tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56154432444856918062024-03-14T00:51:11.254-07:00Eric's Esoterics~♒ Walking the Path ♒~Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-56485453701959905012014-01-08T02:26:00.000-08:002014-01-08T02:32:59.632-08:00The Entheogenic Origins of World Religions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The idea that religions originated with the ritual use of <b>visionary</b>,
i.e. psychoactive, plants is not a new one. This has been
demonstrated in many cultures. The use of peyote (a cactus), psilocybin
mushrooms or DMT-containing plants is wide-spread in the Americas.
Hindu texts describe “soma”, a plant-based entheogenic drink. Some
African tribes employ the roots of the Tabernanthe iboga shrub. And the
blue lotus, depicted in ancient Egyptian wall paintings, has been proved
to be psychoactive and I am sure it was used for spiritual purposes.<br />
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In his book “<a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2008/09/jesus-christ-magic-mushroom-part-2.html">The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross</a>: A Study of the
Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the
Ancient Near East”, John Allegro, one of the translators of the
scrolls found at Qumran, advanced the thesis that the religions of the
Middle East were ultimately based on shamanic practices, utilizing
plants as a source of communion with God. Publication of such a
controversial thesis in the 70s was a courageous act. He brought upon
himself the ire of every insufferable know-it-all scholar and every
insufferable Bible-thumping ignoramus. He paid a high price: it ended
his career.<br />
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species of mushroom would have played a significant role seeing that its
natural habitat is circumpolar and that it is almost always associated
with pine trees: it would therefore have been rather bare in the Middle
East. There were then and are now more likely candidates; all of them
widely available in Southern Europe, North Africa and the Near East and I
will look at just a very small selection.<br />
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<b>Solanaceae: </b>Let us start with the episode of the “burning bush”. In the Midrash
(a collection of Jewish legends) the burning bush was identified as a
rose bush. The significance of this reference is supposed to be that
while the Jewish people may be as difficult as thorns, there
nevertheless are “roses” among them. Fanciful nonsense! There is a much simpler explanation. When Moses saw the “burning
bush” he was quite possibly under the influence of a visionary
substance. There is one widely distributed plant that fits the bill: <b><i>Datura stramonium</i></b>
or “thorn apple”! It will produce splendid visions, yes, but also lead
to hot, dry skin while at the same time the ability to sweat is
reduced. Voila, you have a build-up of inner heat experienced as the
sensation of burning. Perhaps it was Moses that was burning and not the
bush??? The plant thrives in the arid conditions of the Near East and
while herding sheep for his Midianite father-in-law he would no doubt
have come across it and would have been familiar with its visionary
properties.<br />
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<b>Datura: </b>The datura is a member of the solanaceae (nightshade) plant family to which various species of <b><i>henbane</i></b> and <b><i>mandrake</i></b>
also belong. Both henbane and mandrake have the same constituents as
datura, albeit in different proportions; they are less toxic but have
the same effects as the datura. The mandrake is mentioned twice in the Bible (cf. Genesis 30:14). The
traditional view is that mandrakes were an ancient folk remedy to help
barren women conceive. While mandrakes do not contain to our knowledge
any fertility-enhancing constituents they do have, if used judiciously,
aphrodisiac, euphoriant and relaxant effects that can aid in conceiving
as barrenness is frequently a result of psychosexual factors. Song of Songs 7:12-13: The ‘Song of Songs” is a sensuous love poem and the connection with the mandrake is impossible to miss:<br />
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Let us go early to the vineyards
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To see if the vines have budded<br />
If their blossoms have opened,<br />
And if the pomegranates are in bloom<br />
There I will give you my love.</div>
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The mandrakes send out their fragrance<br />
And at our door is every delicacy<br />
Both new and old</div>
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That I have stored up for you, my beloved.</div>
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Even such an unlikely place as the Western Wall in Jerusalem is home
to a variety of flora. You will find there Ephedra, which produces
ephedrine, a stimulant, and the <i>golden</i> <i>henbane</i>, compared
by the Jewish historian Josephus to the head-gear of the high priest.
Why would the tiara of the High Priest be designed to look like the seed
capsule of the henbane? Accident? I do not think so.<br />
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<b>DMT </b>and<b> Peganum harmala </b>(also known as Syrian rue)<b>: </b>Benny Shanon, Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has written an article for "Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture"<b> </b>in which he speculates on the use of <b>DMT</b>-containing species of <b>acacia</b> in combination with <b>Peganum</b> <b>harmala</b> to yield the equivalent of the Amazonion “magic potion” <b><i>ayahuasca</i></b>,
a drink that will produce truly awe-inspiring visions. The acacia is
frequently mentioned in the Bible. Shanon’s thesis is that Moses had
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It is beyond the scope of this article to go into the details of
chemistry. I’ll leave it to the interested reader to pursue this
further. Suffice it to say that for oral administration to work it is
absolutely essential that two ingredients be present: a) <b>DMT</b>,<b> </b>supplied by the acacia although it also is present in many other plants and b) a <b>MAO inhibitor</b>, supplied by the Peganum harmala. Even if Moses did not know that both ingredients had to be present
for oral ingestion this does not rule out DMT as the source of visions.
It is quite effective on its own if the material that contains it is
smoked. Peganum harmala, too, can work either smoked – in fact it is
used as an incense – or brewed into a tea.<b> </b><br />
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<b>Frankincense </b>and<b> Myrrh: </b>Frankincense and myrrh were both used in all ancient civilisations as
a perfume, incense and in medicine. Frankincense and myrrh were
precious; they were gifts fit for a king! Think of the gifts offered to
baby Jesus! Furthermore, a convict led to execution was given
frankincense or myrrh mixed into a cup of wine, numbing his senses so as
not to suffer pain. The women of Jerusalem donated the frankincense,
myrrh and wine to the court. When they were not donated, they were
purchased from public funds (Sanhedrin 43a). Think of the cup that was
offered to Jesus (although he refused to accept it)! Modern science shows us that frankincense has the ability to increase
oxygen around the pineal gland, thereby stimulating the pineal gland
through which we communicate spiritually. A recent study conducted at
Hebrew University noted frankincense smoke contained the psychoactive
substance <b><i>incensole</i></b> <b><i>acetate</i></b> that relieved depression and anxiety (Moussaieff et al., 2008). Myrrh, taken internally – if you can stomach the extremely bitter
taste - has very strong narcotic properties. It induces a state of
consciousness which partakes of both wakefulness and dreaming. You are
here and at the same time you are …. well, somewhere else. I can
personally vouch for its efficacy as an aid in meditation and a tool for
consciousness and dream enhancement.<br />
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<b>In Conclusion</b>: The fact is: humans are
hard-wired to seek altered states of consciousness. We have a hunger
for them. For that reason alone the “<a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/search/label/Drug%20War">War on Drugs</a>” is unwinnable.
Consider the length to which some will go to attain such states: long
periods of fasting or sleep deprivation, retreating for years into
deserts or mountains to meditate, breathing techniques that border on
asphyxiation, flagellation or other pain-producing techniques, extreme
physical exercises and so on and so forth. Such techniques have been
practiced since time immemorial. Often they require years of strenuous
and focused effort and you have no guarantee that you will succeed.
Furthermore, they are not without risk to life and limb or health!
Psychedelics, on the other hand, if used wisely, will yield results in a
much shorter time and without having to push body and mind to punishing
and dangerous extremes.
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It was Timothy Leary who coined the slogan: <b>Turn On – Tune In – Drop Out</b>.<b> Turn on</b> means: take a psychedelic.<b> Tune In</b> means: look inward and rediscover your true self.<b> Drop Out</b> means: abandon your submission to reality as defined for you by others – stay tuned in! It does not mean to drop out of life and society!
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We know that the
Ancients had knowledge of and access to the plant material described
above and a lot more besides. They certainly made use of most of them
for medicinal purposes. Did they also use them for their psychotropic
effects? Why would we think that they were different from us? Why would
we think that they did not use nature’s gifts? Only modern man is at
war with the natural world.</div>
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Of course, the notion that Moses might have been a shaman is anathema
to the traditionalists. In their view this reduces the perceived
“greatness” of their prophet and the “glory and splendour” of their god
to the level of a mere hallucination, created by none other than Satan
to mislead man. That’s why consciousnes-expanding visionary substances
are demonized and outlawed. Naturally, the mind controllers that
presume to rule us are quite happy to allow a dangerous drug like
alcohol. Why? Because it does not open the mind – quite the contrary!
Therefore it presents absolutely no challenge and poses no threat to the
consensus reality they have imposed upon us. To those nay-sayers who preach against the evils of “drugs” I say
this: you need to distinguish drugs from visionary substances. Opium,
for instance, is a medicine and a visionary substance – heroin is a
drug!<b> </b>Coca is an <i><b>essential</b> </i>medicine in the mountains of the Andes! But cocaine is a drug! </div>
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Unless you have experienced an altered state of consciousness,
brought about by a visionary substance, ingested in a safe setting
conducive to meditation, with the proper intent and, ideally, under the
guidance of an experienced teacher, you do not know what you are talking
about, no matter what you think your qualifications are. What you
really need to do is to <b>Shut Up – Turn On – Tune In </b>- <b>Drop Out</b>! Then we can talk! You have the right to your own opinions but you have no right to impose your benighted views on anyone!</div>
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(This excerpt is from "<a href="http://thechosenites.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/was-moses-a-shaman/">Was Moses a Shaman?</a>" by Bernard Weckmann, my new favorite blogger at <a href="http://thechosenites.wordpress.com/">The Chosenites</a>, check him out!) </div>
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Yoga is an ancient vedic science of consciousness aimed at training the human body, mind and spirit for a state of perfect spiritual insight and emotional tranquility. The yogic discipline is composed of various exercises practiced and refined for millennia by Indian maharishis and yogis including breath control, meditation, stretching, seated postures, standing postures, and isometric locks. The benefits of regular yoga practice are wide and varied: it relieves stress, general body aches, pains, anxiety and depression, increases stamina, lung capacity, core strength, mindfulness, mental clarity and focus, improves posture, poise and patience, promotes longevity and cellular regeneration, boosts energy levels, elevates moods, releases happiness endorphins, improves digestion, assimilation, and elimination, aids in deeper sleep and elicits the relaxation response.<br />
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My mother has been a student of Yoga for as long as I can remember and following her example 12 years ago I began studying and practicing several disciplines including Ashtanga, Hatha, Kundalini and <a href="http://www.bangkokwingchun.com/p/blog-page.html">Pranayama</a>. Since then daily Yogic training has become a way of life for me. Every morning I practice pranic breathing meditation then loosen my body with a series of stretches. Most people build up years of "body karma" from constant physical stress, bad posture, and sedentariness. Introducing regular Yoga practice helps improve posture, builds muscle, reduces fat, stretches your ligaments/tendons and relieves years of built up physical stress and body karma. If you're interested in learning Yoga please visit <b><a href="http://bangkokwingchun.com/">BangkokWingChun.com</a></b> and contact me at <b>ericdubay@hotmail.com</b>
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<br />Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-10665456866715252442013-05-24T04:33:00.001-07:002013-05-24T04:33:56.135-07:00The Placebo Effect Disproves Scientific Materialism!<div class="MsoNormal">
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There is an entire legitimate and well-researched branch of
medicine called psycho-neuro-immunology which studies the effect of thoughts and
emotions on human biochemistry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biologist
Dr. Bruce Lipton actually left his tenured University position to pursue his
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Until
recently, conventional medicine dismissed the role of the mind in the
functioning of the body, except for one pesky exception - the placebo effect,
which demonstrates that the mind has the power to heal the body when people
hold a belief that a particular drug or procedure will effect a cure, even if
the remedy is actually a sugar pill with no known pharmaceutical value. Medical
students learn that one third of all illnesses heal via the magic of the
placebo effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With further education,
these same students will come to dismiss the value of the mind in healing
because it doesn’t fit into the flow charts of the Newtonian paradigm.
Unfortunately, as doctors, they will unwittingly disempower their patients by
not encouraging the healing power inherent in the mind</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Dr. Bruce Lipton, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401926312/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401926312&linkCode=as2&tag=theatlacons-20">Spontaneous Evolution</a>”</span></div>
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The placebo effect cures one-third of all illnesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a staggering statistic - It means
that a wide range of health problems can be cured by our minds!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact many ailments are literally created,
sustained, and eventually healed via completely non-physical processes
involving the mind and emotions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acne,
allergies, angina pectoris, rheumatoid and degenerative arthritis, asthma,
cancer, the common cold, diabetes, fever, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s
disease, radiation sickness, seasickness, ulcers, and many more diseases have
all been cured using a mere placebo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
of course strikes another blow at the root of the western medical paradigm which
traditionally teaches health as a purely physical bio-chemical phenomenon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The non-physical psycho-emotional aspects of
health are dismissively disregarded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: ITCLegacySerifBook; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>In
numerous cases patients are cured simply by taking the placebo alone and with
no genuine supporting medication whatsoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This works because the patient sincerely believes, beyond any doubt in
the mind of the patient that the placebo is in fact real medicine that will
cure them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case the patient has
subconsciously used their own imagination upon themselves, but the result is
exactly the same, often to the considerable surprise of doctors and all others
concerned; a complete cure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The patient
visualized themselves as being cured as a direct result of taking what they
believe to be an effective medicine, in turn influencing the energy of the
inner bodies, thereby manifesting as an observable cure within the physical body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This process works both ways of course and
there are people who unwittingly become ill due to the subconscious use of
creative visualization and of the imagination generally and thought processes
generally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This occurs when a normally
healthy person strongly believes they are, or should become ill for some
reason, perhaps out of guilt, or for example as happens in the case of someone
considered to be a hypochondriac.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
belief coupled with the person subconsciously and very often intensively
imagining and believing themselves to be ill, will in turn attract that illness</i>.”
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Adrian
Cooper, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979910609/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0979910609&linkCode=as2&tag=theatlacons-20">Our Ultimate Reality</a>”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: ITCLegacySerifBook; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (563-4)</span></div>
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Experiments have shown that even an injection of caffeine
will put caffeine-sensitive patients to sleep if they believe that they are
receiving a sedative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People with
multiple personalities can change eye color, turn off/on allergies, and even
have multiple menstruation cycles for each personality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under hypnosis people can control heart rate,
body temperature, visual acuity, and will away scars and birthmarks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If humans are simply biochemical machines as
the western medical paradigm professes, and our beliefs/subconscious plays no
role in bodily health, how can such physical effects possibly come about from
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>We may not think that a thought could be enough to undermine an
entire system, but, in fact, misperceptions can be lethal. Consider the
situation of a person with anorexia. While relatives and friends clearly
perceive that this skin-and-bones individual is near death, the anorexic looks
in a mirror and sees a fat person. Using this distorted view, that resembles an
image in a funhouse mirror, the anorexic’s brain attempts to control a
misperceived runaway weight gain, by-oops!-inhibiting the system’s metabolic
functions</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Dr. Bruce Lipton,
“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401926312/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401926312&linkCode=as2&tag=theatlacons-20">Spontaneous Evolution</a>”</span></div>
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surgery has been used as a placebo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the 1950s, angina pectoris, recurrent pain in the chest and left arm due to
decreased blood flow to the heart, was commonly treated with surgery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then some resourceful doctors decided to
conduct an experiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than
perform the customary surgery, which involved tying off the mammary artery,
they cut patients open and then simply sewed them back up again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The patients who received the sham surgery
reported just as much relief as the patients who had the full surgery</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael Talbot, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062014102/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062014102&linkCode=as2&tag=theatlacons-20">The Holographic Universe</a>”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (90)</span></div>
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Psychologist Shlomo Breznitz at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem performed a telling experiment with several troops of Israeli
soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each troop had to march 40
kilometers but different groups were given different information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some groups were told they would march 30
kilometers, and later informed they had another 10 to go, other groups were
told they would march 60 kilometers, but were then stopped after 40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some groups were allowed to see distance
markers along the way to keep track of how far they had marched; other groups
were not shown distance markers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
the 40 kilometers were complete Breznitz performed blood tests and found that
the stress hormone levels in the soldiers’ blood always reflected their
projections and not the actual distance they marched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This experiment shows another example of our
bodies physically responding not to “reality” but to our perception of reality.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Just as
surely as positive thoughts can heal, negative ones - including the belief we
are susceptible to an illness or have been exposed to a toxic condition - can
actually manifest the undesired realities of those thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japanese children allergic to a poison
ivy-like plant took part in an experiment where a leaf of the poisonous plant
was rubbed onto one forearm. As a control, a nonpoisonous leaf resembling the
toxic plant was rubbed on the other forearm. As expected almost all of the
children broke out in a rash on the arm rubbed with the toxic leaf and had no
response to the imposter leaf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the
children did not know was that the leaves were purposefully mislabeled. The
negative thought of being touched by the poisonous plant led to the rash
produced by the nontoxic leaf! In the majority of cases, no rash resulted from
contact with the toxic leaf that was thought to be the harmless control. The
conclusion is simple: positive perceptions enhance health, and negative
perceptions precipitate disease. This mind-bending example of the power of
belief was one of the founding experiments that led to the science of
psychoneuroimmunology</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Dr. Bruce
Lipton, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401926312/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401926312&linkCode=as2&tag=theatlacons-20">Spontaneous Evolution</a>”</span><br />
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holographic is molded by our beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our minds have the power to get rid of warts, to clear our bronchial
tubes, and to mimic the painkilling ability of morphine, but because we are unaware
that we possess the power, we must be fooled into using it … No incident better
illustrates this than a now famous case reported by psychologist Bruno Klopfer</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael Talbot, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062014102/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062014102&linkCode=as2&tag=theatlacons-20">The Holographic Universe</a>”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (93)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Bruno
Klopfer had exhausted all standard treatments trying to cure a man named Wright
of his advanced cancer of the lymph nodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wright’s entire torso from groin to neck was covered in tomato-sized
tumors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His spleen and liver were so
enlarged and toxic that he had two quarts of milky fluid drained out of him
everyday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At his wits end, Wright heard
about an exciting new experimental drug called Krebiozen and begged Dr. Klopfer
to let him try it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first Klopfer
refused because Krebiozen was in the testing phase and only being tried on
people with very short life expectancies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Regardless Wright was persistent and insisted that they try this
remedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually Klopfer agreed and
within a week Wright’s tumors “melted like snowballs on a hot stove” to half
their original size, a result far surpassing even the strongest radiation
therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within another week, the tumors
had vanished completely and Wright walked out of the hospital seemingly cancer-free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later on, after two months of good health,
Wright began reading articles on the internet claiming that Krebiozen actually
had no effect on cancer of the lymph nodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He started becoming nervous and depressed reading more and more studies
until he suffered a relapse, all the tumors came back and he had to be readmitted
to the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing that Wright’s
hypochondria brought back the tumors, this time Dr. Klopfer decided to try an
experiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He informed Wright that
Krebiozen in fact was effective on lymph node cancer as they had seen
themselves, but some of the initial supplies had deteriorated during shipping
and that was to blame for the relapse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Furthermore, Klopfer said he just received a new highly concentrated
version of Krebiozen and this time it would work for sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wright enthusiastically agreed, rolled up his
sleeve, and his fibbing doctor injected him with a plain water placebo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miraculously within days Wright’s tumors once
again melted away, his chest fluid emptied, and he was released from the
hospital feeling healthy and symptom-free from the mere water injection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About two months after this the American
Medical Association published their nationwide study of Krebiozen which flatly
stated that the drug had no effect whatsoever on treating cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wright read the study and was
devastated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He immediately lost all faith
in the treatment causing the tumors and chest fluid to come back full force,
and he died two days later.</span></div>
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the medical profession can ‘cure’ an illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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be effective, due to the fact the true channels of healing will be blocked by
the conscious and subconscious mind, and energy influenced in the same
direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is sensible to visit a
doctor with any ailment, and to respect their words and actions, but it is
extremely important to know beyond any doubt the true origin of healing, and to
focus accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you are given
a course of medicine, exercises or even a surgical procedure, view these as
secondary influences while always knowing that the primary and true healing
influence is by virtue of the energy from which we are all made</i>.” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Adrian
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If every day you go to someone else’s establishment, work on
their schedule, do everything they say, and make money for them, then I’m sorry
to bear bad news, but you might be a slave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you often awake to an alarm clock smothering your dreams to death with
a pillow then you very well might be a slave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you went into debt so you could spend the best years of your life qualifying
for a piece of paper to qualify for a salary-wage job, then you’re likely a
slave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you work in a fancy
high-rise building, a compartmentalized neck-tie drone in some sociopathic
hierarchy, you might still just be an office slave, an expendable rung on the
corporate ladder.</div>
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No matter how attractive the position, whenever you work for
someone else, your financial means of subsistence, your ability to provide
food, water, and shelter for your family, is completely in the hands of another
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless of pension promises
or signed contracts, the real fact of the matter is there is no “job security” in
working for someone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If at any time
for any reason the boss has a problem with you, the market goes south, your
contract’s over, the clientele fades, the account goes red, or the business
goes belly-up, then you’re high and dry on your way to becoming an unemployment
statistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tenures get overturned,
pensions get sucked away, and promises of rich retirements are rarely worth the
wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real job security and financial
freedom means owning your own business (<b>and</b> refusing to pay any taxes,
fees or fines from <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2011/07/mafia-government.html">the mafia government</a> that wants to keep you their slave).</div>
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The only true success that exists is when we find a way to
make a living doing exactly what we want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you wake up every morning and create your day exactly how you dream
it to be, that is success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When your
passion and your work are aligned, when you would do your job for free because
you like it so much, that is success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The root of “work” and “worship” are the same, and if you’re living your
dreams aligned with your passions, doing what you were placed here on Earth to
do, then your work really is like your worship, your service to the world.</div>
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Slave jobs are great for when you need quick reliable
short-term income to get back on your feet or gather start-up capital for your
next venture, but remaining someone’s slave for too long, even high-paid
lap-dogs will eventually wish to leave their master. No matter how attractive
the position, whenever you work for someone else, you will always be selling
your time wholesale to someone who is profiting from you retail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No boss can afford to pay any employee the
amount of money which that employee brings to the company, as that would cause
the business to bankrupt. The only way to run a profitable business is to
pay employees less than they're worth, usually far less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you are working for someone else, your
financial stability is completely in their hands, <b>and </b>it is guaranteed
that they are paying you less than you are worth.</div>
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You can’t just up and quit your slave job without some
serious planning and hard work though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are several steps that all wage slaves must take before riding the
entrepreneurial underground railroad to financial freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The first step to quitting your slave job and manifesting
your dream lifestyle is getting a clear picture of your life’s purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What were you born to do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What makes you happy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is your true passion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would you like to spend your days
doing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If money wasn’t an issue, what
would you do with your life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the
answers to those questions form a clear image in your head, step two is
imagining and creating a product or service aligned with your purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, if your absolute favorite thing
in life is skateboarding, always has been and always will be, it makes you
happy and it’s your favorite way to spend your time, then your step one is simple
and complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your step two would be
deciding what marketable aspect of your passion appeals most to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you like to open a skate shop?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you like to manufacture
skateboards?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you like to design
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you like to teach
skating?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you like to make skating
videos or start a skating magazine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would
you most like to express your passion and how can you use it to enrich,
inspire, empower and add value to others?</div>
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Once your vision is clear, step three is to get free of all
debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you quit your slave job but
still owe debts to the bank or anyone else, then you are no less of a
slave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is crucial that you pay off
