Long before the discovery of bacteria, people were getting infections of many kinds and foods would still go rancid. Science didn’t invent bacteria, neither did it understand it for a long time… until it had the tools to measure it with.
Long before the Geiger counter, the uranium rock carried radiation, as do other minerals and foods. Science didn’t invent radiation, neither did it understand it for a long time… until it had the tools to measure it with.
Long before the discovery of the atom, atoms existed, as did the solar system that we inhabit, the possibility for ultra-violet radiation emitted by the sun to contribute to skin cancer, the possibility for X-ray imaging, and the movement of the tectonic plates of the earth as a cause of earthquakes and volcanic activity. It is fair to suggest there remains much in life that is unknown to science.
So how does science approach the unknown?
In all of the above cases, the default position was for Science to dismiss or even ridicule what was being proposed. Science is great at many things but it continues to fail when faced with aspects of life that it does not yet understand.
The reality is things have always existed outside the current understanding of science. Yet somewhere, the assumption is made that because science does not understand something that this thing doesn’t exist or that it is folly to suggest that is does.
It is a bit like a traveller that wants to understand a foreign country but dismisses the locals as stupid because they speak a different language… but on a brief tangent, isn’t this what most colonising countries did!!
To truly understand something (and someone), you need to learn the local dialect and customs. There is a whole world of nuance and understanding that is lost when someone is not willing to admit the tools (in this case language) they have for understanding are limited.
There is so much that science can and does contribute to the world, and there is no doubt we need science and the scientific approach. Indeed, science is not limited in what it offers humanity, its only limit is the tools they use to understand life.
However, rather than embracing different dialects (tools) that can broaden understanding, science seems to take its limited understanding very, very personally. Science prefers to ‘own’ and even control the path to understanding. The result of this position is that alternative ways of understanding are dismissed, rejected or ridiculed as a threat to their ‘ownership’.
Surely what is important is not who owns the path to understanding but what might be learnt from it? Surely the true scientific response to the unknown is to find someone who can demonstrate a hypothesis and then back that hypothesis up with replicable results over a period of time, across a range of conditions: thus a scientific approach, just using a different dialect.
One such example is the cardio-centric approach to life presented by Universal Medicine since 1999. The Universal Medicine hypothesis is that the dominant way of understanding the world is currently through our mind and that understanding can also be achieved through our body, more specifically our heart, and more specifically again our inner heart.
So, let’s break this down. The body receives information from all its senses which is transmitted to the mind for processing. From here there are a series of automated and decision based actions. We automatically regulate our body temperature with things like sweating and shivering, and we choose various responses to the world based on our mind’s interpretation of what we see and feel. This is important; in the mind driven approach to understanding, we feel, we interpret, THEN we respond.
In the mental approach we develop beliefs about life through our experiences, then we start to filter our experiences through these beliefs to make choices about our response. It is the ultimate self-affirming cycle, of interpreting life to fit our internal picture of what we are seeing. Someone that sees the World Trade Centre crumble that holds a set of beliefs that says the people in those towers are evil will respond differently to people who see fathers, mothers, children etc. in the towers.
Society has tried and championed this mental approach for decades and the result is a more divided society than ever before. Through this approach we have created enclaves of ideology, fortified by the fact that we are able to filter what we see in the world and thus interpret everything to fit what we believe.
Enter Universal Medicine, and their suggestion that more understanding can be achieved through the body than through mind. They are not the first outfit to suggest this, but nonetheless they are an organisation that has put a methodology behind this hypothesis and enabled people from across the world, across cultures and demographics, to test it for themselves.
Hypothesis: The cardio-centric approach offers a different way of understanding life.
Rationale: In both approaches we receive millions of messages and inputs from our senses all day, every day. The cardio-centric approach suggests that it is possible to learn to understand what is felt BEFORE the mental interpretations of our beliefs kick in.
Who hasn’t walked into a room where other people are gathered and felt that something was happening, even though there are no verbal or non-verbal cues to suggest it? Regardless of education, geography or religion, we all seem to have the capacity to feel what is going on around us. Not only feel, but accurately interpret as well.
It is also true that we have the capacity to override this feeling, misinterpret the feeling or be oblivious to what we feel around us, but there is a difference between overriding, misinterpreting and being oblivious to what is felt and to not feeling it in the first place. In fact, we can’t override or dismiss something without feeling it first on some level.
The cardio-centric approach suggests that any choice to override, misinterpret or choose to be oblivious is a choice to NOT feel what is truly happening – or put simply, we are reacting to what we feel.
What if we could learn to not react to what was felt but stayed with that feeling? What if we can understand what is going on through the body rather than dropping into the mind and following the interpretations offered by preconceived ideas?
This ability is called conscious presence and it is developed through the Gentle Breath Meditation™. Of course, like all skills, it is a process of development over time and not an on-off switch.
