New Realities recorded on May 20, 2007
Summary
In this episode of New Realities, host Alan Steinfeld delves into the concept of symbolic reality, exploring how our consciousness and personal frequencies shape the world we experience. He discusses the role of symbols in our lives, drawing upon the ideas of various thinkers and the metaphorical nature of religious traditions to highlight the balance between left-brain logic and right-brain intuition. Steinfeld argues that societal and religious conditioning often stifle our innate need for play and imagination, which are essential for creative and spiritual growth. By embracing joy and altering our state of consciousness, he suggests we can break free from limiting paradigms and tap into our true, divine power to manifest a more profound and peaceful reality.
Transcript
Alan Steinfeld
Welcome to New Realities! I’m Alan Steinfeld, and this program is dedicated to exploring evolving human potentials in an evolving world. This series is dedicated to the ideas of how to become more conscious beings as we evolve to a more conscious society. I present programs that invite the viewer and listeners to look at their automatic behavior, take free rein of their body, mind, and spirit so that we can hope to inhabit a better world. And this program is constantly on the lookout for new and exciting guests, information, and different and alternative perspectives in achieving a greater and more peaceful reality. And it’s about embracing the synthesis of our rational understanding with a mystical awareness. So welcome to the program this evening. It’s Sunday evening, and it is May 20th.
Alan Steinfeld
And there was just a World Global Peace Meditation that was coming out of Damanhur, Italy, and that was happening around the planet today at 12:00 PM. Tonight’s show will be a little different. It’ll be sort of an overview of a lot of the topics that I’ve been discussing over the last few weeks, including UFOs, human sexuality, mystical experiences, sacred geometry, a whole range. And if you want to look with me online, you can go to newrealities.tv, and you can see the whole range of topics that I’ve been discussing on my television show and on this radio show. My television show is on Manhattan Cable, which is Channel 57 in Manhattan Monday nights. And this radio show I like to do, I like to explore actually more of the topics that I’m interested in, a little less mainstream, more out there. I know the Akashic Record woman, I’m following her, and this is not quite the same audience, but I like to ground my stuff more in the physical world.
Alan Steinfeld
But I’m totally open to all that other stuff to offer and to the Akashic understanding and all that that includes. So what I’d also like to do is give a little rundown in the beginning of the show of events that are coming up, and what to look for at least in the New York audience about things that will be appearing on the horizon. I’d like to say that John Demartini, if you’ve seen The Secret, will be in New York on May 31st to give a workshop on achieving your life’s destiny. John is a great guy. He does a breakthrough intensive that following weekend. If you have questions about that, please call me at home or at the office at 212-473-6388. I’m also taking calls on this show tonight. And I think I will talk tonight, I think I’ll just do a show here about the nature of symbolic reality around us.
Alan Steinfeld
And it’ll be a good chance for me to review a lot of the material that I’ve been researching over the last ten years. I just also want to say also coming up in June, June 17th, we are going to do a day of sacred, what do they call it, sacred activism. Mixing politics and spirituality. That will be with Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Myss. Andrew Harvey, as everyone might know, he actually coined the term as far as I can tell, sacred activism. That’s going to be a whole day in New York between 1:00 and 5:00 at FIT. Questions about that can also be addressed to 212-473-6388. And that is part of a whole thing called The Coalition for One Voice.
Alan Steinfeld
Okay, there’s a couple of other things, there’s a UFO conference which will mark the 60th anniversary of the Roswell crash and the Kenneth Arnold sightings. If you don’t know who Kenneth Arnold is, he coined the term flying saucer, as he saw these six or seven saucer-like ships over Mount Rainier in Washington, and he said they just saw these flying saucers. And then from then, since 1947 on, the term and the idea of flying saucers has been in our culture, and we are celebrating that here in New York called the Culture of Contact. And that will be at the Pioneer Theater on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. People like Budd Hopkins, Budd Hopkins himself will be speaking there. I really feel Budd is someone who originated or really discovered the whole idea about UFO abductions.
