Using Our Powerful
Internal Communication Network
By
Linda Pendleton
“The soul of man is
immortal and imperishable.”
~Plato (c. 428–348
B.C.)
Our
body knows things that our minds often do not.
One of the simplest techniques for private problem solving is to simply
and firmly state the nature of a problem and request a solution while in a
meditative state. To engage in an inner
dialogue will often reveal the answers we seek.
Body, mind, and spirit all work in tandem–each
aware of the others, and each with an intelligence of its own, but
interconnected like the fibers of a powerful communication network. Every human being expresses a trinity of
wisdom. For far too long, many have
tended to see different aspects of themselves as separate entities without representation
among the other aspects. This idea has
been breed into us as the combined forces of science, medicine, and religion
have encouraged us to see the separate pieces instead of a corporate
whole.
It had become convenient to think of this trinity
as three separate entities but recent studies are describing a unity where body,
mind and spirit (or soul) are all present in the organizational field of the physical
body itself.
It is unfortunate that it is still uncomfortable
for some to include spirit or soul as an essential element of the human
organism because soul itself undoubtedly has much to say about how the trinity
of the body manifests itself in full awareness.
In fact, it could be suggested that soul is the
preeminent cause of all effects and is therefore that which produces the
trinity, itself indissolubly woven into and superior to body and mind.
Psychiatrist Brian Weiss, for many years now has
engaged in past life regressions for the benefit of his patients. He discovered in working with his patients
under hypnosis that some of them have recalled past lives. Often the events of a past life have carried
forward into this lifetime, resulting in physical or psychological
disorders. Dr. Weiss has documented
several of these cases in his books, beginning with his first, Many Lives, Many Masters. Dr. Weiss
continues to lecture, hold workshops and write books.
If it is true that recall of past life experiences
can have a profound effect upon the psychology and even the physiology of a
living being, then we must consider the importance of the soul, which is ever
present and ever participating in those life experiences. The soul brings with it memories that may far
predate the incarnation into this life dimension. It now appears that not only memories, but
the physical constituents of matter itself are somehow retained as a living
presence within the soul even before the birth of the body which is to clothe
it. The body-mind-soul connection should
therefore be seen as both a physiological and psychological presence which
accounts for the day by day expression of reality encountered in the human
sphere.
British Biochemist Rupert Sheldrake, in discussing
his morphogenetic fields, regards those fields as living universal influences
that exist independent of physical matter, but nevertheless continually effect
all processes of nature with their world-transcendent properties. He sees the laws of nature as not actual laws
per se, but rather the habits of nature.
There is a strong resonance with similar ideas
expressed decades earlier by Gustof Strömberg in his book, Soul of the Universe. Strömberg,
an American of Swedish birth, was an astronomer and astrophysicist associated
with the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson
Observatory. His stunning thesis is a
prime example of genius unacknowledged in the context of its time. Perhaps it took an Albert Einstein to
recognize it. Einstein's cover blurb for
the jacket of Strömberg’s book reads, “Very few men could of their own
knowledge present the material as clearly and concisely as he has succeeded in
doing.” In his native Sweden, Strömberg was highly respected and the
flags throughout Sweden
were flown at half-mast in observance of his death in 1962. Here is a brief sample of Strömberg's vision:
“Matter and life and
consciousness have their roots in a world beyond space and time. They emerge into the physical world at
certain well defined points or sources from which they expand in the form of
guiding fields with space and time properties.
Some of the sources can be identified with material particles, and
others with the living elements responsible for organization and purposeful
activity. Some of them exist in our
brain as neurones, and some of them have a very intimate and special
association with their ultimate origin.
They are the roots of our consciousness and the sources of all our
knowledge.”
Earlier in his writings, Strömberg had observed, “All our mental characteristics and
faculties have their origin in the non-physical world. There lies the origin of our sensations of
light and colors, and of sound and music.
There is the origin of our feelings and emotions, and of our will and
our thoughts. There is the source of our
feelings of satisfaction and bliss, and of guilt and remorse. Our nerve cells seem to be the links which
connect our physical brain with the world in which our consciousness is
rooted. At death our brain field, which
during our life determined the structure and functions of our brain and nervous
system, is not destroyed. Like other
living fields it contracts and disappears at death, apparently falling back to
the level of its origin. All our
memories are indelibly engraved in this field, and after our death, when our
mind is no longer blocked by inert matter, we can probably recall them all,
even those of which we were never consciously aware during our organic life.”
It is interesting to see how both the scientific
and philosophical points of view today seem to be moving toward complimentary
conclusions about the universe and man's place in it with much more coherence
than ever noted before. Many brilliant
thinkers, poets, philosophers, medical doctors, physicists, and scholars are
all bringing forward a sharper focus on the nature of reality. Side by side with science, we have had this
quieter explosion of spiritual investigation and discovery.
It seems certain that popular physics will soon
discover and celebrate the universal essence of all life everywhere and
introduce a more realistic view of the human reality.
To know thyself, in all the self's intrinsic
majesty, is to know the whole. The
fragmentary self is the weak self. Let
us all make an effort to not fragmentize ourselves, for the fragments may never
contain the full expression of who we are.
~end~
Sheldrake,
Rupert, http://www.sheldrake.org/
Strömberg,
Gustaf. The Soul of the Universe.
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1940, 1948.
Weiss, Brian L.
Many Lives, Many Masters. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
© Copyright 2015 by Linda
Pendleton
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