“The mind, as we experience it, is immaterial, yet it has a physical substrate that is both the body and the brain,” according to Caren Goldman. Our experience, in fact, is energy, which is not immaterial but which does transcend both the mind and the body. This energy expresses through the mind and body and at the same time is “connected” to the Implicate Order or to that from which all of creation flows. All is one and yet both physical form and ideas as form have no substantial reality. Intuition or “feeling” is our connection to that which is real and is the only substantial reality that we do experience.
The Point of Power Practice provides the option of choosing between a reaction or a response, between an afflictive emotion or feeling. As Candace Pert, a neuroscientist for almost 40 years describes this process in scientific terms, “Biofeedback enables us to take conscious control of physiological processes previously thought to be autonomic and not susceptible to voluntary intervention.” The biofeedback phenomena has been described as the mind/body connection and usually means an individual’s mind and an individual’s body. Intuition in the context of Simple Reality, however, is described as a manifestation of the one Mind expressing through an individual, but we have to keep in mind that there is no separate individual—no “me” or “I” in P-A.
The mind/body connection “happens” but is not a manifestation of the profound reality of P-A. It is, in other words, a manifestation of relative reality or the illusion of form. Because “… as we can see with yogis or women doing breathing exercises during labor, consciousness can intervene to control pain, heart rate, blood circulation, tension, relaxation—all processes that were once thought to be unconscious … Intuition is much broader—it transcends the physical body.”
Intuition as we use the term in Simple Reality is something more profound than physiological reactions or the input of the conscious mind and transcends the process of thinking. Pert who has used intuition extensively as a scientist describes it this way: “For me, intuition has always been knowing something before you have a right to know it rationally. It’s thinking with your heart … I think one of those states [P-A] is an intuitive state in which we may know everything that’s happened and everything that ever will happen.”
In considering Simple Reality, we are learning the importance of the context in determining our identity. Pert affirms that connection and its relationship to good health: “Health is much more about what we believe about ourselves and how conscious we make those beliefs. If we become conscious and gain mastery over ourselves, good health will follow.”
Our challenge as human beings is to transcend the old attitudes, values and beliefs of P-B and write a new narrative for ourselves. The work of Candace Pert is on the cutting edge of that process. “Some of my best insights have come to me through what I can only call a mystical process. As scientists, we must come to trust our inner voice and speak our truth. There’s a higher intelligence that comes to us via our very molecules. It results from our participation in a system far greater than the world we receive from our five senses alone, the small, circumscribed one we call ego.”
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References and notes are available for this essay.
Find a much more in-depth discussion in books by Roy Charles Henry:
Who Am I? The Second Great Question Concerning the Nature of Reality
Where Am I? The First Great Question Concerning the Nature of Reality
Simple Reality: The Key to Serenity and Survival
