Study Point 1-15:
Objectives: The reader will be able to compare five different models or paradigms that integrate the relationship among science, metaphysics and Spirituality, and see their relevance to MP's Paradigm of Consciousness in Dialogue 1.

Model Related Teilhard de Chardin:

P:  OT/MP is based upon a metaphysics of Cosmic proportions, therefore deep understanding or "Knowing" can only come through meditation in "the Silence."  To grasp the metaphysical implications of "The Silence" it is very helpful to have at least an initial grasp of some kind of Cosmic scale metaphysics. Since we cannot completely achieve that goal for you even in many Dialogues, as a start, let me try to give you a "picture by the numbers. This is the briefest workable outline. I will share what some Mystical minds have already proposed to us. The current dominant theory of the origins of the universe are offered by physical scientists, e.g., the "Big Bang," is consistent with Teilhard de Chardin's [1959]  idea of a conceptual "Alpha" point. He argues that complexity is unfolding toward a cosmic resolution which he calls the "Omega Point" as is illustrated in this figure [left].  He called the field of consciousness energy that envelops the earth the noosphere.

The progress of our consciousness of the unfoldment begins at the Alpha point when the primal CONSCIOUSNESS begins unfolding. Spiritual Consciousness (often spoken of via the metaphor of the Light,) steadily leads us to comprehend an eventual destiny he calls the OMEGA point. This is achieved via an expanding C/consciousness. That is the point where all is restored to a single CONSCIOUSNESS of total WHOLENESS (the experience of ONE.) That beginning with birth, every infant throughout life until death represents an individual progressive unfoldment of c/Consciousness (Figure 8). I also note the Alpha Point concept is consistent with John 1:1- In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh..."

Q: OK, Ok, Hold it. Forget John for now, what do you mean by "unfoldment?"

P: Unfoldment means the visible manifestation of the PLAN, the LAW the MIND of GOD. We are a portion of the cosmos perceiving a portion of itself. Hence, our present confusion about so many things is because we see through this glass darkly. The human mind is temporarily arrested at only an intermediate mental level of consciousness within the vast patterns of Cosmic unfoldment. It is incapable of grasping any but a trivial segment of this WHOLE through the crude distorting lens of its sense limited rational thought.

This concept is consistent with sacred scripture. I mentioned the writing of St. John and his description of the "WORD," as the light of Consciousness that came into the world to eliminate the darkness of fear, confusion and despair (limits of mind.) These are the domain of the senses. The "Darkness" can not comprehend the WHOLE. The mind alone can not comprehend the IT. The mind is constrained within its Spiritual darkness, i.e., within the limits of the senses.

There is a paradox here.  The mind must become a platform for the quantum leap into Spiritual Consciousness.  But the awareness of the potential of Spiritual Consciousness must first rise to empower mental consciousness to enable the leap into full Spiritual awakening.

Q: Is the evidence of this so-called unfoldment what I have actually been studying in biology as the evolution and organization of life?

P: In a way, yes. But keep in mind that the organization of life forms we describe is only the part accessible to the senses of scientific minds. There is more to these "leaves," i.e., their tree's hidden roots. In [left figure] you can see a representation of the increasing hierarchy of organized energy levels. These in aggregate are ultimately made manifest to our senses. In the Mystical Paradigm, this organization of fields of intelligence or information represents the unfoldment of GOD, the MASTER INTELLIGENCE. The totality of these levels defines the IT or I AM as all elements embracing the SUPRA-SYSTEM, the TOTAL MASTER ENERGY FIELD. This contains all subordinate energy fields (expressions of ordered information or Intelligence) which are gathered together in perfect alignment in accordance with the "HOLYistic" PLAN.

Q: OK. I'll defer judgment. But what would science say about the Mystical Paradigm and this Spirit world that is supposed to exist? But I'd like to hear some of the evidence you say science offers.

