Dear Deepak,

Thanks for continually sharing your thoughts on consciousness and field -- "The field effect can be strengthened by consciously paying attention to it."

In another post of yours, somone (I don't rememeber the name) had commented you don't have to defend or fight for your views.

But your continued thoughts on this subject on conscioussness has served as an example for me. Your continued exploration of this subject matter "consciousness" shows how you are peaceful inside and still act in the world

Love,
Venky

Mr. Chopra:

Interesting post.

I had a similar thought last year while watching the film "What the [bleep] Do We Know."

Skipping the debate over the film as a whole, the scene in particular that triggered this was the basketball scene. In it, the boy is trying to explain to Marlee Matlyn's character that the ball is only a single ball when she acknowledges it.

Now my question would be what if a 3rd person were to enter the scene? That a single ball exists is agreed upon by those present - the third is somehow forced to acknowledge the presence of a single ball having no previous awareness of the scene. I believe the subconscious acknowledgment of the ball's existance is aided by the presence of a network linking the consciousness of all.

In order for one person to alter their reality, wouldn't that require them to somehow actively 'log off' the network? A dangerous proposition considering we still aren't aware of how to 'log on' in the first place.

There is currently research being performed these day in the area of mirror nuerons, particularly as they relate to disorders of Autism (I am not one of those researchers). They believe that children of this type have a deficiency of these neurons that lead them to have difficulty relating to people and the world around them. I've also wondered if such individuals have an abundance of these neurons and, consequently, are more tuned into their surroundings. In order to cope with the amount of sensory input they are receiving they must shut down these areas.

Also take language. When we try to learn another language at first it seems like an impossible mountain to climb. We try and try and nothing. When we see people of the other country speak it we think "My God, how do they do that so effortlessly?" But we take for granted, we're unconscious of the fact that we are already speaking one very complex language ourselves effortlessly. Finally after a lot of practice something magical kicks in and we can do it. I don't think its the practice itself that does it. Somehow the practice, the intent, connects us to the field. Something like speaking a language is an incredible phenomenon. Ego consciousness itself is helpless to the task. One can feel that its a greater field that takes over giving us the ability.

I am keenly interested in this subject. My 10-year-old son was recently diagnosed with "High function autism". He also has characteristics of Aspergers syndrome. And I tell you he can do the most amazing things with his mind. For example, when he gets interested in a subject he learns it fast. He can name all the Pharos and Popes, in chorological order. These facts he learned in about a week. He has a myriad of other subjects he has done this with as well. Another thing he can do that freaks me out is, he can tell you what you said on a particular day all the way back to when he was about 2 or3 years old. This is astounding to me. He will say “don’t you remember when I was 4 on October 15th you told me….” Well no son I don’t remember.My wife and I knew long before any tests were done that he was “in touch”. A fascinating subject indeed. Thanks for the post Mr. Chopra.

Dear Dr. Chopra:
As a child I had many more 'psychic' experiences than I have had as a young adult. I think its because I didn't filter and comment on my reality then as much as I do now.
Also, since our planet is surrounded by an ionosphere that is highly magnetized, is it possible that (as in your example of music) we are all constantly inundated by this magnetic information and different brains are set up to process different pieces of it? And perhaps all of conciousness as we know it is contained in earth's ionosphere. Perhaps we as humans are confined to a finite amount of magnetic data that is contained in this magnetic 'bubble' that extends 40 to 60 miles from the earth's core. If we put a savant on Mars, what information would she recieve?

Sincerely,

onegirlmanyideas

Agree with everything here--interesting observations. One thing though--do idiot savants have actual "damage to the brain"? I did not know this. I thought autism was a disorder, did not know there was brain damage involved even in an extreme case like "Rain Man". Are people with autism's brain's actually structurally/chemically different or are they just using them differently? Does anyone know the answer to this question?

Dear Venky, like Deepak, you show tremendous patience, calm and perseverance in your work. I very much enjoy your writings, thank you :)

P.S. to all intenet bloggers living in Los Angeles. i am an actor and as some of you know i've been working on a character that has 'developmental disabilities' for a play since august. we've had a super successful run in september and the first part of october and have been extended to run through november. i would love to share this experience with all of you. the play is a new work entitled 'bad hurt on cedar street'. it is very powerful and poignant, about a family that is imploding, struggling to find hope. we re-open on friday october 28 until november 20th. it is at the tiffany theatre on sunset blvd., just west of la cienega. if you make reservations and say that you are from intentblog, i'll put you on my list and you'll get in for free. stick around after the show, cuz i'd love to meet you guys in real time, not just cyber space.

call 310-712-7099 for reservations

sincerely,

onegirlmanyideas

Dear Deepak; All; hello

I watched a program on the Discovery Channel(I'm hooked) and it was on Eferil Children. Sorry if I typo'd; Im too lazy to look it UP.

Primarily; the documentary focused on those children born among dogs/wolves' etc in complete, abandonement of affection of human contact and stimulation.

I was really moved by this study!

I was wondering Deepak; and All; is there eferil qualities in children; raised in poverty, and/or negative environments; un-nurtured and un-inspired too?

Does this prove maybe; that child-abandonement resulting in deprivation and poverty; to be the broken link; to lower-level learning children; we see such a rise of; in today's global society?

IS it crucial; children be stimulated cognitively at a specific age-group; to be able, to surpass to the next level? This is what the story was saying of severe, eferil children; but, I was wondering if this eferil quality; is also existant in much of today's kids?

IF poverty is such a poisonous/if not cancerous social deprivation; it is each of our responsibility to raise every child in the village.

Very interesting documentation.

There are genius's and artists, among them; as proof BE known.

North

Dear OneGirl; too bad I am all the way in Canada.

Kudo's for bringing to light; the plight of the disabled.

WE do not exist easily, to be a fact.

I am extremely happy to see a movement being made; in the theatre and on the screen, TV for the awakening world, from a disabled's perspective; and see the gifts for which they can offer the world.

From one, on the disabled list herself; thank YOU: for sharing the vision of this world; with the world.

What a discovery; some will find on the journey.

God Bless, and Smile upon you with favouring abundance and desire's coming true for you; and above ALL: thank you for thinking of US! : )

Terminal City is another great example of awareness.

North

Dear friends I would like to share an email I just received that talks about the science behind everyone being connected

Dear Energetic Beings, consider this.....

The Universe as a Hologram: Does Objective Reality Exist, or
is the Universe a Phantasm?

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of
Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect
performed what may turn out to be one of the most important
experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it
on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of
reading scientific journals you probably have never even
heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his
discovery may change the face of science. Is the Universe a
Hologram?
Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?

Aspect and his team discovered that under certain
circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able
to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of
the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they
are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.

Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is
doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates
Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel
faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than
the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time
barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists
to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away
Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even
more radical explanations.

