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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Piper Date: June 5, 2015, 3:11 pm
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       [font=trebuchet ms]My ash tray runneth over . . . ;) :)[/font]
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Kerry Date: June 6, 2015, 12:26 am
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       [quote author=Piper link=topic=258.msg2254#msg2254
       date=1433535067]
       [font=trebuchet ms]My ash tray runneth over . . . ;) :)[/font]
       [/quote]I was looking for a serious conversation here; but it
       seems as if that is not going to happen.
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Piper Date: June 6, 2015, 5:54 am
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       [quote author=Kerry link=topic=258.msg2263#msg2263
       date=1433568403]
       I was looking for a serious conversation here; but it seems as
       if that is not going to happen.
       [/quote]
       [font=trebuchet ms]No, I MEANT my mind is rather busy and my
       thoughts perhaps are too many for one ash tray.  (And maybe I'm
       confused and being a bit facetious, as a result.  Sorry.)
       Anyway, I'm not sure I understand; if nothing happens when we
       "place a thought in a jar (ashtray)" then why are we attempting
       to do it?  I honestly don't see how it can be done.
       You began with "I believe ideas can take up space" which is the
       opposite of what F. J. Sheed teaches in his book.  He states:
       [/font]
       [quote][font=times new roman]Our ideas are not material. They
       have no resemblance to our body. Their resemblance is to our
       spirit. They have no shape, no size, no color, no weight, no
       space. Neither has spirit whose offspring they are. But no one
       can call it nothing; for it produces thought, and thought is the
       most powerful thing in the world— unless love is, which spirit
       also produces.[/font][/quote]
       [font=trebuchet ms]You also stated:  "Do ideas have mass?  Not
       physical mass, but they have mental mass."
       I don't understand the concept of mental mass.  "Mass" is a
       grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified
       body of unspecified size or quantity. This is speaking of
       physical matter.  What is mental does not have shape, size,
       color, weight; how could it take up space?
       I guess I'm not following  how "placing" thoughts in an ashtray
       proves that ideas have mass.
       To my understanding, space is simply a place for matter to
       spread itself.  Ideas are not matter; they exist in a spiritual
       realm--until there is energy produced to convert them to
       physical reality.  THEN they might have mass and take up space
       and have shape, size, color, weight, etc.
       [/font]
       [quote] we can make what is true in the mental space true also
       in the physical.[/quote]
       [font=trebuchet ms]Sometimes.  Not always.  I might have an idea
       for a house made of stone.  But if I have no stone available--no
       house.  The idea remains only an idea.
       Am I completely lost? :-[
       [/font]
       [quote]Should I go on?  What direction should I take?  Practical
       or theoretical?   I think I prefer the practical.  People can
       try things and see what results they get.  Then they can judge
       the theory for themselves.   [/quote]
       [font=trebuchet ms]First, clearly state the theory.  I assume
       the theory is that ideas take up space and have mass?
       Yes, we visualize things before doing them.  Sorry, I'm not
       following how all these things relate.
       Anyway, what things do you want us to try? Perhaps if I know
       that, I'll pick up on what point you're trying to make. [/font]
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: bradley Date: June 6, 2015, 7:05 am
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       I dont know if this is an example of you are talking about
       Kerry, but will state it to see if you agree.
       What people perceive to be ghosts cannot interact with humans
       much, for being spirit, they have no physical bodies, and yet
       there are many examples of ghosts who can turn lights on and off
       and move objects some, so despite having no physical bodies,
       they can interact to some degree with the physical, if they are
       trained or self taught to do so.
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Kerry Date: June 6, 2015, 7:34 am
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       [quote author=Piper link=topic=258.msg2268#msg2268
       date=1433588052]
       No, I MEANT my mind is rather busy and my thoughts perhaps are
       too many for one ash tray.  (And maybe I'm confused and being a
       bit facetious, as a result.  Sorry.) Anyway, I'm not sure I
       understand; if nothing happens when we "place a thought in a jar
       (ashtray)" then why are we attempting to do it?  I honestly
       don't see how it can be done. [/quote]
       So did you try it?  No.   At this point,  there may be no point
       to trying it if you're that convinced you couldn't do it.
       [quote]You began with "I believe ideas can take up space" which
       is the opposite of what F. J. Sheed teaches in his book.  He
       states:  [/quote]And his evidence for his statement is what?
