Transcript Science of Mind, Awakening and Quantum Physics

What is the Connection
between a Science of
Mind, Awakening
Consciousness and
Quantum Physics?
What is
[The Science of]
Mind Over Matter?
What is
consciousness?
What is higher consciousness?
What is The Ego?
Ernest Holmes says of the Science of Mind “Our idea of the ego is different
from the average concept held by psychologists, particularly the materialistic
one which holds that the ego is the reservoir of instinctive impulses dominated
by the pleasure principle, as it comes in contact with the external world
through the senses and becomes imbued with consciousness.”
“They believe that the ego is not a spiritual reality, but is something
acquired. They are partly right, in that the ego which shows is a result of our
experience. This is why the ego ideal is a standard of perfection formed in
childhood through self-identification with persons who are admired.”
“They have another theory of an alter ego, which is developed out of a need for
self-expression derived from the whole human race.”
“Without denying or seeking to minimize the psychological concept of the ego,
we have something to add to it. We believe that there is a real Spiritual Ego
back of the psychological one. The psychological ego acquired in living is a
projection of the Real Ego and what we experience in life.”
“There is an Ego, or an I Myself, which was not created by experience but only
expressed through it. There is a real and dynamic Spiritual Ego. If there were
not, the psychological ego could never have functioned.”
“This Real Ego the Bible calls the Christ in us, the Hope of Glory. At the center
of every man's life the impersonal becomes personal; the generic becomes
individualized. The Universe or God is incarnated in each individual in an
entirely different and unique manner. This is the hidden Source of Life, the
place where Christ in us blends on one side with the Divine, and on the other
side with the individual. This is why the Bible tells us there is but one
mediator between God and man, which is Christ.”
“The reference to Christ is not a reference to the man Jesus but to the Divine
Incarnation in all people. It is through this Divine Ego that we reach back to
the Universal Wholeness of which this Ego is a part. It was not created as our
psychological ego or our alter ego or our ego ideal is created. It was not
created by experience. It is that which produces experience.”
“We go along with the psychological concept and accept all the discoveries
that have been made, but we cannot accept the Ego as something we
ourselves created. This would be contrary to our concept of life.”
“If you read the Book of Job in the Old Testament, you will discover that is
exactly what he did. He thought he had an ego separate from the Thing Itself,
and the narrative states that he got into all kinds of trouble because of this. He
was on his own and finally ended up in sackcloth and ashes, and his wife told
him that he might as well curse God and die.”
What is the Concept of Higher
Consciousness?
The concept of higher consciousness
rests on the belief that the average,
ordinary human being is only partially
conscious due to the influence of
inferior impulses and preoccupations.
As a result, most humans are
considered to be asleep (to reality) as
they go about their daily business.
Is Ordinary Consciousness Projection?
In the spiritual traditions of India, consciousness
is understood to be obscured by defilements
which are compared to clouds covering the sun.
These defilements are the result of conditioning
(Skt:samskara), accumulations in the unconscious
caused by past actions (karma) . As a result, what
any individual perceives as reality is a picture of
the world at one particular moment filtered
through his unconscious conditioning – a ‘reality’
that western psychology calls ‘projection’ (i.e., of
the contents of the unconscious).
What is The Spiritual Path?
The path of cultivating consciousness requires
the adoption of certain self-imposed rules or
vows. These are generally concerned with
exercising restraint with respect to actions of
body, speech and mind. Examples include the five
precepts of Buddhism. The effect of this restraint
is to begin to contain energy and prevent
unskillful actions that cause ongoing harm. Over
time changes in the moral disposition of the
aspirant are accompanied by physiological
changes in the brain and nervous system opening
up the energy channels (nadis or meridians)
present in the subtle bodies which are thereby
activated.
What is Consciousness:
Spiritual Approaches?
Spiritual approaches to consciousness
involve the idea of altered states of
consciousness or religious experience.
Changes in the state of consciousness or a
religious experience can occur
spontaneously or as a result of religious
observance. It is also maintained by some
religions, religious factions and some
scientists that the universe itself is
consciousness.
In shamanic practices, changes in states of
consciousness are induced by activities that create
trance states, such as drumming, dancing, fasting,
sensory deprivation etc. The experience that occurs is
interpreted as entering a real, but parallel, world.
In many polytheistic religions a change in emotional
state is often attributed to the action of a god; for
instance love was ruled by Aphrodite and Eros in
Ancient Greek polytheism.
In Hinduism the change in state is induced by the
practice of yoga. Yoga means "union" and is intended
to produce a state of oneness between the practitioner
and the divine. In Islam and Christianity, the change of
state can occur as a result of prayer or as a religious
experience.
