The video above is the episode titled Is There a Creator? from the science program series Through the Wormhole, hosted by actor Morgan Freeman. It will stimulate your mind into thinking about how the episode’s various scientific conjectures approximate the spiritual teachings on mystical reality.
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This four-part video series on the subjects of spiritual awakening and consciousness is highly recommended for all discerning and aspiring or practicing mystics of the 21st century.
I was listening to public radio’s To the Best of Our Knowledge (TTBOOK) program today, which featured a very interesting interview of anthropologist, author and researcher Jeremy Narby.
Jeremy Narby’s Book "The Cosmic Serpent"
The TTBOOK featured interview is titled Jeremy Narby on “The Cosmic Serpent”. You can listen to the interview or download it or read a transcript at the TTBOOK site.
Here is an excerpt of the interview conducted by TTBOOK’s Steve Paulson with an introduction by Jim Fleming.
Jeremy Narby: Well, they essentially viewed plants and animals as people or as intentional beings with whom you could communicate in modified states of consciousness so this was off the radar of what was considered knowledge in universities at that point.
Steve Paulson: So for you, an anthropologist with a PhD from Stanford, someone who came up and viewed, I presume with the values of materialism rationality this must have been really strange.
Narby: Correct, but yeah I was a Marxist anthropologist and so yes, materialist, a humanist, a rationalist and I thought I knew what reality was in terms of atoms and molecules and so on. And yeah it flew in the face of my understanding of reality. But in fact as an anthropologist when Indians start saying strange things you think oh well I’m in business. This is what anthropologists expect so the point was, I thought, as an anthropologist was to try to make sense of it.
Paulson: And of course there’s also the tradition of the participant-observer. And I guess in your case that meant taking ayahuasca.
Narby: Well that’s right and actually the Ashaninka people themselves, I kept on beating around the bush. It was true that they had deep knowledge about plants and plant properties, these medicinal plants, all kinds of plants and this place is the world center of biodiversity. There are more plants and reptiles and amphibians and birds and mammals in this area that any other area in the world. They had names in their language for almost every species of plants and ascribed uses to about half of them. So I eventually started asking the Jesuit question. How do you know what you know? And after a few months one fellow said “Brother Jeremy, if you want to know the answer to that question you have to drink ayahuasca. And if you like I can show you sometime.” He said, “This is the television of the forest. It allows you to see images and learn things.”
Paulson: So you, there was what an evening that was set aside for you to partake in the ayahuasca? This incredibly powerful hallucinogen.
Narby: I just was curious and I thought I would try it out. I didn’t really take it all that seriously. You know they have dietary prescriptions and said you shouldn’t eat this, that and the other on the day of ingest and I hadn’t actually followed their advice and came to regret it but…
Paulson: Because you end up throwing up.
Narby: In their language ayahuasca is called kamarampi, from the verb kamarank which means “to vomit,” and it also contains maranki which is serpent so actually in their language it is “serpent vomit.”
Paulson: (Laughs)
Narby: And you know this is some strong stuff ladies and gentlemen. The result of taking ayahuasca that first time was that it changed my world view. It actually showed me my world view and showed me the limits of my world view. I suddenly found myself surrounded by these enormous florescent serpents that started speaking to me in a kind of telepathic language that went through my forehead and the first thing that they said was “You are just a tiny human being.” And I could see looking at them that they were right. And that my ordinary world view-rationalist, materialist, humanist-had limits starting with my presupposition that what my eyes were showing me didn’t exist. At which point I had to vomit in fact.
Paulson: (Laughs)
Paulson: There is another response, I guess what might have been a logical response is okay, you take this really powerful drug, you see these huge serpents, crazy stuff and then you know, you gain your normal consciousness and think okay yeah, you take ayahuasca and you’re going to see all kinds of weird hallucinations. It doesn’t have to change your world view.
Narby: Well what then happened, this is like a three hour experience. At one point what I experienced, at least in my mind’s eye was flying out of my body miles above the planet. And then when the ayahuascero or shaman modified his melody I landed zoom back into my body and started seeing hundreds of thousands of images. Extremely intricate, beautiful images such as for example the veins of a human hand and the veins of a green leaf flashing back and forth extremely quickly. And it was just obvious that what was being shown to me at that point was the connection between the vegetal and the human. This is something that I’d never thought about. Well, the next day I went down to the river to kind of freshen up and I took the leaf of a green bush and held it up to the sun and then compared it to the skin on my hand and I could see that it was literally true. This was the first time in my life that I felt part of nature. I felt like oh, okay I’m like a plant except I can actually walk around like a moving plant. And the overall experience was like an antidote to the anthro-post centrism of anthropology. And also these are images that are so powerful, they make ordinary reality look dull. I mean they’re like 10 to 100 times more intense in terms of colors and emotional impact. And once you’ve seen them you can’t un-see them. That’s the thing. I knew from that experience that there was a level of reality that remains invisible to the ordinary gaze but that is somehow there. It’s raging with, well information and you know it’s terrifying.
Paulson: Were you scared at all?
Narby: Yeah, it’s terrifying. Huge florescent serpents that tell you you’re just a tiny little what’s a name and you know they’re right and minutes before you didn’t even think they existed. Yeah, it’s like hair-raising.
Paulson: What did the people you were living with, talking with, what did they say about this?
Narby: They say this is where they get their knowledge about the plants, animals, forest, the world we’re in, about the cosmos. There’s no limits to the information that you can get from this source. They say our eyes mislead us. They say plants and animals are humans like us. With our ordinary gaze we just see their outside envelope but inside them when you have taken ayahuasca or tobacco or one of these other plants that teach, then you see the real reality of things and that you see inside these other species. In their view, you can’t really know the world unless you work with these plants and these states of consciousness.
Narby’s experience and his reflections seem to indicate that knowledge originates from an unseen dimension of the mind, not necessarily from the perception of of our bodily senses — something shamans have been teaching us fir a very long time now. Indeed, in mysticism we speak of being taught from within, of impartations of truth from an inner aspect of our spirit being.
Listen to the complete version of this most fascinating, informative interview. 
If you would like to learn more about ayahuasca, you can explore a site dedicated to the subject at http://www.ayahuasca.com/.
“Buddha says sammasamadhi is aloneness. The right meditation is to be so utterly alone that you are one with the all. Let me explain it to you. If you are empty your boundaries disappear because emptiness can have no boundaries. Emptiness can only be infinite. Emptiness cannot have any weight, emptiness cannot have any color, emptiness cannot have any name, emptiness cannot have any form.
Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
In the days before Christmas, I confess that one of my favorite parts of the story of the birth of Jesus, or Isa ibn Mariyam, is the coming of the Magi, and the legends that have grown up around them.
In Christian tradition, the Magi, also referred to as the Three Wise Men…
The cascading nature of reality is yours to behold when you open your mind to possibility – and are not limited by the restrictions that flesh seemingly imposes upon consciousness and experience.
We liken it to an unfolding of the thousand-petaled lotus that resides within you.
- David Wilcock -
Any form or thing can be, and is, a reflection of Spirit, and, as Zen teaches, any activity can become a meditation.
When I began to listen intently to the lyrics of the love songs in the stage musical “The Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber, I began to perceive an underlying current of mysticism in them. For example, in the song “The Music of the Night,” I began to hear the Phantom’s words as words of seduction and love spoken by the Spirit in its divine romance with the human soul. Its mystical union with the soul in meditation became to me the music of the night.
Here is that beautiful song performed by the original London stage Phantom, Michael Crawford. May you also find the mysteries of the divine romance and meditation in it. Above all, enjoy it.
Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind
In this darkness which you know you cannot fight
The darkness of the music of the night.
(From “The Phantom of the Opera”)
Listen very closely as the Phantom (in our case, the Spirit) begins the seduction (at time count 0:52 of the video) with the words “Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendour…” and then tells you to “Close your eyes start a journey through a strange, new world; leave all thoughts of the world you knew before..” Open your feelings to the song… “Only then can you belong to me.” …and be seduced in “sweet intoxication” by the Spirit’s plea to “Help me make the music of the night.“
[Acknowledgment: To KathyGeinLecter for the Michael Crawford video of the song and its lyrics on YouTube.com.]
Lyrics:
Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness wakes and stirs imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Helpless to resist the notes I write
For I compose the music of the night.Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendour
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender
Hearing is believing, music is deceiving
Hard as lightning, soft as candle light;
Dare you trust the music of the night.Close your eyes for your eyes will only tell the truth
And the truth isn’t what you want to see
In the dark it is easy to pretend..
