14 March 2008

Myths

In the "Power of Now", my favourite book at the moment, Eckhart Tolle talks about three myths.


Myth 1 - Humanity has reached the pinnacle of its development.

Myth 2 - We are completely separate from each other, nature, and the Cosmos

Myth 3 - The physical world is all there is.


Just to clarify myths are fictious and unproven in other words are stories we hold as true. We have been told these stories for all our lives so we believe them and sometimes see no reason to challenge them.

Take five minutes and imagine that the three statements written above are totally untrue.

How does this impact on your view of the world and the people in it including yourself?
What beliefs and certainties do you want to change?
What could you imagine doing now that was impossible before?

In agreement with Eckhart Tolle's view I believe humanity has not reached the pinnacle of its development, that we are connected with all life, rather than separate and that consciousness has both physical and nonphysical dimensions of reality.

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