       [quote]You also stated:  "Do ideas have mass?  Not physical
       mass, but they have mental mass."
       I don't understand the concept of mental mass.  "Mass" is a
       grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified
       body of unspecified size or quantity. This is speaking of
       physical matter.[/quote]
       I was using the scientific definition.  Wikipedia
  HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass:
       
       In physics, mass is a property of a physical body which
       determines the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction
       to other bodies, its resistance to being accelerated by a force,
       and in the theory of relativity gives the mass–energy content of
       a system.
       [quote]What is mental does not have shape, size, color, weight;
       how could it take up space? [/quote]
       I frankly consider that quote from Sheed pure nonsense.    My
       thoughts contain all those things.
       [quote]I guess I'm not following  how "placing" thoughts in an
       ashtray proves that ideas have mass.[/quote]
       I did not say placing a thought by itself would prove ideas have
       mass.
       [quote]To my understanding, space is simply a place for matter
       to spread itself.  Ideas are not matter; they exist in a
       spiritual realm--until there is energy produced to convert them
       to physical reality. [/quote]
       Of course, they're not matter.
       [quote]THEN they might have mass and take up space and have
       shape, size, color, weight, etc.[/quote]
       By this type of logic,  things in visions could not have shape,
       size, color, etc.   The people who measured things in visions as
       John and Ezekiel would have been hallucinating since things in
       the spiritual realm have none of the properties of matter.
       [quote]Sometimes.  Not always.  I might have an idea for a house
       made of stone.  But if I have no stone available--no house.  The
       idea remains only an idea.  [/quote]I told you there were
       limits.   We don't live a world where each person gets to make
       things the way they want.    In our own mental universes, we
       could design a stone house out of stones we don't have; but in
       the physical world,  we still need to find the stones.   That is
       because in this world, making stones appear out of thin air is
       not the way things are generally done.
       [quote]First, clearly state the theory.  I assume the theory is
       that ideas take up space and have mass?  [/quote]
       Yes, and I also told people headaches are frequently caused by a
       collision of conflicting ideas.  That is something people could
       research for themselves the next time they start to get a
       headache.
       I'm beginning to feel a slight headache myself right now.  I
       want to be polite to you on one hand but on the other hand I
       feel you're being dogmatic and dismissive and may deserve some
       rudeness back.
       [quote]Yes, we visualize things before doing them.  Sorry, I'm
       not following how all these things relate.[/quote]
       You are not visualizing things in space when you visualize
       things?
       When God created things,  don't you think He had the exact spots
       in space where they would appear?   He imagined all the
       qualities they were -- and all those attributes including
       spatial coordinates existed in His Mind first.    Then they
       became true also in the world.
       Things which come from Heaven are true first in Heaven.  Then
       they become true on earth.
       [quote]Anyway, what things do you want us to try? Perhaps if I
       know that, I'll pick up on what point you're trying to make.
       [/quote]One thing is easy enough to try.   On a mostly clear sky
       where there are cumulus clouds of different sizes, pick one of
       them and stare at it and tell it to go away.  Clouds are always
       changing anyway, so don't jump to conclusions too fast.    If
       the other clouds are still there but the one you picked goes
       away, you succeeded.   I used to do that as a teen.
       There is a way that matter itself follows the mental patterns of
       people.   If other people are busy imagining the opposite,
       chances are you'll fail.     But if you're alone with the
       clouds, no one will notice if you make one go away.  No one is
       exerting any faith in that cloud staying there.
       Too bad the other Nancy isn't around.     At Faith Forum,  we
       tracked weather off the coast of Africa.  If it looked like the
       beginning of a hurricane,  we would pray about it and imagine it
       gone and will it to be gone.     I can tell you it's possible --
       but once the idea that a storm is out there and coming, it's
       much, much harder -- maybe impossible.  Too many have faith in
       the idea that a hurricane is coming.  They are putting their
       mental energies into creating it by fear and that only adds to
       the force of the hurricane.    Humans may not be able to
       "create" something out of nothing, but our thoughts do influence
       things.  The thoughts  of man exist on a mental field that
       overlays the physical; and the two need to be reconciled.
       Matter itself will tend to "obey"  thought patterns whenever
       possible.
       What are the limits of positive thinking?   As a rule, I'd say
       positive thinking is based on a naive principle of magic.  The
       idea there is if you can visualize something, it will come true
       eventually.   Positive thinking has a slightly different on it
       -- that if you believe firmly something will happen, it will.
