Nothing gets as vicious as fighting for a lost cause. If the proverbial Martian landed in a flying saucer today and saw how religionists war against scientists, he would be surprised at the vehemence on both sides. What is the war about? Fact beat out faith long ago. When Darwin’s theory of evolution replaced Genesis to explain the appearance of human beings, which was in the middle of the 19th century, the trend away from faith was already old. The world had been remade as material, governed by natural laws, random in its effects, and immune to divine intervention. Not just science but thousands of unanswered prayers did their part to dethrone God.
I am not drawn to lost causes, and therefore I’d like to guide the debate away from religion. And since religion is the primary form of spirituality in most people’s lives, we’ll have to step away from spirituality, too, at least at first. There should be renewed admiration for science’s attempts to answer the fundamental mysteries. These are well known by now:
- How did the universe come about?
- What caused life to emerge from a soup of inorganic chemicals?
- Can evolution explain all of human development?
- What are the basic forces in Nature?
- How does the brain produce intelligence?
- What place do human beings occupy in the cosmos?
Many observers have linked these questions to spirituality, too. Facts tell us how life came about, but faith still wants to know why. But what strikes me is how useless these big questions easily become. You and I live our lives without asking them. We may be philosophically curious; we may even have enough leisure time to reflect upon the big picture. For all that, the big questions are posed, by and large, by professors who are paid to pose them. Religion and science occupy different kinds of ivory towers, but until they come down to earth, neither one meets the practical needs of life.
Science comes down to earth as technology, religion comes down to earth as comfort. But viewed together, they fall short of a common factor that guides every moment of daily life: consciousness. The future of spirituality will converge with the future of science when we actually know how and why we think, what makes us alive to the outer and inner worlds, and how we came to be so rich in creativity. Being alive is inconceivable without being conscious. “I think, therefore I am” is fundamentally true, but Descartes’ maxim should be expanded to include feeling, intuition, a sense of self, and our drive to understand who we are.
The practical application of consciousness seems remote compared to technology. Would you rather be enlightened or own an iPad? In modern society, the choice is all too obvious. But it’s a false choice, because people don’t realize that the things they most cherish and desire are born in consciousness: love, happiness, freedom from fear, the absence of depression, and a vision of the future. We achieve all these things when consciousness is healthy, open, alert, and expansive. We lose them when consciousness is cramped, constricted, confused, and detached from its source.
I receive Google alerts every day telling me that one skeptic or another calls these considerations “woo.” It’s not my role to defeat skepticism, which amounts in practice to a conspiracy for the suppression of curiosity. Science advances through data and experiments, but those in turn depend upon theory. Theory is the flashlight that tells an experimenter where to look, and without it, he wanders at random. His data don’t fit into a worldview. I consider myself scientific at heart, and so I depend upon a theory as well. Its basic premises are as follows:
- We live in a universe that exhibits intelligence, self-regulation, and creativity.
- Consciousness preceded the brain. It created life and went on to create the brain itself.
- Consciousness is primary in the world; matter is secondary.
- Evolution is conscious and therefore creative. It isn’t random.
- At the source of creation one finds a field of pure awareness.
- Pure awareness is the source of every manifest quality in the universe.
Scientists don’t use most of the terms that are central to my theory—which isn’t mine, actually, but was born and sustained through the world’s wisdom traditions. In the name of objectivity, science leaves consciousness out of its equations and is fiercely proud for doing so. In doing that, a scientist is pretending not to be part of life, as if thinking, feeling, creating, loving, and enmeshing oneself in the complexities of the inner world were all irrelevant.
In fact, nothing could be more relevant. While the general public sees atheists mounting windy charges against superstitious believers, neither side is moving forward. The future lies with anyone who seriously delves into consciousness. Why? Because with physics arriving at the quantum world, neuroscience at the most minuscule operations of brain cells, and biology at the finest fabrics of DNA, all three have hit a wall. At the finest level, Nature is too complex to unravel through such weak ideas as randomness, materialism, and unconscious mechanics. Nature behaves, and as we know from ourselves, behavior is tricky. Science has tons of data about phenomena that don’t fit any explanation. For example,
- How does an observer cause light to change from acting like a wave to acting like a particle?
