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Here's
where the world of synchronicity begins
to take on a
"normal" life of its own! |
How may we together change the world for the better? Rhea White speaks of an added dimension of operation exciting to contemplate.
In
"The
Collective Message Inherent in Exceptional Human Experience,"
she first says:
The new paradigm, or taken-for-granted worldview that is issuing
forth from our very being, is not many but One. This new view is
revealed by all exceptional human experiences (EHEs), or anomalous
experiences that have been personalized, and that lead to personal and
transpersonal growth and the experience of being inside a new worldview,
the Experiential Paradigm. ...
True, the coming paradigm shift would mark the end of our sense of being
a separate self, but at the same time it would create the possibility of
knowing the Self we all are.
It is a world we are
meant to inhabit. It is a world in which one nurtures oneself by
nurturing others and by not turning away from nurturing oneself as well,
as each of us, too, is a person, and ultimately we are one. ...
In a word, this new world is the Self we all are, and it will not
be at an end until the whole creation travails no longer. And even that
endpoint is likely to be but a new beginning.
... We are called not
to do but to be. Not to be practical but to be who we are. And who we
are shouts to us from any and all exceptional experiences. Far from
being chimeras, EHEs are the bedrock of the new dispensation.
If we wish to take practical steps to save ourselves and this
globe, let us gravitate to the More that we are. ...
If enough of us do it, we can bring the new to pass.
We can do so not only by sheer numbers, which would influence the
conscious mindset of others.
Here's her punch line:
But there is another dimension of influence--an "inside" approach. If we are One, then those who go high enough and deep enough within themselves are likely also to influence the heights and depths of like-minded people and possibly even the whole species, regardless of geographic location. What a wondrous and practical application for psi--to awaken the truths sleeping in the depths of others who are whole continents and other cultures and languages apart! (I stress here that potentially this capacity is every human’s potential, anywhere in the world, regardless of race or culture. In this area, many first peoples are likely to be more
advanced than Westerners, though some may lack the awareness of global consciousness, which is (fortunately) being aided by Western technology.
And
this is actually developing in remarkable ways, right now.
Joseph
Jaworski -- Synchronicity, working with international teams with
intention:
For an
eye-opening example of this scope of functionality, see White's review
of Joseph Jaworski's book, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of
Leadership.
This is the ordinary world of operations we can look forward to becoming
conscious of and operating within as we gather a new collective
understanding of the virtually limitless implications about
consciousness through the works of scientists and Experiencers [EHEers]
alike, such as David Bohm
and Jiddu Krishnamurti,
Amit Goswami, Bruce
Lipton, Russell Targ,
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
[see Satprem], Kurt Leland,
John Edwards, Robert
A. Monroe, John
Upleder, Christian de
Quincey, Robert Moss,
.. nearly the whole Booklist!
Not just 'in the future,' but right now, we are actually beginning to
live this understanding as science and spirituality begin to merge into
an integrated wholeness that is the extraordinary "miracle" of
our times. Dr. Jaworski was one of the first few I ever heard of,
outside of spiritual groups and parapsycholgoy experiments, who actually
worked with groups of people to test and hone their collective
intentionality toward specific purposes.
More recently and in part as a result, he and Peter
M. Senge, C. Otto
Scharmer, and Betty
Sue Flowers have taken this even further in their interests
in a phenomenon they call Presence -- see their book by this title.
These individuals and groups are part of a multitude of fields of
investigation and global effort who are in many
extraordinary and creative ways raising our awareness toward the purpose
of what will become our entire species making the leap into this
expanded consciousness as our experience and awareness along these lines continue to
grow. It is happening regardless of our awareness, but as we become
more conscious of this, we can ourselves enhance this process with our
openness to this possibility, our imaginal practices and intentionality.
Take, for instance, ...
Lynne
McTaggart's "Peace Intention Experiment":
Lynne
McTaggart is
pursuing this very type of thing with her Peace
Intention Experiment,
with enormous collaborative support from Dr. Robert Jahn, formerly, Dean
of Engineering and Director of PEAR [Princeton Engineering Anomalous
Research] Lab,
and other scientists. In the 1980s, frequently quoted
Transcendental Meditation experiments demonstrated that when a critical
mass of people meditated regularly in a given area, violence decreased
across a number of measurable parameters, sometimes to a stunning
degree. For example, one of their targets was Israel and the
Middle East Crisis. In 1983 a group of seasoned meditators went to
that country to do the experiment. On the days they meditated, all
measured indicators fell, including deaths in Lebanon, which plummeted
as much as 76% during the experiment.
McTaggart wanted to take this type of research into new territory.
She, along with an impressive team of scientists, set up the Peace
Intention Experiment. For this purpose they created a website, and
people from all over the world signed up to participate.
On the day of the first experiment, which took place daily from
September 14-21, 2008, these many thousands of people logged in at a
certain time and were guided to put themselves into a peaceful,
attentive, meditative state. The progression of new pages taking
one through the instructions and to the target and to the end of the
experiment ran automatically.
