spbill
Patron with Honors
THETAN - MIND - BODY simply provide a gradient of manifestations.
All three are manifested.
What is unmanifested cannot be known simply because it is unmanifested.
Please see Essay #3 KNOWABLE AND UNKNOWABLE at Vinaire's Blog.
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Manifested sounds like another word for constructed
I still don't have a clear understanding of how theta manifested (or should I say manifested itself?) Personally, I'm inclined to think it just happened spontaneously in one case, then got communicated to all subsequent beings. We are led to believe the difference between humans and other animals is that humans have this "soul" or "thetan" (self-awareness?) - and other animals don't. An interesting experiment would be to take an animal having a relatively sophisticated brain (chimp?) and see if we could engineer the spontaneous igniting of whatever flame is needed to give it a soul. I wonder if chimps raised by humans exhibit more of that characteristic than those raised in the wild? Presumably once we turned on the first chimp the idea would spread rapidly to others. This reminds me of a joke about an Irish dog and a catholic priest One drawback to the experiment would be if all chimps had souls they'd be entitled to rights and we could no longer use them in lab experiments.
Bill