Physical Manifestations of an Awakened Spiritual Quest (65979)
Session Chair: Evie Holmberg
Friday, January 6, 2023 (12:10)
Session: Session 2
Room: 318B
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
According to Platonic philosophy it is possible to transcend the physical perception of reality. Plato in his Republic is speaking of the necessity to raise the soul’s power to the contemplation of truth which can be experienced through means other than the physical senses and the traditional functioning of the intellectual and emotional mind. The paradox is that on the way to this “spiritual” evolution one encounters a variety of physical manifestations of the energy moving through the physical body. Within the constraints of conventional language, Plato refers to a special organ as a facilitator in this process, which he calls the “eye of the soul”. The same idea is expressed in Matthew and Luke where the eye is referred to as the light of the body and there is an interesting reference in Luke to a “simple” or “single” eye through which one’s body becomes full of light. In Yoga the symbolism is quite obvious: the Single eye, third eye or the eye of the soul can be accessed at the level of the 6th chakra and is associated with the Pineal gland. This paper concentrates on the physical manifestations of such spiritual transformations and the fairly recent psychoanalytical experiments involving the study of the pineal gland as connected to the inducement of altered states of consciousness similar in some cases to those experienced in meditation and near-death experiences.
Authors:
Evie Holmberg, Boston University, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Evie Holmberg is a Independent Scholar at Boston University, United States
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