“Dream it to Do it: The Science & the Magic” by Howard Eisenberg, M.D. – Extract of Chapter One©?
Think about how radically completely different your expertise and understanding of actuality can be if you have been born in primitive instances, earlier than the growth of our trendy applied sciences.
Even in our present period, there are numerous completely different prejudices, ideologies, and religions—all immersed in the identical actuality however with very completely different interpretations and beliefs.
We’re programmed by our experiences to see actuality by completely different lenses. Our beliefs are like filters, blinding us to how others would possibly see and worth issues very in a different way.
Nevertheless, should you’re keen to look at and problem these limiting beliefs, you’ll be able to uncover who you actually are—and may very well be—as a substitute of being restricted to what you’ve gotten been taught to imagine, or the way you’re handled by others.
“For issues to disclose themselves to us, we must be able to abandon our views about them.”—Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk
It takes braveness to discover what actually is, to be open to noticeably questioning what you imagine to be true—particularly if it doesn’t align with what you have been beforehand led to imagine (or the views of others round you).
Then again, can you actually purchase into the prevailing scientific perception that you just’re only a kind of machine manufactured from meat, that your sense of self is merely an phantasm computed by your mind, and that you just dwell in a meaningless universe?
What if our sense of actuality, and even the existence of the bodily mind itself, regardless of convincing appearances, isn’t any extra fastened and “on the market” than our nightly desires?
Lots of the religious lecturers of the world conceive of us as being asleep, failing to understand that we’re simply caught up in our desires. They train that the egoic self with which we establish is what retains us emotionally entrapped on this digital, however all-embracing, illusory world.
Issues Are Not As They Appear
Even apparently stable materials objects will not be stable, however principally empty area. But we will see and contact them, regardless of their ghostly actuality.
Notion Modifications Actuality
Within the martial arts of karate and taekwondo, younger kids are taught to interrupt by wood boards with their naked fingers by imagining that they’re forcefully thrusting by and past the board, reasonably than hitting it. Equally, there may be the altered-reality expertise of individuals strolling unhurt whereas barefooted over extraordinarily sizzling coals—so long as they imagine they’ll accomplish that with out being burned.
Your perceptions will not be primarily based on an goal exterior world, although they do present a really convincing simulation of such a digital actuality on the market.
As we develop into entrapped in our interpretations of actuality, our emotional attachments and fears restrictively situation our future actions. The Buddha realized that we have to let go of our limiting beliefs about who and what we’re, as they’re the reason for pointless struggling.
For those who’re keen to threat going past the acquainted consolation of your programmed limiting beliefs, then you’ll be able to be taught to do some actual magic.
Qigong is an Asian type of yoga that has been practiced for 1000’s of years. The superior practitioners of this craft are capable of deliberately think about projecting their inner important Shen power outward, both as a power for distance-healing or as a defensive weapon towards an aggressor.
The delicate Russian martial artwork of Systema stems from a hybrid of the combating methods of the militaristic Cossacks and the Asian martial arts. It was developed for contemporary army use by specialists throughout the Russian Particular Forces. Superior practitioners like Colonel Mikhail Ryabko have been noticed bodily impacting folks positioned a number of ft away—with solely their skilled power of thoughts.
In each Qigong and Systema, superior practitioners use the imaginal energy of their minds to undertaking an outward affect on the plasticity of standard bodily actuality. They purposely think about the specified energetic emotions and supposed influence in order to manifest them within the outer world.
And, in line with modern analysis on the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), which was established by American former lunar astronaut Edgar Mitchell, one thing is in truth generated when gifted topics in experiments deliberately think about influencing extremely refined technological units which might be bodily and electromagnetically shielded.
Hmm . . . perhaps you’re not only a “skin-encapsulated ego.”
Earlier than we delve extra deeply into this topic, first we have to attend to our existential predicament on the extra mundane degree of our consensual actuality.
“The scenario the Earth is in in the present day has been created by unmindful manufacturing and unmindful consumption. We devour to neglect our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilizing ourselves with overconsumption just isn’t the way in which.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, and world religious chief
The untamed egoic self has a delusional and inflated sense of who and what it thinks it’s. It emotionally hijacks our thoughts to compel us towards behaviors which might be self-serving and shortsighted, typically on the expense of others. It’s continuously looking out for exterior rewards in an unrelenting want for nonetheless increasingly more to compete and validate its value. It dismissively dehumanizes others. The result’s our tribalistic us-versus-them conflict-seeking mindset—and the exploitation and air pollution of our planetary assets.