That the truth is what it ought to be…Softly, deftly, music shall caress you.
Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.
Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind
In this darkness which you know you cannot fight
The darkness of the music of the night.Close your eyes start a journey through a strange, new world;
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before.
Close your eyes and let music set you free;
Only then can you belong to me.Floating, falling, sweet intoxication
Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation.
Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in
To the power of the music that I write,
The power of the music of the night.
(music)You alone can make my song take flight;
Help me make the music of the night.
With some modification in the lyrics as when the Phantom tells Christine to “Turn your face away from the garish light of day; turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light…and listen to the music of the night,” here is the sensuous movie version of the song performed by Gerard Butler.
[Acknowledgment: To thephantomoftheopera for the Gerard Butler film rendition of the song on YouTube.com.]
Once the divine romance between Spirit and your soul enters its climax, Spirit grasps your soul firmly in the lock of Its dissolving embrace, and you know you have reached the Point of No Return — a point of mystical oneness, spiritual ecstasy, deep emotional rapture, and intense mental orgasm.
Read the lyrics of the sensuous song “Past The Point of No Return” below, also from “The Phantom of the Opera”. Then listen to the song as sung with passion and full expression in the embedded movie version’s video clip. Note how the lyrics appropriately express the divine romance and the mystical union between God the individual soul. Listen again to the song, this time with your eyes closed, and in your heart contemplate the words of the song as spoken by the Spirit to you, you to the Spirit, and the unison of oneness at the end of the song. You will actually feel the soul ecstasy and rapture the song produces in you — just open yourself to it.
I have brought you, that our passions may fuse and merge;
In your mind you’ve already succumbed to me, dropped all defences,
Completely succumbed to me — Now you are here with me:
No second thoughts, you’ve decided, decided . . .
Past the point of no return, no backward glances:
Our games of make believe are at an end;
Past all thought of “if” or “when” — No use resisting:
Abandon thought, and let the dream descend . . .
What raging fire shall flood the soul?
What rich desire unlocks its door?
What sweet seduction lies before us?
Past the point of no return, the final threshold;
What warm, unspoken secrets will we learn
Beyond the point of no return?
(Christine/The Soul)
You have brought me to that moment when words run dry,
To that moment when speech disappears into silence, silence . . .
I have come here, hardly knowing the reason why;
In my mind, I’ve already imagined our bodies entwining
Defenseless and silent; now I am here with you:
No second thoughts, I’ve decided, decided . . .
Past the point of no return, no going back now:
Our passion-play has now at last begun.
Past all thought of right or wrong, one final question:
How long should we two wait before we’re one?
When will the blood begin to race;
The sleeping bud burst into bloom?
When will the flames at last consume us?
(Both)
Past the point of no return, the final threshold —
The bridge is crossed, so stand and watch it burn.
We’ve passed the point of no return.
[Acknowledgment: To t3hfiasc0 for the video clip of the song on YouTube.]
The exquisitely beautiful love song “All I Ask of You” from the same musical, again, is a love song between Spirit and the individual soul: “Then say you’ll share with me one love, one lifetime; Let me lead you from your solitude. Say you need me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go too… that’s all I ask of you.” That’s all God asks of us: To share one infinite love, one infinite lifetime; to let God go anywhere we go (through our conscious awarenss of Its presence).
[Acknowledgment: To shinysuicune for the video clip of the song on YouTube.com.]
You can find the complete lyrics to “All I Ask of You” at the YouTube site of the audio clip.
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Would you call the NDE (Near-Death Experience) testimony of a credentialed, respectable medical professional a mental episode of pure fantasy or even sheer lunacy?
Meet Dr. Eben Alexander. Dr. Eben Alexander, Neurosurgeon
During that time, Dr. Eben Alexander says he saw heaven and knows the afterlife exists. Now he’s telling the world in his new book, “Proof of Heaven.” 
Alexander’s tale is the cover story on Newsweek’s latest issue, which features the headline, “Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience Of The Afterlife.” Alexander, a Christian, claims he took the journey to the afterlife when he slipped into a coma in 2008 after contracting a very rare bacterial meningitis. (Excerpt from The Huffington Post)
Dr. Eben Alexander III has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over those years he has personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. In his academic career he has authored or co-authored over 150 chapters and papers in peer reviewed journals, and made over 200 presentations at conferences and medical centers around the world. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind and spirit.
In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningitis-encephalitis of unknown cause. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator, his prospects for survival diminishing rapidly. On the seventh day, to the surprise of everyone, he started to awaken. Memories of his life had been completely deleted inside of the coma, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one! His older son advised him to write down everything he could remember about his journey, before he read anything about near-death experiences, physics or cosmology. Six weeks later, he completed his initial recording of his remarkable journey, totaling over 20,000 words in length. Then he started reading, and was astonished by the insights his journey brought to the world’s literature on near-death experiences, and to all phenomena of extended consciousness. His experience clearly revealed that we are conscious in spite of our brain – that, in fact, consciousness is at the root of all existence. (Excerpt from Eternea: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality; emphasis supplied)
Consciousness is at the root of all existence. Isn’t that precisely what mysticism teaches us? Did not Joel Goldsmith say consciousness is what we really are.
How does the good Doctor feel about his near-death experience? This is his reflection of the experience in his own words:
Since telling my story here, I’ve been amazed and profoundly gratified at how powerfully it has resonated with people all over the world. But I’ve also weathered considerable criticism—in large part from people who are appalled that I, a brain surgeon, could possibly make the claim that I experienced what I did.
I can’t say I’m surprised. As a scientist, I know that the consensus of my tribe is that the self is created through the electrochemical activity of the brain. For most neurosurgeons, and most doctors generally, the body produces the mind, and when the body stops functioning, the mind stops, just like a picture projected on a screen does if the projector is unplugged.
So when I announced to the world that during my seven days of coma I not only remained fully conscious but journeyed to a stunning world of beauty and peace and unconditional love, I knew I was stirring up a very volatile pot. Critics have maintained that my near-death experience, like similar experiences others before me have claimed, was a brain-based delusion cobbled together by my synapses only after they had somehow recovered from the blistering weeklong attack.
This is certainly the assessment I would have made myself—before my experience. When the higher-order thought processes overseen by the cortex are interrupted, there is inevitably a period, as the cortex gets slowly back online, when a patient can feel deeply disoriented, even outright insane. As I write in Proof of Heaven, I’d seen many of my own patients in this period of their recovery. It’s a harrowing sight from the outside.
I also experienced that transitional period, when my mind began to regain consciousness: I remember a vivid paranoid nightmare in which my wife and doctors were trying to kill me, and I was only saved from certain death by a ninja couple after being pushed from a 60-story cancer hospital in south Florida. But that period of disorientation and delusion had absolutely nothing to do with what happened to me before my cortex began to recover: the period, that is, when it was shut down and incapable of supporting consciousness at all. During that period, I experienced something very similar to what countless other people who have undergone near-death experiences have witnessed: the transition to a realm beyond the physical, and a vast broadening of my consciousness. The only real difference between my experience and those others is that my brain was, essentially, deader than theirs.
Most near-death experiences (NDE) are the result of momentary cardiac arrest. The heart stops pumping blood to the brain, and the brain, deprived of oxygen, ceases being able to support consciousness. But that—as I’d have been the first to point out before my own experience—doesn’t mean the brain is truly dead. That’s why many doctors feel that the term “near-death experience” is essentially a misnomer. Most people who had them were in bad shape, but they weren’t really near death.
But I was. My synapses—the spaces between the neurons of the brain that support the electrochemical activity that makes the brain function—were not simply compromised during my experience. They were stopped. Only isolated pockets of deep cortical neurons were still sputtering, but no broad networks capable of generating anything like what we call “consciousness.” The E. coli bacteria that flooded my brain during my illness made sure of that. My doctors have told me that according to all the brain tests they were doing, there was no way that any of the functions including vision, hearing, emotion, memory, language, or logic could possibly have been intact. That’s why, just as I now no longer doubt the existence of the world of expanded consciousness that NDE subjects, mystics, meditators, and countless other people have described for centuries, I also feel that my experience adds something new to those stories. It supplies a definitive new form of evidence that consciousness can exist beyond the body. (Excerpt from the Newsweek Magazine article “The Science of Heaven” featured in The Daily Beast; emphasis supplied)
Indeed the good Doctor no longer doubts the existence of the world of expanded consciousness that NDE subjects, mystics, meditators, and countless other people have described for centuries. And, as a result, he has made an about-face with respect to the mainstream science theory that the brain produces or gives rise to consciousness, i.e., consciousness is the mere effect of brain activity. Having undergone the NDE, Dr. Alexander has switched from being a skeptic to a believer/mystic.
