Modern Technology and Ancient Science

By Ranjan

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Satisfaction comes from engaging in a qualitative improvement in perception, not merely a quantitative one.

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My travel agent sent me this story, informing me that 99% of people get the wrong answer to the question:

Once there was a loving couple travelling in a bus in a mountainous area. They decided to get down at some place. After the couple got down the bus moved on. As the bus moved on, a huge rock fell on the bus from the mountain and totally crushed the bus. Everybody on board was killed.

     The couple upon seeing that, said, “We wish we were on that bus.”

Why do you think they said that?

     The study of the nervous system through the technology now available to us poses a similar conundrum. In A General Theory of Love, Thomas Lewis writes that there is not enough programming in the DNA for an infant to grow to maturity. Chemistry is not enough. Humans need to receive information, typically broadcast from the mother, after birth, or growth will falter and we die. Daniel Goleman, in Social Intelligence refers to this broadcasting as “neural wi-fi”! Technology, such as brain scans, reveals an invisible ocean of energy sustains life. We can only receive these broadcasts through bonding with the broadcaster. The new biology this gives rise to is that the ocean is love! The focus of value shifts from things to beings.

     Such a concept is as radical as a global Earth to the 16th century. It changes everything.

     In Richard Gerber’s Vibrational Medicine, the scientific description of the body is as “a complex interference pattern of energy interpenetrated by an organising bio-energetic field.” From this perspective, spiritual growth can be seen as developing from incoherence to coherence. Untutored thought is random and incoherent. Coherence is a learned ability.

     What’s the difference? Normal light is incoherent; each particle goes randomly in any direction. Laser light’s “coherence” lies in every single particle of light going in the same direction. Then light has power. So a laser beam can perform surgery, or cut through steel.

     Similarly, science now sees a coherent mind as a better frequency analyser than an incoherent one. That is to say, a coherent mind can decode more frequencies of the cosmos. An example of such ability is “remote viewing.” Gerber writes that Ingo Swann and Harold Sherman were able to accurately “view” conditions on Jupiter and Mars. Some of the planetary data supplied by their “psychic space probe” ran contrary to contemporary astro-physical predictions. But several years later, satellite telemetry data validated them.

To experience the difference between incoherence to coherence, pause a minute.

     Observe your breathing.

     Monitor how many thoughts pass through your head, first one thought then another, each one giving rise to the next. Soon you are rolling around in your head the things that are most on your mind.

     Focus on your breathing again. Gently calm it down; let it sink to your abdomen. Let its rate get slower and slower. Watch the breath. Focus your attention fully on it.

     Look at something shiny like reflected sunlight and try and memorize it. Concentrate on the light. Let it fill your mind. Revel in the shine. As long as you are holding a single image of shine, your mind is moving from incoherence to coherence. After several minutes of this, focus on your breathing again.

     Focus on how you feel. Focus on how you feel inside and how your body feels. Most people feel marvelously relaxed after even a short time of doing this.

With sufficient concentration you can attain coherence. In Yoga this is a three stage process.

     Dharana, an effortful focusing the mind.

     Dyana, letting go and unfocusing. You keep the mind still, but unfocus your eyes and thinking, to contemplate nothing.

     Samadhi, when you transcend both, effortlessly keeping the mind still and blank thus attaining a state of bliss.

     This three-stage process fosters spiritual growth—where satisfaction comes from engaging in a qualitative improvement in perception, not merely a quantitative one. This is a more authentic satisfaction than the satisfactions of stimulants; drugs like alcohol, sexual titillation, religious fervour, immense wealth or power. There is no authenticity in these satisfactions because there is no spiritual growth.

     When I first visited California I was subjected to a barrage of comment that the whole “new age” and “alternative” movement had started through the use of recreational drugs which had opened people’s minds to a different reality. I was made to feel old fashioned and boring for not taking these drugs. I began to wonder whether there was some truth to this, so sought an inner answer.

     As I meditated, the felt experience was of going straight up; through the ceiling, through the roof, through the sky, emerging into the great hall of a castle where the assembled crowd listened with rapt attention to a figure of light; warm, scintillating, vibrant light. No words were spoken, but the audience was “listening” and receiving information, seemingly through pure light. There was a profound need to bask in that light. I crept up to the platform and sat on the edge of it, within the circle of radiance she emanated.

     Suddenly, a great horn was blown. With a groan and great sigh, the entire assemblage, led by the figure of light, went to open the gates of the castle for coaches filled with sheep. These “tourists” swept in, baa-ing away in a raucous mêlée. This drew my attention to the exquisite Persian rugs on the floor and fine paintings adorning the walls. Enraptured as I’d been with the figure of light, I had not even noticed these. “Oh, will they get damaged?” But as the sheep rushed past, they were ooh-ing and aah-ing in apparent appreciation, speeding on insatiably through the entire castle without causing any damage. They then sped off to their next destination. And the intrusion was over.

     The relief was palpable. The assemblage returned to the hall, the proceedings resumed, and I flopped back on my bed, a little disoriented!

     Well! What to make of that? It took me a while, but I learned there is no purpose in accessing these other realities with ordinary consciousness. The sheep were quite impervious to the figure of light; all they were able to perceive were things like the objets d’art, not Beings like the figure of light.

     Sad. The real treasure was not the things, beautiful as they were, but the figure of light. Learning how to access these other realities without being propelled there by a drug is the authentic experience. Ordinary consciousness only values things, not beings. Using drugs to get “there” is not good enough because it doesn’t get us there with the ability to have an authentic experience of “there,” meaning appreciating the figure of light.

The more successful we are in being authentic, the greater the intensity of feeling. Thomas Lewis says that for human beings, feeling deeply is synonymous with being alive. Feeling deeply is the outcome of being more closely in touch with the ocean of love that the new biology shows us underpins life. The more we fail, the more feeling is anesthetised. If feeling is anesthetised enough, we experience pain, paradoxical as that sounds. If we continue to ignore this feedback from the body and fail to correct our course, the result is chronic illness. Further stubbornness in refusing to alter course, and we die. This is the new etiology of disease.

The answer is that if they had stayed on the bus, the time delay caused by them alighting would have been avoided. The rock would have fallen after the bus had passed.

Paradigm is the mental mechanism through which we interpret the same facts differently—one infers everyone on the bus dies, the other they all live. The emerging paradigm in biology throws new light on ancient science, relating health and spirituality through love.

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Ranjan is an author and an international workshop leader. He has taught his self-care program, “Designer Living,” at the University of East London and DePaul University. His healing ability has been researched at Harvard University Medical School. The last year he lived in Britain, he was at Buckingham Palace every week to treat a member of the Royal Family.

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