sacraments1-semiotics

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Prof. M. M. NinanMarthoma Church of San Francisco Bay Area

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Prof. M. M. NinanMarthoma Church of San Francisco Bay Area Introduction to

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Why is the horse not laughing? Levels of cognitions Because the horse does not understandwhat they are saying.

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Levels of cognitions Here is another dilemma . The letter he received contains the above writing. He cannot make sense to it. Why? Because he does not know the language in which it is written.

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Levels of cognitions The key is that it is written in Korean and if he knew it, it meant “I love you.” To understand that he needs to know the what those symbols mean.

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Every culture understood these facts. In the ancient Hebrew culture the cosmos was classified as four dimensions with sentient beings in every dimensions sometimes spanning several dimensions at a time. These dimensions are the four worlds: Asiyyah (Action) - the material universe in which we live. This is the world of sensations Yezirah (Formation) - the abode of the "lower angels," men's souls and the Garden of Eden. This is the world of mind, thought and patterns. The mental realm. The first heaven Beriah (Creation) - considered "Heaven" proper, it is the first separation from the Divine, and "location" of the Throne of God and archangels. This is the spiritual realm – the second heaven Azilut (Emanation) - the eternal unchanging Divine world. This is the divine realm – the third heaven It is a convenient way of thinking. These can be represented as a tree as is usually done in Hebrew mystic tradition. A traditional pictorial representation is given in the next page. We can think that Man is living in a four level mansion. We usually live on the ground floor and seldom ascend to the higher floors.

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The Hebrew Cosmology We live in four floors

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The Jain Universe 1 4 3 2

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We live in four floors The Hebrew Cosmology We know this dimension through our five senses

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We know this dimension through our five senses taste sight smell hearing touch We have developed the sciences of our world using these sense impulses – Physics, Chemistry, biology etc.

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Since man lives in a multidimensional world, we have other senses of perceptions which are not just material. We learn through them also. All learning comes through communication within the various realms of existence.

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Semiotics Augustine of Hippas (354-430 A.D.), "All instruction is either about things or about signs; but things are learned by means of signs,“ (On Christian Doctrine, I:2). A sign, is “something that shows itself to the senses and something other than itself to the mind” (Signum est quod se ipsum sensui et praeter se aliquid animo ostendit) (Augustine De dial. 1975, 86)

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Semiotics Without Signs Nothing is conceivable Sless, 1986 Symbol communicates meaning purely through arbitrary conventions. This is the way natural language carries meaning

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“every thought is a sign” Without Signs Nothing is conceivable Sless, 1986 What the brain receive through the senses are some form of impulse which are simply signs connected with what is perceived. Hence every thought that you have is the product of a sign and is in itself a sign. Eye sees things because light of different frequencies and different intensities reach the retina through a lens and then the brain makes sense out of it as some form of image. Similar argument follows for every sense perceptions of ours.

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These signs are associated with object perceived by the mind. The next time when the brain sees a sign it immediately associates through memory to the previous experience to the object itself. The reverse process takes place when we perceive a sign and this leads us to make coherent connected thinking. Object, Concept and its sign form a triangular relation. They are all distinct, yet related.

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...'reality' is always encoded, or rather the only way we can perceive and make sense of reality is by the codes of our culture. There may be an objective, empiricist reality out there, but there is no universal, objective way of perceiving and making sense of it. What passes for reality in any culture is the product of the culture's codes, so 'reality' is always already encoded, it is never 'raw'. Fiske (1987 ) Reality perceived understood encoded

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The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us Incarnation God encoded for us in our language Incarnation was nothing but the encoding of the divine into human realm so that we may be able to understand what is otherwise not directly knowable. God is in our realm and beyond and above all our dimensions. We can make some sense out of it only when God can be understood by us in our world. This is what incarnation did. “The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us”

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Communication among the living

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Communication, is not merely a characteristic of humans, or of living organisms. . Successful survival in any environment depends upon an organism's ability to acquire information from its environment through its senses. Fish can sense light, chemicals, vibrations and electricity.

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Communication, …. of living organisms. There is no leader, no overall control; instead the flock's movements are determined by the moment-by-moment decisions of individual birds. How do they communicate?

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Communication, is present at the deepest levels of our material universe.

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How do chameleons change color and how do they know what color to change to? How do they manage to get the camouflage colors?

