Within the armor is the butterfly and within the butterfly is the signal from another star. – Philip K. Dick
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. – R. D. Laing
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. – Robert Bresson
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One of the most impressive theories emerging out of scientific cosmology respecting the ancient truth was set forth by the late physicist, David Bohm in his book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Using the language of mathematics, Bohm set out to describe the transcendent reality and its graded energetic hierarchy in four basic states or orders of energy beginning with the physical world, which he called the Explicate Order. “The Explicate Order, weakest of all energy systems, resonates out of and is an expression of an infinitely more powerful order of energy called the Implicate order. It is the precursor of the Explicate, the dream-like vision or the ideal presentation of that which is to become manifest as a physical object. The Implicate order implies within it all physical universes. However, it resonates from an energy field which is yet greater, the realm of pure potential. It is pure potential because nothing is implied within it; implications form in the implicate order and then express themselves in the explicate order. Bohm goes on to postulate a final state of infinity [zero point] energy which he calls the realm of insight intelligence. The creative process springs from this realm. Energy is generated there, gathers its pure potential, and implies within its eventual expression as the explicate order.” Will Keepin, Noetic Science Journal
“It is proposed that the widespread and pervasive distinctions between people (race, nation, family, profession, etc., etc.) which are now preventing mankind from working together for the common good, and indeed, even for survival, have one of the key factors of their origin in a kind of thought that treats things as inherently divided, disconnected, and “broken up” into yet smaller constituent parts. Each part is considered to be essentially independent and self-existent.” – David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Another perspective coming to the same conclusion – our belief that we are separate individual entities is the source of all conflict.
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Knowing depends on perception;
without perception there can be no knowing.
Perception is, hence, more fundamental than knowing.
We live on an abundant planet, a small reflection of the multiplicity in the universe, which is a small reflection of richness of True Nature. With our limited attention, time and resources, it seems impossible to “know” everything or satisfy our childlike curiosity.
We need look no further than the family of frogs to realize how small a piece of the richness we see, know and taste.
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If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet.
The Tibetan word for sun is the Hopi word for moon, and the Hopi word for sun is the Tibetan word for moon.
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So, we’re seeing here that the most elementary, most external requirement for growth is the willingness to let go of what you believe should happen, what you believe things should be, what you believe will make you happy. – A.H. Almaas
How many ways are there to express ignorance or stubbornness? How often do we find these two traits in the same person?
Very few people are capable of learning physics, chemistry or any other advance subject on their own. Few would even attempt to do so. It’s common sense to seek guidance and instruction when delving into something complex or subtle.
It’s interesting how many of us, on the spiritual path, think we can do it on our own. I’m not talking religion, dogma or doctrine here. I’m talking about one of the most complex and subtle realms of exploration one can engage. And yet, many of us believe we can do it ourselves – we believe we know what direction we need to go. When it comes to inner growth, everyone all of a sudden seems to be a class-a psychic.
Freud proved that ego is first and foremost a defensive structure, a coping mechanism. It is a universal phenomenon that the mind that the ordinary person identifies with is fundamentally a “groove machine.” It keeps running in the same circles and will continue to do so even when we believe we are going in a different direction.
That’s why it usually takes a great deal of suffering or something radical to wake us up. The ordinary mind is not going to leave its rut until it becomes so painful that change is not an option.
Think this is not so? The biggest rut is believing that we are separate individuals. The number of people challenging or giving up this fantasy are few indeed.