Will religions fade away?

Will religions fade away?

We ask ourselves

as these institutions diminish..

Might fading occur

as each of us

finds a direct path..?

A Direct Path to

Self-Realization...

Eric Hoffer

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” 
― Eric Hoffer

Conscious AI..?

Conscious AI..? (Another
Hard Problem..)

The question is arriving
in science's conversations..
The envisioned robot
will finally express
minds functions:
thinking..sensing..perceiving
but alas
a new question arrives:
Of what..?
Of what..the question lingers:
Will the robotic mind
turn from things to itself
and discover the fullness
of no-thing..?
Or perhaps:
Might their makers 
turn and discover
their own AI...?


Some Considerations...

The assumption prevails:  Mind comes from matter..

Is AI created with older dualistic science..?

A materialist construction with materialist assumption..

With a materialist understanding of consciousness:

self is limited and located in the body..

The question of AI consciousness is the
question we need ask of ourselves:
Am I aware..?

The belief we have that I am conscious
could be simply that belief..

It is difficult  to imagine that AI can, or
ever will respond to the question:
Am I aware..?

The answer "Yes" to the Aware question only
comes with dissolution of the mind..

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/07/goodbye-dave-scientists-ponder-how-to-identify-conscious-ais-on-earth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy+--Great+Discoveries+Channel%3A+Sci%2C+Space%2C+Tech.%29

Frankenstein and AI
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/01/what_artificial_intelligence_researchers_can_learn_from_frankenstein.html

Emerson's moods...

“Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.”
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

Each day, each moment, is a journey within our Self, Consciousness..
The journey amounts to our thoughts, sensations, and perceptions, which
come and go..But Consciousness remains after all of the comings and goings..
When thoughts, sensations, and perceptions linger, a veil is dropped
concealing infinite Consciousness, and impeding our creativity...CC

our only Identity

Consciousness

our only Identity

seems to constrict itself

with a simultaneous birth

of self and world..

This is all"seeming"

as Consciousness

our only Identity

 knows only itself..

All the "seeming" is

a temporary coloring

not an alteration

of Consciousness

our only Identity..

Coloring/Consciousness

a dance of polarity

of Consciousness alone

our only Identity...

Stretch creative..

Stretch 

as a seeming departure..

An effort of attention

toward world and object..

This is mind's activity

from dawn 'til dark

waking and dreaming..

Relaxation of effort

brings the recognition

of never departing

of only abiding

as Truth and Peace...

STRETCH...July 2017

STRETCH

July 21st, 2017

10 to 11:30 AM

Myron Stratton Home

Facilitator:  CRC

STRETCH

This word is derived from Latin origins..

(ad tendere)

its meaning is:  attention..

Attention is stretching the mind

away from itself toward that over there..

Succinctly..this is the power 

and the capstone of the mind..CC

Consciousness and Soul Proof...(Larry Dossey Non-locality)

https://youtu.be/DSUfQH2MhFM

RS..The Remedy for the Fear of Death is Very Simple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlWKBiUt3SA

RS..Non-Local Phenomenon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-anPhpAnth0

A Crisis of Loyalty-Non Duality and ACIM (RS and a black woman!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRSHHQPceGU

RS and Lisa Natoli...The Direct Approach to the Light of Pure Knowing (ACIM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuudCtLudFc

RS..Explaining War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm8A-Bp6tZ8

I Never Go Anywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnEL3W6u34k

We often hear phrases in the non-dual teaching such as, ‘The world is an illusion.’ But such phrases may create a rebellion in us, for we know that our experience is very real.  So how to reconcile these two positions – one, ‘the illusory world’ and two, the undeniable reality of our experience?

Anything that appears must appear in or on something. For instance, an image appears on a screen; a chair appears in the space of a room; the words of a novel appear on a page; a cloud appears in the sky.

What about the mind, body and world? Our only experience of them is what currently appears to us as thoughts, images, feelings, sensations, sights, sounds, textures, tastes and smells. In other words, all we know of a mind, body or world are appearances, and all these are continually appearing and disappearing. We may have a concept of a continuously existing mind, body or world, but we never actually experience such an object.

As Cezanne also said, “Everything vanishes, falls apart.” All we know of the world are perceptions that continuously appear and disappear. However, anything that appears and disappears must do so in or on something. What is that something?

~~Rupert Spira, The Ultimate Revolution