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Prayer & Choice
According to a new interpretation of the prophecies of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls, it’s actually up to you and me. On Emotions as the "Forgotten Switch" One of the great mysteries of life sciences is the question of why two-thirds of or genetic code is turned off. Up until discoveries in 1953, science has always believed the genetic code was fixed. Now, within the last three years, Western researchers have found that it appears the human genetic code is a variable code rather than a fixed code, and that it is our responses of feeling and emotions as we go through the challenges of life that determine which one of those codes are switched on and switched off. In the ancient traditions, there is a quality of emotion and feeling and thought that appears to optimize those genetic codes and "turn them on" thus giving us longevity, vitality and tremendously enhanced immune systems. That quality is what we today call compassion. That is the common thread of emphasis through these ancient traditions, this science of compassion. On Light and Dark It’s like a drop of water. In our Western technologically oriented world, we try to compartmentalize water into hydrogen and oxygen. The reality is that water can only be water in the presence of both hydrogen and oxygen. If you look at either alone, you don’t have water. It’s the union of both that allows the miracle that we call water to exist in our world today. It’s the same with light and dark. It is impossible to have the duality of experience that we have in our world today in the presence of only light and dark. This is the irony, the great dichotomy, for the moment an individual draws the line between dark and light, the moment you identify something as light or dark, you have fallen in the ancient trap of judgment. The key to this time in history is transcending that judgment of light or dark and recognizing both as components of the whole, of the single experience. On Light, Dark and the One One of the ancient tenets that may hold the greatest potential for healing of our bodies and bringing peace to our world is the tenet that reminds us that of the 6.5 billion or so people in this world, there is only one of us here. There is a single consciousness experiencing through many bodies, and the breadth of our consciousness and experience ? from the lightest of the light to the darkest of the dark ? are all part of that One. Seventeen hundred years ago, we began to look at light and dark as opposites; we began to judge one as being better than the other when in reality we live the experience of both, and both are only possible in the presence of one another. Darkness is only possible in the presence of light and light is only possible in the presence of the dark. On Moving Towards Compassion If we believe there is a single source of all that is, then we have opened the door to healing the illusion of separation. We have opened the door to healing the judgment of light and dark. In the presence of that healing, our body responds. I believe this holds our greatest possibility for the healing of our bodies and the healing of nations. By simply embracing the possibility that there is one source of all that we will ever know in this world, and that all we witness and experience is of that source, we are invited to transcend our judgments. As we do so, the polarities fall away. The key to this time in history is to transcend judgment and allow for the possibility that light and dark are one and the same, and, as the Egyptian Master Thoth said, different only in seeming and part of an even greater force. As we embrace that, we open the door to the possibility of compassion. |
