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Old 12-12-2006, 04:16 PM
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I recently came across a story about a therapist who healed his patients in the most astounding way. He did not use reiki, drugs, acupuncture, EFT, hypnosis, brainwave entrainment. In fact he did not even see the patient at all! All he did was to work on himself, and the patient began to heal! Read the full story at:

The World’s Most Unusual Therapist » Secrets of Mind and Reality

This is psychic healing at the highest level.
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Steve wrote an article about it, I think.
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All he did was to work on himself, and the patient began to heal!
Yeah, but how did he bill?

(and I wouldn't say that's healing on the highest level... because he has to work on himself to start the process. What if (and I've been with someone who has this) they just held such an attunement in their being that they just had to sit there, in their normal state, and people healed in their presence?
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Default Rediscovering Fire

The day will come when after harnessing
the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation,
we shall harness for God the energies of love.

And on that day for the second time
in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.
--Teilhard de Chardin

Thank you so much for this link, mindreality, it is so very encouraging! I definitely want to buy this book.

This seems to me to be the essence of esoteric--inner--Christianity (as opposed to exoteric--organized--Christianity), and, no doubt, every deep spiritual tradition, but Christianity is what I am most familiar with.

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This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: “What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?”

“I was simply healing the part of me that created them,” he said.

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This reminds me of a fascinating verse in the Bible:

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
--II Corinthians 5:19

The word "reconciling" is from the Greek, katallasso, which means "to change mutually."

Quite simply, I think dear Dr. Len has tapped into the Secret of the Ages.
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I read the article, and I'd have to say I was really confused. How did this guy make it work?
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Wow, Im really in awe. As much as I believe in loving myself to heal and release off most of the negative events, thereby reconciling with the other party, I never knew loving yourself can be so powerful to even impact the world.

Thanks mindreality for this sharing. God bless.
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I think people seriously underestimate how deeply interconnected we are with other people, even if you've never met them. Even on levels of science, we're more concerned with isolating events in order to determine causality; it's easy to forget that we don't exist in a perfect vacuum and especially in the muddle of real life, there are no silos.

Megan: Teilhard de Chardin rocks.
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I read the article, and I'd have to say I was really confused. How did this guy make it work?
I don't think Dr. Len made anything work, Alvin. I think he tapped into how the Universe actually works, and went with the flow of it.

Quantum physics has shown us that the cosmos is entangled, i.e., there is no "out there" and "in here."

Einstein didn't like that--called it "spooky action at a distance."

As Dr. Len says, "It's all in here."

[The Bible says, "we are members one of another," and "we have the mind of Christ." (We have one mind? Amazing!) Other spiritual traditions say similar things.]

But, "With the aid of entanglement, otherwise impossible tasks may be achieved," says Wikipedia, such as quantum teleportation.

In the Astrological tradition, the asteroids represent fragmented parts of our psyches:

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The primary asteroids (Ceres, Juno, Vesta and Pallas) are associated primarily with the 2nd Splenic Chakra of "Interpersonal Relationship," although with tie-ins to other areas within self. The 2nd chakra (bio-energy, neurological centre) is generally the most fragmented and disintegrated bio-energy centre of the Human.

The energy pattern radiating from this chakra attracts and filters the type of relations drawn into our lives. Asteroids embody the fragmented pieces of self, and significantly fill in the missing pieces to the astrological chart, particularly when creating aspects to other planetary geometries.

Asteroids always reveal issues at some level that need to be integrated for us all.

Disintegrated asteroid issues fragment and scatter one's energy outward in dysfunctional ways in the world, and through the rest of the body.

Integration of the issues embodied by the asteroids leads to the ability to interrelate in the world from wholeness, integrity and wisdom.
--Nick Anthony Fiorenza

The Lunar Planner: The Asteroids including Pluto Orcus Varuna Quaoar Ixion Xena
In a nutshell: we're all entangled, and we are all fragmented. It follows that, in some unknown manner (call it the Law of Attraction, if you wish), we draw to ourselves mirrors of our own fragmentation, in the form of other people. And marriage, BTW, is the premier environment for this to take place--none better.

Our kneejerk reaction is to judge and project our own brokenness onto other people.

The more spiritually evolved reaction is to look inside and heal the thing that brought that particular person and their problem into our life.

