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Spiritual Transformation

The choice is to be conscious or not, which brings us to the possibility for transformation. No one disputes the fact that life consists of change. But can a person, simply by altering his or her consciousness, actually bring about a deep transformation and not just another superficial change?
Transformation and change are two different things. 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. For example, if you examine hydrogen and oxygen, they are light, gaseous, invisible, and dry. It took a transformation for those two elements to combine and create water, and when that happened, an entirely new set of possibilities emerged with it, the most important from our point of view being life itself.
Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion, to mention just two processes, harness transformation.
Food and air aren’t just shuffled around, but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a 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.
While still remaining who you are, you can bring about a quantum leap in your awareness, and the sign that the 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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add your comment »Dixon where is your external source for the first creation? This is silliness. I won't be mean and say your mind is asleep from sugar deprivation. Some combination of molecules sparked your thought processes as that's where we draw our energy from, if it was a new or breakthrough thought it would follow that it's newness was fueled by those molecules and newness means a new thing in the world. Why get hung up on pettiness? You have not reached your age without some radical transformative moments that have completely changed your path and set you on new and unknown roads. You have done this before and contemplating those turning points you'll see that something completely new was born in this world (nice or nasty), that you had not before imagined.Looking back in my life; those people I was before each turn are so different from my present self that I can barely recognize myself in them. I remember back when I was considerably younger wondering if I was really me or if I was what we called a "walk-in",if I had lost consciousness at some unremembered point and died and my present self (at that time) had stepped in with assumed memories; if it was true how could I tell? Of course it was all silliness but an illustration of how different and alienated I felt from who I was before whatever the transformation of that moment was. What this all boils down to is that the freshness of change and adventure of newness need not live in the past but are always available.Enjoy your self !
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"While still remaining who you are, you can bring about a quantum leap in your awareness, and the sign that the leap is real will be some emergent property you never experienced in the past." This is the most important point here. Our awareness combined with the Divine (God/dess) is what causes great changes in our lives. If we want to change anything we first need an awareness of what that really is. I believe that just by becoming aware attracts the Divine energy, or in other words, the Quantum energy, and we become co-creators. Now, this may take some work because sometimes becoming aware is very difficult for us. We have been taught to ignore, deny, blame others, ect. that which we need to accept as our own "stuff" and take full responsibility for that. To change myself has taken brutal honesty with myself to own those qualities that I would like to change. However the beauty of this is that once I do, magic happens. I am not the same person I was 10, 15, 20 years ago because I have had the courage to really look at who I am (both light and dark). And I discovered a great teacher, Deepak, who gently helped me to evolve to who I am today. I say thank you Deepak for having the insight and courage to bring your word to a country that can be so one sided and closed minded.
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I don't know about that Dixon, oranges always make me think, grapefruits, forget it. I have to stop the car and peel, and be, somehow everything slows down...and then.....woowww
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Or course Dixon, you would be the first to attemp to ripe this commentary apart. You seem to have appointed yourself the Rush Limbaugh of any Deepak commentary. The very, very sad thing is that you are so focused on trashing anything Deepak writes that you completely miss the message. All you get out of this is the chemicals combinations?! You seem to have an extremely tiny way of looking at things and I really think your comments are only hurting youself. Please go back to your christian, conservative sites where you would fit in much better!
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