Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Dreams, Fairy Tales, and the Demons of AI | Jonathan Pageau | EP 364" video.

  1. "The indwelling spirit"...is the personal self-reflective awareness...the "spark of divinity" around which the being forms. The body of this awareness IS the IMAGINATION! The prerequisite for "existence" is "body", the great delimiter. My skin, for instance, is the barrier region formed at the furthest extent of the body which contains "me". This body reflects an image of my being...a presentation of myself to everything else...an announcement of my intention to be existent in physical matter. My emotional body, though, is made of a subtler, more energetic, grade of matter; the same with my mental body, formed of an even subtler grade of matter/energy. The skin of my spiritual body is the imagination, which always displays the truth of the just-previous MOMENT'S total state of being...which plants that moment into the universal substratum, the reservoir of all "memory". Through the imagination, spirit projects "leadings", "where you could/should go". However, that image is subject to instantaneous reformation, or even erasure, according to prevailing personal preferences. This distortion mechanism prevails generally by virtue of lack of self-knowledge and control. This is the point-of-attack for the psychic disciplines, like meditation, concentration, and imagination exercises--in a word, prayer. A calm imagination shows the smallest perturbations most accurately. When the waters of imagination are churning with desire, the delicate leadings of spirit are effectively swamped. So...there is "error"...
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  2. I've been fortunate to have experienced a massive religious upbringing--specifically, Protestant. In my appreciation of the Holy Trinity, the Father conceives and projects the plan of Creation, taken from His vision of the Chaos, the all-potential, which He maintains in Eternity, in a stare-down with the Chaotic Void which precipitated Him; the Son, as the One Universal Mind, executes that plan in existential manifestation by articulations of hierarchical complexification; and the Holy Spirit, as the Life Force, meters and modulates the force or influence of the Primordial Chaotic Void, Disorder, to power the Cosmos, through the Son's articulations of form. Chaos powers evolution through forms of Order, like steam powering an engine. The influence of Life keeps Order from becoming trapped in fixity, by appropriately valving the intrusion of the Chaos into the realm of Order.
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  3. "Mastering the art of transformation..." carries a different meaning for me than is evident in the phrase's usage in the video. Jordan paints a picture of literal transformation of being as the "art" alluded to in the phrase, as if being is a caterpillar (childhood) transforming into a moth (adult). Everything remains...including "the child" that "you" were. What changes is your CONTEXT. The "you" that you were as a child is the same "you" that you are now, and forever. "You" are the awareness of the moment, the ETERNAL NOW! In this timelessness, there is only the Godhead's awareness, the one awareness we and everything else in existence share. But, again, the matter of CONTEXT determines the manner of manifestation. While there exists only the ONE AWARENESS, the context of its manifestation determines the character of the body that it coagulates about it as a vehicle of expression.
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  4. The advantage of the "story" is the emotional context it provides for the "information", which aids its integration and memorability. The story effectively relates the information to the personal context, and offers further context by association with personal experience. Personal experiential memory is all that a person can KNOW without doubt to be true, so it is a perpetual reference...
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