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Observer
Omega point
Ontological levels
Ontological transformations
Originality
Out of Body Experience

 

Observer

Word definition: a watching over, observance, investigation,” noun of action from past participle stem of observare “watch over, note, heed, look to, attend to, guard, regard, comply with,” from ob “in front of, before” (see ob-) + servare “to watch, keep safe,” from PIE root *ser- (1) “to protect.” Sense of “act or fact of paying attention” is from 1550s. Meaning “a remark in reference to something observed” first recorded 1590s.

Etymology: 1550s, “one who keeps a rule, custom, etc.,” agent noun from observe. Meaning “one who watches and takes notice” is from 1580s.

Technical description: The role of an observer in quantum mechanics relating to the collapse of the wavefunction, deals with the question whether conscious place a role in this. There is no consensus among physicists in this matter.

Phenomenological description: questions relating the observer play a central role in the classification and stratification of different mystical experiences.

Synonyms: Witness, Spectator

Relevance of the concept: the influence of the observer in Quantum processes.

Omega point

Word definition: Teilhard aimed at a metaphysic of evolution, holding that it was a process converging toward a final unity that he called the Omega point.

Etymology: The term was coined by the French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955).

Technical description: The Omega Point is a spiritual belief and a scientific speculation that everything in the universe is fated to spiral towards a final point of divine unification. Teilhard argued that the Omega Point resembles the Christian Logos, namely Christ, who draws all things into himself, who in the words of the Nicene Creed, is “God from God”, “Light from Light”, “True God from true God”, and “through him all things were made”. In the Book of Revelation, Christ describes himself thrice as “the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.”  (Wikipedia)
See Further:  https://marinusjanmarijs.com/meaning-of-life/kosmic-omegapoint/ 

Phenomenological description: Mystical processes individual experienced by mystics, in the future realised collective on a planetary or Kosmic scale.

Synonyms: Collective divinisation.

Cross-cultural comparisons: Aurobindo’s Supramentalisation.

Relevance of the concept: Evolutionary process relating to the Ultimate destiny of humanity and the kosmos.

The concept in mythology: A new heaven and a new earth.
James Tabor:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James D. Tabor (born 1946 in Texas) is a Biblical scholar and Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte,^[

James Tabor – A New Heaven & a New Earth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZO5wqwBkzk
Citaat ST.Paul   5.00 – 6.09
“If there is a next world we’re living and beyond this history we’re living and you can only describe it by using terms from this world and that’s what essentially the biblical writers do…..
Paul, who’s our most developed thinker in the new testament, takes it a bit further because he’s not just interested in the place the earth perfected. But what people would be doing like what’s their job prescription you know. They’re there and it’s wonderful, but what are they doing here, and what he says is that they’ve been transformed in these  higher beings even beyond the capacity of angels and they are then working with God in creative activity essentially throughout the whole universe”.

Supporting evidence: Collective fractal pattern in time  (1/4 process) which shows a collective sequential activation of subtle energies on higher ontological levels, which changes at an exponential speed.

Serial patterns in time: 1/4 process.

Literature: Books / Articles / Websites:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: The phenomenon of man.

 

Ontological levels

Word definition: relating to or based upon being or existence

Etymology: The compound word ontology combines onto–, from the Greek ὄν, on (gen. ὄντος, ontos), i.e. “being; that which is”, which is the present participle of the verb εἰμί, eimí, i.e. “to be, I am”, and -λογία, -logia, i.e. “logical discourse”, see classical compounds for this type of word formation.
While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself, the New Latin form ontologia, appeared in 1606 in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel (Goclenius). (Wikipedia)

Technical description: Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology often deals with questions concerning what entities  exist or may be said to exist and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences. (Wikipedia)

Phenomenological description: psychological development shows a sequential activation which corresponds with access to higher ontological levels.

Synonyms: Levels of existence. Pythagorean Kosmos.

Cross-cultural comparisons: That there are other worlds than the physical world is a concept which is found in many cultures:                                                                                                                  
The heavens of the Christians,                                                                                             
The loka’s of the Hindu’s and the Buddhists,                                                                
The Bardo of the Tibetans,                                                                                              
The intelligible world of Plotinus,                                                                                      
The mundus intelligibilis of Immanuel Kant,                                                                  
The implicate orders of David Bohm

These non-physical worlds are a stratification of levels of existence. 

Relevance of the concept: Other levels of existence beyond the physical world.

The concept in mythology: Heavens.

Supporting evidence: Similar independent descriptions from different cultures.

 

Ontological transformations

Word definition: Existential transformations.