University of London physicist David Bohm, for example,
believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does
not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe
is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed
hologram.

To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one
must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram
is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a
laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is
first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second
laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first
and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the
two laser beams commingle) is captured on film. When the
film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of
light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is
illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image
of the original object appears. The three-dimensionality of
such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of
holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then
illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to
contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the
halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always
be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the
original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a
hologram contains all the information possessed by the
whole. The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram
provides us with an entirely new way of understanding
organization and order. For most of its history, Western
science has labored under the bias that the best way to
understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom,
is to dissect it and study its respective parts.

A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may
not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take
apart something constructed holographically, we will not get
the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller
wholes. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of
understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason
subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one
another regardless of the distance separating them is not
because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back
and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He
argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles
are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of
the same fundamental something.

To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm
offers the following illustration:
Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you
are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge
about it and what it contains comes from two television
cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other
directed at its side. As you stare at the two television
monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the
screens are separate entities. After all, because the
cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will
be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two
fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a
certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other
also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when
one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side.
If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation,
you might even conclude that the fish must be
instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is
clearly not the case.

This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the
subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to
Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between
subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a
deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex
dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium.
And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as
separate from one another because we are seeing only a
portion of their reality.

Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a
deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as
holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned
rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised
of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a
hologram.

In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would
possess other rather startling features. If the apparent
separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means
that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe
are infinitely interconnected. The electrons in a carbon
atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic
particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart
that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky.
Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human
nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide,
the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments
are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately
a seamless web.

In a holographic universe, even time and space could no
longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as
location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly
separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional
space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would
also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order.
At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in
which the past, present, and future all exist
simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it
might even be possible to someday reach into the
superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from
the long-forgotten past. What else the superhologram
contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake
of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has
given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least
it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will
be -- every configuration of matter and energy that is
possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to
gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse
of "All That Is."

Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what
else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture
to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain
more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the superholographic level
of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity
of further development". Bohm is not the only researcher who
has found evidence that the universe is a hologram. Working
independently in the field of brain research, Standford
neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of
the holographic nature of reality.

Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of
how and where memories are stored in the brain. For decades
numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined
to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout
the brain.

Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of
holography and realized he had found the explanation brain
scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories
are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons,
but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire
brain in the same way that patterns of laser light
interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film
containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram
believes the brain is itself a hologram. Pribram's theory
also explains how the human brain can store so many memories
in so little space. It has been estimated that the human
brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of
10 billion bits of information during the average human
lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information
contained in five sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their
other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity
for information storage--simply by changing the angle at
which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it
is possible to record many different images on the same
surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic centimeter
of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information.
Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information
we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more
understandable if the brain functions according to
holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him
what comes to mind when he says the word "zebra", you do not
have to clumsily sort back through some gigantic and
cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead,
associations like "striped", "horselike", and "animal
native to Africa" all pop into your head instantly. Indeed,
one of the most amazing things about the human thinking
process is that every piece of information seems instantly
cross- correlated with every other piece of
information--another feature intrinsic to the hologram.
Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely
interconnected with every other portion, it is perhaps
nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated system.

The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological
puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram's
holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is
able to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives
via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so
on) into the concrete world of our perceptions. Encoding and
decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does best.
Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a
translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless
blur of frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes
the brain also comprises a lens and uses holographic
principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it
receives through the senses into the inner world of our
perceptions. An impressive body of evidence suggests that
the brain uses holographic principles to perform its
operations. Pribram's theory, in fact, has gained increasing
support among neurophysiologists.

Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently
extended the holographic model into the world of acoustic
phenomena. Puzzled by the fact that humans can locate the
source of sounds without moving their heads, even if they
only possess hearing in one ear, Zucarelli discovered that
holographic principles can explain this ability. Zucarelli
has also developed the technology of holophonic sound, a
recording technique able to reproduce acoustic situations
with an almost uncanny realism.

Pribram's belief that our brains mathematically construct
"hard" reality by relying on input from a frequency domain
has also received a good deal of experimental support. It
has been found that each of our senses is sensitive to a
much broader range of frequencies than was previously
suspected. Researchers have discovered, for instance, that
our visual systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, that
our sense of smell is in part dependent on what are now
called "osmic frequencies", and that even the cells in our
bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such
findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain
of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and
divided up into conventional perceptions. But the most
mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the
brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's
theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a
secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a
holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a
hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of
this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory
perceptions, what becomes of objective reality?

Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of
the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an
illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings
moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.

We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic
sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and
transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from
many extracted out of the superhologram. This striking new
picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's
views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm, and
although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it
has galvanized others. A small but growing group of
researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of
reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that,
some believe it may solve some mysteries that have never
before been explainable by science and even establish the
paranormal as a part of nature.

Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted
that many para-psychological phenomena become much more
understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm. In a
universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible
portions of the greater hologram and everything is
infinitely interconnected, telepathy may merely be the
accessing of the holographic level. It is obviously much
easier to understand how information can travel from the
mind of individual 'A' to that of individual 'B' at a far
distance point and helps to understand a number of unsolved
puzzles in psychology. In particular, Grof feels the
holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many
of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during
altered states of consciousness.

In the 1950s, while conducting research into the beliefs of
LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient
who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity
of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile. During the
course of her hallucination, she not only gave a richly
detailed description of what it felt like to be encapsuled
in such a form, but noted that the portion of the male of
the species's anatomy was a patch of colored scales on the
side of its head. What was startling to Grof was that
although the woman had no prior knowledge about such things,
a conversation with a zoologist later confirmed that in
certain species of reptiles colored areas on the head do
indeed play an important role as triggers of sexual arousal.
The woman's experience was not unique. During the course of
his research, Grof encountered examples of patients
regressing and identifying with virtually every species on
the evolutionary tree (research findings which helped
influence the man-into-ape scene in the movie Altered
States). Moreover, he found that such experiences frequently
contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be
accurate. Regressions into the animal kingdom were not the
only puzzling psychological phenomena Grof encountered. He
also had patients who appeared to tap into some sort of
collective or racial unconscious. Individuals with little or
no education suddenly gave detailed descriptions of
Zoroastrian funerary practices and scenes from Hindu
mythology. In other categories of experience, individuals
gave persuasive accounts of out-of-body journeys, of
precognitive glimpses of the future, of regressions into
apparent past-life incarnations.