P: The Mystical Paradigm accepts the core proposition of Theosophy which asserts that we are Spiritual beings first. We are beings who have acquired physical bodies. We are not biological beings who have acquired Spirit. More and more scientific minds are being forced on the evidence to support this Theosophical and Edgar Cayce visions of Truth. By integrating both eastern Mysticism and western science, Deepak Chopra, M.D. argues that we have the wrong model of the human body when we think of it as a biological "machine" that has learned to think when in fact it may be the other way around. As implied in the allegory of The Primal Dream of the Infant, the physical infant is a projection downward (a Monadic Ray) from a Spiritual Intelligence into physical matter or flesh. Chopra quotes the great sages of the Ayru-Veda (Eastern Holistic Healing) who have described the human body as "a great river of intelligent energy." He cites intellectual history of the west. Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, also spoke of the "mystery of the river" which is a flow of unfolding Intelligence within which each of us is a mere eddy.

Q: I don't trust the Mystical Paradigm making those kinds of assertions? It seems too superstitious.

P: Yours is a natural response when the western materialist indoctrinated intellect is confronted with larger Mystical Truths. The ego becomes alert, doubt and anxiety flow when the naked mind does not have the capacity to Spiritually verify the evidence and Know. But the MP states that our physical flesh is hung on our bones, our entire body is congealed as matter from its root Spiritual Intelligence. In our human case, we are designed to express our mental consciousness pragmatically upon those elements of the material world with which we must interact in order to survive.

But the senses that direct us and which compose our minds to cope with the material world thereby inadvertently mask and mislead us about the larger Spiritual realm. Lower consciousness made manifest as our senses is symbolized in the Hindu Veda by the label Maya, the term for temptations that are created by the rule of our senses. Maya is the illusion or reality, the moment to moment experience of apparent non-change. In fact, Reality is constantly and rapidly changing. Consistent with the teachings of Theosophy and other New Thought teachings, Chopra affirms that the body is not a machine that learns to think, but that the body is a Spiritual "thought" that reflects itself into form. It is one level in a hierarchy of coherent or intelligent energy [above figure.] Chopra states:

"Is the void made up of nothing, or is it a fullness of non-material intelligence? And the Vedic scripture will tell us that in fact this is a fullness of non-material intelligence which interacts with its own self and creates both mind and matter, that we are not physical machines that have learned how to think, we are in fact impulses of intelligent thoughts that have learned how to create the physical machine, that consciousness interacts with its own self and ultimately creates both mind and matter. Matter is the epiphenomenon and consciousness is the phenomenon. It is consciousness that conceives, governs and constructs and actually becomes the physical body and ultimately, the whole universe. In other words, to think is literally to create." [Chopra, 1990]

P: Chopra offers examples derived from modern physics in support of the above ideas. He defines the dynamic energy exchanges between a system and increasingly larger fields of coherent energy (Intelligence.) As humanity improves our insight into this phenomenon we can trigger corresponding advances of our C/consciousness of the larger cosmos. He says:

"10 x 1022 atoms are inhaled in a single breath and become a part of the body. Exhaled are 10 x 1022 atoms per breath that were once part of the body. "These well defined edges to the body are merely artifacts of sensory perception. We are part of a cosmic body that's constantly in exchange with its own self.... Each person contains at least 1,000,000 atoms that were in the body of Jesus, Buddha, Tomas Torqemada, Ghangus Kahn... every being of a distant historical period..... We acquire a new liver every six weeks at the atomic level, a new skin once a month, a new stomach lining every five days, even the brain cells that you think with are physical atoms of carbon, nitrogen hydrogen and oxygen that weren't there last year In less than one year 98% of all the atoms of the body are replaced... DNA which holds the memory of millions of years of evolutionary time, the raw material of it is replaced every six weeks. In four years we will replace entire body, 98% of it is replaced in one year." [Chopra, op cit]

Q: Well let me see how I'm understanding of all this. I have quite a few remaining questions for now. With all this dynamic exchange going on, what then is the non-local IT which is the continuity of the me, the individual?