Why is it called cardio-centric? Because to build this ability (conscious presence) requires the fostering of our connection to our body, and more specifically our inner-heart.
Why inner-heart and not heart? Because there are at least two layers of body awareness.
Layer 1 – Feeling based on the mind’s beliefs and imagery. Spend 2 minutes thinking about the most juicy, ripe lemon you can find and then biting into that lemon and your body will respond to that imagery like it was real.
This is the first layer of body awareness and many will swear what they feel is true and in many ways, it will be true because it is what they feel, BUT is it a feeling generated in response to the imagery of the mind?
Layer 2 – Feeling what is felt FIRST, before and beyond our body’s reaction based on the images of the mind. To highlight this differently, Universal Medicine uses the term inner-heart.
Methodology: Build conscious presence through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ to develop a greater awareness of feelings that are either are driven from a mental construct or/and those that are simply felt from the world around us.
Over time, learning more about the images we project onto our lives and determining if they truly support us or not.
Results:
- The more you live with conscious presence the more energy and vitality you have because you are not driving your physiology from your mind’s ideas of what is happening or what might happen, but rather responding to what is happening.
- The more you live with conscious presence the more you notice the gap between what is felt and how our mind interprets these feelings.
- The more you live with conscious presence, the less reactive you become to the world around you and the more connected you feel to yourself and others.
- The reality is, there is far more to learn from the cardio-centric approach to life than can be written about in a single paper.
These results are reported and replicated by people from around the world in various cultural, socio-economic and geographic backgrounds. Of course, in scientific terms these would all be considered subjective experiences.
However, for the people living these experiences, they are very real. They may look and sound strange to science because it is a different language. But it is a dialect that can and does explain life in a different way.
As with all discoveries before it, the initial response to a new dialect may be scorn, mistrust or even ridicule. However, the truly scientific response to this difference would be a willingness to explore any tools that would offer a deeper understanding of life.
What is there to lose?
By Joel Levin (Western Australia)
Further Reading:
What Is Science?
This is Science
Connecting to a Body More Intelligent Than The Mind
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
“The more you live with conscious presence the more energy and vitality you have because you are not driving your physiology from your mind’s ideas of what is happening or what might happen, but rather responding to what is happening’ – wow what a statement. Could we live from here more often? Yes, the possibilities are there but it’s also a choice by the individual to make too. And would science be open to this? Probably not, as science is often based on proving something, there has to be an answer.
We have more to learn and live with not only conscious presence but, living from the heart. We cannot deny that we can feel when things aren’t right, its in within all us. We just need to get out of the way and allow what innately is within us to come forth more and more. Then we develop a fitness to live from conscious presence more and more, and life certainly be different.
Can we also say that it is not only Scientists that dismiss or even ridicule what they don’t know or understand but the general public too. We have witnessed throughout history how easily the general public can be whisked up into a frenzy of hysteria or fear by the ruling people of the day, without stopping to consider the possibility that they are being controlled by an energy that doesn’t want them to wake up and find out just how controlled they are.
But that just goes to shows, people believe what is presented whether through social media, TV etc. No doubt many things can be edited and only the so called juicy bits to either provoke fear or panic are often exaggerated. We live our lives from this than anywhere else that cannot be denied and yet we continue to ignore…
What a fantastic blog, I love how Joel shares whatever topic he is bringing to the table.
Yes, more understanding can be achieved through the body than through the mind, ‘The cardio-centric approach suggests that it is possible to learn to understand what is felt BEFORE the mental interpretations of our beliefs kick in.’
Science is understanding what is already known. Dung beetles were rolling dung long before humans made the first wheel.
We are all walking science laboratories, and for main stream science to ignore this is to me like cutting off our nose to spite our face. They do not hold all the answers but our bodies do.
We feel things all the time and this cannot be denied. And so it is for us to give permission to feel this, and then honour it which means to act in accordance to what we have felt. Simply stated but often not how we act or behave.
Absolutely Henrietta, we feel things all the time, ‘Regardless of education, geography or religion, we all seem to have the capacity to feel what is going on around us. Not only feel, but accurately interpret as well.’
Objectivity is all about looking at something without forming a prior opinion or belief about it, and about taking the facts as what is observed. This is something we can all learn to apply to life and comes best from our capacity and ability to hold ourselves steady and… breath gently.
Being more open makes sense, there is so much we do not understand, or are aware of at this point in time, ‘It is fair to suggest there remains much in life that is unknown to science.’
Yes, having no pictures or beliefs, just observing with an open mind/heart, ‘Science is great at many things but it continues to fail when faced with aspects of life that it does not yet understand.’
