From the perspective of my mediumship experience, I find this all so fascinating. Here's what came up for me.
As an evidential medium, I'm training myself to experience the informational universe, the quantum realms or thought forms as persons who are no longer in bodies. It's uncanny how accurate the information that comes through is. Sometimes, I'm blown away by the accuracy, yet the information comes in so many different ways. I may feel myself in a vortex with hands reaching in to help me out, yet I can't quite grip them (a young man who died from a fentanyl overdose). Or I may see myself in a restaurant, having a meal, laughing, observing people around me and joking about them (a former boyfriend who passed and the person didn't know he had until she looked up the information and found out, indeed, he had transitioned). I see this as the "feeling states" I experience interpreted through the lens of how I've trained myself to frame them for the purpose or intention of noticing who, in spirit, is present. Or, another way to frame it is, what thought form/energy is influencing how I feel at this moment?
As someone doing fieldwork, I would be training myself to experience the informational/quantum world of my emotions in the way you describe. I know this is throwing a wrench into the idea, but what if our emotional states are not always our own? What if the quantum entanglement on which we overlay a certain paradigm has influences that are beyond the singular experience, a part of a collective experience in which we participate? What if a loved one on the other side of the veil is using an emotional experience to get our attention?
Just my thoughts. I love your work and how you are presenting it. As you know, I'm fascinated by the exploration of consciousness and its various expressions and am SO glad you are sharing your experience, the fruits of your study, and insights.
Beautiful, Ellen, thank you for your provocative thoughts and experience. I really won't be able to address the question you raise about the intersection with other beings until next year, sometime, most likely, at the pace this is rolling out. But here's my best response at this point in what I'm presenting.
Psychotopology reveals and emphasizes the field dimension of conscious experience. At this point in fieldwork (in this series on observation), we are observing affect fields. We will get to the powerful observational and experimental capacities that open up through fieldwork moving later this year. Through the moving phase of fieldwork, it becomes evident that when we are working with affect fields, every affect field does belong to the person experiencing it. Even those which have acquired compensations that set them up to represent other forces and entities are easily recovered into the family of modules belonging to the self.
At the same time, another type of field is crucial to understanding our complete experience. I call them imagery fields. For every consciousness module there is one and only one affect field, but several imagery fields spread over visual, auditory, and somatic channels. These imagery fields host the grand majority of our conscious experience -- thoughts, memories, visions, sensations, etc. -- and I believe it is through the potent presence of these imagery fields that we are able to access non-self information and encounter other energies. The affect fields anchor our experience in this self with the capacity to experience the "other" while maintaining its integrity.
To fully investigate this hypothesis will require disciplined work by people like yourself who are exploring these intriguing edges of experience. It'll be super fascinating to see what emerges!
Joe,
From the perspective of my mediumship experience, I find this all so fascinating. Here's what came up for me.
As an evidential medium, I'm training myself to experience the informational universe, the quantum realms or thought forms as persons who are no longer in bodies. It's uncanny how accurate the information that comes through is. Sometimes, I'm blown away by the accuracy, yet the information comes in so many different ways. I may feel myself in a vortex with hands reaching in to help me out, yet I can't quite grip them (a young man who died from a fentanyl overdose). Or I may see myself in a restaurant, having a meal, laughing, observing people around me and joking about them (a former boyfriend who passed and the person didn't know he had until she looked up the information and found out, indeed, he had transitioned). I see this as the "feeling states" I experience interpreted through the lens of how I've trained myself to frame them for the purpose or intention of noticing who, in spirit, is present. Or, another way to frame it is, what thought form/energy is influencing how I feel at this moment?
As someone doing fieldwork, I would be training myself to experience the informational/quantum world of my emotions in the way you describe. I know this is throwing a wrench into the idea, but what if our emotional states are not always our own? What if the quantum entanglement on which we overlay a certain paradigm has influences that are beyond the singular experience, a part of a collective experience in which we participate? What if a loved one on the other side of the veil is using an emotional experience to get our attention?
Just my thoughts. I love your work and how you are presenting it. As you know, I'm fascinated by the exploration of consciousness and its various expressions and am SO glad you are sharing your experience, the fruits of your study, and insights.
Beautiful, Ellen, thank you for your provocative thoughts and experience. I really won't be able to address the question you raise about the intersection with other beings until next year, sometime, most likely, at the pace this is rolling out. But here's my best response at this point in what I'm presenting.
Psychotopology reveals and emphasizes the field dimension of conscious experience. At this point in fieldwork (in this series on observation), we are observing affect fields. We will get to the powerful observational and experimental capacities that open up through fieldwork moving later this year. Through the moving phase of fieldwork, it becomes evident that when we are working with affect fields, every affect field does belong to the person experiencing it. Even those which have acquired compensations that set them up to represent other forces and entities are easily recovered into the family of modules belonging to the self.
At the same time, another type of field is crucial to understanding our complete experience. I call them imagery fields. For every consciousness module there is one and only one affect field, but several imagery fields spread over visual, auditory, and somatic channels. These imagery fields host the grand majority of our conscious experience -- thoughts, memories, visions, sensations, etc. -- and I believe it is through the potent presence of these imagery fields that we are able to access non-self information and encounter other energies. The affect fields anchor our experience in this self with the capacity to experience the "other" while maintaining its integrity.
To fully investigate this hypothesis will require disciplined work by people like yourself who are exploring these intriguing edges of experience. It'll be super fascinating to see what emerges!