This takes a whole bunch of humility, which Dr. Len, if the article is true, possesses an abundance of, going by the types of people he can identify with and heal.

The Law of Attraction, and the Intention-Manifestation issues are attenuated versions of what Dr. Len does, IMO.

Dr. Len is on to the real stuff, I think. We're talking about transforming the world from the inside out here. We're talking about The End of Time here.

Michael, Teilhard does rock, doesn't he! And, you're right, there really are no silos!
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Default Steve wrote an article about this?

The David, could you (or someone) link it for us--I would love to read it!

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Asteroids embody the fragmented pieces of self and significantly fill in the missing pieces to the astrological chart, particularly when creating aspects to other planetary geometries. Asteroids always reveal issues at some level that need to be integrated for us all.

This shows that the Universe is Mental indeed. The outer world being a reflection of the inner world. All is consciousness, the physical being the mirror of the spiritual. We can alter external reality by transforming our internal mentality.

Psychological integration is the key to manifesting more wholeness and completeness in our lives.
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This shows that the Universe is Mental indeed. The outer world being a reflection of the inner world.

All is consciousness, the physical being the mirror of the spiritual. We can alter external reality by transforming our internal mentality.

Psychological integration is the key to manifesting more wholeness and completeness in our lives.
Three cheers, mindreality! If everyone would integrate psychologically, or even a critical mass of people did so, the implications are mind-blowing!

I've said for a long time that physicists won't find a Theory of Everything until they factor in consciousness, which is fundamental (in the physics sense), I believe.

My reference above to The End of Time alluded to the book by that name by physicist Julian Barbour (which I don't pretend to understand, BTW).

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When people explain how our normal experiences give no inkling of relativity and quantum mechanics, the great speed of light and the tiny action quantum are often invoked.

Relativity was discovered so late because all normal speeds are so small compared with light's.

Similarly, quantum mechanics was not discovered earlier because all normal actions are huge compared with Planck's constant. [In the quantum world, action is always quantized in terms of Planck's constant.]

This is true, but in a sense it is also misleading.

For physicists at least, relativity is completely comprehensible.

The mismatch between the relativistic world and its non-relativistic appearance to us is entirely explained by the speed of light.

In contrast, the mere smallness of Planck's constant does not fully explain the classical appearance of the quantum world.

There is a mystery.

It is, I believe, intimately tied up with the nature of time.

--Julian Barbour, The End of Time, p. 186
Who knows, maybe thought is superluminal, or more likely feeling, which may be more fundamental than thought, is superluminal.

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Superluminal communication is the term used to describe the hypothetical process by which one might send information at faster-than-light (FTL) speeds. Scientific investigation has thus far produced no empirical evidence for superluminal communication.

Superluminal communication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boy, I'm really in over my head here....

Editing here: I just decided to Google "Is Consciousness Fundamental?" and other people think this too! (I don't get out much....)

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What is consciousness and how important is it to intelligence? Can a computer be truly intelligent without also being conscious? If not, then can consciousness be synthesized on a computer or is consciousness something fundamental to the basic structure of the universe, like space, time and energy?

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Even a Berkeley guy wonders!


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Is consciousness legitimate to study scientifically?

OVERVIEW

It may not only be legit, it may be one of the top three mysteries:

1) Fundamental particles (what are quarks made of)


2) Creation and nature of universe (how did it begin)


3) Is consciousness fundamental / elemental?
Do the basic laws of nature need to be modified to make room for mental phenomena?

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But all who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave.

Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer.

These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign to seeing others also happy.
Alvin, you really got me started!
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"maybe thought is superluminal, is consciousness something fundamental to the basic structure of the universe, like space, time and energy?"

Hey Megan you really need to check out my article:

Seven States of Matter - Everything is Mind » Secrets of Mind and Reality

This is exactly what you are looking for! It contains the anwers to your superbly asked questions!

Thought indeed is superluminal. It transcends the speed limit of the physical universe (light) because it is of a higher plane than the physical dimension. Thought wave is the universal matter by which all other states of matter are condensed into physical form.
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Default Enjoying your site, MindReality

I find myself smiling as I browse and read your stuff--thanks for linking me!

The name of Hannes Alfven, Swedish Nobel Prize winner came to mind as I read what you said about plasma:

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The fourth state of matter above gas is plasma. Plasma is ionized gas. It is gas that is superheated to the point some of its electrons break away from their nuclei and join other nuclei. The gas molecules are in an unstable state and therefore behave in a haphazard and unpredictable manner. Stars are made of plasma Fire is plasma.