Alan Steinfeld
And there’ll be movies, Contact I think we’ll be showing, Close Encounters. All the great popular films that have come out around this subject. And it’s a subject that just won’t go away. I mean, since 1947, it’s been in the public interest, and it’s still in the public eye. And it seems like, well, if it was just a fad, if it was just a fraud, if it was just something someone’s making up throwing a Frisbee in their backyard, it probably wouldn’t be around 60 years later. Those other things come and go. There’s something real about the UFO experience, and there’s a multitude of documents and videos and eyewitnesses and encounters that confirm anybody who still doubts the fact that we are being visited by somebody. I don’t know who knows who we’re being visited by. That’s really the ultimate question. But they are out there and they’ve landed, and I think they’re actually peaceful and they want to help evolve our culture to the next level if we can be responsible enough to be evolved.
Alan Steinfeld
So that means that we have to come to a new place in ourselves that will embrace a greater humanity, beings that may not look like us, but have the same consciousness and same awareness that we have. That’s what it means in order for us to embrace these galactic brothers and sisters and beings, we need to realize that humanity, consciousness does not always look like us. That’s been the big problem around the world anyway. Anybody who looked different than us, we would persecute, or they would persecute us. The idea is to accept people because of their consciousness, because of the level of consciousness that they’re functioning on. So this is what’s coming up in June in New York, and that is called Culture of Contact. If you have any questions, UFO Magazine is actually sponsoring that, but it’ll be a nice local New York gathering and hopefully other places around the world.
Alan Steinfeld
So tonight’s show basically will be about new realities, and what does that mean? That’s the name of the show, New Realities, I’m Alan Steinfeld. I also will accept calls, so if you go to your bbsradio.com and you’ll see there’s numbers there. And if you have a question about anything I’ll be talking about in the next 45 minutes, you could just call in and ask me what’s going on there. So my basic thesis here is for about new realities is that we, through the power of our consciousness, create the reality around us. We create the world around us. And the idea is that we are immensely powerful beings. We don’t know how powerful we are. So if you don’t create the world around you, one will be created for you. That is the default mechanism of consciousness.
Alan Steinfeld
Either one is created for you or you actively create the one that you choose to intend to inhabit. And so what does that mean, reality? Reality is everything around you in your world that’s vibrating at your frequency. So basically anything, your chair, the table, that is all vibrating at the frequency that you exist on. There’s other frequencies that you can’t see and can’t feel that are also in the same space that are vibrating at a faster rate or a slower rate. But the ones that are just right are vibrating at your frequency. That also goes to people. For people, people in your reality are basically vibrating at your frequency. All your friends that you have are vibrating in the same resonant field that you’re vibrating in. That’s what the idea is meant by creating your reality. The sense that frequency and vibration are the realities that we are living in.
Alan Steinfeld
I’m also going to read a little bit from the book by Lynne McTaggart called The Field, where she addresses this point straight on about how the world we live in is a reflection of the frequency that we are living at. And so it’s like if you choose, and this is what the movie The Secret was about, if you choose, if you don’t like the world you’re living in, if you choose to go to a new reality, then it’s about intention. Then you’re here to focus your intention and create in your mind new possibilities. So when we say you create your reality, it doesn’t mean that every brick, it’s not the way the brickmaker lays bricks to make a house. It’s rather that the conceptual world is the way that we create it to be. The conceptual world, the concepts which we live by are what’s at our frequency, you know?
Alan Steinfeld
And so that includes all aspects of reality. So Lynne McTaggart here in this book called The Field, which is a great book, says, and this has to do with this resonant field that we’re all living in, she says, we are poised on the brink of a revolution. A revolution as daring and as profound as Einstein’s discovery of relativity. At the very frontier of science are new ideas that are emerging that challenge everything we believe about how the world works and how we define ourselves. Discoveries are being made that prove what religion has always espoused, that human beings are far more extraordinary than the assemblage of flesh and bones. At our most fundamental level, the new sciences are answering questions that have perplexed science for hundreds of years. Really about the nature of consciousness, that’s my aside.