P: OT/MP calls It the non-local SupraSystem.

Q: What then defines the non- local me?

P: Its your Soul within the same SupraSystem.  That is the "It" that holds your assembly of atoms, cells, organ systems and your daily agenda together until that "It" departs the material body.

[It is your Soul, or the "Etheric or Spiritual body that is projected from and assembled by the SupraConsciousness, and a discussion of this is beyond the limits of our Dialogue.] When the pieces become a corpse and fall apart into increasingly simple elements. What happened to my "It"?

P:  The is your Soul that held your atoms together and which then merges with the larger Super Consciousness until rebirth-- the Buddhists call the conceptual space for this relationship to exist the intermediate or Bardo plane.

Q: What then is real nature of the big IT?

P: That is the CONSCIOUSNESS that embraces the Supraconsciousness the comprehension of which transcends the capacity of our physical minds.

Q: Is there an intermediate "It" like the one you called Gaia which you say is the collective intelligence of all the earth's living systems, the One that maintains the coherence of the Whole that includes humanity?

P: Yes, it is also embedded within the Supraconsciousness with which we are both linked as ONE Spiritual integrity.

Q: Is this Gaia "It" the non-local to us?

P: Its influences are experienced as local, an illusion.

Q: If so, does each "It" have Its own "non-Local" IT that directs It?

P: Again, its the SupraConsciousness,.

Q: What is the ultimate IT which is the ultimate stable awareness of the unfolding [Implicate into explicate] order and organization of all earth systems?

P: In increasing levels, they are the Souls of each of us; then Gaia; then the Sun (a star,) a Monad (Jehovah according to Theosophy); and then highest is the ultimate Ensoph, the Demigurgous, the GNOSIS, that-which-has-no-name, the TAO, that which can not be comprehended in any mentally meaningful way.

Q:  What will this Gaia do about the collective assault on its/her material and Spiritual integrity by, as you say, the dominant Soul blind controllers of our collective humanity?

P: She will first move humanity to act in her own behalf, as she is now attempting to do, or she will see to humanity's destruction so that she can heal her ecosphere without us.

Q:  What then, really, is the "you" and "me" that wakes us up each morning, remembers what we call yesterdays, interprets and directs our every thought and action, imagines what we call "tomorrow," and entertains (or tortures) us with hopes and fears even when we sleep?

P It is the Presence of GOD within you, the essence of your Soul-link to the Supraconsciousness. But without training, it is experienced as filtered by your mental consciousness, i.e. as filtered through and distorted by your limiting senses. The result of that filtering creates your limiting burden experienced as you "reality" until you can evolve your Spiritual Consciousness enough. Then you create a capacity to empower your transcendence beyond those limits. Opening that potential, is what we are about in these Dialogues.

Q:  So you see, if your purpose is to intellectually unravel me, you win. I admit, I'm more confused that when I came in. I think I'm confused. I don't even know anymore who the "I am" was that walked in here! Did I come alone? The "it" that I am, or was, is confused!

P: Good! Confusion tells me that you stand in the doorway to the possibilities of enlightenment. But that is already an improvement from when you walked in. But you must have the guts or curiosity to step though that confusion to confront the uncertainty. By definition every "It" or Subsystem of ultimate TRUTH must, as a Subsystem, maintain itself so as to insure its place in the continuity of ever more complex Spiritual realms (or less, depending upon which direction your are looking.) Each Level of Spiritual complexity must have enough flexibility to detect and respond to changes in its own larger environment.

This need for certainty, or stability, order and continuity applies to any system of any size, anything and everything up to the ultimate generative MONAD or ONE. This exchange of energy and information among Cosmic systems is an ongoing all-at-once process occurring everywhere, yet the illusory appearance of stability and temporal continuity is maintained for us as observer. In the Mystical Paradigm, the "IT" when spoken of in other paradigms is called the "KNOWER OF THE FIELDS," the BRAHMAN, the ENSOPH, "THAT WHICH HAS NO NAME," the "TAO," not the Judeo-Christian Jahweh, Jehovah or God which are only intermediate level Intelligence nested within the SUPREME INTELLIGENCE. We exist in our relationship with GOD in the same relative position that the organ (e.g. heart) exists as an intermediate system between the cells of which it is composed and the living human body of which it is a part.

