Hello!
This is Cynthia Sue Larson with realityshifters.com
and I'm talking about opening to oneness.
I've just read an amazing book by Larry Dossey called, "One Mind" and it reminds me
very much of a poem by the poet, Rumi, who spoke of the fact that we are
in our bodies the way plants are rooted in the soil,
yet we are also the wind.
Recognizing that we have these capabilities to be much, much more than just what we think
of as ourselves.
There's a special aspect, not just to the spirituality and what's often referred
to as a perennial philosophy, uniting all of
the great religions and spiritual paths from the
world, but it's also the concept that Larry Dossey
refers to when he describes how our individual mind
is part of a greater consciousness, and why it matters.
This book is amazing!
I really appreciate it quite a bit, because it shares first-hand experiences
from people who have been involved in amazing experiences that there's just no way to explain
unless there is some kind of a unified consciousness or oneness of mind, uniting not just people
across a wide variety of different cultures, but also animals.
I think a lot of us relate to animals very well.
I love the stories especially that Dr. Dossey shares
about how he was writing the book and he looked out the window and saw a coyote
looking back at him!
And he saw a bobcat, a wild mountain lion, looking back at him.
And these are remarkable experiences that were quite unusual for him
as he was writing the book, but it also mirrors the kind of stories
that are in the book itself about the way animals will save each other,
across species they will rescue each other.
There are such things as rats that have empathy for one another, and help spring
each other out of jail, which is a concept I've spoken about before and I love very much!
And not just that, but also twins that live their lives separated from birth very much
the same as they would making very similar choices, as if the whole time they've been
united.
The way I talk about this book when I tell people about it
is that describing the One Mind is like describing the biggest elephant you've ever seen!
It's so big, you can't quite comprehend the whole thing.
If you've heard the story about the blind men
and the elephant, then you know where I'm going
with this!
You'll have experiences with some people where they'll feel that elephant--that One
Mind concept-- and they'll feel like they've got something
very much like a rope.
And someone else will say, "No, no, no!
It's not like a rope!
It's like the trunk of a tree!"
So depending on where and what a person is experiencing
with this One Mind oneness phenomenon, it can feel very different, yet it's the whole
thing.
That, to me, is extraordinary.
So what I mean by this is when you experience the one mind in the sense of witnessing
what can only be called miraculous healing, spontaneous remission... these are just remarkable
experiences that people often encounter.
Or telepathy, or just being rescued and having people
show up right when you need them... animals being there for other species as well
as humans.
These are the kind of things that you'll enjoy as much
as I do.
I highly recommend this book for anybody that has
a feeling that there is a sense of oneness that we can all open up to, and that it's
well within our grasp... that people have been experiencing
it for centuries, and there's a lot to explore.
Not just the personal stories and first-hand accounts,
but also the science behind it.
This is something you can also experience in meditation,
and if you just close your eyes for a moment, we'll do a quick Oneness meditation.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply.
Imagine that you are right now much more than just your physical self...
that you are connected to all that is... that you have an amazing ability to expand....
expand... expand.... and feel a oneness with the air around you...
with the trees... and everything around you... with the earth around you...
and that as you expand your sense of who you are, rather than losing yourself,
you're gaining parts of yourself that you've long forgotten.
You can open your eyes.
Until next time, keep asking, "How good can it get?!"
This is Cynthia Sue Larson with realityshifters.com