       Now many people who start with positive thinking have success
       with it for a time.   Then they crash.    People who practice
       magic using that principle may also have success for a while and
       then crash dreadfully.
       Why?   Well, not everything is possible.  If I see a mansion and
       say, "I want to live there" and then visualize it or  start
       trying to use positive thinking,  I am effectively putting
       myself into opposition with other people -- notably the people
       who already live there.   I'm asking the universe to obey me and
       do something to get those people out of their house so I can
       have it.  That's black magic.    It may sound like "positive
       thinking" to me when I'm doing it; but I'm effectively cursing
       the other people by saying their free will doesn't matter.
       Ever notice how things look different in dreams?   Say you're in
       a town that you know in a dream.  You know what town it is, but
       you also know it doesn't look like in the physical world.  The
       reason is simple:  How things look in dreams is  easier to
       change than in the physical world, and how people feel and think
       about a place will show up in dreams.   Those "things" do exist
       in time and space but non-physically.   They also exert
       influences on the physical world -- just as people's visualizing
       a hurricane is going to add force to the hurricane.   Matter
       itself tries to come into agree with things on the astral plane.
       
       If you can "create" something first on the astral plane and have
       it "come true" in the physical world, you could say that "thing"
       came out of the sea.    The Bible mentions creatures coming up
       out of the sea; and that means what was first imagined on the
       astral plane is finally "taking shape" and "becoming true" in
       the physical world.   Most of the time, it's bad stuff.
       Another exercise people can do is to call for all the bad ideas
       and feelings they ever sent out into the world to return to
       them.    People may doubt they have bits and pieces of their
       minds scattered about -- but I think they do.  And it weakens
       them mentally and spiritually.
       I wouldn't advise calling for the bad ideas that are in the
       abyss.   Those should be left alone.   God knows when the time
       to let them out.   God has set things up to protect us from some
       of the things we invented so they will not come to us if they
       would tempt us beyond what we can bear.   We can't blame God or
       the Devil.  But when we are ready to repair the damage we
       created, down comes the hedge.
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Kerry Date: June 6, 2015, 8:25 am
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       [quote author=bradley link=topic=258.msg2272#msg2272
       date=1433592319]
       I dont know if this is an example of you are talking about
       Kerry, but will state it to see if you agree.
       What people perceive to be ghosts cannot interact with humans
       much, for being spirit, they have no physical bodies, and yet
       there are many examples of ghosts who can turn lights on and off
       and move objects some, so despite having no physical bodies,
       they can interact to some degree with the physical, if they are
       trained or self taught to do so.
       [/quote]I don't know enough to answer your question with
       certainty; but my impression is that ghosts cannot do such
       things on their own.   They have to have a human around -- a
       human with telekinetic abilities.   A human that gives off
       energy that the ghost can use.
       A  human in a living body has the "working equipment" that acts
       as an interface between the spiritual and the physical.   A
       ghost is missing that.
       Indeed I rather doubt if ghosts would "appear" without a human
       around.    Much of the time, it seems as if first they create a
       "presence" that creeps the humans out.    If anyone wants to try
       it -- and I don't advise it -- but holding a seance or  just
       talking about ghosts or using an Ouija board or doing some of
       the other things people do is enough to get a ghost's attention.
       People may say, "Le'ts stop talking about these things, I'm
       getting creeped out."   Yes, sometimes the "presence" is so
       strong, it makes the hairs stand up.   That's a pretty good
       indication the ghost is interacting with the electrical field
       the human.
       Some mediums talk about ectoplasm.  Yes, I think that's right.
       The "astral substance" comes out of the medium and then a spirit
       can enter  it.    Ghosts probably use the same method but
       without the humans being aware they're letting anything (call it
       ectoplasm or whatever) out of their bodies.
       I don't think what I  call a ghost would move anything by
       itself.  A spirit could.  To me, a ghost is the soul of someone
       that wandered away from the spirit.     So to me, it's doubtful
       if the spirit moving things is the "owner" of the soul that is
       the ghost.  Odds would be some other spirit came along, saw the
       ghost and started playing tricks with it.
       Spirits by themselves can affect electricity easily since  they
       run human bodies by creating minute electrical flows in
       neurons.   You can often guess a woman is pregnant before she
       knows herself by increased electrical disturbances around her.
