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Arnold Mindell's term for what Einstein called God's thoughts is processmind, meaning an experience of an all-pervasive state of consciousness. We can all access it, he says; it is perhaps our least known and greatest power. He uniquely connects modern physics, transpersonal psychology, and world mostrar más spiritual traditions and provides exercises to actualize our deepest, unitive consciousness. In all, the book helps us tap into an immense power that can benefit our own lives and, ultimately, the world. mostrar menos

Obras de Arnold Mindell

Coma: Key to Awakening (1989) 27 copias
Dance of the Ancient One (2013) 9 copias
Skygger i byen (1997) 1 copia

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metavision | Feb 12, 2020 |
This is another excellent book by this wonderful author. I found it fascinating but extremely abstract and difficult to put to practical use without the personal help of the author.

The book is about dreams and body symptoms and “connect medicine and psychology with the physics of nonlocality”.

Mindell’s tenet is that working with your dreams and body sensations “in a real and dreamlike manner” changes your body experience. He states that our awareness interacts with the subatomic realm of our body.

He talks of the force of silence, which is the force behind everything. He has found that all body movements and symptoms can be traced back to subtle “imaginary” experiences. Symptoms begin in “imaginary time”, which can be felt as a subtle body signal, i.e. the force of silence.

As you can see, the subject-matter is somewhat vague and obscure, and Mindell expresses himself in his own special way.

He discusses Rainbow Medicine, by which he means multidimensional approaches in medicine.

He tells us about flickering or flirts, by which he means awareness of the tiniest, most subtle experiences. He gives us intriguing examples of some of his work with patients or acquaintances, where he asks these to focus on tiny things that catch their attention, and informs us of the insights and experiences that reveal themselves out of this.

“Immense changes can occur by our honoring the tiniest perceptions ….. There is great wisdom embedded in body sensations and symptoms.”

The author provides us with many illuminating but challenging exercises. One of these is on how to use our awareness to shape-shift into different forms and other dimensions. In this exercise you may notice “several body dimensions, worlds or hyperspaces”. “The body’s hyperspaces are where events such as creative urges or symptoms begin.” By noticing these spaces, your body symptoms may be relieved.

Mindell refers widely to Carlos Casteneda and his teacher, don Juan Matus, and this book contains a chapter on shamanism and the essence of symptoms. To Mindell, the existence of symptoms is “like a big dream indicating that we are being called to undertake a new kind of training”. (Ha, ha, I have many symptoms, so this should be good news for me!) Symptoms are not opponents to be overcome but potential allies.

Re exercises, there is one on the healing effects of overtones and one on “the hyperspace of a troublesome person”.

In one exercise about “dreams, symptoms, genetics”, we are asked to remember the earliest dream we can, or, alternatively, our first childhood memory. The first (and only) dream I remember from my childhood was a recurrent dream I had when I was about 3. We lived in a mansion and I dreamt that I was falling from the bottom part of the long stairway, which stretched over several floors, but I always woke before I landed. My first memory was of my mother dropping me in the snow when carrying me home from the birth clinic. She picked me up and stopped a passing taxi which we took it home. When talking to my mother about this memory later in life, it turned out that she never dropped me but the incident actually happened exactly a week before I was born when she was returning home from a checkup at the birth clinic, and she herself fell. (This affected me too of course, since I was inside her, thus my belief that she had dropped me.) I was born at a big hospital in Glasgow and knew this but my memory was of coming from the birth clinic, and this was what we were actually doing, or at least my mother was. She confirmed that all the details of my memory were correct except that the incident happened a week before I was born. I sensed that both this incident and my dream had to do with my legs, and in fact I have had problems with my legs for many years, and also fell myself a couple of years ago with long-lasting consequences which have not yet been resolved.

There’s a chapter about how community influences the body, one of Mindell’s main themes, and one entitled “symptoms are medicine from the future”. Interesting, but I fear it will take some years before CR (consensus reality) progresses so far as to understand Mindell’s tenets about curing ourselves by looking into our symptoms.

