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with conscious aliveness, 192–193
on knowing, 194
on living in harmony with others, 194
looking into space, 191–192
on love, 194
on our invisible self, 191
practing flow consciousness, 193
reality surfing, 193
with reflective consciousness, 192
visualizing ourselves as giants, 190–191
Merton, Thomas, impact of life events on the soul, 113
Meta-Universe. See Mother Universe
mindfulness, balance between concentration and, 150
mindsets, evolving, 6–7
miracles, American Indian lore’s three, 19
mirror
of consciousness, 148
mass media as an effective social, 179–184
Mitchell, Edgar, observing the entire universe from space, 11
mold, slime, 44–45
molecules, primary perception of, 44
Mother Universe
description of God, 86
existence of a, 54
key attributes of, 89–90
superspace, 85
movements, retrofitting for a sustainable future, 177
Muhammad, teachings of, 66–68
Muir, John, nature’s peace, 10
Multiverse. See Mother Universe
music, body of, 102–105
Muslims, teachings of Muhammad in the Koran, 66
Nag Hammadi, ancient texts, 64–65
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), SRI psychic research project, 6
Native Americans, the Golden Rule of, 146
nature
consciously reconnecting with, 134–135
self-organizing system’s paradoxical, 112
the torus found throughout, 121
Navajo, view of the universe, 76
Nimay, Mikhail, Book of Mirdad 166–167
non-locality, instant communication, 36–37
Norbu, Namkhai, Tibetan Buddhist teacher, 72
occasionalism, continuous rebirth of the universe, 66–67
Ohlones (San Francisco to Monterey Bay), view of the universe, 76
OM, “sound body,” 104–105
opportunity, narrowing the economic disparities between wealth and, 168–169
origins, birth of the universe, 83–84
Palamas, Gregory, absorbing the wisdom within light, 99
panentheism, contemporary Western philosophy of, 79–80
paradigms
changing, 7
Newtonian vs. quantum physics, 52–53
perception of a dead universe, 7–8
replacing consumerism with ephemeralism, 174
particles, communication between subatomic, 36–37
patterns, dynamic stability of the torus, 120
perception
extrasensory, 26
primary, 43
perspective
the big picture, 134
of a living universe, 211–212
our relationship with the universe, 14–15
See also paradigms
Planck distance, cosmic scale of human existence, 21
Planck length, measure of, 202
Planck, Max, on consciousness, 43–44
plants, communication between, 45, 209
Plato
living by the golden mean, 172
on music and the universe, 104–105
pleasure, consumerism vs. relationships, 13–14
Plotinus
philosophical teachings of, 78
the universe, 117
poets, early Persian, 67–68
Pope John Paul II, creatio continua, 65
potentials, remote viewing and sending, 47
“power of now,” view of the universe, 81
Prabhasvara, clear light, 100–101
Prince Ashoka, compassionate rule of, 171–172
principle, the quantum, 37
progress, relationship between simplicity and, 173
psychokinesis, experiments with, 49–50
Puthoff, Harold and Russell Targ, psychic research experiments at SRI, 48
Pythagoras
the cosmos, 10
the human race, 159
Quakers (Society of Friends), idea of inner light, 99–100
quantum theory, 41–42
quantum vacuum, reality of the, 85
questions. See conversations
racism, healing the wounds of, 168
Radin, Dean
psi research analysis, 26
remote viewing, 47
reality
fabric of, 42
surfing, 153
reconciliation
with future generations, 169
the process of, 168
regeneration, continuous, 29, 39
relationships, fundamental wisdom, 146–147
religions
during the axial ages, 144–147
reconciliation of the world’s, 168
reproduction, black holes, 53–54
research, psychic, 48
revolution
the agricultural, 137–138
the industrial, 78–79, 137–138
rituals, the Last Supper, 211–212
Rumi
on light, 100
poetry of, 107
Sufi leader and Persian poet of the thirteenth century, 67
view of Mother Universe, 88
Sagan, Carl, view of our universe, 84
scale
our place in the cosmic, 25
Planck, 21–22
videos on the powers of “ten,” 217
Schelling, Friedrich, philosophical teachings