Integrating,Your,Freedoms,Part DIY Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 4 of 9) - Ultimate Reality
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Ultimate Reality: Consciousness If the differencebetween particles and waves is so slippery, and if time and space areso easily transcended, what is the fundamental nature of reality? Whatis real? One answer is consciousness. Consciousness is original andfundamental, everything considered to be reality comes out of thatconsciousness. In his book The Self-Aware Universe,i Dr. Goswamipresents a philosophical argument known as monistic idealism to explainhis theory that both matter and mind have their origin inconsciousness. He draws on the ancient Indian philosophy of AdvaitaVedanta as his authority for using the term consciousness, as TheGround of All Being. Consciousness is fundamental. Asthe forgoing examples illustrate, Western science is moving closer toEastern perceptions of reality, wherein all is one. Body, mind, andspirit are not separate entities. Not only mystics but also anincreasing number of scientists, philosophers, and medical doctors aretalking openly about subtle energy, consciousness, and God. CandacePert refers to subtle energy as a still mysterious fifth force beyondthe four conventional forces of physics to scientifically explainanomalies such as the power of love. And according to RobertGottesman, M.D.: If information exists outside of theconfines of time and space, matter and energy, then it must belong to avery different realm from the concrete, tangible realm we think of asreality. And since information in the form of biochemicals of emotionis running every system of the body, then our emotions must also comefrom some realm beyond the physical. Information theory seems to beconverging with Eastern philosophy to suggest that the mind, theconsciousness, consisting of information, exists first, prior to thephysical realm, which is secondary, merely an out-picturing ofconsciousness .Consider that the body itself may be a metaphor, just away of referring to an experience we all have in common. Maybe itsthat we dont have consciousness, but consciousness has us. In Eastern science, philosophy, medicine, and mysticism, body, mind,heart, and soul are treated as inseparable and indivisible (non-dual).In the West, physicists, psychologists, and neurologists now largelyagree that mind and body operate as a single system. From thisperspective, the brain is just another organ, albeit more intricatethan the rest of the body. Thoughts and emotions that subjectivelybestow meaning on our reality are the result of complex electrochemicaland biochemical interactions within and between cells throughout ourbody as well as in our brain. What happens in the body affects our mindand our hearts, and what takes place in the mind affects the body andthe emotions in an endless series of feedback loops. Ifscience has come to see that we are not isolated elements butessentially one though inexplicable whole, isnt that inspiration forus to apply this same approach to ourselves and our lives? Ifeverything is ultimately a unique vibration of one fundamental string,isnt it time for you to treat body, mind, heart, and soul as oneundivided system? Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007.
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