To survive we ourselves, and our families, groups and institutional extensions must remain a faithful mirror of the higher LAW that unfolds from the higher fields of Intelligence. Since we cannot Know the ultimate GOD, we are fortunate to not need to Know. We need only cope with the portion revealed to us, but that we must do to survive.

Q: Then is that what so called Mystics are supposed to do? Do they somehow pass beyond the limits of mental consciousness and enter this superior world of Spiritual energy and intelligence?

P: Yes, but at differing levels of personal achievement. Becoming ONE with the "I AM," or GOD is the ultimate experience of bliss or rapture. KNOWING, or becoming ONE with the "IT" is the ultimate achievement of all Mysticism, and alas, there is no language that can lead you to that SECRET by itself. But ITs PRESENCE within us is our Soul made manifest as our flesh. Our Soul is our channel to the SupraConsciousness, could we but have willful access to it--and we can! But the price is requires we give up the passions of the flesh and the comfortable seductions of the mind. Instead we must master an earnest Spiritual and mental discipline, and undertake and extended Odyssey, something most of us must yet develop sufficient character for. These Dialogues are a collection of clues to help you discover the nature of your portion of the IT buried within you that defines your deepest Self. Only you can do this on your own terms. This discovery can only occur by means of your own discipline, your applied will, the only way anyone will find it. The closer you get to a genuine Spiritual experience, the more likely you will feel compelled to devote yourself to the Path.

Q: It would appear then, that there must be many levels of increasing  Spiritual achievement. In that context, I will appreciate your clarifying for me the difference between religious experience which is all I have heard about until now, and Spiritual experience which you seem to insist is not the same.

P: Indeed there are.  I will present some of those levels in our following advanced dialogue. but I refer you to the glossary of terms I have provided you so that, for now, you can be satisfied with those definitions of religion and Spirituality.

Q: You mentioned earlier that Edgar Cayce and the Theosophists had created similar models to talk about the relationship among Spiritual energy, the senses and physical matter.

P: The Mystical Paradigm (MP) follows a metaphysics that is compatible with both the paradigm of Theosophy and the model revealed by the 20th Century Mystic Edgar Cayce as further developed by the Association for Research and Enlightenment. [See Cerminara, 1950; Sugrue, 1942/1973.]  Further, both paradigm are very complimentary to the metaphysics put forward by the Theosophical Society. Since there is only ONE TRUTH, but many visions of Truth, such similarities ought not be surprising.

Further, these models of metaphysics are also found to be quite similar to those supported by the Freemasons, the Rosecrucians, the Alchemists, and the Mystical Teachings of the Essenes who are believed to have nurtured the Mystical preparation of Jesus. We find these models are linked to a trail receding into the distant past of human C/consciousness to originally emerge from the most ancient Sanskrit Vedas. Therefore what is important here is not to assess and argue as to which theory is right and another wrong, but to learn from what perspective on Truth each has built onto their models.  Mental consciousness can use each model to help expand and create a conceptual platform from which one can aspire only through the mediation to reach attainable Spiritual Consciousness.

Q. I guess that Cayce, Theosophy and some others would agree that your allegory of the "Primal Dream of the Infant" defines the infant as a fresh "print-out" of Consciousness, as Chopra has said.  Her body is a physical instrument that is in dynamic energy and information exchange with the universe. But within her, her delicate intrinsic Spiritual Consciousness, her Presence, that is, her link to the PRESENCE has been overwhelmed by the physical senses of her dense body. You want me to accept that?

