Imagine sitting at the sea shore watching waves roll in. The waves are individual and unique, not only to the time of day and season, but even one to the next. Would you ever argue that a wave is not the ocean? If the waves were absent, if there was a quiet sea, would you be disturbed? What if the entire ocean were gone? Surely, if we woke to find no ocean we would be disturbed; the ocean is the basis for waves and all life that arises from the ocean.
This example illustrates Bohm’s Theory of Implicate Order, that there exists in our universe an unseen, multi-dimensional pattern of life energy that is the ground, or basis, for all things. The Explicate Order, like the waves, is the seen reality that arises from the Implicate Order, and then returns to it. Our lives and our world are part of the Explicate Order, they feel very primary, but in truth the Explicate, whatever form it takes, is a temporary manifestation of a total undivided whole.
Going Home. Returning to the whole is a normal, natural, inevitable aspect of all things including human life. We are not separate people with separate diseases, we are open energy systems constantly interacting and evolving with each other. The pattern manifested by a disease does not stop with one person but is part of the greater whole, the undivided wholeness of the universe. Call it the universe, higher consciousness, God, the Implicate…this highest level is love. A person does not possess consciousness (God or Love) the person IS consciousness. Love is the substrate for all emotion. It manifests itself in different forms depending on the person’s ability to let go and let love be. What we consider negative emotions – hate, anger, jealousy – are distortions of love: love in a bind. Vulnerability, suffering, disease do not diminish us. What does diminish us is trying to protect ourselves by binding ourselves off from these experiences. When you begin to tell yourself that your emotional stance in life is a distortion of your potential to love, then you have invited a flame into your life that will gradually destroy and transform you. In the course of many years of loving (extending limits) is a gradual but progressive enlargement of the heart, incorporation within of the world without, and a growth, a stretching and thinning of our ego boundaries. In this way the more and longer we extend ourselves, the more we love, the more blurred becomes the distinction between the self and the world. The art of living is the conscious loss of control, the letting go of the obsession with self, the surrender into Being, the opening of the heart.
If the highest level of consciousness is unconditional love (God, Universe, or Implicate Order), this explains why those who experience near death situations typically report dazzling light energy and the feeling of being embraced and filled with love. All that arises passes away, like the wave, this is an undeniable truth. If we do not turn away from the experience, death can become a transformative door, taking us and all who share the experience, home to the core heart and mind of love.
My thoughts and some shared words from “Health as Expanding Consciousness” by Margaret Newman
This example illustrates Bohm’s Theory of Implicate Order, that there exists in our universe an unseen, multi-dimensional pattern of life energy that is the ground, or basis, for all things. The Explicate Order, like the waves, is the seen reality that arises from the Implicate Order, and then returns to it. Our lives and our world are part of the Explicate Order, they feel very primary, but in truth the Explicate, whatever form it takes, is a temporary manifestation of a total undivided whole.
Going Home. Returning to the whole is a normal, natural, inevitable aspect of all things including human life. We are not separate people with separate diseases, we are open energy systems constantly interacting and evolving with each other. The pattern manifested by a disease does not stop with one person but is part of the greater whole, the undivided wholeness of the universe. Call it the universe, higher consciousness, God, the Implicate…this highest level is love. A person does not possess consciousness (God or Love) the person IS consciousness. Love is the substrate for all emotion. It manifests itself in different forms depending on the person’s ability to let go and let love be. What we consider negative emotions – hate, anger, jealousy – are distortions of love: love in a bind. Vulnerability, suffering, disease do not diminish us. What does diminish us is trying to protect ourselves by binding ourselves off from these experiences. When you begin to tell yourself that your emotional stance in life is a distortion of your potential to love, then you have invited a flame into your life that will gradually destroy and transform you. In the course of many years of loving (extending limits) is a gradual but progressive enlargement of the heart, incorporation within of the world without, and a growth, a stretching and thinning of our ego boundaries. In this way the more and longer we extend ourselves, the more we love, the more blurred becomes the distinction between the self and the world. The art of living is the conscious loss of control, the letting go of the obsession with self, the surrender into Being, the opening of the heart.
If the highest level of consciousness is unconditional love (God, Universe, or Implicate Order), this explains why those who experience near death situations typically report dazzling light energy and the feeling of being embraced and filled with love. All that arises passes away, like the wave, this is an undeniable truth. If we do not turn away from the experience, death can become a transformative door, taking us and all who share the experience, home to the core heart and mind of love.
My thoughts and some shared words from “Health as Expanding Consciousness” by Margaret Newman