This not-quite-true story is that the brain produces consciousness.
Most scientists accept this as dogma. I certainly did, and it’s why so many scientists still refuse to even consider that I really and truly experienced what I say I did. But we in fact have no real proof of this at all, other than our general distrust of anything we can’t put our hands on. But there are many established scientific facts that we haven’t placed our hands on either. No one has ever seen an electron, or touched the force of gravity. The fact is, most doctors, and most scientists today, are confusing the fact that consciousness and brain activity are related (which they certainly are) with the opinion that the brain actually produces that consciousness.x x x
I am as deep a believer in science, and the truth-respecting values that created it, as I ever was. As such, I want to affirm again—not just to my fellow scientists but to everyone—that there is a larger, more real world out there. Those who have experienced it are neither deluded nor dishonest, but they are hampered by the limits of language to convey the sheer exponential vastness of what they encountered. This world of consciousness beyond the body is the true new frontier, not just of science but of humankind itself, and it is my profound hope that what happened to me will bring the world one step closer to accepting it. (Same source as previous citation; emphasis supplied.)
But exactly what did the good Doctor experience during his NDE? What does he claim happened to him?
Dr. Alexander has shared and provided abundant, rich details of his NDE not only in his book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife but also in interviews over radio, television, and the Internet, and in published articles that he, himself, has written or that have been written about him. Newsweek has featured Dr. Alexander and the account of his NDE; his story even made the magazine’s cover (see the image below). You can read the details of Dr. Alexander’s NDE in Newsweek at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html or by clicking on the image below.
Newsweek Magazine cover featuring Dr. Eben Alexander and his Near-Death Experience
He has been featured over cable TV’s Science Channel on the program Through the Wormhole hosted by actor Morgan Freeman, in the episode “Is There Life After Death?” You can view the pertinent segment of the episode below.
So, do you think Dr. Eben Alexander actually experienced the so-called “afterlife”? Share your thoughts with us here by posting your comments below.
This is beautiful.
(Thanks, Sammi!)
A recent profile of Harvard psychologist Elizabeth Spelke in The New York Times underscores what’s going on in baby labs these days.
Not so long ago, developmental psychologists and baby “experts” were telling the public that infants knew nothing, that they were blank slates who had to learn everything, including how to think.
But with the current wave of interest in the evolutionary basis of human nature, studies of babies have started to test what babies know when they arrive on earth.
Mostly what they know is that other humans are really interesting. They know a human face when they see one, and they would rather peoplewatch than do just about anything else.
Spelke started out asking questions about an infant’s perception of objects and spaces, but these days, she, too, is interested in an infant’s social intelligence.
The article mentions several of her experiments, but I was most struck by her “discovery” that babies pay more attention to language than looks. They don’t care about a person’s race or gender but they do care if the speaker has a familiar language and dialect.
Language, then, Spelke suggests, is the core feature that makes us who we are.
Years ago, anthropologist John Mitani of the University of Michigan showed that male chimpanzee from different communities have different dialects in their pant-hoots, and that males of a community modulate their voices to sound like each other.
This information suggests that the human fixation with how we speak is part of a collective identity and it has very deep roots.
Fresh Air, a regular feature program over KQED Public Radio, today broadcasted a most informative and totally engaging interview with researcher and author Andrew Solomon regarding his new book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. The program episode was titled “When Kids Fall ‘Far From the Tree’.” Solomon’s book is about families with children who are profoundly different or likely to be stigmatized.
In the interview, he talks about the research he conducted with parents who had children with Down syndrome, deafness, autism, dwarfism, or who are prodigies, become criminals, or are conceived in rape. He looks at both sides of an issue, interviewing and studying parents — mothers specially — who opted to abort pregnancies and those who chose to bring their pregnancies to full term despite the circumstances and the seeming odds against them.
Most touching segments of the interview deal with cases involving women who conceived (as well as the children who were conceived) as the result of a rape, parents of Down syndrome children, and parents of children who became criminals, notable the case of the Columbine High School massacre killers.
Here are some excerpts from the interview to arouse your curiosity.
“All of the women were concerned about the ways in which their child might resemble the rapist psychologically. If the biological father of this child was capable of something so awful, is this child going to turn out to be capable of awful things? So that was one fear. And then next to it — and not entirely separable from it but also not entirely the same thing — the child was a constant reminder of the rape. As one of the women said to me, ‘I have a friend who was raped and a few years later she was really able to get into a useful denial and say it never happened. I will never be able to say it never happened. I will always have that pair of eyes looking at me, that are evidence that yes, it did happen.’”
On what it’s like for children to learn they were conceived in rape
“There’s a central problem always for a woman who decides to keep a child conceived in rape, which is at what point do I actually tell my child where the child came from? So people who adopt children are usually now advised to tell the children from the very beginning of childhood, ‘You are adopted, but you were adopted because we so much wanted a child and we are so lucky to have you,’ and it’s a part of their narrative. But rape is too disturbing and violent and the sexuality involved — it is too complicated to explain to a 2-year-old. …
“I’ve met children who have been conceived in rape and who said that actually finding out had been a great relief — that it explained to them why their mother had had a child under odd or unusual circumstances. It explained why they sensed some ambivalence in a mother whom they had tried to please. … But there were others who were so horrified by that news and felt so polluted by it that they acted out in various very destructive ways. … They felt that other people would think, ‘This person is a child of rape; this person is like a rapist; this person is untrustworthy; this person comes from dirt and darkness.’ “
On how Karen Robards, whose son has Down syndrome, learned to cope
“What I found is that again, that time of diagnosis and the time of birth is often very difficult and upsetting for people. Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens. So the story that epitomizes it perhaps was of Tom and Karen Robards, who were a couple I met in New York who had gotten involved in changing the way education services are delivered to people with Down syndrome. They set up something called the Cooke Center and they did really noble and heroic work in that arena and their son is now 30.
“And I said, ‘Look you’ve given your lives to this.’ I said, ‘Do wish you wish you’d never heard of Down syndrome? Do you wish you could make it go away?’ And his mother said, ‘You know for our son, David, I wish I could make it go away because for David, it’s a difficult way to be in the world. And I would do anything to make David’s life easier.’ She said, ‘But speaking for myself, while I would never have believed 30 years ago that I would get to such a point, speaking for myself it’s made me think so much more deeply and appreciate humanity so much more broadly and live so much more richly. That speaking for myself, I wouldn’t give it up for anything in the world.’
“And while she articulated that idea with particular eloquence I found it was not an infrequent refrain — that most parents had become very attached to their children. And at some level I kept thinking, ‘But surely you’d rather have children without Down syndrome?’ And then I thought people become attached to their children with whatever their flaws are. I’m attached to my children with whatever flaws they have and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other better children, I’d cling to my kids and pray away this specter.”
On starting his own family and writing this book
“People said to me, ‘But you are doing this book about all of these terrible things that have gone wrong for all of these families and surely doing that would have made you draw back from the project of having your own family?’ And I said, ‘But on the contrary, I felt that what the book was about is the fact that parents can love almost anyone who is presented to them as their child and that love has a compelling urgency to it that rises above any difficulty and I thought whoever my children turn out to be, I think I’ll be able to love them.’
“And I felt that partly because of what I’d seen in these other families and partly also because I had been somewhat unforgiving of my family of being a little slow — not very slow, but a little slow — to accept the fact that I was gay. And when I started looking at all these families, I thought, ‘loving someone and accepting someone are two different things. … My parents always loved me, it just took them a little while to accept me and then they got there.’ And actually, all of these parents had to struggle to accept their children and then they got there. And I began to think all parents at some level have to struggle to accept their children at some level. Their children are always full of surprises.”
The interview was thoroughly engaging, touching, and POWERFUL! My ears were glued to the radio throughout the program, and I listened to its repeat broadcast later in the day. Do not miss this interview.
I invite and encourage you to listen to the complete episode of the Fresh Air program at http://www.npr.org/2012/11/12/164958401/parenting-a-child-whos-fallen-far-from-the-tree?ft=1&f=13. You can also read the full transcript of the program online.
I recently reported about the quantum theory of consciousness in our recent post “Has Science Discovered the Soul?” here at The Mystical Path.
