Deepak Chopra: Consciousness is all

This, via the Monroe Institute’s website, is Deepak Chopra explaining in four minutes the scientific reasons to believe that the primary basis of existence is neither matter nor energy (whatever “energy” might be, divorced from its context of matter!) but consciousness. I am no physicist, but this feels right. I suppose that, in context, “feels right” means “restates what I already believe.” Well, so be it. Four minutes, no more:

http://www.monroeinstitute.org/thehub/quantum-physics-and-consciousness/

So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Section Three (5)

Claude Bowers on Reconstruction, racism, and the problems of our times.

Monday March 6, 2006

Last night, for no reason I could have named, I found on my shelves Claude Bowers’ book about the reconstruction era, The Tragic Era, that I have carried around for years but never yet read.

Friends, my suspicion is that this is what we might call a benevolent set-up. First Joseph on Lincoln and the Civil War, now Bowers on how the victory was hijacked. Yes?

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So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Section Three (4)

[I learned long ago to be cautious about considering something my own bright idea just because it came to me. Case in point, the following. Funny thing here, I distinctly got the word “Gothic” in the place where I finally put it, and distinctly resisted it because I was afraid it was an anachronism, and finally got the nerve to put it in only when I looked in the dictionary and saw that indeed in the time Bertram was around, Gothic cathedrals were beginning to be built. Funny, this process. Lots of resistance to looking unnecessarily foolish. Since it may not be clear who is speaking, I add J for Joseph the Egyptian, B for Bertram, and S for Joseph Smallwood’s cameo appearance.]

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Gentlemen, at your service. Who’s up? Pray bring whomever I need.

[Bertram, a monk of Medieval England] The word “pray” attracted me, brother. And this, by the way, is why you should watch the words you use – one reason that words are so powerful is that they vibrate particular strings, to use our “rings and threads” analogy, and so an unintended resonance may bring to light something you would rather not rouse. I do not mean this as any threat or fear-rousing picture. In my day these things were better understood than in yours, but our language describing them has become strange to you, and so for the moment our knowledge has been lost to you.

Say more, brother. And welcome. I can’t quite remember but it seems to me this communication may be a first between us.

A first occurrence in this format, yes. We have exchanged words before – and you and I share many a thread and already in your life you have consciously shared a task with me and both of us with Joseph the Egyptian.

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A Holographic Universe?

It wouldn’t surprise me for a second. In fact, my deepest intuition has told me, for years, that this is exactly the case. This world, the physical 3D so-real-seeming world, is only a projection from a realer world that underlies it.

I once, for a matter of moments, “appeared” in that realer world and conversed with some of its inhabitants. I perceived them as sitting around a table, but of course, who knows what the reality was. The mind  has to interpret things somehow, and it  seems to prefer to pick something as close as possible to be the symbol for the incommunicable.

Anyway, for the short time I was “there” I knew without question that it was realer than this world, and if you don’t think that’s a funny sensation, you need an imagination implant! But I could only hold myself there very briefly, before I ran out of the energy it took to maintain myself there.

I had that first-hand experience years after having become convinced that this world is spun from an underlying non-physical one, but years before being given the word from the other side, as related in The Sphere and the Hologram. So it’s nice to see that science is catching up, or at least considering it. That said, I admit, I understand very little of what is said in this article. Science is not the altar that I worship at.

This, from the New Scientist, was called to my attention by a friend. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true

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So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (11)

For the past several weeks, we have been looking at a new way of seeing who we are. A couple of loose ends today, and then next week we’ll start looking at what the implications are for the way we lead our lives. Subsequently, we’ll look at society and the individual, and then what the guys call the challenge of our time.

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Robert Clarke on the sickness of our modern world

This is an excerpt from Robert Clarke’s book The Royal Line of Christ the Logos, forthcoming from Hologram Books.

Many years ago I had fallen into a very deep and prolonged state of depression. I had lost all belief in religion, in there being any deeper spiritual meaning to reality, and what loomed threateningly large to me was nature with its savagery and largely unconscious cruelty, the devouring of life by other life etc. Nature, I knew, has its beautiful and delightful side, but the stark brutality and immense suffering that forms so large a part of it had become devastating to me. (As Jung says, dig up a square foot of earth and it will contain thousands of minute creatures devouring one another.)

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