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BLOG 2023
In 2019 I started this blog to be able to freely explore the various topics covered in the sections of the site, and to update my experiences on the evolutionary path of the conscious Ego. To comment, you can send an email to info@vitaumana.it
JUDGE EDMONDS' INVESTIGATIONS – Part Five (June 2023)
The fate of the Ego of those who in life have hurt others(the perception of evil's existence has always marked the experiences of organic life, and the fate of the spiritual Ego of those who knowingly and voluntarily cause pain and suffering to other human beings has always assumed a remarkable importance in the evaluation of the possible experiences in otherworldly dimensions)
JUDGE EDMONDS' INVESTIGATIONS – Part Four (May 2023)
The Ego's progression in the spirit-world(many of the mediumistic communications reported in the book by Edmonds and Dexter concern the existence of the conscious Ego in what the entities call the spirit-world, which should be considered as a parallel dimension to that of the physical universe in which we humans currently live; the evolutionary process of the spiritual Ego in what they call the spheres – that is, successive planes of existence in which the spirit advances as it progresses, dwelling in each of them for a more or less long time – is first exposed by the entities in a rather confused way, to then be explained more clearly)
The Ego's life in the otherworldly spheres(after the death of its organism, the conscious Ego leaves the sphere of this world and, based on the level of spiritual evolution achieved during its human life, moves to one of the spheres of the afterlife, taking a new organism predisposed to live in that abode; always according to what is reported in a more or less understandable way in the book Spiritualism, this organism would still have a material consistency, but it would be composed of an ever more rarefied and refined matter as the Ego progresses from one sphere to a higher one, until the spiritual Ego reaches that level where it can do without any contamination of a material order)
JUDGE EDMONDS' INVESTIGATIONS – Part Three (April 2023)
The introduction by Dexter(although we have little information about the personality of Dr. George T. Dexter, his relationship of friendship and close collaboration with Judge Edmonds leads us to believe what he writes in his introduction; very interesting are Dexter's observations regarding the process through which – since he could not convince himself of the interaction of alien or spiritual entities as decisive collaborators in the production of mediumistic phenomena – he was forced to experience on his own organism, in contrast with his will and determination, the effects of powers endowed with an intelligence of their own and an autonomous intent, independent of his own, who eventually managed to get the upper hand on his ability to control, forcing him to take on the role of a writing medium)
A mental dimension still influenced by human psyche(the communications obtained through Dexter's automatic writing are largely influenced by the human psyche, starting from the attribution to the entities who signed themselves Bacon and Sweedenborg; the problem of interference from the psyche's tunings of the medium or the sitters is posed by the same alien entities, who openly claim they encounter not a few difficulties in controlling the translations of their communications, which sometimes turn out to be confused or misleading; of remarkable interest are the references to the influence that inorganic entities can exert on the mind of some people, by inducing into the flow of the psyche's attunements involving the conscious Ego thoughts, emotions and feelings having the connotations of sacredness and divinity; however, we have to recognize that the same influence can be exercised by other entities with purposes that are not exactly benevolent, if not downright evil; ultimately, the fact of transferring the bipolar tensions that characterize the human psyche to the dimension of inorganic entities does not help us much during our human life)
JUDGE EDMONDS' INVESTIGATIONS – Part Two (March 2023)
The introduction by Edmonds(in the long introduction to his book, Judge Edmonds explains not only the reasons that prompted him to investigate mediumistic phenomena, but also those for which - from being a skeptical observer - he later became a supporter of spiritualism; after his wife's death in November 1850, he went through a period of crisis and insomnia in which he read everything he could find about death and the possible continuation of the conscious Ego's existence; following a subjective experience in which he heard his wife's voice pronounce a sentence in a way that seemed real to him, in January 1851 – at the urging of a lady friend – Edmonds began to frequent some mediums assiduously, taking note of all the phenomena he witnessed and trying to understand how they could be explained and interpreted; through a careful examination of the most important points of Edmonds's introduction, we can form an idea of the mental processes by which an intelligent, very active and energetic person, who held a prominent public office, coped with those phenomena, which no doubt challenged the conventional order established by the ordinary programs of the human psyche)
JUDGE EDMONDS' INVESTIGATIONS – Part One (February 2023)
The personality of John W. Edmonds(in 1853, in the initial period of the rapid diffusion of modern spiritualism in the United States, the book Spiritualism was published, whose author, New York judge John W. Edmonds, was a public figure of undisputed integrity and recognized civil and cultural commitment; throughout his industrious life Edmonds was constantly busy – displaying an uncommon energy – not only carrying out various tasks in the legal, political and juridical fields, but also in the reorganization of the New York State prison system: in order to make it less inhuman and more efficient, he promoted and founded the Prison Association, also with the aim to support the social reintegration of released convicts)
Judge Edmonds' interest in mediumistic phenomena(the fact that Judge Edmonds published a book on spiritualism, openly declaring his belief in the genuineness of various mediumistic phenomena and in the possibility of communicating with the spirits of the deceased, caused him hostile attacks by influential newspapers and political and religious personalities; at that time the rapid spread of spiritualism in the United States was viewed with concern by some establishment power groups, as well as being dogmatically opposed by many ecclesiastical authorities; Edmonds was well aware of the repercussions that his public stance would have on his juridical and political career, but he considered his duty to defend loyally and firmly what, on the basis of his careful investigations, had become true and right for him)
THE PROBLEM OF THE EGO AND THE HUMAN PSYCHE (January 2023)
The difficulty of developing reliable knowledge(given that eight years have already gone by since this site went online, it seems appropriate to me to present a first evaluation of the goals that I have set and on the validity and effectiveness of the methods used to pursue them; the difficulties faced in evaluating the reliability of information on mediumistic phenomena can be overcome on the basis of the trust that some of those who have transmitted this information inspire in us, on the large number of concordant testimonies regarding the observed physical events and – in some cases – on audiovisual recordings; as for NDEs, since they are merely subjective experiences, we can rely on the sincerity of most of those who tell us about them, on the high number of such experiences and on the concordances of some elements of theirs)
The evaluation of our mental elaborations(the mental elaborations that can be considered interesting with the purpose of spreading information are those relating to facts and events that can be ascertained by any normally reasonable person, or to events and experiences – even subjective – that are not verifiable: in the latter case the correctness of the information depends on the trust that is attributed to the source from which the testimony comes, which must be considered sincere and honest; all the interpretative elaborations that cannot be validated through an effective verification method fall within the speculations generated by the psyche – whose possible convincing power depends on the dynamics of the collective psyche – which do not present a real value as an increase in our knowledge)
Advantages and limits of language(the difficulty of translating the complexity of certain non-ordinary experiences into language terms is often manifested with the expression «it cannot be expressed in words»; but also in dealing with issues relating to the dynamics of the human psyche, or to border experiences in which the dimension of our organic life seems to interact with other dimensions, not a few difficulties must be faced in order to communicate with sufficient effectiveness, through a language that can be precise and understandable for the intellectual faculties required of those to whom the communication is addressed, the interpretative elaborations of the observed facts)
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