It feels like I’m ready to come up for air and check out the rest of the world. Between my time in Hawaii, my re-entry into the world of grocery shopping and laundry, engaging in programs and with clients and – let’s not forget! – the riveting moments of ‘Dancing with the Stars’, I’m just now feeling like I’m back in the game and ready to play!
For some time now, it’s been a challenge for me to find books that hold my interest. I know… I know… there are lots of wonderful authors, wonderful books/topics, etc. AND after 40 years in the personal evolution/self-development field, I’m finding that much of what’s out there is now on its third pass. It’s not that I need more – it’s that I need different.
I was very drawn to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book – My Stroke of Insight. Truly a remarkable woman on an equally remarkable journey of self-discovery. And not just discovery of her ‘self’ but discovery of a process of how ‘self’ is discovered. All of her most excellent academic, scientific training had to expand and loosen in order to make room for the magnitude of what she came to know herSelf to be – deeply, profoundly and in her body – as the truth of her own experience. Well worth the time to read, not just for her inspirational, courageous and heart-warming tale but for the massive challenge that her truth is to the so-called ‘truth’ of the medical sciences.
And then, as my great luck would have it, Ervin Laszlo’s latest book was published in March of this year – called Quantum Shift in the Global Brain. I love the way this man’s mind works. A philosopher and a scientist, he has a way of standing on the edge of them both so that he can see great distances in either direction. His message in his last book (The Chaos Point) was a strong one. In this book, he goes further to lay out what be believes it is going to take to make a difference… fast! 
In all fairness to Dr. Laszlo, I’ve not gone beyond the first three chapters when I say this: for me, the same piece keeps being overlooked in his work and the work of others. (Perhaps there’s more at the end?) With an emphasis on the recognition that we must engage with each other and with our world, differently, it seems to be unrecognized that before we can do either of these, we must first become willing to engage with ourselves, differently. Without that essential and fundamental shift, all else is not sustainable in challenging environments. Like using will power and determination to stay on a diet, the minute we’re hungry and food we love presents, our fallback position is to eat.
Our first requirement is to change how we engage with ourselves. Change how we define what we are. Change our sense of ‘self’ and from there, our sense of ‘other’. In the truest of ways, charity really does begin at home!
And my last little adventure in magic and mystery has found its launch point in Michio Kaku’s new book Physics of the Impossible, an entertaining and fascinating exploration of the possible science behind the impossible realities of things like phasers, force fields, time travel and teleportation. Kool! And not so much because of the things themselves, but because of how in order to make sense of any of it, we have to allow ourselves to let go as we read. My question of such work is always the same: how does this relate to my life, today; and how do these insights and discoveries invite me to redefine not who I am but what I am?
Michio Kaku is one of the best theoretical physicists in the world, currently teaching in New York. When I read what he writes (and he’s written other wonderful books that will stretch your realities and your mind), I allow myself to become lost in the possibility and potential, and be willing to ‘know’ (in my body, where it really counts and not just my intellect) that no truth is an absolute. From a Logical Levels point of view, what’s true at one logical level can lose ground and fall apart at another. I love it! In this strange but effective way of ‘being’, anything becomes possible!
So, for now, my days and my thoughts are taken up with notions of Emerging Futures and living as a Quantum Biological Human™. I have these moments of great clarity when I know that a thought or notion that I hold is impossible and I know with equal certainty that it’s true. My greatest challenge always becomes: can I live with that in my body without it feeling like chaos? For that to be so, I have to be willing to have many ‘realities’ co-exist and honour each other. It is not that ‘truth’ wears many masks – it is that truth has many faces.
So far, I’m doing just fine!
Breathing is good…..
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