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Harry Meeker wrote:
>> Dear Alton,
>> Thank you for such a wonderful gift filled knowledge and wisdom.
>> Harry
>>
>> Alton Kanter wrote:
>>
>> > >
>> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >From: Alton Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > >Subject: Deepak Chopra Wisdom
>> > >Cc:
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>> > >Dear Sisters and Brothers,
>> > >
>> > >this just came thru to me. It seems quite provocative of an extended
>> > >discussion of several possibilities:
>> > >
>> > >1. an analysis of Deepak Chopra's teachings/writings in general
>> > >2. His call here for a new theory of reality
>> > >3. the nature of our ability to "create"
>> > >4. what exactly is "healing" and being a "healer" ?
>> > >5. you add to the list and let's start?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >>One More Reality To Go, by Deepak Chopra, January, 1999
>> > >>
>> > >>We've spent the past millennium unraveling the mysteries of
>science. Now
>> > >>let's open the window to miracles and inner space.
>> > >>
>> > >>All around us, an infinite new reality is peering through the
>cracks of
>> > >>our rigid, bounded conception of the known. If our future is going
>to be more
>> > >>than just a repetition of the past, we will have to leave the known
>behind
>> > >>and discover a region of reality not yet explored--the realm of the
>> > >>impossible.
>> > >>
>> > >>Consider this experience of a friend of mine. He pulled the
>ligaments in his
>> > >>right foot during a workout. Hobbling and in constant pain, he went
>to an
>> > >>orthopedist, only to be told that surgery might be in the offing.
>He was
>> > >>reluctant to have an operation and waited, hoping the condition
>would
>> > >>improve on its own. When it didn't, he decided on impulse to visit a
>> > >>Chinese healer.
>> > >>
>> > >>The healer looked at the injured foot and touched it lightly. Then
>he walked
>> > >>behind my friend's back and made a line of Xs in the air, up and
>down his
>> > >>spine. "Try to walk now," he said. My friend got up and, to his
>> > >>astonishment, walked around the room free of pain. He asked the
>healer
>> > >>what he'd done. "Your body is a projection of your mind, a pattern
>of
>> > >>energy held together by your awareness. When you are aware that it
>is
>> > >>well, you hold your body together in a healthy state. But pain
>caused
>> > >>your awareness to withdraw from your body. You no longer held the
>right
>> > >>image, so I adjusted it for you." My friend shook his head. "But
>all you
>> > >>did was move your hands in the air," he protested. "No, I was
>shifting
>> > >>your energy," the Chinese healer corrected. "Certain channels were
>closed
>> > >>that needed to be open--very simple." The most remarkable aspect of
>this
>> > >>healing experience is that my friend did not sense that his entire
>life
>> > >>had been changed for the better. Although he was pleased that his
>foot
>> > >>was healed, at first he had no understanding of the key to the
>mystery of
>> > >>this "very simple" procedure.
>> > >>
>> > >>The power exercised by the healer operated from a level deeper than
>my
>> > >>friend--most people--can access. When I pointed this out, my friend
>> > >>suddenly remembered something important he'd overlooked. "The
>healer told
>> > >>me that anyone can learn to do the same kind of work," he said,
>"but the
>> > >>first step is giving up the idea that it is impossible."
>> > >>
>> > >>I can cite books filled with nuggets of the unknown--the
>impossible--that
>> > >>are pure gold: eyewitness accounts of psychokinesis, telepathy,
>miracle
>> > >>cures, premonitions that came true, prayers that were answered,
>people
>> > >>seen in two locations at once, holy figures who emanated light from
>their
>> > >>bodies and angels encountered by the roadside on rainy nights.
>> > >>
>> > >>How do we explain the documented experience of an Italian military
>officer
>> > >>in the Sixties, his hip totally dissolved with cancer, who visited
>the
>> > >>shrine at Lourdes and grew a new hip in a matter of months! And
>what about
>> > >>the dying lymphoma patient in the Fifties who was injected with
>saline
>> > >>solution as a placebo and, because he believed the injection was
>powerful
>> > >>chemotherapy, had every trace of cancer vanish from his body in a
>matter
>> > >>of days--the tumors "melting like snowballs on a hot stove," as one
>> > >>commentator described it. Are these not impossible" achievements?
>> > >>
>> > >>Writing about the "rare but spectacular phenomenon of spontaneous
>> > >>remission," the renowned physician-essayist Lewis Thomas declares,
>"No one
>> > >>has the ghost of an idea how it happens. It is a fascinating
>mystery but
>> > >>at the same time a solid basis for hope in the future."
