In
the Eskimo/Inuit language of chilly, wintry Alaska there are dozens of
phrases for “snow” – Dozens of phrases with intricacies and connotations
well-known and understood by them, however usually unnoticed and
misunderstood by others. Equally, within the Sanskrit language of
historical, religious India there are roughly a dozen totally different phrases
for “consciousness” – a dozen clearly delineated phrases with refined
nuances which in English we are able to solely loosely, clumsily name
“consciousness.”“For each psychological time period in English there are 4 in Greek and forty in Sanskrit.” -A. Okay. Coomaraswamy
So
what precisely is consciousness? When western docs say somebody is
aware or unconscious they actually simply imply “awake” or “asleep.” The
affected person known as unconscious underneath anesthetics and aware when
woke up. Nonetheless this explicit which means is clearly a misnomer as a result of
even when supposedly “unconscious” throughout sleep, coma, or underneath
anesthetics we nonetheless dream and are “aware” of that have, so
our consciousness hasn’t disappeared as implied, it has merely
altered/shifted to a different state.
“In
medication, the presumption that consciousness is nothing greater than a
perform of the mind is mirrored in such statements as, ‘The affected person
regained consciousness’ – this routine, slim depiction has assumed
that consciousness is an earthly bodily phenomenon, a self-evident
precedence for expertise about which nothing extra must be mentioned.” -David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Energy Vs. Pressure”(249)Different
widespread (mis)makes use of of the phrase consciousness are “consciousness” as in “being
aware of one thing,” and “spirituality” as in “attaining larger
consciousness,” however once more these will not be the denotations understood by
trendy scientists or historical mystics. As greatest expressed by Theoretical
Physicist/Experimental Psychologist Peter Russell, the true, easy
which means of consciousness is “the capability for expertise.”
Consciousness is the power to have an interior expertise. It’s our
inside world of ideas, feelings, sensations, perceptions, and
selections, the “I,” the little me in our minds, the sense of self inside
us that has by no means modified since childhood – that’s consciousness.
“The
identification and expertise of self might be restricted to an outline of
one’s bodily physique. Then, in fact, we
may effectively ask, how does one know that one has a bodily physique? By way of commentary, we be aware that the
presence of the bodily physique is registered by the senses. The query then follows, what’s it that’s
conscious of the senses? How will we
expertise what the senses are reporting?
One thing larger, one thing extra encompassing than the bodily physique,
has to exist to be able to expertise that which is lesser – and that one thing
is the thoughts … The query then arises: How does one know what’s being
skilled by the thoughts? By commentary
and introspection, one can witness that ideas don’t have any capability to expertise
themselves, however that one thing each past and extra fundamental than thought
experiences the sequence of ideas, and that that one thing’s sense of
identification is unaltered by the content material of ideas.” -David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Energy Vs. Pressure”(252)
That one thing is
consciousness, the capability for expertise, the interior witness of our outer
lives. As written by thinker Malcolm
Hollick, “Occasions are skilled by an experiencer, ideas are thought by
a thinker, ache is felt by a feeler, imaginings are created by an imaginer, and
selections are made by a chooser.”
“What’s it that
observes and is conscious of all the subjective and goal phenomena of
life? It’s consciousness itself that resonates
as each consciousness and experiencing, and each are purely subjective. Consciousness isn’t decided by content material;
ideas flowing by consciousness are like fish swimming within the ocean. The ocean’s existence is unbiased of the
fish; the content material of the ocean doesn’t outline the character of the water itself.” -David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Energy Vs. Pressure”(252-3)
Given the
definition, “the capability for interior expertise,” we are able to simply observe that
consciousness isn’t a phenomenon restricted solely to human beings. In truth, as we hint the trait of
consciousness again by the animal kingdom, it turns into more and more
troublesome to say there exists any animal which doesn’t have its personal interior
expertise of the outer world. In his
glorious guide “From Science to God,” Peter Russell examines this concern in
element beginning with the instance of a canine:
“A canine might not
pay attention to all of the issues of which we’re conscious. It doesn’t suppose or purpose
as people do, and it most likely doesn’t have the identical diploma of self-awareness,
however this doesn’t imply {that a} canine doesn’t have its personal interior world of
expertise. When I’m with a canine, I assume that it has its personal psychological image
of the world, stuffed with sounds, colours, smells and sensations. It seems to
acknowledge folks and locations, a lot as we would. A canine might at instances present worry,
and at different instances pleasure. Asleep, it may well seem to dream, toes and toes
twitching as if on the scent of some fantasy rabbit. And when a canine yelps or
whines we assume it’s feeling ache –certainly, if we didn’t consider that canine
felt ache, we wouldn’t hassle giving them anesthetics earlier than an operation.” -Peter Russell, “From Science to God”
My canine, Buddy, at all times
acknowledges me and reveals pleasure once I come by the door. He additionally acknowledges the veterinarian’s workplace
and reveals worry once we pull into the parking zone. If I ignore Buddy and provides extra consideration to
his sister, Harley, then Buddy will exhibit indicators of feeling slighted and
jealous, he’ll sulk by himself within the nook of the room, his tail now not
wagging once I go to pet him. If I increase
my voice at him, he’ll cower, decrease his head, and scamper off. From facial recognition to desires to advanced
feelings, canine exhibit a mess of expressions related to
consciousness. To imagine they exhibit
all these exterior traits of consciousness with out having their very own
inside expertise is kind of implausible.
