Science And Jain Philosophy

Author(s): Raksha J Shah, Abhijit Muni, Pooja Banthia
Publisher: International Conference on Science and Jain Philosophy

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ISIS, LOVE AND FEAR
DR. GARY ZUKAV info@seatofthesoul.com
(Winner of American Book Award for Science: The Pathfinder Award, Einstein Award Dr. Gary Zukau is a Harvard graduate, with a degree in International Relations, one of the bestselling authors, a co-founder of the Seat of the Soul Institute, and a member of the Club of Budapest, World Business Academy, the Chair of the Government and Politics Strategy Group for the Campaign for the Earth.)
I am honored to be invited to participate in your joint exploration of science, philosophy. and spirituality. My life is dedicated to contributing the best that I can to a new human consciousness that is emerging and the new world that it can create. Here is a way of looking at our current circumstance:
We stand in two worlds. One is the world of a dying consciousness. The other is the world of an emerging consciousness. If we try to solve problems with the dying consciousness. we will fail because all the problems we face were created by the dying consciousness. This dying consciousness tells us there is a prime source which activates unbreakable causal chains, and that source is action. From actions come consequences. To change consequences, we must change our actions. The emerging consciousness tells us that the prime source of all causal chains is intention. To change consequences, we must change our intentions.
Intentions direct every deed and word, such as intentions to reverse climate change, protect the Earth, and reduce income inequality. When intentions conflict, the result is a power struggle. From the perspective of the dying consciousness, power is the ability to manipulate and control. This is external power. It is inseparable from the dying consciousness, and it now produces only violence and destruction. The West and ISIS are in a struggle for external power, as are the United States and Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran, India and Pakistan, etc. So also are Exxon-Mobil and environmentalists, Monsanto and the organic movement, etc. Every aspect of the dying consciousness pursues external power- nations, cultures, religions, corporations, friends, and neighbors.
The emerging consciousness is perception beyond the five senses, intuition, and the understanding of power as the alignment of the personality with its immortal part - the part that intends harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. This is authentic power. It is inseparable from the emerging consciousness, and it is now required for our evolution. It is impossible to struggle for authentic power. Authentic power cannot be lost or found, stolen or inherited. We must create it in ourselves. We cannot change the world until we recognize that a new emerging consciousness is replacing a dying consciousness, multisensory perception is replacing five-sensory perception, and authentic power is replacing external power. That is because the world we have inherited/ created is made of external power, and pursuing external power adds only more to it.
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