Thank you Joel – I love how you have made the analogy of Science as a language and approach and compared it with someone visiting a foreign country and learning the language. With this we need a openness, an inquisitivity but also a humbleness and willingness to learn. This is not always found in the scientiic communities though at its core is one of its key values.
We do need an openness, an inquisitivity, along with a humbleness and willingness to learn, ‘It is a bit like a traveller that wants to understand a foreign country but dismisses the locals as stupid because they speak a different language… but on a brief tangent, isn’t this what most colonising countries did!!”
How different are we from the “brainwashed” religious people if our belief in science does not let us see outside of the realms of what is already “explained”?
“The result of this position is that alternative ways of understanding are dismissed, rejected or ridiculed as a threat to their ‘ownership’.” I can really see this in science, and in addition there is now the corruption including research based on agendas for profit – a science that has been hijacked for self and not for the benefit of all of humanity. Science has definitely lost its purity for the time being.
I feel that as the grip of religion is loosened on society science is taking its place as another force that wants to control. So I agree with you Melinda when you say that science has lost its purity for the time being.
There is so much corruption in our world, science being one area, ‘the corruption including research based on agendas for profit – a science that has been hijacked for self and not for the benefit of all of humanity.’
A true test of a wise person is one who is forever open to deepening and expanding their wisdom. Insisting that there is nothing further to learn beyond the current perception is a mark of a fool.
Science likes to own because then it can control and we have witnessed throughout history what happens when institutions control people’s lives. And still we allow ourselves to be controlled …why?
We all have so much to learn and understand in life, we are forever students, ‘Science prefers to ‘own’ and even control the path to understanding. The result of this position is that alternative ways of understanding are dismissed, rejected or ridiculed as a threat to their ‘ownership’.’
Lorraine I agree it is all about ‘ownership’ and also control, it seems to me that Science wants to own and control, but actually we don’t own anything and we definitely cannot control Nature this is proven to us daily. When it comes to the forces of Nature then we are revealed in our ignorance and arrogance and how little we truly understand.
If true science is about understanding life then the science we have today that controls the results to suit itself isn’t true science. Having a result that suits you and yours isn’t understanding life, it’s padding out a picture of how life should be.
Only that this willingness is not there because the truth of the matter would severely rock too many boats and put too many comfortable mis-truths at risk, especially the ones that the pillars of society,i.e. religion, education, health, culture and nationalism, are based on.
Joel I love your analogy of a truncated version of science that is not open to understanding the universe and the explorers visiting a foreign place and deeming the inhabitants stupid because they do not speak their language. How limited a perspective can we take and live as humans when we deny the bigger picture on offer.
Denial of the bigger picture has become one of the hallmarks of sponsored science and thus, we keep turning around in the circles of our own narrow making.
Sponsored science pays for the results it wants…My first thought was “Then truly how much of science can truly be called science with the definition Joel has shared?” and “Even if the science isn’t sponsored is the ignorant attitude affecting others?” Not really a question because beliefs and ideals following into every part of life, not just one.
True science holds an openness of mind.
At one level there is so much we don’t know about the world and life, but there is also so much that we are choosing not to know.
Yes, like when we choose to not feel, ‘The cardio-centric approach suggests that any choice to override, misinterpret or choose to be oblivious is a choice to NOT feel what is truly happening – or put simply, we are reacting to what we feel.’
LJ have we been set up to react by an as yet unseen energy that uses our reactions as an energy source? If it were possible to not go into reaction, I wonder what the outcome would be?
I am only just beginning to understand just how much I react to almost everything, my reactions have become as normal to me as breathing.
There is a HUGE difference between looking to science and knowledge with arrogance as a ‘betterment’ which sets us above other people because of the information and understanding we are privy to, and being forever humble and open to life bringing a deeper and more expansive view from whatever angle it comes. One has us doggedly defend an outlook even in the face of much pointing to its fallacy, and with the other we move wide-eyed and open-hearted ready to observe, reflect, learn and expand with life itself.
What you present here Joel, absolutely challenges the belief, which many have, that they can’t feel what is going on around them and in them – “we can’t override or dismiss something without feeling it first on some level.” You have certainly given us much to consider, for if we were to accept this truth and began to explore it for ourselves, I, for one, know that life will begin to change, and we will soon realise that the holes of disbelief we often choose to stay stuck in are totally of our own making.
Ingrid I remember being told I can feel, I was convinced I could not feel anything, not understanding that was because I was so shut down under layers of protection. Is it possible this is when we can override and dismiss what is before us, when we live from our minds we can dismiss what we are being shown by our inner heart because we do not want to retrace the steps of why we shut down in the first place. For some it is too painful and so they will dismiss and even ridicule what they know in their hearts is true because there is a part of us that cannot admit to being hoodwinked, lied to, or led astray by an energy that has controlled and dominated us for eons. So as you correctly say we often choose to stay stuck in the holes of our own making.
