THE SUN IN A JAR EXPLORE YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL
In March 2004, an Hindu-born scientist, Dr. Rusi Taleyarkhan, announced an astonishing breakthrough in nuclear fusion - which he called Making the Sun in a Jar.
In this desktop experiment, using the most basic equipment, the scientist and his team managed to achieve nuclear fusion, and generate energy comparable to what is created in the sun! It is as unbelievable as 'making' the sun in a jar, but it has happened.
We shouldn't be surprised at this; we are each of us nothing but a sun in a jar!
Squeezed into the volume of a five or six-foot body, living in the confines of three dimensions, you are simply not aware of your own potential - physical, mental or spiritual. ```
You are a miracle of super intelligence that technology can never hope to create.
Your body is composed of 50 trillion cells functioning in perfect harmony.
Your brain is a system of ten thousand million neurons transmitting information at 200 miles an hour.
Your eyes can distinguish 16 million shades of colour. Every day, without instructions and without rest, your heart pumps several litres of blood to every corner of your body. Your DNA carries the intelligence that tells every cell whether it should grow into a muscle or blood or skin.
And still you wonder, Will my stomach upset take care of itself, or should I visit the doctor?
Neuroscientists have shown that the average man doesn't use more than 8-12% of his brain. Even an Einstein or Leonardo Da Vinci did not use more than 20-25% of their brain-power!
No IQ test can measure the actual capacity of your brain. IQ tests measure only conscious processes, and much of your mental activity is unconscious. Your unconscious mind stores enormous amounts of information that you don't even know you know!
For instance, can you tell if an earthquake is going to occur in the next ten days?
Can you remember the exact words of a conversation that happened last week?
Can you even tell how many trees or lamp-posts you passed on your way to work this morning?
Of course not!
But under hypnosis, or under circumstances when your unconscious is awakened, you will be able to tell precisely. Almost everybody will be able to tell!
We have focused so hard on developing our conscious mind that we have lost touch with our unconscious. We have lost our mystical contact with the cosmos, with the collective wisdom of the cosmos that has been stored in our unconscious. The 20 century psychologist Carl Jung suggested the term collective consciousness to describe this.
Whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not, we are linked to every single thing in the universe. Like spokes on a wheel, we only appear to have separate identities on the surface, but as we go deeper, we realize that the center is one.
An eye-opening experiment has been conducted by Cleve Backster, an interrogation specialist with CIA.
As a trial to check the reaction of plants to different electrical stimuli, Backster connected a potted plant in his office to a lie-detector. This is a machine which registers electrical changes in our bodies on a graph (just like an ECG registers changes in our cardiac activity).
When the plant didn't show any response to weak stimuli, Backster decided to try burning one of its leaves.
At the exact moment when that thought arose in his mind, he found that the plant registered a shocking response on the graph!
Astonished, Backster repeated this with other plants and found that not only the plant he was thinking of harming, but all the plants in the room registered this response in different degrees! Later, he discovered that the plants were sensitive to the sound of his voice, and even to his presence in the room.
This experiment proved something even more miraculous than telepathy which is the transmission of information from one human brain to another through an unknown form of communication.
It showed that every cell has the ability to reach out and communicate with every other cell, whether plant or human. A cell that is about to die is able to communicate its fear to other cells, and they can 'feel' sympathy for it! Every cell carries intelligence…and compassion. Cosmic wisdom is available to all who ask for it.
Every one of us has experienced some moments of deep communion, at some time in our life.
It may have been a rare experience of nature's beauty, or deep love, or a moment of prayer; at some time we have all felt that we are more than just our body, that we share a deep connection with all of Existence. Once we break the barriers of our ego, it will be easy to realize this.
The ego perceives everything as separate from itself. That's why the ego finds the world such a terrifying place! We are so afraid to take the leap of understanding, so we live and die without discovering our true potential.
Have you heard the story of the blind man and the stick?
A blind man was offered a miraculous cure by a very competent doctor.
Once the operation is over, you will be able to see, said the doctor. Then you can throw away your stick!
I don't understand you doctor, said the blind man.
I agree that I will be able to see after the operation but how will I be able to walk without my stick?
Until you begin to see, how will you know that you have no more need for the stick? Until we lose our fear of looking inward, how will we discover how tremendously powerful we really are?
Meditation is nothing but this process of looking inward. It is the process of tapping into the boundless energy and wisdom of the cosmos.
This is not a vague philosophical statement! Every biologist will agree that biochemical systems which include trees, animals, the sun and you, are communicating with their environment all the time. An invisible web of communion links all life into one vast, self-maintaining system. The intelligence that makes this happen is not something borrowed from the outside. Just as it exists in us, intelligence exists in the plants and in the molecules.
This is the mystery of life.
We live in intelligence, surrounded by intelligence. We are intelligence. We are nothing but an expression of the cosmic intelligence. If we knew how deeply we are connected to the wisdom of the cosmos, we would feel no more fear.
Like the fish searching for the ocean, we search for God outside of ourselves. We forget that we are not only the fish, but also the ocean, the water, the saltiness, and the life!
Ah, Now I See!
ENHANCING YOUR AWARENESS