembering at 2
stops around 7 or 8)
Spontaneous remembering
Previous death 15 months prior to new birth
Memories blend and become absorbed
Identities reshape between lifetimes
70% of personalities die of unnatural causes /violent sudden
deaths
A good percentage showed longing for previous family
35% of persons who died violently - new personality had
phobia related to type of death
Cases are being found all over the world
More recent research has found 200 hundred cases where
cause of death is biologically or physically apparent in the
new personality
So What is
Reincarnation?
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A recycling soul progression and
evolution
Creative leap
Nature depends on mechanism of
rebirth
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Maybe it’s abnormal to not remember?
Reincarnation:
Academia and
Scepticism?
Reincarnation: Jim
Tucker
Summing Up: From this lifetime to the
next
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We don’t yet have enough consciousness... The gaps
of ignorance of our full potential are too large, and
whatever the gap claims turns into the unconscious...
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Chopra, p. 182
Summing Up: From this lifetime to the
next
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We don’t yet have enough consciousness... The gaps
of ignorance of our full potential are too large, and
whatever the gap claims turns into the unconscious...
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Chopra, p. 182
Movie Time
What Dreams May Come Part II