       It's a complex subject.  We know, for example, that most
       poltergeists are connected with adolescents.  And the objects
       they send flying are almost never going towards the person --
       no, they fly not directly out but still sideways  and out.
       I've also run into two women with the same thyroid problem --
       and both had telekinetic abilities that were out of their
       conscious control.  When I met the first one,  it had stopped;
       but the second one -- she was visiting one day and outside on
       the front porch talking to her boyfriend.   I had a bag of
       onions on a nail in the kitchen; and all of a sudden the bag of
       onions came flying off the wall.   It didn't fall -- it came out
       into the room.  And there's no way all the plastic straps
       holding it in place snapped.
       There was  third woman I knew -- and strange things happened
       around her too -- but she didn't have that thyroid problem.   We
       both saw a loaf of bread tilt on a shelf and fall off -- and the
       loaf  had only a tiny bit of it hanging over the edge of the
       shelf.   At least three-quarters of it was on the shelf.  It
       tilted up at about a 30 degree angle and slid off.  I thought
       she did it, and she thought I did it.   Or was it a spirit?
       It could have been a spirit.   She told me an odd story one day.
       She was driving home when her car just shut off on its own.
       Then something started shaking the car up and down.  Then that
       stopped,  and her car worked then.  I said, "Are you pregnant"
       thinking maybe that explained it.  She said, no but she thought
       perhaps she was -- and didn't know if she was or not when that
       happened.  She found out she wasn't when she went to the
       doctor's the next day.   The only explanation I had was that a
       spirit read her mind wondering if she was pregnant, stopped the
       car to see -- a rude thing to do  -- shook the car angry that
       she wasn't  and then left.
       People may believe every pregnancy is planned by God; but I
       don't.  If someone is under the protection of Heaven, yes, I
       believe that.   I'd say well over 99% are planned by Heaven; but
       there are exceptions.
       Sorry I can't give you a more definite answer.  I do feel
       confident though that ghosts are trying to interact with the
       physical world -- and have problems.   On their own though --
       without a spirit -- I doubt they can -- and I doubt too they
       hang around that long.   Have you ever noticed most hauntings
       are less than 500 years old.   Souls seem to expire if separated
       from spirit -- and my guess is that ghosts can stay alive longer
       by feeding on the human energy they can get by creating fear.
       
       There may be another kind of "ghost" that isn't really a soul or
       spirit.  It seems to be like a "recording" of some event that
       gets absorbed by a place or object -- and if a human comes along
       and activates it,  it gets projected out and looks real like a
       holograph.   The sequence of events is always the same, over and
       over.   Is that the soul reliving events over and over -- or it
       just a holographic memory being replayed?   I'd have to rely on
       intuition when I was experiencing it.
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Piper Date: June 6, 2015, 1:22 pm
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       [quote]I'm beginning to feel a slight headache myself right now.
       I want to be polite to you on one hand but on the other hand I
       feel you're being dogmatic and dismissive and may deserve some
       rudeness back.
       [/quote]
       [font=trebuchet ms]Well, ouch.
       Kerry.  Yes.  I tried to put a thought in a jar, but if, as you
       said, nothing happens-- which it didn't-- how am I to know if I
       accomplished anything?  What evidence do I have?
       There is a difference between being 'dogmatic and dismissive'
       and not understanding concepts.
       This is all new to me, AND conflicting with the book I was
       studying.  So, there's an example of your conflicting ideas
       spinning around in my head.
       I will read over things again.  Meanwhile, all I will say is
       there is a definite difference between what I can do in 'dreams'
       and what I can do 'here'. One example:  In a dream, I once found
       myself in a garage, on the floor, playing with toy cars, of all
       things.  I found I was able to move them with my mind.  It was
       great fun. Had them racing all over.  Never accomplished
       anything similar 'here'.  The rules seem very different here.
       But, I'll try the cloud thing.  Only after asking God if it is
       permissable.
       The record tornado a few years back?  I prayed to God very
       fervently for protection (as with the horses and the hail) and
       the tornado turned an obvious, sharp angle north when it reached
       the small town close to me.  I wondered if that resulted from my
       prayer, but if so, just like the hail thing, I would credit God,
       not my own power.  (I'm not being rude, just stating my way of
       thinking.  Any of these 'things' in this realm have occured
       following prayer.  Definite pattern.)[/font]
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Piper Date: June 6, 2015, 1:37 pm
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       [font=trebuchet ms]Well . . . I did imagine it would be great to
       have a border collie, and two showed up on my property within
       the same week. One male, one female, and they didn't know each
       other.  Strange.
