Taking Charge of Life

Learning or knowledge creation is personal, explorative, trial and error, incremental and contemplative. Current education whether secular or spiritual implies imparting of organized input or indoctrination which largely comes with an agenda.

In modern scientific education, this agenda limits learning to what can be perceived with our bodily organs of cognition rather than the extrasensory faculty of our body-mind. Physical organs perceive specifics or delimited entities and the resulting understanding is reductionist. This education can develop our intellect on a reductionist but not holistic basis. It can lead to technological development and a life of momentary pleasures, but not to a life of happiness, sustainability, physical or mental health, global family, peace, or harmony.

Our extrasensory body-mind faculties are holistic admitting multiple possibilities. We access this extrasensory ability in a state of one-pointed focus undistracted by the contents of our unconscious genetic memory uncontrollably bubbling into our conscious mind. We enter this superconscious state of one-pointed focus by calming our body-mind with conscious regulation of the body and breath.

A reductionist mind cannot be broadened with spiritual education limited to bodily organs of cognition. Spirit and energy are a union of two unseen infinite and infinitesimal principles not open to our physical organs of cognition. Education must expand to include its essential contemplative and explorative dimensions to enable us to transcend our reductionist intellect to be established in wisdom if technology, sustainability, physical and mental health, global family, peace, and harmony are to be achieved.

Examples of Contemplative Human Insights

Not Christian or Jew or
Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen.
Not any religion

or cultural system. I am
not from the east
or the west, not
out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not
natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all.
I do not exist,

am not an entity in this
world or the next,
did not descend from
Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is
the placeless, a trace
of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved,
have seen the two
worlds as one and
that one
call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner,
only that breath breathing

human being.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Above: The first direct image of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Courtesy: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/National Science Foundation

On the right: The James Webb telescope’s image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 includes thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in infrared. The light from the faintest and most distant galaxies in this picture is some 13.1 billion years old.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Dalai Lama

In the beginning, to be sure, nothing existed, neither the heaven nor the earth nor space in between. So Nonbeing, having decided to be, became spirit and said, “Let me be!” He warmed himself further and from this heating was born fire. He warmed himself still further and from this heating was born light.

Taittiriya Brahmana II, 2, 9, 1-2

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

(Gen 1:2)