all your debts (and don’t take on any more!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To pay off your debts, you must make sure your monthly expenditures
always remain lower than your monthly slave income.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your expenditures are too high you must
find ways to thriftily cut corners so that you can always stay in the
black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calculate your slave salary minus
your monthly expenses equals the amount you can put away each month towards
your debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also note that if you are able
to pay ahead on the principle (and not just the monthly minimum) you can
exponentially cut down the total interest due.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Once you are debt free, step four is to take the difference
between your slave salary and your monthly expenditures and start saving
it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will need to save up enough
money to cover two important costs:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
start-up expenses for your entrepreneurial venture, and a savings safety net to
fall back on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To calculate your start-up
costs add up all the expenses you will need to create and get your product or
service on the market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This includes
things like materials, advertizing, transportation, consultations, shipping,
rentals, any and all potential expenses necessary to start your venture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond this you will also need a savings safety
net, enough money to cover your living expenses for several months kept away as
an emergency fund in case any unexpected problems arise (which they will).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calculate your average monthly living
expenses and save at least 3-12 times that for use if you’re ever having
trouble living off your business’ income alone.</div>
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While in the saving phase, now is the time to start your
business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you quit your job first
then try to start your venture, it will likely fail to bring in enough reliable
income to sustain you, since building a reliable, sustainable income usually
takes time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you will essentially have
to work two jobs for a while; your slave job from 9-5, and your dream job from
5-9 (and make sure to get enough sleep in there somewhere).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your business sells a product then you
will need to start manufacturing, advertizing, and making sales whenever
possible in your down-time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your
business sells a service you will need to refine, advertize and start providing
your service on nights and weekends (or whenever you are free).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This process of promotion and building a
loyal customer base could feasibly take anywhere from a couple months to a
couple years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Advertizing and self-promotion is usually the most difficult,
most time and money-consuming part of growing a successful business, but it is
also the most important, because without finding some reliable and effective
advertizing methods, you will never secure a stable customer base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once word spreads and repeat sales start
coming in, the final step to financial freedom is growing the monthly income
from your business until it exceeds your monthly living expenses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you’re making all the money you need to
sustain yourself from your own business then you’re ready!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s time to quit your slave job and live
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Life is too beautiful to waste living for someone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work and play are too important to be
separated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you love your job so much
that you would do it for free then you are certainly on the right path, but anything
less than that is selling yourself short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When people say “there just aren’t enough good jobs,” or when
governments and corporations act like they’re economic saviors by “creating
jobs” for us, I can’t help but laugh at the fact that there are, have always been,
and always will be just as many “jobs” as there are people on the planet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have two functioning arms and half a
brain then there will always be work that you can do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the governments and corporations won’t
tell you is that it’s up to you to create your own job, find your own niche
passion, add value to the market, and that’s the reality of “job creation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being “employed” means being a slave, so
don’t worry about the ever-rising “unemployment rate.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a perfect world every single person would
be unemployed (and unemployable!) because they are already making an income
doing exactly the work that they worship.<br />
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the 1990s three independent scientific studies brought to light the importance
of DNA and emotions in creating quantum reality. The first major study
performed by Vladimir Poponin and Peter Gariaev at the Russian Academy
of Science was deemed the “Phantom DNA Experiment” and yielded some fascinating
results. First they created a vacuum in a specially designed test tube, and then
measured the location of light photons inside to see if they were clumped at
the bottom, clung to the sides, or dispersed all throughout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As expected, the photons were scattered
randomly throughout the tube.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a
strand of DNA was placed in the tube, however, the particles acted as if drawn
by an invisible force and spontaneously arranged themselves around the DNA
strand!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even stranger, when the DNA was
removed from the tube, the particles stayed in exactly the same shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is notable because nothing in
conventional physics allows for such an effect, yet now we have observable
documented proof that DNA, the substance that composes us, can have a direct
and powerful effect on the quantum world around us.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>This
experiment is important for a number of reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the most obvious is that it clearly
shows us a direct relationship between DNA and the energy that our world is
made of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the many conclusions that we
may draw from this powerful demonstration, two are certain:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. A type of energy exists that has
previously gone unrecognized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2.
Cells/DNA influence matter through this form of energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Produced under the rigid control of
laboratory conditions, evidence arose of the powerful relationship that ancient
traditions have held sacred for centuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The DNA changed the behavior of the light particles – the essence of our
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as our most cherished
traditions and spiritual texts have informed us for so long, the experiment
validated that we have a direct effect on the world around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond wishful thinking and New Age isms,
this impact is real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The DNA phantom
effect shows us that under the right conditions and with proper equipment, this
relationship can be documented</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the same time Poponin and Gariaev recorded their Phantom DNA findings, similar
experiments were being conducted by the U.S. Army testing the power of emotion
on DNA and living cells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They hooked
volunteers up to specially designed electrometers then played series’ of graphic
video images (from comedy to torture to erotica) designed to create genuine states of feeling in order to collect a broad spectrum of emotional
fluctuation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as expected, peaks and
dips in volunteers’ electrical responses coincided perfectly with changes in
emotional stimuli. The
big surprise came during the next phase in which they took tissue/DNA swabs
from the volunteers, placed them in a vault several hundred feet away, and
repeated the experiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely
enough, the tissue/DNA samples locked hundreds of feet away still registered
the same electrical peaks and dips coincident with the donor’s response to
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the DNA and the donor to have any connection whatsoever, there must be
something that links them together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
experiment suggests four things: A previously unrecognized form of energy
exists between living tissues; Cells and DNA communicate through this field of
energy; Human emotion has a direct influence on living DNA; Distance appears to
be of no consequence with regard to the effect</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (49-50)</span></div>
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Cleve Backster more recently performed this experiment with a distance of 350
miles between the donor and his cells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even at this extreme distance, in experiments gauged by an atomic clock,
the donor and his cells still responded absolutely identically,
simultaneously!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that a donor
and his DNA 350 miles away have such coincident responses suggests that the
energy of the donor’s emotions doesn’t “travel” anywhere but is already
everywhere, as demonstrated by <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/01/the-holographic-universe.html">Bohm’s holographic universe metaphor</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This experiment also grants credence to such
practices as prayer and energy healing, showing that emotion and intention can
produce measurable physiological results at any distance.</span></div>
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been conditioned to believe that the state of the DNA in our body is a
given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Contemporary thinking suggests
that it’s a fixed quantity – we ‘get what we get’ when we’re born – and with
the exception of drugs, chemicals, and electrical fields, our DNA doesn’t change
in response to anything that we can do in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this experiment shows us that nothing
could be further from the truth … There’s absolutely nothing in conventional
wisdom that allows for the material of life in our bodies to have any effect whatsoever
on our outer world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there’s also
nothing to suggest that human emotion can in any way affect DNA when it’s
inside the body of its owner, let alone when it’s hundreds of miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet this is precisely what the results are
showing us</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The
Divine Matrix” (52)</span></div>
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third relevant study conducted around this time was performed at the Institute of HeartMath
in Northern California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scientists began by isolating human DNA in
glass beakers then exposed them to “coherent emotion” which is an intentionally
created physiological state achieved by practicing specially designed
mental/emotional self-management techniques such as <a href="http://www.bangkokwingchun.com/p/blog-page.html">meditation and deep breathing</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Volunteers trained in
applying coherent emotion directed it towards the glass beakers and actually
succeeded in changing both the physical and chemical structures of the
DNA!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Different directed intentions
produced varying effects on the DNA molecules causing them to wind or unwind,
change shape or even separate atomic/chemical components.</span></div>
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the first experiment, Poponin showed us that human DNA has a direct effect on
the vibration of light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the second –
the military experiment – we learned that whether we’re in the same room with
our DNA or separated by distances of hundreds of miles, we’re still connected to
its molecules, and the effect is the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the third experiment, the HeartMath researchers showed us that human
emotion has a direct effect on DNA, which in turn directly impacts the stuff
our world is made of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
beginning of a technology – an inner technology – that does more than simply
tell us we can have an effect on our bodies and our world … it shows us that
this effect exists and how it works</i>!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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actually have the strongest magnetic field in the body and that field has an
effect well beyond our own bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
we feel love or joy the heart’s magnetic field relaxes and unwinds DNA, but
when we feel anger or frustration it tightens and winds up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, when tested for immune response,
researchers found the relaxed DNA performed far more proficiently than the
control group while the tightened DNA performed far worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This proves scientifically that
positive/negative emotions alter both our DNA and our immune systems, which
means our emotional states are significant contributing factors in our physical
health and wellness.</span></div>
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someone who thinks sad, angry or negative thoughts most of the day, you are
weakening your immune system. The chemicals in your body which fight off
infection can be clinically shown to decrease</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Cathy Chapman, Ph.D. “Strengthening the
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these experiments suggest two similar conclusions, which are the crux of this
book: 1) There is something ‘out there’: the matrix of an energy that connects
any one thing with everything else in the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This connective field accounts for the
unexpected results of the experiments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2) The DNA in our bodies gives us access to the energy that connects our
universe, and emotion is the key to tapping in to the field</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (53)</span></div>
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“<i>When
quantum physics was first becoming accepted as the mechanisms by which the
universe operates, the physicists had trouble with this themselves. They could
say, ‘Well, I can see these ideas working at the level of atoms and molecules
but I can’t bring that kind of weirdness into my life.’ So there was an
arbitrary decision back in the 1920s to say, ‘Let’s restrict quantum mechanics
to the world of atoms and molecules and use Newtonian physics to describe the
rest of the world.’ That is why biology went on its merry way using Newtonian
physics. Yet we are today beginning to see work by very reputable scientists
that says the universe is created by our observations; we create the field and
the field shapes the particle. The big lesson is that what you think or ask for
is what you are going to get. It is not a coincidence; we are actively involved
in physically shaping the world that we experience</i>.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<br />Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-15764420580531450232013-03-27T04:49:00.000-07:002013-03-27T04:49:08.634-07:00The Four Pillars of Dharma<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Four Dharmic ideals which I constantly strive to embody, embrace and express are <b>Truth</b>, <b>Freedom</b>, <b>Peace</b>, and <b>Love</b>. I think of these four ideals as the immutable pillar stones necessary for an impeccable moral foundation. Morality and Dharma are on the decline in our current age (Kali Yuga) and the only way to change and improve things externally is to change and improve ourselves internally. To manifest the ideals of Truth, Freedom, Peace and Love, first we must stop manifesting <b>Lies</b>, <b>Enslavement</b>, <b>Violence</b>, and <b>Fear</b>.<br />
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<b>Slavery</b> is practiced by governments, corporations, banks, private prisons, insurance companies, factory farms, bankers, politicians and lawyers who all make a living from enslavement. To take our power back from the slave drivers we must be 100% free and sovereign in our own lives. We must <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fnweWO-pu8">quit our wage slave jobs</a>, stop paying taxes, stop obeying unlawful legislations, get free of debt, <a href="http://www.bangkokwingchun.com/">learn self-defense</a>, acquire tangible assets, get off the grid, grow our own food, create our own jobs, become entrepreneurs and <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/search/label/Freeman%20Movement">freemen on the land</a>, start our own interest-free banks and local currencies. We must completely refuse to be enslaved, refuse to enslave others, and help one another achieve true freedom.<br />
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<b>Violence</b> is practiced by governments, corporations, militaries, police forces, private security, prisons, gangsters, mafias, mercenaries, factory farmers and butchers all making a living from violence. To take our power back from the bullies we must be 100% peaceful in our interactions. We must refuse to be employed as a soldiers, police or mercenaries. We must <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2011/10/end-animal-holocaust.html">end the animal holocaust</a>. We must stop domestic abuse and practice <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXMKRJyedmg">peaceful parenting</a>. We should never hit, harm or even raise our voices to others, especially our friends and family. All interactions between parents, children, siblings, friends, and strangers alike should be free of all force; even passive-aggression is still aggression which we must personally refuse to manifest.<br />
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<b>Fear</b> is employed by governments, corporations, militaries, police, banks, insurance companies, factory farms, mafias, private prisons, politicians, and lawyers who all make a living off victims of fear. To take our power back from the fear-mongers we must practice unconditional love. As Jesus, John Lennon and many-a-martyr will agree, no one word, no one concept is so powerful and unifying as Love. Love is the main immutable pillar for a truly moral foundation. If you have developed true unconditional love, then you already have the other three pillars of Truth, Freedom and Peace as well, because love is certainly honest, free and peaceful. Cheating or lying is not true love. "Loving" a bird enslaved in a tiny cage is not truly loving the bird. And forceful or "violent love" cannot be called true love at all, in fact it's called rape or domestic abuse.<br />
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So before saying or doing anything, remember the four pillars: Is it true? Does it promote freedom? Is it peaceful? And is it loving? Or if you're short on time just check the fourth: Is this a loving thing to say? Is this a loving thing to do? Adhere to these and we will be on the Dharma fast-track through morality to another golden age. All we need is <b>Love</b>.<br />
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explain the existence of forms in nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No matter how we magnify or manipulate the material world, no mechanical
model explains the emergence of the variety of unique and semi-unique forms in
nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every type of rock, plant,
animal, organism, bacteria, all aggregate themselves into distinct and definite
types with traits/characteristics semi-unique to their form and completely
unique to them individually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example
each oak tree has many semi-unique features that characterize it clearly as an
oak and not a pine, like the shape of its leaves, being non-coniferous,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These features are semi-unique as
all oak trees share them, however on another level, no two oak trees are
exactly alike either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exact size, shape,
dimensions, growth patterns, ring patterns etc. are completely unique to each
tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what is the mechanism in nature
which constantly creates these unique and semi-unique forms?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newton’s model, nor the 300+ subsequent years
of material science since have been able to explain this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>British biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s concept
of morphogenic resonance, however, seems to be our best current theory.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has offered an incisive critique
of traditional science … He pointed out that in its single-minded pursuit of
‘energetic causation,’ Western science neglected the problem of form in
nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pointed out that our study of
substance alone cannot explain why there is order, pattern, and meaning in
nature any more than the examination of the building materials in a cathedral,
castle, or tenement house can explain the particular forms those architectural
structures have taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how
sophisticated our study of the materials, we will not be able to explain the
creative forces that guided the designs of these structures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheldrake suggests that forms in nature are
governed by what he calls ‘morphogenic fields,’ which cannot be detected or
measured by contemporary science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
would mean that all scientific efforts of the past have totally neglected a
dimension that is absolutely critical for understanding the nature of reality</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Stanislav Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” (11)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As an example Sheldrake asks us to consider the complexity of the human
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, take notice of your
arms, how they twist, bend, and rotate, notice how your fingers separate and
clasp with opposable thumbs, giving your upper-limbs unique function and
purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now take notice of your legs,
how they are designed, how they bend and move, notice your feet/toes, and how
your lower-limbs perfectly serve their unique function and purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arms and legs look different; have different
functions and locations, but the DNA, chemicals, nerves, cells and molecules
composing them are exactly the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
how did they become different and why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What property within leg cells determined them to become a leg, and what
property within arm cells determined them to become an arm?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Sheldrake proposes a theory he calls Morphic Resonance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This theory basically states that there is a
field of energy surrounding and permeating an organism which contains, among
other things, the form of the organism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He writes that each species has its own field, that there are fields
within fields, and that these fields have built-in memory, based upon what has
happened in the past derived from previous organisms or forms of a similar
kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, each organism on
the planet shares fields of similar energy or we could say a specific frequency.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Eric Pepin, “Handbook of the Navigator” (78)</span></div>
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evolution and various adaptations of a species?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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foliage to hide from predators, where is that information stored?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a species of bird develops curvature in
its beak to assist in gathering low-laying food/materials, what mechanism
informs new beak cells to curve?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
typical answer is that this information is stored and transmitted by genes/DNA,
however, no biologist can explain how this occurs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheldrake compares it to studying building
materials at a construction site and attempting to determine the structure of
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constant and vociferous challenges to this approach …Current genetic theory
also doesn’t explain, he says, how a developing system can self-regulate, or
grow normally in the course of development if a part of the system is added or
removed, and doesn’t explain how an organism regenerates – replacing missing or
damaged structures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a rush of fevered
inspiration while at an ashram in India, Sheldrake worked out his hypothesis of
formative causation, which states that the forms of self-organizing living
things – everything from molecules and organisms to societies and even entire
galaxies – are shaped by morphic fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These fields have a morphic resonance – a cumulative memory – of similar
systems through cultures and time, so that species of animals and plants
‘remember’ not only how to look but also how to act … ‘Morphic resonance,’ is,
in his view, ‘the influence of like upon like through space and time.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He believes these fields are different from
electro-magnetic fields because they reverberate across generations with an inherent
memory of the correct shape and form</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the
Universe,” (46-7)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The question of form and process in nature is still a complete mystery,
no matter how many fancy explanations or Latin terms scientists create.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do embryos develop from fertilized
eggs?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does a tiny seed grow into a
huge tree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inside every apple seed there
is the potential to grow an entire apple tree with deep roots, winding
branches, colorful leaves, and hundreds of apples with thousands more seeds inside!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where is this amazing blueprint in those tiny
seeds?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does part of the seed become
a root, another part become a branch, another part become a leaf, and another
part become an apple?</span></div>
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hidden in the earth, is vastly different from the giant tree it will become,
with branches sticking out in every direction, leaves and bark, roots reaching
far into the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could say that
the acorn contains some kind of genetic program that tells it how to grow and
how to form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, where is this
program?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we said this genetic program
was within the DNA, science and biologists such as Rupert Sheldrake, tell us we
would be wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DNA codes for proteins
and the micro components which make up proteins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coding the structure of single, solitary
parts that make up organisms, such as proteins, is very different than coding
the shape and structure of an entire organism</i>.” -Eric Pepin, “Handbook of
the Navigator” (77)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1921 an interesting phenomenon relevant to morphic fields was first observed
in Southampton, England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the morning when people came out to get
the milk from their doorsteps, they found the cardboard lids torn to shreds and
the cream disappeared from their bottles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It turns out blue tit birds in the area had learned to perch atop the
bottles, pull off the cardboard lids with their beaks and drink the cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several months later this phenomenon began
occurring elsewhere in Britain about 50 miles away, then later about 100 miles
away, then again and again in many diverse locations throughout Europe:</span></div>
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locally, presumably by imitation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, bluetits are very home-loving creatures, and they don’t
normally travel more than four or five miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, the dissemination of the behavior over large distances could
only be accounted for in terms of an independent discovery of the habit … The
people who did the study came to the conclusion that it must have been
‘invented’ independently at least 50 times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moreover, the rate of spread of the habit accelerated as time went on …
Here is an example of a pattern of behavior which was spread in a way which
seemed to speed up with time, and which might provide an example of morphic
resonance</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Eric Pepin, “Handbook
of the Navigator” (79-80)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Decades later, further evidence for morphic resonance was provided by
Dutch blue tits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to the German
occupation of Holland during World War II, their milk delivery ceased in 1939,
not to resume again until 1948 (9 years later).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since the average lifespan of a blue tit is only 2-3 years, it is safe
to assume that none of them alive in 1939 were still around in 1948, yet
mysteriously when milk delivery resumed, the phenomenon quickly sprang up again
in diverse locations spreading rapidly throughout the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, however, the behavior began right
away and independently popped up in various places at a higher rate of
frequency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lends credence to the
idea that the evolutionary spread of new behaviors are likely not genetic but
rather due to a kind of “collective memory” phenomenon like Sheldrake’s
morphogenic fields or <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/01/synchronicity-and-collective-unconscious.html">Carl Jung’s collective unconscious</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Jung thought
of the collective unconscious as a collective memory, the collective memory of
humanity. He thought that people would be more tuned into members of their own
family and race and social and cultural group, but that nevertheless there
would be a background resonance from all humanity: a pooled or averaged
experience of basic things that all people experience (e.g., maternal behavior
and various social patterns and structures of experience and thought). It would
not be a memory from particular persons in the past so much as an average of
the basic forms of memory structures; these are the archetypes. Jung's notion
of the collective unconscious makes extremely good sense in the context of the
general approach that I am putting forward. Morphic resonance theory would lead
to a radical reaffirmation of Jung's concept of the collective unconscious</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance”
(11-12)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Biologist Lyall Watson in his book “Lifetide”
also offers evidence in support of Sheldrake’s theory with his discovery of
“the hundredth monkey effect.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
phenomenon was first observed during an experiment on a remote Japanese island
where scientists were leaving sweet potatoes on the beach to feed Macaque
monkeys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These particular monkeys had
never eaten sweet potatoes before; they enjoyed them very much but didn’t like
eating the beach sand covering them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Soon one intelligent monkey started taking his potatoes to the shoreline
and scrubbing them underwater which both removed the sand and gave them a desirable
salty taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly after this more and
more monkeys began to copy the potato washing habit until the entire island’s
monkey population was doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next,
strangely, whole communities of Macaques on many other unconnected islands not
part of the experiment, Macaques who already ate sweet potatoes as a staple
food, spontaneously began washing their potatoes in the sea as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no possible connection or
communication between the islands or various communities of Macaques, so how
and why did this behavior spread?</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: ITCLegacySerifBook; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Consider the
hypothesis that if you train rats to learn a new trick in Santa
Barbara, then rats all over the world should be able to learn to do
the same trick more quickly, just because the rats in Santa Barbara have learned it. This new
pattern of learning will be, as it were, in the rat collective memory -in the
morphic fields of rats, to which other rats can tune in, just because they are
rats and just because they are in similar circumstances, by morphic resonance.