The change in state of
consciousness in Hinduism,
Buddhism, New Thought,
Christianity and Islam is reported
to be quite similar.
The pursuit of yoga and the
Buddhist Jhanas involve feelings
of oneness with the world that give
rise to a state of rapture.
Meditation is used in some forms of yoga
such as Raja Yoga, Hatha yoga,
Transcendental Meditation (TM), the
Buddhist Jhanas, in the practices of
Christian monks and Islamic scholars
such as Sufis.
Meditation can have a calming influence
on practitioners, as well as changing the
state of consciousness.
What is awakening?
Higher consciousness is a state of
awareness that provides a medium in which
profound insight (sometimes called
“awakening”) can occur. Some of the early
research on higher consciousness focused
on the “paranormal.” While it is true that
paranormal phenomena can occur in these
states, the phenomena is essentially a
distraction. A primary objective of higher
states is to use the heightened awareness
for one’s personal evolution. This is referred
to in Twelve Step recovery as the “Spiritual
Awakening” process, and is the basis and
goal of that philosophy.
What is Metaphysics?
Metaphysics deals mainly with the
programming of our mind, putting
the right thoughts there, having a
definite and specific intention. (It is
like programming the computer).
Ernest Holmes, who founded
Religious Science and wrote The
Science of Mind, was really good at
this.
What is Mysticism?
Mysticism, on the other hand, is not about
thought. (It’s about turning the computer on.) It is
an experience. It has to do with consciously and
personally experiencing yourself as the presence
of God. It’s no good to say, “I and my Father are
one” or “God is within me” if we don’t experience
it. But if we don’t have the knowledge of that
principle, which is where metaphysics comes in,
then there’s nothing to experience.
Joel Goldsmith, as a mystic,
taught that the mind is an
instrument of spiritual
awareness; whereas
metaphysics views the mind as
the means by which we direct
thought in order to attract
material things or heal an
imperfect condition.
Joel Goldsmith was really
advanced in this. Holmes was a
mystic too.
What is the value of metaphysics?
The value of metaphysics is its practical use in
demonstrating things or experiences. Mysticism
also has a practical usefulness.
It’s co-creation.
Let’s think about the contribution of quantum
mechanics.
Everything is consciousness manifesting in form.
If we want to change the form, then we change the
consciousness by establishing in our mind.
Joel Goldsmith would not say to have a definite
idea...he would say to establish the” principle” we
want to manifest, a definite idea of the form we
want to manifest.
However, thinking goes only so far―it only
provides an outline. If we don’t have the energy of
conscious creation, the form does not come to
life. So both the metaphysical work and the
mystical consciousness are equally important.
Human beings have the power of “energization.”
Our mind is working from the time we wake up in
the morning until we go to bed at night.
There’s no God sitting on a cloud out there
running our lives.
Self-fulfilling prophecy is creating our life
for us. That’s why mystics, who say to
forget everything in the world and just
experience the presence, are leaving out a
vital part of spiritual living.
We may be attuned to the presence but if we
allow our thoughts to go random, what we
create in our life is going to reflect
confusion. When we’re clear in our thoughts
and motives, and we remain attuned to the
infinite presence, then the idea that we want
to manifest is energized into experience.
What is the value of Mysticism?
Mysticism means that you can
go within and contact or realize
universal truth, the spirit. If we
want to be creative in the outer
world, we have to go within and
realize that connection, that
oneness.
(Then we must go out and do)
It is the only way we can be truly creative.
This is a new day.
We have to close the gap (that) we have believed
exists between the human and the divine―and we’re
going to do it, because science has proved to us that
if we don’t do it we’re going to destroy the planet. The
way to turn this around is to individually experience
ourselves as the divine presence.
That’s mysticism. It means to experience the presence
and then go out and be that presence. We’re seeing
this happening. For example, people are taking
responsibility for the environment because they’re
concerned about the welfare of the planet. This is their
way of being the presence.
What is Oneness?
Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in
them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism
come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only
the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are
about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater
achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every
living creature you meet.
To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to
criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and
too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in
loud word, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you
are true to the best that is in you.
What is the scientific basis for these
claims?
A host of observed, but very basic human
phenomena, including consciousness itself,
have eluded rigorous scientific description by all
disciplines of science.
This is true, not because of insufficient
evidence for a particular phenomenon's
existence, but rather for lack of a theoretical
construct, which could fit within the prevailing
paradigms of science.
