In 1985, a report prepared for the Army Research Institute concluded that "The bottom line is that the data reviewed in this report constitute genuine scientific anomalies for which no one has an adequate explanation or set of explanations.... If they are what they appear to be, their theoretical (and, eventually, their practical) implications are enormous."

This is part 2 of the first chapter from Dean Radins book The Conscious Universe

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” If all this is true, then a thousand other questions immediately bubble up. Why hasn’t everyone heard about this on the nightly news? Why is this topic so controversial? Who has psi? How does it work? What are its implications and applications? These are all good questions, and this book will attempt to answer them through four general themes: Motivation, Evidence, Understanding and Implications.”

This is part 3 of the first chapter from Dean Radins book The Conscious Universe”

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We're evolving. Our perspective is changing. When events come into our reality, we're looking at them with more loving hearts. Understanding and compassion are replacing judgment and condemnation. Yet, there are still souls on this Earth who see things very narrowly and demand punishment for anyone who steps outside the prescribed mold.

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We have misunderstood these cosmological schemes of the past. What we call "geocentrism" was never meant to establish the earth merely as the spatial center of the great universe, but principally to communicate its place as an intersection of primary and secondary cosmic purposes and forces. The medieval mystic Meister Eckhart likens the earth to a station of cosmic reality through which there passes all the powers of Creation on their way to complete unfolding. "Earth...lies open to every celestial emanation. All the work and waste of heaven is caught midway in the sink of earth."

This is part III from the first chapter of Jacob Needlemans book A Sense of The Cosmos

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Mantra Yoga Reveals A New Universe

Mantras help draw energy from both external and internal universes. The nature of our thoughts is largely compulsive. We are conscious beings but we live like machines. Our likes and dislikes are programmed. Addictive thoughts take away from the soul of the individual as a conscious being. By chanting mantras with understanding, compulsive thoughts are transformed. The mind becomes calm and our perception will be wise with respect to both the external and internal universes.

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Western science has operated for centuries on the assumption that we can understand the universe without understanding ourselves. Jacob Needleman observes it as a philosopher and metaphysician, from within. In this first chapter from his book, “A Sense of the Cosmos; The Encounter of Modern Science and Ancient Truth” he presents us with the possibility that the Universe is a living teaching. It is not another "New Age" criticism of science. Needleman has the greatest respect for science and for the search for truth that is the heart and soul of science. In part IV, What Is Consciousness? Needleman's challenging reflections imply that there are states, levels or qualities of consciousness that can be developed within us. What is more, the implication is that this development is the purpose of both the Cosmos and Great Teachings.

This is part I from the first chapter of Jacob Needlemans book A Sense of The Cosmos

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We are trying to entertain the idea that the universe is like a great teaching so that we will be less afraid to question the picture of the universe that modern science gives us.

For most of us, the initial obstacle in this effort at skepticism is that science seems to work so well. A physicist I know once likened contemporary people, including himself and his fellow scientists, to a mob of savages so bedazzled by an interloper's tricks and baubles that they immediately make him into a god. It is really no laughing matter, this slavery to what we call the pragmatic criterion. We nee to look at it more closely.

This is part II from the first chapter of Jacob Needlemans book A Sense of The Cosmos

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Thus, in order to understand the nature of consciousness, I must here and now in this present moment be searching for a better state of consciousness. All definitions, no matter how profound, are secondary. Even the formulations of ancient masters on this subject can be a diversion if I take them in a way that does not support the immediate personal effort to be aware of what is taking place in myself in the present moment.

This is part IV from the first chapter of Jacob Needlemans book A Sense of The Cosmos

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Psychics are not dealing with the "physical" universe as governed by known laws related to space and time, but are accessing non-physical information through non-physical senses. From a quantum physical perspective, there are no hard boundaries or limitations in the Universe, including those we generally perceive related to space and time. Our thoughts or conscious awareness can transcend the constructed "reality" of space/time in order to see into something at a "distance," or see into the future.

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In this Article we will review these points:

o     We are immersed in and responsible for the creative process, which dictates the outcome of our individual and collective lives in every moment.

o     We talk about how the greatest secret in the world is that you and I are incredibly powerful and aware creators.

o     We note that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

o     We talk about the Law of creation and how it works equally for everyone without judgement.

o     We agree that our world is exactly what we collectively design it to be -- all of the time and that our universe operates as if we knew that we were powerful creators.

o     We reveal that our world expects that we know that what we think and say is what we create and what we get.

o     We note that God has not left us, but the reality is that we have left God!

o     We show that the time has finally come for us to wake up!

o     We suggest that the prerequisite for conscious creation is that we must have a strong belief if we are to be effective creators and that this strong belief is called "Faith."

(See also: Law of Attraction, Peter and Esther Fisher, Law of Attraction, Practising Law of Attraction, Law of Attraction for Prosperity, Law of Attraction for Love, Law of Attraction - Obstacles)

Paneurhythmy is a method/dance offered by Peter Deunov (the Master Beinsa Douno) who established a Christian Esoteric School of the Universal White Brotherhood in Bulgaria. It is an organic part of his teaching and can be practiced to its full extent only on the basis of this understanding. According to this teaching, Paneurhythmy is a science of the harmonious, conscious movements, based upon the laws of the Living Nature. The purpose of the Paneurhythmy is to establish harmony with God, the angelic hierarchies and the universe. The term PanEuRh ...

