Arthur M. Young Book, Article & Video Collection
https://icedrive.net/s/jNW6Fv7GugGXFQQSTiuazRFCNRTw

Included in this collection are the books:
- The Geometry of Meaning
- The Reflexive Universe
- Science & Astrology: Relationship between measure and formulae of the zodiac
- Zodiac: An analysis of symbolic degrees

About Arthur Young
https://arthuryoung.com/about/arthur-young/

Young felt that the world as we know it could be elaborated into seven stages, which could be depicted as an arc. Process could be seen as a "fall" into the determinate constraint of matter followed by an ascent in which matter becomes free and indeterminate again. "The primary reality is this activity - which could be light, or it could be seeing, or it could be understanding -- not in knowledge, but understanding or recognition. It's behind all the world of manifestation, and it's a restoration, in effect, of the spiritual nature of things."

In 1973, after many fruitless attempts at engaging academics in dialogue, Arthur Young set up the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, California. "Since there were so many unexplained phenomena, like ESP, which did not fit into the current framework of knowledge and therefor remained undigested, it was time to prod people into thinking seriously about them. The main purpose for the foundation was to build a comprehensive theory in which ESP could be integrated into existing scientific knowledge."

In 1976 The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning were published. These books attempt to identify valid universal first principals and correlate them with modern science. As well, they provide a holistic system for organizing the data of science and generating first order hypotheses for
scientific research.

#arthuryoung #harmonics #geometry #cosmogony #anthroposophy

Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom
A Twelvefold Path to Freedom: Exploring 12 Worldview Personality Types through the Seven Aspects of Cognition

GA 4 - Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path/ Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
- https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA004/ — Take note of the differences between the early and later versions and choose to your suiting.

"This book, written in 1894, is a fundamental treatment of Steiner's philosophical outlook. Together with Truth and Science and The Riddles of Philosophy it might be considered as one third of a philosophical trilogy. The emphasis of the book is not on “freedom” as ordinarily understood, but is on “freiheit” or what might be termed freeness, or freehood. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term “spiritual” is used in a sense not incompatible with the use of the word in the tradition of the German idealistic school of philosophy."

It is the 4th in his series of major works, preceded by three foundational texts on the Goethean impulse.

- GA 1 Goethean Science
- GA 2 A Theory of Knowledge
- GA 3 Truth and Knowledge/ Truth and Science
- GA 18 Riddles of Philosophy
- GA 151 Human and Cosmic Thought

These 4 works form a crucial foundation for developing living, imaginative cognition as a gateway to self-initiation. I personally cannot stress enough the value of engaging these epistemological and ontological works as precursors to moving forward with a living science.

"Of all of his works, Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path is the one that Steiner himself believed would have the longest life and the greatest spiritual and cultural consequences. It was written as a phenomenological account of the "results of observing the human soul according to the methods of natural science. This seminal work asserts that free spiritual activity - understood as the human ability to think and act independently of physical nature - is the suitable path for human beings today to gain true knowledge of themselves and of the universe. This is not merely a philosophical volume, but rather a warm, heart-oriented guide to the practice and experience of living thinking. Readers will not find abstract philosophy here, but a step-by-step account of how a person may come to experience living, intuitive thinking - "the conscious experience of a purely spiritual content."

During the past hundred years since it was written, many have tried to discover this "new thinking" that could help us understand the various spiritual, ecological, social, political, and philosophical issues facing us. But Rudolf Steiner laid out a path that leads from ordinary thinking to the level of pure spiritual activity - intuitive thinking - in which we become co-creators and co-redeemers of the world."

"My Philosophy of Freedom presents the wide range of human standpoints, often masquerading under such strange philosophical names, in a way that leaves the reader free of attachment to any particular approach and able to let the various concepts speak for themselves, as though each were a photograph of one and the same object taken from many different angles." - Rudolf Steiner

Engage the full book Philosoophy of Freedom with study guides
- https://philosophyoffreedom.com/new-readable-translation
- https://philosophyoffreedom.com/
- https://philosophyoffreedom.com/world-outlooks

HELPFUL VIDEOS
- Thought Structure to Philosophy of Freedomf
- 7 Ways of Knowing & 12 Worldviews: Exploring Knowledge & Reality
- 12 Worldviews Summary


#rudolfsteiner #livingthinking #anthroposophy #spiritualscience #epistemology #ontology #goetheanism

The above post is one of the most important on this channel. Understanding Goethe's concepts and Steiner's advancement upon them, may allow for the development of a living, imaginative cognition to counter atomistic thought. The impulse laid forward by Goethe is absolutely crucial for engaging the living and archetypal forces at play in the polar processes of nature. Without such an impulse, how will we ever grasp the nature of a plant, animal, or even a human, nonetheless, the cosmos at large? So take note that this post serves as a key cornerstone for the Aether Force framework.

