Hi Leland. Consciousness, self-awareness, and all related topics are, of course, at the center of all major religions and have been so for thousands of years. The mystical experiences and deep insights gained from meditation and other forms of mind / body experiences are well documented. Eastern philosophy I find particularly beautiful and appropriate in today’s mad world. There are also really interesting connections between eastern thoughts on consciousness and modern day physics.

My jaundiced eye when reading a lot of this stuff comes from a general observation that "newbie" practitioners (i.e. in the last several decades) are usually only re-discovering what has been known for eons. At worst they cook up mumbo-jumbo terms and try to commercialize their "great discovery". Complicated and fanciful names usually ring the alarm bells fast. At best they are genuine people who have experienced "something" but that in itself does not automatically require a new terminology to describe it. Just some reading into what is already out there. To give a parallel, why do we need .Net when we already have VFP? We already have all that we need ;)




>Hi Jos,
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>The work being done regarding the Force/Energy/Gravitation anomalies, link below, seem to be base on TGD theory.
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>ftp://rock.helsinki.fi/pub/misc/matpitka/padtgd/Zanom.pdf
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>So I did a google on TGD and came up with the below link:
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>http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/
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>I did a google on TDG, because I didn't have a clue about the term time sheet, and was really looking for a definition of term.
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>It kind of makes me wonder about the validity of the work being done in both links.
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>I found the about Matti Pitkänen, the founder of TGD, interesting:
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>http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/me.html
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>Regards,
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>LelandJ