The missing concepts that prevented the earliest
investigators of consciousness from succeeding in
their quest were 1) a generalized theory of
information, and 2) quantum science itself, with the
associated phenomena of non-locality, the zero point
energy field and the quantum hologram.
These associated phenomena are still not well
understood but are sufficiently validated today by both
theory and experiment to provide a basis for
postulating a necessary condition for the existence of
consciousness phenomena, as experienced in the
observable four dimensional space/time universe.
A third concept, chaos theory, is also necessary to
understand the nonlinear evolutionary processes that
caused consciousness to evolve toward the anthropic
consciousness experienced by humans.
In particular, chaos theory maps far from equilibrium
systems and demonstrates the irreversibility of
nonlinear processes and thus the irreversibility of time
in the macro-scale universe.
Where is Non-Locality in Nature?
There is experimental evidence to
strongly suggest that simple
organisms perceive and respond to
information non-locally as well.
What is the difference between Attention and
Intention?
A powerful and telling series of experiments
conducted at University of Nevada at Las Vegas
following a decade long set of equally significant
experiments provide insight as to the subtleties
involved in this level of mind/brain functioning...with
overwhelming evidence that subjects could
intentionally produce statistically skewed results in
mechanical processes normally thought to be driven
by random processes.
Quantum physics may support the
concept that the mind creates
reality.
Interpretations of quantum mechanics, the
revolutionary theory developed early in the
th
20 century to account for the anomalous
behavior of light and atoms, are being
understood to indicate that thoughts are
creative, and that the physical universe is
the product of God or Mind to which the
human mind is linked throughout space and
time. This interpretation has provided a
basis for various situations.
What is Mind and What is Matter?
Mind and Matter are Two Sides of the Same Coin.
"The Quantum Mechanics (and also the Theory
of Relativity) show us that the belief in objective
perception and definition of the physical
reality has lost its basis.
The efforts to illustrate the fundamental
constituents of the physical world objectively,
have ended until now with undisputable and
indispensable necessity of subjective
interference.
The mind and matter have became mutually
interdependent.
Some quotes from Einstein
"When forced to summarize the general theory of
relativity in one sentence: Time and space and
gravitation have no separate existence from
matter."
"From the latest results of the theory of relativity it
is probable that our three dimensional space is
also approximately spherical, that is, that the laws
of disposition of rigid bodies in it are not given
by Euclidean geometry, but approximately by
spherical geometry."
(Einstein, 1954)
"Physical objects are not in space, but
these objects are spatially extended.
In this way the concept 'empty space'
loses its meaning.
The field thus becomes an irreducible
element of physical description,
irreducible in the same sense as the
concept of matter (particles) in the
theory of Newton."
(Albert Einstein, 1954)
What is Quantum Theory?
Quantum theory is generally regarded as
one of the most successful scientific
theories ever formulated.
But while the mathematical description of
the quantum world allows the probabilities
of experimental results to be calculated with
a high degree of accuracy, there is no
consensus on what it means in conceptual
terms.
The theory is speculative.
The principles of structural coherence and organizational invariance
will be planks in any satisfactory theory of consciousness; the status
of the double-aspect theory of information is less certain. Right now it
is more of an idea than a theory.
Most existing theories of consciousness either deny the
phenomenon, explain something else, or elevate the problem to an
eternal mystery. It is possible to make progress on the problem even
while taking it seriously.
To make further progress, we will need further investigation, more
refined theories, and more careful analysis. The hard problem is a
hard problem, but there is no reason to believe that it will remain
permanently unsolved. The arguments are presented in greater
depth in the book The Conscious Mind.
Wave particle Theory
Non locality
Organizational Invariance
Structural Coherence
Double Aspect Theory
Isomorphism
Temporarily Extended Neural Activity
Non Empirical Constraints
Naturalistic Dualism
Non-Reductive Theory
Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness
Collapse of Wave Functions
Morphic Resonance
Causal Transmission Mechanism
Hard or Soft Determinism
Spherical Standing Waves
Structure of Matter
Quantum Holography
Phenomenology
According to Walter Starke our next step is to reverse the
priority.
We need to (primarily) approach life subjectively
rather than objectively.
In other words if we want peace, then we think how to
get it―for example, by building hospitals and
schools―instead of thinking that we (can) get it by
dropping bombs. The latter approach is taking the
objective way, and we’ve seen that it doesn’t work. It’s
a most exciting time now. There’s a shift going on in
all of humanity. We’re ending thousands of years of
the human (objective) approach to life.
The metaphysical movement is so important, because
it has the seeds of how we can make this
transformation―through the use of the mind and the
spirit.