- How can a group of ordinary people cause a random number generator to turn out more ones than zeros simply by wanting it to?
- How do millions of monarch butterflies migrate to the same mountainous regions of Mexico when they’ve never been there before and were not born there?
- How do twins connect at a distance, so that one knows immediately when the other has been hurt or dies?
- Where in the brain does the self live? Why do I feel like myself and no one else?
These are alluring mysteries, like trailing bits of yarn that lead back to a big tangled ball. This Forum with its open-minded questioning, can help in the untangling. Yet it spells doom if anyone, either believer or skeptic, falls back upon the tired and dishonest ploys that fill the debate today, such as,
- I already know the answer in advance, which makes you automatically wrong.
- I disdain your beliefs.
- You’re a fraud with dishonest motives.
- I only want to make you look bad.
- You don’t know as much science as I do, or perhaps not at all.
- Speculative thinking is foolish, superstitious, or both.
- I’m here to win, not to find out the truth.
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Looking forward to future posts,finally a forum with substance.Respect to “All”…
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I fully agree that a greater ‘perception of being’ – or expanded consciousness – will help us to understand some of the great mysteries of life.
The example I love is that of a cat: a cat will see a plane flying above, but will not (we don’t believe!) perceive that there are a bunch of people on board flying fom one part of the world to another. A human being, however, will.
By the same token, who’s to say that just because most of us don’t perceive the greater reality inherent in, say, a snowflake, that this reality doesn’t exist?
Skeptics are hard to face as most of the time they are not looking for debate but rather to reinforce their own views/programs. As legendary architect and philosopher Buckminster Fuller once remarked: ‘You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.’
Or, in a less prosaic fashion, Max Planck said: ‘An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents…What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning’
Change often involves time; such a shame it is one of our scarcest commodities.
A few points Mr. Chopra…
First, from my own observations at least, it is not statements such as this:
“But it’s a false choice, because people don’t realize that the things they most cherish and desire are born in consciousness: love, happiness, freedom from fear, the absence of depression, and a vision of the future. We achieve all these things when consciousness is healthy, open, alert, and expansive. We lose them when consciousness is cramped, constricted, confused, and detached from its source.”
…that get the term “woo” directed at you, which is what you have attempted to claim here. The skeptical community does not, IMO, take any particular issue with you philosophizing about the source of love and happiness in your day to day life. What they take exception to is when you start tossing around statemens like this:
“I consider myself scientific at heart, and so I depend upon a theory as well. Its basic premises are as follows:
–We live in a universe that exhibits intelligence, self-regulation, and creativity.
–Consciousness preceded the brain. It created life and went on to create the brain itself.
….”
When you make the leap from musing about what it takes to be happy to making totally unsubstantiated claims about the universe exhibiting intelligence and creativity… and consiousness existing before the mind existed… THAT is when you’ve just entered “woo” territory.
If you want to claim you live in a universe that CONTAINS those things, in the form of human beings (who live in the universe) producing them in the universe… that’s one thing. But that’s not what you’re doing is it? You’re instead throwing around claims that are completely disconnected from any observed reality. And to do so in the same paragraph in which you attempt to associate your activities here with the pursuit of science is outrageous. Just because you decide to slap the label “theory” on these outlandishly fanciful statements that does not make them a theory in anything that even remotely resembles the scientific usage of the term. It would be highly appropriate for you to stop trying to associate doing this tye of thing with anything resembling a scientific activity.
If you want to call your mental meanderings something call them “spiritual speculations”. Call them “thought experiments”. Call them any term you want to make up for them really. But would you please not try and appropriate scientific terminology and associations for your completely anti-scientific activities? *That* is, in my opinion, what most sets off skeptics… we find it offensive.
I don’t think Mr. Chopra’s position is “anti-scientific” — or at least I don’t think so yet. He says that he is scientific at heart and that he is guided by a theory, but so far he has only stated his premises. These are, by definition, only his unproven assumptions about the way the world is.
Whether his programme is scientific or not depends on what he does with these premises. If he goes on to actually state a theory based on them — perhaps it is just “these assumptions are true” — and propose some way to test that theory in the real world, then it’s science as far as I am concerned. It may be good science or bad science, but that’s another issue.