Including:

• Paneurhythmy - Selected bibliography

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A dæmon in the Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials, is a physical manifestation of the soul of a conscious human. Many characteristics of a daemon match the concepts from other cultures or psychology. A dæmon takes the form of an animal, which has a separate identity even though it is an integral part of a person in that world, although in some universes such as ours they are invisible. A child's dæmon has no fixed form, and changes according to whim and circumstances, but as children reach puberty their dæmons take a form reflective of the person's p ...

Including:

• Dæmon His Dark Materials - Dæmons

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Da'at or Da'as (דעת "knowledge" or "reason" in Hebrew) in the Kabbalah of Judaism is associated with the Sephiroth, meaning "enumerations" which are the "emantions" of God into the universe. It is part of a larger pattern on the Kabbalah's tree of life. Da'at Kabbalah - Meaning. Da'at is the third and last conscious power of intellect in Creation. According to scholars of this mystical knowledge, Da'at is associated in the soul with the powers of memory and concentration, powers whic ...

Including:

• Da'at Kabbalah - Meaning
• Da'at Kabbalah - Levels
• Da'at Kabbalah - Lower level
• Da'at Kabbalah - Spiritual States
• Da'at Kabbalah - Non-Jewish Kabbalah
• Da'at Kabbalah - External link

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The watchmaker analogy is often used as a teleological argument (argument from design) in support of the view that the universe (or features of it) are the product of a conscious designer or designers. Watchmaker analogy - History. Monotheists have suggested: if we find a watch in a field, it is too complex to have appeared there by natural process so they assume that there must be a watchmaker responsible for its creation. Similarly, the argument goes, life is extremely complex and requires a creato ...

Including:

• Watchmaker analogy - History
• Watchmaker analogy - The watchmaker analogy before Paley
• Watchmaker analogy - William Paley
• Watchmaker analogy - After Paley
• Watchmaker analogy - Solar System Analogy
• Watchmaker analogy - The case against the watchmaker analogy
• Watchmaker analogy - Bad Design

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Alexander's books have a reputation for being difficult to read. Part of the difficulty is that he is discussing a radically new hypothesis. Most people trust their sense of position and carriage, but Alexander shows again and again that we are wrong to trust it. Alexander through his experience was forced to reject arbitrary separation of mind and body. He talked about the 'psycho-physical mechanism', the 'self', the 'organism'. He would not have used the words 'mental' or 'physical' at all but that "... there are no other words at p ...

See also:

F. Matthias Alexander, F. Matthias Alexander - Alexander's writing, F. Matthias Alexander - Alexander's Books, F. Matthias Alexander - Man's supreme inheritance, F. Matthias Alexander - Constructive conscious control of the individual, F. Matthias Alexander - The use of the self, F. Matthias Alexander - The universal constant in living

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Universe [from Latin universum combined into one from unus one + versus turned]

The sum total of all that is. Theosophy distinguishes the spirit side and the matter side of the universe, each of these being composed of an aggregate of conscious living monads, the former being self-conscious in infinitely varying degrees and animating the latter, who are not self-conscious or not fully so, and serve as vehicles to the former, thus constituting matter in its various grades. The word may be used in limited senses, as for instance in speaking of the physical universe, when it comprises the totality of physical matter in the solar systems, nebulae, or galaxies. And this again may be subdivided as when we speak of our own home-universe.

See also KOSMOS

(See also: Universe, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

Unmesa:

Literally, this means unfolding. God is said to unfold every aspect of the universe from Himself. To become conscious of any particular act of unfolding is to some extent become conscious of the Source.

(See also: Unmesa, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

A Theosophical definition of Universe :

Universe

The theosophical philosophy divides the universe into two general functional portions  - one the consciousness side, the abode or dwelling place, and at the same time the aggregate, of all the self-conscious, thinking entities that the boundless universe contains; and the other, the material side of nature, which is their schoolhouse, their home, and their playground too. This so-called material side is a practically infinite aggregate of monads or consciousness-centers passing through that particular phase of their evolutionary journey.

This universe, therefore, is a vast aggregate of consciousnesscenters in both the two functional portions of it; and these consciousness-centers theosophists call monads. They are entities conscious in differing degrees, stretching along the boundless scale of the universal life; but in that particular phase which passes through what we humans call matter, those monads belonging to and forming that side of the universe, in the course of their long, long, evolutionary journey have not yet attained self-conscious powers or faculties. And furthermore, what we call matter, in its last analysis is actually an aggregate of these monads manifesting in their physical expressions as life-atoms.

The consciousness side of universal nature, which also consists of countless hosts of self-conscious entities, works in and through this other or material side; for these hosts of consciousnesses self-express themselves through this other or material function or side, through these other countless hosts of younger and inferior and embryo entities, which are the life-atoms  - embryo gods. The universe is therefore actually and literally imbodied consciousnesses.

See also: Universe, Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul)

theism: Belief that God exists as a real, conscious, personal Supreme Being, creator and ruler of the universe. May also include belief in the Gods.

(See also: Theism, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)