To sum up, this is another exciting book by Mindell but it is by no means easy to savvy. I would recommend this book if you are open to the author’s work and have good time to delve deeply into it and try out the exercises. Good luck with it!
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IonaS | Feb 23, 2014 |
I ordered this book because I thought it had something to do with lucid dreaming, though it didn’t really, not lucid dreaming in the conventional sense, and because I love and admire Arnold Mindell.

This must be the deepest book I’ve ever read through to the end, and the most difficult to comprehend. I had to read most of the sentences several times. Mindell has his own vocabulary for things, and some parts of the book might have been more comprehensible had this not been the case.

The book is about “the Dreaming”. This is the energy behind everything, “the life force of all living beings”. Everyday reality or CR (consensus reality) corresponds to the bright side of the moon, while the Dreaming corresponds to the dark side of the moon. If you ignore the Dreaming background to reality, you marginalize (Mindell’s favourite word) “the deepest unformulated experiences that create your actions in everyday life”.

Every time you ignore sentient (Mindell’s second favourite word) perceptions, i.e. generally unrecognized dreamlike perceptions, you have “overlooked the spirit of life, your greatest potential power”.

I had to look up the word “sentient” in the dictionary, since Mindell kept using it and I kept having difficulty in understanding what he meant by it. According to Webster’s Desk Dictionary, “sentient” means “able to perceive by the senses” or “experiencing sensation or feeling”. I don’t actually think this definition helped me much.

We are told that ignoring the Dreaming is an undiagnosed global epidemic. Most of us suffer from a chronic form of mild depression because we have been taught to focus on everyday reality and forget about the Dreaming background. This depression is the sense that something in your life is missing. We are out of touch with the core energy of life, the Dreaming.

“Dreaming is the origin of all your experiences, including your sense of meaning and your deepest beliefs.”

There are apparently three layers to reality: 1) consensus reality, or everyday reality 2) Dreamland, the area of dreams (I understand the author to mean here the dreams we have when sleeping) and 3) Dreamtime, or the Dreaming (vague feelings and intuitions that can barely be verbalized).

Jung and Freud have spoken of the Dreaming in terms of the subconscious or unconscious mind. To Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, etc, “the sentient Dreaming world is the basis reality”. These “energetic tendencies that dream everyday life into existence” are called by Taoists “the Tao that cannot be spoken”. Chuang Tsu referred to Dreaming as the “Primal Force”, Native Americans talk about “the power of the Great Spirit”, while physicists refer to “quantum wave functions”.

To catch actions and thoughts as they arise from the Dreaming, you must be mindful and concentrated, or lucid.

Dreaming is the basic energy of the universe.

Dreaming happens all the time, just before new thoughts and actions arise.

The author states:

“Because you are Dreaming all day long, I wish to expand the idea of lucid dreaming to mean being awake during Dreaming not only at night but also during the day.” He calls this process “24-hour lucid dreaming”.

Mindell explains that marginalization means taking something that was in the centre of your awareness and placing it in the “margins” of your focus, thereby ignoring it.

He explains that “sentient” refers to the “automatic awareness of subtle, normally marginalized experiences and sensations”

He tells us that objects are continually “flirting” with us and catching our attention. We are anything that catches our attention. The “little you” assumes that feelings about whatever it observes can be marginalized. The “Big You” sees the little you and the things catching its attention as all being potentially valuable. We are what catches our attention. The environment is an aspect of the larger Self.

The above should give you an idea of what this book is about. As stated, it is a deep book, and thus not for everyone. You will need to concentrate on it to extract its meaning.

I found the book illuminating. It challenged me to take a step further in self-development. I would highly recommend it to those who are willing to devote their time and concentration on it and Mindell’s paradigm of the world/universe.
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IonaS | Feb 19, 2014 |

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