This may seem a bit improbable, but either this sort of thing happens or it
doesn't. Among the vast number of papers in the archives of experiments on rat
psychology, there are a number of examples of experiments in which people have
actually monitored rates of learning over time and discovered mysterious
increases. In my book, A New Science of Life, I describe one such series of
experiments which extended over a 50-year period. Begun at Harvard and then
carried on in Scotland and Australia, the
experiment demonstrated that rats increased their rate of learning more than
tenfold. This was a huge effect - not some marginal statistically significant
result. This improved rate of learning in identical learning situations
occurred in these three separate locations and in all rats of the breed, not
just in rats descended from trained parents</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance” (6-7)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Monica
England of Nottingham
University’s Psychology
Department knew about Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance and devised an
interesting experiment to test for collective consciousness in humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reasoned that if morphic resonance is
occurring, it should be easier to do today’s newspaper crossword puzzle
tomorrow than it would have been yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>London’s
Evening Standard newspaper provided their crossword in advance for her
experiment. First students all completed a control crossword to measure their
ability, then half were tested in Nottingham the day before and half the day
after the crossword was published in London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazingly, the students who did the already
published crossword (the puzzle that had already been completed by thousands of
Evening Standard readers) improved their scores by an average of 25%<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can account for this huge jump in
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In another similar study, two teams from Australia and Britain did an experiment with face
recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They created a photo image
with over a hundred faces in it, big ones, small ones, faces within faces etc.
then asked people to point out as many faces as they could find within an
allotted time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because they were so well
hidden a control group of several hundred Australians could only see about six
to ten faces total.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then back in England, the
other team of researchers showed a group of volunteers the picture on a
closed-cable BBC TV station with a narrator pointing out one-by-one every
single face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few minutes later the
Australian team repeated the experiment with several hundred more volunteers
ready and waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazingly, this time
most people were able to find not just a few, but the majority of faces within
the allotted time limit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What could
account for this other than some mechanism like Jung’s collective memory or
Sheldrake’s morphic resonance?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
typical “DNA” explanation is insufficient.</div>
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see, this model does not work very well. The genetic program is assumed to be
identical with DNA, the genetic chemical. The genetic information is coded in</i></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> DNA and this
code forms the genetic program. But such a leap requires projecting onto DNA
properties that it does not actually possess. We know what DNA does: it codes
for proteins; it codes for the sequence of amino acids which form proteins. However, there
is a big difference between coding for the structure of a protein - a chemical
constituent of the organism - and programming the development of an entire organism.
It is the difference between making bricks and building a house out of the bricks.
You need the bricks to build the house. If you have defective bricks, the house
will be defective. But the plan of the house is not contained in the bricks, or
the wires, or the beams, or cement. Analogously, DNA only codes for the
materials from which the body is constructed: the enzymes, the structural
proteins, and so forth. There is no evidence that it also codes for the plan,
the form, the morphology of the body</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Rupert
Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance” (3-4)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">More scientific
verification for Sheldrake’s theory came from Yale University
with Dr. Harold S. Burr’s studies of electromagnetic radiation fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He discovered that there are electrical
fields surrounding all organisms from molds, bacteria and plants to
salamanders, frogs and humans, and that within these fields there exists an
observable energetic blueprint of each organism’s future. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance plant seedlings have electrical
fields which resemble the eventual adult plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Baby salamanders possess energy fields shaped like adult salamanders and
the energetic blueprint can even be seen in an unfertilized egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Each species
has its own fields, and within each organism there are fields within fields.
Within each of us is the field of the whole body; fields for arms and legs and
fields for kidneys and livers; within are fields for the different tissues
inside these organs, and then fields for the cells, and fields for the
sub-cellular structures, and fields for the molecules, and so on. There is a
whole series of fields within fields. The essence of the hypothesis I am
proposing is that these fields, which are already accepted quite widely within
biology, have a kind of in-built memory derived from previous forms of a
similar kind. The liver field is shaped by the forms of previous livers and the
oak tree field by the forms and organization of previous oak trees. Through the
fields, by a process called morphic resonance, the influence of like upon like,
there is a connection among similar fields. That means that the field's
structure has a cumulative memory, based on what has happened to the species in
the past.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>–Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic
Resonance” (5)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Elmer Lund at
the University of
Texas discovered that he
could control the regeneration of limbs in hydras using electrical fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By applying an electrical current strong
enough to override the hydras’ natural morphogenic field, he was able to cause
heads to form where tails should be and vice versa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similar experiments have been performed on
flatworms, salamanders and other organisms all of which have had their natural
“genetic” or “morphogenic” data re-programmed by electrical frequencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This provides yet more evidence that all
organisms must be involved in some type of energetic data transference that
determines things like form and process in nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems DNA holds the blueprint, but rather
than being set in stone, it is constantly being edited and re-worked by various
fields of influence both from within and outside our bodies. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Rather than a system of fortunate but ultimately random error, if
DNA uses frequencies of all variety as an information tool, this would suggest
instead a feedback system of perfect communication through waves which encode
and transfer information</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne
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which led to the development of this theory is the remarkable ability organisms
have to repair damage. If you cut an oak tree into little pieces, each little
piece, properly treated, can grow into a new tree. So from a tiny fragment, you
can get a whole. Machines do not do that; they do not have this power of
remaining whole if you remove parts of them. Chop a computer up into small
pieces and all you get is a broken computer. It does not regenerate into lots
of little computers. But if you chop a flatworm into small pieces, each piece
can grow into a new flatworm. Another analogy is a magnet. If you chop a magnet
into small pieces, you do have lots of small magnets, each with a complete
magnetic field. This is a holistic property that fields have that mechanical
systems do not have unless they are associated with fields. Still another
example is the hologram, any part of which contains the whole. A hologram is
based on interference patterns within the electromagnetic field. Fields thus
have a holistic property which was very attractive to the biologists who
developed this concept of morphogenetic fields</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance” (5)</span><br />
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As explained in my recent article, <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/01/the-most-important-thing-in-your-life.html">The Most Important Thing in Your Life</a>, there is literally nothing whatsoever more crucial to your health, vitality, longevity and well-being than your breath. You may survive several months without food, a couple of weeks without water, but you won't survive more than a few minutes without air. More specifically, it is the oxygen in the air that your body so desperately and consistently needs. Just a few minutes without re-oxygenating the bloodstream through regular respiration results in immediate and certain death. <br />
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Proper oxygenation through Pranayama / Qigong breathing heightens concentration alertness and memory, calms the mind and stabilizes the nervous system, improves digestion, absorption and elimination, strengthens the heart, lungs, and abs, aids in recovery, immunity, longevity and weight control, cures headaches, hangovers, and asthma, moves the lymphatic system, relieves general body aches, pains, stress, depression and anxiety, increases stamina, lung capacity, and mindfulness, internally exercises and massages your organs, improves sleep, posture, poise and patience, boosts energy levels, releases happiness endorphins and elicits the relaxation response in every cell of the body. <br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>For the past several years I have been diligently
learning, practicing, and <a href="http://www.bangkokwingchun.com/">teaching Pranayama / Qigong</a> and I can say from daily
personal experience that this kind of internal exercise is by far the most
important, over-looked and under-appreciated, energizing, invigorating,
strengthening, purifying, balancing, meditative, relaxing, revitalizing activity possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Below are several videos I've made to help people get started with a regular deep breathing routine. Please try these techniques for yourselves, share them with everyone you can, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ericdubay77?feature=mhee">subscribe to my YouTube channel</a> for more future tutorials.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>The Yogi Complete Breath or 3-Part Circular Breathing</b> is one of the best Pranayamas to include into your daily routine as it trains the lungs to completely expand, completely contract, and utilizes the entire respiratory system properly and effectively. It improves concentration, alertness and sleep, digestion, absorption and elimination, reduces anxiety, stress, and anger, builds stamina, expands lung capacity, and fully oxygenates the bloodstream. Begin by exhaling every bit of air from your body then inhale through your nose completely filling up your lungs in 3 steps. 1) Fill up your lower lungs by inhaling slowly and deeply pushing your tummy outwards like you just finished a big meal. Imagine a string attached to your belly button slowly pulling out as you fill up the lower lungs. 2) Once the lower lungs are filled, the mid-lungs will begin to fill up which will expand your chest outwards while pulling the tummy back in. Imagine a 2nd string pulling on your sternum, expanding the rib cage, while the 1st string on your belly button has been released. 3) Once the mid-lungs are filled, the upper-lungs will quickly fill up like the top tapered part of a water bottle. Just lift your shoulders a little to get the last bit of air that you can, hold for a second (or several seconds if you can) then exhale through the mouth squeezing the abdominals to push out every last bit of carbon. Do this for at least 10 minutes a day every day and you will notice many substantial positive powerful effects!</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>Reverse Circular Breathing or "The Chi Cultivator"</b> is especially good for strengthening core abdominal muscles and cultivating life force energy (prana/chi/ki/qi) in your lower dantian. First exhale all the air from your lungs and really squeeze your abdominal muscles forcing out every last bit. Begin slowly inhaling through your nose bringing the air as deep into the lower lungs as possible filling them from bottom, middle, to top. Now instead of letting your belly bubble up full of air as in traditional low-breathing, actually pull your belly inwards towards your spine as you inhale. There is a vacuum vortex point behind your belly button called the dantian in Chinese medicine, and that is the point that will be sucking in, the destination point for the air being inhaled, and the main storage point for life force energy in the body. Once the inhalation is complete relax your abdominals letting your belly bubble out full of air then exhale slowly out your mouth. As you relax, practice and lengthen the breath there will come a sound from your throat like a cat purring or Darth Vader's mask. This is the sound of pranic/qigong ocean breathing which I've exaggerated a bit in the video to make it more audible.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>Ujjayi Pranayama or Ocean Breathing</b> is a very important deep breathing technique to master because it is so often used in conjunction with other breaths like the Yogi Complete Breath or Reverse Circular Breathing. Ujjayi Ocean Breathing warms and slows down the air being inhaled allowing for safe, full lung expansion and optimum oxygenation. The heat created helps release toxins and builds internal fire, enhances the digestive and nervous systems, elicits the relaxation response, and eliminates phlegm in the throat. The "ocean" sound comes from the glottis rapidly flapping against the vocal cords and acts as a regulator so you can drastically slow down and deepen your inhalations.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>The Nadi Purification Breath or Alternate Nostril Breathing</b> is one of the best ways to clear your sinuses if you have allergies, cold, stuffy/runny nose, snoring, asthma or other breathing problems. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Inhale slowly and deeply into the
abdomen through the left nostril while plugging the right. Then plug
the left nostril and fairly forcefully exhale the entire breath out your
right nostril. Squeeze your core muscles to expel every last bit of
air, keep the left nostril plugged, inhale through the right then exhale
through the left, and continue alternating back and forth like this. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Alternate Nostril Breathing reduces
stress, boosts energy, clears the sinuses, cleanses the lungs, increases
oxygenation of blood, improves sleep, calms the mind/emotions, and has
been scientifically proven to improve brain function. When used in conjunction with a Neti Pot cleansing it's like a complete enema for your head/sinuses! </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /><b>The Yogi Cleansing Breath</b> is the perfect detoxification breath for cigarette smokers and anyone with chronic respiratory issues or halitosis. I personally smoked cigarettes from approximately age 18-26 and beginning daily pranayama practice is what helped easily and effortlessly ween me off cigarettes forever. All addiction experts will agree that you need a new positive hobby/activity to replace your old destructive habit, and with smoking addiction (an unhealthy respiratory activity) what could be more relevant and advantageous than a new healthy respiratory activity like deep breathing!? Within weeks of starting my daily practice I became sensitive enough to feel the negative effects of smoking even just 1 cigarette per day. I slowly ramped up my pranayama and cut down my smoking, consciously improving my health, expanding and detoxifying my lungs, until the act of smoking became so counter-productive that I truly haven't wanted to smoke another one. To perform the Yogi Cleansing Breath first sit, stand or lay with your spine straight and inhale slowly and deeply through the nose until your lungs are filled. Make an "O" shape with your mouth and force the exhale out in 3 or 4 quick bursts pushing every last bit by clenching your abdominals.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>The Pranayama Breath of Fire</b> detoxifies and purifies the entire bloodstream which in turn feeds every cell in our body. It improves digestion, helps regulate the pituitary, glandular, and nervous systems, increases vital energy and lung capacity, expels carbon dioxide and other stagnant toxins, and is an excellent abdominal workout for increasing core strength. To perform Breath of Fire, first sit, stand or lay with spine straight, and exhale all the air from your lungs. Then in forceful 1 second bursts tightly squeeze your abdominal muscles and exhale out your nose. A slight vacuum effect will automatically and involuntarily inhale a tiny bit after each exhale allowing you to continue breathing like this for several minutes with practice. Start by doing 1 second exhales for about a minute and work your way up to faster breaths and longer sessions. If you feel nauseous, dizzy or light-headed stop momentarily and take several deep breaths.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b>Shitali Pranayama or The Cooling Breath</b>, like all mouth-inhalation techniques, is only to be used sparingly in situations where the body feels over-heated. By rolling your tongue and inhaling through the mouth as shown in the video you will feel the air being cooled as it passes. Breathing like this for several minutes will cure heat exhaustion and cool the body down from the inside out. It is very important to note that mouth-breathing is something to be completely avoided except in extreme circumstances where the nasal passages are blocked or you're gasping from lack of oxygen. Mouth breathing is directly responsible for the contraction of many contagious diseases like colds and catarrhal infections. Experiments have been performed on hundreds of soldiers and sailors showing that those who slept with their mouths open were much more likely to fall ill and contract contagious diseases than those who breathed properly through their nostrils. During one of the Navy experiments a smallpox epidemic broke out resulting in many deaths among the mouth-breathers, yet not a single nose-breather suffered.<br /><br /><i>"The organs of respiration have their only protective apparatus, filter, or dust-catcher, in the nostrils. When the breath is taken through the mouth, there is nothing from mouth to lungs to strain the air, or to catch the dust and other foreign matter in the air. Moreover, such incorrect breathing admits cold air to the organs, thereby injuring them. Inflammation of the respiratory organs often results from the inhalation of cold air through the mouth. The man who breathes through the mouth at night, always awakens with a parched feeling in the mouth and a dryness in the throat. He is violating one of nature's laws, and is sowing the seeds of disease. On the other hand, the nostrils and nasal passages show evidence of the careful design of nature in this respect. The nostrils are two narrow, tortuous channels, containing numerous bristly hairs which serve the purpose of a filter or sieve to strain the air of its impurities, etc., which are expelled when the breath is exhaled. Not only do the nostrils serve this important purpose, but they also perform an important function in warming the air inhaled. The long narrow winding nostrils are filled with warm mucous membrane, which coming in contact with the inhaled air warms it so that it can do no damage to the delicate organs of the throat, or to the lungs."</i> -Yogi Ramacharaka, "The Science of Breath"</span>Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-64028862932891541332013-03-03T04:55:00.000-08:002013-03-03T04:55:07.196-08:00The Universal Fourier Transform<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the
18<sup>th</sup> century a Frenchman named Jean Fourier discovered a
mathematical method of converting patterns into simple wave forms called the
Fourier transform, a process which later led to the discoveries of both
television and holography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a video
camera captures scenes on film it converts pictures into electromagnetic
frequencies which are then converted back again by your television set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scientists are now finding that this Fourier
transform process is <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/02/our-holographic-brains.html">how the brain works</a>, as an electromagnetic frequency
decoder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have long known that through
our 120 billion miles of DNA/RNA our entire bodies are involved in a frequency decoding
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know our ears are audio
frequency decoders, Nobel Prize winner Georg von Bekesy has proven that our
skin responds to frequencies, and thanks to neurophysiologists Russell and
Karen DeValois, we now know that brain cells in the visual cortex react and
activate based on frequency patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>University</i><i> of California at Berkeley
Neurophysiologists Russell and Karen DeValois converted simple plaid and
checkerboard patterns into Fourier waves and discovered that the brain cells of
cats and monkeys responded not to the patterns themselves but to the interference
patterns of their component waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Countless studies, elaborated on by the DeValois team in their book
Spatial Vision, show that numerous cells in the visual system are tuned into
certain frequencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other studies have
showed that the human cerebral cortex may be tuned to specific frequencies</i>
… <i>Pribram conjectured that these wave collisions must create the pictorial
images in our brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we perceive
something, it’s not due to the activity of neurons themselves but to certain
patches of dendrites distributed around the brain, which, like a radio station,
are set to resonate only at certain frequencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like having a vast number of piano
strings all over your head, only some of which would vibrate as a particular
note is played</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne McTaggart,
“The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe,” (86-88)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Pribram has conjectured that wave-interference patterns are likely
not created or received by any particular brain cells, but in the spaces
between them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dendrites, the tiny nerve
endings of neurons where synapses are fired, communicate with other neurons by
sending and receiving electrical/chemical wave impulses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is plausible that this is where wave
frequencies are received and transformed into holographic images, because there
are constantly millions of wave-interference patterns criss-crossing here
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The fact that movement could somehow be represented formally in
terms of Fourier equations made Pribram realize that the brain’s conversations
with the body might also be occurring in the form of waves and patterns, rather
than as images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brain somehow had
the capacity to analyze movement, break it down into wave frequencies and
transmit this wave-pattern shorthand to the rest of the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This information, transmitted nonlocally, to
many parts at once, would explain how we can fairy easily manage complicated
global tasks involving multiple body parts, such as riding a bicycle or roller
skating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also accounts for how we can
easily imitate some task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pribram also
came across evidence that our other senses – smell, taste and hearing – operate
by analyzing frequencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Pribram’s
own studies with cats, in which he recorded frequencies from the motor cortex
of cats while their right forepaw was being moved up and down, he discovered
that, like the visual cortex, individual cells in the cat’s motor cortex
responded to only a limited number of frequencies of movement, just as
individual strings in a piano respond to a limited range of frequencies</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe,” (87)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The color “red” in our explicate experience is really just an implicate
wave-interference pattern vibrating at a frequency of 400 THz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The color “violet” in our experience is really
just a wave-interference pattern vibrating at a frequency of 790 THz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above the spectrum visible to humans are
ultra-violet rays, x-rays, and gamma rays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Below the spectrum visible to us are infra-red, microwaves, and radio
waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our brains decode this small
sliver of electromagnetic frequencies and create the perceptions and sensations
we experience in our consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Using the piano analogy, think of the color red as a low note and the
color violet as a high note, a rainbow is a major chord, and a lakeside sunset
is a concerto.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Our brain is not a storage medium but a receiving mechanism in
every sense, and memory is simply a distant cousin of ordinary perception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brain retrieves ‘old’ information the
same way it processes ‘new’ information – through holographic transformation of
wave interference patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lashley’s
rats with the fried brains were able to conjure up their run in its entirety
because the memory of it was never burned away in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever reception mechanism was left in the
brain – and <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/02/our-holographic-brains.html">as Pribram had demonstrated</a>, it was distributed all over the brain
– was tuning back into the memory through The Field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some scientists went as far as to suggest
that all of our higher cognitive processes result from an interaction with the
Zero Point Field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This kind of constant
interaction might account for intuition or creativity – and how ideas come to
us in bursts of insight, sometimes in fragments but often as a miraculous
whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An intuitive leap might simply be
a sudden coalescence of coherence in The Field</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe,” (95)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If you
take a piece of regular film and cut it up, your image is destroyed
forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, when you cut up a
piece of holographic film, the image is never destroyed - a smaller scale
version of the image always exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
memories were stored locally, like regular film, and you cut out that part of
the brain, the memory would be lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
in reality, like holographic film, when you cut out parts of the brain, a smaller
scale version of the memory always exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So just as a piece of holographic film stores complete images as
interference patterns throughout its entirety, the human brain stores complete
memories as interference patterns throughout its entirety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And just like a laser light focused on a
piece of holographic film creates a seemingly physical three-dimensional image,
the light of our consciousness focusing on quanta creates a seeming physical
three-dimensional world.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i><a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/01/the-holographic-universe.html">The holographic model</a> offers revolutionary possibilities for a new
understanding of the relationships between the parts and the whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No longer confined to the limited logic of
traditional thought, the part ceases to be just a fragment of the whole but,
under certain circumstances, reflects and contains the whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As individual human beings we are not
isolated and insignificant Newtonian entities; rather, as integral fields of
the holomovement each of us is also a microcosm that reflects and contains the
macrocosm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this is true, then we each
hold the potential for having direct and immediate experiential access to
virtually every aspect of the universe, extending our capacities well beyond
the reach of our senses</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Stanislav
Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” (10)</span><br />
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markedly holographic processor present in our bodies and the universe is
DNA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watch any movie or TV series about
crime-scene investigation and notice that the identity of the culprit can be
determined from tiny traces of their DNA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A drop of blood, a fingernail, or a single strand of hair is enough to
positively identify the perpetrator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
reason for this is that DNA, like our brains, holographically mirrors each part
in the whole and the whole in each part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>DNA
(like RNA) emits light-energy in the form of photons to such an extent that it
has been compared by some to an 'ultra weak laser'. They generate coherent
light in the same way that our technological lasers do - the lasers that create
holograms. The [universe] broadcasts its signals in wave, or interference,
patterns and it may be that the laser light emitted by the DNA/RNA is part of
the process of turning them into holographic representations of that waveform …One
mystery of quantum physics is how particles can either express themselves as a
'wave' form (nonphysical) or as a particle (apparently 'physical') and the
waveforms only become particles when they are being observed - <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/09/the-measurement-problem-observer-effect.html">when we are looking at them</a>. What is actually happening is that the DNA/RNA/brain is
causing the waveform or interference pattern to project an illusory hologram.
