Realizing reality in resonance

Thank you for taking the time to share your presence. On behalf of the conscious collective and in the interest of a raising the global awareness know that you are appreciated. 

In light of the view we are afforded the fortitude to be sentient, present, conscious, intent, and aware we would be honored if you would join us in sharing the present in mutual presence, and sharing the resonance of mutual relevance intent, in sense and sensibility, and living live well and aware.

The way Nature intended in the beginning. 

The perception of consciousness

According to the website of the Evolutionary Collective, awakened consciousness is characterized by heightened perception, fearless receptivity and penetrating insight. Many of us have experienced or intuited a flip into what they would call awakened consciousness. I prefer to simply call it being "aware". 

I suppose everybody has heard the claims made about the general health benefits of yoga and meditation, and in contrast to the not so distant past, the scientific community now has irrefutable evidence to show that regular yoga practice improves high blood pressure, decreases stress levels, boost our immune function, and lifts our spirit in addition to a growing list of benefits to the health and welfare of it's practitioners.
What hasn't been researched to the same extent is the reputed existence of extraordinary abilities that can be attained through the diligent practice of yoga, but they are well established and documented in the literature of yoga, where they are called siddhis.

The fourth century BC sage Patanjali enumerated the following siddhis in his Yoga Sutras (as listed by Targ and Katra):

Knowledge of past and future; understanding of the sounds made by all creatures; knowledge of past lives; knowing what others are thinking; prior knowledge of one’s death; the attainment of various kinds of strength; perception of the small, the concealed, and the distant; knowledge of other inhabited regions; knowing about the stars and their motions; knowledge of the interior of the body; control of hunger and thirst; steadiness; seeing the adepts in one’s own interior light; intuition; understanding of the mind; entering the bodies of others; lightness and levitation; brightness; control of material elements; control of the senses; perfection of the body; quickness of the body.

While science is slowly getting round to the idea of the individual health benefit of yoga, the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Organization has conducted several demonstration projects to show the effects on the surrounding community of a large number of people meditating in a group. This project occurred in Washington, D.C. between June 7 and July 30, 1993 and involved up to 4000 people meditating in a group. The surprising results were verified by an independent group of scientists who approved the research protocol and performed the statistical analysis  of the data.

Their report showed that homicides, rapes, and assaults decreased by 23% (significance p < 2="" ×="" 109) in D.C. during the period, and reverted back to normal levels afterwards, mimiking the results of a previous trial held in Iowa during 1982-1985 that monitored motor vehicle fatalities, suicide and homicide as main variables to change during a similar but smaller group of focused meditation.

If we consider the ever increasing body of evidence being collected, the inescapable conclusion we glean from these abilities, hard as it may be to believe, is that the mind not only functions through the senses, but also through extrasensory processes. This means that large regions of space, likely all of space; and large eras of time, most probably all of time, present, past and future may be open to it.

If you were wondering how you could unlock some of the extrasensory mental abilities we share you can begin by reading Are you suffering from empty thoughts.

Modern science fails medicine

Contemporary medicine has come a long way since the Ancient Greeks, where getting a cure meant sleeping over in a temple where a deity would appear to give us advice in a dream, but there is many a wisdom that has endured, and much of the knowledge they gained we have lost.
 

With the high-tech tools at every clinicians beck and call, and modern day diagnostic devices to prod and to probe every cavity and crevice we have, the familiar Rod of Asclepios may seem like a rock to an Apple, but the traditional system of medicine as practiced by the ancient Greeks still form the foundation of Western Medicine.

 

In the East, the Indian system of Ayurveda is in practice much the same way as it was, centuries before Hippocrates formulated his Oath, but it was the Greeks that started to shift the focus of healing from a spiritual practice to a physical science. 

Since the dawn of the scientific method, modern day medicine has established rigorous research methods, where the results are testable and reproducible, and where there is little room for veda’s or pressure points or any of the other “alternative” medical practice. As science and technology developed, medicine became more and more reliant on medications, and the practice of finding remedies and cures in the natural environment slowly gave way to the pharmaceutical industry that we have today. 

The development of biologically active chemical compounds introduced medicine to statistical measures to ensure therapeutic value. It also gave raise to concepts like the Bell Curve distributions we commonly see in study populations, and anomalies like the Placebo Effect that we still can't explain. Far from being the infallible measuring tool, the scientific method is at a loss it would seem and the attitude of most researchers have typically been to keep a good eye on it, and then cautiously ignore it. 

While some are insisting on finding a reason for the anomaly, others are starting to wonder if the scientific method is the staff of good measure that we claim, and every so often there are murmurs that question the validity of biomedical research, particularly as practiced by the pharmaceutical industry.

While the Temple of Asclepius may have long since crumbled to dust, there are those that wonder if the smoldering smoke doesn't mean there's a fire after all. Meanwhile the "art" of Ayurveda is still alive and well, and like traditional Chinese medicine it has seem to have stood the test of time. Though neither may  be able to provide the answers with statistically proven relevance, I cannot help thinking there's more to the so-called 'ancient' arts of healing than most of our physicians would care to admit.