In later research, Grof found the same range of phenomena
manifested in therapy sessions which did not involve the use
of drugs. Because the common element in such experiences
appeared to be the transcending of an individual's
consciousness beyond the usual boundaries of ego and/or
limitations of space and time, Grof called such
manifestations "transpersonal experiences", and in the late
'60s he helped found a branch of psychology called
"transpersonal psychology" devoted entirely to their study.
Although Grof's newly founded Association of Transpersonal
Psychology garnered a rapidly growing group of like-minded
professionals and has become a respected branch of
psychology, for years neither Grof or any of his colleagues
were able to offer a mechanism for explaining the bizarre
psychological phenomena they were witnessing. But that has
changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm. As
Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part of a
continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every
other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom,
organism, and region in the vastness of space and time
itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make forays
into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no
longer seems so strange.

The holographic prardigm also has implications for so-called
hard sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at
Virginia Intermont College, has pointed out that if the
concreteness of reality is but a holographic illusion, it
would no longer be true to say the brain produces
consciousness. Rather, it is consciousness that creates the
appearance of the brain -- as well as the body and
everything else around us we interpret as physical. Such a
turnabout in the way we view biological structures has
caused researchers to point out that medicine and our
understanding of the healing process could also be
transformed by the holographic paradigm. If the apparent
physical structure of the body is but a holographic
projection of consciousness, it becomes clear that each of
us is much more responsible for our health than current
medical wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous
remissions of disease may actually be due to changes in
consciousness which in turn effect changes in the hologram
of the body.

Similarly, controversial new healing techniques such as
visualization may work so well because in the holographic
domain of thought images are ultimately as real as
"reality". Even visions and experiences involving
"non-ordinary" reality become explainable under the
holographic paradigm. In his book "Gifts of Unknown Things,"
biologist Lyall Watson discribes his encounter with an
Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a ritual dance,
was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly vanish
into thin air. Watson relates that as he and another
astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused
the trees to reappear, then "click" off again and on again
several times in succession. Although current scientific
understanding is incapable of explaining such events,
experiences like this become more tenable if "hard" reality
is only a holographic projection. Perhaps we agree on what
is "there" or "not there" because what we call consensus
reality is formulated and ratified at the level of the human
unconscious at which all minds are infinitely
interconnected.

If this is true, it is the most profound implication of the
holographic paradigm of all, for it means that experiences
such as Watson's are not commonplace only because we have
not programmed our minds with the beliefs that would make
them so. In a holographic universe there are no limits to
the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality. What
we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting for us to
draw upon it any picture we want. Anything is possible, from
bending spoons with the power of the mind to the
phantasmagoric events experienced by Castaneda during his
encounters with the Yaqui brujo don Juan, for magic is our
birthright, no more or less miraculous than our ability to
compute the reality we want when we are in our dreams.
Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about reality
become suspect, for in a holographic universe, as Pribram
has pointed out, even random events would have to be seen as
based on holographic principles and therefore determined.
Synchronicities or meaningful coincidences suddenly makes
sense, and everything in reality would have to be seen as a
metaphor, for even the most haphazard events would express
some underlying symmetry. Whether Bohm and Pribram's
holographic paradigm becomes accepted in science or dies an
ignoble death remains to be seen, but it is safe to say that
it has already had an influence on the thinking of many
scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic
model does not provide the best explanation for the
instantaneous communications that seem to be passing back
and forth between subatomic particles, at the very least, as
noted by Basil Hiley, a physicist at Birbeck College in
London, Aspect's findings "indicate that we must be prepared
to consider radically new views of reality".

The author of this publication is unknown.

Infinite Blessings,
Leslie & Merle Means
EMC2 Facilitators

North:

Thank you for your blessings. I'll think of you during one of my performances and you'll be there with me.

onegirl

I am reading 'Yoga Vashista' which says that inside every atom there is an universe and inside each of the atoms in that universe are universes and so on.

The field referring to would be the Akasic field,
right?
And the article would be prove of the ´everything is a hologramm of the whole´ theory, right?

Both described in ages old scripts, now scientifically making sense,

Pretty interesting times to be living in,
though,
what captures my mind,
still,
the phenomena called ´women´ and what goes inside their minds, but that too,
is propably an age old question,
a mystery never to be completly revealed,
but then again,
that´s what makes them so darn facinating!
(and cute too, sometimes..;)

Love, passion and an applepie,
with, some good spiritual vibrations,

WOW
That is mind bogling
Morris

Deepak my friend,

Synchronicity once again! Our minds are truly connected! In my journey for the highest truth I have found a kin. As I was walking home a mere 30 minutes ago I was thinking on how I will write a book on these very themes. I open up my favourite blog and there it is. Synchronicity. For every day I learn, discover and experience more, guided by a force which works on the most subtle of levels. A force which, I believe, now wants itself to be known.

I believe that we are heading towards a unified theory which links it all, because the further physics and biology develop you realise that they are leading to exactly the same place. DNA is too amazing to be explained by randomness or mutations. Your posts on evolution and scientific scepticism have been spot on the mark.

Last night I discovered string theory, the grand unifying theory which can explain, matter, quantum theory, gravity, everthing in physics. At the most basic level every thing is essentially vibration! Not such a revelation for those who have experience chi, prana, reiki, but in some ways these scientic folk are some way behind... I have no doubt that string theory is the correct truth but it brings with it a fantastic revelation...

In our typical state most humans percieve 4 dimensions (although some come to recognise more)- the three dimensions which define space, and the fourth dimension of time. Yet in order for string theory to hold, and I stress it is the one theory which can tie it all of physics together, there must exist 10 or 11 dimensions! This is one of the keys which can tie it together!

Just as we exist right now in three dimensions of space, one dimension of time, we also exist in one or several dimensions of this 'collective unconciousness', as Jung termed it.

But I blieve there are also connected dimensions which exist above and below this level, which again takes us further towards truth and understanding.

At a more passive level exists chi, life force.

At a seperate level below this is the intelligence which works on the smallest scale. The intelligence which can read the code of DNA and then work to produce cells.

There are also higher levels. One of the most powerful experiences on my journey was being guided to discover reiki, a remarkable healing energy which truly works with its own intelligence. Where does it come from? Some beleive they have reiki 'guides'. Perhaps this is an intermediary level, one which I have to further explore.

And then, above that, who knows? Perhaps the force which wrote that tiny manuscript script of life that exists in every living cell? DNA. Editing those tiny bits of code and creating those incredbile jumps forward.

I had no experience of spirituality a mere six months ago. I met no guru, read no books. But I discovered the force. Or it found me. A life changing journey around the world. I was struck like a bolt of lightening from the blue, one night in the Malaysian jungle. A night which changed my life, revelations which could never leave me. This force then guided me on an incredible journey through South East Asia, and through remarkable encounters, revelations, experiences, and the door to the truth in all things was opened. I honestly believe it is one of the most incredible true stories you will ever hear. One which, in its small way, may just change the world.

