Noetic Sciences – Noetic Science

In his amazing book  How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries, Deepak Chopra tells the story of how he recalls a phonenumber and the face of an old friend after an hour of mediation. He goes on explaining the mystery of the brain:

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Memories are fixed. For me to recall Raols face, I have to retrieve it intact, not in bits and pieces. WHere do I go to do that? Certainly not in the firestorm of the brain. No single neuron in my brain has survived intact for twenty years. Like migrating birds, molecules of fat, protein, and sugar have drifted through my neurons, adding to them and leaving again after a time.

But do we really need a brain?

In 1980, Roger Lewin published an article in Science, “Is Your Brain Really Necessary?”, about Lorber studies on cerebral cortex losses. He reports the case of a Sheffield University student who had a measured IQ of 126 and passed a Mathematics Degree but who had hardly any discernible brain matter at all since his cortex was extremely reduced.

Instead of two hemispheres filling the cranial cavity, some 4.5 centimetres deep, the student had less than 1 millimetre of cerebral tissue covering the top of his spinal column. The student was suffering from hydrocephalus, the condition in which the cerebrospinal fluid, instead of circulating around the brain and entering the bloodstream, becomes dammed up inside.

In his fascinating book ,How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries
Deepak Chopra seperates the mind from the brains to make us better understand the science of mind.
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Inspiration and Insight

If the brain produces thoughts, and these are the result of stored information inside our neurons, how does anyone ever have a new idea? Why aren’t we constantly combining and recombining old information? New thoughts come to us from the mind, not the brain.

The most original new thoughts are called inspired; on the personal level seeing something new about yourself is called an insight. When you feel inspired, more then ordinary thinking is involved. There is a sense of being uplifted, of suddenly breaking through. Old boundaries fall away, and one feels, if only for a moment, a rush of liberation. If the inspiration is powerful enough, one’s whole life can be changed. There are insights so potent that years of patterned behaviour can change in an instant….

Deepak Chopra explains us the brain as being like a radio. You year music coming from the radio, but when you open it up, there is no band playing in the radio. Similarily, the brain is the receiver, it receives the signals from the mind.

What the Noetic Sciences investigate has long been truth in the New Age movement. Guru Shakti Gawain writes in her bestselling book Creative Visualization

The Physical Universe Is Energy

The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical and spiritual teachers have known for centuries. Our physica universe is not really composed of any “matter” at all; its basic component is a kind of force or essence that we call energy.

Things appear to be solid and seperate from one another on the level at which our physical senses normaly perceive them. On finer levels, however, atomic and subatomic levels, seemingly solid matter is seen as smaller and smaller particles within particles, which eventually turn out to be just pure energy.

Physically, we are all energy, and everything around us is made up of energy. We are all part of one great energy field. Things that we perceive to be solid and seperate are in reality just various forms of our essential energy which is common to all. We are all one, even in a literal physical sense.

According to the writing of Julius Sperber in 1615, the wisdom handed down by Christian Rosenkreuz becomes an ancient secret doctrine dating back to the earliest biblical times. After the Fall, Adam retained in his memory something of the godly wisdom that he had known previously.

This wisdom was incorporated in a teaching which, by way of Noah and the patriarchs, was passed down to Zoroaster, the Chaldeans, the Persians, and the Egyptians and was preserved by the Jewish Qabalah.

A new epoch began with Christ, who showed all men the way to eternal bliss, but reserved for the chosen few the knowledge of the way to divine wisdom. Later this wisdom was almost lost, except in heathen lands; but a few, very few Christians found it. They include according to Sperber, Cornelius Agrippa, Johannes Reuchlin, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, and Aegidius Gutman. Sperber sees the Rosicrucians as heirs to their wisdom.
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