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To your tired eyes I bring a vision of a different world, so new and clean and fresh you will forget the pain and sorrow that you saw before. Yet this a vision is which you must share with everyone you see, for otherwise you will behold it not. To give this gift is how to make it yours. A Course in Miracles A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces The simple truth is, that there has lived on the earth, 'appearing at intervals,' for thousands of years among ordinary men, the first faint beginnings of another race; walking the earth and breathing the air with us, but at the same time walking another earth and breathing another air of which we know little or nothing, but which is, all the same, our spiritual life, as its absence would be our spiritual death. This new race is in act of being born from us, and in the near future it will occupy and possess the earth. Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind Venturing into space will surely extend man's knowledge of the universe. Venturing inward to an equally vast unknown area may bring radical, perhaps even greater, changes in his knowledge and understanding of the universe and himself...Perhaps through life in the earth man can learn to purify the dross, qicken the spirit, return to God-consciousness... The history of man's progress is the story of those who have found inspiration and guidance from the Creative Power working in and through the innermost recesses of the mind and soul. Each individual according to his own readiness for the search can begin. This is a venture inward. Hugh Lynn Cayce, Venture Inward (The Incredible Story of Edgar Cayce, 'The Sleeping Clairvoyant') He (Teilhard) saw Christ and Christianity in and through evolution - from individuality through collectivity to a unity in diversity centred on the cosmic Christ. This was precisely the vision of Aurobindo in his The Life Divine. Substitute the Hindu Trinity Sac-cid-ananda (Being-Logos [Consciousness]-Joy) for Christ, and the parallelism is exact....what divides is, in the eyes of both Teilhard and Aurobindo, evil...'To create is to unite (Teilhard)'... Zen, in fact, is cosmic consciousness, and cosmic consciousness is Zen. R.C. Zaehner, Evolution in Religion (A Study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin)
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If healing is to genuinely take hold, the body-mind-spirit (ontopsychosomatic) entity or continuum, must evolve holistically, nondually, meaningfully, transformatively ad infinitum, amen, not perseverating ad nauseam.
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