>> > >>
>> > >>On the eve of the first millennium, the greatest event in
>history--the end
>> > >>of the world--was predicted. It failed to happen. Now, on the eve
>of the
>> > >>year 2000, the greatest event in our history is within reach: the
>final
>> > >>explanation of the material universe--creation, time, space, the
>origin of
>> > >>DNA and the physical dimensions beyond the four we have already
>mapped. It
>> > >>is the realization of the so-called Theory of Everything, or TOE.
>Stephen
>> > >>Hawking foresaw it as knowing the mind of God, or, in non-religious
>terms,
>> > >>coming to grips with a universe that has no beginning and no end, no
>> > >>boundaries in time and space, no limits of any kind.
>> > >>
>> > >>So-called miracles, anomalies and "impossible" phenomena that stand
>> > >>outside material existence await to be included in a Theory of
>Everything.
>> > >>No matter how much information we gather about them, anomalies are
>> > >>not explainable as information, energy or even as virtual
>energy--that
>> > >>invisible
>> > >>power source that supplies the physical universe with its atoms and
>> > >>molecules.
>> > >>
>> > >>What will it be like to live in a TOE world? It seems inevitable
>that when
>> > >>we exhaust our curiosity about physical existence, we will at last
>be
>> > >>ready to explore the next universe: the immaterial domain of
>> > >>consciousness in other words, inner space.
>> > >>
>> > >>For example, if you tried to explain Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by
>taking
>> > >>apart a CD player, you would be totally stymied. The CD player can
>> > >>transmit the music, and the electrical patters of that transmission
>are
>> > >>incredibly complicated, but the origin of the music lies with
>Beethoven
>> > >>himself. He is the next universe, and so are you and I.
>> > >>
>> > >>Go outside where you can stand on the grass and look up at the sky.
>Hold
>> > >>your hands in the air and feel the heat of the sun, the movement of
>the
>> > >>wind brushing over your skin. As the wind touches your hand, it
>deposits
>> > >>molecules of every chemical needed to create life. As the sun warms
>your
>> > >>face, it radiates all the energy that generates life. You are
>nothing more
>> > >>than these chemicals, this energy, but with one tremendous
>difference: An
>> > >>invisible principle holds you together.
>> > >>
>> > >>Because of this invisible principle, you were created out of the
>whirlwind
>> > >>of atoms that fly through the universe. Instead of being scattered
>inside
>> > >>a galactic dust cloud, your body has organized itself into
>thousands of
>> > >>precise operations. With every breath, you inhale hundreds of
>millions of
>> > >>gaseous molecules, and within a tenth of a second, the ones that
>sustain
>> > >>life--primarily oxygen and hydrogen-enter your cells to create
>enzymes and
>> > >>proteins.
>> > >>
>> > >>How do they know to do this! They don't. The oxygen in your blood
>is no
>> > >>more alive than the oxygen in a diver's tank; the sugars in your
>brain are no
>> > >>more intelligent than those in a sugar cube. Yet the whirlwind
>turns into
>> > >>life somehow, and the invisible principle causes this
>transformation.
>> > >>
>> > >>Although the principle cannot be nor weighed, it possesses certain
>> > >>qualities
>> > >>
>> > >> * It is intelligent.
>> > >> * It is conscious of itself.
>> > >> * It has power.
>> > >> * It can organize things, creating complexity out of simplicity.
>> > >>
>> > >>Without any religious belief, you know that these qualities exist in
>> > >>yourself, as human beings have known for centuries. The invisible
>principle
>> > >>operates within all life, and it cannot be extracted without doing
>harm.
>> > >>The cells of your body will be chemically the same the instant
>after you die
>> > >>as the instant before, yet some difference has occurred to cause
>death. The
>> > >>composition of a shopping cart full of groceries is the same as
>that of a
>> > >>fetus in the womb, yet the fetus is imbibing something that makes
>it alive
>> > >>and growing.
>> > >>
>> > >>The invisible principle doesn't need your cooperation to support
>life, but
>> > >>if you choose, you can bring it into your awareness. This is how the
>> > >>spiritual connection is made.
>> > >>
>> > >>The Theory of Everything, as currently envisioned, will unite the
>four
>> > >>fundamental forces of nature (electromagnetism, gravity and the
>strong and
>> > >>the weak interactions) into a single unified field theory. But as
>the
>> > >>virtual graviton joins the virtual photon in a grand theoretical
>marriage,
>> > >>one glaring flaw will become evident. Physics treats the universe
>like a
>> > >>thing, an object that scientists stand outside of and measure, when
>in
>> > >>reality we humans are all woven into the universe. We are children
>of the
>> > >>field, and our minds must explain themselves or risk being wrong
>about
>> > >>everything else. Faith is at its best when it leads to an
>understanding.