#goethe #steiner #spriritualscience

Dr. Michael Persinger Shares Secrets of Altered States of Consciousness ┃Musuem of Tarot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD66Cz0UB0s

- The nature of the Sensed Presence and God experience
- How geomagnetic activity profoundly influences consciousness
- Inducing altered stated with EM fields
- The correlation of The Paranormal with Geomagnetic activity

Michael Persinger, inventor of the God Helmet, has explored the impact of fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field on human and animal behavior for over 40 years, proposing that electromagnetic fields may have initially encoded information into DNA sequences. These subtle geomagnetic variations, comparable to the faint electrical signals in the brain, have been linked to biological effects, such as birth rates. Even weak magnetic fields, as low as 5 nanotesla, can influence biological systems.

Persinger suggests that modern communication technologies are generating a "secondary matrix" of electromagnetic fields, potentially affecting evolution and biological processes. The interference patterns of high-frequency signals could create low-frequency effects within the range that interacts with living organisms.

Altered states of consciousness, achieved through shamanic practices, sensory deprivation, or other techniques, can provide access to information and experiences beyond ordinary awareness, engaging the right hemisphere of the brain.

DOWNLOAD All of Michael Persinger's Publications HERE

#persinger #magnetobiology #electrobiology #consciousness #ahrimanicpath

Owen Barfield - Man and Meaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oedVDN1xOWM

Owen Barfield, a member of the Inklings, through his thinking informed the writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. His abiding interest was in the history of language, through which he investigated the evolution of consciousness.

After serving in the Royal Engineers during World War I, Owen Barfield went on to study English literature at Oxford, where he met his close friend C.S. Lewis. They engaged in many lively debates about the nature of the imagination and consciousness. During this time, Barfield also married and began establishing himself as a writer, publishing works like the fairy tale "The Silver Trumpet."

In the 1920s, Barfield became interested in the ideas of Rudolf Steiner and his philosophy of anthroposophy, which resonated with his own independent thinking.

Throughout his life, Barfield has been a deep thinker about the nature of the mind, meaning, and humanity's relationship to the natural world. His core ideas around participation, metaphor, and the role of the imagination have influenced many, including his fellow Inklings.

#barfield #anthroposophy #consciousness

Saving the Appearances - A Study in Idolatry by Owen Barfield

AUDIOBOOK - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWoxYOJGLCl3lKuHVCHpL4VxuCE-O_FYF&si=PY2q2d9HfCSzGHLC

Main Points of the Book
https://bonald.wordpress.com/2021/08/11/a-first-reading-main-points-of-barfields-saving-the-appearances-as-i-understand-them/

" Barfield takes the true nature of things as they are in themselves (as opposed to things as sensed and conceptualized by us) to be what is revealed by physics. The precise nature of this revelation of “the particles”/”the unrepresented” does not matter much for the argument, only that the world thus revealed is quite alien to our ordinary way of thinking and speaking about the world.

Therefore, phenomenal objects like rainbows and trees are actually a combination of sense data stimulated by the objects themselves and a layer of ordering and interpretation imposed unconsciously by the mind.
The distinction between this unconscious “figuration” and conscious thought about the resulting phenomena (“alpha thinking”) is crucial. E.g. the experience hearing a dog barking seems to be unitary. I don’t (consciously) first experience sound from acoustic waves stimulating my ear, then think to myself “What is that noise?”, then compare with all the sounds I remember, and conclude that the sound is a dog. All that must be going on in the background, but I don’t consciously think through each step. Therefore, the raw material of all my alpha thinking has already gone through a level of mental processing.

- Unlike Kant, but like Spengler, Barfield thinks these “figurations”/ ”representations” are not fixed structures of the human mind, but are at least partly social constructs, which have varied among peoples and among times. As will be seen below, he differs from Spengler in that he thinks it possible for people to creatively alter their representations.

We can also think about how we think. This he calls “beta thinking”. The entire investigation of figuration, alpha thinking, and beta thinking is itself an exercise in beta thinking.

Primitive peoples don’t do beta thinking, but they are aware of being involved in their figurations in the following indirect sense. They imagine that the phenomena are manifestations of things like themselves, e.g. animist spirits. This identification is said to be at the level of figuration rather than as a conscious (alpha thinking) inference. This outlook is called “original participation”, presumably because we can share the same states/actions as these beings behind the phenomena. “Participation” is a crucial concept in the book, and I think I still don’t really understand all that Barfield means by it.

We are apt to deeply misunderstand Greek and medieval thought because we impose our own representational world onto them, so that even individual words take on rather different meanings from what they originally had.

