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Category: Perceptions

  • Holographic Paradigm

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    In his controversial 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist, argued that the brain activity of ancient people – those living roughly 3,500 years ago, prior to early evidence of consciousness such as logic, reason, and ethics – would have resembled that of modern schizophrenics. Jaynes maintained that, like schizophrenics, the ancients heard voices, summoned up visions, and lacked the sense of metaphor and individual identity that characterizes a more advanced mind. He said that some of these ancestral synaptic leftovers are buried deep in the modern brain, which would explain many of our present-day sensations of god or spirituality.

     

    If we were to look closely at an individual human being, we would immediately notice that it is a unique hologram unto itself; self-contained, self-generation, and self-knowledgeable. Yet if we were to remove this being from its planetary context, we would quickly realize that the human form is not unlike a mandala  or symbolic poem, for within its form and flow lives comprehensive information about various physical, social, psychological, and evolutionary contexts within which it was created. – Dr. Ken Dychtwald in The Holographic Paradigm

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  • Source

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    Being disconnected from the Source is not the loss of luxury, of something extra – this loss lies at the very heart of human suffering because this Source constitutes your most real nature, the true center of who you are. –  A.H. Almaas

  • Butterfly Nature

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    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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  • Wholeness & the Implicate Order

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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

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    Knowing depends on perception;
    without perception there can be no knowing.
    Perception is, hence, more fundamental than knowing.

    A.H. Almaas

  • The Multiverse as Frogs

    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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    • There are close to 4,000 known species of frogs, including toads. They range in size from less than half an inch to nearly a foot long and come in a rainbow of colors and patterns.
    • Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
    • Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open. A frog’s tongue is attached to the front of its mouth.
    • Wood Frogs are freeze tolerant and spend winters frozen on land, only to thaw in the spring and begin their breeding process in vernal ponds.
    • Frog bones form a new ring every year when the frog is hibernating, just like trees do. Scientists can count these rings to discover the age of the frog.

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