And as Peter Russell factors out, if we really believed that canine
didn’t “really feel” ache, we wouldn’t give them anesthetics earlier than an operation.
consciousness then so do cats, horses, deer, dolphins, whales, and different
mammals. They is probably not self-conscious as we’re, however they aren’t devoid of
interior expertise. The identical is true of birds; some parrots, for instance, appear as
conscious as canine. And if birds are sentient beings, then so, I assume, are different
vertebrates – alligators, snakes, frogs, salmon, and sharks. Nonetheless totally different
their experiences could also be, all of them share the school of consciousness. The identical argument applies to creatures
additional down the evolutionary tree. The nervous techniques of bugs will not be
almost as advanced as ours, and bugs most likely wouldn’t have as wealthy an
expertise of the world as we do, however I see no purpose to doubt that they’ve
some form of interior expertise. The place do
we draw the road?” -Peter Russell, “From Science to God”
Fastidiouslycontemplating the place to attract the road between aware and non-conscious
entities, the nearer one examines the difficulty, the harder it turns into to
argue that any animal is insentient.
No matter whether or not they have a mind or nervous system, irrespective of how
small or easy, all animals appear to have their very own interior expertise and
exhibit widespread traits of consciousness.
So what in regards to the
plant kingdom? Whereas most would agree
that animals are aware, most would most likely agree that vegetation will not be. Is that this the place we are able to draw the road? Apparently not – Due to the work of Cleve
Backster, Dr. Ken Hashimoto and others, it’s clear that even vegetation are
remarkably aware.
In 1966,
polygraph-expert Cleve Backster performed a collection of experiments which
conclusively demonstrated that vegetation are able to clever thought
processes. First he took a Dracaena
plant (dragon tree) in his workplace and related lie detection gear to its
leaves. Subsequent he watered the plant and
discovered that its polygraph output was much like the undulation of human
happiness. In an effort to check his
creating principle and elicit a stronger response, Backster thought to threaten
the plant by burning one in all its leaves.
With this thought in thoughts, even earlier than retrieving a match, he seen a
robust optimistic curve seem on the polygraph paper. He then left the room to search out some matches,
and as quickly as he arrived again, one other excessive peak appeared on the paper. As he lit a match, the plant’s worry response
spiked and remained excessive as he proceeded to burn one in all its leaves. In additional trials Backster discovered that if he
confirmed much less inclination to burn the plant, its response was weaker, and if he
merely pretended to burn it, there was no response. So not solely was the plant showing to point out
real happiness and worry, however it appeared to be discerning true intentions from
false ones.
“[In] 1966 Cleve Backster, a pioneer of lie-detection strategies,
determined to threaten a dragon plant in his workplace. A couple of minutes earlier than, and having on a whim
related the plant to the electrodes of one in all his lie detectors, he had
seen that when he watered its roots, the plant gave what in a human being
could be interpreted as an emotional response.
