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Are You Enchanted by Maya?
Our bodies occupy three dimensions instead of the two occupied by a movie, which means that I can go deeper into the image I see and touch, but that doesn’t make it any more real either.
What makes the body more real than a movie is Maya. Above all else, Maya is convincing. If it were not, we would all see through it, and yet the next layer of reality would be Maya as well. The process doesn’t ever have to end. As long as you want “proof” that the sensory world is real, Maya is deep enough to have all the layers you want.
Intellectually, we all know that empty space is all there is at the bottom of things, but to keep everyday life going, we agree to certain conventions. “Objective” science is the keeper of these ad hoc rules and performs an extremely valuable task so long as it remembers that rules are made to be broken.
Nothing forces you to try and break through Maya’s mask. As long as you accept the physical world at face value, your compliance keeps the machinery running. Rocks remain hard and solid, the wind blows, water makes things wet, and fire burns. Maya is very obliging.
The advantage of seeing through Maya is that the scientific spell, although it has given us this convenient modern life with its jets and computers, CAT scans and carrot juicers, has not done away with fear, violence, hatred, and suffering.
At a certain point, the mirage of molecules is not real enough to be satisfying. The illusion starts to dissolve–we have seen many instances of that by now–and then the search begins for the true reality hidden under the trick effects.
Adapted from Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams, by Deepak Chopra (A Bantam Book, 1991).
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Science is a catalog of the rules - not an initiator of them.
Deepak merely reminds us rules are made to be broken, bent or sidestepped according to the whim of the Universe - of which we are a part.
Perception comes in more varieties than sensory inputs of the commonly accepted styles. Alternative ' intuition' is so strong in some as to violate any thought of being constrained by 'conventional logic', which is merely a consensus and convenience.
Haven't you ever known someone who knew things that they 'had no business knowing' via the usual methods ? Better yet, can you remember any experience in which you were the one doing just that ? Most can.
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Hello all,
Another way of putting it could be that Maya is a Holographic Paradigm. I read a very interesting article explain exactly that. The Holographic Universe.
Here is the link to it:
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Holographic_Universe/id/5864
I believe a lot of what Deepak is saying is in line with this Holographic methodology. In short according to the Paradigm,
"Alain Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since travelling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations."
Regards,
Rayed
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Nicely put Ronald. Very nice!
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Maya is the illusion or should I say delusion that our thoughts, emotions, and desires are controlled by outside sources. That we are quick to blame someone or something else for our pain and suffering. That the new car, new job, or the big bowl of ice cream will change everything and make us happier. Thank You Mr. Chopra for reminding me that I do have choices in life and that I and I alone are responsible for those choices.
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THE TRUE TEST of a person's credibility is coherence and logic. If you're contradicting yourself, as Deepak Chopra frequently is doing, you don't deserve to be believed. And since Chopra doesn't deserve to be believed, there is no good reason to take him seriously.
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we have only look to quantum physics to understand our simple physicals "laws" can be broken and are broken all the time just to keep the illusion goin
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My favorite perception of the Divine is "The God is the Bliss lying under all of Creation and the Goddess is everything that moves"Thus Maya and all else perceivable is part of Goddess who is also time, and She is not separate from God the All That Is. I love the beautiful dance of Maya and this beautiful terrifying world but it helps me to remember it's illusoriness ,most especially when it becomes unpleasant. Just as I trust Father God to be there always,sustaining the being of creation by being the constant source of all there is I trust Mother Goddess to cut off the heads of my false selves, rebirthing me till my only identity is true "being, consciousness, and bliss". Who says that space is empty?
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If Maya is an scientific spell, and rules are made to be broken, then what evidence is there that any rule has been broken, or could be broken, and what are the rules? Is science the creator of the rules, or does science only discovers the truth, or as close to the truth as we can percieve it. Is there such a thing as inspiration?, or guilt, or love? or hate?, and what realm do those things belong? If everything is one, then, is there evil, or good? If everything is one, then who are we, individuals?, some sort of conglomoration? Is Maya deminsional, or could it be a (pseudo) parallel universe? Does God exist, or is Maya the controling factor. If we meditate, where do our thoughts go?, and how does thought, or feelings operate in a physical deminsional world? What was Maya before the Big Bang experience?
Ernest
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Dixon: dear Deepak consistently contradicts himself, but that's what makes his discourse so delightful and apt. After all, were he to insist on consistency, he'd not be true to the wonderful truths he imparts, and might encourage us too prematurely to commit to one way of looking at things - perhaps one of Maya's traps.
My favorite contradictions of his: "The fragmented mind cannot lead you to unity but you have to use it along the way"
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