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Keeping Potential Alive
The universe is forced to respect your boundaries. Just as no literal vision of beauty can affect a blind cave fish and no sweetness of perfume entices a snail, any aspect of life that lies outside your boundaries will not hold meaning for you.
A mind closed off to love, for example, will look out on a loveless world and be immune to any evidence of love, while an open mind will look out on that same world and find infinite expressions of love.
If our boundaries told the whole story, evolution could never break through them. This is where quantum leaps come in. Every observer creates a version of reality that is bound up in certain meanings and energies. As long as those meanings seem valid, the energies hold the picture together.
But when the observer wants to see something new, meaning collapses, energies combine in a new way, and the world takes a quantum leap. The leap occurs on the visible plane when the switch is “on,” but it was prepared in the invisible domain when the switch is “off.”
For example, our ability to read came into being when prehistoric man developed a cerebral cortex, yet no one in the prehistoric world needed to read. If evolution is as random as many geneticists argue it is, the ability to read should have disappeared a million years ago, since its usefulness for survival was zero.
But this trait survived for the creature who was emerging. Consciousness knows what is to come, and it builds into every particle of creation the potential not just for one unfolding future but for any future.
Nature doesn’t have to predict what is going to happen on every level. It just opens avenues of growth, and then a given creature – in this case us – makes the leap when the time feels right. As long as potential is alive, the future can evolve by choice.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).
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add your comment »"For example, our ability to read came into being when prehistoric man developed a cerebral cortex, yet no one in the prehistoric world needed to read. If evolution is as random as many geneticists argue it is, the ability to read should have disappeared a million years ago, since its usefulness for survival was zero."
Uh, naa. Is "prehistoric man" like the Geico cavemen? If so, they read. They made graffitti on the cave walls. People depended on that to get the news. Where the herds were, where the other survival crap was, etc. I know for a fact that people read all the time. I have been in the real world and there is something called "prehistoric art and antiquities" that sell to museums and private collectors for mucho dinero along with Christian antiquities. I worked at a top-notch auction house in NYC. We read alright, and it was for survival.
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What anyone makes of this article is also bound by, colored by, and orchestrated by his or her willingness to see beyond the scope of his or her belief systeml. That is a boundary as well as any. When you put on glasses with a red tint you tend to see everything in that red glow and you tend to explain what you see by the color red.
I do it and so does everyone else. The only difference is that SOME of us are willing to pull down those glasses and see if anything looks different without the "filter".
Some people's "boxes" are deep but not wide. They can't expand to take in any thing outside their box but they are well entrenched in the box they are in.
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Time doesn't exist at the causal level the sense of past and future is a product of abstract thought in relation to mortality: the cerebral cortex enabling recognition of shapes and subtle differences, the abstract jump that would allow that mind to associate sounds of language and subtleties of meaning with designated shapes, to read, was born with the capacity for abstract thought in a kind of chicken and egg conundrum, meaningless in the face of the simultaneity of time. All at once! The push to individualize and the shutting off of consciousness from the rest of the united "Gaia"mind, undoubtedly fed the growth of the cortex.The mental link we have with the rest of creation was never destroyed but ignored and this allows for the potential of our completely individualized consciousnesses,the quantum awareness that will allow our minds to change our relationship with time and space, to rejoin with the whole, finalizing the first great step to being co-creators with the planet mind. At this point future potentials become infinite.The whole planet consciousness with us as us and as the whole will take another evolutionary step to the next vibratory rate we and our world will manifest together. Michio Kaku discusses different levels of planetary cultures which we may,or not, achieve.Hovering on the verge of the next step forward, together as one, united and still individual;still this potential is unfolding from one simultaneous event including the Big Bang and all since.
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AND THAT is why they invented the razor.
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Jenny,
I read your words with most I agree.
However one I do not. Mankind today called Homo sapiens was a spontaneous creation by the GOD of our Universe. A close study in the Hebrew language used by Moses will show that in the light.
However when HE the GOD of the Universe is not honored as doing just that all kinds of weird ideas can emerge that lay claims to this and that that becomes a mind mingling of false statements into mere illusion.
Homo sapiens did not evolve from the colonies of the Apes. God saw the Apes and called them man----then HE SAID I WILL MAKE MAN IN MY IMAGE.
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I like his initial point about boundaries, but this bit is scientifically meaningless:
"For example, our ability to read came into being when prehistoric man developed a cerebral cortex, yet no one in the prehistoric world needed to read. If evolution is as random as many geneticists argue it is, the ability to read should have disappeared a million years ago, since its usefulness for survival was zero.
But this trait survived for the creature who was emerging. Consciousness knows what is to come, and it builds into every particle of creation the potential not just for one unfolding future but for any future."
One thing evolutionarily essential for the survival of homo sapiens was pattern recognition and meaning-making, and reading is only a development of that. It implies nothing about an external consciousness 'knowing what is to come' and designing things that way.
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Peace starts from within the mind and soul of a person, More peace minded and enlighten people will generate peace and abundance of life here, On this place we call Earth for all.
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The TWO FACES of PEACE 1-3
By Dwight Baker
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com
September 12, 2009
We must have heroes. I have mine do you have yours? The examples left by others how to rise above the tide of tyranny are the guide.
Much like driving along on an interstate highway we need mile markers. First we need to know where we are, and next how far we have to go to get where we are going.
Now that is how I summon recounts in my mind of hero’s that have gone on before.
They have paved the way for us, but we must look intently at the hows to do it and do likewise.
Peace is a quality of existence. Today that is NOT found in our civil society in America. And we are under attack anyway you look at it.
Peace has two faces, and has been the same in the lives of my hero’s.
There is a Peace that dwells in the hearts of those kind, compassionate caring with love as their foundation for life in giving and living.
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The TWO FACES of PEACE 2-3
There has been shown a Peace found in those passive but not in tune to stand up and shout out stop the madness. When seeing all the hurts pains anxiety in others. But instead preferred to not aid them with a sound staunch opposition but to become a martyr in a self styled death to silence the voice that once cried out for Peace by them.
We in the USA see and read daily is the word Peace but it means war. And wars we are fighting in have nothing at all to do with Peace for the proof in the truth of our actions are devoid of human dignity kindness caring in all facets.
While others use the word of Peace to define their causes for actions yet I find in many of them the tracks of the Predator Beast.
WHY? That too is a diversion from our will to study and find out just how their cause of actions are doing at the bottom line and how many of those groups are funded by the same bunch that is about to take us all out if we allow them to put us in an early grave.
So those are the Two Faces of Peace as I see them. Yet to rise above all that crying out the word Peace is found in only those that say “Justice for all in equity and mean it”.
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The TWO FACES of PEACE 3-3
Bloodshed is not the call from me for in our hands is the US Constitution and in it is the way to subvert the plans that are being laid to take us out.
I call all to come to open forums to talk about what the word PEACE means when we see the downtrodden their flesh rotting away because the Predator Beast just willed it to be that way.
So Peace for the one with their flesh rotting away means a change must come and come quickly or their God Given liberty to live a life has been stolen from them and we the ones who did not stand up for them are likewise guilty.
When in that mode of thinking about what our real mission is --- in my minds eye I prefer to wage a legal attack against the lawless who live in our nation that have led these vile and evil deeds around the world today and get warrants for their arrest and put them in cages where they belong.
The need to be solicitous slow to anger be longsuffering is in fact rule’s that I live by, but only in the tribe where I dwell. And that is the only way we can thwart away the Predator Beast and remain sane. And that is our communed desire and we must have a will of steel to power push that message along until it has been done.
One more giant fight for the rights to life in equity
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