At the current level of spiritual evolution, we can only recognize our role in creating our phenomenal worlds by beta thinking. We also tend to forget our role in this process and think of the representations as being entirely objective. Thus, the “representations” become “idols”. The accusation seems unfair, since people of the scientific revolution and after, when original participation is supposed to have totally died, were obsessed with beta thinking.

An example of “idolatry” is using our representations to talk about the Earth before the arrival of humans, and other inaccessible regions like the bottom of the sea, the interior of the Earth, and outer space. At most, we should say that if beings with senses like ours and representations like those of 20th-century Europeans were in such places, this is what they would observe. Barfield objects even to this, saying that for such talk about the pre-human past to be meaningful, a “collective unconscious” must have existed even then. I don’t understand this objection at all.

Today, participation has died more or less completely. Our idols are completely unlike us, and we mistake them for the objective world. This is spiritually unhealthy and dangerous for reasons I didn’t really follow.
The solution is a new state called “final participation”. I’m not quite sure what this means, but I think it involves people becoming more consciously aware of our representation-forming (and not only when we turn aside from the phenomena to do beta thinking) and even achieving some freedom to alter the process. Some experimentation toward this happened in English and German Romanticism.

Why is final participation a desirable state? Not being sure what it is, I can’t really say. By and large, the realization that the human senses and mind contribute to phenomenal experience was met by Europeans as bad news, as constituting a sort of barrier between the knower and things as they are “in themselves”, an argument for skepticism and alienation from the world. Wouldn’t final participation be an intensification of this? I suppose one might use one’s freedom over the representations of one’s imagination to make them better resemble objective reality, “the unrepresented”, e.g. quantum fields. However, the reason we don’t do this already is that objective reality as revealed by high-energy physics is not very serviceable for practical life. Alternatively, one might choose to accept the collective representations of one’s people, as past generations have done, but as a free and deliberate act of solidarity. Barfield himself thinks it will give us a better sense of God’s immanence in the world and in particular His likeness to us (since we too would be consciously taking on a sort of co-creator role of our phenomenal worlds)."

#barfield #anthroposophy #language #history #consciousness

Owen Barfield - Soul of a Word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvtaENYDrNw

Key concepts from this video:

1. Barfield's early life and struggles with a severe stammer, which led him to focus on poetry and language.

2. Barfield's influential theories on the evolution of language and meaning, including his critique of the Bloomsbury and I.A. Richards schools of literary criticism.

3. Barfield's groundbreaking work tracing the development of a single word like "ruin" through history, showing how words accumulate new layers of meaning over time.

4. Barfield's view that language reflects an evolution of human consciousness, moving from an "original participation" in the world to abstract thinking and finally to a "final participation" through the power of the imagination.

5. Barfield's engagement with anthroposophy and the influence of Rudolf Steiner's ideas on his own conclusions about language and meaning.

Barfield was as an original and insightful thinker who made significant contributions to our understanding of language, meaning, and the evolution of human consciousness.

#barfield #anthroposophy #language #history #consciousness

What Does Owen Barfield Mean By Final Participation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXV7fdTsHU

Owen Barfield's concept of "final participation" is often misunderstood. It doesn't refer to the apocalypse or a return to original pagan participation. Barfield outlines three key concepts:

1. Original participation: The primitive consciousness that saw spirits and meaning in everything.

2. Idolatry: The modern reduction of the world to measurable objects, stripping away meaning.

3. Final participation: A new way of engaging with the world through imagination.

Final participation isn't about re-enchantment or simply being creative. It's about "rediscovering the meaning of things" through dialogue with science, history, and faith. It involves "going inside the thing itself" to "revivify it."

Barfield warns that imagination isn't inherently good - it can be "either good or evil." As we realize our "directionally creator relation" to the world, both the good and evil potential of imagination become "unlimited."

The modern world, dominated by technology and media, has accelerated our disconnection from nature and meaning. Final participation offers a way to reconnect, not by returning to primitive consciousness, but by consciously engaging with the world to create new meaning.

The challenge is to move beyond our self-consciousness and "enter into our lives with each other again," participating in the world in a meaningful way. This might involve creating beauty in our own backyards or using digital technology "the way it should be used" rather than how it wants to be used.

#barfield #anthroposophy #goetheanism

More Owen Barfield books and articles
- https://www.owenbarfield.org/selected-books/

- https://www.owenbarfield.org/barfield-anthroposophy/anthroposophy-translations/

- https://www.owenbarfield.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/barfield-essays-articles.pdf

- https://www.owenbarfield.org/research/resources/

#barfield #anthroposophy

Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen Barfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQta2Io77c

https://www.markvernon.com/participation-renewed-discussing-the-riddle-of-the-sphinx-new-essays-from-owen-barfield

"Mark Vernon talks again with Landon Loftin and Max Leyf about the genius insight of Owen Barfield. The Riddle of the Sphinx (Barfield Press) is a new collection of talks and essays about the great friend of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.

