In 1913, Norwegian explorer and physicist Kristian Birkeland may have been the first to predict that space is not only a plasma, but also contains "dark matter". He wrote: "It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. We have assumed that each stellar system in evolutions throws off electric corpuscles into space. It does not seem unreasonable therefore to think that the greater part of the material masses in the universe is found, not in the solar systems ...

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Primordial Matter.

See PRIMEVAL MATTER

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Christ Consciousness:

It means to constantly live the wonderful message of Jesus Christ, viz, "Empty thyself and I shall fill thee." The Spirit is not a quantity and it is opposed to all quantitative measurements and conceptions. "Blessed are the poor in spirit", is another suggestive statement of the Christ. We cannot understand what is meant to be poor. For us, to be poor is not to have money, grains and gold, not to have a field, a house and friends, and not to be recognized in society. That would be poverty, economically. We cannot think of poverty except in an economic, material and social sense. Likewise, the idea of emptying oneself, as far as our minds can understand, is a physical displacement of content. Far from this is the idea of the Spirit, which is implied in the above single-sentence message.

The Christ-Consciousness , and not the personality of Christ, is what is to be taken into account here in our understanding of this statement. There is a difference between Christ and Christ-Consciousness. The Christ himself in many of His declarations as recorded in the New Testament repeatedly emphasized this fact. He never regarded Himself as a person, nor did He ever indicate that a person was speaking when He spoke. He always referred to "Him that sent me". He was very much fond of referring to "Him that sent me". He said: "I am here to proclaim the Law of Him who sent me here. It is not my law that I am demonstrating or proclaiming to the world." The Spirit that spoke through Him was not a creature of time. (Also signifies the 'Third-eye'Chakra in Kundalini Yoga system.)

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Data from galaxy rotation curves indicate that nearly 90% of the mass of a galaxy cannot be seen. It can only be detected by its gravitational effect. Several categories of dark matter have been postulated. Hot dark matter Warm dark matter Cold dark matter Baryonic dark matter Hot dark matter consists of particles that travel with relativistic velocities. One kind of hot dark matter is known, the neutrino. Neutrinos have a very small mass, do not interact via either the electromagnetic or ...

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Definition and meaning of inorganic matter:

inorganic matter - chemical substances of mineral origin which contain no organically produced carbon

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Root-matter.

See MULAPRAKRITI

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Data from a number of lines of evidence, including galaxy rotation curves, gravitational lensing, structure formation, and the fraction of baryons in clusters and the cluster abundance combined with independent evidence for the baryon density, indicate that 85-90% of the mass in the universe does not interact with the electromagnetic force. This "dark matter" is evident through its gravitational effect. Several categories of dark matter have been postulated. Hot dark matter Warm dark matter Cold dark ...

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ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS

We are accustomed to seeking special mental powers from the unconscious, the deep psyche or some transcendental state induced by yoga or drugs. In fact, the ordinary mind is itself unplumbed, 99% terra incognita. It can provide an infinite number of undeveloped talents bordering on the supernatural.

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consciousness therapy: A logical multi-dimensional tool whose theory posits chakras (energetic centers), a psychosoma (a nonphysical body that includes an energetic body, an emotional body, and a mental body), and thosenes (informational energetic fields that constitute a collective unconscious). Consciousness therapy is related to projectiology (see IIP Consciousness Development Program).

(See also: Consciousness therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Christ consciousness

A term the Christian tradition has used for intuitive knowing or the realization or attainment of high consciousness. The pure level of consciousness in which the mind, love, and will of God are made known to the enlightened person

(See also: Christ consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

Actualized Consciousness

Awakened, functioning consciousness. Actualized consciousness goes through different degrees of activation: passive, active, self-active.

(See also: Actualized Consciousness, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Primeval Matter The negative pole of that cosmic duality of which spirit is the positive pole: homogeneous, undifferentiated substance, the noumenon of all known matter, called pradhana, mulaprakriti, akasa, the Logos. "Primeval matter -- i.e, as it appeared even in its first differentiation from its laya condition -- is yet to this day homogeneous, at immense distances, in the depths of infinitude, and likewise at points not far removed from the outskirts of our solar system" (SD 1:589). We must try to divest ourselves of notions derived from experience of physical matter only -- even electromagnetic waves are beyond our normal perceptions. "That matter, which is truly homogeneous, is beyond human perceptions, if perception is tied down merely to the five senses. We feel its effects through those intelligences which are the results of its primeval differentiation, whom we name Dhyan-Chohans" (SD 1:601).

Primeval or primordial matter is one of the primary spiritual hypostases, eternally coexistent with space, duration, and absolute motion.

See also CHAOS; SVABHAVAT

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Cosmic Consciousness

Attunement to the infinite

(See also: Cosmic Consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

Universal Consciousness

The universal mind

(See also: Universal Consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

cellular consciousness

Theory that the body cells all possess awareness

(See also: Cellular consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

planetary consciousness

Awareness and experiencing the Earth as a living entity

(See also: Planetary consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

prosperity consciousness

Visualization or meditative approach to realizing material wealth

(See also: Prosperity consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

divided consciousness

Ability or state of performing two or more tasks simultaneously

(See also: Divided consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

Self-luminous Matter Matter which shines from itself and not by reflected light; the existence of such matter in interstellar space was believed in by Halley, and The Secret Doctrine states that matter in several phases of the nebulous condition, before it condenses into solar or planetary bodies, is self-luminous; and that the planets are also self-luminous before they become materially concreted globes. Science has long recognized self-luminosity in phosphorus, radium, and in some other bodies.

Philosophically, it is a mere matter of choice whether to regard light as primordial and rudimentary and deduce other phenomena from it, or to consider luminosity as a result of the vibration of molecules -- since light is both. But theosophy agrees with archaic thought in placing light as the first of all manifested things, regarding light as the very essence of matter, not as a decoration of it. Nor is light necessarily associated with heat, as even the humble glow worm attests.

Theosophy teaches that self-luminosity, with or without heat, is of natural necessity a characteristic of everything that is, although this self-luminosity is by no means always visible to our human physical senses. Every entity anywhere, great or small, as well as every aggregate of atoms, is continuously and uninterruptedly self-luminous, continually emanating forth because of the energies ever active within itself an unceasing stream of radiation; and this radiation is of several different kinds, usually enumerated as sevenfold, of which ordinary or physical light is but one manifestation. Everything is radiant, radiating; radiant here meaning not only luminous, but self-luminous, generating radiation of many kinds from within itself. It is the imperfect ability of our organ of vision to

See these many forms of radiation that causes us to be unconscious of them; our eyes have been evolved to sense only one small gamut in the great scale of radiation of the universe surrounding us. Science, with its various kinds of radiation, is becoming keenly cognizant of this ancient fact and scientists are pointing out that not only is visible light but a short stretch of the scale of radiation, but are envisaging the high probability that matter itself in all its forms is but concreted radiation or crystallized light.

(See also: Self-luminous Matter, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Active Consciousness

The ability of consciousness to let dynamis act through it. The self-active consciousness that becomes possible through evolution.

Having active consciousness the monads themselves initiate their consciousness expressions. In the vegetable and animal kingdoms this activation occurs in groups (through group-souls). In the human kingdom consciousness becomes more and more self-active

(See also: Active Consciousness, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Christ Consciousness

The spiritual and mystical experience of the unity of all the universe. To attain cosmic consciousness is to see the universe as God and God as the universe, and everything as part of this whole.

(See also: Christ Consciousness, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)