ESSENTIAL AGELESS BODY, TIMELE(ISBN=) 英文原版

From THE ESSENTIAL AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND

I would like you to join me on a journey of discovery. We will
explore a place where the rules of everyday existence do not apply.
These rules explicitly state that to grow old, become frail, and
die is the ultimate destiny of all. And so it has been for century
after century. However, I want you to suspend your assumptions
about what we call reality so that we can become pioneers in a land
where youthful vigor, renewal, creativity, joy, fulfillment, and
timelessness are the common experience of everyday life, where old
age, senility, infirmity, and death do not exist and are not even
entertained as a possibility.

Only our conditioning, our current collective worldview that we
were taught by our parents, teachers, and society is preventing us
from going there.

This way of seeing things–the old paradigm–has aptly been called
“the hypnosis of social conditioning,” an induced fiction in which
we have collectively agreed to participate.

Your body is aging beyond your control because it has been
programmed to live out the rules of that collective conditioning.
In order to create the experience of ageless body and timeless
mind, which is the promise of this book, you must discard ten
assumptions about who you are and what the true nature of the mind
and body is. These assumptions form the bedrock of our shared
worldview.

They are:
1. There is an objective world independent of the observer, and our
bodies are an aspect of this objective world.

2. The body is composed of clumps of matter separated from one
another in time and space.

3. Mind and body are separate and independent from each
other.

4. Materialism is primary, consciousness is secondary. In other
words, we are physical machines that have learned to think.

5. Human awareness can be completely explained as the product of
biochemistry.

6. As individuals, we are disconnected, self-contained
entities.

7. Our perception of the world is automatic and gives us an
accurate picture of how things really are.

8. Time exists as an absolute, and we are captives of that
absolute. No one escapes the ravages of time.

9. Our true nature is totally defined by the body, ego, and
personality. We are wisps of memories and desires enclosed in
packages of flesh and bones.

10. Suffering is necessary–it is part of reality. We are inevitable
victims of sickness, aging, and death.

These assumptions reach far beyond aging to define a world of
separation, decay, and death. Time is seen as a prison that no one
escapes; our bodies are
biochemical machines that, like all machines, must run down. This
position, the hard line of materialistic science, overlooks much
about human nature. We are the only creatures on earth who can
change our biology by what we think and feel. We possess the only
nervous system that is aware of the phenomenon of aging. And
because we are aware, our mental state influences what we are aware
of.

Each assumption of the old paradigm can be replaced with a more
complete and expanded version of the truth. These new assumptions
are also just ideas created by the human mind, but they allow us
much more freedom and power. They give us the ability to rewrite
the program of aging that now directs our cells.

The ten new assumptions are:

1. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the
observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our
world.

2. In their essential state, our bodies are composed of energy and
information, not solid matter. This energy and information is an
outcropping of infinite fields of energy and information spanning
the universe.

3. The mind and body are inseparably one. The unity that is “me”
separates into two streams of experience. I experience the
subjective stream as thoughts, feelings, and desires. I experience
the objective stream as my body. At a deeper level, however, the
two streams meet at a single creative source. It is from this
source that we are meant to live.

4. The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness. Beliefs,
thoughts, and emotions create the chemical reactions that uphold
life in every cell. An aging cell is the end product of awareness
that has forgotten how to remain new.

5. Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned
phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your
body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If
you change your perception, you change the experience of your body
and your world.

6. Impulses of intelligence create your body in new forms every
second. What you are is the sum total of these impulses, and by
changing their patterns, you will change.

7. Although each person seems separate and independent, all of us
are connected to patterns of intelligence that govern the whole
cosmos. Our bodies are part of a universal body, our minds an
aspect of a universal mind.

8. Time does not exist as an absolute, but only eternity. What we
call linear time is a reflection of how we perceive change. If we
could perceive the changeless, time would cease to exist as we know
it. We can learn to start metabolizing non-change, eternity, the
absolute. By doing that, we will be ready to create the physiology
of immortality.

9. Each of us inhabits a reality lying beyond all change. Deep
inside us, unknown to the five senses, is an innermost core of
being, a field of non-change that creates personality, ego, and
body. This being is our essential state–it is who we really
are.

10. We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are
part of the scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of
change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal
being.

These are vast assumptions, the makings of a new reality, yet all
are grounded in the discoveries of quantum physics made almost a
hundred years ago. The seeds of this new paradigm were planted by
Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and the other pioneers of quantum
physics, who realized that the accepted way of viewing
the physical world was false. Although things “out there” appear to
be real, there is no proof of reality apart from the observer.
Every worldview creates its own world.

I want to convince you that you are much more than your limited
body, ego, and personality. In reality, the field of human life is
open and unbounded. At its deepest level, your body is ageless,
your mind is timeless. Once you identify with that reality, which
is consistent with the quantum worldview, aging will fundamentally
change.