Eugene begins with a definition: “the dissolution of the dividing walls which keep an organism in cellular condition.” Loosely, it is the clinical death of tissue. But “the process of histolysis means that all the cellular divisions which the one egg has made, have to be broken down.” He asks the audience to imagine that they could strip themselves of all cellular divisions, including skin, and allow their protoplasm to pool on the floor, “into one, colloidal mess.” He asks: “Would you like it?” Because you would not know who you were you. There would be no individuality.
He uses the example of the metamorphosis of the butterfly. (In ancient Greek, ‘psyche’ meant both ‘soul’ and ‘butterfly’.) because each can fly after the death of the physical body. The larval stage is primordial appetite, the larva is stuffing itself with food to get the energy it will need for its pupal stage. Pupal=pupil=learner. We are all primordial appetite learning how to become individuated beings. For this, we have to be patterned, we need internal structures. “If that gelatinous mess on the carpet…were the ultimate reality, there would be no possibility of it developing into the truly individuated form that it can and does become.” There has to be another level of being, transcending that colloidal phase. This is the ‘eidetic field’, a very clearly defined idea structure. There is a primordial power source for every being: “The Father,” the Infinite, Sentient Power. This Infinite energy field is eternal and self-stimulating. The finger of God comes into the field and makes a point. (Like Michelangelo’s painting of the creation of Adam) In this way, the Field structuralises Itself. “Protoplasm is not fundamental, it is a structure, willed by this energy.”
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