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The Silent Gap Between Our Thoughts
Finding the silent gap that flashes in between our thoughts seems relatively easy, but because it flashes by, a tiny gap is not a doorway. The quantum body is not separate from us–it is us–yet we are not experiencing it right now. Sitting here, we are thinking, reading, talking, breathing, digesting, and so on, all of which happens above the line.
Here is an analogy that brings the quantum mechanical body into focus: Take a bar magnet and place a piece of paper over it. Next, sprinkle iron filings on the paper and jostle it slightly. What will emerge is a pattern of curving lines, one inside the other, that arch from the magnet’s north to south pole and back again. The overall design you have made represents a map of the magnetic line of force that otherwise would be invisible, except that the iron particles automatically align themselves to bring out the image.
In this analogy, we see all mind-body activity above the paper and the hidden field of intelligence below. The iron filings moving around are mind-body activity, automatically aligning with the magnetic field, which is intelligence. The field is completely invisible and unknowable until it shows its hand by moving some bits of matter around. The piece of paper is the quantum mechanical body, a thin screen that shows exactly what patterns of intelligence are being manifested at the moment.
There is more to this simple comparison than you might at first suppose. It is really the hidden field that is generating these lifelike appearances. Here you have a picture of how the body-mind actually relates to the field of intelligence. The two remain separated, but the division is invisible and has no thickness whatever. It is just a gap. The only way one knows that the quantum level even exists is that images and patterns keep cropping up everywhere in the body.
Adapted from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (Bantam Books, 1990).
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add your comment »Get into meditation and become really true to it before you let your ego condemn true reality. So what Chopra made money, what is the richest institution the world has ever known? The church!There are more fought in the name of Christianity that it rivals the muslim wars. You live on the surface of life so don't knock what you haven't experienced. Someone has and is brainwashing you and you need to open your mind to meditation to see what Chopra and centuries of knowledge has to say. When you have a true experience you will eat your words. I am not condeming your ignorance. Meditative experience will take care of that within you.
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Get into meditation and become really true to it before you let your ego condemn true reality. You live on the surface of life so don't knock what you haven't experienced. Someone has and is brainwashing you and you need to open your mind to meditation to see what Chopra and centuries of knowledge has to say. When yo have a true experience you will eat your words. I am condeming your ignorance. Meditativeexperience will take of that within you.
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It is beyond ridiculous to state that there is no objective reality outside the mind. I'd like to see Chopra or any other new age guru walk through a brick walk to demonstrate their claim that reality is manifested by out brain/mind. Nonsense!
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Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, published in 1993, has already sold close to a million hardcover copies. People magazine commented: "Few writers in the field of alternative medicine have so dominated the best-seller lists."[1] Further, a number of medical centers around the country, such as the prestigious Sharp Health Care in San Diego, California, are now using his program.
Chopra begins Ageless Body, Timeless Mind by telling readers who desire true health that they must discard ten false assumptions concerning who they are and the world in which they live. Such "dangerous" assumptions include the following ideas:
There is an objective world independent of the observer, and our bodies are an aspect of this objective world....Materialism is primary, consciousness is secondary....Our perception of the world is automatic and gives us an accurate picture of how things really are....Time exists as an absolute and we are captives of that absolute. No one escapes the ravages of time. Suffering is necessary -- it is part of reality. We are inevitable victims of sickness, aging, and death (1:4).
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That's a pretty cool analogy! This sentence in particular...really makes me smile.
"The field is completely invisible and unknowable until it shows its hand by moving some bits of matter around."
The quantum creation in a nut shell. A field of matter moving to the rhythm of an invisible magnetic energy.
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