The definition of science for me, is the putting in to words what is already happening in life. So the activity comes first and then the words are used or invented to describe it. this is what pure and simple science is to me.
Thank you Joel… I have always felt that the true scientists… So to speak, ended up in quantum physics where there is always an open admission of how little is understood.
Joel, Science still dismisses what it doesn’t know or what it cannot fit into a box. We seem to like putting everything into a box and then labeling it. But I have found that ‘Mother Nature’ cannot be tamed it cannot be put into a box and the arrogance of the scientists is such that ‘Mother Nature’ will bite them in bum so to say.
If they cannot see this coming then in my opinion they are blind as well as arrogant.
Having a large group of people living in conscious presence all be it to varying degrees would make a great scientific study because what is felt in the body can be described with clarity.
What do we notice when we live with conscious presence, ‘The more you live with conscious presence the more energy and vitality you have because you are not driving your physiology from your mind’s ideas of what is happening or what might happen, but rather responding to what is happening.’
“What if we could learn to not react to what was felt but stayed with that feeling? ” – the more I do this ie lessen to loose my reaction and live my life being about energy first, the more life becomes understandable.
So beautifully said Zofia and a great point too that I am working on in my life as well. Sometimes I cannot stop the reactions, but as soon as I can catch it, provided I have the willingness to look deeper at what is happening then so much more opens up for me and this is an amazing way to deal with life and understanding it more.
Brilliant. This explains so well how we have been retarding ourselves all along by getting in the way of what is so tangibly felt as our innate ability to connect and understand the unknown. This drive to own and control whatever is ‘out there’ – be it a person, a land, a religion whatever we perceive as ‘them’ – is what destroys relationships. Amazing how the concept of ownership and control came into creation to bastardise Oneness.
Understanding and acceptance are important and have value, ownership is not, ‘Surely what is important is not who owns the path to understanding but what might be learnt from it?’
Science and scientists are only limited by what they accept as proof beyond any doubt, yet there is a vast amount that is open to science to discover if they took one step further and realised that some things are true but not provable in the same way.
Just imagine how the scientific world would change if scientists, as a whole, made the choice to open their eyes, and their hearts, to what discoveries might be possible, instead of narrowing their view by the refusal to accept what they do not currently understand. It seems to me that so many scientists are either driven by their own agendas or they have narrowed their view of the world so much so, that in the process they are missing out on the marvels, the magic and the true medicine the universe is always offering us.
It seems the human brain works in a way whereby new information is compared to already processed and stored information in order to categorize the new into familiar files. Obviously that limits our openness to anything new and unknown, it is a bias that reduces not only what we perceive but also the awareness and capacity of who we are. But it is not just the brain and or a biological restriction, much more it comes from the energy or consciousness using the brain and actually the body in such a reductionistic way. As long as we are run by our nervous system and the flight and fight mechanism life will be about survival and thus security, hence the need for familiarity and thus a limited openness to what is unknown.
On a very practical and personal level it is very beneficial to explore not just the unknown but also the known (or seemingly known) every day with a freshness and openness as e.g. seeing a familiar person with fresh eyes instead lacing them with past experiences and thus an attitude or expectation for them to be ‘again’ the same as last time. We tend to give things and people fixed meaning and form, but ignore that everything at any moment in time is what the energy expressed through it makes it what or who it is, hence a fresh reading of the energetic quality presented by them or it is required and in that sense ‘scientific’ as in being open to see and understand with as few preconceptions as possible.
“The reality is things have always existed outside the current understanding of science. Yet somewhere, the assumption is made that because science does not understand something that this thing doesn’t exist or that it is folly to suggest that is does.” – Perhaps it is not science as such that has the issue, but rather that the issues come from the way it is approached and the narrow mindedness that certain people apply to science. Which leads to the question of how much are we missing out on by limiting our approach like that? Serge Benhayon does offer a way to break through so much and open up the world of science in ways that brings back its original beauty and universality. For science ‘belongs’ to us all, in our hearts.
“The Universal Medicine hypothesis is that the dominant way of understanding the world is currently through our mind and that understanding can also be achieved through our body, more specifically our heart, and more specifically again our inner heart.” – The cardio-centric approach holds much truth for us all, for it isolates not a part of the body yet starts from the inner heart to include the all.
The ‘science’ of the human mind understands what it can ‘prove’. The science of the Universe holds the wisdom of the All.
Beautifully said Mary, ‘The science of the Universe holds the wisdom of the All’. This makes complete sense that we don’t know everything, ah, the arrogance of the mind, but science is showing us the way, not the other way around.
The arrogance of the mind, or the wisdom of the body, ‘The more you live with conscious presence the more you notice the gap between what is felt and how our mind interprets these feelings.’
