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Consciousness Cycles
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RE: Consciousness Cycles
(November 4, 2012 at 10:03 pm)ezak420 Wrote: The middle way exists as the thread of consciousness, that is occupied by with the vibration of physical existence and while the universe rotates in an everlasting eternal cycle, encompassing the whole of existence while expanding in time and space.

If the middle way exists as the thread of consciousness, then I wonder what the two ways that the middle way is in-between exist as...

When you say that consciousness is occupied by the vibration of physical existence, are you suggesting that all the vibrations of physical existence are conscious to at least some extent?

What makes you think that the universe rotates in an everlasting eternal cycle? To my knowledge the latest scientific evidence, according to Lawrence Krauss, is that the universe will keep expanding indefinitely and there will be no big crunch/big bang cycle.

And if there's a cycle, how can there be an everlasting expansion? If there's a cycle it would at some time have to return to a smaller less expanded form, would it not?

Quote:We live in a constant present of vibration, yin and yang, up and down, left and right, pushing and pulling,[...]


Energy vibrates. In that sense we live in a constant presence of vibration, yes.

Opposites exist in the sense that there are true dichotomies, yes. But I don't see why they're
Quote:[...]trying to even out, become sane, become one, become conscious, become eternal. Become God.
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Consciousness Cycles - by ezak420 - November 4, 2012 at 10:03 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 4, 2012 at 10:11 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Brunitski - November 4, 2012 at 10:14 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Angrboda - November 5, 2012 at 12:30 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 5, 2012 at 12:41 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Angrboda - November 5, 2012 at 12:13 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Rhizomorph13 - November 5, 2012 at 1:47 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 5, 2012 at 7:21 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by ezak420 - November 4, 2012 at 10:24 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Brunitski - November 4, 2012 at 10:32 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by FallentoReason - November 4, 2012 at 10:50 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by thesummerqueen - November 4, 2012 at 10:42 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Rhizomorph13 - November 4, 2012 at 11:03 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 4, 2012 at 11:05 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Rhizomorph13 - November 4, 2012 at 11:11 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Ben Davis - November 5, 2012 at 9:59 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 5, 2012 at 12:24 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by thesummerqueen - November 5, 2012 at 9:19 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Cyberman - November 5, 2012 at 10:03 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 5, 2012 at 12:18 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Welsh cake - November 5, 2012 at 4:22 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Rhizomorph13 - November 5, 2012 at 7:39 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Edwardo Piet - November 6, 2012 at 7:22 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Angrboda - November 18, 2012 at 11:01 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Cyberman - November 6, 2012 at 9:20 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 6, 2012 at 9:25 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Cyberman - November 6, 2012 at 9:26 am
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Rhizomorph13 - November 6, 2012 at 12:34 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Cyberman - November 6, 2012 at 12:35 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by thesummerqueen - November 6, 2012 at 12:37 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Cato - November 6, 2012 at 12:49 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by LastPoet - November 6, 2012 at 12:50 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Rhizomorph13 - November 6, 2012 at 1:23 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by thesummerqueen - November 6, 2012 at 2:08 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by ezak420 - November 18, 2012 at 5:44 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Something completely different - November 18, 2012 at 5:53 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Rhizomorph13 - November 18, 2012 at 11:31 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by festive1 - November 18, 2012 at 11:59 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by LastPoet - November 18, 2012 at 5:47 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Faith No More - November 18, 2012 at 6:50 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Something completely different - November 18, 2012 at 6:53 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Faith No More - November 18, 2012 at 6:54 pm
RE: Consciousness Cycles - by Angrboda - November 19, 2012 at 1:35 am

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