Our Emotional Universe

The ultimate cause of atheism, Newton asserted, is ‘this notion of bodies having, as it were, a complete, absolute and independent reality in themselves.’

"I reject the myth of reality as external to the human mind, and I acknowledge consciousness as the source of the cosmos.  It is mind that we see reflected in matter.  Physical science is a metaphor with which the scientist, like the poet, creates and extends meaning and values in the quest for understanding and purpose." 
~University of Minnesota physicist Roger S. Jones (1982)

 “The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.”
~Physicist and astronomer, Arthur Stanley Eddington (1928)

 “Ultimately our physics . . . is going to demonstrate that essentially there is no such thing as matter.  All there is, is mind and motion.”
 ~Anthropologist Armand Labbe (1991)

 

Have you ever heard someone say; "I need space." Perhaps we need this space because space IS mind, an open mind, clear and receptive to renewal and inspiration. This is actually an old idea popularized by the Buddhists who say all is Mind - intelligent mind, wisdom mind - and recommend contemplating space as a means to awakening to this, our formless reality. When I feel spacious, I am open to life, to the free flow of experience as it arises.

Have you ever heard someone speak about the "gravity" of a situation? At such times we feel heavy do we not? And it is not unlike the dense material objects to which we attribute the force of gravity which seeks to pull us down and compress us toward a compacted focal point.

When upsets come do we not perceive things in a slightly "warped" manner? We speak of space as being curved, warped by the presence of gravity driven mass. Have you noticed that the bodily location of our obscuring emotions seems not only dense and heavy but warped as well, twisting our musculature into tense and sometimes painful masses. even our eyes change shape and clarity of vision both physically and mentally is diminished. What if the contractions of consciousness crate the energetic density we call objects.

Have you ever experienced the light hearted state where seriousness is relaxed and the play of enjoyment seems the rule? is this not the opposite of the heaviness of gravity. Be become buoyant like a gas that has been released from the stuckness of solidity.

Have you known one with a "cold" heart, meaning they seem out of relationship with the warmth of life found in connected relationship. The cold of absolute zero is the cessation of movement, a separation from the vibrating exchange of energy plasma's from which are constructed most of what our senses perceive in the creative unfolding of the universe.

Many physicists have spoken of the universe as a mind rather than a lifeless matter that somehow creates consciousness. Perhaps it is as simple as Mind contracting, warping space, which binds our attention hypnotically, habitually in the experience of density and its limitations. Perhaps the so called physical laws we have learned are simply mental habits - addictions really - to particular pet views, constructs built up over Billions of years of evolution.

Considering the minds power under hypnosis to demonstrate the ability of our physiology to respond to an imagined flame with a blister or stop the flow of blood in a wound, just perhaps our reality indeed is only Mind convinced it is material, substantial, and bound by laws of a Universe which somehow appeared from nowhere.