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Topic: Dale Pond
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2004, 01/16 Love is the underlying cause of sympathy or sympathetic vibration/oscillation but not of empathy. What is the cause of sympathetic vibration? There is an essence or underlying state or condition whereby two or more objects, in their natural vibratory condition, "sense" one another and begin oscillating/vibrating as one. This underlying essence, state or condition is the Love we speak of. It is at the root of 'affinity' between coallescing particles into atoms then into planets. In my earlier lectures on harmonics and spontaneous generation of harmonic series the physics basis of interconnectedness was shown. But there is this underlying essence which appears to travel via the Neutral Chords between all centralizations of vibrations/oscillations..... Sympathy and empathy are distinctly different. Even conventional definitions are significantly different. Here is an article I wrote on them earlier: 2003, 07/05 Sympathy does not mean "feeling sorry" for someone nor is it an emotion. Empathy is likewise not an emotion. My research into the definitions of sympathy and empathy indicates they are almost the same. Where sympathy is an actual concordance of motion and/or feeling, empathy is an imagined sharing of feelings. However in general useage the definitions vary from person to person. Feeling sorry for someone is more like the terms "compassion" or "pity". Sympathy is defined, and as used in SVP: "The mutual relation between parts more or less distant, whereby a change in the one has an effect upon the other." Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary The Blakiston Company, 1949; 1st edition. 1. a. A real or supposed affinity between certain things, by virtue of which they are similarly or correspondingly affected by the same influence, affect or influence one another (especially in some hidden, unseen way), or attract or tend towards each other. 1. b. A relation between two bodily organs or parts (or between two persons or things) such that disorder, or any condition, of the one induces a corresponding condition in the other. 2. Agreement, accord, harmony, consonance, concord, agreement in qualities, likeness, conformity, correspondence. 3. a. Conformity of feelings, inclinations, or temperament, which makes persons agreeable to each other; community of feelings; harmony of disposition. 3. b. The quality or state of being affected by the condition of another with a feeling similar or corresponding to that of the other; the fact or capacity of entering into or sharing the feelings of another or others; fellow-feeling. Also, a feeling or frame of mind evoked by and responsive to some external influence. [no source given] Empathy: the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation. (Cambridge Dictionary) |
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