The Universal Mind
The Universal Mind
From where do our ecstatic experiences come? As with our nighttime dreams we first think of the unconscious mind. Consider our mind, our mind that includes that which we are aware of consciously as well as that which is unconscious. This mind we think of as residing within our brain, within the neurons that compose our brain. But there are scientists who are finding that what we think and what we know may not be restricted to just our brain but can come from beyond this physical structure that is within our skull. This mind that is beyond has been called by a number of names: the morphic field (Rupert Sheldrake), the Akashic field (Ervin Laszlo), the collective unconscious (Karl Jung), and the Divine Matrix (Gregg Braden). In my writing I generally call it the universal mind or the world of the spirits. What is the nature of this universal mind, the world of the spirits.
We know that the planets of the universe are held together by gravitational fields that determine their positions and courses of orbit. Similarly the particles of the atom are held together by electro-magnetic fields. From the thinking of Rupert Sheldrake who extends this knowledge to the next step, it would make sense that the cells of our body are composed of atoms that have their own field, and as they come together to form the organs of our body and our body as a whole each have their own field. Projecting this thinking further, our species and each species of life are held together by the field of each species, fields that Sheldrake has named morphic fields. These fields contain much of what we claim to know and think of as our mind or consciousness. The evidence for this is offered with a number of examples. One example is of the bird, the tit that learned to peck off the cap of milk bottles that sat on the door steps of homes in England to drink from the bottle. From one tit learning this source of sustenance this knowledge quickly spread to other tits and across the channel to the tits in the other countries of Europe, knowledge that spread through the morphic field of the tit through the process that Sheldrake calls morphic resonance.
In considering consciousness, the organs of our body have their ways to communicate with other organs, chemical ways many of which are at least partially understood by physiologists, to create the right chemical balance between the organs to maintain health. Also, scientists have recently reached the conclusion that the cosmos has an inner conscious life similar to our own (Gregory Matloff). Then recognizing the finite nature of our brain, there are those who believe that our brain is to process and organize incoming information, recognizing that the storage of this information is beyond the capacity of our brain. Take as an example the concept of a chair. We have learned to recognize a chair from the myriad of chairs we have experienced over our lifetime in spite of their many variations. This concept of a chair is likely stored beyond our physical brain within our individual morphic field that Laszlo and Braden believe is in the form of holographic matrix. This information is available to us instantaneously at any time and from anywhere through the receptor of the cytoskeletal structure of our brain (Laszlo). From the research in quantum physics the concept of the time free and space free nature of subatomic particles, i.e. nonlocal coherence, provides an understanding of the time free and space free nature of this holographic matrix.
This information that exists from the beginning of time in the form of a holographic matrix is available to use, but because we have limited ourselves to receiving information from our environment through our five senses we have lost that ability that our hunting-gathering ancestors had of accessing the universal mind or the world of the spirits. We now recognize that we can access it when in a state of trance as have the hunting-gathering shamans of their tribes, trance that suppresses our five senses and opens us to the world of the spirits.
From where do our ecstatic experiences come? As with our nighttime dreams we first think of the unconscious mind. Consider our mind, our mind that includes that which we are aware of consciously as well as that which is unconscious. This mind we think of as residing within our brain, within the neurons that compose our brain. But there are scientists who are finding that what we think and what we know may not be restricted to just our brain but can come from beyond this physical structure that is within our skull. This mind that is beyond has been called by a number of names: the morphic field (Rupert Sheldrake), the Akashic field (Ervin Laszlo), the collective unconscious (Karl Jung), and the Divine Matrix (Gregg Braden). In my writing I generally call it the universal mind or the world of the spirits. What is the nature of this universal mind, the world of the spirits.
We know that the planets of the universe are held together by gravitational fields that determine their positions and courses of orbit. Similarly the particles of the atom are held together by electro-magnetic fields. From the thinking of Rupert Sheldrake who extends this knowledge to the next step, it would make sense that the cells of our body are composed of atoms that have their own field, and as they come together to form the organs of our body and our body as a whole each have their own field. Projecting this thinking further, our species and each species of life are held together by the field of each species, fields that Sheldrake has named morphic fields. These fields contain much of what we claim to know and think of as our mind or consciousness. The evidence for this is offered with a number of examples. One example is of the bird, the tit that learned to peck off the cap of milk bottles that sat on the door steps of homes in England to drink from the bottle. From one tit learning this source of sustenance this knowledge quickly spread to other tits and across the channel to the tits in the other countries of Europe, knowledge that spread through the morphic field of the tit through the process that Sheldrake calls morphic resonance.
In considering consciousness, the organs of our body have their ways to communicate with other organs, chemical ways many of which are at least partially understood by physiologists, to create the right chemical balance between the organs to maintain health. Also, scientists have recently reached the conclusion that the cosmos has an inner conscious life similar to our own (Gregory Matloff). Then recognizing the finite nature of our brain, there are those who believe that our brain is to process and organize incoming information, recognizing that the storage of this information is beyond the capacity of our brain. Take as an example the concept of a chair. We have learned to recognize a chair from the myriad of chairs we have experienced over our lifetime in spite of their many variations. This concept of a chair is likely stored beyond our physical brain within our individual morphic field that Laszlo and Braden believe is in the form of holographic matrix. This information is available to us instantaneously at any time and from anywhere through the receptor of the cytoskeletal structure of our brain (Laszlo). From the research in quantum physics the concept of the time free and space free nature of subatomic particles, i.e. nonlocal coherence, provides an understanding of the time free and space free nature of this holographic matrix.
This information that exists from the beginning of time in the form of a holographic matrix is available to use, but because we have limited ourselves to receiving information from our environment through our five senses we have lost that ability that our hunting-gathering ancestors had of accessing the universal mind or the world of the spirits. We now recognize that we can access it when in a state of trance as have the hunting-gathering shamans of their tribes, trance that suppresses our five senses and opens us to the world of the spirits.
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