Wednesday, September 12th, 1979

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

SEPTEMBER 12, 1979

PB BOOKS; WISDOM OF THE OVERSELF; "THE MEANING OF MENTALISM"

TOPIC: PB Books

SUBJECT: Wisdom of the Overself

SUBSUBJECTS: "The Meaning of Mentalism," Cosmology, Epistemology

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself

DIAGRAMS embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1979 0912-1-AB. World-Mind, Individual Mind, and Perception.

• FIGURE 1979 0912-2-AB. Taijasa Sun, Thought-Forms, and Primordial Image.

• FIGURE 1979 0912-3-AB. Vesica of All-Soul, Individual Soul, and World; Heart, Brain, and Senses.

• FIGURE 1979 0912-4-AB. World-Mind, Individual Mind, and Space-Time World.

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NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (V13). From Alan Notes 6 Procl Plotin Bud 1979 0630 to 1979 1230.PDF.

• Wednesday night class, part of Wisdom series 1979-1980.

• All spelling, capitalization, and punctuation corrected, all abbreviations and astrological glyphs spelled out.

1979 09/12 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

PB Books; Wisdom of the Overself; "The Meaning of Mentalism"

[Alan Notes 1979 0912 Begin]

9/12/79 "The Meaning of Mentalism" [Note: Paul Brunton (PB), The Wisdom of the Overself.]

Analogy: solar system with Sun in center is equal to World-Soul or energic force underlying manifestation -- Sun's light is matter of universe, ever-becoming -- planets always in motion.

Paragraph 25--

[FIGURE 1979 0912-1-AB. World-Mind, Individual Mind, and Perception. WM = World-Mind. Bottom left reads: Empirical perception of ego depends on and is coordinated with individual mind's thinking. Vaishvanara - gross. Bottom right reads: Individual mind's thinking is coordinated with and dependent on World-Mind's thought. Taijasa - subtle realm. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

A → B -- higher mind imposes an idea on smaller mind in subtle realm -- hypnotist tells subject he is near a stove.

B → C -- communicated idea is thought as a concrete object with a concrete consciousness experiencing it (object is stepped down from subtle to gross) -- example: hypnotized person sees stove, feels heat, and sweats.

B → C represents a transformation of consciousness.

The object which is known externally is a transformation of something given internally.

"The world-stuff is of the same tissue as that out of which our own ideas are made."

[FIGURE 1979 0912-2-AB. Taijasa Sun, Thought-Forms, and Primordial Image. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Paragraph 34 -- thinking self surrounded by not-self = vaishvanara consciousness.

The mind which goes out to the object is your taijasa consciousness.

Paragraph 44 -- the mind that goes out belongs to the individual who is in the world.

When the taijasa grasps the object produced by the individual behind the world and the World-Mind it becomes or is transformed into vaishvanara.

[FIGURE 1979 0912-3-AB. Vesica of All-Soul, Individual Soul, and World; Heart, Brain, and Senses. Top right reads: All-Soul and individual soul think world into existence. Bottom right reads: Impulse goes from heart (1) → brain (2) → and out through the senses (3). Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Only after your body, brain, etc. is thought into existence by the World-Mind can you project your taijasa consciousness through the senses and experience vaishvanara.

Insofar as each individual mind fabricates its own experience relativity exists. This is how the ancients could know about relativity before it was mathematically proven.

The mind going out through the senses is the correct version of the process the physiologist describes as coming in.

Paragraph 55 -- the individual (Aquarius) which produces the space-time world (Pisces) is indissolubly bound to it.

Consciousness which is the reality of both -- Saturn in Leo (pure cognitive-isness); is the reality of the individual's thinking and the world produced by it.

Individual's consciousness which includes world -- Aquarius.

Higher form of consciousness = World-Mind.

Paragraph 55, pp. 35-36--

[FIGURE 1979 0912-4-AB. World-Mind, Individual Mind, and Space-Time World. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Matrix of experience is Sun in Aquarius.

Intelligibility of experience is from Saturn in Leo.

Individual (B) and space-time world (C) are within individual consciousness (B).

B and C are within consciousness as reality of both = Saturn in Leo.

B and C are manifestation of higher consciousness = World-Mind or Sun in Aquarius.

Paragraph 64, p. 39 --

World-Mind sends its imagination = Sun in Aquarius

Into its own seeming void = Capricorn

[Alan Notes 1979 0912 End]