We have heard John Main speak of “man’s most terrible fear – of isolation, fear and loneliness, that the world itself is only a terrible mistake.” In the same passage, he goes on to say that this is: “an absurd, distorting image of reality,” dissolved by the absolute power of God’s love. “Through prayer, we experience” that the basic gift of man is not separation but communion. / meditation? How does it move us from nonsense to the full meaning of reality?
Here is an important point of the role that already plays attention. John Main knew this intuitively and from experience. That’s why he put so much emphasis on his advice that we just ‘say our word’. This truth has now been proven by neuroscience. Research has shown that when we pay attention to our mantra, we shift the way we are from the left side of the brain to the right. The brain has the ability to access two complementary ways of interpreting reality.
Perhaps quantum theory can help us understand these two different aspects of our broader consciousness. Experiments have shown that a sub-atomic particle electron exhibits properties as ‘particles’ and as ‘waves’, depending on the design of the experiment, the circumstances through which we investigate: “We must remember that what we observe is not nature as such, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ”(Heisenberg)
Since we are made of electrons, we can assume that this is also true for us. Depending on the ‘circumstances’ in which we find ourselves, metaphorically speaking, we either show our ‘particle’ nature or our ‘wave’ nature. When we deal with our daily affairs, we identify with our ‘particle’ nature; we are in our physically manifested ‘material’ state, which is controlled by the ‘ego’ – the separate, struggling for survival. When we focus our attention on our word, then we enter inner loneliness and silence and connect with our ‘wave’ nature and its center, our true ‘I’, through which we are connected to the ‘wave’ reality of all humanity, all creation, the Universe , Deity. The left side of our brain fixes us in the ‘particle’ nature and our right side of the brain enters our ‘wave’ nature. We can either be fixed in time and space, or in a state of openness. If we address questions such as: ‘What are we at the moment? What is our position in life? What do we look like? ‘, Then we limit our being and consciousness to our’ particle ‘nature focused on our separate, superficial personality. If our consciousness does not deal with specific thoughts, if we have switched to our right cerebral hemisphere, then we create an instinctive connection and become intuitively aware of our basic unity; we are in our ‘wave’ nature. The touch of this aspect of reality leads to true, experiential ‘knowledge’: “that we are that we are in God, and that in Him we reveal our basic identity and unique meaning.” (John Main) We can either be fixed in time and space, or in a state of openness. If we address questions such as: ‘What are we at the moment? What is our position in life? What do we look like? ‘, Then we limit our being and consciousness to our’ particle ‘nature focused on our separate, superficial personality. If our consciousness does not deal with specific thoughts, if we have switched to our right cerebral hemisphere, then we create an instinctive connection and become intuitively aware of our basic unity; we are in our ‘wave’ nature. The touch of this aspect of reality leads to true, experiential ‘knowledge’: “that we are that we are in God, and that in Him we reveal our basic identity and unique meaning.” (John Main) We can either be fixed in time and space, or in a state of openness. If we address questions such as: ‘What are we at the moment? What is our position in life? What do we look like? ‘, Then we limit our being and consciousness to our’ particle ‘nature focused on our separate, superficial personality. If our consciousness does not deal with specific thoughts, if we have switched to our right cerebral hemisphere, then we create an instinctive connection and become intuitively aware of our basic unity; we are in our ‘wave’ nature. The touch of this aspect of reality leads to true, experiential ‘knowledge’: “that we are that we are in God, and that in Him we reveal our basic identity and unique meaning.” (John Main) What are we at the moment? What is our position in life? What do we look like? ‘, Then we limit our being and consciousness to our’ particle ‘nature focused on our separate, superficial personality. If our consciousness does not deal with specific thoughts, if we have switched to our right cerebral hemisphere, then we create an instinctive connection and become intuitively aware of our basic unity; we are in our ‘wave’ nature. The touch of this aspect of reality leads to true, experiential ‘knowledge’: “that we are that we are in God, and that in Him we reveal our basic identity and unique meaning.” (John Main) What are we at the moment? What is our position in life? What do we look like? ‘, Then we limit our being and consciousness to our’ particle ‘nature focused on our separate, superficial personality. If our consciousness does not deal with specific thoughts, if we have switched to our right cerebral hemisphere, then we create an instinctive connection and become intuitively aware of our basic unity; we are in our ‘wave’ nature. The touch of this aspect of reality leads to true, experiential ‘knowledge’: “that we are that we are in God, and that in Him we reveal our basic identity and unique meaning.” (John Main) If our consciousness does not deal with specific thoughts, if we have switched to our right cerebral hemisphere, then we create an instinctive connection and become intuitively aware of our basic unity; we are in our ‘wave’ nature. The touch of this aspect of reality leads to true, experiential ‘knowledge’: “that we are that we are in God, and that in Him we reveal our basic identity and unique meaning.” (John Main) If our consciousness does not deal with specific thoughts, if we have switched to our right cerebral hemisphere, then we create an instinctive connection and become intuitively aware of our basic unity; we are in our ‘wave’ nature. The touch of this aspect of reality leads to true, experiential ‘knowledge’: “that we are that we are in God, and that in Him we reveal our basic identity and unique meaning.” (John Main)
Kim Nataraja
