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On the Forbidden Letters - by the Editor in Chief
“The ALL is MIND;
The Universe is Mental.” [ The
Kybalion ]
‘For in him we
live and move and have our being.’
As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
[ The Bible, Acts 17:28 ]
“As above, so below”
[ The Emerald Tablet - Hermes Trismegistus]
‘That which is above is the same as that which is below” … Macrocosmos is
the same as microcosmos.
The significance of this phrase is that it is believed to hold the key to all
mysteries.
All systems of magic are claimed to function by this formula.
“The Universe
begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.”
[ Sir James Jeans, astrophysicist ]
“We are not human
beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” [
Teihard de Chardin ]
We are God having a
human experience. [ Bernard Haisch ]
Not that which the
eye can see, but that whereby the eye can see:
know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore;
Not that which the ear can hear, but that whereby the ear can hear:
know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore;
Not that which speech can illuminate, but that by which speech can be
illuminated:
know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore;
Not that which the mind can think, but that whereby the mind can think:
know that to be Brahman the eternal, and not what people here adore.
[ The Kena Upanishad ]
The seeker is he who
is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After
all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The
‘I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what
you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all
that you are not — body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that —
nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of
perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. The clearer you
understand that on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms
only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you
are the limitless being.
[ Nisargadatta Maharaj ]
“Why are you
unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, and of everything you
do, is for “yourself “- and there isn’t one. [
Terence Gray ]
When you renounce
your attachment, there is nothing to shake you. It is the feeling of possession,
of clinging, that disturbs the mind. [ Buddha's teaching
paraphrased by Satchidananda ]
Advaita is a
sanskrit word that literally means “not two”. Synonyms of Advaita are
non-duality (nonduality, non duality). Advaita is not a philosophy or a
religion. Non-duality is an experience in which there is no separation between
subject and object; a “me” and the rest of the universe; a “me” and God. It is
the experience of consciousness, our true nature, which reveals itself as
absolute happiness, love and beauty. Consciousness is defined as that, whatever
that is, which is aware of these very words right here, right now.
[ Francis Lucille ]
I believe that
consciousness and its contents are all that exists.
Spacetime, matter and fields never were the
fundamental denizens of the universe but have always been, from their beginning,
among the humbler contents of consciousness, dependent on it for their very
being.
The world of our daily experience—the world of tables, chairs, stars and people,
with their attendant shapes, smells, feels and sounds—is a species-specific user
interface to a realm far more complex, a realm whose essential character is
conscious.
It is unlikely that the contents of our interface in any way resemble
that realm. Indeed the usefulness of an interface requires, in general, that
they do not. For the point of an interface, such as the windows interface on a
computer, is simplification and ease of use. We click icons because this is
quicker and less prone to error than editing megabytes of software or toggling
voltages in circuits.
Evolutionary pressures dictate that our species-specific
interface, this world of our daily experience, should itself be a radical
simplification, selected not for the exhaustive depiction of truth but for the
mutable pragmatics of survival. If this is right, if consciousness is fundamental, then we should not be
surprised that, despite centuries of effort by the most brilliant of minds,
there is as yet no physicalist theory of consciousness, no theory that explains
how mindless matter or energy or fields could be, or cause, conscious
experience. There are, of course, many proposals for where to find such a
theory—perhaps in information, complexity, neurobiology, neural darwinism,
discriminative mechanisms, quantum effects, or functional organization. But no
proposal remotely approaches the minimal standards for a scientific theory:
quantitative precision and novel prediction. If matter is but
one of the humbler products of consciousness, then we should expect that
consciousness itself cannot be theoretically derived from matter.
[ DONALD HOFFMAN, Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author,
Visual Intelligence ]
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