Brief Peeks Beyond

This way, if we need to speak in terms of causation, it is fair to say that unhealthy psychic activity in the personal obfuscated psyche causes all illnesses. This shows the importance of integrative medicine: we can treat all illnesses by influencing obfuscated psychic activity.

The outside image of (self-reflective) egoic processes in consciousness are particular types of brain activity.
• An outside image of the (non-self-reflective) personal obfuscated psyche is the metabolism in the rest of the physical body.
• An outside image of the collective obfuscated psyche (mind-at-large) is the physical activity in the rest of the universe.

consciousness – that is, processes that you are aware that you are aware of – while the obfuscated psyche corresponds to non-self-reflective processes also in consciousness.

I maintain that the ego corresponds to self-reflective processes in consciousness

Furthermore, I maintain that the body-brain system is an outside image of a process of localization in the stream of consciousness, like a whirlpool is the image of a process of localization in a stream of water. It is this localization that leads to the illusion of personal identity and separateness. For exactly the same reason that a whirlpool doesn’t generate water, your brain doesn’t generate consciousness.

Think of reality as a collective dream: in a dream, it is your dream character that is in your consciousness, not your consciousness in your dream character. This becomes obvious when you wake up, but isn’t at all obvious while you are dreaming.

Wouldn’t we, as a culture, have to take another look at current psychiatric best-practices if we acknowledged our feelings to be primary, not merely the outcome of chemical imbalances to be corrected with drugs?

I consider the word ‘unconscious’ a misnomer, as I discuss in essay 2.1, preferring to call it ‘personal obfuscated psyche’ instead. Be it as it may, the implication is clear: your physical health isn’t merely ‘connected’ to your psychic state; it is your obfuscated psychic state

f all reality is in consciousness, then your consciousness is not generated by your body. Therefore, there is no reason to believe that your consciousness will end when your body dies.

The misunderstanding that may arise from the above is to conclude that, since in both cases reality exists independent of personal psyches, there is no difference between this transpersonal mind-at-large and a material world fundamentally outside consciousness. Nothing could be further from the truth!