“a different level of awareness”
“How does something so invisible and immaterial as consciousness/ mind relate to the greywhitish, spongy 3-pound brain? At what point does mind go beyond the common definition of thought, emotion, memory, sense of “I” into the omniscience of God Mind, and is the brain part of this spiritual transformation? … To completely understand a cat’s purr, spinning galaxies, a plant’s photosynthesis, the smell of roses or the effect of chocolate on our moods, consciousness itself must be understood and placed in and through matter. It must also be placed, somehow, in/through/beyond the brain. Ultimately, our sense of mind (personal thought, emotion, memory, will, psychic abilities and the normally untapped infinity of soul-beingness) must be anchored in consciousness. The physical brain, then, is a tiny translation island in that ocean of awareness.”[i]
“The undoing of opinion is facilitated by humility; when the mind penetrates through its own self-infatuation, it discerns that it is not actually capable of knowing anything in the true sense of what knowing actually means. The mind has only information and imaginations about anything; it cannot actually ‘know’ because to know is to be that which is known. All else is only speculation and supposition. When the mind is transcended, there is nothing to know because, in reality, the Self is All That Is. There is nothing left out to ask about. That which is complete lacks nothing, and that completion is self-evident in its Allness.”[ii]
Insight # 54 comes to us from Tony Schwartz (b. 1952) an American author and journalist.
“To see what is really there requires shifting to a different level of awareness.”[iii]
That “different level of awareness” is Simple Reality Paradigm-A.
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[i] Himalayan Academy, Mystery of Mind, Brain and World Sought by Scientists. Bhaktivedanta Conference, May 1, 1990.
[ii] Hawkins, David. The Eye of the I. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing, 2001, p. 105.
[iii] Schwartz, Tony. What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America. New York: Bantam, 1995, p. 169.
