Hey guys,

I just stumbled upon this interview with Barbara Marx Hubbard, she's a Educator, Futurist, and bestselling author of Conscious Evolution.  There is this cool thing that she's saying that resonates so much with all the stuff I've been sharing on this blog for almost a year.:) Read on!

(To read the entire interview on ShareGuide go here)

"I don't know if you've felt this yourself,(...), but it feels almost like a shift of identity, from the separated self-centered stage to a more unified stage. And in that shift of identity, there's a maturation of our consciousness, and our creative responsibility, that I think is the harbinger of what we may be 2,000 from now. We've had homo habilus, homo erectus, homo neanderthal, homo sapiens…I think we're becoming homo universalis, a universal humanity."

And then she adds:

If you add the capacity for unitive consciousness for self-healing, and even eventually regeneration, and the capacity for the information revolution, and the global brain, and the capacity to live and work in space, and so on, you begin to see radical new powers. I'm taking it spiritually, socially and technologically, putting it all together, and saying this is a quantum jump. We humans, who are living through this period of transition on the planet, are potentially an emerging new species.We need to know our own story of creation, and that we're part of it. And we need to know that we're an "emergent human," and that our growth potential literally has no limit. Part of this is that we need to learn co-creative relationships, and how to find our deep life purpose. The concept of finding vocation is part of the emergent species. Women are shifting from maximum procreation to co-creation, to an expansion of creativity. As we move into that kind of action, we seek to model the changes we'd like to see in the world by the way we create. So we don't just create more bureaucracies, and more competition and more violence. We want to go out and create what I call "Resonant Cores--connecting to the heart with one another. And then the last thing is, we need to develop processes for social synergy and co-creation."

Wow! Sounds impressive! Do leave a comment below!

Hey guys,

The other day, I went for a kundalini meditation to an Hindu Ashram here in Kuala Lumpur. I guess one day I will devote a separate blog post to talk about what I experienced during this meditation (it was fun to say the least!). But now I want to talk about something else, something even more interesting, trust me.

The guru that lead the whole thing, gave an hour talk and to my surprise, he was talking how, according to Hinduism, we are all connected. I was never that much into Hinduism but I got fascinated by the fact that one of the believes Hinduism shares is that we are all one, one Atman (soul) and that these guys have been talking about it for hundreds of years!

Here are some cool things I found on the web - all of them talk about such believes. Do read them, and I'm sure you will enjoy them as much as I do.

A Quote about yearning for Divine Self

"Each one of us is God (Atman). Nobody is deprived of this. When we realize our Infinite Self, we are replete. There is nothing more to desire. But as long as we do not recognize our own Divinity, we have a yearning. It is yearning for our Divine Self but, blinded by the maya ("illusion") of the world, we mistake this yearning as desire for material pleasures."

A couple of words about The Soul and Its Illusion:

Atman or the soul is in reality identical with Paramatman or the Oversoul, which is One, Infinite and Eternal. The soul is, in fact, beyond the gross, subtle and mental worlds, but experiences itself as being limited owing to its identification with the Sharira or gross body, Prana or the subtle body (which is the vehicle of desires and vital forces), and Manas or the mental body (which is the seat of the mind). The soul in its transcendental state is One—Formless, Eternal and Infinite—and yet identifies itself with the phenomenal world of forms, which are many and finite and destructible. This is Maya or the cosmic illusion. The soul and its illusion."

And here's an extract from a very cool article that I also stumbled upon. Talk about how we all need to realize we are all connected:

The neighbour you don’t like, is as much a part of Brahman (in Hinduism: eternal, unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality) as you are – whether they know it or not. The Divine doesn’t ‘care’ whether someone realizes the oneness – it’s just there. Whether a fish knows it is swimming in water or not – that’s still where it is.

Realizing this Oneness, that we are all connected in One Universal Mind, means

... this is not about the ego. This is not about the small self, that seeks fulfillment. This is about realizing that fulfillment doesn’t come from gratification, but from just being, and giving.
The Higher Self is one with Brahman – it is eternal, impersonal, wise, compassionate. To realize Brahman is to realize that we are all connected. That there is a universal something that is Me in the most ultimate sense, yet it is Every Other person as well.
As long as the personal in you feels pride as a result of insight, it is not really there yet. Pride is the ultimate spiritual trap: feeling better than others means feeling separate from them.

What are your thoughts? Do share them in the comments below!

Prof Laszlo wrote in one of his last articles:

The key to it is using our brain more fully. This would give us a consciousness where the broad, holistic world of the right brain is linked with the pragmatic, skillful world of the left. This “broadband” consciousness without loss of acuity is the hallmark of what I called Quantum Consciousness.  QC could be the next step in the evolution of the human mind, and it could be our salvation. Moving toward it by balancing your own approach to reality would be a good beginning toward curing the dis-ease of the Western mind.

And what exactly is that dis-ease of the Western mind? Below are some characteristics of it, according to Laszlo:

it sees things as separate, each thing on its own, connected merely by mechanistic relations of cause and effect;

it’s competitive: each individual is on his or her own, making his or her way in an impersonal and indifferent world;

it disconnects the mind from the body: the mind only “drives” or “manages” the body as it would a car or an organization;

it best understands the things it has itself creates: artificial, synthetic things, that can be readily and unambiguously manipulated;

it disconnects the human from the natural; nature itself becomes the “environment” that humans can manage and manipulate to serve their interests;

it categorizes, schematizes people and things, viewing them as abstract entities rather than as existing, living realities;

it deals with the representations of people and things rather than with our living experience people and things;

and it views all things, nature included, as mechanistic kinds of systems, put together from their parts and capable of being manipulated by acting on their parts.

What are your thought? Do you also see this as a dis-ease of the Western mind?

Read this inspiring note below. I'm totally blown away by the idea of Infinite Primal Form. Isn't it One Universal Mind that we've been talking about for such a long time?

Note on "The Perennial Quest for the Fundamental Unifying and Universal Truth"
(April 22, Year Unknown)

"The founders of the great religious and spiritual traditions, like Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Confucius, and others have recognized that the Infinite Primal Form has a lawlike structure that at once shapes the laws of nature and issues in moral and spiritual laws which have universal jurisdiction over all human life. Whether we speak of the Laws of God, the Mandate of Heaven or the Universal Dharma it is clear that these diverse formulations have a common source in the primal pattern.

Similarly, the greatest philosophical minds have recognized that there must be a Universal Form whence all possible forms arise. The traditions of First Philosophy were born in the intuition that there must be a First Principle that generates all that appears. This is at the source of the Vedic teachings that all possible names and forms arise from the Infinite Symbol – AUM. It is also the force of Plato's insight that the universal form of Goodness is the form of all forms. The Buddhist tradition teaches that the primal form is Absolute Emptiness (Sunyata) and this principle issues in a boundless Unified Field wherein all this co–arise in dynamic creative process."