Subatomic particles are separated by huge gaps, making every atom more than 99.999 percent empty space (...) Therefore, everything solid, including our bodies is proportionately as void as intergalactic space. (...) 'Nowhere' is almost an exact term here, because you cannot subdivide the body to arrive at the precise junction where the thought turns into a molecule.(...) You are left in the embarrasing position of claiming that life is madeout of nothingness -empty space devoid of matter and energy- At the quantum level, matter and energy come into being out of something that is neither matter nor energy. Physicists sometimes refer to this primordial state as a 'singularity' an abstract construct that is not limited in time and space but is a compression of all the expanded dimension of the universe.
John Bell's theorem hold that reality of the universe must be nonlocal; in other words, all objects and events in the cosmos are inter-connected with one another and respond to one another's changes of state.
David Bohm have had to suppose that there is an 'invisible field' that holds all of the reality together, a field that possesses the property of knowing what is happening everywhere at once.
Arthur Eddington said: 'When the electron vibrates, the universe shakes' and added 'The stuff of the world is mind-stuff'
The Quantum mechanical body, as a formation of intelligence, has a plausible place in a nonlocal reality. The beauty of such a simple picture is that intelligence is simple. The complications arise when one tries to track down the incredible complex machinery of the mind-body system. Quantum discoveries enable us to go into our very atoms and remember the early universe itself.
All of us are comfortable with things we can see and touch (...) Although almost all of them dwell in the realm of the invisible, beyond anything the naked eye can perceive. If you believed only in your senses, the ability of such an organism to be nowhere and everywhere at the same time would seem fantastic. Any object in the quantum world can never be seen using any extension of sight and touch. They are truly everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
The love between man and wife can be broken down into raw physical data, but to do that is to lose its reality. Therefore, Eddignton says, all these codes must stand for something more real, something beyond our senses. At the same time, this somehting is very intimate to us, for all of us can read the code, tunning random quantum vibrations into orderly reality ('Mythologising gives existence a glamour that we wouldn't want to be without'. Jung.) To believe the quantum, the body doesn't have to banish its molecules to another dimension; it has only to learn to re-form them into new chemical patterns. It's these patterns that jump in and out of existence.
He recognizes that what makes up the person is experience (...) The minutes of life silently accumulate, and like grains of sand deposited by a river, the minutes can eventually pile up into a hidden formation that cross above the surface as a disease. (...) My body is metabolizing everything I see, smell, hear and touch and turning it into me. The input that is turning into me is constant, and by my participation I shape it into final form.
Earlier we noted that if you could see the body as it really is, you would see it as constant change mixed with complete non-change. (...) Now, having looked at the quantum level, perphaps we can package both into one unit that captures our real double essence -the impulse of intelligence. An impulse of intelligence is the smallest unit that preserves itself intact (non-change) while undergoing transformation (change). (...) But neither of these can survive change. The molecules forming you brain on the day that you first thought the word 'rose' are not anymore, and yet the concept is. At the same time, you do not have to think the word 'rose' all the time to retain it; you can think literally millions of other thoughts without ever referring to this word. The next time you want it back, there it is, without confusion. It has retained its integrity through thick and thin because the impulse of intelligence contains mind, matter and the silence that glues them together.
The fascinating thing about intelligence is that it is like a one way arrow: yo can use intelligence to shape a molecule, but if you look at the molecule, you cannot take the intelligence back out of it.
Dr. Gerald Edelman hols that no one literally repeats memory (...) memory is a creative act. His theory is that every experience one has in life changes the brain's anatomy. The universe was created once, but we re-create ourselves with every thought. Everything in short, depends upon how well you can build in silence.
Every impulse of intelligence gives rise to a thought or a molecule, which stands a certain time in the relative world -the world of the senses- before the next impulse follows. In that sense, every thought is like a piece of the future when it is crfeated, a piece of present when it is experienced and a piece of past after it has gone. As long as each impulse is healthy the future is unknown - it will flow naturally from the present, moment by moment.(...) It's possible to spend a life time listening to the inventory of the mind without ever dipping into its patterns of intelligence (...) this pattern will form our ideas and belief from reality. The field of intelligence is extremely sensitive to change, however, both for good or ill.
The patterns in turn serve to indoctrinate the pattern makers and within a very short period of time the indoctrination becomes a law.
The point of diving into the region of the quantum body is to change the blueprint itself, rather than to wait for symptoms on the surface (...) The buffer that keeps us so securely above the line, away from our deeper selves, is always ade by us. It's therefore subject to revision at anytime. We constantly build patterns of intelligence and look through them to tell us what is real (...) the silent field of intelligence is out of reach by our choice.
Sometimes a new reality forces itself to be recognized, and then things can shift (...)
Normal reality is like a spell - since we must live by habits, routines and codes that we take for granted. The problem arises when you can make the spell but not break it.
'One feel free from one's own identification with human limitations. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet gazing in amazement at the cold and yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable. Life and death flow into one and there is neither evolution not destiny, only being'. Albert Einstein.
Unified Field Theory would unite all the basic forces in creation and thereby explain the universe as a whole.
What man perceives in a particular state of consciousness (waking, sleeping or dreaming) constitues his reality. Therefore, reality will be different in different states of consciousness.
It was detected by rishis a gap between each of these states, that acts like a pivot as one reality turn into another. Is there a fourth dimension? The answer was twofold. First, the fourth state exists everywhere but is hidden by the other three states as if by a screen. Second, the fourth state can be directly experienced only after the mind has transcended its normal activity, which requires meditation.