Then I came across the Mind and Brain episode of the PRI public radio program “To The Best Of Our Knowledge” (TTBOOK). One of this episode’s segments, “Why Consciousness” by Steve Paulson, is related to the questions tackled in the blog. In fact, one of the featured authorities or resource persons is British physicist Sir Roger Penrose, a co-proponent of the quantum consciousness theory.
Listen online to the segment “Why Consciousness” at the program episode’s site. Better yet, listen to the entire episode of Mind and Brain. All the six segments are exceptional.
Share your thoughts with us and post your comments below after listening to the program segment(s).
An American doctor, Stuart Hameroff, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Centre of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and a British physicist, Sir Roger Penrose, have proposed
According to the quantum consciousness theory, the soul lives within structures called microtubules that live inside brain cells.
Thus it is held that our souls are more than the interaction of neurons in the brain. They are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe – and may have existed since the beginning of time.
The concept is similar to the Buddhist and Hindu belief that consciousness is an integral part of the universe – and indeed that it is really all there may be, a position similar to Western philosophical idealism, the paper said.
With these beliefs, Hameroff holds that in a near-death experience the microtubules lose their quantum state, but the information within them is not destroyed. Instead it merely leaves the body and returns to the cosmos.
“Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large,” Hameroff told the Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary.
“If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says ‘I had a near-death experience’,” Hameroff said.
“If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul,” Hameroff added. (Excerpt taken from “Scientists unveil quantum theory of soul’s existence,” ZeeNews.com; emphasis supplied.)
Has science discovered the soul?
What do you think? Share your thoughts with us by posting them below.
Where is spiritual enlightenment or illumination?
I guess science hasn’t gone that far yet.
I came across a recent post at The Huffington Post, titled “The Untethered Soul: Twelve-Step Guide to Spiritual Awakening,” by Michael Singer. The post is about twelve steps to Self-realization. I believe the twelve steps outlined there constitute the real components of an authentic spiritual recovery program for ALL human beings (without exception), who are actually spiritual beings recovering from the addictions of human nature and the delusions of the human condition. Here are those twelve steps identified in the post.
Spirituality is meant to bring about harmony and peace. But the diversity of our philosophies, beliefs, concepts and views about spiritual matters often leads to confusion or even conflict. The fact is that the very act of seeking spiritual freedom causes notions of success and failure, and these notions serve only to bind us to our own self judgments: Am I growing? Have I done anything wrong? Am I meditating enough?
Truth is only complicated because we pass it through our habitual thought patterns. When we step back from ourselves, truth becomes simple. There are not many paths to freedom, there is only one. In the end, no matter what particular patterns of thought we have managed to build in our minds, freedom always means transcending these personal thought patterns.
But how does one go about transcending the personal self and awakening to spiritual freedom? What is needed for this journey are succinct steps that are so universal that they can echo through the halls of any religion as well as support intellectual understanding. The following is a universal road map to Self Realization.
You will note that the entire process is an inward process in the mind. You will also note that the steps start with the acknowledgement of one’s ego or human self. Then it progresses with the subtle dismantling of the false self or egoic system by disrupting one’s emotional programs for happiness and the de-conditioning of the mind. Eventually the process reveals the true Self as the divine God-Self or Spirit-Self that we are. Note that this revelation occurs as the natural consequence of the human ego’s falling away. That is the key word to describe the process — it is a NATURAL process, one that will unfold by itself as long as we abide by the process.
Joel Goldsmith said it isn’t necessary to struggle to become God because we already are God. The effort lies in unbecoming that which we are NOT — in releasing the illusion or error of a personal or human selfhood existing separate and apart from God. The foregoing twelve-step process is exactly the same simple transformational process of The Infinite Way which we advocate in our site and in our work.
Truth is one, and truth is simple in its oneness.
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The Gentle Bonobo
The bonobo and the chimpanzee may be considered siblings in the primate family, but they are as different from each other behaviorally as day and night, despite the fact that they share between them 99.6 per cent of their genomes. Only recently studied more closely by animal researchers, bonobos have become known for their peace-loving, gentler nature, in contrast to the more violent-prone reputation of the chimpanzee’s nature. It almost seems as if the bonobo embodies the angelic, better side of our human nature, while the chimpanzee seems to share and express the darker side of our nature.
Here are fascinating research findings from an article published by The Vancouver Sun, about how these two primate species seem to separately mirror the duality of our own human nature.
Scientists have found that we are as close genetically to the peace-loving but little-known bonobo as we are to the more violent and better understood chimpanzee. It’s as if they are siblings and we are cousins, related to them both equally, sharing some traits with just bonobos and other characteristics with just chimps…. (According to) study lead author Kay Prufer, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany: “Humans are a little like a mosaic of bonobo and chimpanzee genomes.“
Bonobos and chimps have distinctly different behaviours that can be seen in humans, with bonobos displaying what might be thought of as our better angels, said Duke University researcher Brian Hare. Bonobos make love, not war. Chimps have been documented to kill and make war. Bonobos share food with total strangers, but chimps do not. Bonobos stay close to their mothers — who even pick out their sons’ mates — long after infancy like humans. But chimps tend to use tools better and have bigger brains, like humans.
“Is the bonobo genome the secret to the biology of peace?” asked Hare, who was not involved in the new research. “They have done something in their evolution that even humans can’t do. They don’t have the dark side we do.
“If we only studied chimps, we’d get a skewed view of human evolution,” he said.
Bonobos, chimps and humans shared a single common ancestor from about six million years ago, Prufer said. Chimps and bonobos shared the same common ancestor until about a million years ago, when the Congo River formed. Then the bonobos developed on one side of the river, the chimps the other. They became different species, even though scientists didn’t realize that until about 90 years ago.
Bonobo heads are slightly smaller and their teeth are arranged differently. In behaviour, bonobos are far more tolerant, more social. They are inordinately sexual. Instead of releasing tension by fighting, they couple repeatedly, Hare said. Bonobos are ruled by alpha females, chimps by males.
In some ways — especially when looking at the physiology of the brain — it’s as if a bonobo is a juvenile chimp that doesn’t develop, Hare said. Chimps get more violent as they age; bonobos don’t.
While the scientific name for bonobos is Pan paniscus, “they should be Peter Pan,” Hare said. “They never grow up and we have lots of data to support this idea. Much of their psychology seems to be frozen.“
Some researchers say Hare has romanticized the bonobo too much. Emory University researcher Bill Hopkins says he has more bonobo scars than chimp scars on his body. Sure, bonobos will bite, but they won’t kill, Hare said. [Emphasis supplied.]
The findings raise some interesting questions, the foremost of which is: Are evil or negative traits the result of our genes or DNA? If animals also have souls or a consciousness, are bonobos more developed spiritually (for whatever reason) than chimpanzees, or us for that matter? Is a matriarchal society similar to the bonobo’s more conducive to a more peaceful and harmonious coexistence?
The concept of evolving human consciousness suggests that the evil traits of our species are the result of having evolved from and recently emerged (in terms of geologic time) out of the animal world’s survival modality of instinctive fear, insecurity, and power control or domination, in the course of becoming self-aware beings; that our species is still undergoing the transitional phase from a raw animal existence in nature to becoming more fully human; that the evolutionary process of our species is not yet completed; and that our evolution becomes completed upon becoming fully-realized divine or spiritual beings or fully-conscious beings.
In this paradigm of evolving consciousness, we are not inherently evil nor do we have a bad human nature. We are merely stuck in the ignorance of not knowing what or who we truly are as we grapple with the darkness of that ignorance. We need to go further down this tunnel of darkness until we see the light at its very end — until we arrive at the full realization of what and who we truly are.
There are a number of our species who have reached the tunnel’s end and have seen the light beyond its darkness. These are the illumined souls who are the spiritual teachers of our species. They show us the way out of the tunnel and into the light. Their teachings reveal to us how to complete the evolution of our species through what mystics call “the enlightenment of the soul.”
On a positive end note, we can be hopeful. If the bonobos as a species succeeded in evolving beyond and overcoming their baser animal instincts, perhaps we, the human species, could do the same or even better.
(Note: Related articles and blogs have been published by the BBC, Ars Technica, and anthropologist Meredith F. Small.)
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Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
(Desiderata* by Max Ehrmann)
Do you believe in duality, in the pair of opposites? Do you believe that good and evil exist objectively as opposing forces in the world? Do you believe in the reality of both light and darkness, such that darkness is capable of extinguishing the light or that the light destroys darkness?