On the other hand, if what he is calling a “theory” is just a collection of his beliefs about the world he finds himself in, then I think at worst it is “non-scientific.” As a skeptic, I’m not offended by that. I’m just not particularly interested in it.
I do think that consciousness is the key word to understand factuality both of the scientific and spiritual poles. To me the ‘observer effect’ in the Quantum Theory is most intriguing. The former randomness of the particles becoming determined as soon as a conscience looks at them. So is that kind of consciousness the mother of our physical world?
Also, it seems that our consciousness works on two different levels: one is the dualist self-centered ego and the other, the monist integrative consciousness by which we see the other as an extension of ourselves as per Eastern teachings. So far, causal science has only worked from the former while the Quantum physics points to the later. If there’s a melting to be, between the poles, I guess it’ll emerge from an extended comprehension of what consciousness deeply mean.
This is a perfect example of the problem with the writings of people like Chopra. they encourage these kinds of beliefs.
There is no such thing as the observer effect in the manner in which you have just described it. It does not exist. It is pure fiction. There hasn never in all the history of any research into Quantum Mechanics been a single instance of anyone discovering that observation “by a consciousness” impacted the state of matter in any way whatsoever. But people read things like Chopra’s articles and they walk away thinking science is substantiating their mystical philosophical beliefs about the mysterious properties of consciousness and the universe or something.
There are two ways to think of the observer effect.
1. As a purely physical phenomenon that has to do with the physical nature of an “observation” occurring. Namely that in order to observe something you have to interact with it. Hit it with a photon, or an electromagnetic field, or *something* that can then react with it in a manner that sends information back for you, the observer, to register. In other words, you can’t observe without interfering, and the interference effects what you observe in non-trivial ways if what you’re observing is something like a subatomic particle that reacts substantially to even something as small as being struck by a photon. This has NOTHING TO DO with the observer being a conscious entity or not. Send a robot out to take automated measurements and it will experience the exact same thing.
2. It can be argued that until the state of something is observed there is a statistical distribution of possible states in which it might exist and you don’t know where in that distribution it falls until observation occurs. That distribution is described in QM by an equation called a wavefunction and the act of observation which eliminates all the possibilities leaving only the observed state as “collapsing” the wavefunction. Again, this has NOTHING TO DO with the observer’s consciousness playing any role whatsoever in this process. If the particle in question is “observed” by some inanimate piece of sensory hardware the same thing happens. Consciousness plays ZERO role in any of this. But people like Chopra then come along writing things like what we see in this article, claiming it’s all based on QM when it is nothing of the kind… and then these silly misperceptions spread and spread, all the while with people under the completely incorrect impression that they are in agreement with current scientific findings when they’re not even in the neighborhood.
I was very glad to see Grant’s post here. When someone tries to portray something which is not scientific as scientific, doesn’t follow the scientific method, makes a theory which is not based on scientific observation nor is falsifiable, they have leapt right over the line into the realm of pseudoscience. Which, i must say, is not cool for various reasons. The one i’m most concerned with is that it makes people like myself, who are involved with both science and spirituality, look bad. It deters scientists from exploring spiritual ideas, and thereby can hold off the development of knowledge and human advancement. By setting off sceptics etc- which it absolutely does- pseudoscience contributes to the very division i expected the article to discuss (i was unimpressed). So I thank Grant and others like him who do go out and point the finger like this; i feel they do us all a great service.
Kingsley, I just happened to read your Bucky quote. That is exactly what we’re trying to do here, build a new model based on a new language that will emerge from the integration of science and spirituality.
Change does not have to take long, the Web has proven that. Memes go viral in mere hours via Twitter and Facebook, and we’re going to be deploying a social media strategy very soon. With that and Huffington Post behind us it’s actually possible we could take off and get the whole world talking.
Thanks for your contributions, to you and Barbara. Much more to come.
Carl, this is good news – on the social media strategy front. Change is indeed occurring at accelerating rates these days. These ‘digital Agoras’ do have a place and role for facilicitating these dialogues and change in thinking patterns. I’m with you there!