First people were shown the target itself, which up to that moment had
not been publicly disclosed. It was a province in Sri Lanka that
had been a focal point of cruel and extensive civil war and strife for
many years. There was a brief history of that conflict, along with
photos showing the terrible cost in human life. Participants were
told to "Read
carefully and take the images of suffering into your heart."
The next page appeared after five minutes, showing other photos in line
with the spirit of the intention to send peace and healing to this
area. There was a picture of a few native children, who were
apparently representative of the different cultural factions involved,
and obviously on amicable terms. Another photo showed one of the
key areas of the conflict. It was of an exquisite green and hilly
area with one of the most beautiful waterfalls I've ever seen.
There was no hint of the violent history of the people there, and so it
was easy to focus the worded intention, also visible on this page, to
the effect of imagining this area being a place of peace once
more. It was worded a bit peculiarly to suggest that the strife be
lessened by at least "ten percent" as a result of our
collective efforts. We meditated on this intended outcome for ten
minutes, then this page automatically clicked to another page inviting
people to come talk in the forums that had been set up for this purpose.
I only learned of this in time to sign on on Tuesday, 9/16/08.
Here are my notes from that day [we were also encouraged to keep a
journal of what we experienced]:
I
don't ordinarily have experiences like this, but that day, near the
end of the intention time, while looking into the picture of that
gorgeous waterfall / valley, I suddenly felt this sense of a palpable
Presence, as if of the collective living force / consciousness of all
our peace-laden intentions -- and MORE, as if Other-other dimensional
Presence -- as one great, pervading entity, quite conscious in its own
right, as if overlighting this entire region. It even 'came out of the
screen' for the merest second or two, as if inclusive of each of us in
a way that could be experienced individually!
Needless to say, I was awe-struck and had to wonder if others had
experienced something like this too. On
that day, and perhaps other days as well, according to later comments by
McTaggart, it turns out "many people" did in fact write her
apparently similar accounts of something on the
order of this type of larger-consciousness experience. It will be an
adventure to see the Peace Intention Experiment continue to develop and
if a more definitive pattern becomes prominent . The Sri Lanka event is
but the first official such event, to be followed by many more.
Become part of the experiment -- you can sign up on this
page:
www.peaceintentionexperiment.org
One of the ways we will begin to pursue this type of collective
intentionality and exploration on Ahhh-TheLight.com [and
even more so on another much more extensive site] will be
through the soon-to-be EHE
Study Groups that Rhea White was not able to see realized in
her lifetime. But in the meantime, as one of the teenage boys said
with such anticipatory hand-rubbing drama in the movie [/book] ET,
"Something is really happening" -- more and more signs
of our Waking Up are all over the map!
How may we together change the world for the better? Rhea White speaks of an added dimension of operation exciting to contemplate.
In
"The
Collective Message Inherent in Exceptional Human Experience,"
she first says:
The new paradigm, or taken-for-granted worldview that is issuing
forth from our very being, is not many but One. This new view is
revealed by all exceptional human experiences (EHEs), or anomalous
experiences that have been personalized, and that lead to personal and
transpersonal growth and the experience of being inside a new worldview,
the Experiential Paradigm. ...
True, the coming paradigm shift would mark the end of our sense of being
a separate self, but at the same time it would create the possibility of
knowing the Self we all are.
It is a world we are
meant to inhabit. It is a world in which one nurtures oneself by
nurturing others and by not turning away from nurturing oneself as well,
as each of us, too, is a person, and ultimately we are one. ...
In a word, this new world is the Self we all are, and it will not
be at an end until the whole creation travails no longer. And even that
endpoint is likely to be but a new beginning.
... We are called not
to do but to be. Not to be practical but to be who we are. And who we
are shouts to us from any and all exceptional experiences. Far from
being chimeras, EHEs are the bedrock of the new dispensation.
If we wish to take practical steps to save ourselves and this
globe, let us gravitate to the More that we are. ...
If enough of us do it, we can bring the new to pass.
We can do so not only by sheer numbers, which would influence the
conscious mindset of others.
Here's her punch line:
But there is another dimension of influence--an "inside" approach. If we are One, then those who go high enough and deep enough within themselves are likely also to influence the heights and depths of like-minded people and possibly even the whole species, regardless of geographic location. What a wondrous and practical application for psi--to awaken the truths sleeping in the depths of others who are whole continents and other cultures and languages apart! (I stress here that potentially this capacity is every human’s potential, anywhere in the world, regardless of race or culture. In this area, many first peoples are likely to be more
advanced than Westerners, though some may lack the awareness of global consciousness, which is (fortunately) being aided by Western technology.
And
this is actually developing in remarkable ways, right now.
Joseph
Jaworski -- Synchronicity, working with international teams with
intention:
For an
eye-opening example of this scope of functionality, see White's review
of Joseph Jaworski's book, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of
Leadership.
This is the ordinary world of operations we can look forward to becoming
conscious of and operating within as we gather a new collective
understanding of the virtually limitless implications about
consciousness through the works of scientists and Experiencers [EHEers]
alike, such as David Bohm
and Jiddu Krishnamurti,
Amit Goswami, Bruce
Lipton, Russell Targ,
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
[see Satprem], Kurt Leland,
John Edwards, Robert
A. Monroe, John
Upleder, Christian de
Quincey, Robert Moss,
.. nearly the whole Booklist!
