Emergent Spiritual Properties

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posted by Deepak Chopra Jan 26, 2009 5:00 am

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The key to true transformation is that nature doesn’t move forward in step-by-step movements. It takes quantum leaps all the time, and when it does, old ingredients aren’t simply recombined. Something new appears in creation for the first time, an emergent property.

The wetness of water is a perfect example of an emergent property. In a universe without water, wetness can’t be derived by shuffling around properties that already exist. Shuffling only produces change; it isn’t sufficient for transformation. Wetness had to emerge as something completely new in creation.

Every chemical bond produces an emergent property. Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion, to mention just two processes, depends on transformation. Air entering your lungs combines in thousands of ways to produce cells that have never existed before in just the way they exist in you.

The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels your thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought: No molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that result.

If transformation is the norm, then spiritual transformation falls into place as an extension of where life has been going all along. While still remaining who you are, you can bring about a quantum leap in your awareness, and the sign that that leap is real will be some emergent property you never experienced in the past.

Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).

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Richard Embleton says
Jan 26, 2009 7:33 PM

You need to sit in ever deeper and maintained periods of silence of mind, not run away in concepts...
There's no more mincing words at this stage !!!

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Barbara S. says
Jan 26, 2009 3:05 PM

The Shift is in the now, yes!

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stana H. says
Jan 26, 2009 11:34 AM

sounds good! very good indeed!

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Barbara Rudman says
Jan 26, 2009 8:09 AM

We must enlarge our concept of who we Truly are... God in human form. Until this is entirely integrated we will continue to be "victims" of our society's diseases...all of them. Once the Truth is known, disease will be a thing of the past. I understand this information is coming to us as we speak in the form of light energy entering our planetary grid. In a few years we will be entirely in the light. How does that sound?

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