       I imagined it would be fun to have a baby squirrel, and later
       that same day I heard a noise outside, and there was a baby
       squirrel, frozen between my dog and  . . . a cat! Nobody moved,
       and I simply walked over and picked the little one up.  Why
       neither dog nor cat attacked I have never understood.
       Attributed these things to God, as well.[/font]
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Piper Date: June 7, 2015, 12:26 pm
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       [font=trebuchet ms]Kerry,
       Ideas can cast auras that are false; you seem to have the idea
       there is an argumentative tone to my posts, when in reality, the
       questions I ask and the comments I make are me trying to sort
       things out.  Patience?
       Thinking on it, I would agree the things we imagine have shape,
       size, and color--not the thought itself, but what exists within
       the thought.  Dreams have all number of things within them that
       have shape, size, and color.  I'm not sure about weight.  One of
       the joys in dreams is the weightlessness; nothing holds you
       down, it seems.  There is an ethereal quality to dreams that is
       hard to define.  Although there is a distinct difference that
       resembles 'weight'  or 'heaviness' in a vision of evil compared
       to the ethereal weightlessness of 'good' or 'godly' dreams and
       visions.  The aura is absolutely different.  The oppresive aura
       of the presence of true evil is like a tangible weight,
       assaulting every sense. There is a lightness of being
       surrounding that which is good.  Polar opposites.
       Was thinking on senses:  Vision is infinitely sharper in dreams.
       Hearing is . . . yes, there are varying volumes; loud noises in
       dreams have awakened me. Taste is possible; I've had food in
       dreams and then awakened amazed at the memory of taste.  Touch,
       yes; I've felt things in dreams I've never felt physically, such
       as the sensation of going through walls and windows. Smell is
       the one sense I don't recall in dreams, but then my sense of
       smell is rather dull physically, as well.
       If ideas take up space, can I hold one in my hand?  No, I can
       not.  My ideas, my thoughts are my own; I hold them in my mind,
       in my spirit; they are part of me. They are mine and no one
       else's, save God, unless I am willing to share by communicating.
       We can guess what someone's thoughts or ideas might be by the
       manifestations a person might present as a result of their
       thoughts or ideas;  for example it's often easy to discern
       prejudice.
       Yet, there is the problem that I have experienced, on rare
       occasion, hearing a 'voice' speak to me, but not hearing it with
       my ears.  This, in what I've come to believe is an altered state
       between sleep and awakening-- someone planting a message
       directly in my mind, very clearly.  And, I've shared dream
       states and thought parallels with my husband, as though there
       were a link between our minds, but again sleep somehow enhances
       these abilites, and they fade in the waking world.  It's my
       guess that love opens doorways in our subconscious, and when we
       sleep we can access things that get blocked in waking life.
       If ideas take up space, then where do they exist?  If the answer
       is the 'astral plane', then perhaps I don't understand the
       astral plane.  And the astral plane is separate from the
       physical world, to my understanding, although perhaps it
       overshadows the physical world, exerting influence on it.
       No, I don't understand the astral plane, or know for certain it
       exists.  What evidence is there?  Is it a name for where I go in
       my dreams?
       I'm thinking there are 'layers' of reality, but it's not
       something I can explain.  [/font]
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       Re: Ideas  
       By: Kerry Date: June 7, 2015, 4:20 pm
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       [quote author=Piper link=topic=258.msg2283#msg2283
       date=1433697990]
       Ideas can cast auras that are false; you seem to have the idea
       there is an argumentative tone to my posts, when in reality, the
       questions I ask and the comments I make are me trying to sort
       things out.  Patience?
       Thinking on it, I would agree the things we imagine have shape,
       size, and color--not the thought itself, but what exists within
       the thought.[/quote]
       Within the thought?  Where is the thought that shapes, sizes and
       colors can be put "inside" them?
       [quote]Dreams have all number of things within them that have
       shape, size, and color.  I'm not sure about weight.  One of the
       joys in dreams is the weightlessness; nothing holds you down, it
       seems.  There is an ethereal quality to dreams that is hard to
       define.  Although there is a distinct difference that resembles
       'weight'  or 'heaviness' in a vision of evil compared to the
       ethereal weightlessness of 'good' or 'godly' dreams and visions.
