I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
FRED ALAN WOLFQuantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.
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You can’t blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.
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When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.
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I want to explain the new alchemy [in the “From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time”], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.
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Certainly in terms of technology, it’s made a tremendous impact, but medicine is still within the realm of what we might call “objective” science. It’s still part of the objective way of looking at the world.
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The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
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To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn’t anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.
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What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: “as above, so below, as within, so without.”
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You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream – and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.
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We need all three senses of time – a sense of the future, a sense of the present, and a sense of the past – at all times to understand or experience what’s happening right now. It’s constantly unfolding that way.
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There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it’s often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.
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People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they’re able to time travel.
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The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That’s really what new alchemy’s all about.
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The place where knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.
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That’s sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
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Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
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