Cosmos and Consciousness II Conference
September 11th 2004 Farmington, Maine
The Mindshift Institute, headed by Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion, organized a terrific conference in September. I was grateful to attend as a representative of the Marion Institute and the Metahistory team. The speaker’s were Dr Rudy Schild, a Harvard Astrophysicist, Brian O’Leary, ex-astronaut and Physicist, and James O’Dea president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Rudy Schild
Rudy Schild opened the conference. Here are some notes from his brilliant lecture: The universe is probablistic but not uncertain. In other words, we are co-adventuring with evolution. Research into Barionic Dark Matter, the fabric of Black holes, is like searching through universal fog, finding viscosity changes in clumps of dark matter illuminated by stars. Dr. Schild studies those clumps of matter left over from the beginnings of the universe. He spoke poetically of medusas and jelly fish like gases floating and intersecting with each other in the darkness of space. In the most distant regions of the universe, he continued, scientists have detected vast swarms of dark matter.
We must be attuned, he said, to the great modern miracles of the universe, miracles that ask of us that we suspend disbelief in such things as UFO sightings and alien abductions. We must give due attention to accounts of near death experiences, astrology, parapsychology, cattle mutilation, crop circles, ghosts and fairies. “As above, so below.”
Dr. Schild work has also led him to search under the earth to figure out the mysteries of this dark matter in space. Everything transmits vibration and frequency increases, in conscious awareness. The sum of all frequencies is what he calls “Source.” In an interview with the late John Mack, one UFO abductee said that he comes from twin stars, his home star is two stars. Rudy Schild said that it is important to confront modern culture on what he calls ongoing and selective denial. In closing, he asks the question: “What is the other part of the universe we are in denial of?”
James O'Dea
James O’Dea began his talk with these words, “The creative light of existence preceded the sun, in the beginning the essence of God rooted over the heavens. We are the creative light of existence, the spark of participation. We were not invited here as guests we are central participators. Let us stop pretending we do not have know-ledge of this Light. We must use our imaginations to be in touch with the depth of the cosmos. We must develop a new sense of the unknown in ourselves. Noetic means new ways of seeing beyond the platform of the rational mind. We are now in full emergence and we must remember, God does not like to be bored. There is in the world today, an unprecedented burgeoning of capacities and there are openings in entirely new areas of possibilities. The Light is a mirror, consciousness is reflective. We are shimmering points of recognition for each other.”
James O’Dea said that he had a clear moment of awakening when he was sent to Beyrouth, during the war, while working for Amnesty International. He was making his way amongst blown up body parts and wounded children when an Arab man offered him a cup of mint tea sitting quietly in the rubble of his bombed house. That was a moment of absolute cohesion in spite of the horrendous circumstances.
He continued (I paraphrase): We are here to refine the quality of the mirror we hold up to the world. We must hold ourselves and others in a same embrace. Waves of meaning ripple and flow through populations, when meaning is trapped we have to create choices.How do we separate the victim and the perpetrator? How do we get out of the wind of punishment? We can consider indigenous ways, as central forms of meaning. The body knows, it is an instrument of universal awareness, the gut is the third brain. Take two paradoxes a day and develop a lot of ambiguity. We are vastly interfused, witnessing sparks of life, entangled mind webs. We play in the fields of entanglement within the quantum holographs of omni universes. When we interact with each other it is a biochemical event.
James O’Dea said “I am aware of the heart fields of attention around me." We are all invited to tune into the vast landscape of the heart fields that permeate us and so expand the mirror of life. Mental aggression does not synchronize well with the heart. The knowledge of heart and mind together creates gnosis. Gnosis is a space of balance within ourselves that makes room for intention to shift.
In closing James O’Dea said that the key to health is forgiveness, the neuro-circuitry of the brain is altered by forgiveness. Live a full participatory relationship with the nature of reality. Flood the universe with intentional breathing, cast the net of possibilities into the ether. Many people are still looking back and destroying the earth, precipitating the last supper of Gaia. Extraordinary times require extraordinary evidence, and the application of the noetic sciences.
Brian O'Leary
The last speaker of the morning was PhD in astronomy, ex-astronaut and environ-mentalist Brian O’Leary. He said that successful tyranny is not strength, it is a use of force that removes the vision of possibility. War is terrorism. The research and development of new energies is suppressed by government, so people must demand complete transparency in the research and development of new energies. The guzzling of oil and water waste are the same issues. The rate of pollution is unsustainable unless we come up with new forms of life styles that demand different kinds of energy.
Brian O’Leary quoted David Brower and said ”We are no longer inheriting the earth from our parents we are stealing it from our children.” Brian O’Leary is very active in what he calls “The new energy movement”. The website he is collaborating on is http://www.newenergymovement.org. We urgently need clean, cheap, benign forms of energy. We must evolve in co-experiencing reality. He said that we must encourage intelligent public debate and discussion as to which energy alternatives are both safe and effective, and accelerate the widespread conversion to the best energy options. The dominant fossil fuel and nuclear energy systems currently used by mankind are unsafe yet inertia of entrenched and protected public interests discourages innovation. Brian said that he believes that if we enter into a sustained conversation about new energies, by 2020 the collective imagination will have broken new ground. Inspiration is at the heart of exploration and synchronicity lives at the edge of chaos. The universe is full of potential energy.
Michael Mannion
In the afternoon, Michael Mannion co organizer of the conference with Trish Corbett spoke about Wilhelm Reich’s work. Reich was a physician scientist born in Austria in 1898 who died in prison in America in 1957. His investigation of energy functions in human emotions led him to the discovery of an unknown universal and cosmic energy he named: orgone energy. An orgone accumulator is a box in which orgone energy is concentrated in a high vacuum. Reich studied the biopsychic and healing functions of the orgasm and the blocking of vital energies by “character armoring.” Michael Mannion said: “We are all united by our sexua| energy, beyond language.”
Orgone energy is comparable to the Élan Vital of French philosopher Henri Bergson. Nuclear energy is life negative, while orgone is life positive. On January 13th 1941 Einstein and Wilhelm Reich met in New York. Einstein seems to have deeply understood the implications of Reich’s research. They spoke about a telescope scintillation of energy in the atmosphere. Einstein believed that Reich’s discoveries would be a bomb in modern physics. Michal Mannion ended his talk by saying that Wilhelm Reich’s work is like a jewel waiting to be reclaimed.
At the end of the day there was a question and answer period. I asked James O’Dea what he would say to a four year old. “I see them, too,” he responded with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. A few of us spent Friday night and Saturday night at the Kiwani Inn, by a beautiful lake not far from Farmington. Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion, our warm and caring hosts, made sure that everyone was comfortable and had a chance to mingle closely with the speakers. Saturday night there was a six-course dinner and the food was memorable. The weekend event ended on Sunday morning. I felt hugely energized by the talks, my life enriched by the quality of the people who attended the Cosmos and Consciousness event.
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