{"id":494,"date":"2016-06-12T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:18:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:18:32","slug":"theory-page-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/theory-page-3\/","title":{"rendered":"the theory page 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<p><em>The Theory\u00a0 page 3<\/em><\/p>\n\t<p><strong>Being freed from instincts\u2019 insistent influence is like climbing out of a vast flowing river and being freed from its current. We&#8217;re in the conscious realm where we have the capacity to focus our attention in whatever direction we choose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So far we\u2019ve stared almost exclusively at the physical world that gave us birth, like a child hanging onto its Mother\u2019s skirts. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/abstract-1243744_1920.jpg\" alt=\"abstract-1243744_1920\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"abstract-1243744_1920\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no shortage of examples of our fixation with physicality. Consider the emphasis placed on physical appearance, our obsession with sexuality (having a physical relationship), materialism (obsession with physical belongings) and of course physical science\u2019s obsession with physical proof.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ironically, our Mind&#8217;s existence is the other half of the equation. The mind, the vehicle for all our observations, goes almost unnoticed by science. <em>It has no physical existence. And any time we are awake and conscious, it exists in a different dimension.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From there we gaze mesmerized by the diversity dancing before our eyes, completely identifying with whom\u00a0<\/strong><strong>we are physically. We go around thinking that that <em>we<\/em> are the body\u2019s consciousness, stuffed in our own heads<\/strong><\/p>\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/post-1215\/\"><em><strong>\u00abBack<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/theory-page-4\/\"><em><strong>Next\u00bb<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\t<p><strong>Being freed from instincts\u2019 insistent influence is like climbing out of a vast flowing river and being freed from its current. We&#8217;re in the conscious realm where we have the capacity to focus our attention in whatever direction we choose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So far we\u2019ve stared almost exclusively at the physical world that gave us birth, like a child hanging onto its Mother\u2019s skirts. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/abstract-1243744_1920.jpg\" alt=\"abstract-1243744_1920\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"abstract-1243744_1920\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no shortage of examples of our fixation with physicality. Consider the emphasis placed on physical appearance, our obsession with sexuality (having a physical relationship), materialism (obsession with physical belongings) and of course physical science\u2019s obsession with physical proof.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ironically, our Mind&#8217;s existence is the other half of the equation. The mind, the vehicle for all our observations, goes almost unnoticed by science. <em>It has no physical existence. And any time we are awake and conscious, it exists in a different dimension.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From there we gaze mesmerized by the diversity dancing before our eyes, completely identifying with whom\u00a0<\/strong><strong>we are physically. We go around thinking that that <em>we<\/em> are the body\u2019s consciousness, stuffed in our own heads.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/theory-page-2\/\"><em><strong>\u00abBack<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/theory-page-4\/\"><em><strong>Next\u00bb<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Theory\u00a0 page 3 Being freed from instincts\u2019 insistent influence is like climbing out of a vast flowing river and being freed from its current. We&#8217;re in the conscious realm where we have the capacity to focus our attention in whatever direction we choose. So far we\u2019ve stared almost exclusively at the physical world that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herstoryoftheuniverse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}