dutchguest

the "lost all my money" blues is not only a thai fenomenon:

A quote from a book I'm reading at the moment,   http://www.archive.o...fTheWhiteClouds blz.125, suggests that heredity and memory are the same in the ultimate sense:

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All this may appear incredible to the critical Westerner, and I admit that I myself would have found it difficult to believe had I not come across similar cases, which not only proved that the idea of rebirth was more than a mere theory or an unfounded belief, but equally demonstrated the possibility of remembering important aspects or achievements of former lives. The scientist who only believes in physical heredity never asks himself what the fact of heredity actually means. It is the principle of preservation and continuity of acquired characteristics which finally results in the faculty of conscious remembrance and conscious direction under the guidance of organised knowledge, i,e. through co-ordinated experience. Heredity, in other words, is only another name for memory, the stabilising principle and the counter-force of dissolution and imper-manence. Whether we call memory a spiritual or a material property or a biological principle is beside the point, because 'material', 'biological', and 'spiritual' signify only different levels on which the same force operates or manifests itself. All that matters is that it is both a form-preserving as well as a form-creating force, the connecting linlt between the past and the future, which finally manifests itself in the experience of the timeless present and of conscious existence. The simultaneousness of preservation and creation is achieved in the process of continuous transformation, in which the essential elements or form-principles remain present like an ideal nucleus out of which new forms crystallise according to inherent laws and under the influence of external stimuli.
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It could be true that evolution is moving in this direction of growing consciousness, awareness, memory and that the role of unconscious heredity is slowly diminishing. First in the form of human beings as they exist now with a growing awareness of the functioning of nature and with some enlightened persons who already “go ahead of the evolution” and have already a further evolved conscious memory. In the end the dualism between body and mind, matter and spirit, live and death would be overcome.

A few books mainly about Tibetan buddhism:

Two classics:

http://www.summum.us...tbotd/toc.shtml

http://www.bibliotec...livingdying.pdf


One of the first western pioniers on a pelgrimage in Tibet:

http://www.archive.o...fTheWhiteClouds

An impression of China and Tibet in the past century:

http://pratyeka.org/...gotten_kingdom/

sabaijai, on 2012-01-10 15:58:58, said:

Thanks, I leave the kwan for what they are.

From a psycho-analytic point of view they are i.m.o. projections of fysical energies that are not recognised as such (energies) but have taken other forms and were endowed with personalised powers.

I thought I could come to some common denominator, essence of all spiritual fenomena, awareness, ghosts etc. But things are becoming to confusing.

dutchguest, on 2012-01-09 14:49:43, said:

Leaving the kwan and hara for what they are and trying to translate the eastern conceptions in a western way with which I am more accustomed, I think Freud put us on the right track with his concept of sublimation. Sexual energy can be transformed from the unconscious animalistic reproductive function into more conscious creative forms of expression. This is what distinguishes man from animals. I see sexual energy as the same as vital or life energy, also originating in the navel area, the area where we were connected with our mothers and from where our life originates.