Our Minds in Search for God by Deepak Chopra

[Aravinda Lochanan]

The mind interprets the world for us, gives it meaning. To a depressed
person the sight of a glowing Tahitian sunset mirrors his sadness,
while to someone else the same signals to the retina may invoke wonder
and joy. The brain is recording the sunset, but only the mind can
experience it.

As we search for God, we want our interpretations to rise even higher
than our minds can take us, so that we might understand birth and
death, good and evil, heaven and hell. When this understanding extends
to spirit, two invisible fields, mind and soul, need to be connected
if we are to have any confidence in them.

God requires the most delicate response of the mind. If the mind is
troubled or unrefined, the journey back to God cannot be successfully
made. Many factors come into play here, but in terms of the mind/brain
connection, Valerie Hunt, a researcher with degrees in both psychology
and physiology, has made some important connections.

After hooking subjects up to EEGs, she determined that certain brain
wave patterns can be associated with higher spiritual experiences.
This finding extends earlier research which established that going
into deep meditation alters the patterns of alpha waves in the brain,
along with heartbeat, respiration, and blood pressure.

But Dr. Hunt was further interested in why people do not have
spiritual experiences. In doing so, she took the step of supposing
that we should all be naturally connected to the totality of the
mind’s field of energy and information, just as we are all connected
to the parts that involve thinking. It is a simple but profound
assumption.

Adapted from How To Know God, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2000).


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அற்புதங்கள் புறத்திலன்று அகத்திலென்று காணடா!

[acesin]

Hello,

this is my limited knowledge interpretation of your dielemma,

Mind and Soul are always together and you see its manifestation in
thought and actions.(light)
To understand light we follow two theories wave and particle like nind
and soul.

regards
karthi