I have been practicing the art of response, rather than reaction. It is a life’s work, from the heart, and this offers the beautiful opportunity to live life experimentally, learning along the way, be a scientist, a student, a teacher held in the knowing we are divine. We all hold wisdom and we all can learn and our bodies do not lie, and so exploration, refinement and religious ‘reconnecting’ commitment are purposeful and enriching choices to consider.
Responding to situations versus reacting is so much more lovely for all involved, ‘The more you live with conscious presence, the less reactive you become to the world around you and the more connected you feel to yourself and others.’
“What is there to lose?” Or what is there to gain by being open to the expansion of our awareness of the energetic truth of everything.
I feel that the imposing mental way science is currently being taught or even dictated as in our education system actually makes many turn off from ever wanting to embrace it and much less make it something practical and simple in our everyday life.
Science is a field where the battle between spirit and Soul gets revealed. Major breakthroughs came from people connected to their Souls. The brought into light very important matters and usually they have challenged deeply the status quo because it (the status quo) was not true. Yet, most of the people working in science are not connected to their Souls. Their spirits reign and fight fiercely any insight that is disruptive of the House of Lies, that comes from the Soul. Science is only one scenario where the spirit is fighting the Soul with everything it can count on that it has created to back it up.
This is indeed the true test Joel… And so far, there are so few who pass this test and allow their horizons to continue to expand beyond the visible.
The present state of the world – corruption, increasing illness and disease, self-abuse, drugs, worldwide conflict (practically) etc. – is evidence that the ‘scientific’, mind based approach to life is not working. “The cardio-centric approach to life presented by Universal Medicine since 1999” offers a different way to be and live and the lived experience of those practicing it shows life does not have to follow the same path presently being walked by society in general.
We have glorified science and it’s research with evidence based ‘facts’ for a long time, and still do. We give so much money to fund cures for illnesses when perhaps it would be more sensible to be studying the preventative measures we can take that would minimise our chance of contracting whatever it is in the first place
When science connects to the universal intelligence that is available to us all, scientists will feel how limited and reduced science has become, because in truth it is constantly expanding and evolving far beyond what out minds can ever see.
There is alot for us all to ponder on in what you have shared here Joel, great blog.
Reading this today gave me such a clear understanding of how we can respond to mental imagery or in fact feel what is going on in our bodies very different … so more conscious presence to support feeling from the body without the interpretations of the mind.
Interesting how the criticism of others can be broadly accepted as true, when that person has no understanding what it is that they are criticising.
The is a difference between a true sense of wonderment and openness to what is not yet understood and accepted and true and then having a opinion that is owned by the ‘science’ of the day. With the word ‘evidence’ very big in scientific circles, I question the meaning of this word and the result of refusal to examine what is ‘new’ because of the lack of evidence.
It is important to name the arrogance and suppression of actual exploration and curiosity in science these days. The need for proof is stunting us as human beings, as grand things have been built such as the Great Pyramids that have science and universal understanding in their makeup that should not be there is testing and proof are needed. What has been known in ancient times without machines and tests far exceeds what we now know from evidence based science.
When I try to work things out with my mind I become further lost in the issues, however when I connect to something deeper within me- all of my next steps are known.
it is well known that the mental approach does not work, we know how we can remember events or incidents inaccurately. It can so falsely influence us if we rely on the mind. But as we develop and focus on our relationship with the body, we get all the true information we need.
When first learning and even still today I find the mind is the one that has a commentary of shunning any other way of understanding life. Often dismissing the wisdom of my body that time and time again comes out more truthfull and truly supportive.
Any scientist, reflects upon how little is truly known of the universe, when looked at through the eyes of even the most advanced science, must, given this pause of reflection, contemplate that there is so much more that is hidden to eyes That are hardwired to the intellect
To Me Science has taken over from religion, just as Religion strove to control humanity and it is now on the wane, Scientist have stepped in to take up the mantle of control and dominance. They will find that true science cannot be owned, just as Mother Nature cannot be tamed.
In any job or career the more tools we have to do the specific job the better, most look for new ideas and ways that will not only make things easier but also more cost effective, obvious stuff but science seems to have always taken a different approach with its need to own things and keep people in the dark. Add this cardio-centric approach and science would leap and bound without bounds.
We need to understand the whole and its parts to know the truth of things.
Great article Joel. ‘The reality is things have always existed outside the current understanding of science. Yet somewhere, the assumption is made that because science does not understand something that this thing doesn’t exist or that it is folly to suggest that is does.’ This assumption (like so many assumptions we have about everything) is so widespread and infects the connective tissue of our whole society – an assumption that is actually a kind of armour against the fear of the unknown, and ultimately the fear of evolution. It is a form of control implemented by the human spirit who wants to maintain ignorance for fear of losing its identity.