P: Exactly. Your catching on. And the SOURCE of all this energy, intelligence, information is the GNOSIS [left figure.] Your mind is doing well so far. Bodily processes are systematic and stable fluctuations in that Master energy field. A science scholar named Sheldrake states a similar idea when he defines current states of consciousness (morphogenic field) for any system is the stable matter-energy "memory" of all prior events. He says that each disturbance in the master wave field persists only if and when it is reinforced in some way. This is a controversial thesis, but consistent in general with the ideal of Spiritual Truth, except that his theory rejects the concept of eternal verities or an inviolate LAW against which the evolving order and consciousness is mapped. The MP requires that LAW or PRINCIPLE as REALITY.

Q: I'll bet some psychologists really get indigestion from this kind of a model, especially the behaviorists, and I recall that Freud was atheistic.

P: Indigestion? Yes, sometimes. I note that Freud had Carl Jung as an early collaborator, but they went their separate ways when Jung's constructs of collective unconscious and archetypes were predicated upon his own recognition of Realms of Spiritual Truth. The writing of the Theosophists likewise assume a unifying Spiritual SOURCE called a MONAD instead of GNOSIS. By means of its own self-organizing Intelligence, the MONAD projects downward as Information "rays" into lower order Spiritual Monad and then into the living forms expressed as physical matter. Our Super-Ordinate form being, in this model, an encompassing Whole and not the traditional "God" of humanity. We are each an energy field constantly exchanging energy and information with the larger collective Spiritual "Humanity" energy field. Within it we are all One with each other and with Gaia. This order has been projected downward into material expression by the superior Intelligence defined as the intermediate realm Cayce referred to as the Supraconsciousness, with the MASTER FIELD of GOD being the ALL of such collectivities.

Q: So how does consciousness work? Presumably we are all unconscious of everything but weird feelings at birth, perhaps actual pain, and that must be very confusing.

P: Well, if I were buying your "product," I might be interested in testing your marketing pitch. But as of now, I still need a lot more
convincing before I put down cash. 

Q: So how, by what means does our C/consciousness grow? From experience, thought or from insight?

P: By all of the above. By the principles of the MP, our local intelligence is applied to coping only with ordinary reality as defined by our interacting senses and the organization of our nervous system. But in order to survive and thrive in a constantly changing set of experiences, or when there are factors operating from outside of those limits, we must surrender our minds to the realm of Spirit in order to benefit from higher Consciousness. That is, we must surrender to input from the larger field of non-local Intelligence, the Supraconsciousness. 

We must define the meaning and purpose of our actions from that larger field of Intelligence in the same way that the collection of atoms and molecules can only derive "meaning" from the array of structure and processes into which they are organized. In turn, the molecule is organized into and derives its meaning from the cell. The cell then derives its "meaning" from the organ of which it is a part. Then the organ is likewise organized to derive its "meaning" from its functional relationship to the total organism called the body. 

It is only our limited intellect and undeveloped mental consciousness that denies our minds the ability to directly Know. Thus we must derive the "meaning" of our life from information beyond the limits of our senses. By the same principle, for "Knowing" (Figure above) we too must likewise be connected into a larger frame, a Master Intelligence. It is from this Master Frame that we must define the only Real meaning and purpose of our lives. Contemporary scholars linking developments in Alternative Medicine to Spirituality have called this interactive and directing relationship "non-local intelligence."

Q: So Knowing empowers understanding. Why then don't I feel connected to this larger realm? Why then, as smart as I am, or at least as smart all the tests say I am, why don't I have direct connections with this alleged higher realm? I don't think I need to be connected by some mysterious factor. I've been doing pretty well as it is thank you. 

