John Skingley: I'm thinking more than ever that our ongoing discussion about the 'parts' of ourselves is really boiling down to semantics. As soon as we start to think of ourselves in this way, the problem of exactly where the dividing lines are becomes a point of discussion, when, of course, the lines are completely arbitary in the first ...

Hi Paul, I'm thinking more than ever that our ongoing discussion about the 'parts' of ourselves is really boiling down to semantics. As soon as we start to think of ourselves in this way, the problem of exactly where the dividing lines are becomes a point of discussion, when, of course, the lines are completely arbitary in the first place. My car ...

John Skingley: Paul M. Helfrich: After 51 years in this physical focus, I can find no single causal element in my awareness, not my beliefs, my thoughts, feelings, emotions, expectations, dreams, impressions, impulses, body, DNA, genes, and on and on. TOGETHER, these elements conspire to create only the Framework 1 portions of my experience. As ...

Hi All, I wanted to continue to explore something brought up in Joseph's previous topic before it got hijacked by a dyed in the wool Sethian fundamentalist who lost the privilege of posting on NWV yesterday. Some of us were discussing Seth's ontology or nature of being and I was pleased to find the opportunity to post a classic piece of the ...