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Mind
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Issue
No. 91 / Friday,
May 20, 2005
© 2005 by Andreas Ohrt /
www.mindpowernews.com
In
this issue:
THE
TAO OF STAR WARS: Tao, often translated as the way or the
path, is the ineffable, eternal, creative reality that is the
source and end of all things. Te refers to the manifestation
of Tao within all things. Thus, to fully possess Te, one must
be in perfect harmony with one's original nature.
ZEN
AND THE ART OF BEING A JEDI: A Jedi is not a Buddha. But
many of the practices and concepts that are part of their art
can be found in the Buddha’s teachings.
HOW
TO USE THE FORCE: It's hard to know what to call it. For
some, words like psychic and parapsychology conjure up images
of psychics, seers, and the occult - things scientists seriously
studying parapsychology don't want to be associated with.
GLOBAL
CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE FORCE: Research scientists in physics
and psychology at such institutions as Princeton University
in the U.S. and other major universities in Britain, Germany
and the rest of the world have been gathering data about this
fluctuating force for five years.
HOW
TO EMBRACE YOUR DARK SIDE: What is it that you might have
locked away inside of you that you would not like it to see
the light of day? These are the very things, that properly cared
for and nurtured, could be the source of some of your greatest
power.
DEBUNKING
JEDI POWERS AND THE "FORCE": The Force is a fiction
that exists only in the minds of deluded Jedi practitioners.
The so-called "Jedi Powers" are nothing more than
cheap stage-magic tricks that anyone can learn and which violate
no known laws of physics.
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The
Tao of Star Wars
May the Force be with you. Utter
this famous line and there's no
mistaking it. You're referring
to the driving force (pardon the
pun) behind the Star Wars world
of exploding planets and intergalactic
wars. But what exactly is it?
In the words of the character
Obi-wan Kenobi, a Jedi knight:
"The Force is what gives
the Jedi his power. It's an energy
field created by all living things.
It surrounds us and penetrates
us. It binds the galaxy together."
Neat.
A power in all of us that we can
manipulate to, say, blow up an
evil empire or control the galaxy.
Played out in a world of Jedi
knights, princesses and evil Imperial
troops, it's a tantalizing basis
for a hyper-tech fairy tale. But,
as synonymous as the Force is
with the make-believe world of
Star Wars, some of its basic principles
can be found in a real-life, ancient
Chinese philosophy called Taoism.
"The
Tao is kind of, well, a force
that pervades the universe,"
says Anne Collins Smith, a philosophy
and classical studies professor
at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove,
Pennsylvania. "It is the
source of the universe, but it
also IS the universe."
There
are enough similarities between
the Force and the Tao that Smith,
an avid Star Wars fan, uses the
movie to help explain concepts
in Taoism in her classes. Taoism
is one of the two major indigenous
religio-philosophical traditions
that has shaped Chinese life for
more than 2,000 years. A mysterious,
master Taoist named Lao-tzu, an
archivist at the court of the
Chou dynasty (c. 1111-255 BC)
and an instructor of Confucius,
is said to be one of its founders,
after writing a series of poems
called the Tao-te Ching.
Tao,
often translated as the way or
the path, is the ineffable, eternal,
creative reality that is the source
and end of all things. Te refers
to the manifestation of Tao within
all things. Thus, to fully possess
Te, one must be in perfect harmony
with one's original nature.
Put
another way, the Tao can be understood
in three ways, explains Smith.
It is the nature of the universe.
It is also your true essence.
And it is the way to lead your
life. "Really this meaning
ties the other two together, because
the way to lead your life is to
get your personal Tao in touch
with the Tao of the whole universe."
Sound
familiar? "Be one with the
force, Luke," advises his
teacher Obi-wan Kenobi, as our
hero learns the "ways of
the Force".
READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
http://www.mindpowernews.com/TaoOfStarWars.htm
Zen
and the Art of Being a Jedi
A
long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there were
great men—guardians of freedom and justice—who
were in touch with nature. These men were known as Jedi,
and they had a deep understanding of how the world really
works. A Jedi is not a Buddha. But many of the practices
and concepts that are part of their art can be found
in the Buddha’s teachings. In developing Star Wars,
George Lucas has drawn on many religions, myths, and
cultural practices from all parts of planet Earth. As
we will soon see, the roots of the Jedi can be found
in Asia.
Clear
Your Mind
In
Star Wars, we often hear Jedi masters, such as Yoda
and Qui-Gon, telling their pupils to clear their minds
or to "let go." This is one of the most basic
principles in Buddhism.
Through
the act of meditation, those who want to touch the Buddha
are encouraged to clear their minds of all thought and
to become aware of the moment. This can be done through
breathing meditation. When beginning breathing meditation,
it is helpful to count from 1 to 10. This helps you
clear your mind of other thoughts and pulls you into
the moment. Once you are in the moment, the next thing
is to be "mindful." This means that you are
aware of what you are doing, of your body, of the moment.
