Yesterday morning I rolled over onto my massage cushion –next to me on my bed where a girlfriend might otherwise be –picked up the remote control, turned it on, and… nothing. Annoyed, I had to get out of bed, figuring that the power plug or jack had become loose, and then I checked them all, tightened them, saw the lights flash for an instant, and again… nothing. Accepting my fate I went through my day and eventually priced replacement cushions on Amazon and eBay but did not order one. Then early this morning it hit me – I got out of bed and took the power plug from an old answering machine and attached it to the massager – bingo!
But then, when I had my massage, something wasn’t quite right, and I compared the two plugs, the dead one and the new one, and I discovered that one was 9 volts, and the other put out 12 volts. Despite the fact that I could not tell you the difference between a volt, an amp or an ohm (all units of electricity), I realized that the relationship between the values made for a weaker massage.
I went through my closet and found another 12 volt power brick. I hesitated for a moment because I remembered when I had haphazardly used the wrong power supply for an old Sony laptop, I blew out the motherboard. The reason it had turned out that way was another factor called “polarity” –the way the plug was oriented (positive or negative) had determined that my Sony would die instead of live. I had no idea what polarity my massager was… But this massager was practically dead anyway. So what did I have to lose?
I connected this power adapter and wow, finally I had received the full power massage that I was looking for. And then it hit me —I had successfully done the electronic equivalent of a heart transplant on my massager.
When I had killed my Sony (which by the way their warranty unit had later resuscitated) it had “rejected” my replacement power adapter and died. This one had the “right” polarity and lived. It also had the “right” amount of volts, and, presumably amps and ohms, whatever they are.
We as a collective seem to have gotten used to this level of precision in our electronics. Some of us even understand that if we try to open a PDF file with the wrong program – it won’t work. But what so few of us yet comprehend is that Nature works the same way. First, we might simply consider the neurological fact that our brains put out electricity—that is the energy that “fires” between neurons that apparently manifests our thoughts.
But as I have previously written about DNA, geneticist Juan Enriquez, in his TED talk, explained that an apple is “literally” an “application” (not “like a computer program but operating as an application like Word) which gets input (energy) from the sun which when sufficient it executes its DNA code and falls from the tree.
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The word “literally” is used correctly here because the meaning and expression of DNA code is all about its syntax –if the DNA code is altered even slightly it won’t “execute” correctly – the new heart will be rejected – the power plug will not work. Or if its changed correctly into something else, an extinct species can be revived—as Enriquez tells us in the video.
But again it is not just about the exquisite complexity of Nature revealed by DNA code, and mimicked in our own electronics to such a rudimentary level –it is about its PRECISION and SCALE.
An apple, Enriquez asserts, is an application. When it receives sufficient energy from the sun it “executes” its code – and falls from the tree. This brings up the obvious question – if DNA is software – who is the programmer?
As Jon Kabat-Zinn said in his session on meditation at Wisdom 2.0 the degree of intelligence that controls just our liver, with its precise control of thousands of chemicals to perform just the right reactions (and execute the right code) is orders of magnitude more subtle than anything devised by humans. And yet that information has been encoded in the nucleus of our cells for millions of years – before humans ever evolved. It’s there in the most primitive virus. And if that code executes one way, you have an apple—otherwise, it’s an orange—and if it is corrupted, the organism ceases to function and the form dies. But the energy animating the form continues—creating and activating other forms.
It is apparently only in humans, that we know of, that this energy deigns to create a virtual “who” within our consciousness that takes credit for some of this activity. The reality is, as Bernardo Kastrup and other scientists have described so brilliantly, that the entire concept of a personal “who” is part of our own limited human comprehension.
There was certainly an individual “who” that it seems is responsible for creating my massager –and he/she “owns” the patent. But “who” is it that created our liver –or more significantly –the SYSTEM within which the DNA intelligence in our bodies can enable the liver to remove toxins and support our own existence for the duration of “our lives?”
The fact that we name this “who” or “what” God is as important as whether we call the energy in my power plug a “volt” or an “amp.” The word only has sufficient value as to allow us to manipulate a tiny portion of an infinitely vast intelligence of which we are a miniscule fragment—or, if we consider the true “nature” of our consciousness—“we” are actually “it.”
After all, what do we “know” of this vast Nature other than what we seem to “understand” through our consciousness? The reality of its precision is perhaps the first pointer for some of us to the reality that our understanding must also include “us” – and we experience consciousness. And the precision and vastness or what we “see” through consciousness may make us seem insignificant, until we realize that we embody the same animating energy—as Eckhart Tolle says,
“we don’t have a Life, we ARE Life.”
When we truly take that in, our entire perspective on science, and our “selves,” forever changes. Science no longer “explains” anything—it is merely closes the “user manual” to an infinite combination of flowing energy that has always existed—because the notion of “before” and “after,” just like the notion of “me” and “them,” are just words inadequate to allow us to completely understand (or “grok”) the reality of our true nature.
Very deep thoughts on CONSCIOUSNESS. Again, my teacher favors the ‘idea’ that consciousness itself is not an energyform ( as this would be a dual form , plus and minus poles) but that it uses a ‘power form’ …
With these characteristics .
Some call it ‘holy ghost’, some Shakti, some Chi and so on.
We, as a physical specimen, are a vehicle for “the” pure energy which is becoming understood, as our consciousness. It has never really been difficult for me to put myself, as an energy, aside from my physical body. To understand that this vehicle is a scientific device that’s needs taken care of and looked after, and most of all it is something we see “as” ourselves so we identify with others that “appear” the same, when in reality it is merely a costume. Think of yourself, your physical self, and think of you in a costume right now, all day every day walking around and communicating with others, but there is no written or spoken language. You have no choice but to go off of visual stimulation and “team” up with others that look the same as you see yourself. Knowing this and seeing that this is still the same way we treat people and continue to judge others and rule our society leaves me feeling quite uneasy. Technology and communication has gone beyond what we can comprehend as to what it really means to us and how we should be using it for our benefit as a planet. We still, more than ever, continue to judge people by looks because all trust as been lost and words and language don’t mean what they used to.
These “costumes” have taken over, and they are not even something that is eternal, or original.
Well, the thing is we are all part of the same whole…the only thing that makes us individuals is the barriers we create. we all have access to the same knowledge, but as an organic computer we add different information and programs at different times creating an “individual thought pattern”. since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and all thoughts and ideas are energy, all that is really happening is that we are collecting from the existing pool of knowledge. By harvesting this energy we can have “new ideas”. There is good evidence, if looked at in the proper light, that our consciousness is outside of the body to start with. take for example the experiment involving electrodes hooked to a brain and using a needle prick on a finger to initiate activity in a pain receptor of the brain. While activating the part of the brain that handles that feeling there is a small delay from the information being sent from the brain to the finger and back, creating a delayed reaction in the patient. Whereas if you prick the finger, it is felt at the same time as it is pricked. This to me indicates that the consciousness must exist outside of physicality and time in order to receive the information at the same time it was initiated.Just another thought experiment to spend some time on.
I love these comments. Thanks for reading and taking the material seriously. Duality as Rupert Spira eloquently explains is expressed through our language of subject-object so that even terms like “energy” or “power” are inadequate. To me, the sacred geometry of nature provides additional “evidence” that the patterns through which nature expesses itself (consciousness) is based upon an immense intelligence.
Words are only pointers from our human minds.