Personal Transformation
by Tahl Raz
What does personal transformation mean to you?
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| Transformation begins when we stretch our boundaries and ask basic questions: What's my role here? What do I really want? What are my passions? Where am I going? |
Chopra's role model for balanced change is nature: "in every seed, there is the promise of a thousand forests, birds fly with
effortless ease..." |
| Communion with nature — an hour on the beach, in the park or in the forest each day — taps us into that field of "pure potentiality and unbounded creativity." | |
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It means the progressive expansion of happiness; the capacity for innate joy and the ability to spread it to others; the progressive realization of worthy goals; a sense of meaning and purpose in deep essence; a sense of connection with the creative power of the universe, which some people call spirit, some people call God, and some people call the cosmic computer. And finally, the ability to love. These are my definitions of personal transformation, and these can translate into very specific states of energy.
Ken Wilber has said, "We can see with the eyes of the flesh or we can see with the eyes of the mind or we can see with the eyes of the soul." Are you saying that personal transformation begins through the eyes of science?
That's such a beautiful and telling sentiment. I just go one step further in believing that when you see with the eyes of the soul, there is a biological correlate to it. It has to be, no matter what you do, you have to use your biology. Without your biology you remain in the un-manifest, but Ken was absolutely right. With the eyes of science you see material reality; with the eyes of the mind we see and understand quantum reality; and with the eye of the soul we can actually go into that tertiary domain, which in the past has been the territory of seers and sages, and sometimes psychotics and geniuses. But now we have a map — and once there is a map there is territory that can be explored.
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