Author: Dhyanesh Øverland

The Cosmic Kaleidoscope is 342 pages long. Here follows a few excerpts from it, and you can get additional material from the blog. Bone Age Romance The Hard Problem The Mind Perpetuates Itself The Science of Mantra The Cosmic Mind Refraction and Reflection

Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) stated that the most adaptive (“fittest”) endure to move on. Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the father of modern evolutionary theory, agreed with Spencer. When observing two flies of the same kind, one with eyes who continue the species, and one without who is an exception…

Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope A mantra is a word or collection of syllables with a liberating effect on the mind: “A sanctified word that helps one in attaining salvation is a mantra.” In particular, two factors are essential to effect “the awakening by mantra”. First, the mantra must fit the person’s inherent reactive driving…

Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope The minds of highly evolved living beings are expanded because their subjectivity—the endoplasmic membrane—has been tremendously stretched out by a great mass of accumulated and further developed mind-stuff. That expanded membrane refracts and reflects higher consciousness. Shrii Sarkar commented: In the end, as a result of proper spiritual practice, the…

Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope What exactly is it that makes vital energy vital? What makes animation come out of matter as a result of physical pressure to produce cognisant beings? The key to this puzzle lies within the atom and its constituents—electrons, protons and neutrons. What are they made of, what do they carry…

Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope How did we come to have such a variety of feelings? Envisage a couple of the Bone Age. The Bone Age was the period ahead of the Stone Age, when tools and weapons were made of bone. This was long before matriarchy and patriarchy, when the word “parent” was not…

Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope The cosmic creation comes about as consciousness begins to imagine its own existence. Something that has consciousness and imagines something, is called mind. The great mind that imagines the cosmic creation is called cosmic mind. Knower-I The first stage of the transformation of unmanifest cosmic consciousness into manifest cosmos is…

A collective mind is not the same as the cosmic mind but the average momentum of a collection of unit minds. A unit mind resides in a physical structure, and the cosmic mind resides in itself. A collective mind, on the other hand, resides in the minds of us all to the various degrees of…

As a counsellor I am naturally interested in child psychology. I wrote something on it for The Cosmic Kaleidoscope but in the end there was no much room for psychology. I had started that piece with a memory from my own early days: Once the Child Mind had gone to the beach with the family.…