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Accessing Your Soul
The mind can be explained without dragging in references to God. Nobody knows what precedes birth or follows after death. All we can study is the mind here and now.
The mind is located in the brain, not with God. There is no evidence of anything inside the brain except a complex of chemical and electrical activity. If you change the brain, the mind changes at the same time.
There is no part of us that is untouchable and unworldly. Higher emotions are nothing but the predominance of certain neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.
The body, being the center of all chemical activity, creates the mind. There is nothing else the soul could be, except a physical phenomenon.
The underlying disagreement here is profound. In simplest terms, the religious person believes that God is behind all material creation, while the scientist asserts that material creation can run itself without any need for an outside hand.
The way of peace says that you will never access the power of the soul if you buy into this dichotomy. The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.
If you want to experience your soul, you must go beyond the more superficial levels of emotion and personality. This journey is a journey of knowledge and power. As you embark on it, everyday actions no longer mask the soul; they express its dynamic creative energy. In other words, touching the soul alters reality.
Adapted from The Path to Love, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1997).
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add your comment »You guys need to get over your God complex. Learn the word "sarcasm"! Believe it or not there are those out there with this extremely narrow scientific view. This is speaking of having such narrow views and how it imposes limitations on one's growth and learning. Too much of one idea is never good, the mind and body must have balance. Yes, we were created but God does not look on at us and go: "you must think this or I will take your soul and strike you down with hellfire!" or some such nonsense. Just as our actions are not on God's agenda either. I am pretty sure he does not look at those ants and say, "You there, go that way, and you stay still. And you, act like you know what that human is saying."
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Not God the pompous ruler but god the soul of all our souls.Celebrate life!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm with Dixon on this one...it's a bunch of bla-bla-blaloney! "The mind can be explained without dragging in references to God."
As if the soul is separate from God. As if a son can deny his father.
I'm outta here.
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enjoyed your interaction re spiders and anties!/thanks!! interesting
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Dixon: D.C. was being sarcastic there, quoting the totally materialist point of view that ( surprise!) grand numbers of them hold who have not yet been seduced by Quantum Mechanics. And speaking of spiders what is even more amazing about them is their capacity for awareness and understanding of human communication. I have always liked spiders, I don't know why, and one time there was this tiny little brown spider , racing away from me in terror when I turned on the bathroom light. I just said "don't be scared I wouldn't hurt you for all the world" and it stopped and focussed on me and completely blew my mind. I must be a giant mountain to this tiny creature and it understood me and stopped and "looked' at me. And as for ants: I heard one of the scientific advisors for the film "Bug's World" on the radio saying; "all creatures are individuals, this is the miracle of nature and probably true down to sub-atomic particles. Five ants placed before you will behave in five different ways, one will move towards you, another will flee, another will stay still, and so on according to their natures." Humans tend to think that only our species has certain capacities that express individual nature but upon observation it seems to be that all of creation is thus because off the infinite creativity of the ALL THAT IS , the source of all life. Other creatures than humans have thoughts that are suitable for their realities,and yet are totally aware of each other. We too can share in this.
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i was just thinking about say spiders and even ants the other day....apparently they have some kind of mind other wise how does a spider know how to run from you in oposite direction.. or create a spider web being careful not to get caught in it's own web or how does an ant know how to work so hard and store up for the winter or how to find it's way home when out searching for a food item for examples...?? i wonder, wonder ,wonder
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Is our soul really invisible? Is chemical in our body or brain so powerful that it can create different mindset of people? But why animals do not have the similar thoughts like human being? What is a soul?
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Is our soul really invisible? Is chemical in our body or brain so powerful that it can create different mindset of people? But why animals do not have the similar thoughts like human being? What is a soul?
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Actually, God is in the mind, also.
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What baloney!
"The mind can be explained without dragging in references to God." Legitimate scientists cannot even tell us what a single thought is, looks like or even where it originates. They can measure brain activity but cannot tell if it is thoughts or something else going on there.
It is pure folly to state that the mind can be explained. No neuroscientist makes such a claim - only the ill informed psuedo gurus.
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