The act of 'observation' - focus - projects the holograms from the waveforms
and when this happens the quantum physicists see the waveform 'becoming' a
particle. Both the waveform and the particle exist at the same time and they
don't move from one state to another. When a laser is shone onto a photographic
interference pattern to manifest a hologram, one does not replace the other.
Both waveform and hologram coexist. It is just that the observer sees the
hologram as the prime reality. The waveform is possibility; the particle is
'physical' experience</i>.” –David Icke, “Infinite Love is the Only Truth,
Everything Else is Illusion” (62-3)</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ever-increasing
evidence overwhelmingly suggests that our brains, bodies, DNA, and the <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/01/the-holographic-universe.html">entire universe</a> are non-local holographic transducers incessantly interacting with a
deeper quantum reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
“holomovement” is an “undivided wholeness in flowing motion” where all
perceived separation is ultimately illusory like whirlpools in a river. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the seeming separation of forms and consciousness
into “relatively independent subtotalities” only exists at the explicate
level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As David Bohm put it simply, “<i>deep
down, the consciousness of mankind is one</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Scientists
can't understand why subatomic particles can communicate instantly with each
other over staggering distances because they are thinking in terms of space.
But there is no space involved. It is like the droplet of water and the
ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no particles, plural,
except in the way we perceive them in the illusion. All particles are the same
One. They don't have to communicate between each other because there is no
'each other' and they don't move from one place to another because there is no
space and so there can be no places. Appropriately the word 'Utopia' means 'no
place' - beyond the illusion of time and space. The superhologram appears to
occupy space and we talk of the vastness of space. But it's a hologram and so
that cannot be. If there is no space how come we seem to travel through it?
Once again because that is the illusion our DNA/RNA decodes for us and we
travel through space only as electrical signals interpreted by the brain</i>.”
–David Icke, “Infinite Love is the Only Truth, Everything Else is Illusion”
(93)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Every particle
in the universe is a carrier of knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In other words, in some form or another, every particle can be said to
be conscious. As humatons, we tend to assume that only we are conscious,
because only we seem to be self-conscious …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not only that, we have attributed our consciousness to a single organ
only, the brain (And it is possible we only use ten percent of that organ with
which to deduce all of this).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would
seem to be equally possible, however - and a lot more logical - to assume that
the brain is merely a receiver of information - a tuning dial that picks up
data and translates it into sense impressions and rational thought, images, and
so forth - and that knowledge as such, memory, is stored in every single atom
of our bodies. For organic beings, the 'filing system' provided for every
living molecule is DNA. As such, if we were to tune in with the remaining
ninety percent of our brains, we would be capable of receiving vastly greater
amounts of data than we are presently accustomed to … Just as
knowledge/memory/experience is passed through generations of a given species,
presumably via DNA, in order for the species to evolve as a whole, so
information would appear to be shared freely amongst all the billions upon
billions of particles that make up the physical universe. This is cooperation
on a grand scale. Every particle is conscious. Every particle is potentially
conscious of what every other particle is conscious of. And all particles are
connected together into a single tapestry of consciousness/information/energy
which is, it therefore follows, conscious of what every particle is conscious
of, and conscious of itself as a unified whole; a living, conscious organism.
Ergo, the universe is a superconscious being within which all beings exist and
have life and consciousness. It is God, and every one of its parts and
components - as in a hologram in which each fragment contains the whole - is
also God, the totality, in and of itself</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>–Jake Horsley, “Matrix Warrior” (90-91)</span><br />
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Independently of <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2013/01/the-holographic-universe.html">David Bohm’s research</a>, Stanford neuroscientist Karl Pribram proposed a holographic
model for explaining the structure and function of the human brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His work strongly suggests that the brain
stores information, not locally in so-called “engrams,” but holographically
throughout its entirety.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Interestingly,
while Pribram and David Bohm began their work independently, both were using
the same explanation to describe the results of their experiments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were each applying the holographic model
to make sense of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bohm, as a
quantum physicist, was looking at the universe as a hologram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pribram, as a neuroscientist, was studying
the brain as a holographic processor … When the two theories are combined, what
results is nothing less than a paradigm-shattering possibility</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (113)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Individual memories were long thought to exist locally in specific
areas of the brain; however, thanks to the work of Dr. Karl Pribram, Dr. Karl
Lashley, Dr. Paul Pietsch and others, we now know this is not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Karl Lashley and other scientists have
trained rats to navigate mazes, then removed their brains piece by piece, attempting
to find where “engrams” (individual memories) exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely, however, in the experiments the
rats always remember the training no matter which piece or how much of the
brain is removed.</span></div>
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after removing as much as 90 percent of a rat’s visual cortex (the part of the
brain that receives and interprets what the eye sees), he found it could still
perform tasks requiring complex visual skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Similarly, research conducted by Pribram revealed that as much as 98
percent of a cat’s optic nerves can be severed without seriously impairing its
ability to perform complex visual tasks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such a situation was tantamount to believing that a movie audience could
still enjoy a motion picture after 90 percent of the movie screen was missing,
and his experiments presented once again a serious challenge to the standard
understanding of how vision works</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael
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orthodox explanation of vision is that the eye sees by taking a photographic
image and reproducing it onto the cortical surface of the brain where we
interpret it like an internal movie screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dr. Lashley’s experiments showed, however, that even when 90-98% of that
internal projector screen is missing, the brain still receives and registers
the whole movie!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Experiments
demonstrated that animals retained memories and continued their lives even
though the parts of their brains that were believed to hold these functions
were removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, it
appeared that there wasn’t a direct correspondence between the memories and a
physical place in the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
obvious that the mechanical view of brains and memory wasn’t the answer –
something else strange and wonderful must be happening</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (112)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">These and
other experiments have shown that Dr. Lashley’s engram theory of individual
memories existing in certain areas of the brain is provably incorrect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Memories and images are distributed all
throughout the brain, just like a picture is stored all throughout a piece of
holographic film.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Paul
Pietsch began as an ardent disbeliever in Pribram’s theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was especially skeptical of Pribram’s
claim that memories do not possess any specific location in the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To prove Pribram wrong, Pietsch devised a
series of experiments … Pietsch reasoned that if a salamander’s feeding
behavior is not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>confined to any specific
location in the brain, then it should not matter how its brain is positioned in
its head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it did matter, Pribram’s
theory would be disproven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then
flip-flopped the left and right hemispheres of a salamander’s brain, but to his
dismay, as soon as it recovered, the salamander quickly resumed normal
feeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took another salamander and
turned its brain upside down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it
recovered, it too fed normally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing
increasingly frustrated, he decided to resort to more drastic measures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a series of over 700 operations he sliced,
flipped, shuffled, subtracted, and even minced the brains of his hapless
subjects, but always when he replaced what was left of their brains, their
behavior returned to normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
findings and others turned Pietsch into a believer</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael Talbot, “The Holographic Universe”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (26)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Salamanders were good subjects for this experiment because they simply
go comatose when their brains are removed and then quickly regain normal
functioning once it’s replaced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Dr.
Pietsch’s 700 trials he subtracted, sliced, diced, mashed, and even
sausage-ground salamander brains but no matter what, after putting back
whatever was left of their brains, they always regained normal
functioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Mainstream science has been
unable to locate the area of the brain that contains all the memory because
what we call memory exists throughout the brain and body. This must be the case
because it's a hologram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People with
tumours, who have large parts of their brains removed, do not lose specific
memories. They might not remember, in general, quite as well because they have
moved to a smaller level of the holographic memory where there is less clarity
than in the whole. But they don't lose one memory completely and retain another
in crystal clarity as they would if memory was located in one area. The body
hologram stores information from all the senses and so when we smell something
it can trigger a memory just as powerfully as sight or hearing. Even this is
another level of the illusion because if the brain is a hologram it must also
be illusory. It is, like everything in this reality, the 'physical' expression
of a frequency field or resonance. Incidentally, the holographic nature of the
body means the whole brain/body is involved in decoding the five senses and not
just the 'visual cortex' and other areas of the brain associated with these
specific duties</i>.” –David Icke, “Infinite Love is the Only Truth, Everything
Else is Illusion” (51)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So you can obliterate a salamander’s brain in any number of ways, and
it will still have a normal life as long as you put a tiny piece of brain back
in its head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can teach a rat to run
a maze, then remove any part of its brain, and it will still remember the run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can remove 90% of a rat’s visual cortex
and it will still perform complex visual tasks. You can sever 98% of a cat’s
optic nerves and it will still see normally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These, along with many other experiments, strongly suggest that the
brain processes images and stores information holographically (all parts in the
whole and the whole in all parts) because the brain, like a hologram, no matter
how small the piece, can still reconstruct the whole.</span></div>
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construct objective reality by interpreting frequencies that are ultimately
projections from another dimension, a deeper order of existence that is beyond
both space and time: The brain is a hologram enfolded in a holographic universe
… What is ‘out there’ is a vast ocean of waves and frequencies, and reality
looks concrete to us only because our brains are able to take this holographic
blur and convert it into the sticks and stones and other familiar objects that
make up our world.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael Talbot,
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Michael Talbot’s “The Holographic Universe,” he suggests our experience of the
smoothness of fine china or the feel of beach sand beneath our feet is like an
elaborate version of the so-called “phantom limb syndrome” – when amputees can
still “feel” their missing limb(s) long after having been removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, there are two realities, like
Bohm’s implicate and explicate orders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the implicate order, a “china cup” is just an energetic interference pattern
vibrating at a certain frequency, but in the explicate order, after being
filtered through the lens of our brains, eyes, and nervous systems, those
interference patterns manifest to us as the look and feel of fine china.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked, “<i>so which is real and which is
an illusion?</i>” Dr. Pribram replied that, “<i>both are real to me, or if you
want to say, neither of them are real</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Although the metaphor of the holograph was important to Pribram,
the real significance of his discovery was not holography per se, which
conjures up a mental image of the three-dimensional ghostly projection, or a
universe which is only our projection of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was the unique ability of quantum waves to store vast quantities of
information in a totality and in three dimensions, and for our brains to be
able to read this information and from this to create the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here was finally a mechanical device that
seemed to replicate the way that the brain actually worked:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how images were formed, how they were stored
and how they could be recalled or associated with something else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most important, it gave a clue to the biggest
mystery of all for Pribram:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how you
could have localized tasks in the brain but process or store them throughout
the larger whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a sense, holography
is just convenient shorthand for wave interference – the language of The Field</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe,” (84)</span></div>
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here we are – all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is
everybody else’s Self … It’s all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Itzhak Bentov</span></div>
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photograph objects with a split light beam and store the information as wave
interference patterns, you get a better image than with ordinary point-to-point
intensity photographs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only is the
captured image clearer, but it is completely three dimensional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>In a classic laser hologram, a laser beam is split.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One portion is reflected off an object – a
china teacup, say – the other is reflected by several mirrors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are then reunited and captured on a
piece of photographic film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result
on the plate – which represents the interference pattern of these waves –
resembles nothing more than a set of squiggles or concentric circles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, when you shine a light beam from the
same kind of laser through the film, what you see is a fully realized,
incredibly detailed, three-dimensional virtual image of the china teacup
floating in space (an example of this is the image of Princess Leia which gets
generated by R2D2 in the first movie of the Star Wars series).</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe,” (83)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>A
hologram is produced when a single laser light is split into two separate
beams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first beam is bounced off the
object to be photographed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the
second beam is allowed to collide with the reflected light of the first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this happens they create an interference
pattern which is then recorded on a piece of film … as soon as another laser
beam is shined through the film, a three-dimensional image of the original
object reappears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
three-dimensionality of such images is often eerily convincing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can actually walk around a holographic
projection and view it from different angles as you would a real object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, if you reach out and try to touch
it, your hand will waft right through it and you will discover there is really
nothing there</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael
Talbot, “The Holographic Universe”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (14-15)</span></div>
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three-dimensionality of holographic images is not their only amazing
attribute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In holograms, all parts are
reflected in the whole and the whole is reflected in all parts, so if you chop
a piece of holographic film into tiny bits then shine a laser onto any of them,
no matter how small, you will still get a complete image.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Back
in the 1980s, a series of bookmarks appeared on the market using holographic
technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each one was made of a shiny
strip of silver paper that looked like glossy aluminum foil at first glance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the paper was held directly under a
bright light and tilted back and forth, however … Suddenly, the images in the
foil looked as though they’d come to life and were hovering in the air just
above the paper itself … If you have one of these bookmarks, you can do an
experiment to demonstrate for yourself just how a hologram works … use a sharp
pair of scissors to cut your beautiful, shiny bookmark into hundreds of pieces
of any shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, take the smallest of
the fragments and cut it again into an even tinier piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the bookmark is truly a hologram, you’ll be
able to look at your tiny speck of a bookmark under a magnifying glass and
still see the entire image, only on a smaller scale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason why is that it exists everywhere
throughout the bookmark</i>.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Gregg
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The “physical”
world around us behaves much like a hologram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just like a piece of holographic film, all quanta exist as interfering
wave patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In and of themselves,
these interference waves have no “solidity” – no definite properties or
location – just like the squiggles/circles on holographic film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The image is distributed throughout the
entire film, just as quanta are distributed throughout the entire
universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then when a laser beam (the
light of consciousness) is directed at those interference waves, seemingly
solid particles (three dimensional images) appear before our eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the first physicists to consider this
“cosmic hologram” metaphor was David Bohm who defined the universe as an
“undivided wholeness in flowing motion” which he termed the “holomovement.”</span></div>
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“<i>Einstein’s
protégé, American physicist David Bohm, felt that quantum theory suggested the
existence of a deeper reality than the one presented by our senses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He dubbed the implicate order an undivided
holistic realm that is beyond concepts like spacetime, matter, or energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the implicate order everything is fully
enfolded or entangled with everything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By contrast, the explicate order world of ordinary observations and
common sense emerge, or unfold, out of the implicate order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bohm used a hologram as a metaphor to
illustrate how information about a whole system can be enfolded into an
implicit structure, any part of which reflects the whole.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Dean Radin, “Entangled Minds” (254)</div>
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implicate order is analogous to the two dimensional piece of holographic film
and the explicate order is analogous to the three dimensional holographic
image.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The implicate order is the
underlying undivided wholeness of the universe and the explicate order is the
multitude of seemingly separate forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To illustrate this duality, consider the following passages from my book
Asbestos Head:</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“If you blur your
vision enough, forms disappear and you are left with nothing but a mass of
color in motion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no word that
describes the blur, but perhaps you make one up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then you make a habit of making up words for
blurs and start recognizing similarities - you label <i>tree </i>blurs, <i>rock
</i>blurs, other <i>animal </i>blurs and maybe even <i>atom </i>blurs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This allows you to compare and categorize,
make judgments, and express artistic concerns about the blurs, but the fact
remains that the boundaries between blurs are perceptual, not actual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know no two trees, rocks, animals, or
atoms are exactly alike, but if no two things are exactly alike, we have no way
to measure what constitutes one thing or it’s other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If no two things are exactly alike then there
must be only one true form that is everything (i.e. the universal hologram)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We know that
sub-atomic particles are constantly in motion, but on a smaller scale than we
can perceive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that the planet
beneath us is constantly in motion, but on a larger scale than we can
perceive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know the Universe is
perpetually changing and in motion, but we perceive most things as unchanging
and still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we use language to label
this fallacious stillness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We recognize
similarities in the stillness and create categories and definitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We forget all about our faulty premise and
attribute a priori importance to these forms we perceive; though in fact
knowing no two things are truly separate and everything’s constantly moving
(a.k.a. the holomovement).”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Bohm
cautions that this does not mean the universe is a giant undifferentiated
mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things can be part of an undivided
whole and still possess their own unique qualities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To illustrate what he means he points to the
little eddies and whirlpools that often form in a river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a glance such eddies appear to be separate
things and possess many individual characteristics such as size, rate, and
direction of rotation, et cetera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
careful scrutiny reveals that it is impossible to determine where any given
whirlpool ends and the river begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus, Bohm is not suggesting that the differences between ‘things’ is
meaningless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He merely wants us to be
aware constantly that dividing various aspects of the holomovement into
‘things’ is always an abstraction, a way of making those aspects stand out in
our perception by our way of thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In attempts to correct this, instead of calling different aspects of the
holomovement ‘things,’ he prefers to call them ‘relatively independent
subtotalities</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael
Talbot, “The Holographic Universe”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (48-9)</span></div>
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atoms are not the “building blocks of matter” but rather just a term given to
one aspect of the holomovement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
various forms we name, words and categories we create, are all ultimately
arbitrary because at the implicate level of reality, everything is one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No two atoms, two rocks, two trees, or two
people are any more separate from one another than whirlpools are separate from
the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The universe is a holographic
oneness in perpetual motion, both created and navigated by consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matter is not separated by space and time;
rather, matter, space, and time are always already ever-present and one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To illustrate this, think of a DVD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the explicate level of the DVD, you see a
movie with people, places and events happening in space and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the actors on your television screen,
they experienced everything happening in “real” time in the “real” world during
filming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for you the viewer, holding
the DVD in your hand, you can see the implicate level of the movie where all
the people, places, and events on it are mere projections of a single
totality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can rewind, fast-forward,
slow-mo, or freeze-frame the entire realistic three-dimensional explicate world
of the DVD because you are operating from the implicate world of remote
control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The One, God, infinite
consciousness, cosmic mind, or whatever you want to call it, operates at the
objective, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent level of the implicate DVD, and
meanwhile us humans, animals, plants, insects, and every other subjective
entity in the physical universe are method actors in the explicate movie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bohm
himself said, </span>“<i>It will be ultimately misleading and indeed wrong to
suppose, for example, that each human being is an independent actuality who