Of the blogs I have posted since I joined WordPress, the one titled No Reality to Darkness, Despite “Darkest Just Before the Dawn” appears to have been the most controversial, as in fact it has resulted in a series of subsequent posts and comments. I have established a poll to see how the wind is blowing through the collective consciousness these days. Please take the time to participate in our ongoing poll survey below by sharing your individual state of awareness with respect to the question of duality. Thank you very much for participating.
A very recent article posted online at The Times of India has gotten me all excited over the public expression of a view I have long upheld as spiritual truth (it is a basic teaching of The Infinite Way and all other nondualist mysticism): That God or Consciousness is the seamless fabric of all existence and the singular foundation and essence of all that is, from the unmanifest dimension of the cosmic Spirit to the manifest world of its objectified forms as perceived through and by its individuated sentient beings.
Consciousness is the missing ingredient in our scientific theory of everything (please read a related, recent blog titled “Multidimensionality in the Multiverse”). It completes our picture of the cosmos and holds the key to understanding all of life and existence. The ancient Vedic rishis of Hinduism knew this all along, imparting the divine knowledge of mystical oneness to mankind from since countless ages in the very distant past.
I am reproducing the article fully below for your benefit and appreciation (It is also featured in our site at A “Matter” of Illusions.). I am letting the writer’s (Mani Bhaumik) own words speak for themselves.
True nature
The Upanishads and Quantum Physics both talk about reality, writes Mani Bhaumik.Scriptures tell us that the abstract Brahmn is creator and the physical universe is creation, existing in an intertwined, inseparable manner. Brahmn is omnipresent. It is uncanny that the same Quantum Physics that runs our cell phone, computer and internet is currently revealing to us a similar nature of reality.
Modern cosmology and quantum field theory have brought us the discovery that the abstract, primary source of everything in the universe is ingrained in each minutest stitch of the fabric of space of the vast cosmos, thereby upholding and administering its fundamental aspects.
Our ever-changing physical reality is a direct manifestation of the timeless source. What was once thought to be sterile, empty space is now known to be an active participant in moulding the activities of our daily world as well as harbouring the source of everything tangible throughout the universe. Hence, we can recognise how the truer nature of reality described in the Vedas and Upanishads is anchored in modern science.
What’s missing here is awareness associated with Brahmn. The phenomenon of awareness is common to all animate species; it is also at the core of cognition in any sentient being we consider capable of possessing consciousness.
Consciousness is the window through which we perceive reality and reflect upon emotions and feelings. Because it is both an instrument of perception and a perceived entity itself, consciousness is qualitatively different from anything else we know. So it could be a fundamental feature of the universe.
Origin of existence
The subject of the origin and the nature of existence of consciousness is a scientific study in progress. Scientists are receptive to the idea of the Anthropic Principle whose corollary suggests that the conditions at the beginning of our universe had to be such as to presage the eventual emergence of intelligent beings like us.Based on his “delayed choice” Quantum Physics experiment, physicist John Wheeler stated, “It is incontrovertible that the observer is a participator in genesis.” That is, awareness has been present from the very beginning of the universe, but its emergence needed the eventual development of an appropriate material structure in sentient beings. The question now begs itself: Can the source of everything physical also be entrenched with the source of consciousness?
Material and non-material
Quantum Physics has compelled us to accept that two distinct and seemingly inconsistent elements of reality, like the particle and wave aspects of a quantum object, can coexist in a complementary way.This paves the way for us to consider the possibility that the “non-material” source of consciousness could be entwined with the abstract quantum fields that are the primary source of all things physical.
Experiments reveal that quantum fields fluctuate spontaneously and unpredictably with mind-boggling speed, yet they have remained, on an average, exactly the same since the beginning of time, while all else in the universe has changed dramatically.
Hallmark of awareness
Does it not suggest the existence of some sort of self-referral associated with quantum fields that is responsible for maintaining their fidelity in spite of their immense dynamism? Thus, it is credibly indicative that self-referral, which is the hallmark of awareness is an inherent feature associated from the beginning with the ubiquitous quantum fields.As envisioned by ancients, we can now perceive how the discoveries of modern science confirm that the source is inextricably intertwined with the creation.
The source is permanent while creation is ever-changing. But both are equally real. Can we not then declare: Brahmn Satyam, Jagat Satyam?
[Reproduced from The Times of India, by Mani Bhaumik, December 19, 2011; emphasis supplied.]
The Spirit is undeniably pouring Itself on all flesh now! 
A day before Thanksgiving Day, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired the fourth and final episode titled “Universe or Multiverse?” of the new NOVA science documentary The Fabric of the Cosmos (see immediate image below). The episode deals with the growingly popular cosmological theory of a “multiverse,” as opposed to the longtime held belief in the reality of a single universe that contained all of existence. Not a novel idea though, when you consider that ancient Hindu mythology describes how the sleeping deity Vishnu dreams up a creation of multiple worlds into existence, like bubbles flowing forth infinitely from him, and within each bubble is an exact replica of him asleep and dreaming.
After viewing this particular episode, as well as the preceding ones which included the illusoriness of space and time, I had a “light bulb” experience (an “Aha!” moment) in which something within me was confirming that this was a piece of the jigsaw puzzle to the spiritual transformation now gripping our lives and our world tightly. It seems to me that our awareness of multidimensionality is now being publicly expressed in terms of the cosmological concept of a multiverse — an infinite number of manifest and manifesting universes, all being expressed and coming into manifest form within the infinite Mind of God.
Perhaps, the only aspect still left out of the scientific equations underlying the multiverse theory is the notion of consciousness or God, Itself. I know that science still has serious reservations about this if only because little is known scientifically about consciousness and because of its lack of physical substance or objectivity by which it can be dissected, studied and explored under the glare of scientific observation and experimentation. If we were to include consciousness in the picture and factor in its relationship to Mind and the multiverse, we would arrive at the “Fabric of Consciousness” as the theory of everything revealed through the teachings of mysticism. (It is quite a happy coincidence — better yet, a pleasant and most welcome synchronicity — that such a “Fabric of Consciousness” was revealed to me almost fifteen years ago. The presentation of the “Fabric of Consciousness” is an integral module of our spiritual learning program and is fundamental to our class discussions.)
Within the multiverse is the realm of all possibilities, existing like picture slides or movie reel frames depicting all possible scenarios of life’s every moment and aspect of becoming. Like a needle with thread, consciousness weaves the mind’s tapestry selectively through those slides or frames based on our states and stages of consciousness, forming the seeming continuity of our life experiences as they unravel before us. And therein lies the secret to our multidimensionality and to our freedom and liberation from the human condition, including our key to transformation and change.
Watch the particular episode “Universe or Multiverse?” (as well as other episodes in the same The Fabric of the Cosmos series) at the PBS site by clicking on the image below, and see what I mean.
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Having written previously about the emerging unity consciousness which is now impacting our lives and our world, I write this new post to further describe the unfolding vision of the spiritual transformation we are undergoing as inhabitants of planet Earth. As in baseball, the bases are now full and we’re all just hoping and waiting for the right home run bat that lets us walk safely home. The video clips below provide a glimpse into our ascension and informs us what it will entail.
July 3rd Midpoint to Unity Consciousness: Visions of Transformation
I begin by sharing the interview below of a spiritual friend, Carl Johan Calleman, whom I believe is one of the few truly credible savants of the Mayan calendar ending. Listen to him as he shares his insights on the occasion of the July 3rd midpoint of the Universal Underworld (the unity wave) — the final phase of evolving human consciousness and of our spiritual unfoldment.
Looks like it’s going to be a home run, folks.
Mayan Calendar Ninth Wave Update
On August 18 we entered the second to the last night period of the Mayan calendar’s Universal Underworld of the ninth wave. Read a relevant article by Dr. Calleman on the significance of this fifth night titled “The Fifth Night of the Ninth Wave“.
Here is an important message he makes in his article:
The world is thus entering the Fifth night of the Ninth wave with seriously weakened prospects for its economy and seriously weakened authority of some of its major governments. Such developments were of course what I always have predicted in my books based on the shifts in consciousness that humanity is undergoing with the eighth and the ninth waves: The weakening and downfall of hierarchies of dominance. I have however also often said that there is little reason to expect that the transition to unity consciousness to be smooth and easy, but that it will include very difficult reactions as well. The dramatic changes are coming now with the Ninth wave more rapidly than anyone could have imagined. As part of this, in addition to the crisis beginning to hit the real economy in the fifth night, I think it is realistic that there will be some kind of political reaction to the developing chaos. In the US this could for instance take the form of giving extraordinary powers either to Obama or to the new so called Super Congress possibly under the pretext of some act of terrorism. Given the spread of chaos especially in the economic arena it is not unlikely that such measures also could gain a significant popular support.