I intend to write a book of my travels. Soon I'll start blogging my stories for all of you to read. Deepak, in you I am delighted to have found a kin of truly like mind, and I have no doubt we will collaborate much more in the future. Because collaboration and connectedness works on the most subtle of levels. But saying that, you should still get in contact, I have great things to share with you.

Peace, we are together,

Jules

I find it so very fascinating when science is beginning to prove the connectedness we feel. I kept a short article on mirror neuron studies that is still available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7656021/ (and does mention autism)

In short, researchers have discovered the existence of mirror neurons which fire in the brain of an observer the same as the person being observed, mirroring the actions, sensations and emotions of the observed. It is stated that we do not pretend to be in another person's mind when experiencing empathy for instance, but that we practically are in another person's mind.

One evening last winter I was waiting for my son to come home from out of town, as always sending out thoughts for his safe return. I was a bit worried this night because it was beginning to snow and I knew the roads would be getting slippery. As I sat reading I suddenly got a very clear message that said his name and the word accident. I wondered if it was a result of my worry but at the moment I wasn't consciously thinking of him, but was engrossed in my reading. A few minutes later though, the phone rang and it was my son, "Mom, I just got in an accident." He had spun out on a bridge and hit both the front and back of his truck on cement barricades, almost totaling his truck but he was amazingly, and thankfully, not hurt. He was wearing his seat belt, but only because he was pulled over earlier and given a warning for not wearing it. My thoughts connected with the officer? :) I don't know. But what I do know is that science doesn't have to prove what had occurred in my mind with the accident that night. Even though I didn't witness it in the physical sense, I have a feeling my neurons were firing as this was happening to him, and it was our connectedness in the field that brought that about.

WOW
That is mind bogling
Morris

Indeed, my friend, the beauty of the divine,
spiritual being, in question, having a human experience, is indeed, mind bogling,
or was it..truth?, beauty incarnated?
or, experience?, love, the essence of ...the quantum field?, or was it unifield? in both ways, one heaven of a use of atoms, quarks
laptons, bozons, whatever! pure e-(energy) in (e) motion! you start singing spontaniously ;)
never mind the Akasic field, let me have a piece of that applepie!

With love and good spiritual vibrations,
A romantic soul from Poland,

Dear Deepak,

Thank you for explaining this, as I have been wondering about this subject recently and desire very much to understand consciousness. I continue to try and understand my experiences and why some things happen and some don't, as desires become fulfilled, but not exactly as I would have expected them to manifest. But the outcome is always better than what I could imagine and it is usually what I did not know that I desired or needed, as I am blind.

What I have noticed that in order to fulfill a desire, I typically need the participation of other people, as well as their assistance, which is not limited to just people as consciousness utilizes all of it's resources or rather all of itself.

This most recent discovery has been very interesting for me, as well as confusing as it relates to the operation of consciousness, i.e., I still don't understand it, but I will keep at it, as there seems to be a set of rules that I don't know, as I learn by trial and error, assuming that there is a set of unseen rules and not just my imagination as I play with myself. Who knows????

Love,
Char

MAREK:

You are so funny.

This is the best explanation of the field that I have ever heard. Thanks, Deepak!

Love, Bo

ONRGURLMANYIDEAS:

Wish I could be there, Break a leg!

DULCIE:

Good question. Wish I had the answer.

JULES:

I can not wait to start reading some of your journey.

KRISTIE:

"But what I do know is that science doesn't have to prove what had occurred in my mind......"

Wow gurl. That's powerful.

CHAR:

What's up gurl?

MAREK:

You a funny dude!

DEEPAK:

Great post.

Dear Dr. Chopra,

Thank you so very much for your presence in Wisdom Quest, Journey to Wild Divine. This is the most powerful learning experience I have ever encountered, short of sitting at the knee of the master. I cannot thank you enough.

Love, Bo

p.s. for those of you who wonder what I am talking about, check this out:

www.wilddivine.com

Matt

Thank You for your post. You helped fill in critical gaps for me simply and comprehensively.

Love

Jasjit

Dear Deepakji,
Waiting for your silence guidance further, at least wishpers,
want to be with you.
Loving Rama

And for those of you who are interested in reading about this subject, there are 3 books that I know of which are difficult (to me :)), yet very interesting to read on this subject:

- Amit Goswami - The Visionary Window
A Quantum Physicist´s Guide to
Enlightenment

- Ervin Laszlo - Cosmic Vision
The Dawn of the Integral Theory
of Everything

- Lynne McTaggart - The Field
The Quest for the Secret
Force of the Universe

Sorry Deepak, forgot to mention your book:
Quantum Healing and not to forget: "Unconditional Life: Mastering the Forces to Shape Personal Reality". I did not have any difficulty in understanding them :)

After posting my two comments the light has finally reached me :)
First I wish to sincerely thank you, Deepak, for persisting in telling the truth and also all of you on this blog that are telling the same in your own words.

Now these two books of you, Deepak, I mentioned do have about the same contents (in other words) as the books I read from the Dutch writer Angel. One that has already been translated into the English language: "Illness as a challenge" ("Quantum Healing") and the other that I am translating "Children of this New Era", or how to create your own heaven on earth (Unconditional Life: Mastering the Forces to Shape Personal Reality").

What I now again understand is that what you wrote before, we are all on our own level of experience and the first 3 books I mentioned are meant for a certain level, your books are and the two last ones too. Yet they all tell the same truth. How wonderful.

That is why the bible can be explained in so many ways and also the Gita and Vedanta etc. etc.

Thank you again for helping me to get at this wonderful revelation :)

Hello Deepak and Everyone,

A few years ago, while driving to visit relativies, I started crying, I was listening to a CD during this car trip, but I was really sobbing, on and off, through the whole trip. I really did not understand why. I was not sad starting the trip and although there were some sad songs on the CD, nothing like this had ever happend to me before. I found myself saying over and over "I do not know why I am crying like this?" It was like was receiving information my conscious self was not registering. A year later one of the relatives I was going to visit died in an accident and that visit was the last time I would ever be with them.

The day I was told about the accident, I was at work, alone before closing, and I experienced a lightness in the space around me and looked up and said "Hi", not outloud, or with my voice, but with my Being, I was smiling, beaming, really, like I knew who just entered my space. It was like the area was filled with light, a colorless light. Then I sensed a figue kneel at my side and say "I want to be with you", I was just beaming and saying "okay". It was time to leave work and I simply went home, I think I forgot the experience almost immediately. A few hours later I received a call telling me of the accident. I did not remember the experiece at work until a few weeks later.

There is so much we have yet to learn about who we really are and what we are made of, our egos think we know it all, but I think we are infants in our knowledge of Self. peace ruth

Happy Birthday, Deepak. Hope you have a great natal day!

