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by the individual. And Carl Jung showed through his work that people in intensive analytic therapy could retrieve information through their dreams and intuitions of a dimension beyond their own personal life experience—could be in touch with what he called the collective unconscious, a dimension in which all of mankind’s experience from the beginning of our species’ time on earth and covering the entire breadth and width of our existence since, is recorded.
Add to this the very convincing evidence of people’s vivid recollections of past lives, their detailing of specific events, names, dates and places with uncanny accuracy—material they would seemingly have no way of knowing other than having been there and lived through that time themselves -- and we have a growing body of experience which can no longer be discounted as mere fancies of imagination.
Even the hard sciences like physics are drawing closer to realizing the fundamental laws of spirituality. The leading edge of physics1 is discovering that the planet is not a separate piece of dead mineral in an indifferent, unloving, unconscious universe. The cosmos and all in it are coming to be recognized as one entity: inseparable, whole and alive with consciousness, a manifestation of the one, Universal Consciousness—permeated with love. The oneness of the universe is being recognized as the material expression of the oneness of consciousness -- which is experienced in the heart as love.
In his book The Tao of Physics research physicist Fritjof Capra explores the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism. He relates the world-view emerging from the theories of subatomic physics, relativity and astrophysics, to the mystical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen and the I Ching. What emerges is a picture of the universe of the modern physicist likened to that of the Eastern mystic, or as the book’s dust jacket says so well: “a universe engaged in a continuous cosmic dance -- a system of inseparable, interrelating and ever-moving components of which the observer is, himself, an integral part.” More and more scientists, like Einstein, are awed by the grandeur of creation and are coming to realize an underlying unity and wholeness -- which they recognize as holy.2
As duality—seeing reality as composed of separate and distinct entities as opposed to one unified whole—crumbles, so do the differences between peoples and religions. A nondenominational science of consciousness is developing which is defining universal


































































































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