interacts with other human beings and with nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, all these are projections of a single
totality</i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">”</span></div>
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it may look as though we’re disconnected from one another and the rest of the
world, that detachment doesn’t exist on the plane where the hologram originates
… On this level of unity, there really can be no such things as ‘here’ and
‘there.’</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The Divine
Matrix” (107)</span></div>
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does not exist independently from so-called empty space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a part of space … Space is not
empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is full, a plenum as opposed
to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including
ourselves</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael
Talbot, “The Holographic Universe”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (51)</span></div>
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holomovement, will eventually have most profound implications for humanity
which all science will quite simply have to accept sooner or later, thus
proving conclusively the Universe rather than being a vast and disparate
multitude of separately interacting particles of matter, is in reality a
magnificent unbroken completeness, a continuum, an infinite flowing movement of
Energy, vibration, the holomovement</i>.” -Adrian Cooper, “Our Ultimate
Reality” (88)</span></div>
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maintaining optimum health, energy, longevity, vitality, and wellness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it genetics, diet, exercise, hydration,
sleep, mindset, environment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly
all of these factors are very important, but in fact they are all secondary to
something most doctors and lay-people alike completely overlook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what is the most important thing in your
life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so important that you do it all
day every day and all night every night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are even doing it unconsciously right now while reading this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s something so crucial to your health,
longevity and wellness that ceasing for even a few minutes results in certain
death!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one and only undeniable
answer is Breathing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To breathe is to
live and without breath there can be no life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All life, plant and animal, from birth to death, completely depends upon
the air for health, well-being and continued existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From microscopic mitochondria to macroscopic
lungs, every living cell breathes and depends on the air’s life-giving
properties for sustenance.</div>
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“<i>Breathing may be considered the most important of all of
the functions of the body, for, indeed, all the other functions depend upon
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man may exist some time without
eating; a shorter time without drinking; but without breathing his existence may
be measured by a few minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And not
only is Man dependent upon Breath for life, but he is largely dependent upon
correct habits of breathing for continued vitality and freedom from
disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An intelligent control of our
breathing power will lengthen our days upon the earth by giving us increased
vitality and powers of resistance, and, on the other hand, unintelligent and
careless breathing will tend to shorten our days, by decreasing our vitality
and laying us open to disease</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Yogi
Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath” (6)</div>
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practiced and perfected over several thousand years by Indian yogis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shaolin martial monks and Taoists evolved and
perform a similar discipline known as Qigong (Chi Kung).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the past several years I have been diligently
learning, practicing, and <a href="http://www.bangkokwingchun.com/">teaching Pranayama / Qigong</a> and I can say from daily
personal experience that this kind of internal exercise is by far the most
important, over-looked and under-appreciated, energizing, invigorating,
strengthening, purifying, balancing, meditative, relaxing, revitalizing,
immunity-boosting and longevity-promoting activity possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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more effective as medical therapy than any drug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This knowledge is indispensable to man, and
every physician should study it thoroughly</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Taoist Shen Chia-shu</div>
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Everyone instinctively knows that breathing is absolutely
unarguably the most important thing in their life, but how many treat it as
such?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much attention do you give to
your breathing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever learned or
practiced methods of proper and effective breathing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people walk around on half-power their
whole lives, chronically starved for oxygen, wide open to disease, shallow staccato
chest-breathing their way to early graves.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsh5RnSlSV3Ux2B0sR0nNZiNqqqyuJCMA4CKxYpsRpBsuu1Ixg3oyABTiWBEatT8Z2Ynh6z299eMyTRL8PvvtaiduaE3dmBqK-tpvJwjfMxtFGZU0YVjBqtSUmyfNl9XIjEwWxSmDEAJo/s1600/yogic_pranayama_breathing_for_long_life__good_health_idf019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsh5RnSlSV3Ux2B0sR0nNZiNqqqyuJCMA4CKxYpsRpBsuu1Ixg3oyABTiWBEatT8Z2Ynh6z299eMyTRL8PvvtaiduaE3dmBqK-tpvJwjfMxtFGZU0YVjBqtSUmyfNl9XIjEwWxSmDEAJo/s200/yogic_pranayama_breathing_for_long_life__good_health_idf019.jpg" width="173" /></a>“<i>Man has contracted improper methods and attitudes of
walking, standing and sitting, which have robbed him of his birthright of
natural and correct breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
paid a high price for civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
savage, today, breathes naturally, unless he has been contaminated by the
habits of civilized man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The percentage
of civilized men who breathe correctly is quite small, and the result is shown
in contracted chests, stooping shoulders, and the terrible increase in diseases
of the respiratory organs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eminent
authorities have stated that one generation of correct breathers would
regenerate the race, and disease would be so rare as to be looked upon as a
curiosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether looked at from the
standpoint of the Oriental or Occidental, the connection between correct
breathing and health is readily seen and explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Occidental teachings show that the
physical health depends very materially upon correct breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Oriental teachers not only admit that
their Occidental brothers are right, but say that in addition to the physical
benefit derived from correct habits of breathing, Man’s mental power,
happiness, self-control, clear-sightedness, morals, and even his spiritual
growth may be increased</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Yogi
Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath” (7)</div>
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Regular deep breathing practice is absolutely the best
holistic exercise and the ultimate preventative medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It detoxifies, oxygenates, cleans and
purifies the entire bloodstream through the lungs, moves the lymphatic system, relieves
general body aches, pains, stress, anxiety, and depression, increases stamina,
lung capacity, abdominal muscle, core strength, mindfulness, mental clarity and
focus, internally exercises and massages your organs, improves posture, poise
and patience, promotes longevity and cellular regeneration, boosts energy
levels, elevates moods, releases happiness endorphins, assists in weight
control, improves digestion, assimilation, and elimination, strengthens the
heart, lungs, abdominals and immune system, aids in deeper sleep and elicits
the relaxation response in every cell of the body.</div>
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“<i>The benefits of working with the breath are
profound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way you breathe directly
influences the quality of your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
fact, the way you breathe might be the most important factor in how you
feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about how people breathe
when they are sad and crying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
inhale with short, shallow gasps and exhale with either long wails or choppy
sobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If someone is angry, in-breaths
are usually constricted and out-breaths are long and forceful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During stress, the breath can actually become
so shallow that it is almost nonexistent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the other hand, when someone is feeling good, the breath is calm,
deep, and even.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The amazing thing about
breathing exercises is that the relationship also works in the reverse; by
changing the way you breathe, you can also change the way you feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you breathe deeply, down into the abdomen,
this sends a message to the body to transform negative emotions into positive
ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deep breathing moves chi and
clears stagnant energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is almost
impossible to breathe deeply and feel negative emotions at the same time</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Mantak Chia, “Simple Chi Kung” (56-57)</div>
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through which lungs purify and detoxify the bloodstream, and blood is the
substance which nourishes and sustains every cell in your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus proper and effective breathing is of paramount
importance in maintaining the health and integrity of every cell in your
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Blood begins its journey in the
heart, bright red, oxygen-rich and full of life-giving properties, then later
returns from its journey dull blue, oxygen-starved, and devoid of life
energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blood is pumped from the left
auricle into the left ventricle then out of the heart through the arteries and
into the capillaries where it reaches and feeds every cell in the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On its return journey the blood is pulled
from the capillaries through the veins and back into the right auricle of the
heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When filled the auricle contracts
forcing blood through the right ventricle down into the lungs where it branches
out and disperses into millions of hair-like blood vessels and air cells thick
enough to hold the blood but thin enough to allow oxygen to penetrate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon inhalation oxygen comes into contact
with the impure blood and a chemical combustion takes place oxidizing the
bloodstream and releasing carbonic acid gas generated from the waste products
and toxins gathered up during its arterial journey through the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon exhalation carbon dioxide and other
toxins are dispelled from the system and the newly re-purified blood, bright
red and oxygen-rich is pumped back out to every cell in the body.</div>
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“<i>Unless fresh air in sufficient quantities reaches the
lungs, the foul stream of venous blood cannot be purified, and consequently not
only is the body thus robbed of nourishment, but the waste products which
should have been destroyed are returned to the circulation and poison the
system, and death ensues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Impure air
acts in the same way, only in a lessened degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will also be seen that if one does not
breathe in a sufficient quantity of air, the work of the blood cannot go on
properly, and the result is that the body is insufficiently nourished and
disease ensues, or a state of imperfect health is experienced … A little reflection
will show the vital importance of correct breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the blood is not fully purified by the
regenerative process of the lungs, it returns to the arteries in an abnormal
state, insufficiently purified and imperfectly cleansed of the impurities which
it took up on its return journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
impurities if returned to the system will certainly manifest in some form of
disease, either in a form of blood disease or some disease resulting from
impaired functioning of some insufficiently nourished organ or tissue</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Yogi Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath”
(11)</div>
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sustains our lives; from the tips of our heads to the bottoms of our feet,
blood constantly circulates giving life energy to every cell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After just one cycle from heart to artery to
vein and back to heart again, the blood collects various impurities which are
taken to the lung capillaries for regeneration through respiration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proper breathing fully re-oxidizes and replenishes
the vitality of our blood so that the cycle of life may continue without slow
deterioration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact as pranic breathing
practice develops and lung capacity grows your ability to take in oxygen and
expel carbon more efficiently results in a cumulatively building state of daily
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oxygen be taken through the lungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
accounts for the fact that weak lungs and poor digestion are so often found
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To grasp the full significance
of this statement, one must remember that the entire body receives nourishment
from the food assimilated, and that imperfect assimilation always means an
imperfectly nourished body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the
lungs themselves depend upon the same source for nourishment, and if through
imperfect breathing the assimilation becomes imperfect, and the lungs in turn
become weakened, they are rendered still less able to perform their work
properly, and so in turn the body becomes further weakened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every particle of food and drink must be
oxygenated before it can yield us the proper nourishment, and before the waste
products of the system can be reduced to the proper condition to be
eliminated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when assimilation is not
normal, the system receives less and less nourishment, the appetite fails,
bodily vigor decreases, and energy diminishes, and the man withers and
declines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All from the lack of proper
breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lack of sufficient oxygen
means imperfect nutrition, imperfect elimination and imperfect health.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Yogi Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath”
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiJdF_RpV3tMwaOy01EbvCHoE6h2RTpHV2l6nWrvxM-Zp3AA-fjz18psvWYeP9OKk1pXZ_Ia5xdRyecuFCbXwEOO_ohykW-BurXSZR1m7m6aR0IAsu3-Bj3xlbwRk1af6E9S-ltLxHbT8/s1600/622-the-anatomy-of-pranayama-understanding-our-breath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiJdF_RpV3tMwaOy01EbvCHoE6h2RTpHV2l6nWrvxM-Zp3AA-fjz18psvWYeP9OKk1pXZ_Ia5xdRyecuFCbXwEOO_ohykW-BurXSZR1m7m6aR0IAsu3-Bj3xlbwRk1af6E9S-ltLxHbT8/s200/622-the-anatomy-of-pranayama-understanding-our-breath.jpg" width="220" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Our
lungs are situated in the pleural chamber of the thoracic cavity separated from
each other by the heart, blood vessels and air tubes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each lung is free and unattached in all
directions except at the root where it is connected via bronchi, arteries and
veins to the trachea and heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we
breathe, air comes in through the nasal cavity where it is warmed and filtered
through hairs and mucous membrane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
air passes through the pharynx, larynx, and trachea then into the bronchial
tubes where it is subdivided and dispersed into the millions of tiny air cells
in the lungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Air is drawn into the
lungs by the diaphragm, a long, strong, flat muscle stretched across the
chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the diaphragm contracts, the
size of the chest and lungs expand and air rushes in like a vacuum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it relaxes, the chest and lungs shrink
and air is blown out like a bellows. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
diaphragm’s actions and contractions are involuntary like the heart's, but
through practice and the will yogis can transform them into a semi-voluntary
muscle.</span></div>
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plan for the exercise is proper breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The diaphragm is Nature’s principal instrument for this internal
exercise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its motion vibrates the
important organs of nutrition and elimination, and massages and kneads them at
each inhalation and exhalation, forcing blood into them, and then squeezing it
out, and imparting a general tone to the organs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any organ or part of the body which is not
exercised gradually atrophies and refuses to function properly, and lack of the
internal exercise afforded by the diaphragmatic action leads to diseased organs</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Yogi Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath”
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In this clip I show a deep breathing technique and how it has moved my physical heartbeat to the center of my torso under my sternum. From 0:40-1:07 the noise that sounds like a distant engine or a cat purring is actually me inhaling using a pranayama / qigong deep breathing technique. From 1:07-1:37 you can see my heartbeat at my solar plexus but nowhere else in the upper left quadrant of the chest showing how daily deep breathing practice will bring about both literal and figurative heart centeredness! :) If you are interested in learning Pranayama, Yoga, and/or Wing Chun be sure to visit my site <a href="http://bangkokwingchun.com/">BangkokWingChun.com</a> and email me to schedule a session.</div><br>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Synchronicity
is a term coined by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung which he defined as the
“temporally coincident occurrence of acausal events.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, synchronicities are
meaningful coincidences – highly improbable, highly significant, serendipitous happenings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it is clear that there is no
cause-and-effect connection between two events, yet a meaningful relationship
nevertheless exists, this is synchronicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jung believed synchronicity is an acausal connecting principle of our
collective unconscious through which we are shown mystical glimpses of
meaningful connections between our subjective and objective worlds, divine
bridges between our inner and outer experiences.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtMiynaeR6gl04EzvOSi0koJy9x8sLpSXgHnWADmxZOzhIMI5BHGSvpx5ROyFD8Y61kNgtNi12ZmqcbXcYX9KJuIOxxTz4HnKMr0OjlTNdsl4S9LAa-0m15Nqicu4PX4yBcZJSkDM5_k/s1600/407441.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtMiynaeR6gl04EzvOSi0koJy9x8sLpSXgHnWADmxZOzhIMI5BHGSvpx5ROyFD8Y61kNgtNi12ZmqcbXcYX9KJuIOxxTz4HnKMr0OjlTNdsl4S9LAa-0m15Nqicu4PX4yBcZJSkDM5_k/s200/407441.jpg" width="163" /></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Synchronicities are revelations of the
absence of any division between the physical world and inner, psychological
reality. Synchronistic events are ‘lucidity stimulators,’ neon-signs from the
dreamlike nature of the universe to help us wake up to its, and our, dreamlike
nature. Just like a dream, mind and matter are not separate, distinct
realities, but rather, are seemingly different fundamental components of the
same deeper, underlying reality that has both an external-matter aspect and an
internal-mind aspect</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.”</span><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">–Paul Levy, “God the Imagination”</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeoyq-0j_8n7kyz9ZsDWhl3R_Ubrl4XZx0g0QnzmbWTUwR9vaP-f7zxGORW_rtYxEXTJJyVmKOn3OoVSexTq-dzCAiyMcH91geqHKBeeicnnO3PCbT2OzK7WHF9-LbSC9tjMgmUhESxwg/s1600/manifest-synchronicity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeoyq-0j_8n7kyz9ZsDWhl3R_Ubrl4XZx0g0QnzmbWTUwR9vaP-f7zxGORW_rtYxEXTJJyVmKOn3OoVSexTq-dzCAiyMcH91geqHKBeeicnnO3PCbT2OzK7WHF9-LbSC9tjMgmUhESxwg/s200/manifest-synchronicity.jpg" width="171" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The blurring of boundaries between
consciousness and matter challenges everything we are taught in traditional
Western thinking. From a very early age we are urged by our parents, teachers,
and religious leaders to draw clear lines between the ‘subjective’ and the
‘objective,’ the ‘real’ and the ‘unreal,’ the existent and the non-existent, or
the tangible and the intangible. However, a reality that is very similar to
Jung's acausal universe is becoming recognized in modern science, notably in
quantum-relativistic physics … It was Jung's recognition of phenomena that
exist outside cause and effect that led him to define synchronicity as an
‘acausal connecting principle.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meaningful coincidences between the inner world - the world of visions
and dreams - and the outer world of ‘objective reality’ suggested to Jung that
the two worlds were not as clearly separated as we might think</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Stanislav
Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(169)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Have you ever
experienced visions or emotional pangs related to some person or incident
outside your sensory experience?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have
you ever had déjà vu or coincidences so meaningful yet improbable that it
boggled your mind?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever had a
friend or relative pop into your head and then seconds later the phone rings
and it is them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myself and many others
have experienced such synchronicities, all of which can only be seen as
chance/coincidence in a Newtonian world, but have special meaning in a Jungian,
consciousness-based world.</span></div>
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many times have you gone to call someone on the phone, and found that he or she
was already on the line when you picked up the receiver … or when you dialed
the number, you discovered that the line was busy because your pal was calling
you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On how many occasions have you
found yourself enjoying time with friends in a busy street, mall, or airport,
only to have the eerie feeling that you’ve already been in that place or with
those people before, doing exactly what you’re doing at that moment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While these simple examples are fun to talk
about, they’re more than random coincidences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although we may not be able to prove scientifically why these things
happen, we all know that they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
such moments of connectedness and déjà vu, we find ourselves spontaneously
transcending the limits imposed by physical laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In those brief instances, we’re reminded that
there’s probably more to the universe and us than we may consciously
acknowledge</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The
Divine Matrix” (57-58)</span></div>
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personally experienced many synchronicities, déjà vu’s, and prophetic dreams
which have convinced me that something like Jung’s acausal connecting principle
truly does exist within consciousness outside of space and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, one night in college I actually
dreamed of a conversation that I would be having the next day and experienced
paradigm-shattering déjà vu as I found myself enacting my dream in
reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stunned in revelatory
paralysis, the dream came flooding back to me and I realized that I was
standing in the exact place, wearing the exact clothes, and having the exact
discussion that I had dreamt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly
it occurred to me that I knew exactly the entire next sentence my friend was
about to speak, so I quickly snapped out of the reverie and said the whole
sentence along with her verbatim simultaneously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend then stared at me dumbfounded as I
laughed and tried to explain. </span></div>
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meditating and started to feel a tight clenching at my solar plexus so I tried
to relax, took a deep breath and exhaled with an Om.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very second I finished my Om breath, the
electricity in my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3<sup>rd</sup> floor
apartment room, all the lights and my digital clock, went dark for 2 seconds
then came back on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shocked, I phoned my
friends on the 2<sup>nd</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup> floors to see if their power
had gone out and it hadn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This meant
at most the power went out only on my floor and perhaps only in my room!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perplexed and curious I then said a little
prayer to “God,” my “higher self,” or whatever aspect of the one consciousness
was listening, and said, “it seems like that was more than just a coincidence,
if that was some kind of sign, could I please have another one?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so the next day I was downstairs in my
girlfriends’s room watching the cartoon South Park on DVD, the episode where
Cesar Millan comes to deal with Cartman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just as Cesar finished saying the words “you must express the dominant
energy,” the lights, the television, everything went dark once again, then came
back on 2 seconds later and the DVD somehow skipped back and said once again
“express the dominant energy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Express
the dominant energy” coinciding with 2 power outages, my meditation, and my
asking for a sign was quite an odd, memorable and mysterious synchronicity for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Most of
us have encountered strange coincidences that defy ordinary explanation. The
Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer, one of the first to be interested in the
scientific implications of this phenomenon, reported a situation where his tram
ticket bore the same number as the theater ticket that he bought immediately
afterward; later that evening the same sequence of digits was given to him as a
telephone number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The astronomer
Flammarion cited an amusing story of a triple coincidence involving a certain
Mr. Deschamps and a special kind of plum pudding. As a boy, Deschamps was given
a piece of this pudding by a Mr. de Fortgibu. Ten years later, he saw the same
pudding on the menu of a Paris
restaurant and asked the waiter for a serving. However, it turned out that the
last piece of the pudding was already ordered—by Mr. de Fortgibu, who just
happened to be in the restaurant at that moment. Many years later, Mr.
