Great New Story

Lipton the cell scientist, likens the subconscious programming to tapes that play over and over. Our conscious mind shouts for the tape to stop but because it is on auto, all our shouting is of no avail. Lipton, like Jesus ends up suggesting that the button to stop the tape playing is a new mindset, a new imagination. In Jesus teaching of course it was the God who is near, with you, for you and accepts you warts and all. Jesus taught this new mindset is transmitted through loving one another and the total appreciation of the otherness of the other. Lipton’s suggests various scientific techniques that give the mind new messages about who we are. These technique also come down to loving and accepting love.    Lipton points out that stress can always bring back the old tape requiring the need to rechange  the mindset/imagination.

Lipton writes in Spontaneous Evolution of a whole new story;  “Much of what we call reality might more accurately be seen as a figment of our imagination. “.. His last chapter starts: “We have now come full circle. Our journey began with a story about the power of stories, particularly invisible ones that permeate our consciousness and filter our experiences without our even being aware of their existence. Myth-perceptions distort our stories and have led us down the road to societal dysfunction and destruction….” He then asks questions on how the old story can be changed and a new story re-written. …”While our conscious minds may easily learn new life enhancing-information, that information may never make it below the neck and into the domain of action. This is understandable when we remember that subconscious programs control 95% of our behavior. He then discusses quantum physics.  He asks, “So What?” “We find that the story we tell ourselves and each other about reality and our place in it profoundly impacts not only human civilization but the planet itself. Even though we perceive ourselves as small and insignificant, our collective conscious and unconscious beliefs are actually arranging the particles of matter that we call reality…. Healing the Old Story. Self-similar fractal patterns of organization reverberate throughout the Universe. As part of Nature, human culture is also built on repetitive patterns. One such pattern that has repeated itself throughout human history is that of violent domination, exploitation, and warfare. “ He says this history forms a subconscious belief in humanity that is; ‘ it’s, us versus them’.  This makes our culture a mutually shared anxiety state. “

His first point in change is making the unconscious programs conscious. .. Chapter 16 ’The Whole Story" is a must read for every person seeking to be truely human/humane. “Evolution is synonymous with learning, and learning is based on pattern recognition, which is why we derive awareness by recognizing patterns and understanding their meaning. Situations perceived as problems or puzzles only exist until their underlying patterns are identified and understood.” I’ll read his conclusions and if interesting share them later (maybe now). I see he talks about releasing the past actors as they played roles acted out of their own programming. The culprit isn’t necessarily the individual, but the repeating pattern of behavior. Then he discusses forgiveness – the mindset of freeing another from debt. Nelson Mandela employed love, truth and forgiveness to heal centuries of colonialism in South Africa Lipton states.

Changing the Innersphere: Here Lipton talks about a different type of freedom evolving. "This one is more internal than external, more at the heart of humanity’s evolution. It is freedom from limiting and unwanted subconscious programming. New science is echoing the ancient truth that the human mind is the ultimate prison. Programmed in the mind’s information field are behaviors that bind and restrain us like manacles and chains."

The first step to liberation Lipton has is to realize we engage in largely invisible shadow behaviors.

Another step is to own responsibility for the stories in our lives. Followed by ‘intention’ which  draws new experiences to us like a magnet. If necessity is the mother of invention, intention is most likely the father. Choice is to ask oneself, ”What daily choices can I personally make to reinforce this emergent worldview?” 

Practice : he says heaven isn’t a destination it is a practice. He sees the new story as "connection and coherence manifested daily as millions of random and not-so-random acts of kindness and functionality. Like the multiplying of loaves and fishes, each of these acts, in turn, ripples outward and creates more of the same."... The END: "We are living in a positive future, practicing Heaven, and designing a bridge across which the whole of humanity will walk. This is our love story – a universal love story for the entire Universe: you, me, everyone, and every living organism, too. And, now, on to Act V!”