DocM
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I think this is a very interesting thread.
I look on it as our basic state is that of mind/consciousness. When we are in the physical plane, our spiritual senses, begin to conform to the agreed on plane we are in (sight, taste, smell, hearing, touch). We construct "bodies" from the womb which interact with the plane we are in. And, I fell that as we are immersed in our new home in the physical, we take it that these senses and perception are what is "real," as they are common and reproducible.
Yet all the interpretation of sensory data occurs on our primary plane, the plane of the mind/consciousness. Do I see the color red the same as you do? Think about it for a moment. We agree that physical phenomenon have reproducible traits, but I don't really "see" the color red, my consciousness receives data and perceives it. For all I know, some of you, are truly seeing something quite different when you "see" the color red.
If consciousness is our primary or true state, and we are willingly encased in the physical world, using physical senses, then what does this tell us about Carolene's experience? Somehow, she found the extra physicals first on a mental plane, through non-physical perception. Before she saw them on Skype, she knew they surrounded the person. How is this? Because she formed a mental image, and in that image she saw them. She interacted with the nonphysicals. Next, because of the correlation of real time sensory data with an open channel of non-physical real time data, the two images were merged in her interpretive mind. Once she knew, with deep conviction what her nonphysical sense "saw," she had opened up another channel of a data stream for her mind to use.
I liken this as watching a movie with the sound on your computer turned off, and then suddenly turning the sound switch on, and beginning to "hear" what is being said. In her mind, the extra-physicals were found and contacted. As this contact or data stream strengthened, she was then able to "see" them in real time - perhaps without anyone else being able to do the same (unless another person tuned in with their minds first).
If mind is primary, and sensory data is not just coming in from our five earthly senses, then we must account for the integration of extra-sensory data.
Matthew
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