Excerpt: “The silence that we share here is far more important than the words, and the connection that we make. . . . And so, this is a place to talk in a way that people rarely talk together in other contexts. . . . [And] that’s important: that we can think out-of-the-box together in new ways about what life is really about. . . . According to the neurobiologists today, none of you are in this room; you’re actually inside your brain watching a movie about this room. . . . We’re...
Excerpt: “The silence that we share here is far more important than the words, and the connection that we make. . . . And so, this is a place to talk in a way that people rarely talk together in other contexts. . . . [And] that’s important: that we can think out-of-the-box together in new ways about what life is really about. . . . According to the neurobiologists today, none of you are in this room; you’re actually inside your brain watching a movie about this room. . . . We’re in the matrix; that’s why that movie was so popular. But is that true? . . . now, the most recent discoveries in neurobiology include the understanding of what they call ‘neuroplasticity,’ which means that the brain can repair itself. And it has the capacity to add synapses that didn’t exist before, and to begin to use certain parts of the brain for other purposes when necessary. And to achieve a greater capacity of whatever sort that is asked for by consciousness. So, it’s not the case that it’s a one-way relationship that the brain creates our subjectivity; it’s also the case that our subjectivity creates and re-creates our brain. So there’s free will even at that level; it’s no longer the machine metaphor . . .”
“And so [Sat Yoga’s] think tank is about freedom. But it’s not just to have freedom of having new concepts, it’s about using those concepts to open up our heart. So the think tank turns into a thank tank—we want to be here in a state of gratitude for life. In a state of an ability to love, and to feel the energy of love that supports our existence and our reason for being.” And in order to find a way to help the world, to enter the miraculous states of consciousness, “we have to find those forces that are currently outside consciousness and bring them in. And the ultimate outside—the absolute Other beyond consciousness, the force that produces those archetypal energies that then produce the ego and its conscious ideation—that has traditionally been called God. It’s a scientific concept. It’s a theoretical understanding of the fact that there must be this Ultimate Reality, and we have certain windows that will give us glimpses into it. But is it possible to open ourselves so much, to push the envelope to such an extent that that Ultimate Outside becomes included, and there is no longer a duality of inside and outside?”
“And so we have to return to that original capacity for transdifferentiation if we’re going to heal the world. But we have to start with our own individual consciousness, and use whatever margin of willpower we have to overcome the unconscious censoring mechanisms that keep us from knowing who we are, and from activating the latent potential that we all have to achieve what in the old days was called divinity. But really we can look at as a scientific term that refers to the ultimate state of psycho-spiritual maturity that human beings are capable of: the expansion of consciousness beyond that of this skin-encapsulated ego to encompass the entire world as a unity.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, July 29, 2010.
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