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The Crisis of Self Knowing
A strange fact that nobody seems to act upon is this: The body you see in the mirror isn’t your real body. The image you see is of a solid physical object, stable and fixed like a table or chair. But in reality your body is fluid, constantly changing, filled with numerous spaces, and the host of trillions of bacteria. All of this is more you than the you seen in the mirror…
The biggest flaw in the current medical model is our sole commitment to what is visible only. You can’t see the mind in a mirror. You can’t see the invisible connections that keep you alive and are part of the living, breathing world. You can’t see your thoughts, feelings, wishes, hopes, dreams, and fears. Modern medicine continues to focus on the physical, and until we reinvent the body, giving due importance to its invisible reality, the medicine we get will be forever limited, insufficient, and egregiously slow in its evolution.
— Deepak Chopra
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‘The true crisis in our world is not social, political, or economic; our crisis is the crisis of consciousness: an inability to directly experience our true nature, an inability to recognize this nature in everyone and in all things.’
— Daniel Shmidt
‘We are moving through a huge transformation process. We’re really moving from one age to another. Just like from the Lunar to the Solar age, I think we are moving into what might be called a Stellar age, and into Stellar consciousness. Quite a different kind of consciousness where we can unify these two dimensions of ourselves. Bring them together and give birth to the child of the new era.’
— Anne Baring
At some point in human history an eclipse of vision occurred. We became convinced that the appearance of the world was the only reality. Our consciousness shrank from a metaphysical to a material and mechanical concept. A lot of money is riding on that viewpoint. As Chopra points out, drugs are created on that foundation. Investors don’t want to know about the complexity or uniqueness of each force field an individual represents. We are imagined as DNA replicas, like industrial products rolling off the assembly line.
But it’s not only the money interests who want to fix us in an exclusively material paradigm…