>> > >>
>> > >>In ancient India, one truth applied to the whole universe: "As is
>the
>> > >>microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the human body, so is the
>cosmic
>> > >>body." Quantum physics is on the verge of asserting the same truth
>but in
>> > >>different words: One unified field embraces galaxies and cells,
>stars and
>> > >>atoms, quasars and thoughts.
>> > >>
>> > >>For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world
>is an
>> > >>illusion. Everything that seems solid-a rock, a tree, your body--is
>> > >>actually 99.999 percent empty space. Within this void, packets of
>energy
>> > >>wink in and out of existence millions of times per second. When you
>throw
>> > >>a baseball, you see a solid sphere making an arc through the air.
>But in
>> > >>truth
>> > >>the baseball is an energy packet with no hard-edged boundaries of
>any kind,
>> > >>disappearing completely and reappearing slightly ahead of itself in
>> > >>space-time.
>> > >>
>> > >>You, and everything around you, are a cloud of probabilities
>actualizing
>> > >>yourselves in the quantum field. Nothing you sense is reliable---no
>smell,
>> > >>sound, taste, touch or sight actually exists. You are swimming
>through the
>> > >>quantum soup, trying to understand infinity with the crude tools of
>the
>> > >>five senses. Your brain disappears and reappears at every second,
>and yet
>> > >>this magic act occurs too quickly for you to detect it. You try to
>change the
>> > >>whirling dance of the cosmos into slow-motion events that seem
>"real."
>> > >>
>> > >>When people catch up to reality and stop moving in slow motion,
>they will
>> > >>realize that the Theory of Everything suddenly makes things real
>for the
>> > >>first time. We will be free to throw away the crude tools so long
>> > >>outmoded--our limited senses, the conditioned beliefs frozen in our
>> > >>brains, the stupefying legacy of materialism-and truly become free.
>> > >>
>> > >>As we cross this new frontier, we will find that there is one more
>universe
>> > >>to go before we know who we are and what reality is. I join with
>those who
>> > >>believe the Age of Information is about to become the Age of
>Awareness,
>> > >>and that cyberspace will implode into inner space. When that
>happens, the
>> > >>next generation of scientists the Einsteins of consciousness--will
>emerge to
>> > >>explore this new universe. A technology of mental physics will be
>> > >>established. In effect, that's what healers, miracle workers,
>paranormals,
>> > >>saints and other "anomalous" people already know how to apply; they
>are
>> > >>the technicians of their own awareness.
>> > >>
>> > >>You cannot be a respectable futurist without making predictions,
>and mine
>> > >>center on self-knowledge. "Know thyself" will become the most
>important
>> > >>dictum for the next millennium. Psychology will give way to a hard
>science
>> > >>of consciousness, and there will be new rules for living:
>> > >>
>> > >> * Every thought causes a shift in the whole field of reality.
>With your
>> > >> slightest desire, you make the universe tremble.
>> > >>
>> > >> * Information cannot be created nor destroyed, only rearranged.
>Thus,
>> > >> every possible piece of knowledge can be accessed in the mind,
>> > >> regardless of time and space.
>> > >>
>> > >> * The entire cosmos is intelligently ordered and
>self-organizing, There
>> > >> is no essential difference between life and nonlife, except for
>> > >> intensity of awareness and concentration of information.
>> > >>
>> > >> * Any aspect of reality can be changed at the quantum level by
>shifting
>> > >> its information and energy. The technology to create such
>shifts is
>> > >> contained in the human mind.
>> > >>
>> > >> * The brain is the sender and receiver of mental activity, but
>it isn't
>> > >> the mind. Mind is a nonlocal phenomenon. It has no fixed place
>in
>> > >> time or space but is a quality of the field. In other words,
>when you
>> > >> have a thought, you are activating the cosmic computer.
>> > >>
>> > >>The future lies with the cosmic computer, and we will rely on it to
>> > >>organize our thoughts, wishes, visions, plans and, eventually, our
>whole
>> > >>world.
>> > >>Next ime you think of someone's name, only to have that person call
>you
>> > >>on the
>> > >>phone, and next time you finish someone else' thought or have an
>> > >>overwhelming sensation of deja vu, don't dismiss it. You just
>accessed the
>> > >>nonlocal mind, at least in a small way. You are touching the
>control panel
>> > >>of the cosmic computer.
>> > >>
>> > >>There is tremendous mystery in every coincidence, every flash of
>> > >>inspiration, every new insight. With the desire and willingness to
>explore
>> > >>these mysteries as we cross the border of the second millennium,
>infinite
>> > >>possibilities will become open to us. There is one more verse to go.
>> > >>
>> > >>----------------- End Forwarded Message -----------------
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > >Aloha Nui Loa ( nui loa implies the superlative)........Alton
>> > >
>> > >
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