La mente colectiva y el campo unificado

Bianca Atwell entrevista a John Hagelin, un físico cuántico, sobre el hecho de que somos todos una parte del campo unificado y cómo podemos acceder a este fuente de creatividad, inteligencia y paz por el medio de meditación transcendental. Me hizo sonreír cuando Bianca dijo que, de todas las partículas, su preferida fue el quark "encantado", lo que sólo descubrí hace pocas días y sobre lo cual escribí en el post abajo.

In this video which has been made in both Spanish and English, Bianca Atwell interviews John Hagelin, a quantum physicist, about the fact that we are all a part of the unified field and how we access this source of creativity, intelligence and peace through the medium of transcendental meditation. It also made me smile when Bianca mentioned that her favourite sub-atomic particle is the "charm" quark which I only discovered myself the other day while writing the post below. 

The nature of my reality

Completely ignoring the dismissive label of "pseudoscience" and treating it with the contempt it deserves, I am going to talk about the nature of reality. That is, the nature of reality as I have come to understand it. In the few years I have been here, I have been asking questions and in one way or another I would say that I've had most of them answered. A lot of them have been answered through reading: explorations through the realms of psychology, astrology, spirituality and philosophy. Many have been answered by friends, lovers and "enemies". Others through meditation and contemplation and some simply just from living life in this beautiful but sometimes frustrating and maddening world. In the case of science, despite being interested in biology at school, I became disillusioned when I realised how limited it was in explaining who we are and why we are alive. For example, medicine can tell us that one person is dead and another alive, but not why. What is the difference between the two? Instead science ignores the question and carries on its merry way down the eyepiece of an electron microscope into a reductionist denial of the bigger picture. Just divide reality up into little pieces and that way it seems a lot more manageable. But the problem is those little pieces just keep on getting smaller and smaller and in the end what we are left with is what appears to be just energy. Electrons, protons, neutrons and now quarks and leptons, are believed to be the smallest particles known to man. Quarks have names such as up, down, charm and strange. Discovering this information I wondered momentarily if I was reading an article about sub atomic particles or Pokemon. But whatever you call them, the fact remains that they are essentially just energy in constant motion. The solid appearance of our world is just an illusion. For example, if you were able to look through a powerful enough microscope nothing would appear as solid. Instead it would look like empty space with a few electrons whizzing around. As I explained in a previous post, the double-slit experiment showed that electrons are not particles unless you look at them. Until you look at them, they are moving and do not have form. They are waves of possibility. In my mind this means that, as I sit here at my desk, writing this post and looking out of the window, according to quantum theory the room behind me has dissolved into a wave of  possibilities: a possible bed, a possible wardrobe, a possible lamp, and so on. But when I turn around they are all there just as they were when I last looked.

Everything is vibrating at a certain frequency and it is this frequency that determines the characteristics of the thing in question. A rock has a different frequency to a crystal, for example. A human being, as a much more complex entity, has a range of frequencies emitted by the major organs and systems of the body. As well as emitting signals, the human being is also a receiver, decoding the frequencies around it.  The eyes decode the light that bounces off the objects around us and creates images that the brain interprets as the world we live in. The ears decode the sounds around us, the nose the scents and the skin the textures and temperatures we encounter from the things and people we touch.  The health of the body is dependent upon the body's frequencies being in balance. Illness is basically imbalance and the medicines and treatments that work best to heal it are those that work in harmony with the body and allow it to realign itself rather than trying to poison it or cut it. Kindness works better than cruelty and why should that be any different with our bodies? Alternative forms of healing are gaining popularity such as accupuncture, homeopathy, shiatsu, reiki, cranial osteopathy and aromatherapy. There are many more that I haven't mentioned and more are being developed all the time. The uniqueness of human beings means that people respond to different stimuli and what feels right to one person may not to another. The principle factor in whether or not a particular healing modality works is the patient's belief in the treatment. I think this explains why some people will only go to see an alternative practitioner once all conventional treatments have been tried and have failed. Healing will then take place according to how open the person is to the treatment and with nothing else left to try they may be more receptive.

Human beings, as already mentioned, emit frequencies from the different organs of the body such as the brain   and the heart. But the human being is more than just the physical body. We have thoughts and feelings too; we have consciousness-mind-self-awareness. Shouldn't this have a frequency too? According to those that teach the Law of Attraction, it does. One of my favourite teachers is Abraham, channelled by Esther Hicks. Abraham explains in simple terms that the thoughts we think produce a frequency and that frequency emits a signal which attracts back to us events and experiences of the same frequency. This is demonstrated by the analogy of going to work in a good mood and everything going your way, people being friendly and helpful etc. versus going to work in bad mood and things going wrong, boss is angry with you, people are unhelpful etc. Of course, life is more complicated than that and it's not so easy to be in a good mood all the time or even desirable. Most of us need challenge and some difficulty to make life more interesting and fulfilling. Abraham calls this "contrast". Without contrast we wouldn't grow and develop. We wouldn't try to improve ourselves or our lives, learn new skills or expand our awareness.