Love, Bo

North:

Thank you for your blessings. I'll think of you during one of my performances and you'll be there with me.

onegirl

Posted by: onegirlmanyideas at October 21, 2005 11:14 AM

Hello O.G. : ) Thank YOU, I will enjoy the motion! Big success's to YOU and the cast and crew; I just know it will be a guiding light for many!

North

Happy Birthday Deepak.

Love Terri Lynn

Is there any research about "idiot savants" who are artists????

Happy Birthday Dr. Chopra!!
I made a collage for you:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e14studio/47722172/

namasté

Happy Birth Day To You Deepak.May the blessings of Our Divine Father and Mother always be with you.

Cool collage, Sharon!

The fact that a human is able to remember and recall vast amounts of information and even make impossible mathmatical predictions is quite Interesting. But what you have to take in to consideration is that the thing that is making them equations is the same thing that is responsible for all manifestation. If I go outside of my house now and look at a tree growing here in my garden and I can even smell it and touch it, it has a feel and there is a sky and there is an ocean and mountains all there, remarkable abbilities by individuals are really not that significant when you compare them next to the miracle that is manifesting itself around you every day. It is likley that people who have mental disorders are not fully aware of themselves as a person or a body/identity and in that case they are tapped in to their real self all of the time.

Happy Birthday Deepak! Thank you for being an inspiration in so many ways.

Dulcie,

I remember reading that the autistic's brain is functionally different from non-autistics, and I believe that was in relation to the structure. In any case the way they process information is markedly different. There is documentation of a chimpanzee who seemed to be autistic, so it is not only a human condition.

I believe all beings have something to offer the world, but few societies recognize that, and make allowances for those who cannot make a living and relate in the traditional way.

From: Across the Universe

Happy Birthday Deepak

from the heart of me and my family(again)to yours.

http://xs51.xs.to/pics/05426/unitylove1.ds.JPG

http://xs51.xs.to/pics/05426/transpara.heart.ds.JPG

Nice Collage, Sharon!

North

Hi Deepak,really wonderful post.I would like to give info on Autistic Spectrum Disorders briefly.(Idiot Savant Syndrome)(Autism).It was first described by Kanner in 1943.It is a more common childhood disorder than cancer,diabetes,Down syndrome etc.The actual incidence is 1:500.It has 3 core defining features.1.Impairment in socialisation.2.Impairment in verbal and nonverbal communication.3.Restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior.

Early diagnosis is easily done by asking parents questions about language development.If a child does not babble,does not point,wave byebye, by 12 months of age,consider autism.If a child does not have single words such as mama or dada by age 16 months or does not have 2 word sentences by 24 months consider autism.

I.Q testing by conventional methods, in these children usually falls in the mentally retarded range. But the difficulty in language and socialisation makes it a difficult test to administer for the psychologist.Some of these children also have tremendous anxiety,some are moody.Some of them have ADHD.

I have a dozen or more children in my practice.Each one is different.Some are high functioning, some are not.One of them is an expert on country music.He has loved it since he was an infant.They all like consistent predictable environments.Tantrums and rages are the norm for some especially if there is any disruption of the routine.They are all enrolled in good autism training centers,and take music,get speech therapy and occupational therapy.I have one child whose mother has abandoned her.But she has an angel for a grandmother who has infinite patience and love for the child.I send some of them to a very good, kind psychiatrist who helps with pharmacotherapy .A few of them are on food supplements and the parents claim they help.I see them regularly and try to do the best I can for them.

Thank you Deepak for giving me the opportunity to write. God bless.

Happy Birthday, Deepak. :)
Love, Kristin

Many Happy Returns Deepak,

I have a present for you and i hope you like it my dear Brother.

http://www.drdeepchop.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

what i have is yours already....

Eternal love

Simon xx

Many Happy Returns Deepak,

I have a present for you and i hope you like it my dear Brother.

http://www.drdeepchop.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

make sure you have your speakers turned on for the nice music!!

what i have is yours already....

Eternal love

Simon xx

Thank you Simon, thank you North, thank you Sharon.Thank you all for your gifts and your wishes love deepak

six years after brain surgery for the removal of a tumor and countless of seizures, and moments of pure weirdness, and spirituality, and esp, flashbacks, I have come to a conclusion -- the brain is for me GOD. I can't explain it any further than that. Does this make sense to anyone?

To the Great Man:

I must emphatically assert that it is absolutely wonderful, flattering and exhilaring that you can find the time from your extremely busy life to personally extend appreciation and thanks to some of the responders to your often thought-provoking and inspirational posts.

It is truly a mark of greatness, indeed!

Regards,

Ron Saywack.

P.S.

Happy birthday Dr. Deepak! How old are you? I know it's easy to find out, but I think it's more meaningful if you say it!

Peace, my brother!

Ron a timeless mind does not remember its age.Sorry i dont remember love deepak

smiles to you, Deepak - the ageless One!
Love and Blessings,
~ Kate

The best way to tap into this field of consciousness (and to change the world's consciousness) is to listen to it. Understanding it with the intellect is of course necessary on some level, though I think that science as we know it will never deem to understand it, which is probably a good thing, which is not to deny the necessity of conventional science, but simply to aknowledge that this "field" of consciousness is more akin to poetry and art than science. Science will scratch its head and wonder at what this consciousness will do and may even finally try to pin this thing down in its usual way, but there is no reason to worry and wait and wrestle with this reality of consciousness in the way or with the language of science. The most effective thing to do is to listen to it, feel it as it speaks with its natural peaceful voice (it's a sensation actually rather than a voice)and teach others to do the same. As we all do this we will leave conventional science standing in the background still scratching its head as a new world and a new "science" rises out of this consciousness to correct what conventional science could not.

That's very cute, Dr. D.C.!

Always a gentleman and a scholar, you are!

Love, Ron.

I am happy to know you had a peek at it Deepak, and you are most welcome.

sharon and Simon's were also such wonderful creations and gestures; I mean; how does one gift a gifted man from across the miles?

I'm sure your birthday was a nice one; and I appreciate your taking time to say thank you from your hectic lifestyle.

In turn, thank you back!

North

It's a happy day on intentblog.

As I sit here listening to music and reading these comments, I find tears coming to my eyes. They are not tears of sadness but tears of joy. Joy because of what I see happening here. Strangers, who have never touched physically reach out to each other across the miles with love. Oh that the whole world could feel what I am feeling right now.

Dr. Chopra let me add my best wishes for you on the day of your birth. That day I am sure was a joyous one for your mother, who I understand left us recently but it was also a joyous day for the rest of the world. You are truly a gift to us all. Thank you so much for being on this planet along with me.

Love and best wishes for today and always.

Faye

Dear Deepak,
I have been ‘lurking’ on this blog ever since I discovered it about a month ago, but given today’s topic and the sea of good cheer bubbling over on the occasion of your birthday, I cannot resist jumping in. First, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Universe for giving us all such a wonderful soul in you. You have made a difference in my spiritual growth that I cannot express in words. Whenever I want to recharge or even escape, its your fascinating and illuminating books I reach for, not TV or magazines or fiction. And now the community on this blog is bringing it alive in a very immediate way.

