By a sudden flash of insight, I remembered that when I was about 18 I read a book where Dr. Harold S. Burr was mentioned. I forgot about the book, but thirty nine years later it turned up again. It had been stored after my mothers death and I found it while unpacking a box. This was a while ago and for a reason unknown to me I put it in my bookshelf and forgot about it again until today. Today I was skimming through a book about Australian aboriginal way of life when I encountered this line.
”The active fields of Dreamtime creation myth are fields of consciousness”.
And it struck me that this somehow was related to what I read in that book. I found the passage and then I went online to find the link below. But then it also hit me that a paper I read not long ago by Lothar Schäfer and Diogo Valadas Ponte really appear to blend very well with the findings of Dr. Harold S. Burr. Especially the concept of virtual states. Schäfer and Valadas Ponte concludes about these virtual states,
”that the empirical world is an emanation out of a cosmic realm of potentiality, whose forms can appear as physical structures in the external world and as archetypal concepts in our mind. And that the evolution of life now appears no longer as a process of the adaptation of species to their environment, but as the adaptation of minds to increasingly complex forms that exist in the cosmic potentiality”.
This thesis seems to complement the work of Dr. Harold S. Burr where he found that
”all living things – from men to mice, from trees to seeds – are molded and controlled by electro-dynamic fields, which could be measured and mapped with standard voltmeters. These ”fields of life,” serves as a matrix or mould which preserves the ’shape’ or arrangement of any material poured into it, however often the material may be changed. The molecules and cells are constantly being torn apart and rebuilt with fresh material from the food we eat. But, thanks to the controlling L-fields, the new molecules and cells are rebuilt as before and arrange themselves in the same pattern as the old ones”.
These active fields of creation he states, are ”electro-dynamic fields, invisible and intangible; and it is hard to visualize them”, but obviously, they appear as kinetic and psychic energies with an ability to alternate between bodily apparitions and pure spiritual powers. Since they always emanate from, or are associated with a form like a body, animal, planet, plant or galaxy, we may experience them in a similar way as the Australian aboriginal people do, as the psychological substreams underlying all forms and events in the perceivable world that we share in the currents of life.
This confirms to me, disguised in the words of present day language, that any mythic imagination, acknowledged or not, is something that we are made of. Everything is created of forms from an energetic phase prior to the appearance of matter and life. But creation is not to be understod as a single finished event, it is going on all around us, all the time. It’s happening right now. It is the great power, the spirit that all things are made of. It is intelligence, the order of things, the atmosphere, and the great power in the world itself, a living experience we find in the vision of the physical world as a manifestation of the invisible. Still respected by aboriginal people, in inuit, lakota and sami traditions. That all life, in its own way, mirrors a form of this primary force of consciousness.
To this I also have to add the work of Vilayanur Ramachandran and the brains capacity of enabling the sense of these fields or virtual states. Obviously it comes at a later stage of life where the importance of the physical activity of the body is lessened in favour of psychological activity. Here is a link to his talk: The neurons that shaped civilization
Anyway, this was put together on a whim, so be sure to read this for what it is. It is just my personal associations. No more. I just followed my train of thoughts. Taking up dictation on some of the clues that for some reason appeared to be laid out in front of me. And this is what came out of it.