Superbly said Lyndy, and the more we hold onto comforts the more we deny the Truths in our life that would otherwsie offer us a deeper understanding of ourselves as well as the Universe.
“The cardio-centric approach suggests that it is possible to learn to understand what is felt BEFORE the mental interpretations of our beliefs kick in.” This makes more sense to me than the way scientists need facts and proof and do hundreds of tests before they accept that something exists, when through our feelings we can simply know the truth.
The trap of the mind: where we have an image and we find the feelings or in case of science the evidence to match it. Yet if we truly feel our body and see what is there, we allow ourselves the opportunity to understand and see more of life, we, and science can seriously benefit from this approach. And given that our existing approach of staying within the rigidness of the mind is not working, why not give this a go.
We see what we expect to see and what fits into the way we have pieced our view of the world together; science is no different, it follows the same route and is thus closed off to anything that falls outside the prevailing paradigm that it defends with all its might and at times brute force.
‘The reality is, there is far more to learn from the cardio-centric approach to life than can be written about in a single paper.’ So true Joel , but you have also done a awesome job of unpacking awareness of this in this blog. in it’s rigid and finite way of analysis, science can often put a full stop to, a delay, or a deviation away from the true and infinite expansion of awareness.
I love it when a teenager comes up with something that makes sense and cannot be disputed, without having all the umpteen letters behind their name and scientific reputation.
“In the mental approach we develop beliefs about life through our experiences, then we start to filter our experiences through these beliefs to make choices about our response. It is the ultimate self-affirming cycle, of interpreting life to fit our internal picture of what we are seeing. ” I can relate to what is said here, when I first came to Universal Medicine, what I was being presented with I would run it through my mental pictures of my beliefs and try to find something that matched what i believed, so my mind could take hold of something. Gradually as the beliefs started to be dropped a clearer understanding of what I was feeling instead of what I was thinking began to emerge, and an understanding of life in the truer sense began to unfold.
It is not just science but for everyone to be open to the unknown in the sense that otherwise we impose what we know on the unknown in the attempt to understand it but actually we then are blind to recognise and understand the unknown for what it is and thus keep our awareness of the vastness of life limited to what we consider familiar.
Life looks different in many ways if you go around the world. Life also plays out differently in different part of the world. Yet, inside a strand of life, life repeats very much itself all the time. So, life offers us constant living experiments that have specific characteristics. Science has done a lot to register them and to catalog and understand their trends, their differences and similarities. In that sense, science has served as well. Science has helped us to answer some questions, but not all the relevant ones. We need to answer them and to do so, we have a problem that is called science’s paradigm. A scientific paradigm admits a series of questions and a series of answers but everything that falls outside of its agenda gets a hard time. One of the reasons for this to happen is that any scientific paradigm assumes that it asks THE questions and get THE answers. Of course, we all know that a scientific paradigm lasts what it lasts to be replaced by another one that does the same, even if it asks different questions and see life from a different angle.
Our inner-heart respects our body, is there for our body sharing its wisdom, whilst the mind does not care what we do with our body or about our body.
What you share in this blog Joel, and what Serge Benhayon shares makes so much sense, ‘understanding can also be achieved through our body, more specifically our heart, and more specifically again our inner heart.’
There is so much we still do not understand, we all know at some level that there is more to life, but science continues to ‘ dismiss or even ridicule what was being proposed. Science is great at many things but it continues to fail when faced with aspects of life that it does not yet understand.’
As we already feel everything deeply, to override and pass over, to ignore or even deliberately go against our true feelings is, in reaction, shying away and denying ourselves our divine right – the beauty and truth who we are.
When I was little I had a natural curiousity and enthusiasm to see that what we know is limited and that there is much more to understand in life by living it and experiencing its ways beyond what is currently measurable. What limits our willing and openness to exploring what is deemed unknown is our stubbornness to hold on to what we know is comfortable and familiar. What if the truth that could be ‘discovered’ actually shows how irresponsible we have been both as individuals and as a collective? That’s a hard pill to swallow.
Yes society has become so much about our mind our ideals and beliefs so when challenged with a situation we have a range of thoughts to go to to analyse it, even though we can feel way more straight away in our body, not needing the whole thought process to begin with… The key is to indeed learn to feel our body again.
Surely true science is void of ignorance and arrogance or it is not scientific. It may be of interest to distinguish between science based on a knowing or on knowledge; the first is spherical and open for exploration and expansion, the second is linear and open for exploration to a degree but seeks to stay in its established confinements and thereby reduces reality through its limited perception.
” ….. the truly scientific response to this difference would be a willingness to explore any tools that would offer a deeper understanding of life.” Absolutely but it would seem only the ‘what is currently known’ is accepted as fact. Is it due to fear that what may be presented will rock the foundations they have built so far?
This is such a short sighted approach to life
“the assumption is made that because science does not understand something that this thing doesn’t exist or that it is folly to suggest that is does.”