Etymology: Ontology was referred to as Tattva Mimamsa by ancient Indian philosophers going back as early as Vedas. Ontology is an aspect of the Samkhya school of philosophy from the first millennium BCE.  (Wikipedia)

Technical description: Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology often deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.  (Wikipedia)
See further: https://marinusjanmarijs.nl/methods-of-transformation/process-of-transformation/

Phenomenological description: To shift ones focal point of consciousness to a higher ontological level.

The concept in mythology: Initiations.

Originality

Word definition: ability to think or express oneself in an independent and individual manner; creative ability.

Freshness or novelty, as of an idea, method, or performance.
Etymology: From the French word originalité, dating back to 1735–45. See original, -ity

Technical description:  Originality is the aspect of created or invented works as being new or novel, and thus distinguishable from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or derivative works. An original work is one not received from others nor one copied from or based upon the work of others. It is a work created with a unique style and substance. The term “originality” is often applied as a compliment to the creativity of artists, writers, and thinkers.  (Wikipedia)

Phenomenological description: Functioning in a flow state

Synonyms: inventiveness, ingenuity, cleverness, creativeness.

 

Out of Body Experience

Word definition: an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside one’s body and, in some cases, perceiving one’s physical body from a place outside one’s body.

Etymology: The term out-of-body experience was introduced in 1943 by G. N. M. Tyrrell in his book Apparitions

Technical description: Basic pattern: (from Wikipedia)                                                              

Withdrawal stage: Conscious interaction with the physical environment ceases. Attention is elsewhere, with sensory inputs going unnoticed; the body is on auto-pilot. Sleeping is an example of this stage.

Cataleptic stage: Movement is totally impaired. Alternative sensory information may suddenly seem present, such as intense vibrations, noises and sight through closed eyelids. Separation stage: With effort, the perceptual viewpoint can be pulled away from the physical body location. Still subject to intense sensation, pull back towards the body obstructs progression.

Free movement stage: Beyond a certain radius, movement becomes unimpeded, with control increasing markedly. Visual and mental clarity can vary greatly, from barely functional to exceptional.

Re-entry stage: Perceived need to return increases, leading either to voluntary reversal of separation or extremely fast involuntary snap-back. Alternatively, a transition to waking or sleeping may occur.

Phenomenological description: This out of the body experience is in many ways different from dreams or dream consciousness. The events that take place during an out of the body experience are not irrational, bizarre or symbolic as in dreams is often the case. A comparison:                                                                                                                    Dream                                          Out of the body experience                                   
Irrational                                     – Rational                                                                              
Half conscious                            – Fully conscious                                                         
Unaware of being in a dream     – Aware of being in an out of the body state  
Non-purpose                              – Purposeful behaviour                                          
Without mental control               – Control over one’s own mental abilities         

The out of the body experience is an integrating experience, who is in many aspects different from pathological disturbances. Positive psychological chances take place.  
See further: https://marinusjanmarijs.nl/evidence-based-approach/14-research-areas/out-of-the-body-experiences-and-near-death-experiences/out-of-the-body-experience/
   

Synonyms: astral projection”, “soul travel”, or “spirit walking” Sky walker.

Cross-cultural comparisons:
The Egyptian book of the death

The hades voyage in the Greek classics

Plato’s myth of the real earth; “Vision of Er”. (Republic 616-17)

Paul’s second letter at the Corinthians 12 : 2-4, he wrote: “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.  And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell”.

Plutarch’s : De sera numinous vindicta, the vision of Aridaeus (AD.79)

Relevance of the concept: The out of the body experience, is by many seen as the best method to obtain information about life after death. This experience is also described as a psychic excursion, or astral projection. The experience is universal in that sense that it occurs in almost all cultures. Those who have had this experience, generally have the feeling that one leaves the physical body and that one’s consciousness as well as one’s powers of perception are found to be located in another point in space than where the physical body is located. The proposition is that if one can leave the physical body temporarily during one’s life, and can function independently from it, that the difference between the out of the body experience and the death is that the out of the body experience is temporarily, and that after death, this becomes permanent. In other words consciousness, thinking, emotions, feelings, personality and memory stay in existence after death.  ( M.J.M.)

The concept in mythology:
“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu

Citations: Saint Paul hints that he has had a vision so powerful that he dare not speak of it:
I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven… I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses (2 Cor. 12: 1-5).

Supporting evidence: Cross-cultural data from many sources, Academic research into Near Death Experiences.

Literature: Books / Articles / Websites:
Robert Monroe:  “Journeys out of the body”,
Robert Monroe:  “Far journeys”,
Robert Monroe:  “The ultimate journey”.
            

 

 

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