Breathing
meditation was actually seen being practiced by Qui-Gon
in The Phantom Menace. Near the end of the film, during
the climactic battle with Darth Maul, the two become
caught in a corridor of doors that open and close, apparently
on a timer. As they approach the final door, Darth Maul
gets through but Qui-Gon doesn’t. Instead of yelling
at or taunting Darth Maul through the force field, Qui-Gon
simply kneels, closes his eyes, and breathes calmly.
He is quieting his mind and collecting himself. He is
truly in the moment.
There's
No Time Like the Present
One
of the problems that we all face in the modern world
is that we are always dwelling on the future and the
past. Our lives are so hectic that we are always being
pulled in many directions at once. We get so caught
up in what happened at work last Wednesday or what we
are having for dinner tomorrow night when the guests
come over that we forget to be aware of the moment.
For us, the flow of time is very real and we are locked
into a vicious cycle of birth and death, beginning and
ending. We dwell so heavily on these first and last
moments that we forget to live in the here-and-now.
The
Buddha taught that these are only concepts, not true
reality. What we believe is reality is subjective—it
is what we make it. To be caught up in concepts is to
be out-of-touch with the moment. If you are concerned
with concepts, theories, and ideas, you can’t see
the true nature of things.
Seeing
the true nature of things is one of the keys to being
Jedi. Abandoning preconceptions, avoiding being caught
up in past and future, and focusing on the present are
all things that Jedi masters teach their apprentices.
At
the beginning of The Phantom Menace, when Qui-Gon and
Obi-Wan are in the meeting room aboard the trade federation
vessel, Obi-Wan begins thinking about things yet to
come. Qui-Gon tells him to keep his mind focused on
the here-and-now. In response, Obi-Wan says, "But
master Yoda says that I should be mindful of the future."
Qui-Gon replies, "Yes, but not at the expense of
the present." He is teaching his student to be
aware and mindful. In Buddhism, this known as Right
Mindfulness.
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How to Use the Force
You are sitting in a chair in an acoustically-shielded room
with two halves of a tennis ball taped over your eyes. A
red light, placed about a metre in front of you, produces
a uniform pinkish visual field while your ears take in the
sound of white noise. Seventy-five feet away from you in
a second padded and shielded room sits a "sender,"
concentrating on transmitting what he sees on a video monitor
to you. An image starts to form in your mind as you receive
this information. It's a brown cow in a golden pasture.
No, it's a horse eating from a bale of hay. It's spotted
and it seems to be having trouble with his hind leg...
It's
a common scenario at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at
the University of Edinburgh. For the past 14 years, researchers
there have been studying psychic phenomena, or what Robert
Morris, head of the research unit, calls an "apparent
new means of communication or interaction between organisms
and their environment beyond those presently understood
by a consensus science."
It's
hard to know what to call it. For some, words like psychic
and parapsychology conjure up images of psychics, seers,
and the occult - things scientists seriously studying parapsychology
don't want to be associated with.
Whatever
its name, these phenomena can be seen in an extreme form
in the powers of the Force. In the fantasy world of Star
Wars, those who have the Force strong within them, can instantly
sense things that would not be known to them in ways we
know of. When Grand Moff Tarkin blows up Princess Leia's
adopted planet of Alderaan, Jedi knight Obi-wan Kenobi says,
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions
of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly
silenced." They can also physically affect their environment
and everything in it by willing it. Remember how the tiny,
wrinkled Yoda raised Luke Skywalker's X-wing from the depths
of a swamp and onto dry land?
Scientists
who study parapsychology don't claim effects nearly as powerful
as these, but they do report some very strange results that
suggest we're missing something in our scientific world
view.
READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
http://www.mindpowernews.com/HowToUseTheForce.htm
Global
Consciousness as The Force
By
Sulana Stone and Keith Varnum
TheDream.com
Does
global consciousness exist? If so, can people with a
common focus use a force within themselves to affect
worldly events? Can the effects of human consciousness
be measured? Studies point to “Yes!” And growing
scientific evidence documents the power of human consciousness
to influence and change the world.
In
one project, highly sensitive electronic equipment indicates
that certain events—such as New Year’s Eve
celebrations, Princess Diana’s funeral and the
World Trade Center attacks—stimulate enough collective
human consciousness that the level of combined consciousness
can be measured.
Other
experiments show how people using group meditations
can impact social conditions such as war deaths, violent
crimes, traffic accident fatalities, cigarette consumption,
and stock market fluctuations.
IS
THERE PROOF OF GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS?
Since
1998, electronic equipment has been recording “disturbances
in the force,” as the Star Wars movie character,
Obi-Wan Kenobi might say. Obi-Wan was the Jedi knight
who tutored our hero, Luke Skywalker, in the “ways
of the force.” Throughout this epic science fiction
movie, Luke learned how the force could be used for
constructive or destructive purposes. Now, modern science
experiments indicate that large numbers of people who
have a common focus do, in fact, radiate an energy force
that influences physical reality.
In
over 50 centers around the world, variations in this
common focus, or shared consciousness, are being recorded
as part of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP).
The GCP wants to know if the thoughts and feelings of
huge numbers of people whose attention is on the same
event have a global presence. To find the answer, the
GCP created a network of devices located on every continent
that are sensitive to human mental and emotional frequencies.