The scientist does not hold all the answers and it is a huge arrogance on their behalf to think they do or that they can somehow control Nature. They cannot control Nature or our Universe and some of the things that have been allowed under the umbrella of science should not be allowed at all. Humanity will one day deeply regret the meddling that is currently taking place in the name of ‘Science’
It’s astonishing the hold arrogance seems to have on science, that man can conquer and own the physical world because of knowledge, when in actual fact our planet is really like a grain of sand in context of the whole universe. It is so big and we are so small, just a part, you would think that alone would encourage openness and humility – two qualities we really need to truly connect to science.
Science seems to be used to rationalise things or make statements or document it as research. And yet we seem to lose the truth of science by using it this way. I can say that my body is a constant ongoing science experiment that communicates with me all the time, the variable being my choices.
So true, I love to do my own experiments feeling my body in different ways, how it feels with eating certain foods, how it feels when I swim or walk compared to how it feels when I am in a hurry or stressed. This is true living science experiments we can all do to understand science from the body instead of the mind.
Imagine if creative thinking was the foundation of all scientific study from high school on, imagine if we simply stayed open, developed our awareness of the energetic interplay of the universe right from the very start, …. Where would science be now.
Today I experienced how stupendously incredible it is to walk fully in conscious presence with my whole body in total harmony and I do not need any scientist to come along and tell me how great it was for me to do that as my body is telling me loud and clear.
Maybe one day scientists will embody what they know and not be seperate to the knowledge – now they would be amazing scientists! In the meantime every person is a student of the science of life, we may not have the moniker “scientist” but we are all scientists in our own explorations.
The fact that we choose to not feel life from this cardio centric space, raises an interesting question, what is revealed or exposed about the so called intelligence of the mind that we do not wish to see?
A beautiful test and way forwards for science to be explored honouring who we really are and all we feel from within our inner hearts and our inner knowing and the reality of this.
Yes, true science can only start with humbleness. How to have access to the unknown then, if we think we know it all first?
Yes, true science can only start with humbleness. How to have access to the unknown then, if we think we know it all first?
The connection to the body that the Gentle Breath Meditation offers is life changing. So simple and yet so effective.
There is so much that science still can’t explain. It’s unfortunate that scientists don’t collaborate more. They are all so secretive because they want the recognition for being the first to discover a new thing or patent a new drug.
Imagine being told you were never going to understand something until someone invents a way to measure it?! We would all be lost and essentially lost sheep. The feeling we get when we feel changes in energy can’t necessarily be explained by a machine, because we feel it in our body and translate it based on our experiences, what is one feeling for one is very different for another. Science will need to understand that we are each tools that offer a deeper understanding of life and are therefore each worth studying.
Unfortunately a lot of scientific experiments are based on an already agreed upon outcome as greed seems to the currency of the day, Having said that I do know of some amazing enthusiastic scientists who have completely blown my socks off on http://www.unimedliving.com/science/the-truth-about-science/what-is-science.html who do have the . . . ” willingness to explore any tools that would offer a deeper understanding of life.”
Science can incredibly distinguish the difference between this cancer and that cancer, one disease and another, even one minuscule atom and another, but what would be interesting to explore is WHY a person might have this particular disease and not something else? WHY their cells act in this way, and that a ‘random mutation’ configured the way it did…
Just imagine an organization of any sort.. standing up and proclaiming forth … OK we don’t know about 95% of what our business is about but if you challenge us we will ridicule you, humiliate you and render what you say naught… would you trust this organization to lead you forth? I think not
Yet because they don’t proclaim it quite so blatantly and in fact they promote that what they do is ‘it’ then we believe them when it suits us to not discern for ourselves.
Surely what is important is not who owns the path to understanding but what might be learnt from it?
Humanities need to own knowledge is the crux here, the separation and mistrust that has ensued has consequently delayed the might that is possible through our equal connection & purpose.
We all know from personal experience that when we come across someone who absolutely refuses to be open to new ideas and new concepts comes across as rigid and dare I say a little idiotic.
I don’t mean this in a judgmental way, I to have my own moments of doing that. What I mean is that we all know that this is not a wise stance in life.
So how on earth have we ended up allowing our scientific understanding and exploration become limited in such a way?
“The reality is things have always existed outside the current understanding of science. Yet somewhere, the assumption is made that because science does not understand something that this thing doesn’t exist or that it is folly to suggest that is does.” So true as I have scientist academic friends who defend their known science for all its worth. Yet I thought science was about being open to new ideas and frontiers. We certainly don’t know it all and our world is proof of that. – otherwise why would highly intelligent people do stupid things to and with their body? Perhaps there is another Way…?