To arouse the strongest response he may, Backster first positioned a leaf
of the plant in scorching espresso, with no obvious response. He then selected a worse risk: to burn the leaf. However as quickly as he thought in regards to the flame,
there was an immediate response from the plant – with out Backster transferring however simply
interested by the risk, the plant had reacted! When he left the room and returned with some
matches, there was a second surge of anticipation from the plant. And as he reluctantly burned the leaf, there
was a subdued however nonetheless noticeable response from the dragon plant. Over the subsequent 40 years, Backster ran a big
collection of experiments, increase an enormous archive of knowledge exhibiting that every one
organisms are in continuous communication in an unlimited matrix of dynamic and
nonlocal consciousness.” -Ervin Laszlo
and Jude Currivan, “Cosmos” (91)
In additional trials Backster tried burning the leaves of different close by
vegetation not related to the polygraph, and the unique dragon plant, nonetheless
related, registered the identical wild response to its pal’s ache as when its
personal leaves had been burned. In one other
experiment Backster positioned two vegetation in an empty room, blindfolded 6 college students,
and had them draw straws. The receiver
of the quick straw was then secretly instructed to uproot and destroy one in all
the 2 vegetation. Since they had been all
blindfolded, solely the quick straw scholar and the remaining plant knew the
identification of the assassin. Two hours
later Backster related the remaining plant to the polygraph machine and
instructed every scholar to stroll previous it.
The murder-witness plant registered completely no response because the 5
harmless college students walked by, however then went loopy nearly off the charts because the
assassin got here shut. In some way it
appropriately recognized and emotionally reacted to the responsible scholar.
Backster’s experiments recommend that vegetation will not be solely aware, clever,and emotional, but in addition telepathic!
Vegetation will certainly register a typical human “worry” response on the
polygraph exactly when somebody directs a malevolent thought in direction of them. These experiments have been replicated many
instances with the identical outcomes. In some way
vegetation are capable of intuit and react to sure human thought patterns.
animals. When brine shrimp in a single
location died all of a sudden, this truth appeared to immediately register with vegetation in
one other location, as recorded on an ordinary psychogalvanic response (PGR)
instrument. Backster had carried out
any such experiment over a number of hundred miles and amongst paramecium, mould
cultures and blood samples, and in every occasion, some mysterious communication
occurred between residing issues and vegetation.
As in Star Wars, every demise was registered as a disturbance in The Area.” -Lynne McTaggart, “The Area: The Quest for the Secret Pressure of the Universe,” (145)
Different experiments have been carried out testing the impact of prayer,
optimistic and unfavourable directed intention and emotion on vegetation. Dr. Bernard Grad of McGill College
had a staff of psychic healers habitually direct optimistic or unfavourable emotions
onto quite a lot of vegetation. The
positively-infused vegetation survived and thrived, whereas negatively-infused vegetation
withered and lots of of them died. Reverend
Franklin Loehr, a Northampton
pastor, carried out comparable research along with his parishioners testing the ability of
prayer to have an effect on vegetation and seeds. In
one experiment he planted 46 corn kernels evenly spaced in a spherical pan with 23
on either side. He then gave every day
“positive-growth” prayer to half the kernels and “anti-growth” prayer to the
different half. Eight days later, the
optimistic aspect had 16 sturdy, budding, seedlings rising and the unfavourable aspect
had only one barely left alive. In one other
check, one in all his parishioners, Erwin Prust, subjected 6 Ivy vegetation to every day
“anti-growth” prayer whereas watering them and inside 5 weeks, 5 of them had been
lifeless.
Within the unbelievable documentary, “The Secret Lifetime of Vegetation” Fuji electronics managing
director and chief of analysis Dr. Ken Hashimoto created particular devices
which translate {the electrical} output of vegetation into modulated sounds successfully
giving them a voice. His spouse has since
been educating the Japanese alphabet to her favourite vegetation. Within the documentary Mrs. Hashimoto recites
Japanese letters/phonemes/phrases and the vegetation repeat them again to her! Harking back to a small little one attempting to sound-out
new phrases, the vegetation are unable to correctly imitate the language at first, however
then really battle and observe, slowly bettering till they’re able to
completely imitate the human sounds through their electrical output. She says she appears ahead to the day when
she will have a dialog together with her vegetation.