Deschamps was invited to a party where this pudding was to be served as a
special rarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he was eating it,
he remarked that the only thing lacking was Mr. de Fortgibu. At that moment the
door opened and an old man walked in. It was Mr. de Fortgibu who burst in on
the party by mistake because he had been given a wrong address for the place he
was supposed to go.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Stanislav Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(171)</span><span style="background: black; border: none black 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-border-alt: none black 0cm; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-font-width: 0%; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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staunchly rational approach to life made it difficult for her to benefit from
therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a number of frustrating
sessions the woman told Jung about a dream involving a scarab beetle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jung knew that in Egyptian mythology the
scarab represented rebirth and wondered if the woman’s unconscious mind was
symbolically announcing that she was about to undergo some kind of
psychological rebirth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was just about
to tell her this when something tapped on the window, and he looked up to see a
gold-green scarab on the other side of the glass (it was the only time a scarab
beetle had ever appeared at Jung’s window).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He opened the window and allowed the scarab to fly into the room as he
presented his interpretation of the dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The woman was so stunned that she tempered her excessive rationality,
and from that point on her response to therapy improved</i>.” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Michael
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">These kinds
of anecdotes are not exactly “scientific” but due to the very nature of
synchronicities, science and the scientific method are unfortunately
ill-equipped to offer any insight into such intangible, immeasurable, and
subjective phenomena. However, for many people who have personally experienced
such highly improbable, unbelievable synchronicities, confirmation from science
is unnecessary because like a glimpse behind the veil, they are given a kind of
gnosis, an intuitive recognition of the subtle interplays between
consciousness, space, time and matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpprxTTFgYYSGC0s5lGMzPsEWkvRLI-7nTUSYWDX4u_jWqpa_yYjdEFGVTjw_Ng2bbslgfJEZc6glOAVzTWSF0SNjZ3DrmQfwK7hp19OqTzpvUgpIdxBumui8YHDBa0oW6AMPIUNuMd0c/s1600/PhilosopherinMeditation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpprxTTFgYYSGC0s5lGMzPsEWkvRLI-7nTUSYWDX4u_jWqpa_yYjdEFGVTjw_Ng2bbslgfJEZc6glOAVzTWSF0SNjZ3DrmQfwK7hp19OqTzpvUgpIdxBumui8YHDBa0oW6AMPIUNuMd0c/s320/PhilosopherinMeditation.jpg" width="270" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>In a
mechanical universe where everything is linked by cause and effect, there is no
place for ‘meaningful coincidences’ in the Jungian sense. In the practice of
traditional psychiatry, when a person perceives meaningful coincidences, he or
she is, at best, diagnosed as </i></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua-Italic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">projecting</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> special
meaning into </span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua-Italic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">purely accidental </span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">events; at worst he or she is
diagnosed as suffering from hallucinations or delusions. Traditional
psychiatrists either do not know about the existence of true synchronicities or
they prefer to ignore the concept. As a result they may wrongly diagnose
‘meaningful coincidences’ as the result of serious pathology (delusions of
reference). In many cases of spiritual emergencies, where valid synchronicities
were reported, people have all too often been hospitalized unnecessarily. Had
those experiences been correctly understood and treated as manifestations of
psycho-spiritual crisis those same people might have been quickly helped
through approaches supporting spiritual emergence, rather than undergoing all
the problems that unnecessary hospitalization entails</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Stanislav
Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(173)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Physicist
F. David Peat believes synchronicities are very real phenomena which provide
circumstantial evidence for an absence of division between the outer physical
world and our inner psychological worlds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He states that “<i>the self lives on but as one aspect of the more
subtle movement that involves the order of the whole of consciousness.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been an arduous process, but as
explored in the first chapter, quantum physics is slowly dragging the world of
“rational science” kicking and screaming to the realization that staunch
materialism is untenable, and concepts like Jung’s collective unconscious are
not so fantastic or fanciful after all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Jung
himself was fully aware of the fact that the concept of synchronicity was
incompatible with traditional science and he followed with great interest the
revolutionary new worldview that was emerging from developments in modern physics.
He maintained a friendship with Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum
physics, and the two of them had a very fruitful exchange of ideas. Similarly,
in personal communications between Jung and Albert Einstein, the latter
explicitly encouraged him to pursue the concept of synchronicity because it was
fully compatible with the new thinking in physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, however, mainstream psychologists and
psychiatrists have still not caught up with the revolutionary developments in
modern physics and Jungian psychology</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Stanislav Grof, “The
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What do you think happens when we die? The congruency of stories from various Near Death Experiencers is quite telling. Throughout history people who have died and later been resuscitated report the same story of consciousness leaving their physical body, entering a realm of love and light, meeting angelic beings, and watching their entire lives flash before their eyes. Slight differences exist in various accounts, but these pale next to the incredible universal similarities. The typical NDE is as follows:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If a tree falls in
the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? At first you might think, “of course it still
makes a sound!” until further defining what “sound” actually means: <i>the
sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations
transmitted through the air or other medium</i> (dictionary.com). When a tree falls there are certainly
pressure waves vibrating through the air, but since “sound” is a quality of
consciousness, if no ears are around to “hear” those waves, then the tree
literally does not make a sound. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>To the
surprise of many, the world ‘out there’ has turned out to be quite unlike our
experience of it. Consider our experience of the color green. In the physical
world there is light of a certain frequency, but the light itself is not green.
Nor are the electrical impulses that are transmitted from the eye to the brain.
No color exists there. The green we see is a quality appearing in the mind in
response to this frequency of light. It exists only as a subjective experience
in the mind. The same is true of sound. I hear the music of a violin, but the
sound I hear is a quality appearing in the mind. There is no sound as such in
the external world, just vibrating air molecules. The smell of a rose does not
exist without an experiencing mind, just molecules of a certain shape</i>.” -Peter
Russell, “The Primacy of Consciousness”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What we call
“colors” or “sounds” or “smells” are all qualities created in consciousness
which have no independent existence without a sentient observer. Colors are just electromagnetic energy of a
specific frequency, sounds are just vibrations of specific patterns, and smells
are just various combinations of air molecules - all of which require the key
element of consciousness to mystically transform these energetic emanations
into our intricate and amazing everyday sensations. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>All
our perceptions, sensations, dreams, thoughts and feelings are forms appearing
in consciousness. It doesn't always seem that way. When I see a tree it seems
as if I am seeing the tree directly. But science tells us something completely
different is happening. Light entering the eye triggers chemical reactions in
the retina; these produce electro-chemical impulses which travel along nerve
fibers to the brain. The brain analyses the data it receives, and then creates
its own picture of what is out there. I then have the experience of seeing a
tree. But what I am actually experiencing is not the tree itself, only the
image that appears in the mind. This is true of everything I experience.
Everything we know, perceive, and imagine, every color, sound, sensation, every
thought and every feeling, is a form appearing in the mind. It is all an
in-forming of consciousness</i>.” -Peter
Russell, “The Primacy of Consciousness”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Electromagnetic
radiation with a wavelength between 380 and 760 nanometers (frequency of
790–400 terahertz) is detected by the human eye and perceived as visible light;
everything beyond that is invisible to us.
All the colors of the rainbow and absolutely everything we see comes
from just a narrow frequency on an infinite electromagnetic spectrum. Our highest perceivable frequency, at 790
terahertz, is the color violet. However
with the use of tools/technology we know that above violet are ultra violet
light, X-rays, and gamma rays. Our
lowest perceivable frequency, at 400 terahertz, is the color red. However, with the use of tools/technology we
know that below red are infrared, microwaves, and radio waves. The spectrum is infinite, yet we base our
entire experience on the minute sliver perceivable to us and assume that is “reality.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>Our eyes
detect none of these other frequencies, and our image of reality represents but
a tiny fraction of what is there. The
same holds true of the other senses. What we hear, smell and taste is but a
limited sample of the physical reality. Furthermore, there are aspects of the
physical world, such as magnetic fields and electric charge that have very
little, if any, impact on our experience</i>.”
-Peter Russell, “From
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>In the space that you are occupying now are all the radio
and television frequencies broadcasting to your area. You can't see them and
they are not aware of each other because you and they are on different
frequencies, or wavelengths. Only when the frequencies are really close do they
experience 'interference'. It is the same with our reality. Our 'physical
world' is just one of countless wavelengths, frequencies or dimensions, and to
experience and interact with this realm we need an outer shell that is
vibrating within this frequency range. Our consciousness is vibrating too fast
to interact efficiently with this frequency … The body is the means through
which our </i><i>Infinite
Awareness can directly experience this range of frequencies that I will call,
to keep it simple, the five-sense realm, world or dimension. This is why the
five senses of sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste are so limited. They are
confined to perceiving only this range of frequencies - this dimension</i>.” –David Icke, “The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy” (13-14)</span></span></div>
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the universe there exists an infinite array of electromagnetic radiation, but
only the tiniest glimpse of that array is available for sensory
experience. Our physical bodies act like
electromagnetic transistors for our awareness by switching on/off, amplifying
or muting the multitude of signals around us and funneling what we focus
on. All visual, auditory, kinesthetic,
olfactory, and gustatory sensations are brought to our consciousness through this
frequency decoding process, just like tuning a radio, and in the grand scheme
of things, we are barely receiving a signal.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>There
is no 'solid' world 'outside' of you. All those people, streets, cars and
buildings only exist, in that 'solid' 3D state, in your mind. Everywhere else,
they are frequency fields, thought fields, energy matrices, call them what you
will. Television and the Internet are perfect illustrations of what I am
talking about here. When we think of television we think of pictures and programs,
but the only place television exists in that form is on the TV screen.
Everywhere else television consists of frequency broadcasts and electrical
circuitry. When we think of the Internet we think of websites, pictures and
graphics, but the only place the Internet exists in that form is on your
computer screen. Everywhere else it consists of mathematical codes and
electrical circuitry … To summarize: the 'physical' world is a tiny frequency
range or dimension within Infinite Awareness - the 'ocean'. The body-computer
tunes us into this strictly limited sense of perception, this television
channel, and acts as our vehicle to interact with this 'world'. We have been
manipulated into believing that 'we' are the computer and its mental, emotional
and physical software programs. This dimension, like all the others, is a mass
of frequency fields that the body-computer decodes into apparently 3D scenes,
but in that form they only exist in the brain or, more accurately, the energy
matrix we call the brain. There is no 'physical' world unless it is observed
into form - decoded into form</i>.” –David
Icke, “The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy” (35-7)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The “outside”
world around us has a convincing appearance of being “out there” somewhere,
when in actuality the 3D world is no more “out there” than a dream. In dreams we perceive sights, sounds, and
sensations, we have all our emotional and rational faculties, we encounter
people, places and situations all seeming to be happening in a world “out
there” around us. Not until we awaken do
we realize that all those sights, sounds, sensations, people, places, and
situations were simply creations of our minds, appearing around us, but coming
from within us.</span></span><br />
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the Greeks, philosophers have been thinking about ‘the ghost in the machine’,
‘the small man within the small man’ etc.
Where is ‘I’, the person who uses his brain? Who is it that realizes the act of knowing? As Saint Francis of Assisi said: ‘What we search for is the one
that sees.’</i>” -Ken Wilber, “Holographic
Paradigm” (37)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> “<i>Today, after thirty years of investigation
into the nature of consciousness, I have come to appreciate how big a problem
consciousness is for the contemporary science. Science has had remarkable
success in explaining the structure and functioning of the material world, but
when it comes to the inner world of the mind – to our thoughts, feelings,
sensations, intuitions, and dreams – science has very little to say. And when
it comes to consciousness itself, science falls curiously silent. There is
nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any other science that can account
for our having an interior world</i>.” -Peter Russell, “From Science
to God”</span></span></div>
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and why do we have an inner life at all?
Professor of Philosophy at University
of Arizona, Dr. David
Chalmers has coined this issue, “the hard problem” of consciousness. How could any complex material process in
the brain create our rich immaterial internal worlds of thought, emotion,
sensation, and perception? Why is there
a subjective aspect to reality at all?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>Nothing in Western science predicts that
any living creature should be conscious. It is easier to explain how hydrogen
evolved into other elements, how they combined to form molecules, and then
simple living cells, and how these evolved into complex beings such as
ourselves than it is to explain why we should ever have a single inner
experience.</i>” -Peter Russell, “From
Science to God”</span></span><br />
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put the “hard problem” of consciousness through the process of
elimination. We now know from multiple
experiments in quantum physics that quanta, the building blocks of matter, the
fundamental units of “stuff” in the universe, do not become a set “something”
with definite properties, location, and materiality without the key element of
<a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/09/the-measurement-problem-observer-effect.html">consciousness to collapse the wave function</a>; In other words, no consciousness,
no matter. So if consciousness is
supposedly an emergent property of a Newtonian/Darwinian mechanistic universe,
what used to collapse the wave function in the days before the “evolution of
consciousness?”</span></span></div>
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a key component in the quantum measurement process includes an observer and his
or her knowledge, this means the mind is inextricably wound into quantum
reality … Based on the classical assumptions of local realism and mechanism,
the brain – like any other physical object – is a clockwork object. Since clockworks are not conscious, then what
we call ‘I’ can only be an emergent property of a complicated piece of
machinery. And thus our sense of
conscious awareness, or the feeling one has when smelling a rose, are illusions
– though illusions to whom is not quite clear.
From a classical physics point of view, the ‘you’ that is currently
reading this sentence is an illusion.
This seems to be a rather important limitation, as most people reading
these sentences probably believe that they (their conscious minds) do exist</i>.” -Dean Radin, “Entangled Minds” (256-7)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We often falsely assume that we <u>are</u> our physical bodies because
our consciousness seems trapped inside.
We feel pain and pleasure, all emotions, perceptions and sensations
through the body and so we identify with it, but is the body who/what we really
are? If your leg gets cut off, is the
leg still you? Or was the leg just a
tool, a vehicle you used to experience the physical realm? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>We are energy beings residing in bodies so that we can experience
this physical dimension. The
relationship between our energy being and our physical body is kind of like a
person driving a car, except imagine that the person driving believes the car
is their true being. It might strike you
as funny to imagine a person who believes that they are the car, but that is
the way most of us think of ourselves.
We do not separate our physical bodies from the pure energy being that controls
the body. When people drive cars, they
do not become car-beings. We are the
energy beings within our bodies</i>.”
-Eric Pepin, “Handbook of the Navigator” (111-112)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyone who has experienced an OBE, NDE, or taken DMT will tell you
emphatically that we are <u>not</u> our physical bodies. Indigenous peoples and shamanic cultures regularly
practiced meditation, “dreamtime,” trance-inducing chants, dances, fasts and
ingested psychedelic entheogens all of which put them directly in touch with
non-physical aspects of their consciousness.
Even the staunchest materialists are compelled beyond their will every
night to relax their bodies to sleep while their consciousness travels to
various dream worlds/dimensions beyond the physical. The signs are all around us but the point is
easy to miss: the physical world is simply a recurring dream that we awaken
from when our bodies die.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>So the first revelation on the road to freedom: your body is
not 'you' - it is a fantastic biological computer that 'you' are using to
experience this reality. It is a
vehicle, a </i></span><i>means,</i></span><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b>not a 'you' or an
'I'. The spacesuit is the means by which
an astronaut can experience other 'worlds'.
So is your 'body'. We are not our
bodies; we are Infinite Consciousness, the All That Is, a seamless energy field
within which all 'worlds' and no 'worlds' exist. The only difference between everything is the
level of </i><i>awareness </i><i>that we are All
That Is. The deeper this awareness, the
more you will access that level of 'knowing' and perception; the more you think
you are an 'individual' and </i><i>apart </i><i>from everything else, the more you will disconnect from the
Infinite One that you really are</i>.” –David Icke, “The David Icke Guide to the
Global Conspiracy” David Icke Books (2)
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Still unconvinced that you are not your body? Did you know that every 5 to 7 years, every
single cell in your body dies and is replaced?
Your entire body, every cell in your brain, every cell in your eye,
absolutely everything that composes your physical body has died and been
replaced multiple times. Meanwhile, your
unique essence, your feeling of “I am-ness,” your consciousness, has remained
exactly the same as when you were a child.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>This
feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat
contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in
the sciences. We do not ‘come into’ this
world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the universe
‘peoples.’ Every individual is an expression
of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by
most individuals. Even those who know it
to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of
themselves as isolated ‘egos’ inside bags of skin [but] the cat has already
been let out of the bag. The inside
information is that yourself as ‘just little me’ who ‘came into this world’ and
lives temporarily in a bag of skin is a hoax and a fake. The fact is that because no one thing or
feature of this universe is separable from the whole, the only real You, or
Self, is the whole. The rest of this
book will attempt to make this so clear that you will not only understand the
words but feel the fact</i>.” -Alan
Watts, “The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are” (53)</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Matter is
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</span>-Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">More and
more, scientists are catching up with ancient mystics regarding the primacy of
consciousness, the fact that consciousness is an a priori facet of reality, and
not some emergent property of materiality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the fathers of modern brain research, Wilder Penfield wrote </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua-Italic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua-Italic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mystery
of Mind</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> in which he argues his opinion as a neurosurgeon that consciousness
does not have its source in the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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M.D., Ph.D. also agrees that consciousness is a primary, non-local phenomenon
that precedes and transcends time and space:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Over three decades of systematic studies of the human consciousness
have led me to conclusions that many traditional psychiatrists and
psychologists might find implausible if not downright incredible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I now firmly believe that consciousness is
more than an accidental by-product of the neurophysiological and biochemical
processes taking place in the human brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I see consciousness and the human psyche as expressions and reflections
of a cosmic intelligence that permeates the entire universe and all of
existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not just highly
evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are
also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter,
and linear causality</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Stanislav
Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” (17-18)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The idea that consciousness mysteriously arises from the nervous system
or brain functioning is proven erroneous by the plethora of organisms which
exhibit clear signs of consciousness without having a brain or nervous system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plants, bacteria, single-cell and many multi-cellular
organisms all seem quite conscious without these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we to believe these life-forms are
insentient just because they don’t have a brain or nerves?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>While new technologies are enabling scientists to understand more
and more of the mechanics of how mind is expressed through the brain, after
many years of research this still sheds no light on their central quest – one
that we believe is fruitless because the premise on which it is based is wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We agree with transpersonal psychologist
Stanislav Grof, who, for more than 50 years, has studied human
consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grof has compared the
effort of trying to discover how mind arises from the brain to an engineer trying
to understand the content of a television program solely by watching what
components light up in the interior of the TV set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If someone sought to do such a thing, we’d
laugh, yet this is the approach that mainstream science has taken and insisted
is correct, despite no evidence to support it and a great deal that contradicts
it.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Ervin Laszlo and Jude
Currivan, “Cosmos” (76-77)</span></div>
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scientific findings are beginning to support beliefs of cultures thousands of
years old, showing that our individual psyches are, in the last analysis, a manifestation
of cosmic consciousness and intelligence that flows through all of existence.
We never completely lose contact with this cosmic consciousness because we are
never fully separated from it</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Stanislav Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(195-6)</span></div>
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are documented cases of hydrocephalus, otherwise known as “water in the brain,”
where people have lived perfectly normal lives with almost no cerebral cortex
or neocortex whatsoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is quite
significant considering that classical science has always assumed the neocortex
to be the supposed “center of consciousness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>British neurologist John Lorber recorded one case in which a young man’s
hydrocephalus was so extreme that his brain was virtually nonexistent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inside his skull was just a thin layer of
brain cells surrounding a mass of cerebrospinal fluid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazingly, everything else about the young
man was normal; he was even an honor student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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underlying assumption of the current meta-paradigm is that matter is
insentient. The alternative is that the faculty of consciousness is a
fundamental quality of nature. Consciousness does not arise from some
particular arrangement of nerve cells or processes going on between them, or from
any other physical features; it is always present. If the faculty of
consciousness is always present, then the relationship between consciousness
and nervous systems needs to be rethought. Rather than creating consciousness,
nervous systems may be amplifiers of consciousness, increasing the richness and
quality of experience</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Peter
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://ericdubay.blogspot.com/search/label/Peter%20Russell">Peter Russell</a>
asks us to consider a couple simple thought experiments to prove to ourselves
the <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/10/nonlocality-and-quantum-entanglement.html">non-locality of consciousness</a> beyond space and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked to locate their consciousness most
people sense it to be somewhere in their heads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since our brains are in our heads, and the brain is often associated
with consciousness, many people assume their consciousness is located in the
middle of their heads, but actually the apparent location of ones consciousness
has nothing to do with the placement of ones brain, and rather depends on the
placement of sense organs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since your
primary senses (eyes and ears) are in your head, the central point of your
perception, the place from which you seem to be experiencing the world is
somewhere behind your eyes and between your ears (in your head).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the fact that your brain is also in
your head is merely coincidence as shown by the following thought
experiment:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine that your eyes and
ears were somehow transplanted to your knees so you now observed the world from
this new vantage point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now if asked to
locate your consciousness where would you point?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your eyes and ears were on your knees,
would you still experience your “self” to be in your head?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>I don’t think consciousness is in the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brain receives consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consciousness is probably a non-local
function of the space-time continuum and every individual brain is an
individual receiver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like the world
is full of television signals and each television set is a receiver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The delusion that you are in your body is a
primitive, savage kind of logic, taking the data of perception at face value,
similar to the delusion that Johnny Carson is inside your television set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnny Carson is not in your television
set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnny Carson is in Hollywood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your television set just receives Johnny
Carson’s signals. And consciousness is not in the brain, the brain just
receives signals from the vast undifferentiated ocean of consciousness that
makes up the space-time continuum</i>.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Robert Anton Wilson</span></div>
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of consciousness can be likened to the light from a video projector. The
projector shines light on to a screen, modifying the light so as to produce any
one of an infinity of images. These images are like the perceptions,
sensations, dreams, memories, thoughts, and feelings that we experience – what
I call the ‘contents of consciousness.’ The light itself, without which no
images would be possible, corresponds to the faculty of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know all the images on the screen are
composed of this light, but we are not usually aware of the light itself; our
attention is caught up in the images that appear and the stories they tell. In
much the same way, we know we are conscious, but we are usually aware only of
the many different perceptions, thoughts and feelings that appear in the mind.