When reading the title of the writing ” the true test of science is how it faces the unknown ” but we come from that unknown I thought , so therefore all is truly know , as there is nothing that is not known. And brings it back to my science days in school and the history of the periodic table of elements by Dmitri Mendeleev where he drew up a box chart and left , boxes empty on the chart where he knew but had no tangible evidence that an element would fit . So as time went on the spaces got filled with newly ” discovered ” elements , but the elements always fitted into the space that Dmitri had set aside for them with the way he scientifically configured the chart . Now thats science of knowing the unknown.
Great comment John. Mendeleev knew he didn’t know it all at that point, but knew to leave space for it to be filled at a later date. An inner knowing and no arrogance there. I agree ‘Now thats science of knowing the unknown.’
This is a spot on observation John.
A developing relationship with humility is opening up a whole new world of questioning for me; a willingness to explore stuff and question things that I have avoided or not given the time of day for before. A lot of this has been based on a false arrogance and belief that I want to come across as knowledgeable and that it is important to have things concluded in some way.
I can relate to that false arrogance too Matilda. Science is an observation, a learning to take a new idea and view it openly without prejudice or judgement. Who knows what unfolds when we don’t slam the lid on it.
I love humility. There is always more to learn through observation.
Indeed we have nothing to lose so it is a great first step to let go of our arrogance as a spirit and start to be more on a honest level with ourselves and each other.
What a lot of sense you highlight here Joel with all we feel and the way science has its view based on proven facts. “The more you live with conscious presence, the less reactive you become to the world around you and the more connected you feel to yourself and others.” This is so beautiful to know we can live in a more harmonious way with our bodies ,our selves everybody and the outside world around us and this is something we seek underneath the so called acceptance of life as it is.
We have nothing to lose and everything to gain – seeing the mess we have created globally and locally, in all areas of life one would care to mention.
Science can be such a beautiful thing when it comes with a true exploratory and open approach, but often it’s coming with a predetermined head set and can be very controlling.
“Enter Universal Medicine, and their suggestion that more understanding can be achieved through the body than through mind.”
Since being introduced to this notion, and developing a more loving relationship with my body, I can vouch that the wisdom shared through my body, feels much more all encompassing of my whole body, and of others where as when I am in mind, it is much more about the mind/head only (i.e. eating for taste even though the body is full), and more about me.
Yes it is such an extraordinary thing to be added to present… That our bodies have a wisdom and intelligence that is just waiting to be tapped into… The satnav of conscious presence built-in!.
I read a paper recently that wrote about an enormous disturbance that was happening in the world of physics…. The ‘theory’ that everyone had ‘sort of’ agreed on, that explained 90% of the known universe was possibly about to be debunked…. If we simply sit with this … a lot is revealed.
That is so interesting Chris, so it must have been in the past when the ideas changed, like from everyone being convinced that the world is flat to there may be a new way of understanding something.
Yes exactly Gill… And the enormity of the ‘ not knowing’ and the propping up of ways of thinking with extraordinarily complex theorems is simply staggering… And we, in this era, think that we know so much
I don’t know why this made me laugh – I suspect it is because of the arrogance of thinking we know it all or at least know so much! The more I learn, the more I realise the less I know. And in fact, the more humble I am with that the greater the natural wisdom I see is found outside the arrogance of knowledge.
And the thing is… They take it so seriously… An authoritative paper in an accredited journal talking about how these theories that they have used to explain the universe for the last 50 years are going to be revealed to be simply not true… And then using the same paradigms looking for other theories… Talk about ostrich science!
I don’t need a science project to prove it to me, I use my body and it tells me loud and clear and then I know for sure.
To me Science seems to be taking over from religion in that it wants to own and control everything and the Scientists seem to me to have an answer to something and then work backwards off of that to find the theory.
The other thing that worries me about Scientists is that they are usually sponsored by the big corporations such as the sugar industry so it was no surprise that the Scientists discovered that eating sugar was good for you. Now of course we know that actually it is very harmful, a poison to the body. Scientists have their place but they should not be allowed to become the dominant voice and control our lives.
Skepticism is a bit like buddhism, the latter of which say detach, detach detach – the problem with which is of course, if you do happen to find “enlightenment”, you probably won’t know, because you will have detached from it. Science, or more precisely skepticism, has become a little like that – whereby we have become so skeptical that we do not even believe things even when they are proven. We simply accept them as the best belief system we have currently developed. The problem with that is when you come across the truth, you are still going to deny it, insisting that it will probably be disproven in time anyway.
“Surely what is important is not who owns the path to understanding but what might be learnt from it”. Such a great question Joel and one that I instantly would say yes to but there appear to be many involved in science who want to own certain paths, consistently telling others that theirs is the right path and discount any other and then keep their learnings to themselves. Surely at the end of the day, each path, and the learnings from them, is a path for the good of all humanity; no one owns them, they belong to all.