Science, Myth & Consciousness

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1. nuseers says:

   September 20, 2011 at 4:48 pm

   This is the second thing i read by Deepak Chopra that i find absolutely brilliant! The first one was his other Huffington Post article -on transcending traditional/limiting views on gender, posted here in our Romance with Knowledge journal.

   Sometime ago i remember reading a line by Nikola Tesla which was worded differently but said the same thing that i had read in a recount of a talk by Carol Tiggs. Roughly paraphrased what both said was: “Mainstream scientists look for the ultimate truth and origin of things in the lines of their formulas. It is impossible to find them there, they look in the wrong place. The right place to look for those is in between those lines…”

   What i find amazing is that (as probably many others will find the same thing) couple of his paragraphs were exactly the views i was musing upon a few days ago. This reminds me of the saying (cannot remember author’s name) that: “The exact, whole number of consciousnesses in the universe is ONE.” -a worthy piece of knowledge deserving to undertake the challenge of transcending the divisions blocking this oneness.

   Along the same lines, when Deepak mentions that the Universe is a living thing made me remember another thing some say: that we are the sentient ‘cells’/perceptors of the universe and the universe is aware of itself but likes sometimes to shift as experiment. In such shift it likes to forget iself and our task is to remember our true essence so that along with us, the universe too can remember itself -i guess, to become one again.

   Something else this article brought is how the Nagual had said that it is amazingly mind boggling how in our times of apparent technological sophistication and complexity and academic pomp there is not a single mainstream science that seriously examines and deals with Intentionality; not since the Scholastics of quasi-medieval times. Sharing others’ relief too i also am happy to observe how the valid conclusions of quantum physics finally pass into mainstream without the usual ridicule-campaign, while introducing the practical notion of Intentionality and its potential of assembling reality beyond linear continuity of ‘normal’ space/time. For example such scientist were able to reproduce many times with success and experiment where subjects were able, through mere intending, to affect something put in envelopes BEFORE their intending had started.

   In fact, just like these quantum scientists, science should use honestly the empiric method, keep integrity of its analysis (not go ‘partial’ or serve some mentioned in the article myth) while flexibly speculating and experimenting in a true exploratory spirit. In this sense the ancient Seers were the ultimate scientists of awe-inspiring discipline! Modern science has no choice but join them today (or turn endlessly in circles within its narrow, partial, schizophrenic material frame).

   Then reaching the question “what is awareness” it probably should be asked “how is awareness”, as it is felt as in “how do you feel”, rather than “what is this”. For it is not a ‘thing’ but a process–the process of matching energy fillaments at large with those within an energetic unit. A verb rather than a noun–brings to mind Buckminster Fuller saying: “don’t think of me as an object, think of me as verb…”. Deepak is right: even science can’t go without being embraced by consciousness. We know what murderous results can bring a science that is devoid of consciousness.

   I feel that the scientists of today should understand that the essence of awareness is (in) our being, it is not ‘things’ and their ‘doings’. What i find extremely amazing is that even when people are introduced to, and familiarised (to the point of using it practically) with the potential of Intentionality they go and spend their intending upon desiring solely material ‘things’ or physiological stimulus (‘doings’) instead of Intending something abstract for their Being, liken the abstract enhancement of their Being/awareness/energy (which of course in its turn will most probably assemble the right material circumstances anyway…). I strongly feel that wishing only material stuff will result in what Eckhart calls “getting lost in form”, which no doubt brings unhappiness sooner or later when the whole focuss is on ‘things’ rather than on Being. The thing with being is that its connection relies on silent sensing/feeling while fixation with things relies on thoughts. In this sense i feel a ballance should be made between the distribution of attention. For example a scientist should cultivate frequent pauses of silent attention to dream solutions, etc. The character Cypher from the MatriX wished upon a juicy steak, a social position of import, things, doing. He didn’t wish upon freeing his body from thousands of pipes sucking energy from him while his frozen body was locked in a pod–his actual state of being. All this is in tone with us being trained by material-obsessed science of yesterday to cherish our frames, adore them, fight them, decorate them, whatever..as long as our intent is hooked solely within those frames. It is so breathtakingly beautiful to intend something abstract, without any expectations, for sake of it.
   Lately there is a golden awareness wave rising though, everyone feels it! I share Deepak’s optimism for new type of approaching science, like the french call ‘consciousness’–con-science :P
   Thanks enormously for this article and journal!

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