FOOTNOTES

Chapter 9. Darwin II: Death and the Evolution of the Mind

*1. Here, “abstraction” is not meant as philosophical or theoretical “flight of fancy,” but rather as an actual movement into a nonphysical domain. We could equally say “extraction.”

Chapter 10. Mind, Spirit, and Creative Fields

*2. Temporal-spatial measurements are not part of the memory-fields in which we can take part in our all-too-real time-space, but crossovers between such “event boundaries” may well be a key element within the strange-loop phenomenon. “Subtle body” phenomena play as vigorous a part in Eastern ontology as physical, and one can’t hang around and take part in a vigorous ashram life in India without encountering one’s subtle body in a variety of ways. That there is a crossover between subtle and physical is obvious, and logically necessary to explain what goes on and happens to oneself. Subtle effects can include spiritual or psychic effects as determined by one’s own definition and logical accounting, which accounting can build one’s comprehension, opening one to ever-greater dimensions of such an experience.

*3. For quite a while in the early 1950s, I took part in the rather rigorous exercise-challenge of “mocking up” a phantom-body while in full conscious awareness of my ordinary physical state. This led to surprising results, and twice I have fallen back on that odd capacity, wherein this “mocking up” bailed me out of a precarious physical predicament. All of which suggests how narrow is the cave of mind we ordinarily accept as all we have available, while real riches lie beyond.

*4. Consider how that singular Golgotha event drew a different interpretation from Indian yogic masters. Many of these sages have long accepted the spiritual magnitude of Jesus and his crucifixion as a major symbolic act of history. Yet they equally attribute to Jesus those yogic powers they insist he must have possessed, powers that would have or could have brought about quite a shift in the technicalities of the crucifixion.

*5. Soft will is the capacity of the kath, chi, or hara (that ball or bundle of will and power right below the navel) when surrendered to the heart. Purity of heart is to will one thing, our existentialist Kierkegaard pointed out. Some Eastern disciplines concentrate on a “hard” will of power and strength manifesting on a material-physical level, which is equally possible and equally legitimate.

Chapter 11. The Problem of God

*6. This is an example of “unconflicted behavior,” as referred to in various parts of this book, originally documented in The Biology of Transcendence.