The progress of knowledge in the West has overwhelmingly depended on outward observation not inner.
It's is important because our own subjectivity shines through it; when our brains show us the world, they are really showing us ourselves. By analogy, when an image falls upon a mirror is the reflection; the reflection is the mirror. In the same way, the only realtiy we can know anything about is the one that is being mirrored in the brain - everything that exists is therefore inside our subjectivity (...) when you pay attention to an isolated object you select one channel on the band the rest obviously has o be excluded - but only for that level of consciousness.
(...) theoretical physics agrees that the lost dimensions and invisible energy fields have not actually gone anyehre; they have only sunk back to 'sleep' in the primordial field (...) It only needs to wake up.
Our own brain could be limited in just this way. Many things 'out there' don't exist for us, not because they are unreal, but because 'in here' we haven't shaped the brain to perceived them (...) It's entirely possible that we are literally bathed and surrounded by the transcendent and yet have not tuned it in.
It projects the world exactly as a movie projector does. Our bodies are part of the movie, and so is everything that happens to the body (...) but that we don't see ourselves doing it. If we could silently witness ourselves we would see this and more (...) then we have been wrong to put so much faith in objective realtiy and yet our objective frame of refernce doesn't seem wrong (...) are we being fooled by our own movie?
All this fields are highly abstract to you. You are convinced by it. (...) All our fears have been built up from just such a delusion. In fact, nothing real can be separated from what we tell ourselves is real.
The rishis said that life is built up by your participation in it. (...) Infinite choice is open at every second for me to alter the shape of the world, for it has no shape other tahn what I give it (...) but uncanniness is always present. It is nature's way of putting a veil our most secret fears; it hides inner pain from us until the moment when pain breaks an invisible dam and comes pouring out.
'I'm everything created and uncreated'. Aham Brahmasmi.
We are not onlookers peering into the unified field. Every person is an infinite being, unlimited by time and space. (...) your thoughts have an effect on everthing in nature. (...) But we are bounded in our awareness; being confined to the waking state keeps us from perceiving the
subtle changes we are producing everywhere.
'It should be firmly established in the mind of every individual, that he is part of the whole life of the universe and that his relationship to universal life is that of one cell to the whole body'. Maharishi.
If this is so, then nature is as alive as we are; the whole distinction between 'in here' and 'out there' is a false one. (...) It would seem peculiar that we portion out our intelligence into so many small, isolated fields of knowledge. Our social conditining forbids the cosmic perspective, not by7 condemning it but by providing so much distracting busy-work.
'In every atom, there are worlds within worlds'. Vasishtha.
Demolishing one's own boundaries does not make the relative world vanish; it adds another dimension of reality to it - reality becomes unbounded. When the walls are down, the world can expand. And that, according to the rishis,makes all the difference between a world that could be a heaven and one that becomes a hell.
The rishis simple extend our comfort zone all the way into normality of the infinite (...) Intelligence creates new circuitry at will, and this makes each person unique.
The twist the rishis gave was to infuse this activity with freedom, raising it to a level that transcends. the petty thoughts and desires of the isolated ego. Ordinarily, the ego has no choice but to spend life desperately erecting one boundary after another. (...) the ego finds the world a dangerous, hostile place, because everything that exist is separate from 'I'. This is the condition know as duality, and the only source of fear. As we look 'out there', we see every kind of potential threat, all the trauma and pain that life can inflict. The ego's logical defense is to wall itself in with the friendlier things - family, pleasures, happy memories, familiar places and activities. (...) Two polar opposites fuse into a whole - this principle puts the silent and active fields of life into proper perspective. (...) There is one hundred percent diversity and one hundred percent unity, both performing theor work at the same time. That is the nature of the work of creation - this is true reality-. To us, one seems real and the other unreal. The reality is that both are real at the same time. The highest goal of existence, then, is to achieve 'two hundred percent of life'.
Anyone who wants to take full benefit of the Vedic knowledge must come to grips with the fact that such normally inconceivable states as infinity, eternity and transcendence are real. The words do not belong to the vocabulary o the ordinary waking state, but the are not so distant from it, either. We all have the poser to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries when the boundless is so near?
There is no more beautiful experience than when the world expands beyond its accustomed limits. These are the moments when reality takes on splendor. the Vada calls such an experience, Ananda, or bliss, which is another quality inherent in the human mind but covered over by layers of dulled awarness.
'Superstring' theory: If you think the universe as a sutra (thread), then the whole universe is woven like gossamer from threads of intelligence, billions and billions of them. Like notes played on an unseen violin, the fundamental level of the whole world is made of sound. (...) 'The tones created by the vibrating string, such as C or B-flat, are not in themselves any more fundaental than any other notes. What is fundamental, however, si the fact that a single concept, vibrating strings, can explian the laws of harmony'
The rishis found the level of musci -it is bliss. Bliss is the vibration that intelligene sends into the world.
The hectic pace of work, and life in general, has accustomed us that a certain degree of internal conflict is normal and we tend to forget that peace is the norm.
I am realistic; I understand the typical Western approach. I also know that there are great possibilities. All the truths of my experience somehow add up to one truth, but when I think I've grasped it, it slips away. It leaves ,e feeling humble and rather silly for trying ti take apart of the wholeness. But I am very peaceful and comfortable, having been assured again and again that the wholeness is perfection.
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