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Communication within the body

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Because of the nerve cells that surround the body like a net, messages from the brain reach the most remote areas of the body with great speed. Communication within the body Neurons are specialized cells that convey sensory information into the brain, carry out the operations involved in thought and feeling and action, and transmit commands out into the body to control muscles and organs. The most prominent part of the neuron is the cell body or soma. The nucleus is the largest organelle inside the cell body and contains the cell’s chromosomes. Dendrites are extensions that branch out from the cell body to receive information from other neurons. The axon extends like a tail from the cell body and carries information to other locations.

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In the brain of one individual|one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) communications can occur simultaneously Communication within the body

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In the brain of one individual|one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) communications can occur simultaneously Human body is a marvellous communication system using signals.We describe them in terms of neurons and electric potential variations through the nerves.

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A gene is the basic unit of heredity in a living organism. All living things depend on genes. Genes hold the information to build and maintain their cells and pass genetic traits to offspring. Genes are stranger forms of encoded transmission of properties, characters, traits etc in many dimensions from one generation to the other. It is like a documentation through out ages from the beginning of creation.

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DNA transmits inherited experiencein coded form. It is decoded in organism’s physique, Character and behavior

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Decoding of the coding of DNA codon-to-amino acid paradigm The genetic code is the set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins (amino acid sequences) by living cells. The code defines a mapping between tri-nucleotide sequences, called codons, and amino acids Here is the three-letter code employed to encode the 20 standard amino acids used by living cells to encode proteins where informations are stored.

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Decoding of DNA proteins The human genome is the full complement of genetic material in a human cell; it contains instructions for making all the protein molecules for all the different kinds of cells of the human body – neurons in the brain, red blood cells, bone tissue, liver cells, etc. In decoding DNA, researchers determine the "sequence" or exact order of the individual chemical building blocks, or bases, that make up the DNA.

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Human DNA contains 3 billion base pairs The total length of DNA in 1 human equals 70 round trips from the Earth to the Sun

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This is the study of inheritance, the passing of traits from on generation to the next. Genes are the units of hereditary, found at specific loci on each chromosome. Genes are made up of DNA, and DNA replication in meiosis passes on the genes to offspring. is necessary for growth and transmission Meiosis

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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information.

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DNA comes with its own decoder Genetic Communications Multiplication within the body: Transfering faith from one generation to the other

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You are the decoded reality of your DNA in all dimensions. The information goes back to Adam and Eve or even to the creation

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Meiosis produces genetic recombination, because each daughter cell is given half of the genetic material as the original dividing cell. is necessary for growth Meiosis

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Sacraments are the DNA codes In the transmission Of Faith From one generation to the other.

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ommunication hannels

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The whole universe is a communicating system from strings to the cosmos Strings Quarks Atoms, ions Molecules Organs Organ Systems Organism Tribes, flocks Universe Cells Macromolecules

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The whole universe is a communicating system Including dimensions that are non-material

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in all four worlds We are all talking to each other in codes

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Our brains mathematically construct "concrete" reality by interpreting frequencies from another dimension, a realm of meaningful, patterned primary reality that transcends time and space.

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Actual messages from the human brain are not a function of the human brain itself – they are not generated by the brain. IS THE WORLD IN THE BRAIN, OR THE BRAIN IN THE WORLD?

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What is transmitted… is a message of the universe that represents a certain meaning. Upon receiving such a command, our brain will process this into our present language or other…forms of expression

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In Sacramental Symbols which are in our present language and forms, the brain tries to interpret it in terms of the universal dimensions and codings. These form part of the future person, behavior and decisions. Sacraments thus form the anchoring force of faith and beliefs.

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Holonomic Theory of brain Man a Holographic generator.

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Man a Holographic generator. Reference beam = state of manwhich is created by history and all inputs from all dimensions of existence. What Man recognizes Object beam = current experience Pribram's Holonomic Theory of Memory The brain behave, like a hologram.

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Immediate perception impulses Inherited understanding Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image, the brain also comprises a “lens” and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.

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Quantum Holonomic model of brain

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This is what a hologram will look like

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Often meaningless blur of rituals are transformed into a coherent image by the spiritual lens which convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 1Co 2:14 Only the Spiritual Man has the decoder reference beam. Grace in the Sacrament

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Hebrew Cosmology again

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The Hebrew Cosmology We live in four floors

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We live in four floors The Hebrew Cosmology We know this dimension through our five senses

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The Hebrew Cosmology We know this dimension through our mind - thinking Influenced from top and bottom worlds Our mental perception is based on the input both from the top and the bottom levels

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Pancha Kosam

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In Sacramental Symbols which are in our present language and forms, the brain interprets it in terms of the universal dimensions and codings. These form part of the future person, behavior and decisions. Sacraments thus form the anchoring force of faith and beliefs. “We are constituted by the intersection of two flows—one direct, from the divine, and one indirect, from the divine via our environment and history. We can view ourselves as interference patterns, because the inflow is a wave phenomenon, and we are where the waves meet.” Rev. Dr. George F. Dole, Professor of theology at the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, Massachusetts

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All four worlds are filled with created beings. SeraphimCherubimDominionsVirtuesPowersPrincipalitiesArchangels Angels Sons of Men

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Three Heavens (2Co 12:2) I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, such an one caught up to the third heaven.