So if vegetation can be taught languages, present emotional output,react to emotional / mental stimulus, talk with different vegetation, and
learn the minds / intentions of people, it’s fairly rational to imagine that the
plant kingdom, identical to the animal kingdom, is aware.“This demonstrates extraordinarily effectively that flowers, like
all life and certainly every thing within the Universe are an inseparable side of the
similar infinite Thoughts, Consciousness, and intelligence of The Supply, The First
Trigger, of God. Human beings, nonetheless
completely steeped within the materials world and private ego assume that simply because
a plant doesn’t seem to have a bodily mind, or a mouth, or another
animal traits that they’re ‘unintelligent’ or just
‘inanimate.’ Nothing in actual fact might be
farther from the reality. The human mind
isn’t the actual Thoughts any greater than bodily elements of a plant or a mineral are
actual Thoughts.” -Adrian Cooper, “Our Final Actuality”
(217)
So
how far down the evolutionary line does consciousness exist? The work
of Dr. Masaru Emoto means that even water is in some sense
aware. His analysis started by exposing H2O to nonphysical stimulus and photographing the ensuing water crystals with a darkish area microscope.
“Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto, of the I.H.M.-Institute in
Tokyo, has revealed how water is essentially affected by phrases, ideas and
feelings – all of that are waveforms. He and his staff uncovered water to varied
music and totally different phrases and expressions, after which froze it to supply water
crystals. When these had been examined underneath a microscope the response of the water
was superb. Take a look at the best way it reacted to the phrases and ideas (vibrations)
of ‘Love and appreciation’, and, ‘You make me sick – I’ll kill you’. Think about
the impact on the physique of our phrases and deeds when it’s some 70 per cent water.
That is how ideas and phrases have an effect on us energetically. I ought to stress that it
isn’t the phrases which have the impact, however the intent behind them. If you happen to mentioned
‘I’ll kill you’ in a light-hearted style, as a little bit of enjoyable, it could not
have the identical impact as it could in the event you meant it, or mentioned it with malevolence” –David Icke, “The David Icke Information to the International Conspiracy” (47)
Thus even water has the power to tell apart between actual humanfeelings and faux platitudes. When
infused with optimistic intent the H2O molecules align themselves into
stunning, symmetric, sacred geometrical kinds, and when infused with unfavourable
intent they align themselves into chaotic, non-symmetrical blobs. Clearly the extent and kind of consciousness
working in water molecules is way totally different from human consciousness, however the
incontrovertible fact that one thing within the molecules is figuring out and reacting to human
emotional/mental content material means that even water is certainly in some sense
aware.
“We often
assume that some form of mind or nervous system is important earlier than
consciousness can come into being. From the attitude of the materialist
metaparadigm, this can be a cheap assumption. If consciousness arises from
processes within the materials world, then these processes have to happen someplace,
and the plain candidate is the nervous system. However then we come up in opposition to the inherent
downside of the materialist metaparadigm. Whether or not we’re contemplating a human
mind with its tens of billions of cells, or a nematode worm with 100 or
so neurons, the issue is similar: How can any purely materials course of ever
give rise to consciousness?” -Peter Russell, “From Science to God”
Can we actually drawa definitive line between aware and non-conscious entities within the universe? At what degree of simplicity will we assume
matter to be insentient? Even
single-cell organisms react to exterior stimulus, reproduce, talk, respirate,
hunt and devour meals – is that this all an unconscious, insentient “program” of
Newton’s mechanical universe or are even single cells imbued with a slight
diploma of consciousness, a miniscule inside expertise of their very own? When sperm and egg unite, every human begins
their life as a single-cell organism which then quickly divides and multiplies
into the aware group of fifty trillion cells we typically know as
human. In classical science,
consciousness is a mysterious emergent property of this course of; in religious
science, consciousness is the identified main property and the bodily world is
the emergent thriller.
“The capability for interior expertise may
not evolve or emerge out of solely insentient, non-experiencing matter.
Expertise can solely come from that which already has expertise. Subsequently the
college of consciousness should be current all the best way down the evolutionary tree…There may be nowhere
we are able to draw a line between aware and non-conscious entities; there’s a
hint of sentience, nevertheless slight, in viruses, molecules, atoms, and even
elementary particles. Some argue this suggests that rocks understand the world
round them, maybe have ideas and emotions, and revel in an interior psychological life
much like human beings. That is clearly an absurd suggestion, and never one which
was ever supposed. If a bacterium’s expertise is a billionth of the richness
and depth of human being’s, the diploma of expertise within the minerals of a
rock could be a billion instances dimmer nonetheless. They might possess not one of the
qualities of human consciousness – simply the faintest attainable glimmer of
sentience.” -Peter Russell, “From Science to God”
The traditional Sufi
educating states that “God sleeps within the rock, desires within the plant, stirs in
the animal, and awakens within the man.”