It is powerful, dangerous and attractive at the same time.

Seven States of Matter - Everything is Mind » Secrets of Mind and Reality
Alfven believed in an infinite, expanding "plasma universe," rather than a "Big Bang," i.e., something out of nothing.

I think of feeling as plasma, and beam as coherent thought. Thought is condensed from feeling. "There is greatest amount of chaos right before order," as you said.

Maybe the Bose-Einstein Condensate is the ether/Enchanted Loom/Seat of the Soul? My friend Nick says that Black Holes are deep wells of consciousness, which, of course, is what the Galactic Center is, I believe.

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Quantum Self Theory

The British psychiatrist Ian Marshall ("Consciousness and Bose-Einstein condensates", 1989) showed similarities between the holistic properties of condensates and those of consciousness, and suggested that consciousness may arise from the "excitation" of such a Bose-Einstein condensate.

In Marshall's hypothesis, the brain contains a Froehlich-style condensate, and, whenever the condensate is excited by an electrical field, conscious experience occurs.

The brain maintains dynamical coherence (i.e., the ability to organize millions of neural processes into the coherent whole of thought) thanks to an underlying quantum coherent state (the Bose-Einstein condensate).

The Nature of Consciousness: Consciousness, Life and Meaning
I used to live next door to Eric Cornell, one of the 2001 Nobel Prize winners for the Bose-Einstein Condensate.
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  • First there was thought wave.
  • The thought wave became beam,
  • the beam became plasma,
  • the plasma became gas,
  • the gas became liquid,
  • the liquid became solid and
  • the solid became black holes.

There is balance of forces in the universe. The universal thought wave is even finer than our individual thought waves. The universal mind is the Ether that permeates all things and is All Things.

Seven States of Matter - Everything is Mind » Secrets of Mind and Reality
Ah, this is a very masculinized version of Creation, it seems to me!

"There is a balance of forces in the universe," but where is the balance in your above scenario? It's all top-down from an originating "thought."

Shouldn't feeling and thought reverberate within the Deity as they do within our own beings? Is God so aseptic as all that?

Think a minute about what you said about plasma:

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It is powerful, dangerous and attractive at the same time.
Very interesting...remind you of anything?

The beauty of Dr. Len's position, to me, is this reverberation of feeling and thought within him that allows him to identify with the whole human race.

The mind and thought alone lead to judgment and moralism and their attendant evils.

As the maxim goes,

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I think that God is not a madman. I also think the Big Bang is pretty much a guy-thing.
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The universe was created as an idea in the Mind of God.

* First there was thought wave.
* The thought wave became beam,
* the beam became plasma,
* the plasma became gas,
* the gas became liquid,
* the liquid became solid and
* the solid became black holes.
Reading this reminded me of the Kabbalah interpretation of Creation. I don't have the book I read it from originally (I left Seattle for winter break), but this webpage looks similar enough:

MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: God’s Withdrawal
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From Michael's link:

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MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: God’s Withdrawal
Maybe after Christmas we can talk about this.
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Actually feeling exist as thought wave.

Yes there is balance of forces in the universe. All states of matter exist in the physical universe exist in appropriate amounts so that no single state pulls the rest into itself.

Blackholes do not suck everything in, neither does plasma turn everything ablaze.

But the physical universe was formed from the spiritual and the spiritual will always exist with or without the physical.

Btw Megan since you are so interested in feeling, you'd love reading this:

Seven Senses - All sense is One sense » Secrets of Mind and Reality

Feelings are everything.

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Default Thanks for the link...

...interesting article! Feelings are everything. Good. I'm glad that thought isn't something cut off from feeling in your mind. I'm liking your stuff.

Have you ever read Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio?

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In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being.

Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions.

This attitude began to change with the publication of "Descartes' Error". Antonio Damasio challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality.

In this wonderfully engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking and to normal social behaviour.

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Crucial reading - New York Times Book Review

Amazon.co.uk: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain: Books: Antonio Damasio
Another Damasio book:

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Synopsis:

A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, Damasio shows how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion.

At its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self.

Amazon.co.uk: The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness: Books: Antonio R. Damasio

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