My own view is that the economic crisis will only deepen as we go throughout the fifth night into the Sixth day and take large proportions onwards until the end of the Mayan calendar on October 28, 2011. Naturally, many will then ask if there is a solution which could stop this, as I believe, ongoing decline of the current political and economic system. My answer would be that a solution simply does not exist within the framework of the world`s current economic system, since this mandates growth for its own functioning and survival. Yet, there is a fairly simple solution out of the collapse of the world`s economy that we now see the beginning of. The solution is the forgiveness of all debts, not only on the government levels, but most importantly debts that regular people have in the form of credit cards, mortgages and rents, etc etc. Such a forgiveness of all debts would have to be combined with the end of the use of money meaning that people just continue to do their jobs without any form of exchange. This would set an end to growth and help save the planet. It would also liberate people from having to make money in order to survive. All that would be required is that people care enough for one another to continue to do the necessary work for everyone`s survival and wellbeing day by day without asking for money in return. Technically this would not be so difficult to implement, but what is blocking such a solution to the problems of the world`s economy are primarily political and legal. It is however difficult to see why a government or any banks would be needed in such a system and so these groups that hold the world’s military power would most likely resist it. Moreover, for many regular people at least in our current world it also may seem difficult to simply enjoy being and so constantly need to be doing things rather than being at peace with them. Yet, I do expect that in the sixth day of the Ninth wave, starting September 6th, we will see the first examples pointing in the directions of such solutions carrying the end to debts and money paving the way for the new world to be born after the end of the Mayan calendar on October 28, 2011. Unfortunately, billions of people lack basic knowledge about the Mayan calendar or even when its end date is and without this basic knowledge it is not easy to understand what is happening in the world. (Emphasis supplied.)
In another article titled “The Beginning of the Fourth Night of the Ninth Wave of the Mayan Calendar System“, he makes the following strong assertion:
Because it could be so painful a global financial collapse would seem to many to be a destructive event and hence not likely to occur in a period of light, a day. The economic system of the world is however probably the greatest obstacle to the development of unity consciousness that exists on our planet. I think it can even be said that a collapse of the world’s financial structure is a pre-requisite for us to be able to craft relationships of oneness between ourselves. For this reason it is not unlikely that such a collapse would occur in a day and then especially in the fifth day, which is the particular day that in the waves brings the breakthrough energy to the new frame of consciousness. Unity consciousness is thus likely to be perceived as a threat to many persons in economically dominant positions and this is part of the reason that so powerful media interests have sought to delude people about the Mayan calendar and postpone its true end date, October 28, 2011.
It is thus relevant to look a little bit more closely at what unity consciousness is. Sometimes oneness, or unity consciousness, is then presented as a mere mental concept as if it were something we only had to realize in our mind to see manifested. Some teachers are arguing that since we are entangled in a quantum mechanical sense we are all one. I feel such statements are so trivial that they are meaningless to make. Of course, we are all one in the sense that all humans are the products of the same reality and totally interconnected in this. Yet, a mere mental realization of a concept or a spiritual insight is not enough for us to actually experience oneness and anchor it in reality. Unity consciousness is something we need to craft and work with to see manifested through the support of this Ninth wave and again it may only be possible to do so after a global monetary collapse. The point to realize is that oneness is not an attribute of ourselves as individuals, but of our relationships to others and the divine. (Emphasis supplied.)
(I am posting and sharing a recent e-mail response I made to an online article published by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufi teacher and founder of the Golden Sufi Center. His article is titled “Witnessing the End of an Era.” You can read it in full at the Web site Working with Oneness or at the Ecological Buddhism Web site where it was originally published.)
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To: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
I am commenting on your referenced article published over the Internet.
I disagree with and question your statement and premise that the inner light of our souls “is now extinguished.” I quote your disputed claim below:
“During the last year I have become aware of an even more disastrous change taking place. A light in the inner world that gave meaning and spiritual sustenance to our souls and to the whole world has been going out. And it is now extinguished. Something that for millennia was central to the inner life has gone, lost through our greed, and arrogance, our ego-centered power dynamics and forgetfulness of the sacred. We are not just entering an external era of extinction, but an inner dark age. And what is more dangerous is that we do not appear to know it is happening, even though this inner light is fundamental to the well-being of our individual soul and the soul of the world.” (Emphasis mine.)
Quite contrary, we are living at a time when the divine inner light in the souls of men is surging forth from within its entombment in the human mind, and is breaking free to transform humanity and to establish itself firmly in the external world. This is an inner spiritual realization I have had for some time now and a mystical vision I have been granted and privileged to see.
The light in the inner world cannot be so easily extinguished due to its infinite nature. We are not seeing the end of an era of light. On the contrary, we are witnessing the birth of a spiritual age as it goes through its birth pangs. We are witnessing the completion and fulfillment of a divine plan that was conceived of and designed even before any cosmic “big bang” began.
What you are perceiving as the onset of an extinction is really the crumbling apart of the superstructures that are built upon and arose out of the human state of consciousness. That state of consciousness, which became entrenched in the collective psyche of the human species, is based upon a sense of separation from Source and the concomitant belief in the duality of opposing forces. That state of consciousness is coming to an end. It is what’s becoming extinct so that we can finally awaken from the error of materialism, the illusoriness of our material sense of reality and the great delusion of the human condition.
We are not entering an inner dark age, as you claim. Rather, we are emerging from one and moving into an age of light and spiritual illumination. No less than Joanna Macy, whom you mention in your article, acknowledges this fact on her Web site:
The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world — we’ve actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each other.
The matter of spiritual awakening is not something we actively pursue at the human level in the same way we do our external human goals and projects. Instead, it is something within which we become receptive to, we acknowledge and consent to, then we permit to happen in our lives, and finally we allow to transform us so thoroughly. To borrow from Joanna Macy, it is something we finally “wake up to.” And we ARE waking up right now, whether you and others perceive it or not. There are spiritual traditions and cultures that definitely see mankind presently moving into a golden age. Not everyone has a dismal and gloomy view of mankind’s future.
The tipping point has been crossed; there is no turning back for us. The process of awakening is irreversible and NOW UNSTOPPABLE. We can only cooperate with the spiritual outpouring and flow, and complete the transformation (ascension) process already in progress. Under these circumstances, there is no point to bemoaning extinctions and laboring under their fear or threat. It is time (for us and as many others as we can take in tow) to boldly move forward in spiritual consciousness and to claim the divine destiny awaiting the human race; or simply be left behind.
Yes, it is dark; but it is always darkest just before the dawn.
Peace and light to you in the infinite Beingness that we are.
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At Llewellyn’s Web site Working with Oneness, he quotes Abbot Thomas Keating as follows:
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God’s redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.
— Thomas Keating —
I submit that Abbot Keating’s understanding and enlightened view of what is presently besetting mankind and our world is a better perspective than a dismal and gloomy view of mankind’s extinction.
The final stage of unfolding spiritual consciousness — UNITY or unitive consciousness — has finally come to the human race and is now upon us all. Through the workings of the Spirit, the Divine Plan behind creation is now completing itself with the advent of Christ-Consciousness into our world and its establishment in our outer experience of life itself. The Mayan calendar is nearing its end signaling that creation, insofar as the human species is concerned, is about to become complete finally, and today March 9, 2011 is the Mayan calendar milestone formally marking the emergence of the final wave of evolving consciousness which will complete the process of creation in and through us. (Click on the pyramid image below to read more about this event from an article by Mayan calendar scholar and researcher Carl Johan Calleman.)
The Nine Underworlds (Phases of Evolving Consciousness) of the Mayan Calendar
The following video is an introduction to the culture of ancient Mayan civilization.
The gateway to spiritual ascension and mystical illumination is now wide open for all who would seek the attainment of realized Truth along the mystical path. Mankind is awakening to Truth! You are about to fully realize your divine nature incarnated as the God-Man. And God is about to become the fullness of our humanity within each of us.