Similar in approach to medical EEG’s where electrodes
measure activity in the human brain, the GCP “electrodes”
measure activity in the “global brain.” Research
scientists in physics and psychology at such institutions
as Princeton University in the U.S. and other major
universities in Britain, Germany and the rest of the
world have been gathering data about this fluctuating
force for five years.
Variations
in this energy force occur when people are triggered
by certain disasters, celebrations or events that stir
human thoughts and feelings to a large degree. The equipment
measures responses that correlate to peaceful gatherings,
global meditations, dramatic events and disasters. Some
examples are the Papal visit to Israel, the funerals
of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., the O. J.
Simpson trial, the first hour of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia
and major earthquakes.
READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
http://www.mindpowernews.com/MayTheForceBeWithYou.htm
How
to Embrace Your Dark Side
By
Jorj Elprehzleinn
Creator of the Life
Transformation Formula
Now
I am going to talk about something that is the last thing
that you would want to talk about. Your dark side (notice
I didn't say I would talk about mine:)
The
darkness we have within us, what psychologist Carl Jung
calls, "our shadow" is something that can be looked
at as evil or bad. After all, that is what darkness is right?
That
notion of dark being equal to evil makes it difficult to
gain power from the darkness within. If you do, then social
ideas about right and wrong, good and bad can restrain your
passions and deepest inspirations.
The
purpose of my writing today, is to ask you this question:
What is it that you might have locked away inside of you
that you would not like it to see the light of day? These
are the very things, that properly cared for and nurtured,
could be the source of some of your greatest power.
"Your
vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
--Carl Jung
In
my case, I recently uncovered by looking inside that I have
a businessman and financier locked in my inner depths. Even
though I a personally am a success coach, and have helped
many people to dramatically increase their success in business
and finance, I myself struggle as a business person. At
first, I thought of myself as an artist. As the years went
on, I started to realize that something was wrong with my
own personal attitudes about money and business.
In
trying to unlock my own financial powers, such as I have
done for numerous clients over many years, I went down into
my own inner depths and discovered that I have the belief
that I actually hate the money system. I think the things
that happen in the world because of money are horrible.
I think a world that runs on money is not a place that I
want to live. The kind of life that I manifest from those
unconscious beliefs does not match my life and financial
goals that I have consciously.
I
discovered those beliefs, and many others are surrounding
the business man and financier that I have locked up deep
in my inner darkness. He manifests as partners that I struggle
with, or business situations that turn against me.
I
need him! Yet I keep him restricted and imprisoned.
Do
you get the idea? I really valued the healing process of
digging out my inner businessman and financier, and freeing
him from the prison that I have put him in jailed by my
own beliefs. Yet it is the last thing that I would think
that a "success coach" would share with his associates,
such as you who are reading this article!!
What
I do with my clients works, and I want it to work for you.
So I felt that to write this article, I had to be the example,
in the hopes to inspire you to do what you will not do,
to go inside and put light in your darkness. To gain power
for yourself, to live a better life.
It
may well be that these hidden areas within you, need to
be healed. It may be that they need to be expressed. It
can be difficult and dangerous work.
The
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are a whole person, and that there is a transcendental goodness
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The
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So
much of what I have to offer you, by reading the e-book
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It
is a lot to ask for, to have all your dreams come true.
There is an art and a science to making it happen, you need
all the help you can get, and you need all of your power
to do it. You can do it. And as you do it, I want you to
have lots of results to inspire you along the way, and I
want you journey to total satisfaction in all areas of your
life to be a fast one.
You
can take your time once you get to the best life that you
can imagine for yourself.
Yours
Truly,
Jorj
Elprehzleinn
www.elprehzleinn.com
Debunking
Jedi Powers and the "Force"
By Roger M. Wilcox
"Hokey
religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster
at your side, kid." — Han Solo, outspoken skeptic
of the Force
The
Jedi Knights are known for their supposed ability to perform
"miracles." They can influence others' thoughts
with a wave of their hand, use a slender light saber to
deflect blaster bolts with their eyes closed, jump great
heights in full gravity, move objects without touching them,
see into the future, and do many other things that normal
people can't. Or so they claim. They attribute these "powers"
to an energy field they call the Force.
The
Force supposedly cannot be detected by any device that has
yet been built anywhere in the Galaxy. Furthermore, the
only people who can detect the Force are those few "gifted"
individuals who are "sensitive" to it. Aptitude
with the Force is supposed to correlate with the concentration
in ones cells of midichlorians (the organelles that evolved
symbiotically from purple bacteria to provide chemical energy
to cells through glucose combustion) — yet, many people
with high midichlorian counts show no indication of having
"powers" until the Order of the Jedi gets hold
of them and "trains" them.
Ladies
and Gentlemen, you have been bamboozled. The Force is
a fiction that exists only in the minds of deluded Jedi
practitioners. The so-called "Jedi Powers" are
nothing more than cheap stage-magic tricks that anyone can
learn and which violate no known laws of physics. The
Masters of the Jedi Order are charlatans, preying upon your
gullibility and demanding your blind respect in return.
READ
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