I wonder whether the way the evolution of a planetary spirit is described in the CosDoc can be seen as a rough general template for any process which involves the creation of an organized whole out of individual entities? Say, a body (human or otherwise), or a society?
Maybe I'm not far enough into the book but if the general pattern that the principles established on a "higher" (or lower, as in closer to the unmanifest) level percolate through everything that is created out of this level of existence holds, wouldn't that imply that every society HAS to decline and dissolve someday and that there is no stable state that can be reached, regardless of how complex or simple a society is? Just as there is no immortal body? And that the decline will either happen in a natural, relatively relaxed way if the individual entities are aware of the process and do their part of that all kinds of nasty effects including divine intervention may happen if they don't? (I can't help it as I don't know where to turn to in the light of the following... it IS *slightly* related however and only to bear with a good portion of Galgenhumor - but then it's really funny. Have you seen this: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/worlds-most-ridiculous-fact-checker )
And then another question that pops up in this forum in this or that variety every now and then: Why are egregores not conscious (or how can it be that they are not conscious?). If you define consciousness as awareness plus memory, and awareness as the capability to react to an external stimulus, what's missing?
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Date: 2023-02-27 09:36 pm (UTC)Maybe I'm not far enough into the book but if the general pattern that the principles established on a "higher" (or lower, as in closer to the unmanifest) level percolate through everything that is created out of this level of existence holds, wouldn't that imply that every society HAS to decline and dissolve someday and that there is no stable state that can be reached, regardless of how complex or simple a society is? Just as there is no immortal body? And that the decline will either happen in a natural, relatively relaxed way if the individual entities are aware of the process and do their part of that all kinds of nasty effects including divine intervention may happen if they don't? (I can't help it as I don't know where to turn to in the light of the following... it IS *slightly* related however and only to bear with a good portion of Galgenhumor - but then it's really funny. Have you seen this: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/worlds-most-ridiculous-fact-checker )
And then another question that pops up in this forum in this or that variety every now and then: Why are egregores not conscious (or how can it be that they are not conscious?). If you define consciousness as awareness plus memory, and awareness as the capability to react to an external stimulus, what's missing?
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Nachtgurke