P: I call to your attention the consciousness paradigm of David Hawkins a physician. [additional information in the glossary] The work of David Hawkins (the scale below) is based on John Diamond's work in kinesiology. To simplify a very deep and profound concept and its complex history and implications, Diamond developed a technique for detecting the Spiritual response of the body to all the stimuli affecting it, including intellectual as well as physical. In the presence of a healthy or consciousness expanding influence, the muscles of the body could be measured as "strong." But when the stimuli were adverse, the same measures detected that the body became "weak."
Hawkins applied this technique in various ways and after many years of development found that he could measure any definable individual, thought, achievement or event (including values) on a scale of consciousness energy. That scale is summarized in a chart (Figure 1.) He illustrated the hierarchy of C/consciousness potential in his chart. These C/consciousness energy levels expand logarithmically from 1 to 1000. He identifies the 200 level as that level where the system being evaluated first has "Courage" as its dominant characteristic.

This point defines the beginning of what the Mystical Paradigm labels "Spiritual Consciousness." Hawkins uses the term "Power" to mean the energizing force in the Implicate order (Supraconsciousness or Akashic Field) above 200 as being Spiritually energizing, correct, healing, healthy and potent. Energy levels below 200 must operate from the imposition of "force" which functions in the explicate order of the sense limited reality. That we are trapped there explains the chronic array of personal and social problems now consuming our nation. Humanity is steadily advancing.

[NOTE: there is a semantic difference in Hawkins' use of the term "Power" as a Spiritual element of Consciousness, and my use of the term power in my discussion of agendas, the first ego overlay on consciousness.  My use of the term power, as in power monger, and power agendas relates only to the ego level of consciousness, not to Power at the Spiritual level of Consciousness, which is why I use the color coding to emphasize the Metaphysical differences.]

This transition requires that you be able to shed and reject the seductions of the intellect and embrace the power of surrendering to Love through Knowing and Being, not by analysis or intellectualization. But you first must meet and transcend the paradox because the driving force that now possess you is your reliance on your mind. That seduction insures denial of the transition. In our Dialogues I am seeking to empower you, to enlist you as a member of those who are already Spiritually Conscious and viable persons. They are capable of rising above the limiting level of their intellect to the empowering energy of the higher Consciousness levels.

The Hawkins c/Consciousness paradigm is an important contribution to the world with profound and enormous implications. The major tenet of the Mystical Paradigm holds that intellect alone is limited to the field of mental consciousness, and that only an illuminated Spiritual Consciousness can permit us to rise above the confounding theories and practices of the materialist world. That world and its values that worship the various expressions of force are what now bind us to suffering. I will refer to its implications throughout our remaining time together. All of the dilemmas addressed in these Dialogues are the result of humanity's struggle to control its members though the use of various kind of force. The resulting dominance of the lower expressions of consciousness are shown below 200.  Most of humanity remains oblivious to the existence of, let alone the Power of Spiritual Consciousness.

Q: So you want to move me into a Consciousness energy level above 500?

P: No. I want to empower you to achieve that transition. No one but you, by yourself, by applying the powers between 200 and 400 and Spiritually surrendering will move you above the 500 level.

Q: Perceiving the world from above the 500 level? I'm a long way from that, still not convinced.

P: One only "perceives" something when it appears to be outside one's self. One must become Love to live the 500 level of Love. There is a quality about having a Mystical experience (becoming Love) that is so unique and personal most folks keep any such experience to themselves, especially in past years when they were ridiculed if they dared to share it with anybody, even loved ones. Imagine having such a profound, transcendent and enormously beautiful experience denied or mocked, especially when mocked by a religious leader, or by someone you love or trust. But Spiritual Transcendence will put you in touch with some very good company--such as the great Masters--Buddha, Laotse and Jesus and the numerous Saints of all faiths. In addition, there are numbers of ancient and modern giants in the arts, letters and science who have also demonstrated this Presence: e.g., Pythagoras, Plato, Alexander the Great, Mozart, Beethoven, Pascal, Coleridge, Bacon (Shakespeare,) Libnetz, Thoreau, Tyndale, Emerson, Edison, Lindberg, Wordsworth, Henry Ford, and even athletes such as Ben Hogan (the golfer,) Edgar Cayce and thousands of others. But most members of this rare "club" have always kept a low profile and seldom share their Mystical capacities and activities.

