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The Wonder: Thinking
Why is the consciousness of our Leading Eternon different from our ordinary human consciousness?
The duality Leading Eternon + human structure is the reason for this difference. As made evident by the following schedule, we exist on two different planes.
Our "I", as
a Metaphysical realm |
We, as a Physical domain |
We are a temporary gathering of Eternons called a human. Our brain functions according to the common laws of nature. Our elementary consciousness operates within the universe we are familiar with.
We are also an indestructible Leading Eternon. Our psyche transcends the ordinary world. Our higher consciousness belongs to a realm not readily accessible to our human mind.
The association starts with the founder then expands as members join. Its various branches become entrusted to gifted individuals. A hierarchy is created. Members leave because of age, sickness, or death; new ones arrive. Always, the skilled management of the leader ensures continuity and progress.
To outsiders, the association appears as a single entity. Still, the consciousness of the entity cannot be mistaken for the consciousness of the leader who animates it.
We are aware of the presence of our Leading Eternon. We experience its distinctive consciousness embedded within ours. That is why we may say "our" Eternon, as if it were a companion, distinct from us.
The being who eats, sleeps, works, reasons, suffers, or enjoys, is only a part of our whole. It is a probe sensing and transmitting live information about the surrounding reality. It has only a limited understanding of the higher consciousness for whom it operates.
The other part of our whole, our soul and spirit, is our Leading Eternon. Its superior knowledge permeates the rest of our human structure. We may verify it in a number of ways. For instance when:
- insights flash into our mind.
- intuition guides a large part of our voluntary acts.
- innate mechanisms dominate our body functions.
- psychic energies heal our organism.
- cosmic remembrances enter our human memory.
Eternism tells us otherwise. Consciousness does not jump from one state to another. Instead, like complexity, it slowly rises, from a spark of awareness in primitive particles, to bright intelligence in superior structures.
It is best to speak of the gradient and planes of consciousness.
We spend most of our everyday life on a low plane of consciousness. We do not remind our lungs to breathe, or direct our legs to walk. We carry out our activities, even working or socializing, with little self-awareness. We just do it. Our brain is functioning, but our mind is dominated by the electrochemical interplay of our Eternons.
From time to time, though, we rise to other planes. We have flashes of great lucidity and become more attuned to what happens. We observe and evaluate our own attitude, as if from the outside. We may even enjoy rare insights and creative inspiration. Our human mind has entered the realm of our Leading Eternon.
From early animals till us, Eternons have preserved the general architecture of the brain but evolution has been dramatic in size and working capacity. The knotty extremity in the nerve chord of primitive worms has become tens of billions of neurons in the human skull.
Neurons are lead by Eternons with superior skills and are among the most notable cells in our body. They are practically the only ones we keep our entire life. Different neurons handle touch, audition, motility, logic, language, and other tasks, but nothing is clean-cut. A good portion of our brain is without specific assignment and a same function may be processed in several areas.
Our brain is made with the same elements as the rest of our body. The substances it produces are regular chemicals devoid of any psychic powers. Consciousness is definitely not a mere secretion of our cerebral mass.
Instead, our brain serves to integrate the individual consciousness of our countless Eternons. Without the orderly work from the stable neurons, our human mind would be a hodgepodge of individual Eternon waves. In the brain, our Leading Eternon can sort, process, and store the mental objects that create our human thoughts, emotions, and memories.
Thus, when physicians look at a flattened electroencephalograph, or EEG, they may assert that the patient is totally unconscious, but that is not so. The absence of brain waves proves the absence of brain activity, not the absence of consciousness. And when Eternons separate at death, consciousness does not vanish any more than broadcast waves disappear when a TV set is broken apart.
Ordinary matter has memory. The way it respects physical laws proves it. Cells, microorganisms, and plants too have memory. Like animals, they are able to learn from experience. Obviously, more complex beings, having more numerous Eternons, also have a greater memorizing capacity.
Science has no real explanation for the memory process. Researchers have checked if memorized knowledge was kept in some brain substance. They taught rats simple tricks, then used their ground brains to feed other rats. The experience was inconclusive, and "memory molecules" are yet to be identified.
Neurologists have also looked for "shelves" where the brain would stack memories. They have destroyed brain sections and observed how it affected the storage of information. No area appears to be dedicated to memory. It looks instead as though memory is distributed throughout the brain.
This scattering of memory has led to the holographic theory. Holograms are photographs taken with laser light. Any fragment of a hologram will store the whole image. Likewise, any small fragment of brain seems to store the whole memory.
Eternism clearly explains the above. All our Eternons are involved in the storage and retrieval of information, thus, memory is both localized and spread out.
Our personal memory is localized, and split among specific groups of neurons. It orients our human thinking and voluntary behavior. The loss of parts of the brain, the deterioration of neurons like in Alzheimer’s disease, and the use of drugs, all affect this personal memory.
Our cosmic memory is spread out, and permeates our entire structure. It dictates our instincts and the autonomic functions of our body. It also encompasses all the previous experiences of our Leading Eternon, albeit at a level transcending our immediate consciousness. This is why recollections of our past lives will only emerge when we encounter our superior self, i.e., during dreams, hypnosis, trance, and other altered states of awareness.
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