Many think rather incorrectly that 2012 is the crucial year of transformation. Actually this present year 2011 is the correct year, and today, March 9, according to the Mayan calendar’s interpretation by Calleman, is the beginning of the last phase of evolving human consciousness, the Universal Underworld. (The video below showcases a hodgepodge of views and interpretations about the Mayan calendar’s ending. It illustrates how varied are the many speculations people have regarding the Mayan calendar end date mystery.)
I have been asked what is my own vision of the 2012 phenomenon. In this regard, David Wilcock and I share a very similar hopeful and uplifting vision and understanding of the the 2012 enigma, except that I personally feel that 2012 is actually already here, now, in 2011. Below is a video of David sharing and expressing his perspectives of the phenomenon. Listen to his exposition.
Rejoice! Be of immense joy and tremendous expectancy of divine good and spiritual glory. Your learning, waiting and awakening that has spanned eons of time and many lifetimes will be over very soon. Mystical consciousness or enlightenment is going to be a permanent state of mind. Even now the Light is breaking through the illusions of materialism and our human sense of material reality.
Transcendence is here and now, not just within us but equally also as an integral aspect of our outer experience. There is to be a new heaven and and a new earth founded upon the Oneness of spiritual reality. A new and different reality beckons to all of you who are flowing with this unstoppable energy current and its infinite outpouring of spiritual life, and who are now awakening from the Adamic dream of humanhood and the human condition.
“And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
(Acts 2:17-21, ESV)
Look for the outpouring of the Spirit in your accelerating and unfolding consciousness of mystical truth, in your expanding heart awareness, your deepening intuitiveness, and in your intensifying inner feelings of abiding peace, oneness, wholeness, completeness, harmony, understanding, love, compassion. As the scriptural quotation above says: “everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” meaning to say, if you acknowledge, invoke, call forth from within you, and embody the consciousness of God’s spiritual oneness in your life, you will transcend the human condition. You will ascend into the heaven state of God-Consciousness. It is through this mystical transcendence that we are witnessing the last days or the “end times” for the human state of consciousness.
Learn to discern its movements in the changes that are rapidly overtaking and overturning the planet and our human world, not just in physical earth changes but moreover in the spontaneous movements of people for greater freedom and fulfillment in their lives (as what we are witnessing in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere); for liberation from the inhumanity of their own fellowmen and from the enslavement of false human belief systems and the human condition; for the realization of a far, far better world, with peace and harmony built upon the realized brotherhood of all human beings and the return of the feminine principle in our awareness of the Earth as Mother-Goddess-Nature-Home of the Human Species.
Let there now be a tremendous spiritual healing of men’s minds, hearts, souls and bodies, by which our planet will be transformed into an earthly Paradise. Let all peoples enter the Sabbath rest of the Lord now and forever more. God-Consciousness will not and cannot be stopped. The Divine Plan cannot be thwarted or prevented.
Praise be the Lord God of creation who is great. Praise be the magnificent and most merciful Allah. Praise be the Buddha who is our jeweled lotus mind. Praise be the timeless Brahman who is the eternal Atman. Praise be the Oversoul of us all, in which and by which we are truly forever One!
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About Change I was recently viewing the seventh season first episode of the ABC television series Grey’s Anatomy. In the last scene, as the episode came to a close, an audio commentary on the subject of “change” was delivered by … Continue reading
Have you heard of Terence McKenna? He experimented with psychedelic drugs for his shamanic experiences and advocated their use back in the second half of the 20th century (he made his transition in 2000). He was also a student of the I-Ching. Based on the I-Ching, he developed the “novelty theory”of time-space and the concept of timewave zero singularity in 2012.
We are on the brink of possibilities that will make us literally unrecognizable to ourselves and those possibilities will be realized, not in the next thousand years but in the next 20 years because the acceleration of invention and novelty and information transfer is at this point so rapid. … Our planet is on a collision course with something that we, at our present state of knowledge, don’t have a word for. A black hole is simply a gravitationally massive object, so massive that no light can leave it. What I’m talking about is something like that, except that it isn’t so much gravitationally massive as temporally massive. We are soon to be sucked into the body of eternity. My model points to 11:18 am, Greenwich Mean Time, December 21, 2012 AD. (From an interview “Approaching Timewave Zero” by Terence McKenna, in Magical Blend Magazine, Issue 44, November 1994)
Also check out this two-part presentation by McKenna on the possible nature of reality:
• Story Time, Part 1 of 2
• Story Time, Part 2 of 2
What do you think?
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What is the mystical path, you might ask? Where is it? Where does it start, and where will it take you? How and when does your journey on the path begin? How will the journey end, and when? What lies at the completion of your journey, at the end of your path?
A Path and a Journey
In the thirty-plus years that I have been studying mysticism and trying to live the mystical life, two aspects of my undertakings and experiences significantly come to mind.
First, a pathway or road was laid out before me which did not necessarily take me out of the human world but it led me away from its “marketplace.” I felt more uncomfortable over time with the world of human nature, as I found myself wanting to partake less and less of its humanness the farther away from the marketplace I moved on the road. The road is not straight and flat. Au contraire, it winds through life’s many bends and turns and takes you over different terrains of experience. You can be certain of this: It is not obvious to the eyes and plain to follow as the yellow brick road leading to the Emerald City of Oz was to Dorothy and her friends!
Second, not long after my tentative first steps along the path, which were followed by many, many walks and long hikes, I realized I was actually taking a journey on this road. There was motion — and dynamics, too. I was progressing along the road. Soon I had traveled down the road to a point so far removed from the marketplace where I came from, that I began to feel there was no going back: I reached a point of no return. My values and mindset had changed; so did my life. From then on, I could only go forward to wherever the road and the journey would take me.
This then is how I see the twofold aspects of the mystical life: It has two intertwining aspects — that of (1) a winding road, which we refer to as the mystical path, over which (2) a purposeful journey is made, known as the spiritual journey. It is a journey of changing awareness made by the soul, along a path or road that seems clear only with respect to where it begins or takes off but remains nebulous as regards its end or final destination. Many, if not all, who embark on the spiritual journey, do not realize the magnitude and extent to which they will be transformed. The transformation is monumental in scope, cosmic in origin, and truly epic in its proportions as befits a God desperately in search of Itself.
So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.”
“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” (Yeshua, The Gospel According to Luke 15:3-10, ESV)
Consciousness Is the Way
Although it does not exist as an actual place in space or a definite point in time, the mystical path of life is right where you are this very moment, right here, right now. It lies within you, in consciousness. It is consciousness! Transcending the space-time continuum, the path does not have an actual beginning, only a figurative one. Unlimited by space and time, the path is infinite; so, it has no end either, only a figurative one. No wonder it came to be known by modern-day mystic Joel Goldsmith as The Infinite Way.
The mystical path is not your finite human mind. Neither is it to be found there. However, the path weaves through and past the multidimensional landscapes of the knowing mind, escaping the latter’s confines to eventually penetrate the “unknowing” of the enlightened mind. It is the unraveling of life or consciousness in and through your mind, expressing as your experience of life. Not surprisingly, the Taoist refers to it as Tao, the Way. The Christian likens it to entering a Cloud of Unknowing; and the Buddhist speaks profoundly of penetrating the emptiness of the Void (Śūnyatā), while the Hindu slips into samādhi (mystical bliss or ecstasy) in realizing neti, neti (neither this, nor that).
From the human perspective, you begin to perceive the mystical path when you begin seriously questioning human existence and pondering the meaning of life, when you begin demanding explanations for human suffering and injustice and none are being given, when you begin longing for permanence in an ever-changing material world, when you begin doubting your faith in your religion and in your God, when you begin feeling discontent or emptiness in the pleasures and pursuits of the world, or when you begin thirsting for answers about the truth of your own life and the nature of your own being. You begin to perceive the mystical path when something in you stirs and awakens you to the workings of the inner spiritual life.
Oneness
The mystical path is paved with Oneness. All other principles of mysticism emanate from its cornerstone principle of mystical Oneness. As you travel down the path, you will grow in Self-awareness, in the realization of the one divine Self. You will come to a knowingness of the true Self which you are. This is not (and is never) an intellectual accomplishment by the ego or the human self, but it is the result of spiritual illumination, a gift of grace freely given by the God-Self to all who would be open and receptive to it.
Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
(Psalms 127:1, NKJV)
Spiritual Practice
Your journey on the path begins when you cease to search for answers outside of yourself, knowing that all the answers you seek are to be found already within you, and when, after learning to quiet the mind, you begin to turn inwardly in contemplation of the Truth and to sit in silent meditation to commune with that divine Presence within you.
