Hi Mike, we started a conversation on Telegram a bit ago, and you suggested joining this group as a better place to learn and discuss Percival. I think you may have misunderstood my intent at the time, certainly not to criticize Percival, I have only now begun to read Thinking and Destiny. At the time I was responding to the Beth Martens interview and your discussion there of Percival’s work. Perhaps the best place to restart this conversation is to quote from the Percival’s introduction in Thinking and Destiny,
“November of 1892 I passed through astonishing and crucial experiences, following which, in the spring of 1893, there occurred the most extraordinary event of my life. I had crossed 14th Street at 4th Avenue, in New York City. Cars and people were hurrying by. While stepping up to the northeast corner curbstone, Light, greater than that of myriads of suns opened in the center of my head. In that instant or point, eternities were apprehended. There was no time. Distance and dimensions were not in evidence. Nature was composed of units. I was conscious of the units of nature and of units as Intelligences. Within and beyond, so to say, there were greater and lesser Lights; the greater pervading the lesser Lights, which revealed the different kinds of units. The Lights were not of nature; they were Lights as Intelligences, Conscious Lights. Compared with the brightness or lightness of those Lights, the surrounding sunlight was a dense fog. And in and through all Lights and units and objects I was conscious of the Presence of Consciousness. I was conscious of Consciousness as the Ultimate and Absolute Reality, and conscious of the relation of things. I experienced no thrills, emotions, or ecstasy. Words fail utterly to describe or explain CONSCIOUSNESS..”
So much packed into this perfect statement. My initial conversation with you was only meant to point out that sometimes I think Percival’s revelation of consciousness is lost as we begin to explore our functional realm, and begin to dissect it, much as we tend to discuss such things as the aether or the vibratory nature of the cosmos or matter or the field, our terrain, the shape of the earth, as if these topics represent some-thing that exists independently, outside consciousness. But as Percival reminds us, all is consciousness, and more importantly, we are that same consciousness that we know more intimately that any-thing, in our simple, most intimate ‘experience’ of being aware. Without this knowledge our attempts to liberate ourselves from materialism are futile, often just replaced by another delusion, spiritual materialism.
I come to this discussion primarily from the teachings of non-dual Saivism, but also Anthroposophy, and more recently, your work with Alfa Vedic, the New Biology, as a very practical expression in the healing of this realm, all of which seems to perfectly align with this line of inquiry here as we explore Thinking and Destiny.
Ed
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Ed.