       The aura is absolutely different.  The oppresive aura of the
       presence of true evil is like a tangible weight, assaulting
       every sense. There is a lightness of being surrounding that
       which is good.  Polar opposites.[/quote]
       I'd say it is accumulated negative "thoughts" injected into
       matter that make it "heavy."
       [quote]If ideas take up space, can I hold one in my hand?  No, I
       can not. [/quote]
       I can, and I've done it.   But if you are sure you cannot, then
       you cannot.  Some things are true because that's the way we want
       them to be.
       [quote]My ideas, my thoughts are my own; I hold them in my mind,
       in my spirit; they are part of me. They are mine and no one
       else's, save God, unless I am willing to share by communicating.
       We can guess what someone's thoughts or ideas might be by the
       manifestations a person might present as a result of their
       thoughts or ideas;  for example it's often easy to discern
       prejudice.[/quote]And where is your mind?   You use spatial
       terms there, so I ask where is your mind?
       You also have a narrow definition of "self."   If you are
       willing to be "the other," then you can understand "the other."
       
       Many of my thoughts are not my own.  I make a  claim  some may
       think audacious -- that I have the mind of Christ.  That mind is
       aware of many things I couldn't be on my own.   When thoughts
       come to me from that mind, I know they aren't mine although they
       become part of mine when I understand them and incorporate them.
       The Spirit of Christ hovers over things and sees things.   If
       action from me is wanted, then I may be told something so I can
       act appropriately.
       John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he
       will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of
       himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and
       he will shew you things to come.
       And what is communication?   Communication involves space and
       two beings with minds.   If you want someone to know what one of
       your ideas is, you send him a copy.   If he receives it and
       duplicates it in his mind accurately, then he knows what you
       wanted him to know.  That's "understanding."   It's also a
       shared reality.
       But communication is so degraded, people now believe words are
       necessary.  People abused telepathy and lost it for the most
       part.
       [quote]Yet, there is the problem that I have experienced, on
       rare occasion, hearing a 'voice' speak to me, but not hearing it
       with my ears.  This, in what I've come to believe is an altered
       state between sleep and awakening-- someone planting a message
       directly in my mind, very clearly.  And, I've shared dream
       states and thought parallels with my husband, as though there
       were a link between our minds, but again sleep somehow enhances
       these abilites, and they fade in the waking world.  It's my
       guess that love opens doorways in our subconscious, and when we
       sleep we can access things that get blocked in waking
       life.[/quote]
       Yes, basically that is what I experienced at the Church of
       Scientology when the man "planted" an idea in my "head." Most
       people cannot tell the difference between their own ideas and
       ideas that others send them -- many people also imagine their
       own ideas are being put into their minds by God.  That sort of
       thing would be acceptable if everyone knew what was going on;
       but often there is an intention to deceive or manipulate.
       As for the shared dreams,  that's an example of what I called a
       "shared reality."
       Those psychic abilities are usually turned off in waking life
       because of how men have abused them.
       [quote]If ideas take up space, then where do they exist?  If the
       answer is the 'astral plane', then perhaps I don't understand
       the astral plane.  And the astral plane is separate from the
       physical world, to my understanding, although perhaps it
       overshadows the physical world, exerting influence on it.
       [/quote]
       Yes, it overshadows it -- as do all the planes.   Heaven being
       up and hell down are ways of experiencing the shifts in
       awareness -- and ways of navigating them too -- but they all
       occupy the same space.
       [quote]No, I don't understand the astral plane, or know for
       certain it exists.  What evidence is there?  Is it a name for
       where I go in my dreams?[/quote]Yes.   It is non-physical but
       you can observe it exists in space.
       What evidence is there that the physical world exists?   The
       only evidence you can give is that you experience it and believe
       it's real.   You can't prove that logically either way.
       What evidence is there that space exists?   Now if you really
       want to get baffled, space lacks everything we think of as being
       real.   You can't see it, hear it, taste it, feel it, or smell
       it.
       Space is  imaginary.   It exists in our minds.   Is it real?  I
       say yes.  I say God imagined it into existence and then gave us
       minds so we could "understand" it.
       I believe the whole universe continues to exist only because God
       is still "imagining" it to -- and being tiny bits of God
       ourselves, we too are helping to keep it  existing by believing
       in it and projecting it.   There is no reason that the universe
       should continue to exist except that God continues to will it
       so.   If He ceased to imagine it, it would vanish.
       Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as
       certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
       offspring.
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