Universe
in One
“The
whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy
patterns...Thus we are not separated parts of a whole. We are a
whole.”
Barbara
Brennan
Barbara Brennan's book,
Hands of Light, was my introduction to the concept of being energetic in nature. It was one book in a stack that my friend, Charlotte,
brought to the beach one mom's getaway weekend back in the early 1990's. Someone had given it
to her, and she was mildly interested but had other things she wanted
to read. I picked it up and didn't put it down again for the whole
weekend. Now and then you find a book, or read an article, that
causes all your bricks to stack neatly into place, and that was what
Hands of Light did for me.
Brennan is not a
“woo-woo” guru. She started out her career as a NASA scientist.
Most of our understanding of the nature of the universe has come from
physicists, who through observation, exploration and experimentation,
discovered that at the subatomic level, matter behaves more like a wave
than a particle. In other words, it is pure energy, and everything in
the universe is made from it. The energy that is us comes from within
our very form, from our food, from our contact with earth's elements,
the sun and every other part of nature. We are part of all that is in
the most concrete way possible.
We are not separate from
anything. In fact, Brennan says, “All suffering is caused by the
illusion of separateness...” The universe is sentient, it is conscious, and we are sentient beings. For this reason, we
have the capacity to see ourselves as separate, unique, disconnected.
But that is simply not true. That is illusion—in fact, delusion. We
are enmeshed within a whole, and everything about us is part of that
whole. When we are sick, or some part of our body is not functioning
well, it is often the result of seeing ourselves as disconnected from
the source of well-being. Brennan says this about it: “Illness
is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is the result of forgetting who
you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that
lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness...Illness
can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help
you remember who you are.”
Today, remember who you
are—a being made of conscious energy, abiding within, and as part of the amazing universal
source. You are a whole.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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