Not just 'in the future,' but right now, we are actually beginning to
live this understanding as science and spirituality begin to merge into
an integrated wholeness that is the extraordinary "miracle" of
our times. Dr. Jaworski was one of the first few I ever heard of,
outside of spiritual groups and parapsycholgoy experiments, who actually
worked with groups of people to test and hone their collective
intentionality toward specific purposes.
More recently and in part as a result, he and Peter
M. Senge, C. Otto
Scharmer, and Betty
Sue Flowers have taken this even further in their interests
in a phenomenon they call Presence -- see their book by this title.
These individuals and groups are part of a multitude of fields of
investigation and global effort who are in many
extraordinary and creative ways raising our awareness toward the purpose
of what will become our entire species [and some say many species, and
people like biologist C.
deQuincey say consciousness "all the way down" to
paramecia and quarks] making the leap into this
expanded consciousness as our experience and awareness along these lines continue to
grow. It is happening regardless of our awareness, but as we become
more conscious of this, we can ourselves enhance this process with our
openness to this possibility, our imaginal practices and intentionality.
Take, for instance, ...
Lynne
McTaggart's "Peace Intention Experiment":
Lynne
McTaggart is
pursuing this very type of thing with her Peace
Intention Experiment,
with enormous collaborative support from Dr. Robert Jahn, formerly, Dean
of Engineering and Director of PEAR [Princeton Engineering Anomalous
Research] Lab,
and other scientists. In the 1980s, frequently quoted
Transcendental Meditation experiments demonstrated that when a critical
mass of people meditated regularly in a given area, violence decreased
across a number of measurable parameters, sometimes to a stunning
degree. For example, one of their targets was Israel and the
Middle East Crisis. In 1983 a group of seasoned meditators went to
that country to do the experiment. On the days they meditated, all
measured indicators fell, including deaths in Lebanon, which plummeted
as much as 76% during the experiment.
McTaggart wanted to take this type of research into new territory.
She, along with an impressive team of scientists, set up the Peace
Intention Experiment. For this purpose they created a website, and
people from all over the world signed up to participate.
On the day of the first experiment, which took place daily from
September 14-21, 2008, these many thousands of people logged in at a
certain time and were guided to put themselves into a peaceful,
attentive, meditative state. The progression of new pages taking
one through the instructions and to the target and to the end of the
experiment ran automatically.
First people were shown the target itself, which up to that moment had
not been publicly disclosed. It was a province in Sri Lanka that
had been a focal point of cruel and extensive civil war and strife for
many years. There was a brief history of that conflict, along with
photos showing the terrible cost in human life. Participants were
told to "Read
carefully and take the images of suffering into your heart."
The next page appeared after five minutes, showing other photos in line
with the spirit of the intention to send peace and healing to this
area. There was a picture of a few native children, who were
apparently representative of the different cultural factions involved,
and obviously on amicable terms. Another photo showed one of the
key areas of the conflict. It was of an exquisite green and hilly
area with one of the most beautiful waterfalls I've ever seen.
There was no hint of the violent history of the people there, and so it
was easy to focus the worded intention, also visible on this page, to
the effect of imagining this area being a place of peace once
more. It was worded a bit peculiarly to suggest that the strife be
lessened by at least "ten percent" as a result of our
collective efforts. We meditated on this intended outcome for ten
minutes, then this page automatically clicked to another page inviting
people to come talk in the forums that had been set up for this purpose.
I only learned of this in time to sign on on Tuesday, 9/16/08.
Here are my notes from that day [we were also encouraged to keep a
journal of what we experienced]:
I
don't ordinarily have experiences like this, but that day, near the
end of the intention time, while looking into the picture of that
gorgeous waterfall / valley, I suddenly felt this sense of a palpable
Presence, as if of the collective living force / consciousness of all
our peace-laden intentions -- and MORE, as if Other-other dimensional
Presence -- as one great, pervading entity, quite conscious in its own
right, as if overlighting this entire region. It even 'came out of the
screen' for the merest second or two, as if inclusive of each of us in
a way that could be experienced individually!
Needless to say, I was awe-struck and had to wonder if others had
experienced something like this too. On
that day, and perhaps other days as well, according to later comments by
McTaggart, it turns out "many people" had something on the
order of the same type of surprising experience. It will be an
adventure to see this continue to develop. The Sri Lanka event is
but the first official such event, to be followed by many more.
Become part of the experiment -- you can sign up on this
page:
www.peaceintentionexperiment.org
One of the ways we will begin to pursue this type of collective
intentionality and exploration on Ahhh-TheLight.com [and
even more so on another much more extensive site] will be
through the soon-to-be EHE
Study Groups that Rhea White was not able to see realized in
her lifetime. But in the meantime, as one of the teenage boys said
with such anticipatory hand-rubbing drama in the movie [/book] ET,
"Something is really happening" -- more and more signs
of our Waking Up are all over the map!
