Showing posts with label holistic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holistic. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Edgar Cayce: Fairies, Angels, Unseen Forces


UAMN TVEdgar Cayce (pronounced K-C, now reborn as David Wilcox as he continues his mission) offers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the supernatural realms and their inhabitants, exploring fairies, angels, brownies, and more. 

Who in the world was Edgar Cayce?
Edgar Cayce and the couch used for his psychic investigations/healings (A.R.E.)
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Cayce reborn as the young David Wilcock
The A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) has a good explanation: Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented American psychic of the 20th century.

For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while asleep or in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing past lives lived prior to this one (where symptoms were manifesting from previous karma) and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Cayce?
 
Cacye was a psychic Christian who saw karma.
He was born on a farm in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1877, and his psychic abilities began to appear in his childhood. He was able to see and talk to his late grandfather's spirit, and he often played with "imaginary friends," whom he said were spirits on the other side.

He also displayed an uncanny ability to learn/memorize the pages of a book simply by sleeping on it. These gifts earned the young Cayce the label "strange," but all Cayce really wanted was to help others, particularly children.

Later in life, Cayce would find that he had the ability to put himself into a sleep-like trance state by lying down on a couch, closing his eyes, and folding his hands over his stomach.

In this state of deep relaxation and meditation (jhana, dhyana, zen), he was able to place his mind in contact with all time and space -- the universal consciousness, also known as the super-conscious mind. From there, he could respond to questions... More
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Kama Sutra is mostly NOT about sex

Press Trust Of India (Jan 30, 2011)
Kama Sutra is about sexual & social relationshipHaksar's version, to be published by Penguin on Feb. 3, 2011, sees the ancient text updated from a sex guide to a lifestyle reference guide.

The Kama Sutra is a broad survey of sexual and social relationships between men and women, asserts Indian scholar A.N.D. Haskar. He has written a revised version of the 1,800 year old text as he attempts to put it back on people's reading list by adapting it to modern lives and relationships and presenting it as a "lifestyle guide for the modern man and woman."

He says, "Any honest reading of the book will tell you that it is a broad survey of sexual and social relationships between men and women." "A new, faithful translation of the Kama Sutra turns stereotypes on their head and gives the 1,800-year-old text a whole new position -- back on your reading list," CNN said.

The original Kama Sutra does not have any pictures, just words without graphic graphics. The Kama Sutra is not all about sex. Just a fraction of the Kama Sutra, roughly 1/24th, concerns copulation. Vatsyayana, the 3rd BCE author of the Kama Sutra, wrote it "while observing a celibate's life in full meditation." That's right, no funny stuff, none at all. More>>

Monday, August 31, 2009

Buddhism and Quantum Physics

Christian Thomas Kohl (Special to WQ on Buddhism and Quantum Physics)Nagarjuna

EAST MEETS WEST
What is reality? The mindsets of the modern world provide and oscillate between four answers:

  1. The traditional Abrahamic (Jewish, Islamic, and Christian) religions speak about a creator that holds the world together. It represents the fundamental reality. If it were separated from the world for even a moment, the world would disappear immediately. The world can only exist because this creator is maintaining and guarding it. This mindset is so fundamental that even many modern scientists cannot deviate from it. The laws of nature and elementary particles now supersede the role of the creator.
  2. René Descartes takes into consideration a second mindset, wherein the subject or a subjective model of thought is fundamental. Everything else is only derived from it.
  3. According to a holistic mindset, the fundamental reality should consist of both subject and object. Everything should be one. Everything should be connected with everything else.
  4. A very modern mindset neglects reality. It could be called instrumentalism. According to this way of thinking, concepts do not reflect a single reality in any one way. Concepts have nothing to do with reality but only with information.

Buddhism refuses these four concepts of reality. It was therefore confronted with the critical reproach of being nihilistic.

If there is neither a creator, nor laws of nature, nor a permanent object, nor an absolute subject, nor in both, nor none, what is there to believe in? What remains that can be considered a fundamental reality?

The answer is simple. It is so simple that we barely consider it being a philosophical statement: Things depend on other things. A "thing" is dependent on its cause(s). There is no effect without a cause and no cause without an effect. There is, for instance,

  • no fire without fuel
  • no action without an actor
  • no actor without action.

Things are dependent on other things. They are neither identical with each other, nor do they break up into objective and subjective parts. This Buddhist concept of reality [known as Dependent Origination] is often met with disapproval and considered incomprehensible. But there are modern modes of thought with points of contact.

For example, there is a discussion in quantum physics about fundamental reality. What things are fundamental in quantum physics?

  • particles
  • waves
  • field of force
  • law of nature
  • mindsets
  • information

Quantum physics came to express itself by certain key concepts: complementarity, interaction, and entanglement. According to these, there are no independent but only complementary quantum objects. They are at the same time both waves and particles. Quantum objects interact with others, and they show evidence of entanglement even when they are separated by great distances.

Without being observed philosophically, quantum physics has created a physical concept of reality. According to that concept the fundamental reality is an interaction of systems that interacts with other systems and with its own components.

This physical concept of reality does not agree on the four aforementioned approaches. If the fundamental reality consists of dependent systems, then its basics can neither be independent and objective laws of nature nor independent subjective modes of thought. The fundamental reality cannot be a mystic entity nor can it consist of information only.

The concepts of reality in Buddhism surprisingly parallel quantum physics.