Have I just stumbled upon a site with actual substance? This is quite exciting. Six posts so far, and the stream has not deteriorated into name calling. I look forward to reading more.
I am very excited to see this merging of science and spirituality being brought to mainstream consciousness. We are all awakening to the intelligence that we ARE and that IS and I am grateful to all the voices, such as Dr. Chopra and Dr. Laszlo who are beginning to get the world’s attention. The more light we can bring in the more we can shift the global belief systems out of the dark ages. Lots and lots of gratitude to all of you.
I try and not confuse science with sprituality or religion. But as man’s attempt to understand the how Life and all that is before us came to be…..how God did it. Excluding the paranormal, spiritual or conciousness factors is necessary as they cannot be quantified using normal scientific procedures.
Maybe that is the missing link in their calculations?
I think that the attempt to separate science and religion cannot lead to anything other than partial knowledge and understanding. What if we were to put together the two?
We could even look at science and religion as a man and a woman who fail to understand each other just because they are so different. Still, they are complementary and together they make a harmonious whole.
Here is a link to an interesting article which presents this perspective on the classical opposition between science and religion.
http://www.mihaistoian.net/science-and-religion-the-story-of-a-legendary-couple
Enjoy!
I think you do a disservice when you say that skepticism “amounts in practice to a conspiracy for the suppression of curiosity.” I don’t think that skepticism discourages us from asking the important questions. Rather, it helps to unmask unsupported answers to those questions.
Revealing that a comforting answer to one of life’s big questions is unsupported by evidence is a stimulant toward further investigation, not a suppression of curiosity. After all, if we still accepted the belief that “God made everything just the way it is for his own purposes that we cannot understand,” what would the role for curiosity be?
Regarding Chopra’s theory, the six basic premises are well configured. However, I currently stand one step prior to the premise that “Consciousness preceded the brain. It created life and went on to create the brain itself”. My question is – What is the basis for matter to be aware of its own existance? Hey, I am matter and I am aware that I am, which is just absolutely wondrous! However, is this awareness, this consciousness, a function of, say, neurological loops within my evolved human brain, or is it a fundamental property of matter? How do we distinguish between these two possibilities?
Why bitterness and hopelessness enters a marriage/relationship.
This is a true story that took place in Australia about a couple of months before I left. I was going to write about it but put it on the back-burner owing to many unexpected things that happened to me as well as me having to get ready with my travel plans to leave Australia.
It was a Sunday, about 11.30 AM, when I went to a very popular Greek cafe in Oakleigh to have brunch (breakfast cum lunch). It was quite crowded being a Sunday, having most of its regulars who make it a point to have their brunch there on a Sunday.
Because I know the owner and most of the staff I was squeezed into a table next to a table where six women were seated. As I was having my food I could not help but overhear the conversation going on among the six women. They were attempting to talk above the incessant chatter that was going on in the place making it quite hard to even hear ones own voice.
These women were in their fifties and were well educated and in good professional careers, which I found out later. Their entire conversation was, which was all ‘Gripe,’ about they being unhappy in their marriages and if they had a second chance they would never make the same mistake again.
I could not help but smile to myself about the contents of their discussion because it was a common and also a sore point among most married people. All of a sudden one of the women whom I will call Anna turned to me whilst telling the others: “We can ask this man for his opinion. As he is a man, his views will be different to ours”. “Mister, she said would you mind joining us as we need your opinion on a certain matter.”
For a moment I was quite taken aback as such behaviour is neither normal nor common in Australia as most people (women as a rule) are conservative when it comes to airing anything regarding their very private lives and also it being done in a public place. Furthermore, I was a total stranger to them and not of their ethnicity. But then, stranger things have happened to people.
Anyway, this was the first time after living in Australia for over fourteen years that I had been confronted with such a situation.
For a moment I thought of refusing the request but then I thought I’ll join in for the heck of it. I was introduced all round and further on in the conversation I found that they were buddies from school days having studied in the same school and the same university and also having lived as neighbours for years.