We are seldom aware of consciousness itself</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Peter
Russell, “From Science to God”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In deep
meditation, during spontaneous OBE, or under the effects of <a href="http://ericdubay.blogspot.com/search/label/Entheogens">entheogens</a> many
people temporarily transcend their contents of consciousness completely and
achieve a lucid state of awareness that is purely the faculty of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this state there is no space and time,
just the infinite here and now, no “me” and “not me” division, just <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/11/the-universal-consciousness.html">one universal awareness</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such experiences
are referred to as “mystical” and deemed “unscientific” because they are
subjective and unrepeatable under laboratory conditions, but for those who
experience such transcendental states, this first-hand gnosis provides them
with an intuitive knowingness of the primacy of consciousness beyond all space,
time, and matter.</span></div>
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Eastern mystics link the notions of both space and time to particular states of
consciousness. Being able to go beyond the ordinary state through meditation,
they have realized that the conventional notions of space and time are not the
ultimate truth. The refined notions of space and time resulting from their
mystical experiences appear to be in many ways similar to the notions of modern
physics, as exemplified by the theory of relativity</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (164)</span></div>
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impression that your consciousness is located in space is an illusion.
Everything you experience is a construct within consciousness. Your sense of
being a unique self is merely another construct of the mind. Quite naturally,
you place this image of your self at the center of your picture of the world,
giving you the sense of being in the world. But the truth is just the opposite.
It is all within you. You have no location in space. Space is in you</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Peter
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Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-25305802153431126322012-11-15T21:41:00.000-08:002012-11-15T21:41:50.671-08:00Who Am I? Who Are We?<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IQTYkc4h8Ks" width="400"></iframe><br />
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In this clip taken from my interview with Wendy and Max of Lightwaves Radio we explore the question of Who Are We? And in doing so discuss God, Consciousness, Intelligent Design, the Big Bang, Evolution, Duality, Satan and the Ego. If you enjoy the video and want to help me out, please be sure to like, favorite, comment, share and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ericdubay77?feature=watch">subscribe to my YouTube channel</a>. Thanks so much!
<br>Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-57058197005656746602012-11-12T06:38:00.000-08:002012-11-12T18:03:02.159-08:00The Universal Consciousness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the Eskimo/Inuit language of cold, wintry Alaska there are dozens of words for “snow” - Dozens of words with intricacies and connotations well-known and understood by them, but typically unnoticed and misunderstood by others. Similarly, in the Sanskrit language of ancient, spiritual India there are approximately a dozen different words for “consciousness” – a dozen clearly delineated words with subtle nuances which in English we can only loosely, clumsily call “consciousness.”<br />
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“<i>For every psychological term in English there are four in Greek and forty in Sanskrit</i>.” -A. K. Coomaraswamy<br />
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So what exactly is consciousness? When western doctors say someone is conscious or unconscious they really just mean “awake” or “asleep.” The patient is called unconscious under anesthetics and conscious when awakened. However this particular meaning is clearly a misnomer because even when supposedly “unconscious” during sleep, coma, or under anesthetics we still dream and are “conscious” of that experience, so our consciousness hasn’t disappeared as implied, it has merely altered/shifted to another state.<br />
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“<i>In medicine, the presumption that consciousness is nothing more than a function of the brain is reflected in such statements as, ‘The patient regained consciousness’ – this routine, narrow depiction has assumed that consciousness is a mundane physical phenomenon, a self-evident priority for experience about which nothing more needs to be said</i>.” -David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Power Vs. Force”(249)<br />
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Other common (mis)uses of the word consciousness are “awareness” as in “being conscious of something,” and “spirituality” as in “attaining higher consciousness,” but again these are not the denotations understood by modern scientists or ancient mystics. As best expressed by Theoretical Physicist/Experimental Psychologist Peter Russell, the true, simple meaning of consciousness is “the capacity for experience.” Consciousness is the ability to have an inner experience. It is our internal world of thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions, and choices, the “I,” the little me in our minds, the sense of self inside us that has never changed since childhood – that is consciousness.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The
identification and experience of self could be limited to a description of
one’s physical body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, of course, we
might well ask, how does one know that one has a physical body?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through observation, we note that the
presence of the physical body is registered by the senses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question then follows, what is it that’s
aware of the senses?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do we
experience what the senses are reporting?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Something greater, something more encompassing than the physical body,
has to exist in order to experience that which is lesser – and that something
is the mind … The question then arises: How does one know what’s being
experienced by the mind?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By observation
and introspection, one can witness that thoughts have no capacity to experience
themselves, but that something both beyond and more basic than thought
experiences the sequence of thoughts, and that that something’s sense of
identity is unaltered by the content of thoughts</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Power Vs.
Force”(252)</span></div>
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consciousness, the capacity for experience, the inner witness of our outer
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As written by philosopher Malcolm
Hollick, “<i>Events are experienced by an experiencer, thoughts are thought by
a thinker, pain is felt by a feeler, imaginings are created by an imaginer, and
choices are made by a chooser</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>What is it that
observes and is aware of all of the subjective and objective phenomena of
life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s consciousness itself that resonates
as both awareness and experiencing, and both are purely subjective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consciousness isn’t determined by content;
thoughts flowing through consciousness are like fish swimming in the ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ocean’s existence is independent of the
fish; the content of the sea doesn’t define the nature of the water itself</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Power Vs.
Force”(252-3)</span><br />
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definition, “the capacity for inner experience,” we can easily observe that
consciousness is not a phenomenon limited only to human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, as we trace the trait of
consciousness back through the animal kingdom, it becomes increasingly
difficult to say there exists any animal which doesn’t have its own inner
experience of the outer world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his
excellent book “From Science to God,” Peter Russell examines this issue in
detail starting with the example of a dog:</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>A dog may not
be aware of all the things of which we are aware. It does not think or reason
as humans do, and it probably does not have the same degree of self-awareness,
but this does not mean that a dog does not have its own inner world of
experience. When I am with a dog, I assume that it has its own mental picture
of the world, full of sounds, colors, smells and sensations. It appears to
recognize people and places, much as we might. A dog may at times show fear,
and at other times excitement. Asleep, it can appear to dream, feet and toes
twitching as if on the scent of some fantasy rabbit. And when a dog yelps or
whines we assume it is feeling pain –indeed, if we didn’t believe that dogs
felt pain, we wouldn’t bother giving them anesthetics before an operation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Peter Russell, “From Science to God”</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My dog, Buddy, always
recognizes me and shows excitement when I come through the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also recognizes the veterinarian’s office
and shows fear when we pull into the parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I ignore Buddy and give more attention to
his sister, Harley, then Buddy will exhibit signs of feeling slighted and
jealous, he will sulk by himself in the corner of the room, his tail no longer
wagging when I go to pet him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I raise
my voice at him, he will cower, lower his head, and scamper off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From facial recognition to dreams to complex
emotions, dogs exhibit a multitude of expressions associated with
consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To assume they exhibit
all these external characteristics of consciousness without having their own
internal experience is quite implausible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And as Peter Russell points out, if we actually believed that dogs
didn’t “feel” pain, we wouldn’t give them anesthetics before an operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“If dogs possess
consciousness then so do cats, horses, deer, dolphins, whales, and other
mammals. They may not be self-conscious as we are, but they are not devoid of
inner experience. The same is true of birds; some parrots, for example, seem as
aware as dogs. And if birds are sentient beings, then so, I assume, are other
vertebrates – alligators, snakes, frogs, salmon, and sharks. However different
their experiences may be, they all share the faculty of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same argument applies to creatures
further down the evolutionary tree. The nervous systems of insects are not
nearly as complex as ours, and insects probably do not have as rich an
experience of the world as we do, but I see no reason to doubt that they have
some kind of inner experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do
we draw the line?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Peter Russell, “From Science to God”</span></div>
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considering where to draw the line between conscious and non-conscious
entities, the closer one examines the issue, the more difficult it becomes to
argue that any animal is insentient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Regardless of whether they have a brain or nervous system, no matter how
small or simple, all animals seem to have their own inner experience and
exhibit common characteristics of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So what about the
plant kingdom?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While most would agree
that animals are conscious, most would probably agree that plants are not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this where we can draw the line?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently not - Thanks to the work of Cleve
Backster, Dr. Ken Hashimoto and others, it is clear that even plants are
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1966,
polygraph-expert Cleve Backster conducted a series of experiments which
conclusively demonstrated that plants are capable of intelligent thought
processes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First he took a Dracaena
plant (dragon tree) in his office and connected lie detection equipment to its
leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next he watered the plant and
found that its polygraph output was similar to the undulation of human
happiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to test his
developing theory and elicit a stronger reaction, Backster thought to threaten
the plant by burning one of its leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With this thought in mind, even before retrieving a match, he noticed a
strong positive curve appear on the polygraph paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then left the room to find some matches,
and as soon as he arrived back, another high peak appeared on the paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he lit a match, the plant’s fear reaction
spiked and remained high as he proceeded to burn one of its leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In further trials Backster found that if he
showed less inclination to burn the plant, its reaction was weaker, and if he
merely pretended to burn it, there was no reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So not only was the plant appearing to show
genuine happiness and fear, but it seemed to be discerning true intentions from
false ones.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>[In] 1966 Cleve Backster, a pioneer of lie-detection methods,
decided to threaten a dragon plant in his office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few minutes before, and having on a whim
connected the plant to the electrodes of one of his lie detectors, he had
noticed that when he watered its roots, the plant gave what in a human being
would be interpreted as an emotional reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To arouse the strongest reaction he could, Backster first placed a leaf
of the plant in hot coffee, with no apparent response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then decided on a worse threat:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to burn the leaf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as soon as he thought about the flame,
there was an instant response from the plant – without Backster moving but just
thinking about the threat, the plant had reacted!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he left the room and returned with some
matches, there was a second surge of anticipation from the plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as he reluctantly burned the leaf, there
was a subdued but still noticeable reaction from the dragon plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the next 40 years, Backster ran a large
series of experiments, building up a huge archive of data showing that all
organisms are in continual communication in a vast matrix of dynamic and
nonlocal awareness</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Ervin Laszlo
and Jude Currivan, “Cosmos” (91)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In further trials Backster tried burning the leaves of other nearby
plants not connected to the polygraph, and the original dragon plant, still
connected, registered the same wild response to its friend’s pain as when its
own leaves were burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In another
experiment Backster placed two plants in an empty room, blindfolded 6 students,
and had them draw straws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The receiver
of the short straw was then secretly instructed to uproot and destroy one of
the two plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since they were all
blindfolded, only the short straw student and the remaining plant knew the
identity of the murderer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two hours
later Backster connected the remaining plant to the polygraph machine and
instructed each student to walk past it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The murder-witness plant registered absolutely no reaction as the 5
innocent students walked by, but then went crazy almost off the charts as the
murderer came close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow it
correctly identified and emotionally reacted to the guilty student.</span></div>
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and emotional, but also telepathic!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plants will indeed register a typical human “fear” reaction on the
polygraph precisely when someone directs a malevolent thought towards them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These experiments have been replicated many
times with the same results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow
plants are able to intuit and react to certain human thought patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The ‘Backster effect’ had also been seen between plants and
animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When brine shrimp in one
location died suddenly, this fact seemed to instantly register with plants in
another location, as recorded on a standard psychogalvanic response (PGR)
instrument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Backster had carried out
this type of experiment over several hundred miles and among paramecium, mold
cultures and blood samples, and in each instance, some mysterious communication
occurred between living things and plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As in Star Wars, each death was registered as a disturbance in The Field</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe,” (145)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Other experiments have been performed testing the effect of prayer,
positive and negative directed intention and emotion on plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Bernard Grad of McGill University
had a team of psychic healers habitually direct positive or negative feelings
onto a variety of plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
positively-infused plants survived and thrived, while negatively-infused plants
withered and many of them died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reverend
Franklin Loehr, a Northampton
pastor, performed similar studies with his parishioners testing the power of
prayer to affect plants and seeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
one experiment he planted 46 corn kernels evenly spaced in a round pan with 23
on each side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then gave daily
“positive-growth” prayer to half the kernels and “anti-growth” prayer to the
other half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eight days later, the
positive side had 16 sturdy, budding, seedlings growing and the negative side
had only 1 barely left alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In another
test, one of his parishioners, Erwin Prust, subjected 6 Ivy plants to daily
“anti-growth” prayer while watering them and within 5 weeks, 5 of them were
dead.</span></div>
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In the incredible documentary, “The Secret Life of Plants” Fuji electronics managing
director and chief of research Dr. Ken Hashimoto created special instruments
which translate the electrical output of plants into modulated sounds effectively
giving them a voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife has since
been teaching the Japanese alphabet to her favorite plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the documentary Mrs. Hashimoto recites
Japanese letters/phonemes/words and the plants repeat them back to her!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reminiscent of a small child trying to sound-out
new words, the plants are unable to properly imitate the language at first, but
then actually struggle and practice, slowly improving until they are able to
perfectly imitate the human sounds via their electrical output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She says she looks forward to the day when
she can have a conversation with her plants.</div>
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react to emotional / intellectual stimulus, communicate with other plants, and
read the minds / intentions of humans, it is quite rational to assume that the
plant kingdom, just like the animal kingdom, is conscious.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: ITCLegacySerifBook; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>This demonstrates extremely well that plant life, like
all life and indeed everything in the Universe are an inseparable aspect of the
same infinite Mind, Consciousness, and intelligence of The Source, The First
Cause, of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human beings, still
totally steeped in the material world and personal ego assume that just because
a plant does not appear to have a physical brain, or a mouth, or any other
animal characteristics that they are ‘unintelligent’ or simply
‘inanimate.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing in fact can be
further from the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The human brain
is not the real Mind any more than physical parts of a plant or a mineral are
real Mind</i>.” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Adrian Cooper, “Our Ultimate Reality”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: ITCLegacySerifBook; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So how far down the evolutionary line does consciousness exist? The work of Dr. Masaru Emoto suggests that even water is in some sense conscious. His research began by exposing </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">H<sub>2</sub>O to nonphysical stimulus and photographing the resulting water crystals with a dark field microscope. </span>
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“<i>Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto, of the I.H.M.-Institute in
Tokyo, has revealed how water is fundamentally affected by words, thoughts and
emotions - all of which are waveforms. He and his team exposed water to various
music and different words and expressions, and then froze it to produce water
crystals. When these were examined under a microscope the response of the water
was amazing. Look at the way it reacted to the words and thoughts (vibrations)
of 'Love and appreciation', and, 'You make me sick - I will kill you'. Imagine
the effect on the body of our words and deeds when it is some 70 per cent water.
This is how thoughts and words affect us energetically. I should stress that it
is not the words that have the effect, but the intent </i><i>behind them. If you said
'I will kill you' in a light-hearted fashion, as a bit of fun, it would not
have the same effect as it would if you meant it, or said it with malevolence" </i>–David Icke, “The David Icke Guide to the Global
Conspiracy” (47)
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infused with positive intent the H<sub>2</sub>O molecules align themselves into
beautiful, symmetric, sacred geometrical forms, and when infused with negative
intent they align themselves into chaotic, non-symmetrical blobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously the level and type of consciousness
operating in water molecules is far different from human consciousness, but the
fact that something in the molecules is identifying and reacting to human
emotional/intellectual content suggests that even water is indeed in some sense
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We usually
assume that some kind of brain or nervous system is necessary before
consciousness can come into being. From the perspective of the materialist
metaparadigm, this is a reasonable assumption. If consciousness arises from
processes in the material world, then those processes need to occur somewhere,
and the obvious candidate is the nervous system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then we come up against the inherent
problem of the materialist metaparadigm. Whether we are considering a human
brain with its tens of billions of cells, or a nematode worm with a hundred or
so neurons, the problem is the same: How can any purely material process ever
give rise to consciousness?</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Peter Russell, “From Science to God”</span></div>
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a definitive line between conscious and non-conscious entities in the universe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At what level of simplicity do we assume
matter to be insentient?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
single-cell organisms react to external stimulus, reproduce, communicate, respirate,
hunt and consume food – is this all an unconscious, insentient “program” of
Newton’s mechanical universe or are even single cells imbued with a slight
degree of consciousness, a miniscule internal experience of their own?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When sperm and egg unite, each human begins
their life as a single-cell organism which then rapidly divides and multiplies
into the conscious community of 50 trillion cells we generally know as
human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In classical science,
consciousness is a mysterious emergent property of this process; in spiritual
science, consciousness is the known primary property and the physical world is
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The capacity for inner experience could
not evolve or emerge out of entirely insentient, non-experiencing matter.
