Human Potentiality
Thamaso maa jyotir gamaya (Lead us from darkness unto Light)
Human Potentiality
The vast range of a amazing things humans have done
with and through their bodies.
This broad topic of Interest began me on a life long odyssey.
It has become a path of inquiry has lead me to my own hearts intelligence, and deep realizations about the nature of self.
Questions echoed in my awareness for years.
Questions like:
How does spontaneous remission occur? For it clearly does.
What happens to the physical “garbage” , the dead, decayed, cancerous masses of materials required to be cleaned from the body after a massive rapid healing? Doctors clearly do not know . I’ve asked. They would say its a mystery, and complete the sentence by saying that the body is full of them.
How and why does someone receive “yogic gifts” where in Gods name do they come from? The “Mysteries are endless and are the questions that need to be asked by open minded scientist.
My inquiry and study brought me to look at medical, biological, and other physical phenomenon like personality disorders, and the amazing operation called the StandStill where doctors drop an individuals physical internal temperature to 58 degrees, all electrical signals of the heart and brain cease, blood is released to take the pressure off blood vessels, the individual is more then clinically dead for a very long extended period of time, yet when revived they have memory. Not only memory of there life to that point in time but memories of watching the operations and seeing the events unfold. Near Death,,, I do not think so these individuals are more then a little dead. No electrical activity in the brain or heart, no blood coursing throughout the veins, nothing but a corpse held at 58 degrees. How? How can you be dead for hours and brought back from death? What then is the true clinical definition of death?
Who or what was thinking? What or who is experience during those death like periods of time?
A list of questions and follow up inquiry had me asking questions like:
How do we create reality?
Where does a thought come from?
How much power is really in a thought?
Is meaning real?
Where does the qualitative sense of reality come from?
What is humanities purpose?
Does it have a purpose?
Is purpose simply a concept, just something to make us feel better?
For these questions I turned to; theology, philosophy, religious and mystical traditions. They seems to hold clues if not down right answers... but it only got weirder.
Throughout the world there are saintly figures that after death find that their bodies do not corrupt. This lead to inquiry into the topic of Incorruptibility.
Incorruptibility is a phenomenon, where a saintly person body does not decay after death. It is real my friends, as much as this tweaks our paradigm of science, ... In fact bodies exhumed hundreds of years later finds a coffin sitting in water, cloth and metal rotted away, yet the body is as fresh as it was when it first closed its eyes for the final rest. How? It is not some type of mummification belief me... I’ve looked hard at this.
It has and is happening under well documented conditions. It happens in Christianity and in Eastern traditions, it occurs with men and women. It can last for days to hundreds of years. Science will not touch the subject with a ten foot pole. Why? Well it s my belief that because it requires them to expand past there educated belief systems. and It is these “systems” that support their identities” and this is critical for them to maintain their sense of self.
But it get even more bizarre
How do Buddhist Masters dissolve their physical form completely leaving barely a finger nail, if anything at all. How do they transition off the wheel of causality completely? This phenomenon is called in Tibetan Buddhism “Body of Light attainment” or simply the “Rainbow Body” attainment. It to is real and there have been well documented cases of this “phenomenon”.
After years of researching, which means going and experiencing that which was spoken of and reading as much as I could find on the subject, as well as talking directly to Buddhist lamas knowledgeable in the topic, I’ve come to see that all these questions all boiling down to heart. It all comes down to the mystery of the Heart and the Self... down to perspective, identity and the qualitative aspects modulating all motive (intent).
Mind is a powerful tool in the creation of identity and ones perceptual experiential existence...skilled individuals in the arts of contemplation and concentration (meditation) , are able to shift the bulk of awareness (focused attention) to the aspect of self that is timeless of some might say eternal. This radical shift to the soul or atman allows a depth of inner exploration that alters the physical laws as we currently have come to understand them. Internal sustained harmonic resonance washes dissonance from the structures and magic and miracles are possible.
We each are amazing mysteries of existence and my inquiry into these and many other areas of interest have lead me to the heart, the center for all that is valuable.
In a line or two, when the heart becomes perfectly purified, the sacred heart manifests and self-realization of ones true identity is actualized experientially. A unique attunement occurs that entrains the entire body allowing for an elevated state of experience. A state where “…instead of merely reflecting the spiritual light, actively manifests the same.” (Sri Yuktaswar in Holy Science)
This apparent elevated state of existence is the goal of all living souls yet when gained it is remembered as something never lost.
That is why enlightenment is simply a remembrance of that which we all are.
Interestingly in todays science we can construct clear physics to explain this and many of the other psycho-spiritual phenomenon as well as the writing within the planets spiritual texts.
As in any science the prove is in the age old replication of these ancient sciences...clearly there are those demonstrating to the rest of us that this is real.
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