Sometimes people need things to become unbearable before they will do anything about their situation. Imagine you have a job that, although interesting at first, has now become boring and repetitive. You might have got to the point where you dread going to work every day. You start looking for a new job but don't have any success and so you become more and more frustrated, discouraged and maybe even depressed as you begin to lose hope of finding one. The solution to this according to Abe is to make peace with where you are. Instead of hating the position you are in and growing more and more resentful every day, the way out is to look for things to feel grateful for. Maybe you could tell yourself that these days just having a job is a reason to feel blessed. Finding reasons to feel happy where you are does not mean just accepting your situation and giving up trying to change it but instead feeling gratitude for what you already have while holding a vision in your mind of where you want to be. The difference is that you are using the Law of Attraction to create the new reality by raising your vibration to a higher frequency - gratitude is on the high end of the scale - and focusing on creating what you want instead of focusing on the lack of it. When you think that a certain change to your life circumstances or material possession will make you happy, in order to attract them into your life you need to be a vibrational match to them. The way I have come to understand it is that, although you might think you should get what you want because you need it, the vibration of need is not the same as the new circumstances you desire. The vibration of need is low and has a lot of resistance around it and possibly doubt around a person's belief in their deservedness to get what they want. Desiring or wanting something has a different vibration to needing something. Desiring something is a pure signal that is unadulterated by resistance in the form of negative beliefs like "things don't work out for me" or issues around one's worthiness to have what they want.  So in simple terms: feel grateful, lighten up and be kind to yourself.

Being authentic reprise

It's amazing but this just keeps happening. Lately in the course of my internal dialogue, I ask some questions and then I see something or hear something that explores or answers those same questions. Tonight I stumbled upon the video below that does just that. It appears as though the world is the mirror of my inner reality, reflecting my beliefs, thoughts, fears and the emotions I am feeling.   Many, many times, probably thousands of times, my questions have been answered in some similar way. The answers could come to me through a song on the radio, a programme on TV, a movie, a book, a person talking to me or someone else, or more often these days, from the internet. Sometimes, it just comes to me when I am sitting quietly, a flash of inspiration, something I didn't even know I knew. But is such an awareness itself proof of fundamental truth about the nature of reality or is it yet another belief reflected back to me? The outside world providing me with 'proof' that my beliefs are true. Like the fractal, the pattern within the pattern repeated, or the mirror reflecting the mirror and so on ad infinitum. Perhaps it has always been this way but these days I am sure it's happening much more frequently. Serendipity or happy accidents? But no, not that because personally I don't believe in accidents or coincidences.

About year ago, I decided to be authentic and to speak my truth as fearlessly as I could but it's hard. It's hard because being yourself takes courage to tell people what you really think and believe especially when your thoughts and beliefs are definitely not mainstream. Fortunately for me and people like me, more of us seem to be coming out the closet which is making it easier. But lately I have asked myself what is really me and what is ego, vanity or 'my story'?  By 'my story' I mean it's the story I tell myself. My victim story. My 'they-don't-understand-me' story because I'm different, weird or - flipping the coin and changing the tone from disparaging to conceited - "special".  I have just realised that all of them are stories. They're not really me. They are excuses that I tell myself to maintain the illusion of separation. I am unique, yes, but so is everyone else and should that be a reason to isolate myself from other people because I fear they will find me strange and so reject me?

During the first part of the video, Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm and David Shainburg are talking about people's need to identify with a group in order not to feel alone or isolated. In order not to feel insecure. But that by doing so they compromise who they are by adapting to and adopting the consensus values and beliefs of the group, subverting their own in order to feel validated and accepted by society and therefore not alone. Essentially, as I see it, allowing the group to define them because they are either too afraid or unaware that they have it within them to define themselves. They argue that, in fact, being within the group in this way a person can still feel alone. They are talking about the idea that being alone is liberating but that the need to be with the group in order to survive is compelling and that banishment from the group would be the greatest punishment. In my case I am coming from the opposite side of this argument because I am feeling the need to reach out to people more and to release myself from self-imposed isolation. But this must happen without compromising who I am and any loss of my autonomy, and without asking anyone to compromise who they are either. An impossible feat? We'll see.