They had all married their childhood sweethearts and now after about twenty-five years of being married they were grouching. Out of the six who had married their childhood sweethearts, two of them had gone through divorce after about ten years of marriage and were now re-married to someone different. Their main complaint was that the spark had gone out of their marriages between five and ten years after they married and had children. Four of them stuck to their marriages because of the children but two went through acrimonious divorces and were mentally scarred owing to it.
On asking me in what profession I was and after I had explained what I do, they all exclaimed that we all being there at the same place and same time was indeed fortuitous.
The question they put to me after asking me for how long I had been married was; why is it that the spark goes out of one’s marriage when there was so much love and camaraderie at the beginning as they had virtually grown up with the guys they married.
I realized that this question they put to me was a very serious one because they all were intelligent and highly qualified enough to have formed their own opinions and answers but the very fact that they asked me was that those answers lacked something important that they were unable to discern. For the answers that they had arrived at never really provided them with the satisfaction that only comes out of knowing that it is the real truth.
The entire problem turns on only one important point and this is the question I put to them: “”Was their love born out of the entwinement of both their spirits or did it arise from the desires of their physical bodies, and being comfortable in knowing their spouses as friends over a long period of time before marriage “?
It is a common practice in most western countries and is also common in westernized communities for a man and woman to live together for some time – months or years – before they commit to marriage. If a proper commitment is not forthcoming they have the option to move on to another relationship. This goes on and on until they finally find a partner that they imagine to be suitable. But, with these six women this was not the case. They had each stuck with one man until their marriage and thereafter for many years.
My one question to all their questions was: “How would you know if the feeling you had had for your husband was real love and not something else? For it is said that true or real love between an man and a woman can only ensue from the spirit because it comes from lifetimes past, and not from physical desire underpinned by one’s comfort zone.”
To this question of mine they all became silent and started thinking about it. After about ten minutes they very reluctantly said in almost one voice:”Sorry, but I cannot answer that question because at that time when I was young I thought the feelings I had for my husband was true love, but now in hindsight I know I have been wrong in that evaluation.”
“But, are we not all like that before we get married?” inquired Anna
“I agree, but just because we collectively feel that way it does not mean that we are correct. The fault lies entirely on our so-called civilized society in which we live and interact. There are no moral and spiritual codes or ethics that are taught that we should abide by. In these modern societies it is generally each person for him/her self, as the worth of a person is not assessed by his/ her spiritual maturity and evolvement but only by their material worth / prosperity. If you haven’t learned any of these moral and spiritual principles how do you expect your children to learn them? Not in any school or educational institution I know of.” I replied and continued,
“This is the main reason why married men and women resort to having extra-marital love affairs. They, the women, develop a feeling of emptiness and of being useless and commonplace as their husbands and their children take them for granted and treat them with a lack of respect.
The men do this because of their ‘Mucho’ complex which in-turn filters into the thinking of the children. The man generally believes, and that to their benefit, that it is all right for them to have extra marital affairs but the moment the wife does it she becomes a slut and should not be tolerated in society. Such is the brazen ignorance and small-mindedness of most men. As in every case there are exceptions to this rule.
The women, on the other hand, are totally unaware of their great inheritance that Life has endowed them with – their multi-compartmentalized brain and the inherent strength of their femininity – known as the Feminine Principle.
According to the Vedas of India, this energy is an inherent energy found in all sentient beings but is more prevalent in the female of species. It has the power to make even the most ferocious wild animal meek and docile through touch and speech. Modern women do not know nor want to learn about themselves and the great and mystical power that lies within themselves.”
When they go through life in the absence of not realizing and making use of this power they begin to lose the spontaneity that comes with constantly seeing and experiencing the beauty and mystique of Creation. For married women it generally takes place through the eyes of their marriage and their offspring. When women lose this spontaneity they tend to seek fulfillment via tenderness and affection from an outside source, another man or another woman.”
I think this long statement of mine shocked them into some sort of realization that they were totally unaware of before. I could see their collective faces turning red. Please remember that these women had read and heard about spirituality and spiritual development but one never sees what really takes place in one’s life because we all go through life as if we are most knowledgeable in everything concerning ourselves only to realize at a moment in time in the future how really blind to the truth we have actually been.
