Likewise, on page 331 of Ann Baring's book, she speaks to Consciousness as being the Ground of Reality. As she writes on page 332:
It is extraordinary to realize that the new discoveries in science are leading to the recovery of the invisible ground of the cosmos that was known to shamanic cultures as well as the the Western esoteric traditions of Kabbalah and the contemplative traditions of Vedanta, Buddhism, Taoism and Sufism. The Tibetan "Book of the Great Liberation" states that matter is derived from mind, not mind from matter.
Tom Campbell's work in his My Big TOE (Theory of Everything) supports that statement.
I would take Anne's words deeper and also hear from the Native American Kogis' Goddess "Aluna." Consider the following film regarding Her.
As you contemplate this movie, consider Genesis 1:2 of the Bible, written in primarily feminine nouns:
And the Earth (matter) was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the Deep (the feminine Tehom). And the Spirit (feminine Ruach) moved out over the face of the Waters.
Interestingly, the name Marie means Ocean and thus the Spirit moving over the face of the Waters in the Old Testament is a mirror to the Spirit moving over Marie in the New. These are one story.
The important piece to realize is that the universe is an organic whole. This thesis is brilliantly expounded in Anne Baring's work: The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul. In this work, Anne reveals, "the universe as an organic, sacred and indivisible whole in which humanity, the earth and all life on earth participate as 'her children'."
She believes--and helps us to believe--that "mortal danger is forcing us to take a great leap in our evolution that we might never have made were we not driven to take it by the force of circumstances that we ourselves have created."
Interesting that the idea of crisis in Chinese lettering means "dangerous opportunity." This is exactly the place we are at. Will we burn in the flames of our destruction, or will we rise like the Phoenix into an evolved, mature participant in the dance of Nature?
Ultimately we need to get beyond the conditioned mind in order to evolve. We cannot evolve by staying stuck in old ways. In accordance to the mystics of Christianity, moving beyond the conditioned mind is exactly what the Virgin Birth means. This is a state of mind where we are as we were when we were not. In the oriental religions, this is the unconditioned mind. Thus, in accord to this belief, the Virgin Birth is NOT something to believe in, but a state to enter into! As Lao Tzu puts it, "Be newborn, be free of yourself!"
Can you now understand why Rome and the Jews (and I would say many Christians in modern day) would want to kill Christ? Can you also understand the importance of turning the virgin birth into a literal story? "Hell!" the Corporation screams, "We've put all this money into the 'No Child Left Behind' program and you're going to think on your own by becoming deconditioned?"
In modern days, how much money and time has the educational systems, as well as the media, put forth in order to keep us hypnotized.
Isn't it time to wake up? As Anne states on p. 531 of her The Dream of the Cosmos:
Healing the wounded heart of humanity is about cherishing in every sense: Cherishing our own lives as having infinite meaning and value: Cherishing the time given us in order to discover our true direction in life and who we truly are. Cherishing the body which has been sacrificed for so long to our distorted image of spirituality; cherishing the lives of the people who have been given into our care; cherishing the planetary life which is the greater field of all our endeavors. Love calls us to caring, solicitude, insight, gentleness and understanding but also to strength, power and intelligence used in the service of humanity and all species on the planet. It calls us to make conscious and contain the desire for control and dominance; that are grounded in the opposite of love--in fear.
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