MEDITATION & CONTEMPLATION [5f]
San Francisco. January 9, 2007.
STEVE JOBS (Macworld Conference, 2007. Video Footage): Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.
At the annual Macworld Conference, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs introduces what will quickly become one of the most iconic inventions in modern history.
STEVE JOBS (Macworld Conference, 2007. Video Footage): What we want to do is make a leap-frog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been and super easy to use. And we are calling it iPhone.
With its sleek design and savvy marketing, the iPhone becomes a sensation, selling 500 million devices over the next seven years. Along with the iPod, iMac and iPad, Jobs’ genius revolutionizes modern society.
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“The inventions of Steve Jobs changed our lives in significant ways in that it made access to information seem easier, seem more straightforward, seem more doable for people who otherwise might say, “I don’t know how to work this thing.” He took complex things, whether it’s a computer, a telephone, and made it so ordinary people could figure it out and use it and change their lives.” – Gregory Beirich, Ph.D. |
But like Da Vinci, Tesla and Einstein before him, Jobs believed the inspiration for his groundbreaking inventions came to him because of something as profoundly simple as meditation.
The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California’s Los Padres National Forest is the oldest Japanese Buddhist Soto Zen monastery in the United States. It was here, while deep in meditation, that Jobs thought he received much of the inspiration that transformed the modern world.
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“Steve Jobs encountered Buddhism in his early adult years and understood that contemplation for him was an important aspect. Looking back on his life and seeing what he did, certainly turning inward, clearing the mind, a contemplative approach to things had a big impact for him.” – Gregory Beirich, Ph.D. |
Jobs believed Zen meditation allowed him to calm his thoughts so he could tap into a source of inspiration that existed outside his body. As Jobs described it, “Your mind just slows down and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before.”
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“To me, I think what was really going on there is that he was really good at getting into the flow state of consciousness. The flow state is an altered state of consciousness. But it’s that state of consciousness to where all time seems to recede into the background. We seem to feel like we’re one with what we’re creating.” – Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. |
Is it possible that Steve Jobs’ genius not only revolutionized our technology, but also gave humanity a blueprint for how the universal mind works and how we can attain enlightenment through it? With the iPhone, did Jobs unconsciously recreate on a smaller level what already exists in the Universe a library of collective knowledge that every user is contributing to? And if so, could this technology be teaching us how to access that great repository of cosmic knowledge called the Akashic Record that some scientists are starting to believe may exist all around us?
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“Consciousness itself may in fact, be a greater energetic existence that we are simply accessing much like going online. You don’t say that all the knowledge of the Internet is inside your smartphone. But you access the Internet through your smartphone. In much the same way, perhaps what we are calling the subconscious mind is actually our connection to a greater energetic domain in which the seeds of philosophy, the seeds of physics, the seeds of mathematics and the true nature of human existence itself are hidden away, waiting for those who are bright enough and adept enough to tap into these great cosmic mysteries.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), |
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“There’s so many psychologists and philosophers, cogno-scientists, neuroscientists, trying to answer the question, “Where do these thoughts exist?” Where do these ideas exist?” You can look at my brain and have some idea that I’m having thoughts, but you don’t know what those thoughts are. You can’t explain the nature or the form of those thoughts. It’s hotly debated to what extent the mind and the brain are the same thing and trying to understand that rich inner stream of consciousness is one of the most exciting questions in the field of philosophy of mind today.” – Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. |
Is it possible that the brain acts as a receptor of cosmic intelligence, which exists outside our physical body? And if so, is this so-called universal mind shared with other beings throughout the Universe?
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“We have our brains and all of the functioning there. But our mind is somewhere else, really. Somewhere we can’t really place. So, if our mind is really part of this universal mind, it seems very possible that we are being bombarded and infused by all kinds of extraterrestrial thoughts and we don’t even know it.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
But if we all are connected to this universal cache of knowledge and geniuses are simply those who’ve been allowed a greater glimpse, might extraterrestrials be guiding us towards the day when we will be fully enlightened? Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest the answer may be revealed by examining a recent trend in human intelligence.
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