Then one of them, Sally, who was a barrister at law said in a small voice:”I have been a lawyer for over twenty-five years and in my practice I have met with so many different people and experienced many different situations but this is the first time in my life that I have been called upon to look at my own life introspectively concerning a situation I, and all of us here for that matter, have taken for granted.
I am shocked not to have realized this earlier in my life. If I had known what you have told us my life and my marriage would have taken a different turn. I now realize that it is the society in which we live that keeps us in ignorance thus preventing us from being spiritually aware of the most important aspects of Life that would make a great difference to our personal lives and the way we live.”
Having brought their minds into focus with what was lacking in their lives because of the way they think, I made a discreet exit leaving them to their contemplations. I had touched a spiritual nerve in all of them, and saying good bye to them I left the cafe.
I, in turn, thanked the Divine Creative Life Force Energy for using me to enlighten some people who were roaming in spiritual darkness. This was their turn to be enlightened as I too have been enlightened in such ways.
This is how Life in all its wisdom and power flows through all of us not differentiating because of religion, race, caste, creed,or colour, like we ignorant humans do.
………….Llewellyn Buultjens 20th February 2011…………………………………
Mr. Chopra,
I enjoyed your article. I will not comment on the science vs. spirituality/religion debate. I think the very idea of expanded consciousness is the answer to this debate.
I believe religion is important, but subject to change as everything else. We need religion as much as we need science. Both have gotten stuck–religion more so than science–and been thwarted and floundered in quagmires because of a lack of expanded consciousness. Science, in its way, is verifying religion, purifying it. Religion has to change because of science, shed its dogmas, its outworn rituals, and recognize its oneness.
A new statement of religion, because of science’s purifying effect, will bring all religionists together, which is the very purpose of all world religions, the unity we need in this divided world.
Your terminology is different and informed by science, but the spiritual principles are ancient and everlasting.
Sincerely,
Billy
THE FIVE SENSES AND THEIR HIGHER PURPOSE
The five senses and sense attributes are common in all living beings although they may differ in construction and placement depending on the species.
These sense attributes have two purposes and two levels of frequency. One level deals with the physical realm via the brain and the other deals with the higher realm of the mind.
We have been mis-taught in school and via books that our five senses have only one level of function and that is to See, Hear, Smell, Taste, and Touch and this too depending on the health and growth plus certain other factors of each individual physical body. Thus far and no further.
It is accepted as fact that the body stops growing at a certain age and with it all the organs, glands, and sense attributes contained therein are supposed to reach their full potential. In the cold hard true reality of Life this is not so. As with the muscular system of the physical body, every attribute, with constant practice and complete dedication in reaching or attaining a particular goal, can be made to increase its potential above and beyond what is known as ‘normalcy’. Likewise, the five sense organs too could be made to increase their potential to unimaginable heights.
Check out this website about super psychic children in China: http://www.psychicchildren.co.uk/1-3-ChinasSuperPsychics.html
Medical science has discovered only recently, although this fact has been known for many millennia by the Yogis in India, that the function of one sense organ could be replaced by another, and also the brain could re-locate the functions of a sense organ if a part of the brain relating to a particular sensory organ is in any way damaged. Science calls this: Neuroplasticity. This also covers other body functions that have become defunct owing to brain damage.
Although western medicine has done much research into this phenomenon and research scientists have written volumes on the subject it all amounts to just rhetoric and semantics because they are unable to use any of that knowledge to actually bring about a rectification of a damage to a sense organ located in the relevant part of the brain.
Is it really so that human beings are unable to treat a diseased or damaged organ / part of the body without invasive surgery or chemicals? This also is applicable to the brain and its functions. In the true reality this is not the truth. There are many cases in China and in some part of India where people having incurable (according to western medical science) health issues have been treated with alternate therapy and completely cured.
These countries use ancient methods of treatment, but not publicly, such as bombarding the damaged or diseased area with human bio-energy via concentrated thought to cure the supposedly incurable. The therapist actually changes/alters the memory banks of the diseased or damaged cells infusing thoughts of good health and wellness into them via his/her own power of concentration of projected thought. Once this procedure is complete the cells would no longer think that they are sick or damaged. This in turn causes a balance to be brought about in the bio-energy field of the sick or damaged person.
