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Month: June 2012

  • The New Spiritual Path for the Age

    The New Spiritual Path for the Age

    Neuroscience Will be the Basis for the Next Spiritual Path

    neuroscience-spirituality religionMy interest in the interface between neuroscience and consciousness continues – as does my reading of The Ego Tunnel. My meditations are taking an interesting turn as well under the influence of this interest.

    My 27-year interest in the Diamond Approach is fueled, in part, by seeing it as a “teaching appropriate for our times.” The Diamond Approach incorporates modern psychological knowledge and understanding into a new spiritual teaching paradigm.

    As I observe the influence of my recent readings on my meditations, thought processes, matrix of attention and index of curiosity, I have little doubt that within my lifetime, I will see a new spiritual path emerge that draws heavily on the insights and knowledge afforded us by those pioneering the field of neuroscience.

    The beginnings of this can already be seen in books like Mindsight, where Dr. Dan Siegel is applying understandings of awareness, attention, and mindfulness to his psychological work with clients. Of course, spiritual teachers have understood much of this for millennia. However, spiritual knowledge and insight evolve as consciousness evolves.

    Over the entire course of time, spiritual paths have arisen to meet the present-day needs of people’s consciousness and capacity for understanding. Deeper understanding of neuron firing, neural resonance, and brain synchronicity will lead to specific techniques and technologies to influence an individual’s state of consciousness or even deliberately induce a transcendent state of consciousness.

    Neuroscience is taking a look from a unique lens at the fundamental spiritual question – Who am I?

    I don’t think any amount or degree of technology will remove or reduce some of the basic barriers and hurdles to enlightenment, namely the challenge of embodiment and integration of the nondual as well as the clarification of the personality & ego structure into a transparent vehicle for consciousness. As I learned early in life – spiritual experiences are a dime a dozen, but real change is as rare as a selfless politician.

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  • The Vibration of Life

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God – John 1:1

    vibration resonance word of god

    It’s been a while since I posted and I have nothing in particular to say, so I thought I would see what comes forth if I just pick a couple of random images and write about what they inspire.

    Interestingly enough, I was talking to a new acquaintance this weekend about vibration and resonance. This guy, David, is super-smart and has several businesses (Upgrade Company is one), inventions and patents that all involve applications of energy and resonance.

    I couldn’t remember the specifics of this post on Gaia’s Brain Waveor this one Light Vision, but I am sending David the links.

    Getting back to the images. I have long understood the first movement of God to precede the logos, the word, the big bang – to be the creation of vibration.  What’s the Word of God mean to you? The entire spectrum of light and sound are vibration – some of which we can perceive, much of which we cannot.

    If you have ever sat in silence for any length of time meditating or paying attention to awareness, you may have noticed that your vibratory rate seems to increase. The mind (human brain) can only pay attention to one thing at a time, but awareness and consciousness can hold much, much more. If we let our awareness expand to include more and more, at first, it is like our awareness is expanding similar to peripheral vision. It can be extremely challenging and even uncomfortable to maintain our focus as we allow ourselves to resonate with more and more.

    While many of us can agree that vibration underlies all of manifestation, we may not consider what that may imply about us. Consider the mystics that say it ALL in a space smaller than a needle point or singularity. And of course that everything exists in side of the us, the human being. What then is this body or mind or heart? What is HU?

    Whether we “tune in” or “tune out” (so to speak) – tuning refers to vibration and resonance. Walking, talking receivers and transmitters may be a big part of what we are. Why else is chanting and prayer a practice of many spiritual paths.

    Oh, how the sing
    those wise men can sing
    their Vedas ring
    they just sing OM

    What’s it all mean? Beats me, check in with the brilliant.

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