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“For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”

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We live in four floors The Hebrew Cosmology We know this dimension through our Spirit

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The Hebrew Cosmology Restricted to Sons of God only

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PROF.M.M.NINAN Man was created as Sons of God

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PROF.M.M.NINAN Psa 8:5 For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour. Adam: Son of God

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Trinity of Man After the fall – thrown out of paradise For a little while limited within the three Lower realms Heb 2:7 You have made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Your hands.

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Born Again Son of God

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PROF.M.M.NINAN Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Adam: Son of God Luk 3:38

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Theosis

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Because of who he is and of what he did for us, we have the opportunity to become by grace what he is by nature. That is, we can put on the divine, becoming partakers of the divine nature. A life of repentance and participation in the sacraments is the means by which man cooperates with God. This cooperation is termed synergeia (synergy). Theosis

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In theosis, man becomes filled with the divine life. He takes on God's attributes, but he does not become merged with the Holy Trinity. There is union without fusion. Thus, a classic patristic image of theosis is a sword held in a flame—the sword gradually takes on the properties of the flame (light and heat), but remains a sword.

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Man can become a god by grace, not in a polytheistic sense, but rather in terms of becoming a son or daughter of the Most High by means of adoption.

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But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. (2Co 3:18) till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (Eph 4:13 )

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PROF.M.M.NINAN Adam: Son of God God Class Man Class Luk 3:38 These two classes are connected only through the fourth dimension.

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In Sacramental Symbols which are in our present language and forms, the brain interprets it in terms of the universal dimensions and codings. These form part of the future person, behavior and decisions. Sacraments thus form the anchoring force of faith and beliefs. “We are constituted by the intersection of two flows—one direct, from the divine, and one indirect, from the divine via our environment and history. We can view ourselves as interference patterns, because the inflow is a wave phenomenon, and we are where the waves meet.” Rev. Dr. George F. Dole, Professor of theology at the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, Massachusetts

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The sacraments are rituals through which the grace of Christ is communicated to persons by the power of the Holy Spirit operative in their administration. It is understood as an experience of grace, subsequent to salvation, with the effect that the Holy Spirit takes full possession of the soul, sanctifies the heart, and empowers the will so that one can love God and others blamelessly in this life.  One is justified and then sanctified-understood as communing with God with the result that the holiness of God is actually imparted, not just imputed on the basis of what Christ accomplished on the cross.

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(Mar 4:11-12) And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand;…." They don’t know the code

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Even though the human brain seems to be bound to the material realm and it receives its impulses from the material world, the ultimate image formed in the brain is a complex product of the multidimensional existence of the holographic brain/ Formation of the image as seen by a man is due to the interaction of the light rays received with the neural causes and correlates of consciousness and the neural representation of the object itself.

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Object beam Referemce beam The complex interaction between external object beam and the internal reference beam produces the final image and consequent expressions. The decoding by our brain is a complex process. The external input interferes with the reference beam to get an output The reference beam contains both conscious levels and the unconscious levels.

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The Mind Neuro Linguistic Programing interpretation

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The Neuro Linguistic Programing Communication Model beyond the mind

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Tangible Rites and Rituals Intellectual understanding Spiritual understanding Experiential Sonship of God through Christ Spiritual Assurance Fruits of the Spirit: Christianity in action Intellectual anchoring

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(Mar 4:11) And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; (Mar 4:12) so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand;…." means of communication

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DIVINE How external sacraments leads to greater understanding of God and causes transformation of conduct and behavior God within and the transformation of body Sanctification Theosis

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Body Mind Spirit Divine Transformed into His likeness Sacramental life

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God is reaching down in love Man is reaching up for mercy

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The Sacraments, or Sacred Mysteries are the most important means by which the faithful may obtain union with God, provided they are received with faith and appropriate preparation. .

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God is present everywhere and fills all things by his Divine grace, and that all of creation is a "sacrament." In that sense there is nothing profane. We set apart some of the ordinary and make it sacred. It is the purpose and act of man that make the profane sacred.