The difference between Western and Eastern medicine is that western medicine attempts to dominate and thereby control the ill-health factor with a view of (hope) curing it in time to come, whereas Eastern medicine works in conjunction with the body as well as with the mind, not on a particular or specific disease / ailment, but on the whole body itself as being one entity that has an imbalanced flow of its own bio-energy.
Their main goal is to bring about a balance in the bio-energy that will in turn effect a cure or alleviate the problem.
There have been people during ancient times who were able to increase their vision and hearing to great distances. I don’t mean a few feet or yards but to many thousands of miles. They could also go inwards into plants and physical bodies right down to the level of cellular energy (the field of quantum energy) whereby they were able to determine the construction and flow of the various energy fields that comprise the plant or animal and also ascertain the different colours of the energy fields that would determine whether the flow of energies were in their correct equilibrium.
They could also determine the therapeutic value of various plants and herbs to find whether or not it is the correct antidote or remedy for a particular ailment or disease. They separated the toxic or poisonous from the non-toxic / non-poisonous. This they did by determining the exact frequency in its construction that had an intrinsic colour, taste, smell, texture, and sound.
They could extend their senses from one place to any distance when in search of the particular herb or plant they needed. This is how the ancients determined and documented the intrinsic potencies of the hundreds of thousand of herbs and plants found in India and other countries of the East that were/are used to treat various diseased organs of living beings, and also for various other purposes such as enhancing or even enlarging certain attributes and parts of the physical body.
These people could also extend their touch to another being living ten thousand miles apart from them, if and when it was desired, for the purpose of healing the sick. The recipient of this touch could actually feel the flow of energy entering their body and healing taking place sometimes immediately or sometimes after a few days. It all depends on the ailment being treated and the duration that it has been in the patient’s body.
This exercise needs a great amount of self and spiritual discipline and knowledge of mantras to protect the practitioner when extending his energy over a great distance. If the practitioner is not properly protected he could fall victim to predatory spirit beings that are around causing him much harm or in some cases even death.
To be a very proficient healer one must be able to do distant healing. One particular and essential aspect of this healing is that the practitioner never discusses with the patient what will take place during the healing, because giving suggestions to the patient, like in hypnotherapy, reduces the potency of the actual healing. If a healing did ensue it would last only a short while.
It is essential that the patient speaks about what he/she experienced during the healing after it is over. In doing that the healer could ascertain whether or not the process of healing has or has not been actually initiated. During ancient times there were no telephones or Internet to convey what transpired. The patient just spoke out aloud his experiences during the healing and the healer would be able to hear it. What the healer wanted conveyed was done through a person acting as a telepathic medium, who was with the patient.
The various properties of these herbs, plants and also minerals have been documented on ola leaves (leaves of the Talipot palm) that have lasted many many centuries and are still available to those who seek them. There were no microscopes, digital spectrographs, and such analytical tools to help these people during those days. All they had were their minds and the inherent wisdom that gave them proper direction, unlike us who have all the necessary gadgets but absolutely no direction.
Because of this trillions of dollars are being spent annually on research and have gone on for many decades but have been unable to come up with cures for most of the diseases and ailments that prevail in the world today. Certain diseases or ailments may disappear with certain treatment and medication but re-appear a few years later in a more virulent form.
Therefore people, this is why I have been trying my very best and for many years to get you to focus your mind on who and what you really are and the enormous potential and power that is incorporated within you.
“Be led not to walk in darkness when you have all the opportunity and power to light up the path before you”
…………….Llewellyn Buultjens 05th March 2011…………………………..
“The powers of the sympathetic nerve are neither entirely physical nor spiritual, but are between the two (systems). The nerve is connected with both. Its phenomena shall be perfect when its spiritual and physical relations are normal.
When the material world and the divine world are well co-related, when the hearts become heavenly and the aspirations grow pure and divine, perfect connection shall take place. Then shall this power produce a perfect manifestation. Physical and spiritual diseases will then receive absolute healing.”
“There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.”
On another occasion ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said with regard to the same subject, “All that we see around us is the work of mind. It is mind in the herb and in the mineral that acts on the human body, and changes its condition.”
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