L'autre valse d'Amélie

 

Relating - quotes from The Only Planet of Choice

Although I realise this post expresses a very controversial idea, one that has the potential to turn off at least fifty per cent of the people who read it, I decided to publish these quotes anyway.  I first read this book in 1993, the year it was published in the UK. As someone who was searching for answers, I was instantly intrigued by the book when I saw it reviewed in Kindred Spirit magazine. The book is comprised of a compilation of twenty years worth of channellings from extra-terrestrial beings called the Council of Nine. For someone who has always felt 'not of this earth', it wasn't hard for me to open my mind to the possibility that such communication was possible. It also seemed timely because I was feeling enormously pessimistic about the future of the planet and was in desperate need of some guidance that no human being was able to offer me and, since no religion had ever had 'the ring of truth', that avenue also felt closed to me. I have always felt that I am guided to the information I need when I am ready to 'hear' it and this book was just what I needed at that time. The information is delivered in a loving, non-judgmental way and, although not all of it holds meaning for me, the parts that do are powerful.  The following quotes speak of something that has concerned me for as long as I have known about the many ways in which one of the sexes is mistreated by the other and seems to come in answer to my passionate desire to understand why this should be so. I still do not understand completely, but what I have always felt is that women must have something very special for men to have fought so hard to control and subdue it for so many thousands of years. I believe that power is the creative power of the female. A power held principally by women but, as Tom explains, is also present in the male although denied and ignored. A power that has been feared, shackled and imprisoned, burned at the stake, drowned, raped, beaten, stoned, slaughtered, scorned, reviled and blamed. It is a power that is now awakening in the hearts of the women to be reclaimed and in those of the men to be remembered. Like the lioness of Strength, its raw creative power is being unleashed on the Earth, furious and wild. But its purpose is not to destroy as the corrupted male energy of the patriarchy has done, bringing the planet almost to its knees, but to heal, to rebalance and above all to create something new for us all.

Questioner (Palden Jenkins): I wish to ask about a statement you made in 1988, that "in the past, all power came from women." Now, could you expand on this, and tell us how did this change in history, such that women have lost their power?

Tom:  It is not "all power came from female", all power comes from female. It was not lost: it was taken, for control. The male had recognition that this was power, and by controlling it on a level of instinct, believed they then controlled power. This is why, also, in the brutality, the clubbing of women, physical or mental, they can then attempt to destroy that power, rather than understanding that male and female, interchangeable, may be two pillars that hold up the world.

Now you also understand that there has been a lash-back from those of female, and it is now beginning to come back into balance. Also, what was not permitted in the male was the identification of the energy of female that exists within them, for it does as a percentage, as a percentage of the male exists within the female. It is only when there is complete understanding of equalness, that then the world begins to evolve to its proper place.

In these times, in those countries not evolved - although you my think they are evolved - when they put less emphasis or love on a female child or destroy it, or continue to permit surrounding souls of Planet Earth only male vehicles for entering, then we ask how evolved are they? You see it is equal, the power is women, female, and it must be utilised by the male. And the male to be used in forwardness by the female. That is the partnership. Do you believe humankind will understand that?

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Questioner (Irene): What has happened in modern times is that we have gone from a period of secrecy and control of the sexual act, done in the darkness, to rampant sexuality in the 1960s and '70s, to relative abstinence in the 80s, because it seems, humankind has not chosen to acknowledge any insight into this area.

Tom:  That is correct, and it is important that sexuality now be understood. Understand this: the sexual plague was not created solely from mistakes in science: it was also created from the consciousness of humankind to break its habitual pattern, so it may review itself. However, as in most cases with your world all things are overdone.

Irene:  It's also a story of emotions, and it's also a story of understanding those emotions.

Tom:  It is important to understand this, for the emotion in your bonding is the highest returning to the source.  It is the connection achieved on reaching completion, the feeling of oneness with the other and the unity with Creation.  This is the drive behind the male continuously looking for that other side of being, the female, to make this returning to Creation - but because of misunderstanding and misuse it is rare that this return is truly made.  Do you understand?

Irene:  It's brilliant. But what is the drive of the female?

Tom:  The drive in the female is to be given the power to create, and only when the female is charged by male catalytic energy is the creation formed.  You see, this sexuality of creating acceleration in the female is, on a subconscious level, an anger at the population of males for the bondage with which it has encapsulated the female - for in its unconscious the male knew that all came from the female.

The female has now awakened to the strength of her being.  This anger emerged through promiscuity, to say to the males "you will not control my most important element, instead I shall abuse it", rather than make a commitment to self-control.  It is like throwing it into the face, for the male had done the abusing in the past.

Then with the collectivity of minds this abuse by males accelerated out of control, and the destruction of Planet Earth was the logical outcome. It began an inward tendency of devouring oneself.

Humankind has brought about the breakdown in sexual relations itself, to stop its limitation and corruption of sexuality, through enforced abstinence and fear. Now it is time for sexuality to be brought out in true understanding, and for humanity to return to a sane understanding of its connection with creation, and for the returning to the light at times of coupling, to rejuvenate oneself.

Irene:  That is also the beginning of the acknowledgement that Earth is paradise?

Tom:  Only on your Planet Earth does this uniting come about. It is the ultimate unity. Yes.

Taken from The Only Planet of Choice, Essential Briefings from Deep Space, Phyllis V. Schlemmer and Palden Jenkins, 1993 

Read the second edition online (the above quotes taken from the first edition): http://archive.org/stream/TheOnlyPlanetOfChoice/planet_choice#page/n0/mode/2up

How the universe works (part 1)

This is phenomenal! Happy New Year .........with all my love..........xxx xxx xxx