What if we changed the phrase “God” with “The One Infinite Consciousness?” If God is outlined as – an omniscient,
all-powerful, omnipresent intelligence – then God should exist inside all issues,
but exterior of all house, time, and matter.
What has quantum physics (and trustworthy introspection) proven exists inside
all issues, but exterior house, time, and matter? Consciousness.
consciousness, there could be nothing to expertise type. It is also mentioned that type itself, as a
product of notion with no unbiased existence, is thus transitory and
restricted, whereas consciousness is all-encompassing and limitless. How may that which is transitory (with a
clear starting and ending), create that which is formless (all encompassing
and all-powerful)?” -David R. Hawkins,
M.D., Ph.D., “Energy Vs. Pressure”(250-1)
How can non-experiencing, unintelligent, insentient matter randomly
coalesce right into a type that magically creates aware clever life? What mechanical course of may presumably carry
consciousness, intelligence, and life into being? How may any materials course of create
one thing as immaterial as consciousness?
Why would the fabric universe even exist with no consciousness to
understand it? Quantum physics and Jap
Mysticism are each fairly clear that matter does not exist with no
consciousness to understand it. Albert
Einstein himself mentioned, “A human being is part of the entire, referred to as by us
‘Universe’ – a component restricted in time and house.
He experiences himself, his ideas and emotions as one thing separated
from the remaining – a form of optical delusion of consciousness.”
notion and no matter how profound the power of science could also be to
perceive processes of emergence – eventually we arrive on the
requirement for an originating artistic act.
We arrive in the end on the idea of a cosmic thoughts. Though science has to this point chosen to disregard
this inescapable logic, the deeper we delve into the elemental mysteries of
Nature – as did Einstein – we see order, concord, and cosmic thoughts manifest in
our universe. What’s revealed doesn’t
require us to decide on between clever design and evolution, however to acknowledge
a co-creative design for evolution. What
we see, actually hidden in full view, is Einstein’s idea of a cosmic thoughts
at work.” -Ervin Laszlo and Jude
Currivan, “Cosmos” (22)
Except you
really suppose “God” is a bearded white man residing within the clouds, maybe
changing that phrase, as Einstein did, with one thing like “Cosmic Thoughts,”
“Common Being,” or “Infinite Consciousness” will assist bridge the psychological hole
most Westerners appear to have between science and spirituality.
I realized that the hyperlink between large ‘ol God and little ‘ol me was no extra and
a minimum of consciousness. And every of
us, at and because the very middle of us, have this similar feeling of I Am, for the
not-so-obvious purpose that every one in all us is actually God pretending to be every
one in all us. There is just one I Am, there
is just one God, one Brahma, one Tao, one beingness … we each see the identical
world, as a result of we each are the identical world.
However we’ve so cleverly and convincingly hidden ourselves from ourselves
that we actually consider that we’re separate entities.” -Roger Stephens, “A Harmful E-book” (56)
each sense. Removed from destroying God,
science for the primary time is proving His existence – by demonstrating {that a}
larger, collective consciousness is on the market.” -Lynne McTaggart, “The Area: The Quest for the Secret Pressure of the Universe,” (226)
As proven beforehand, the plenum of bodily
kinds within the universe is essentially an lively Oneness with consciousness
enjoying the function of creator and experiencer.
This implies the multitude
of transitory materials kinds and our bodies about us, don’t exist with out us, and
come from inside us.
rising physique of analysis means that we’re greater than cosmic latecomers merely
passing by a universe that was accomplished way back. Experimental proof is resulting in a
conclusion that we’re really creating the universe as we go and including to
what already exists! In different phrases, we
seem like the very vitality that’s forming the cosmos, in addition to the beings
who expertise what we’re creating.
That’s as a result of we’re consciousness, and consciousness seems to be the
similar ‘stuff’ from which the universe is made.” -Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (39)
holds its breath as we select, immediate by immediate, which pathway to comply with; for
the universe, the very essence of life itself, is very aware. Each act, thought, and selection provides to a
everlasting mosaic; our selections ripple by the universe of consciousness to
have an effect on the lives of all. Lest this concept
be thought of both merely mystical or fanciful, let’s keep in mind that
basic tenet of the brand new theoretical physics: All the pieces within the universe is
related with every thing else.”
-David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Energy Vs. Pressure” (148)
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