We discuss Barfield’s take on analysis and analogy, Darwinian and other kinds of evolution, the significance of Rudolf Stein, and Barfield’s notion of final participation.

Landon and Max are the authors of What Barfield Thought. For more on my books, including A Secret History of Christianity, see www.markvernon.com "

0:00 The new book of talks and essays
02:08 Plato, Aristotle and the evolution of analogy and analysis
13:31 Participation and the limits of modern science
23:30 Barfield’s critique of Darwinian evolution
33:47 When the mind changes, the world changes
38:03 Evolution as a moving image of eternity
42:51 How can we participate in evolution?
52:18 Barfield and the significance of Rudolf Steiner
01:03:45 Grappling with the esoteric
01:10:14 On the way to final participation
01:17:16 Barfield on the meaning and revelation

#barfield #anthroposophy

THE 18 DIMENSIONS OF RUSSELL'S COSMOLOGY

"In the book The Universal One, Russell defines 18 dimensions of matter. These dimensions, however, do NOT refer to realms of existence, nor conceptual extrapolations of the 3 primary dimensions, as this word is usually defined.

The word DIMENSION comes from the Latin “dimensio”, from the verb “dimetiri”, which means TO MEASURE. Therefore, dimension is that which can be measured.

Following this definition, the 18 dimensions of Russell's cosmology portray properties that define matter and that can be measured.

These dimensions are characterized by a fact common to all of them: an ORDERED PERIODICITY. This periodicity is the result of the cycles of growth and decay according to the WAVE, which is a principle behind all matter, representing the manifestation of the idea of ​​the Universal Mind in form and the dissolution of form, which we know as Life and Death.

This principle is evident from Russell's periodic table, which shows that the elements are different conditions of pressure and motion, which change their characteristics and properties according to their position in the wave, from zero to amplitude (generation) or from amplitude to zero (degeneration).

As these conditions change, however, in the journey of matter from its invisible seed to its visible form, and back again, all of these measurable properties that define it change simultaneously in periodic order. This change is what gives us the perception that the elements are different substances, seemingly unrelated to each other.

These 18 dimensions are:

1 - Length

2 - Width

3 - Thickness

4 - Time

5 - Sex

6 - Pressure

7 - Potential

8 - Temperature

9 - Ionization

10 - Crystallization

11 - Valence

12 - Axial Rotation

13 - Orbital Revolution

14 - Mass

15 - Color

16 - Plane

17 - Tone

18 - Ecliptic

Russell states that all these dimensions can be measured and calculated mathematically with precision for any system, be it an atom, a molecule, a planet, a solar system or a nebula, and that these can be classified within their waves and have all their properties defined, without the need for experimentation, since the principles that govern the microcosm and the macrocosm are the same, and the changes also follow the same periodicities. All these dimensions are defined and explained in detail in the book The Universal One."

— Eduardo of Walter Russell Brazil

⭐️ t.me/walterrussellbrasil/1246

Owen Barfield: Imagination and Spiritual Sight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntJBo9vwRHc

"Mark Vernon presents the biggest possible story for the imagination, integrating it into nothing less than our creation and return to the divine. What is fascinating is that he arrived at this conclusion from his story of words - those vehicles of the imagination that not only enliven our everyday but can become fossils of consciousness when used to track how human experience has shifted across millennia.

Vernon briefly introduces Owen Barfield before describing:
- How imagination plays a part in the human story
- How imagination plays a part in the cosmic story
- How various kinds of spiritual materialism deviate from this big picture
- What the "final participation" Barfield outlined might be like.

The talk ends with two heralds of this destiny, William Blake and Thomas Traherne, whose poetic words become prophetic, offering felt intimations of the inside of the whole world."

#barfield #anthroposophy

Hello everyone, I’ve been away from Aether Force for a bit, focusing on family and preparing our home for the winter. We recently experienced the passing of a parent through the threshold and held the memorial this past weekend. Thank you for your patience during my absence. I’ll be back in full swing later this week.

How small can a water droplet become? 💧

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0-bZ_ci3Y34

To appreciate the essence of water, we may try understand the forces and dynamics that shape its behavior. This short video reveals the captivating process of a single droplet fracturing into progressively smaller fragments upon impacting a liquid surface

#water #formativeforces #aetherforce

The Earth Inside a Macro Water Droplet

An eye-catching still image of the earth trapped in a water droplet by filming it at a ridiculous 12,500fps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sA4Itrca0

#water #formativeforces #aetherforce