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You as an Infinite Being
The possibility that each person is an infinite being is becoming more real now. Gifted with total flexibility in our nervous systems, we all have the choice to build boundaries or tear them down. Every person is continually manufacturing an infinite array of thoughts, memories, desire, objects, and so on.
These impulses, rippling through the ocean of consciousness, become your reality. If you knew how to control the creation of impulses of intelligence, you would be able not only to grow new dendrites but anything else. Just the slightest opening of awareness causes a reality shift. Meditation, because it opens more channels of awareness and opens them to a deeper level, causes a bigger shift. The change does not depart far from the normal way we use our awareness. Building boundaries will still be a fact of life.
The twist the rishis gave was to infuse this activity with freedom, raising it to a level that transcends the petty thoughts and desires of the isolated ego. Ordinarily, the ego has no choice but to spend life desperately erecting one boundary after another. It does this for protection.
The ego finds the world a dangerous, hostile place, because everything that exists is separate from “I.” This is the condition known as duality, and it is a great source of fear. As we look “out there,” we see every kind of potential threat, all the trauma and pain that life can inflict. The ego’s logical defense is to wall itself in with the friendlier things – family, pleasures, happy memories, familiar places and activities.
If duality is an illusion, then unity will not be established. Both have their values, and without duality, unity has no substance. Both are natural, both are true. That is the nature of the world. Like light and darkness, the contradictions exist, they are there.
Adapted from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (Bantam Books, 1990).
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A Life has a Mission:
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my ego HAS recreated the world as a dangerous, hostile place. There is no sense to holding on to it any longer. BUH BYE EGO! YAAAAH>>>>>
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BREAKING OUT OF THE BOX...
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Nice post Dixon Murrah, Tank U very well Put. Happy Easter.
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But the Bible teaches we are one with God, so who's to say we aren't gods ourselves... infinite beings? We just haven't reached beyond our earthly beings and what we can readily see and touch.
Robert Scheinfeld teaches that we are all infinite beings who have "created" our worlds as a sort of game, and the game is to see how long we can keep the cloud cover that hides our true selves. But he shows us how to break through that cloud cover and become the infinite beings that we really are. Check him out (www.RobertScheinfeld.com). His stuff is very intriguing.
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Our bodies were told to use alphabets, languages, nationalities and religions.
These things are not of our making.
We CARRY the accumulating efforts of Creation from the past into the future. We are the Spirit of Creation.
Everything we DO, and DON'T do is FOREVER.
- Thomas T. Panto
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The mind and the body are one. To think otherwise is to be ignorant of current ideas in both biology and psychology, spirituality and reality. Dualism at one time meant that the mind and body function separately, without interchange, but current knowledge makes that idea not only outdated, but impossible. The mind cannot separate itself from the body, either physically or psychologically. In philosophy dualism is the view that the world can be explained in terms of two fundamental entities: mind or matter. Light and dark define each other, neither is possible without the other. Dark matter has its own energy, thus, light is not the only form of energy in existence.
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Truth is always criticized.
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I actually like this article. And every soul is an infinite being if you believe you spend infinite amount of time anywhere after death.
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