SEVEN BILLION MINDS, OR ONE?

Guest: Larry Dossey
 

“I felt there was no separation between anything.  I felt as if I were united with everything, and it was wonderful!”  This recent report from a reader is a universal experience of people who are concerned with psychological and spiritual growth.  This sense of connectedness is not fantasy, but is being affirmed by recent advances in consciousness research.
    But where our mind is concerned, we’ve been more concerned with disunity than unity.  During the twentieth century we took the mind apart — the conscious, the unconscious, the pre- and sub-conscious, the collective unconscious, the superego, ego, id, and so on.  When we look through the other end of the telescope, however, we can see a different pattern.  We can make out what I call the One Mind — not a subdivision of consciousness, but the overarching, inclusive dimension to which all the mental components of all individual minds — past, present, and future — belong. I capitalize the One Mind to distinguish it from the single, one mind that each individual appears to possess.
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About Dr. Larry Dossey
Dr. Larry Dossey is an internist, former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, and former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/ Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Mediciine, National Institutes of Health. He is executive editor of the peer-previewed journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing.    He is the author of twelve books on the role of consciousness and spirituality in health, which have been translated into languages around the world.    His most recent book is ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters. He lectures around the world.
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