Modern religions (1)

Naturalistic Panentheism

A famous trinity you may know are the 3 P’s, which represent “People. Planet & Profit”. In a way I thought about another similar trinity; the 3 M’s.These M’s represent “Magic”, “Mythic” and “Mental”. As I wrote, where the first word “Magic” implies 1 dimension, “Mythic” 2 dimensions and the adiectivum “Mental” 3 dimensions, corresponding with the divine spark, the process into human and the way human is dealing with it.

When I associate further on, then “Magic” has to do with the spirit, the highest Truth, 1 unit as the Void or the connection between the 2. The culture of a tribe or now our western society has demythicated almost completely life by all science. Where culture used to be the mythical way to create the right religion, that gives manifestation and expression to the Magic of all individuals within each collectivum or community. Nowadays Mythic is reified to facts and matter; the embodiment of phenomena. So the last part, the consequence of “Magic” and “Mythic” is “Mental” in a 3-dimensional way. Although I admit that this word only includes still “body” without “Soul”. Our world ihas become one without passion, acting without “heart & soul” and no more capable to make the right decisions but those that are releated to earthal interests. A way of processing the magic into daily life as a demythicated religion.

Although I write this book in a strong psychological way, maybe that’s the reason I have to refer to other aspects, when I talk about the word “mental”. It is very often assumed that – like Descartes – human is a duality : “body and mind”. Descartes was 1 of the first persons, who claimed that the mind was a non-physical substance and was to be identified it with consciousness and self-consciousness. The word “mind” is as specifically and as generally possible to be interpret. However, when I associate this to Jean Gebser’s interpretation about the 3 dimensions of “mental”, then this implies another interpretation of “mind”. Where “Mythic” implies the 2 dimensions of the human concept of “Space & Time”, is “Mind” related to 3 dimensions namely “Self, Soul and Ego”. This is in accordance with the “Roberto Assagioli’s Egg Diagram”, Assagioli is well-known as the fouder of Psycho-Synthesis. In its view of the human personality Psychosythesis also had a model to describe its disparate and multi-faceted nature.

Mental constructions are built up by these 3 dimensions within human. A kind of integral constructures by interactions between the 3 dimensions of “Self, Soul and Ego”. To be regarded by the dimensions within duality as I already described in my second book “Anthroposofic energy“ :

·           Interactionic Dualism : Mental states like desires and convictions are causally speaking bounded with physical situations.

·           Psycho-Physical Parallellism : Body and Mind do not interact and do not influence each other causally. However represented by Leibniz  as an ontologic monic that there’s only 1 fundamental substance as the source of all in the Universe.

·           Occasionalism : This is the conviction that the so-called causal connections between physical and mental relations don’t exist. The interventions are attributed to the actions of a higher power. In a earlier chapter I already wrote about “Causality vs. Synchronicity”.

·           Epiphenomenalism :  It says that mental phenomena have no potential to be a cause for physical events.

·          Emergentism : When matter is organized in a proper way mental characteristics emerge. These emerging characteristics have a independent ontological fundamental principle; the combination of autopoiesis and concrescence.

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