Experience can only come from that which already has experience. Therefore the
faculty of consciousness must be present all the way down the evolutionary tree…</i></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There is nowhere
we can draw a line between conscious and non-conscious entities; there is a
trace of sentience, however slight, in viruses, molecules, atoms, and even
elementary particles. Some argue this implies that rocks perceive the world
around them, perhaps have thoughts and feelings, and enjoy an inner mental life
similar to human beings. This is clearly an absurd suggestion, and not one that
was ever intended. If a bacterium’s experience is a billionth of the richness
and intensity of human being’s, the degree of experience in the minerals of a
rock might be a billion times dimmer still. They would possess none of the
qualities of human consciousness – just the faintest possible glimmer of
sentience.</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Peter Russell, “From Science to God”</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The ancient Sufi
teaching states that “<i>God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in
the animal, and awakens in the man.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What if we replaced the word “God” with “The One Infinite Consciousness?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If God is defined as - an omniscient,
omnipotent, omnipresent intelligence – then God must exist inside all things,
yet outside of all space, time, and matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What has <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/09/the-measurement-problem-observer-effect.html">quantum physics</a> (and honest introspection) shown exists inside
all things, yet outside space, time, and matter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consciousness.</span></div>
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consciousness, there would be nothing to experience form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could also be said that form itself, as a
product of perception with no independent existence, is thus transitory and
limited, whereas consciousness is all-encompassing and unlimited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could that which is transitory (with a
clear beginning and ending), create that which is formless (all encompassing
and omnipotent)?</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-David R. Hawkins,
M.D., Ph.D., “Power Vs. Force”(250-1)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">How can non-experiencing, unintelligent, insentient matter randomly
coalesce into a form that magically creates conscious intelligent life? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What mechanical process could possibly bring
consciousness, intelligence, and life into being?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could any material process create
something as immaterial as consciousness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why would the material universe even exist without a consciousness to
perceive it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quantum physics and Eastern
Mysticism are both quite clear that matter does <u>not</u> exist without a
consciousness to perceive it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Albert
Einstein himself said, “<i>A human being is a part of the whole, called by us
‘Universe’ – a part limited in time and space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated
from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Whatever our beliefs – irrespective of how far we expand our
perception and regardless of how profound the ability of science may be to
understand processes of emergence – sooner or later we arrive at the
requirement for an originating creative act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We arrive ultimately at the concept of a cosmic mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although science has so far chosen to ignore
this inescapable logic, the deeper we delve into the fundamental mysteries of
Nature – as did Einstein – we see order, harmony, and cosmic mind manifest in
our universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is revealed doesn’t
require us to choose between intelligent design and evolution, but to recognize
a co-creative design for evolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
we see, literally hidden in full view, is Einstein’s concept of a cosmic mind
at work</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Ervin Laszlo and Jude
Currivan, “Cosmos” (22)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Unless you
actually think “God” is a bearded white man living in the clouds, perhaps
replacing that word, as Einstein did, with something like “Cosmic Mind,”
“Universal Being,” or “Infinite Consciousness” will help bridge the mental gap
most Westerners seem to have between science and spirituality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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“<i>After I shook the dust of organized religion from my sandals,
I learned that the link between big ‘ol God and little ‘ol me was no more and
no less than consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And each of
us, at and as the very center of us, have this same feeling of I Am, for the
not-so-obvious reason that each one of us is really God pretending to be each
one of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is only one I Am, there
is only one God, one Brahma, one Tao, one beingness … we both see the same
world, because we both are the same world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But we have so cleverly and convincingly hidden ourselves from ourselves
that we really believe that we are separate entities</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Roger Stephens, “A Dangerous Book” (56)</div>
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every sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from destroying God,
science for the first time is proving His existence – by demonstrating that a
higher, collective consciousness is out there</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe,” (226)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/10/nonlocality-and-quantum-entanglement.html">As shown previously</a>, the plenum of physical
forms in the universe is fundamentally an energetic Oneness with consciousness
playing the role of creator and experiencer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This means the multitude
of transitory material forms and bodies about us, don’t exist without us, and
come from within us.</span></div>
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growing body of research suggests that we’re more than cosmic latecomers simply
passing through a universe that was completed long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Experimental evidence is leading to a
conclusion that we’re actually creating the universe as we go and adding to
what already exists!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, we
appear to be the very energy that’s forming the cosmos, as well as the beings
who experience what we’re creating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s because we are consciousness, and consciousness appears to be the
same ‘stuff’ from which the universe is made.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (39)</span></div>
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holds its breath as we choose, instant by instant, which pathway to follow; for
the universe, the very essence of life itself, is highly conscious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every act, thought, and choice adds to a
permanent mosaic; our decisions ripple through the universe of consciousness to
affect the lives of all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lest this idea
be considered either merely mystical or fanciful, let’s remember that
fundamental tenet of the new theoretical physics: Everything in the universe is
connected with everything else</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Power Vs. Force” (148)</span><br />
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Thanks to Wendy Adams and Max Crowe of Lightwaves Radio Inner Circle for inviting me on their show for this wonderful 2 hour conversation covering topics such as God, the Big Bang, Consciousness, Brahma, Oneness, Intelligent Design, Death, Reincarnation, Karma, OBEs, NDEs, International Banking Conspiracies and Veganism.Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-33054405435392815822012-10-17T05:47:00.000-07:002012-10-17T05:54:13.126-07:00Spiritual Science and The New Physics<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 345.75pt;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The old view was a material universe separated by objective space and
time, a clockwork machine operating under fixed laws which evolved in
complexity until consciousness (the ability to experience) mysteriously manifested
into the first ever self-aware unit of (now “living”) matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No scientist, however, could explain how
something as complex as life and consciousness, our complex immaterial internal
worlds of thought, emotion, sensation, and perception could ever arise from
something as simple as random interactions of physical matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No biological, chemical, electrical,
magnetic, or other quantitative, qualitative such formula, can ever explain how
consciousness could emerge from mere physical interactions of non-experiencing,
non-living, unconscious particles of matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">"<i>In the old thinking I cannot change anything because I don't have any role at all in reality. Reality is already there. It is material objects moving in their own way from deterministic laws and mathematics determines what they will do in a given situation. I, the experiencer, have no role at all. In the new view, yes, mathematics can give us something. It gives us the possibilities that all these movements can assume, but it cannot give us the actual experience that I'll be having in my consciousness. I choose that experience, and therefore, literally, I create my own reality. It may sound like a tremendous, bombastic claim by some New Agey without any understanding of physics whatsoever, but really quantum physics is telling us that</i>." -Amit Goswami Ph.D, "What the Bleep Do We Know?"</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxxDNMxmvIDDU-TGgg-41-2_V19dd4vvzxIKXzLc58Iasy5WsiwaI0Ib-n4kkILAEbU-3f_dGqXlEbwmgw8vOuZxPXMRSqBGMqytmCXpjoifJLvOavq3NVwgOxayi4IHYB0d_w2Qe1Hw/s1600/focus-italy_holographic-universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxxDNMxmvIDDU-TGgg-41-2_V19dd4vvzxIKXzLc58Iasy5WsiwaI0Ib-n4kkILAEbU-3f_dGqXlEbwmgw8vOuZxPXMRSqBGMqytmCXpjoifJLvOavq3NVwgOxayi4IHYB0d_w2Qe1Hw/s320/focus-italy_holographic-universe.jpg" width="248" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Quantum theory has thus
demolished the classical concepts of solid objects and of strictly
deterministic laws of nature. At the subatomic level, the solid material
objects of classical physics dissolve into wave-like patterns of probabilities,
and these patterns, ultimately, do not represent probabilities of things, but
rather probabilities of interconnections. A careful analysis of the process of
observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no
meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections
between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we
cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we
penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated ‘basic building
blocks’, but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the
various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an
essential way. The human observer constitutes the final link in the chain of
observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can only be
understood in terms of the object’s interaction with the observer</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (68)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Princeton
physicist and colleague of Albert Einstein, Dr. John Wheeler, often remarked
that nothing is more important in quantum physics than <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/09/the-measurement-problem-observer-effect.html">the observer effect and the measurement problem</a> because they destroy the materialist concept of the
world “sitting out there” with the observer “safely separated from it by a 20
centimeter slab of plate glass.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even to
observe something as miniscule as an electron that slab of plate glass must be
shattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scientist must reach in,
install his devices, and decide whether to measure position or momentum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is up to him which he decides, but
installing the equipment to measure one prevents and excludes the possibility
of measuring the other, because his act of measuring actually changes the state
of the electron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to the free-willed
decision of the observer, the universe afterwards will never again be the
same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus to accurately describe what
has happened, Wheeler insisted that the old word “observer” must be replaced
with the new word “participator” because in some strange and fantastic way, our
universe is a participatory universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>What
a shift!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a radically different
interpretation of our relationship to the world we live in, Wheeler states that
it’s impossible for us to simply watch the universe happen around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Experiments in quantum physics, in fact, do
show that simply looking at something as tiny as an electron – just focusing
our awareness upon what it’s doing for even an instant in time – changes its
properties while we’re watching it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
experiments suggest that the very act of observation is an act of creation, and
that consciousness is doing the creating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These findings seem to support Wheeler’s proposition that we can no
longer consider ourselves merely onlookers who have no effect on the world that
we’re observing</i>.” -Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (xi)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The
idea of ‘participation instead of observation’ has been formulated in modern
physics only recently, but it is an idea which is well known to any student of
mysticism. Mystical knowledge can never be obtained just by observation, but
only by full participation with one’s whole being. The notion of the
participator is thus crucial to the Eastern world view, and the Eastern mystics
have pushed this notion to the extreme, to a point where observer and observed,
subject and object, are not only inseparable but also become
indistinguishable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mystics are not
satisfied with a situation analogous to </i></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">atomic physics, where the observer
and the observed cannot</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">be separated, but can still be
distinguished. They go much</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">further, and in deep meditation they
arrive at a point where</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the distinction between observer and
observed breaks down</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">completely, where subject and object
fuse into a unified</span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">undifferentiated whole</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics” (141-2)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mystics, yogis, shamans, Eastern
philosophers and the like have no trouble whatsoever understanding quantum
physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These amazing discoveries causing
such a stir among the “scientific” community are really just experimental proofs
of ancient wisdom long understood by such “simple” folk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ideas of cosmic mind and the
participatory universe are already fundamental tenets of their worldview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is only modern Westerners raised on the
materialist paradigm that find these facts puzzling.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Fermi
award-winning American physicist, successor to Albert Einstein at Princeton’s
IAS, and director of the Manhattan Project, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, was well
aware of quantum physics’ uncanny resemblance to Eastern philosophy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He once stated that, “<i>the general notions
about human understanding . . . which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic
physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of,
or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu
thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an
exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Nobel
Prize-winning German physicist, successor to Max Plank, and pioneer of the
Uncertainty Principle, Dr. Werner Heisenberg, was also well aware of the
parallels between quantum physics and Eastern thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stated that, “<i>the great scientific
contribution in theoretical physics that has come from Japan since the last war may be an indication of
a certain relationship between philosophical ideas in the tradition of the Far East and the philosophical substance of quantum
theory</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>We are poised on the brink of a
revolution – a revolution as daring and profound as Einstein’s discovery of
relativity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very frontier of
science new ideas are emerging that challenge everything we believe about how
our world works and how we define ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Discoveries are being made that prove what religion has always
espoused:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that human beings are far more
extraordinary than an assemblage of flesh and bones … Human beings and all
living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to
every other thing in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pulsating
energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness … There
is no ‘me’ and ‘not-me’ duality to our bodies in relation to the universe, but
one underlying energy field</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lynne
McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe,” (XXIII)</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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physics illustrates how everything in the Universe, in all dimensions of life
and reality ultimately consists of ‘Quanta’ of Energy, vibration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Energy not only pervades and is integral
to everything in existence, it is also ‘living’ Mind, living Consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything in the Universe therefore has its
being within this infinite intelligent Energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everything is an aspect of this infinite intelligence, every person,
every animal, every tree, every star and every planet, and every
micro-organism, however small, is ultimately an equal aspect of the very same
Energy; there is no separatedness except as an illusion created by the ego and
five physical senses; we and everything in the Universe without exception are
one</i>.” -Adrian Cooper, “Our Ultimate Reality” (89-90)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Hinduism “Mahamaya” is a goddess personifying the power to create the material
universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Buddhism, Buddha’s
supernatural mother is known as “Maya.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In ancient Egypt Ma’at or Mayet was the female Goddess responsible for
setting order and balance at the moment of creation. The Indian word “Maya” has
the same meaning as the Mesoamerican “Mayan” civilization half a world
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In both cultures, Maya, loosely
translates to “illusion” or “delusion” as both peoples believed the entire physical
universe to be an illusion, a delusion of our consciousness separating our
fundamental Oneness (the Father) into individualized subjective perspectives
throughout time/space (the Mother, Matter, Ma’at, Mayet, Mayan illusion).</span></div>
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“<i>So it is conceivable that all of this really is just a
great illusion, that we have no way of really getting outside of to see what is
really out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your brain doesn't
know the difference between what's taking place out there and what's taking
place in here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no ‘out there'’
out there independent of what's going on in here</i>.” -Fred Alan Wolf Ph.D,
“What the Bleep Do We Know?”</div>
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of the discoveries that proved to be most astonishing to physicists was the
observation that the only time Quanta ever manifest as particles is when people
are actually looking at them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
significance of this realization alone is extremely profound in terms of the
understanding of the material world and of all creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wisdom of the ages has always maintained
and taught the physical world of matter is nothing but an illusion, only
perceived by most as ‘reality’ due to observation and experience by the
mediation of the five physical senses</i>.” -Adrian Cooper, “Our Ultimate
Reality” (75)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Everything,
the entire material universe, at the most fundamental level is simply <a href="http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2012/10/nonlocality-and-quantum-entanglement.html">one undifferentiated interconnected energy</a> resonating at various frequencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Solid matter, for instance, is energy of a
very slow, dense vibration, such as H<sub>2</sub>O in ice form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a block of ice, the collective vibration
of H<sub>2</sub>O molecules slows and freezes into a rigid, highly-structured
alignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vibration of that block
of ice is so slow that your hand cannot pass through the dense mass of H<sub>2</sub>O
molecules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, if you take that
same mass of molecules and raise the temperature so they vibrate at a faster
rate, then that rigid impenetrable solidity gives way to more flowing/fluid,
chaotic, lower-density, liquid state – water - which your hand can pass right
through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you continue heating the
same mass of molecules, causing them to vibrate even faster, then that flowing,
liquid state gives way to an even more chaotic, lower-density, free-form,
gaseous state – steam - which your hand passes through with even less
resistance than water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This example
illustrates how “materiality” is simply an illusion created by interfering
energy patterns of varying vibrations decoded by mind/consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: ITCLegacySerifBook; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Quantum
physicist David Bohm was absolutely correct when he made the observation that
the physical Universe is actually ‘frozen light.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be likened to the process of water
freezing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As water gets progressively
colder the molecules comprising that water progressively slow down as they
vibrate at lower rates of Energy of which they ultimately comprise, until
eventually the Energy vibration of the molecules becomes too low to sustain the
water as a liquid at which point the water freezes and becomes ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The physical composition of the ice and the
atoms and molecules that comprise it are exactly the same as when it existed as
water, the only difference being that as ice the Energy that ultimately
comprises that water or ice is now vibrating at a much lower level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exactly the same principle applies to the
existence of the physical Universe within the greater Universe as a whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Energy vibrates at a progressively lower
rate and density increases as a result, there came a point during the initial
creation of the Universe where the vibrations of Energy became too low to be
sustainable in its usual fine free Energy form, and therefore differentiated
into particles of various increasing sizes, ultimately manifesting as matter,
the physical Universe as observed by science and people on Earth generally</i>.”
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Adrian
Cooper, “Our Ultimate Reality”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: ITCLegacySerifBook; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (209)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Classical physics and the old science taught us that human beings were
mere survival machines powered by chemicals and genes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They taught us that the brain was the
originator of consciousness, and that our internal worlds of thought, emotion, sensation,
and morality were mere by-products of material evolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They taught us that we humans were separate,
isolated entities in a desolate, mechanical, clockwork universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They taught us that time and space were
finite and that nothing traveled faster than light.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Quantum physics and the new science, however, teach us that human
beings are spiritual entities having this physical experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They teach us that consciousness is the
primary mind-stuff of the universe, and that time, space, and matter exist only
within and by virtue of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They teach us that we humans are indivisible from our environment and
each other, that our bodies, the stars and space are composed of One
undifferentiated expanse of vibrating energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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of division and haphazard coincidence; the new spiritual science brings us the
empowering message of absolute unity and divine cosmic mind.</span></div>
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science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that
will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between
ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between
Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Dr. Stanislav Grof, “Beyond the Brain”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The
exploration of the atomic and subatomic world in the twentieth century has
revealed an unsuspected limitation of classical ideas, and has necessitated a
radical revision of many of our basic concepts. The concept of matter in
subatomic physics, for example, is totally different from the traditional idea
of a material substance in classical physics. The same is true for concepts
like space, time, or cause and effect. These concepts, however, are fundamental
to our outlook on the world around us and with their radical transformation our
whole world view has begun to change. These changes, brought about by modern
physics, have been widely discussed by physicists and by philosophers over the
past decades, but very seldom has it been realized that they all seem to lead
in the same direction, towards a view of the world which is very similar to the
views held in Eastern mysticism …</i></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "CenturyGothic\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> [and] if physics leads us
today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to
its beginning, 2,500 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
interesting to follow the evolution of Western science along its spiral path,
starting from the mystical philosophies of the early Greeks, rising and
unfolding in an impressive development of intellectual thought that
increasingly turned away from its mystical origins to develop a world view
which is in sharp contrast to that of the Far East. In its most recent stages,
Western science is finally overcoming this view and coming back to those of the
early Greek and the Eastern philosophies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on
experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and
consistent mathematical formalism</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "CenturyGothic\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "CenturyGothic\,Bold"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (17-19)</span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: CenturyGothic; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Quantum
physics, which explores reality beyond the 'physical' world of the atom, is
saying basically the same as the mystics, and people like me, who talk of
different dimensions and frequencies of existence interpenetrating our own.
Spirituality and true science - in its open-minded, open-hearted form – are
essentially at one. It is mainstream science and mainstream religion that has
caused the apparent rift because they are slaves to arrogance, ignorance and
dogma. One is not science and the other is not spiritual. They are two
polarities of the same falsehood. The open-minded quantum physicist would have
no problem with most of what I am going to say in this book, while the
cap-touching, protecting-my-funding, mainstream 'scientist' would roll his eyes
in bewilderment. Such is the chasm of view that exists in the so-called
scientific community</i>.” –David Icke, “Infinite Love is the Only Truth,
Everything Else is Illusion” (21-22)</span></div>
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.thevinnyeastwoodshow.com/">Vinny Eastwood</a> for having me on his American Freedom Radio show, a mix of conspiracy and comedy otherwise known as "The Lighter Side of Genocide." His unique style is very laid back and conversational which I think makes for great radio and feels much more candid and authentic than traditional interviews. So it was more a casual meeting of minds dialogue between the two of us with several tangents and live callers covering a wide-range of topics including Wing Chun, Yoga, Synchronicities, Quitting your Job, Racism, Fukishima, Katrina, and the differences between Western/Eastern culture.Eric Dubayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495527904246265068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5615443244485691806.post-58574744094619921362012-10-10T01:47:00.000-07:002012-10-10T01:25:30.821-07:00Asbestos Head on Religion<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPzKmYSQnHKf-a8Tj4vqHxTexuzbswW_ITf_ushA64GPDbNTUOCMsUSAsHsvBGBeT0BnqtRXndlYV8QbB66vfcoS867vcBMuUaO683mZBGcqhc4vyGoO5-hCazqqhzM-pOFw2hcGNVL8/s240/Asbestos+Cover.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPzKmYSQnHKf-a8Tj4vqHxTexuzbswW_ITf_ushA64GPDbNTUOCMsUSAsHsvBGBeT0BnqtRXndlYV8QbB66vfcoS867vcBMuUaO683mZBGcqhc4vyGoO5-hCazqqhzM-pOFw2hcGNVL8/s240/Asbestos+Cover.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 298px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 199px;" /></a>Asbestos is very concerned about religion so he tries attending the local God’s Anonymous meetings every week where every weak soul sits in rows, mouth closed, listening to some guy’s interpretation of twelve guy’s interpretations of some guy’s metaphorical teachings from two thousand years ago. He finds this as useful as a hole in the head only more damaging to his brain, so he starts studying theology, philosophy, and the history of metaphysics for himself and finds that it’s this manner of introspection, this questioning of the unanswerable that expands his spiritual awareness and fills him with what some call God’s love, some call peace of mind, and others call crawling from the allegorical cave and seeing the light.<br />
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For him the light manifests as a series of realizations regarding the nature of knowledge. Mainly that he knows nothing, and neither does anyone else; including priests, mathematicians, scientists, and all other people using God, Numbers or Formulas to magically boost their ideas from subjective interpretations to Objective Truths.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3R3o5DIKpOhl6HF1HRVadDYHE89XHFVQ8ZqadfLXf_jsNcqdC9P0dhuMgSDcV4L3yV4XobUq1utfLXg2T7FPhXNhKoQIaM7rNoE_VoYBhR0otrKAVlPpSoACaH_ZRY4kk0BgOI_gpVMQ/s1600/AlexGray1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545553225638148226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3R3o5DIKpOhl6HF1HRVadDYHE89XHFVQ8ZqadfLXf_jsNcqdC9P0dhuMgSDcV4L3yV4XobUq1utfLXg2T7FPhXNhKoQIaM7rNoE_VoYBhR0otrKAVlPpSoACaH_ZRY4kk0BgOI_gpVMQ/s320/AlexGray1.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 282px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 220px;" /></a>Asbestos decides it’s his spiritual responsibility to study the thoughts and beliefs of everyone around him and throughout recorded history, because arbitrarily choosing a church or simply inheriting religion is lazy, limiting, and inconsiderate. It’s lazy because you leave spirituality up to genetics or geography. It’s limiting because you loose faith in anything outside your pre-packaged box of beliefs. And it’s inconsiderate because by choosing any exclusive religion you make the decision that all others are wrong.<br />
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Even members of the few religions that encourage open practice of other religions are bound to their group identity like poster-children, constantly defending the individuality in their collective faith. But that’s like bragging how modest you are. If you wish a collective relationship with some group’s conception of God, go find the next Holy place, read it’s Holy text, perform some Holy rituals then go home alone feeling like Holy shit, spitting out someone else’s existential excrement. If you wish a personal relationship with God, there’s no religion to follow, no group to join, and no book to read. There’s nothing to do but wander the world ever wondering why, and never decide.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitEWR5464zAzirRQ2EH9KO00SBLooFFXz_pS7ldAfRkHltc8m-WfQh-igoOL3kTcLkpmH6nhVbn3U2XgGQwHmA8Y1ZIJMFJpQ_b91iTp-tjoB8I99i_6ReiKlc2zj5eaCEDwbOeJY0Bj4/s1600/l_402344781ea88f6bc7a01c3002f5ec88.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545553560699131314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitEWR5464zAzirRQ2EH9KO00SBLooFFXz_pS7ldAfRkHltc8m-WfQh-igoOL3kTcLkpmH6nhVbn3U2XgGQwHmA8Y1ZIJMFJpQ_b91iTp-tjoB8I99i_6ReiKlc2zj5eaCEDwbOeJY0Bj4/s320/l_402344781ea88f6bc7a01c3002f5ec88.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 215px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 270px;" /></a>Ultimately, any system that gives answers to metaphysical questions is suspect because it grants Truth to things We can’t know through experience. A more educated approach to the unknown is utter agnostic apostasy: accept you don’t know and couldn’t even know you’re right if you knew it. Spiritual questioning is best left unanswered and simply explored throughout Our lives as We all exist in the mystery.<br />
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