On the infinitely absorbing topic of non-local intelligence and consciousness and how ‘different’ people tap into it, I have some personal experience that relates. For many years now I have felt an inexorable pull to inquire within, and that has led me to all your writings, and to Vedanta and Krishnamurti and Tolle, etc. This inquiry only accelerated when the Universe presented me with an autistic son. The same Universe then followed it up with another gift, an incredibly insightful approach for working with my son, called the Son-Rise Program. (By the way, your endorsement of this program was pivotal in my decision to adopt it). Through this experience, I’m constantly focusing on clarifying the clutter of my disempowering beliefs, and learning to run my mind rather than letting it run me. And in the middle of the daily commotion that comes with a special-needs child, he bestows me regular glimpses of the Infinite. He has a unique presence that's just pure Essence. He’s quite intelligent, but apart from an exceptional memory he doesn’t show any savant-like abilities. But as you said, that is not a requirement to have access to the Field; I think simply bringing our complete awareness to the present moment is one doorway to it.

All good and all Leela indeed! Namaste.

sWORDsman: What a wonderful post!

Hope you will come forward more often with such an extemely articulate and eloquent manner.

It is interesting that "Spirit" has gifted you with a son who is autistic--inlight of your most developed expressive abilities--it will surely be an incredible journey regarding what gifts your combined energies will then bestow on the world, as a result of the subtle levels communication that love will generate between the two of you! Dave

David, you have been missed today! How are you are feeling? Well, I hope!

"To believe that we are connected at the level of consciousness isn't to deny the brain or neurology. The brain isn't just a radio picking up signals from the field. It is a living aspect of the field." DC

I know I feel drawn here to intent, to the pull of ideas, discussions, energy, the realness of learning - and sharing our life's experiences, and the Oneness that connects us all.

What a joy to see how we reveal the deepest concerns, sadnesses and smiles - and to feel embraced, and to be Understood. It's oh so nice.

Are you well today, Dave?

Blessings,
~~ K

Hi K: It is good to hear from you, and nice that you are concerned!

I've been trying to think of a response for you--regarding your inquiry about treatments?

Today--well...some days are still, "not so hot." Today was one of them--they slow me down to a crawl and I have to sleep a lot then--which is OK if I am able to "get out of the body" and go roaming around!

Today was, however, very "earthbound," so I started reading the sixth of the Harry Potter series. Am trying to prepare to go to a very unique school--like Hogwarts Academy--except real, where I hope to begin learning some healing skills that can go beyond the postion that Western Allopathic medicine is at--which is improved forms of insulin, and soon hopefully, nasal-spray insulin, vs. injections.

I also believe that the South Koreans, and others, have a number of genetically-engineered "tools," and stem-cell "cures" at this point--but it will be some time before those trickle through the system, in the US at least.

Thanks so much for asking! You are very sweet to do so. Dave

Dear Deepak ji,
Yeaterday there was a faint thought with in me to know your birthday, I found it on today.

Happy birthday, May Devine mother give U long life to you to guide us. Waiting to meet you,
with Love /Rama

Dear onegirlmanyideas

Just a possible contact point for you in L.A. There's a non-profit there called L.A. Goal that employs handicapped and autistic people as artists. A dear friend of mine was art director there for many years. Sean Penn got interested in their program and hung around to "get" his role as the handicapped dad in that movie he did a few years ago, I forget the name. So maybe this will be of some use to you. The people there are really nice, the artists are rather amazing, of course. Maybe this can serve you. B.A.L!

Happy Birthday Sir! I wish you so many wonderful things.

I always wondered about savants. I knew they were not sitting there calculating the answers to their problems. It was illustrated well in the movie Little Man Tate with Jody Foster. In a scene where a summer camp of genius kids were being grilled with intensely hard math problems, her son popped up with the answer. It went into a little surreal scene where his consciousness was portrayed as a kind of movie screen. NOT a calculator or computer, not a function of logic or sequential processing of numbers. He more accurately "saw" the answer. Recognized, cognized, realized.

One time in a science class when I was a kid, we were doing a lab about the movement of the sun, earth and moon. We had styrofoam balls and were trying to figure it all out. Nobody was gettng it at all, and this was the brainy class. Suddenly, I just got it. Usually I was usually somewhere in the background, in a haze. But I just got it, stepped forward and stated the whole phenomenon in one lucid sentence, to my amazement. The teacher was standing behind me and he said, "hey, everybody, you should listen to him, he's the only one here who knows what's going on. It had nothing to do with logic or rational thinking. It was a direct gift of knowledge, that's all. I just knew the answer. There it is.

I always wondered about savants. I knew they were not sitting there calculating the answers to their problems. It was illustrated well in the movie Little Man Tate with Jody Foster. In a scene where a summer camp of genius kids were being grilled with intensely hard math problems, her son popped up with the answer. It went into a little surreal scene where his consciousness was portrayed as a kind of movie screen. NOT a calculator or computer, not a function of logic or sequential processing of numbers. He more accurately "saw" the answer. Recognized, cognized, realized.

One time in a science class when I was a kid, we were doing a lab about the movement of the sun, earth and moon. We had styrofoam balls and were trying to figure it all out. Nobody was gettng it at all, and this was the brainy class. Suddenly, I just got it. Usually I was usually somewhere in the background, in a haze. But I just got it, stepped forward and stated the whole phenomenon in one lucid sentence, to my amazement. The teacher was standing behind me and he said, "hey, everybody, you should listen to him, he's the only one here who knows what's going on. It had nothing to do with logic or rational thinking. It was a direct gift of knowledge, that's all. I just knew the answer. There it is.

Dave,

The Sixth Book of Harry Potter I read it when I whent back to Victoria to visit my family in August this year, it is a fantastic book you are in for some terrific reading my Brother. I can hardly wait for the last book to come out.

Love
Simon

Thank you for discussing this fascinating subject, Deepak! It makes me think - If it's all one field of energy, then is it all one organism, too? And if it is all one organism, are we somehow wired in such a way that we can tap in to that subtle aspect of ourself? And when we engage in creative acts, or display unusual gifts such as the savants do, then are we drawing on the infinite aspects of Being itself? ~ What a range of possibilities this opens up! Wow!
Thank you ~ again!

Deepak says “savants are tapping into a "neural field" that is responsible for their extreme abilities. It is the field that provides the answers, not the savants themselves.” And I think that is a very valid observation along with the rest of what is said.

I wonder if this is not what some might call the subconscious mind.

Along the lines of conscious mind being linear local processing and the subconscious mind is being holographic non local processing.

