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Companion to Your Immortal Self
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From the back of the book:
Immortal Self-Centric Mindfulness
The most important understanding seekers of spiritual maturity must come to is the difference between lucidity and hyperlucidity. Lucidity is the degree to which we are able to clearly sense information from our mostly unconscious mind. Hyperlucidity is a term used in the Implicit Cosmology for a complex of behaviors motivated by the belief we are lucid when we are actually only sensing what we have been taught to expect.
The second most important understanding is that lucidity is the seeker’s objective, but that it is achieved in small steps. The only real conscious influence we have on our mostly unconscious mind is the expression of intention. This means that we must learn to consciously examine what we think is true. Mind changes only slowly, and so, the seeker’s objective is to habitually express the intention to align perception with the actual nature of reality.
In the first book, Your Immortal Self, the process of consciously seeking greater lucidity is referred to as the Mindful Way. Many people practice mindfulness simply to improve personal wellbeing. A few step onto the Mindful Way to seek greater understanding of their immortal nature and the nature of the reality they inhabit. Even fewer remain as wayshowers for those who seek greater lucidity.
The fact of our immortality is explained in Your Immortal Self. This book, Exploring the Mindful Way, includes twenty-one essays explaining some of the more important concepts encountered on the Mindful Way. While you will benefit from first reading Your Immortal Self, there are sufficient explanations in this book to make it a stand-alone text.
Will you be a wayshower?
Content
388 pages, 63 Pictures
Introduction to This Book
Essay 1 Conditional Free Will
Essay 2 The Mindful Way
Essay 3 Prime Imperative
Essay 4 Immortal Self-Centric Perspective
Essay 5 Ethics as a Personal Code for Mindfulness
Essay 6 Paranormalist Community
Essay 7 Clarity of Communication
Essay 8 How We Think
Essay 9 Consensus Building in the Paranormalist Community
Essay 10 Skeptic
Essay 11 Pseudoscience
Essay 12 Concerns with Wikipedia
Essay 13 Arrogance of Scientific Authority
Essay 14 Open Letter to Paranormalists
Essay 15 Let’s Talk About God
Essay 16 What is it Like on the Other Side
Essay 17 The Hermes Concepts
Essay 18 The Razor’s Edge
Essay 19 Progression, Teaching and Community
Essay 20 Law of Silence
Essay 21 Informed Regret
References and Alternative Sources
Index (paperback only)
Each essay is introduced with a short explanation of why I wrote the essay and what I hope you will learn.
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List of Diagrams and Pictures
Title: I Ching 53 – Chien (Development – Gradual Progress
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Artist: Anne Wipf
Handbook of Metaphysics by Tom Butler (ethericstudies.org/books-tom-butler/)
The Tower Key 16 of the Tarot as illustrated by Dr. Paul Foster Case (30)
Meaning: Breaking up of old mental structures to make way for greater clarity; Culmination of understanding leads to realization and possibility of further understanding; Relates to the Dark Night of Soul and the Dawn that follows. (176)
Last Issue #129: Spring 2014 ATransC NewsJournal
The Pledge
Lisa’s avatar is a video-loop ITC image from our early studies. You should see a woman demurely looking toward her left shoulder. She wears a dress with a V-neck collar and possibly a flowered hat.
The flesh-color of the skin and possible colored ribbon are visible in the original version.
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Video-loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
Possibly a man holding a small white dog, as if posing for a portrait. In the color version, it appears the man is wearing a dress uniform. His face is distorted.
Video-loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
In the color version, it is clear that this is a man wearing a brown vest. It is possibly leather with fur lining around the arms and neck. He may have a mustache. Color seems to be true in many of our examples, and here, we see a blue-skinned man.
Video-loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
You should be able to see a cow looking toward your right shoulder. In the color version, it appears to be a young brown cow with a white face.
Video-loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
This is one of our first captures. It appears to be a man standing in front of a round window; perhaps a large porthole. Notice the way the head seems to be oddly attached to the neck.
We have collected many faces that appear to be from a different line of evolution than our own.
Video-loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
This appears to be a child with short hear … perhaps a girl. We have captured many such children in our Visual ITC work.
Moving water ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
This was collected by photographing light reflecting from moving water. You can see the original picture on the left and a slight enlargement of the face on the right. We captured two people in this session who appeared to be wearing a hat or possibly a crown.
Video-Loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
This example was used in an online visual perceptions study (atransc.org/visual-perception-study/). It is a head facing to your left. It is a profile from the neck up. The person may be a boy or boyish girl with short hair and appears to be wearing a dark shirt with a white collar like a sweater over a “T” shirt. The hair and face seem to be illuminated from your left and top. It had 81% correct recognition by online witnesses.
Video-Loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
The left side is the original. The background has been erased in the version on the right for clarity. We just don’t know more than that this appears to be a man sitting on a bench.
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Video-Loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
Like the example on page 325, this example was used in an online visual perceptions study (atransc.org/visual-perception-study/). On the left is the original video frame, rotated 90 degrees. It had considerable, mostly random patches of color. You should be able to see the dog on the right Just above and a little to the right of center.
This example, right, is the head of a dog facing toward you and to your left. You can see his eyes and snout. A little of the neck is visible and just a hint of ears. The animal appears to be very alert and appears to have short hair.
Along with two color version, this example had 81% correct recognition.
Video-Loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
The faces we find in visual ITC may be from discarnate people, but they may also be from the memory of people still in the physical. We do not have sufficient controlled study to be sure.
Our inclination is to think it may be a combination of the two, in which we in the physical facilitate message from those who are on the other side.
In this case, I think we captured my father’s face. We had asked him to come through in that session, but we also had the photograph on my desk. Notice the same profile. It is common to see faces in ITC that have the bottom part obscured.
Video-Loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
This is a difficult example to make out, but I think it is important. There is a man and a woman in apparently intimate profile. The man’s mouth is at the very center of the picture. He is facing toward your right.
The woman’s face is behind his so that you see the left half. Her mouth is about at the man’s chin. Her head is turned slightly up as if snuggling his cheek.
As with most of our work, close examination will reveal other face-like features in the picture.
We do not wish to make too much of this. Our impression is of a very loving demonstration between two people. We do not know if they are on this side of the veil.
Video-Loop ITC Image collected by Tom and Lisa Butler. (Paperback only)
This is the image I use for my avatar on the Internet. You should be able to see a man’s head facing toward your right shoulder. The skin around his right temple and eye is brightly lit. I picked him because he has a full beard and presents as a scholarly person. He is wearing a ruff (pleated neckband) which indicates he lived in the sixteenth century.
Using a picture of myself seems to move the focus from what I do to how I look. While I think it is important that we always use our real name, it is also important to me that my writing take center stage.
Well, … it is also an interesting test. I have literally never received a comment or qurestion about my avatar. Do people only see a blob of light and dark and feel sorry for me? Do they realize they are possibly looking at a paranormally produced image of a long-dead person? Seems not.