Daily you practice the conscious awareness and the remembrance of this One Presence in your mind and in your outer life to experience and realize it. You persist with your practice despite the objections against it that are raised by the reasoning mind or the human intellect, and despite all the odds against it being true as presented by the world of manifest forms and by the suggestions of material sense.
Many times you will feel as if you are starting your practice all over again, particularly in the face of trying situations and circumstances when it seems you have forgotten your learned lessons altogether. But you must not lose heart nor be disappointed or frustrated. They are only tricks played on you by your human mind. The truth is: your practice is a spiritual one, not a mental practice. You are, therefore, saving your treasure in heaven, in consciousness, where it cannot be taken away from you or destroyed.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Yeshua, The Gospel According to Matthew 6:19-21, ESV)
Your spiritual practice is your journey along the path. As you maintain your practice regularly and grow in the realization of Truth, you are walking the path and making progress on your journey.
The Paradox of Mystery
As you travel along the path you will encounter spiritual mysteries. Clothed in a paradox, spiritual mysteries are the lifeblood of the spiritual journey. Humanly you can never understand them with your intellect or reason because they are way beyond the grasp of the human mind, BUT paradoxically a spiritual mystery can be experienced directly by you through your soul faculties and the Spirit which you are.
Actually these mysteries were intended to be experienced by us, so that we can partake of them and be transformed by them into their very essence and meaning. For example, it is absolutely a mystery how God and you can be one and the same. However, although your human intellect or reason can never comprehend the mystery, your soul or Spirit can directly experience its oneness with God. It is a mystical experience beyond humanhood, one by which you will validate and realize the truth of your oneness with God.
The Journey’s End
Your journey ends, in a manner of speaking, when both the journey and the path finally merge to become one and the same: The journey is now your path, and the path is now your journey. Somewhere down the road at a critical moment in your spiritual unfoldment, the journey you have been taking becomes your very path. The path will cease to be like a road laid out in front of you and stretching forth before you. There will be no more maps of the path or signposts along the path to help you navigate the journey. The road has vanished, and you are left with only a journey to nowhere but which takes you everywhere.
You may seem to flounder helplessly at this stage but only briefly, until a final adjustment in consciousness is made. As your journey progresses, the human mind’s sense of separation from God and the human belief in the duality of two opposing principles or powers begin to dissolve. You learn to rest ever more deeply in spiritual oneness to the point where the weighing scales of awareness tip irreversibly toward illumined consciousness. The path then disappears, having served its divinely ordained purpose of leading you back home — home to where the Self IS. In the final analysis, the mystical path is simply the process of the Self contemplating Itself.
Yeshua of Nazareth
I am
the way,
the truth, and
the life.
(Yēšûă‘ or Yeshua, Jewish Rabbi, Teacher, and Healer who attained and demonstrated the consciousness of The Christ; from
The Gospel According to John 14:6, NLT)
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I want to share some thoughts about the human mind and its role in spiritual transformation, with the hope that they will help you reach deeper levels of spiritual realization.
Someone wrote me about her spiritual practice in the following manner:
…Unity thought, the Course in Miracles, the Abraham teachings, and all great masters are so clear about placing our attention on “reality” (not the world) to increase its presence and all else will fall away. While I can not yet be there every minute I am training my mind to be there more often each day. I know that miracles are born of this thankful, peaceful, heart centeredness. I am practicing bringing my attention to what I am grateful for each time I catch myself judging, complaining, or feeling less than joyful. It is always humbling and amazing how much more I have to be grateful for than upset about. You are so right about our placing too much attention on perceptions of lack when all around us is abundance. It is only our thoughts that create a perception of lack. (Emphasis is mine.)
I could readily see that she was straining with her mental efforts to bring about a change in her state of consciousness. That, in itself, is self-defeating because she is trying to RE-condition her intellect mind into thinking only in one direction (in this case, the idea of abundance), away from a perceived opposite direction or polarity (the idea of lack).
The intellect mind, which is designed to function anatomically through the usually dominant left hemisphere of the brain, is structured to operate precisely within the context of a duality. This is a necessary aspect of the intellect for it to perform its intended function of evaluating the physical world and rendering judgments and opinions based on its evaluations, thereby enabling us to function effectively in the world. (Check out Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book “My Stroke of Insight” for some really good information about the functions of the left and right hemispheres of the human brain. You can also listen to her lecture below about her experience of these brain hemispheres when she had a stroke.)
[Acknowledgment: Our appreciation to TEDtalksDirector for publishing Dr. Taylor's lecture video on YouTube.com.]
Furthermore, the intellect mind will uphold and continue to promote ideas of lack, despite our best efforts to re-program its selection process in favor of abundance, if the underlying deep-seated emotional feeling lodged in the animal or reptilian portion of the brain (the limbic system), where much of our human conditioning (vis-à-vis the brain areas for the emotions and memory) is stored, continues to be one of lack and limitation. Almost always, the conditioning of the mind will hijack and manipulate the intellect’s functions into sustaining ideas of lack and limitation, due to the sense of separation from our ultimate good (God) that is entertained by our dualistic human state of consciousness — the allegorical “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” in the biblical Book of Genesis.
(This dualism in the mind is referred to as: the original sin in Christian theology; or the fundamental error of human consciousness in mysticism; or the soul’s deep woundedness, that is experienced as the human condition, in metapsychology or psycho-spiritual studies.)
The ideas of lack and limitation are then acted upon hormonally by the emotional brain, expressing them in and through our mental attitudes and outward behavior and eventually translating them as our experience of life and the world. Here are video clips that shed more light on how the emotional brain (the limbic system) can work to inhibit our full human potential.
[Acknowledgment: Our appreciation to dizzo95 for the above YouTube video on the brain's limbic system.]
[Acknowledgment: Our appreciation to edutopia for the above YouTube video on "The Heart-Brain Connection."]
[Acknowledgment: Our appreciation to SmallBusinessAnswers for the above YouTube video on "amygdala hijacking."]
For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.
(Yeshua, The Gospel According to John 12:8, NKJV)
As pointed out by neuroanatomist and brain researcher Dr. Taylor in her book, the left hemisphere of the brain (intellect mind) has a built-in tendency to become negativistic or pessimistic unlike its more holistic right hemisphere (intuitive mind) counterpart. It is virtually impossible to RE-condition the intellect mind into running on a permanently optimistic or positive track by means of a direct reconditioning strategy against negative programming. Here is the bottom line: You cannot recondition the human mind for as long as and while the mind functions under a human state of consciousness. A transformation to mystical or spiritual consciousness is absolutely necessary, because only that state of pure consciousness can produce the unconditioned mind (the allegorical “Tree of Life” in the biblical Book of Genesis) where there is no experience of duality, only the experience of pure good (God).
…to be willing to live not by might nor by power, to put up your sword, to stop being angry, to stop being resentful, hateful, fearful. You cannot do it humanly, but the Grace of God makes it natural for all of these to disappear from your consciousness. (Joel S. Goldsmith, “Invisible Supply”; emphasis supplied.)
Not a substitution or switching of duality programs in the mind from one adverse or negative condition to its opposite condition (for example, from sickness to health or from lack to abundance), but the elimination and deletion of those very programs that keep us in the human condition. And this is what contemplative meditation accomplishes — the DE-conditioning of the mind — by opening individual awareness to the infinite nature of consciousness itself. DE-conditioning the mind allows it (and us, for that matter) to function as the unconditioned, infinite, divine Mind of God, also referred to as the Christ Mind or the Buddha Mind.
So, here is what I recommend:
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It's 12-21-2012. No Earth shattering meteors. No zombie apocalypse. (Okay, I'm seriously disappointed about the zombie thing. I've been practicing my double-tap for months.) But, strangely I woke up filled with joy. This is a rare phenomenon for me. It takes at least a cup of coffee and a romp through Facebook to stir any emotion like this in me.
John Unger and Shoep
Love is unbounded. Love knows no end. Love never dies. The picture above featuring a man and his dog has led to a healing no one expected.
Unger’s newfound celebrity changed his and his dog’s life. For the past few months, the Bayfield man received emotional letters and donations from all over the world. Over $10,000, mostly from moved strangers, pays for weekly laser therapy. “He has a much better life,” Unger told CBS Minnesota WCCO-TV in September. “He is not in pain as much, and he’s enjoying himself again.” The leftover money is being used to start Schoep’s legacy foundation, which will help other animals in need. (CBSNews.com)
Click on the photo image above or the following link to watch the news report video: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7736132.
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