Être en Paix (et Bonheur) Comprendre. Spiritual, Metaphysics, Personal Development. Spirituality / Consciousness. WAKE UP! Initiation. The Walk. Spiritual Development. Spirtual Enligtenment. What Higher Consciousness Really Means, How We Attain It, and What It Does for the Human Spirit. “[Leonardo da Vinci’s] unique brain wiring … allowed him the opportunity to experience the world from the vantage point of a higher dimension,” Leonard Shlain wrote in his stimulating inquiry into the source of Leonardo’s genius.
But what is “higher consciousness,” really, and can it be unmoored from the baggage of spiritualism and superstition to enrich our secular understanding of what it means to be human? Few contemporary thinkers have done more to reinstate philosophy as a guiding light for public life and a practical tool for personal growth than philosopher and School of Life founder Alain de Botton, who has written beautifully about such enduring ideas as the role of art in human happiness and what Nietzsche teaches us about the character-building role of difficulty. De Botton’s fantastic recent conversation with Tim Ferriss pointed me to this equally fantastic video essay examining the question of higher consciousness. Innernet: Percorsi di consapevolezza e anima del mondo. Spiritual Power List (Watkins Review) 14 Unique Symptoms Of A Spiritual Awakening - Dreamcatcher Reality. How to Supercharge Your Dopamine Levels to Never Feel Sad, Stressed or Depressed Again - Evolve + Ascend. How To Transcend Duality And Think Within Paradoxes.
I read a few years ago somewhere that a hallmark of a genius is being able to hold opposites together and transcend duality.
This stuck with me and over time I tried to make sense of it, because at first it was a very confusing concept. With some luck this concept began to make sense thanks to a random assortment of other things I read over the years following my discovery of this tidbit. This train of thought has now become one of my favorite things to ponder. I feel it has taught me the dangers of holding onto apparent absolutes.
Once you believe in something as an absolute, you are automatically precluding yourself from believing in the opposite, which means that in some ways a part of your freedom of thought as a human being is forfeited as a result. Wave-particle duality is the concept that all matter and energy exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. You are nothing. They both hold some truth and meaning. You know nothing, You know everything. The Conscious Process. When we begin to see through the illusion we once took to be “me”, there is a simultaneous emergence of our true nature from the background, where it has been waiting patiently for us to sober up from the intoxication of seeking.
The following are excerpts from The Conscious Process, a collection of essays by Bob O’Hearn, a modern mystic living in Northern California. Consciousness and Awareness The Buddha made an eminently astute observation when he noted that what we are is the result of our thinking: “As ye think, so shall you be.” Indeed, it is consciousness — the power of thought-energy – which creates everything we take to be reality… Consequently, taking responsibility for our thoughts is a necessary step in our being able to function effectively in this realm. We are what we think. 18 Signs That You’re Here to Transform Human Consciousness - Science of the Soul.
For many years now, a lot of people have been talking about “The Shift,” this mysterious transformation of human consciousness that is supposedly underway.
Ever since the end of the Mayan calendar in December of 2012, New Age types tend to twitter away about the evolution of the species, the revolution of love, and other hopeful but fuzzy seeming changes in what it means to be human. I want to take a minute to help us all ground this floaty notion a bit. See if any of this sounds familiar: Do you have a vision of some aspect of a more beautiful world, and you know it’s your sacred purpose to help bring it into being? Do you sense that something is out of alignment in the world, and you want to be a part of the solution? Have you experienced a life-altering event that changed everything for you, and now you want to use that experience to help others?
Do you have an innovative idea that might make the world a better place? Yeah, I thought so. 5 Biohacks To Help You Expand Your Awareness & Take Control Of Your Own Biology – Collective Evolution. The Wim Hof Method *Revealed* - How to Consciously Control Your Immune System. We previously published an article about Wim Hof, holder of 20 Guinness World Records for withstanding extreme temperatures.
He has climbed Everest and Kilimanjaro in only shorts and shoes, stayed comfortably in ice baths for hours, and run a full marathon in the highest desert (50 degrees celsius, 122 Fahrenheit) with no water & food. Wim is able to accomplish these feats with ease through the use of ‘The Wim Hof Method‘ — a breathing technique that allows you to control the autonomous systems of the body. However the most earthshaking effect of the Wim Hof Method is the ability to consciously control the immune system to fight off diseases. Our immune system plays a significant role in almost all devastating diseases plaguing the modern world, and finding a way to improve it can help us discover new avenues for medicine.
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