Hints of a greater reality, part 3 - Review, again

Don’t really need to say review since it is all review, or going over of what I have thought till now.  Feel a little jejune looking back.  This is because I have real/listened to more and got more and more perspective.  To sum up (and hopefully my summaries have remained or grown more concise – is that needed?): something greater is going on.  By greater I mean not necessarily better, just that something that is not commonly acknowledged is going on that that presents a form of knowledge that by simply existing makes our understanding of reality more complex. 

To naysay: there is no greater other form of consciousness.  So far anything such as exists outside our material worldview has gone unmeasured.  That some people do report such encounters and interactions are experiencing something confined to their minds.  And just because similar delusions occur amongst many folks does not mean these delusions come from an outside source.  No, it simply means that the common brain structures and operating means have become similarly altered.  There is no collective unconscious or the like only a similar physical, evolved mechanism – the brain – that we are share and subject to occasionally bizarre whims thereof.

 

This . . .
 

You have to acknowledge something like the psychology of Freud at the very least and at the very most must accept Jung.  Freud talked about events distant in humanities time on the planet.  Imprints of primal reactions.  Perhaps encounters with other forms of existence are simply these primal reactions manifesting in a idiosyncratic culture ways.  While strange these experiences are shared due to the experiencers shared culture.  Or generally are similar due to a shared humanity. 

 

. . . or this?

 

The collective unconscious that Jung describes takes things to another level.  If not a higher level, then a different level.  Something “out there” that we can tap into, access.  I’m not familiar enough with his thought as to whether the collective unconscious could, like, exist if not people existed.  And I don’t know if the idea of the collective unconscious wipes out the need for Freud’s theories.  More reading required.

The point here, to conclude, is to erase a bit of that jejune feeling.  To understand the most fundamental fundamentals.  To establish an epistemology.  To see what these far-out ideas bring to the table.  Are they exceptions that prove the rule, that confirm us in a Western worldview?  Is what I take for proof merely quirks of the brain, explainable within the framework of neurobiology?  Dammit, when I say that I consider how much religion is still so common alongside a materialistic world view.  People that believe in whatever faith (am I developing my own new faith?) already have this component included in their theories of what it is to know (to their detriment say/believe the Dawkins’ and Harris’). 

However much this seems like a needless retracing of the understanding of first principles I can at least say that I have taken maybe more than a few steps down the road paved with more, for lack of a better term, spiritual dimensions.