Moral human habits, in contrast, stems from a way of reference to others and is characterised by compassion and collaboration. Paradoxically, that is additionally self-serving, in line with the Stress Idea founder Dr. Hans Selye. As Selye found, probably the greatest organic protections towards extreme stress is the event of an altruistic ego, an consciousness, and compassion for the wants of others. In different phrases, after we are extra linked with one another, we’re happier and more healthy.
Numerous cultures have a creation fantasy just like the Backyard of Eden a few time of abundance and concord earlier than people misplaced their connection to our religious supply.
Within the legends of the following fall from grace, our ancestors got here to mistakenly imagine that their inside well-being relied on exterior materials assets. The meaningfulness of life was sacrificed to the altar of fabric consumerism, and the spiritual-like points of nature, with its awe-inspiring grandeur and innate concord, turned desacralized into mere commodities to be exploited.
“If folks see how we’re all interconnected and linked with Nature, we wouldn’t have an environmental disaster and we wouldn’t have wars everywhere in the world.”—Stanley Krippner, psychologist and parapsychologist
Conventional aboriginal values have been based upon honoring and conserving nature and all different sentient beings. The Iroquois are believed to have codified this stewardship perspective of their Nice Regulation because the Precept of Seven Generations. This was the knowledge to assume forward to assist the world be sustainable seven generations into the long run, versus humanity’s current shortsighted obsession with fears and greed.
The abandonment of the normal aboriginal values coupled with the rise of our predatory-exploitative mindset has culminated within the present existential crises for humanity and our planet. It has endangered the complete internet of life and is main us to the purpose of human extinction.
Now could be a crucial time for all of us to get up from the dystopian world we’ve created by blind acceptance of the spiritually eviscerated, materialistic view of actuality. A world actuality the place, in line with the World Well being Group, despair is the main reason for incapacity; the landmark report launched in 2018 by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC) concluded that there have been solely twelve years left to restrict the approaching world local weather change disaster. The Doomsday Clock has been maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947. It’s a symbolic monitoring system representing the likelihood of human-made world catastrophes (akin to nuclear battle, world local weather change, pandemic mismanagement, and synthetic intelligence). Reflecting a number of existential threats, the Doomsday Clock has been steadily inching towards doom since 2010, however as of 2021, for the primary time, the clock’s setting needed to be expressed on the crucial degree of only one hundred seconds to midnight.
As Barbara Marx Hubbard, late American futurist, creator, and speaker identified,
“We’re the primary species who face extinction by its personal acts and is aware of it.”
As then-sixteen-year-old local weather activist Greta Thunberg expressed extra angrily in her 2019 speech to the United Nations:
“Individuals are struggling. Individuals are dying. Total ecosystems are collapsing. We’re at first of a mass extinction and all you’ll be able to discuss is cash and fairy tales of everlasting financial progress. How dare you!…We won’t allow you to get away with this. Proper right here, proper now could be the place we draw the road. The world is waking up and alter is coming, whether or not you prefer it or not.”
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its lack of sufficient vaccines for the poor and fewer developed international locations, and the continuing technology of much more potent viral mutations exemplify our must assume globally. As said by UNHCR (the UN Refugee Company), “Nobody is protected, till everyone seems to be protected.”
Paradoxically, on this trendy period of scientific wonders, the very data applied sciences and social media platforms that join us instantaneously are additionally answerable for separating us from feeling linked. It is because, regardless of some seductive options, IT solely connects us within the superficial horizontal dimension, versus the deeper and extra satisfying vertical dimension. This has resulted in rising complaints of loneliness and even the appointment within the UK and Japan of Ministers of Loneliness to their governments.
Regardless of the present dim trajectory we discover ourselves on, all of us—every one in all us—has a selection. We are able to proceed to be outlined by our previous and play a fatalistic character in humanity’s steadily unwinding story or we could be Dreamers of the Dream, deliberately producing new and extra fascinating experiences.
And, as you’ll quickly be taught, there may be energy in your desires. By remodeling your private dream, you’ll be able to take part in seeding a brand new and higher imaginative and prescient for the world.
© Copyright 2021, Howard Eisenberg, Canada
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