I have experienced this myself in that if I trust my “subconscious” mind it can provide answers. It can be as simple as what time is it, of which my precision is somewhat uncanny, do we need a clocks??? Or it can be a somewhat complex solution. It can actually be a solution where I need to be guided to find other pieces of information to trigger the insight and I am somehow lead by the subconscious mind to information to process in my conscious mind.

In fact I just did it and was off by a 1 minute it is 11:34 and I guessed 11:33. I looked at the time about an hour and a half ago when I woke up but at the moment could not tell you exactly what it was then.

During altered states encountered while I rest, my holographic non-localized mind is capable of building scenes and complex models of object interaction, dialog and human behavior all without effort.

In fact access to this neural field only seems to work if done without effort. It only works with subtle intent a question posed and then a pause without expectation. When I have tried to force this ability it fails, it seems to work best in the natural flow of things.

The clues abound, I see many here bringing puzzle pieces and laying them on the table and now shall put them together?

About 23 years ago I bought this T-shirt in a surplus sale; it said “Big Hits The Field”.

I wondered “what does it mean, what was the intention of the author?” Perhaps it was a misprint. I know the question in my mind did lead to revelations and has been in the back of my mind the last 23 years “The Field”.

I suppose one of the qualities of the Infinite Player would be having access to the neural field and the finite players would have it blocked. I think that perhaps the Infinite Player has learned the art of subtle intent with a pause of non-action, creating a vacuum which is filled.

DEEPAK:

Heart felt Happy Birthday greetings!

RICHARD:

Pretty heavy stuff.

Now for my 2 little cents.

I kinda figure we're all already "tapped" into "neural field".

The savant example highlights undeniable aspects of the "neural field".

Some posts ago I mentioned basketball in an attempt to make a point.

In sports there's a place called "the zone".

Now I can't even pretend to know about "the zone". I'm an above average sportier. I don't shine.

Except the time I played goalie on a high school soccer team.

You know something? I had no idea what I was doing. Everyone said that I was a good goalie and i did seem to do all of the things that a good goalie should do. But I had no, non, not an idea of the game of soccer or what was going on around me. That's probably as close to being in "the zone" as I have come. And that ain't bein' in "the zone".

Anyway. All of us have an experience of what being in "the zone" is like. Some on this very blog may be excellent in sports and so already know it. For me it's taking up a bow and arrow for the first time and hitting a bulls eye. It's jumping out of a plane for the very first time and landing in the middle of the drop target. It's throwing a dart into the middle of the board several times knowing I don't know a thing about darts.

It's sitting at a chair with a crumpled piece of paper waded up in my hand, eying the trash can at the other end of the room. We've all done it. And this is important. There are moments, all the time where this is going on in our experiences. Many moments. Everyday. All day.

I decide to try and throw the paper into the trash. I concentrate on the action on some level (if only to get the motor actions going). I may even think about all the times I've missed the basket and the fact that my lazy butt may have to get up.

All this thinking and my hand has been slowly rising to my forehead much like Michael Jordan shooting a penalty shot.

Then it happens. It doesn't happen every time but it happens enough to know it as legitimate. The moment that the wad of paper disconnects from my finger tips I see the wad of paper falling squarely into the waste basket. And then I watch the wad of paper in a kind of slow motion; roll off of my finger tips, arch through the air and land into the waste basket like my minds eye had just already seen.

That to me is what being in "the zone" must be to a Tiger Woods or a Michael Jordan. My best friends father hit a hole in one. They gave him a little plaque. Can you believe it? This guys sitting, or rather standing there with the intention of getting that tiny little ball into that tiny little hole? In hopefully how many swings? And then he swings and it flies through the air hits the ground and roles right into that hole? That ladies and gentlemen is "the zone" and it is tapping into the "neural field" and it is available to all of us at every moment.

Back in the mid 60's everyone around me started making a big deal about how we only used (I gotta admit I don't exactly remember) 5% or 10% or maybe 15% of our brains. they spoke as if it was a magical revelation of science. People spoke of it in awe. they spoke in wispers

Now I gotta tell you. Even back then, being a very young person, not even 10, I remember thinking, "what are these guys on about?" I just never bought it. We are using 100% and always have been. That explains what science can't explain about phenomena like spoon bending.

The difference as far as I can see concerning the savant and myself is that the savant is able to block the noise, I am not. Perhaps the savant is able to use the brain/mind much more efficiently then I.

Deepak, I've been trying to send you birthday greetings via the ask Deepak connection and it keeps coming back, so am taking this route to say I hope you had a very special day. We were wishing the Quill Awards had been broadcast here, but we were surely thinking of you.
God bless!
Love, Donna

Laurence,

I can clearly see that you are trying. You do have great potential as a writer. I can see you sitting on your "lazy butt" on that easy chair and aiming purposefully for that trash bin. I can see the arc (the curvature) of the paper on its targetted trajectory towards the orifice of the trash bin.

I can also see the chagrinned look of mild disappointment on your furrowed face as it tantalizes you, appearing to bulls eye, as it nears the hole, and then, heart-breakingly, falls to the ground. Now, it impels your lazy butt off that couch to zone in on that orifice, somewhat envying that savant, who can so effortlessly see the tarjectory and ace it, hole in one! Wow!

With brotherly love, Rog.

ROGER:

And the thing is is that when (it/I) misses, that is completely in "the zone". It's all in "the zone" and we are all tapped into the "neural field". Always.

Matt Welsh: the info you wrote is fantastic.Now we have scientific explanations for Maya,Transmigration of souls,Reincarnation and other eastern thoughts.Good stuff. Thanks.Geeta.

Hi Laurence,

I agree the "zone" is the same thing. I think one aspect of it all is letting go and letting it happen.

Scientific method usually has a problem with anything that it cannot see or touch. It does not do well with the intangible. When it changes it's presumptions about reality so will the things discovered.

When it crosses the threshold to realize the tangible is an effect of the intangible then there will be new science.

When it see the universe as an information system it will discover other realms.

When it realizes that each of us is really an information producer the spark will jump the gap.

I wont agree with Deepak.
Consciousness is my own, impregnable domain not available for scientific inquiry.
Simple. All inquiries need a distance, a space otherwise the inquiry cant be made.
Between me and my consciousness what is the distance ? What is the space? None. So how do I reach out and investigate the consciousness? I need to create something apart from me that can be investigated. Imagine Karl Pribram investigating his own consciousness. Can he? Moment I create a space to reach out my ME the required space is invented.. Me has become the 'other' available for an inquiry - you might call it body or mind or intellect etc, but you cant call it the me, the consciousness.
Me is still prior – what ever you do, the ‘me’ – me as consciousness is eternally minus one to all the investigations, scientific or philosophical.

Hi Deepak,I am wondering ,when you say,"we are connected at the level of consciousness", do you mean at the level of the soul or do you mean during deep sleep state?

