One way to understand the
quantum body and explore
it is through the non-dual,
philosophical
and yogic
traditions
that have existed for a long time.
So what we call the quantum body
would in that tradition
or those traditions we call
the causal body.
We have a physical body,
which is the outermost layer,
the physical body made of food, energy
and it's a projection
of the mental body, which is the
mind, intellect, ego, which in turn
is a projection of the Bliss body,
which is Atman, Jiva, Brahman.
Jiva being the conditioned
soul, Atman free of all conditioning,
Brahman, ultimately
the only reality.
So Brahman
is non-local awareness.
And in
understanding this tradition,
which is experiential,
we begin to see the world,
mental world and
physical world and ourselves
as fluctuations of consciousness,
which in Sanskrit are called vrittis.
And this is a very profound
and transformative perspective.
And this concept challenges
our usual perception of reality
as a divided one,
with distinct separations between
subject and object, self and the world.
This deeper
understanding of non-duality
posits that the mind,
the body and the world are
merely appearances,
merely appearances
arising from the underlying
oneness of consciousness.
And that oneness of consciousness
is the only ultimate reality.
The notion of awareness can be understood
as the ultimate reality,
the ever present
ground from which all phenomena
arise and into
which they all subside.
Our individual minds,
and brains are seen
as localized expressions
of this universal consciousness,
like waves on the ocean.
And the ocean, of course,
is independent of its waves.
Recognizing this inherent oneness
doesn't negate the unique
experiences of each individual.
We still have
our personal perceptions,
thoughts and emotions,
but they are understood
as temporary ripples
on the surface of consciousness,
not separate from the whole.
The goal
of these practices,
which include meditation, self
inquiry, mindful awareness of body
of musculoskeletal system,
interoceptive awareness, mindful
awareness of the web of relationship
and ultimately
awareness of awareness,
which is self awareness,
starts to quieten the vrittis,
which are the
fluctuations of consciousness.
And then we go into the depths
of being, the stillness
and the peace of pure awareness.
This non-dual state is also, of course
referred to as Samadhi
and Moksha. Now,
once we understand this, then
the last three steps
in the eightfold
system of raj
yoga, Dharna, Dhyana, Samadhi.
So Dharna
is focused
intention or Sankalpa
or intention, subtle intention.
Focused.
Dhyana is the meditation process
to get to this level of non-awareness
and releasing that intention, but
that process
actually results
in the infinite organizing power
of the intention to fulfill
what was intended with least effort
through synchronicity
or non-local correlation.
So actually
this opens the door
to non-local
potentials too,
like extrasensory perception,
memories of other
lifetimes in the matrix,
predicting the likelihood
of future events,
but basically seeing
the whole universe
which includes you
and your body-mind as
a fluctuating process
in the infinite
Divine, non-local,
acausal, irreducible,
fundamental, spaceless,
timeless reality
which we truly are,
and when we access that,
there's freedom from constructs like
birth and death, but also freedom
from suffering because the ocean
is independent
of the ripples
on the surface of the ocean.
This is a very brief summary
of the ultimate solution
to the hard problem of consciousness.
The hard problem of consciousness
only exists because we assume
that what we call
matter is real.
But matter is the alchemy
of these same fluctuations.
It is the alchemy of
qualia and qualia
are vrittis, fluctuations,
sensations and perceptions,
images, feelings, thoughts
that make experience possible.
So if we truly understand that
there's no inside, there's no inside,
there's just consciousness fluctuating
as the appearance
of the physical universe.
Once again, Brahman is Brahmand.
Brahman is the source of all
the experience,
and Brahmand is the experience
or the appearance of what appears
to be the physical universe,
but is actually a projection
of the matrix of fluctuations
in cosmic consciousness.
Okay,
that's it for today.