Q: But what then? I mean, what-where is one's Consciousness compared to understanding?

P: Knowledge can be applied to direct force. But without the Knowing that is only empowered in the presence of Wisdom, it will fail or be found wanting, e.g., the Nazi creation and use of the Whermacht. But Wisdom is the Spiritual context that empowers mere knowledge (limited to an intellectualized reality) by placing it within its empowering vision of the greater Whole. That is the reference energy plane I am calling "R"eality. This relationship of Spiritual capacity or energy level to the success of any living system is spectacularly demonstrated by the Hawkins Paradigm. Mere intelligence, when applied without Wisdom, that is, thoughts applied without reference to this larger Reality, may be destructive, or at least empty of their full promise.

Remember, just as you cannot intellectually process what is not in your consciousness, neither can you meaningfully communicate or negotiate with another about anything that is not already in their consciousness.

Note therefore, the relevance of this warning.  I do not speak of the "unconscious" which is simply forgotten consciousness that lies dormant until recalled. Wisdom is a derivation from the larger Intelligence that lies between the mental consciousness of our awakened but limited physical mind and the larger embracing Spiritual Truth of the Supraconsciousness. Therein lies the Power of Spiritual Consciousness as superior to that your mental consciousness that can only manipulate through the use of force.

Force--Its Widespread Use is an Evident Symptom of the Abuse of Personal Power

P: Today, under conditions of inadequate C/consciousness, there are allegedly brilliant politicians, technocrats and analysts who are busily making national law that serves the egotistical goals of the power mongers at the expense of the rest of our nation's humanity. Whether these leaders do this because they are evil or because they are simply ignorant is of no consequence. The result is the same. They nourish various kind of force (political, economic) to intimidate and control society. The resulting destructive fall out is the same for those who will be their victims. In either case, from a Spiritual perspective, they know not what they do.  We will begin to understand the dynamics of this process when we enter our dialogue on agendas, the first ego overlay  on consciousness.

The links below refer you directly to information on the PEAR site for you to visit special consciousness models being investigated at Princeton University Laboratories.  This model examines the potential of "mind over matter" with significant empirical evidence in support of that hypothesis. The director of the lab at the outset of these investigations, was Dr. Robert Jahn.  His initial report is referenced in the bibliography [Jahn, et al, 1987]  See also Jahn  2000, 1996, 1991; and Jahn et al, 1991]  See also an investigation of human intentionality on large scale phenomenon,  [Nelson, 1997].  Regarding the methodology applied by the PEAR labs see [Dobyns, 1992a, 1992b,  and Dobyns, et al, 1992] See also other reports on the applications of consciousness and intentionality. [Dunne, 1991a, 1991b].  Following is direct access to a summary of their approach by Robert Jahn of the PEAR Laboratories.

Recall the additional links to PEAR that I presented during our Dialogue 1 on the nature of C/consciousness.

Compare the above models of consciousness with the model of Consciousness being developed as the foundation for the Mystical Paradigm in OT/MP.  The MP integrates aspects of the above models.

See Dialogue 1: The Nature of C/consciousness.
See also:  Dialogue 2 (agendas), Dialogue 3 (Communication,) and Dialogue 4 (HIP, Human Information Processing.) for the three ego overlays on Spiritual Consciousness.  Their integrated relationship is diagrammed in the figure below.

The figure above shows our ONE Spiritual Truth which is the core of our Spiritual Consciousness, with its link to the Super Consciousness GOD Field of Manifest Cosmic Intelligence.   This Spiritual core is overlaid and surrounded by three ego overlays created by the material  senses of our fleshy body.  These form the three layers of the ego owned intellect which are the three traps of C/consciousness, i.e, the levels of sensate corruption: (1) agendas, (2) communication, and (3) HIP (Human Information Processing.)

Dialogue 2, on the First of the Three Traps of Consciousness, The Agendas

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