I have had experiences during both dream state and deep sleep state that make me wonder about them.Some times I go to sleep troubled as to why some one I care for behaves in a certain way.The next morning I wake up with the answer. I assume The universe gave me the answer in Deep sleep.Sometimes I dream about a patient and his /her mother/guardian.The next morning either they call me or they show up for a sick visit.Were they communicating with me during my sleep?

Once I had a vivid dream in which I was flying and happened to look down to witness an accident,my friend was hit by a motorcycle,and was hurt
.I got news 2 days later that she actually was hit by a motorcycle in India(she was visiting India.She lives in Detroit).

It was 14th of January,early 1960s. Sankranti festival day. Our family had gone to the river to celebrate the festival. My normally happy,mother just sat there as though struck by lightening. No amount of coaxing to come and eat and be happy got her out of that mood. We heard the next morning that her brother had committed suicide the previous day.

When my father passed away,long before I got the news I knew there was something dreadfully wrong,because I was crying and in the depth of depression.I loved my father so much, I love him so much.He comes sometimes to see me in my dreams.Once he came in my dream and told me to call my mother!We are definitely connected alive or dead.

Some times I feel extremely sad, and confused,and not able to deal with everything life dishes out.Before I go to sleep, I cry out to my beloved Divine Mother, entreat her to give me answers, to give me Peace.Next morning I feel on top of the world. Even if I do not have answers to all my questions I feel like She is watching over me,or some one is making sure I am alright.

We sure are connected,especially if the person happens to be a kindred spirit, even if in this life you have never met you can sense some connection. You meet some one for the first time and you feel as though you have known each other always.

This is a most fascinating topic. Thank you Deepak.God bless.

Air, fire, water or matter
Are not in you,
In you is only consciousness,
Only this will set you free,
It is the witness to being.

******
A rendering of Ashtavakra Gita
Original in Sanskrit.

White Wings

An addendum:

In my earlier comment, the rendering is from verse 1:3 of Ashtavakra Gita.

WW

Hey Laurens,

check the flow books, on your 'zone' thing,
(or Dharma ;)

FLOW IN SPORTS: The keys to optimal experiences and performances
(Susan A. Jackson, PhD, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD)

Clarence first wrote about Dr. Csikszentmihalyi’s pioneering work on flow in The Lean Advantage 3. “Flow” is the term coined by Dr. C. to describe those times when people report feelings of enjoyment, concentration and deep involvement, or a genuinely enjoyable state of consciousness. It usually occurs when we are struggling to overcome a challenge or achieve a difficult goal. In this book, Dr. C and Susan Jackson collaborate to bring the concept to bear on sports, perhaps the most fertile field for flow. Athletes, coaches and psychologists call it a natural “high” or being “in the zone.” It’s an elusive and desired state of consciousness conducive to optimum performance. The authors explain the thoughts and actions that athletes and coaches can use to set the stage for flow to occur during training sessions and performances. Their insights are supported throughout the book with real-life examples, and quotes from athletes in a wide range of sports. Get in flow, and achieve the most incredible performance state you’ll ever know. (To read more about flow and how Clarence has used it to his workouts, GO Row and Flow)

Love, Passion, flow,

Happy Belated Birthday timeless one...yet right on time.

Who is this "I" That "wont" agree Kails

There is no Wont and there is no my own domain there just is.

The Heart is Blind yet it is the only part of you that can see, for it sees without the mind, without the ego, without the identity.

I Open all of me to investigation because what I really am could never be fathomed unless you stop being the objector or the fathomer and become the unfathomable.

That is all

Wow..simon.
So can the Seer ever be investigated and brought with in the domain of science?
Can you step on your own shadow?

You have the freedom to investigate what ever you like, You can create the idea of being the investigator and subscribe to the investigation. Investigation means that you are looking for proof of something or looking for evidence. The evidence for the meaning of life is that there is no evidence, there is no reason given.The one who is doing the investigation is investigating themselves in disguise.

Can I step on my own Shadow? well I would have to belive that I had a shadow first! LOL

If a Tree Falls in the middle of a deep forest and there is nobody there to listen....is there still a sound?

SIMON:

Of course there is silly.

I like to know what are your opinions on Lucid dreaming?

Mr Chopra,

(I haven’t written any comments here for a long time because I felt I needed a break. I was a bit fed-up with the childish and crude responses I was getting. I was also frustrated at the lack of responses I was getting when I tried to start discussions or debates - I thought starting discussions would help us learn more from each other. But I realize that many people simply don't have time to participate, so I shouldn’t expect too many responses. Also, when it comes to receiving crude comments, I’ve realized that my ego was taking things too personally (thanks Aurora for making me think about that), and that if someone wants to criticize anyone in a crude and unintelligent way, they must have serious issues about the topic and feel threatened by the discussion.)

I wanted to comment on this video because I find this topic fascinating and I’ve had many discussions about these ideas at Intent. There are a lot of people who are skeptical about what you are talking about here (which I think is good because we have to question things), but I would love to hear you discuss this topic in more depth. I can see that a skeptic’s objections may have sounded something like this:

Couldn't it be argued that experiences of brain damage and how it alters our experience of reality, reinforces the idea that all of our experiences come from the brain? How can we know that the mind is located outside of the brain? Isn’t that just a belief? And how can you know, like you seem to suggest, that we will experience universal consciousness when we die? How can we conclude also that when we experience universal consciousness (which I suppose is the same as experiencing ‘Big Mind’ in meditation when one experiences a feeling of boundlessness and as being as one with the universe), we are actually experiencing God? Isn’t ‘unity consciousness’ just an experience of a different type of brain activity caused by meditation? Aren’t we speculating about what this state of mind is when we say it’s God consciousness or the experience of the soul or who we really are?

I think that the people who are not familiar with your work may find it a bit of a leap of faith to take an experience of brain damage, which caused a person to experience life in a different way, and claim that it shows that the brain is merely a way for universal consciousness to ‘localise’ itself.

I think that there are posts where you have provided more compelling and relevant evidence for the mind’s existence outside of the brain. I particularly liked your post from October 21 2005: http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2005/10/rain_man_and_th.html

In that post you talked about idiot savants and one person in particular who could “take one glance at a parking lot and name the make, model, and year of every car in it…he knew models and years that he could not have found in car magazines (not that he could read) because they had come off the assembly line very recently in Europe”. And this suggests “savants are tapping into a "neural field" that is responsible for their extreme abilities. It is the field that provides the answers, not the savants themselves”.

I understand that the way you’re speaking now is informal and just for us to ponder these ideas, but I think it would be great if you could give more evidence that suggests in a direct way that we are more than just a brain.

Peace,

Lars

Hi Lars,
It's nice to see you again :)
love,
~ Kate