Alan Steinfeld
And so these new questions is, what is the role of consciousness in the creation of the world? And sort of what I’ll be going through as I cover this, I generally give a PowerPoint demonstration. But she says this revolution is unstoppable. The scientists that have been highlighted in this book, and she goes through a bunch of scientists in the field, are now suggesting that reality is much different than we once suspected it is. Reality exists as a field of thought, a field of embrace, a field of frequency, really. It says she goes on to say that perhaps what happened to Edgar Mitchell on his way back from the moon was that Edgar Mitchell had an epiphany of how we were all connected. He was the seventh astronaut, I think, who walked on the moon. And he was just taking the ride back and he looked out his window and suddenly he had that moment, that epiphany where everything seemed to line up.
Alan Steinfeld
The whole world seemed to be perfect in everything. And he was looking at the earth as a shining green jewel in the heavens. And he had a revelation that somehow he was connected to that even though he was thousands of miles away and that consciousness, consciousness itself seemed to be non-local. Seemed to be something that was not just about a place. It was about an experience. So Edgar Mitchell, who was a scientist, came back to earth and wanted to study this thing about consciousness. He wanted to study what it is that he had this revelation about, this revelation of everything being connected. And he started this thing called the Noetic Institute. The Institute of Noetic Science. And this was a way of combining science and consciousness together. It’s a way to understand that we affect the world around us.
Alan Steinfeld
And like I said, that effect is really through the way we understand the world to be, which is basically through symbols. Now symbols is how we interpret the world. All that we, symbols are concepts. Concepts are the ideas that we give the world. And everything has a symbolic nature. The money in your pocket is basically a piece of paper. We give it value. It’s a socially acceptable value. But it’s really a symbol of value. It’s nothing more than a piece of paper. Or the American flag, or the fancy clothes that people are wearing. Those are just things that we endow with value because of the conceptual nature of our minds creates symbols. I mean humans are basically symbol making machines. We make symbols and signs and meaning out of everything. So yes, money is nothing except what we choose to believe it collectively.
Alan Steinfeld
So money is a symbolic reality that we’ve collectively agreed means something. Essentially, they’re just pieces of paper or coins or metal. But so if we start from there and understand how we give money symbolic value and create a reality around that, we can also understand then perhaps how everything becomes a symbol. A symbol of ourselves. The body itself is a symbol. This is what the work of Louise Hay. Louise Hay who, she represented the body in symbolic form. She said if you have back pain, it’s probably because you can’t stand something. Or if you have a pain in the neck, it’s probably because someone in your life is a pain in the neck. She went through the whole understanding of the internal organs, the external organs, showing the symbolic nature of the body.
Alan Steinfeld
So I want to kind of lay out how much symbols are a part of our life and then how much we can take that understanding and create the kind of reality that we want to out of the symbolic world that we inhabit. And that also has to do with what I initially said about frequency. So what does the word symbol mean? The symbol actually means to, ball in Greek means to throw, and sym means like. So it’s really to throw something together. It’s to throw something like together. And so symbols are conceptual ideas that represent the world around us. You know, we can’t know the world unless we create a symbol for it. So the idea is as we move into a new world, we need new symbols. And that’s what the nature of programs like this and actually everything you hear on BBS Radio is about bringing a new paradigm with new symbols and new ideas that will change the way that we see the world.
Alan Steinfeld
So we need, we need new symbols to create the new realities that we are looking to create around us. So I mean all religions basically use symbology in order to understand the nature of consciousness. I mean religions themselves are about the nature of who we are. They’re symbolic representations. I mean they’re not to be taken literally. There was no Adam and Eve and a Garden of Eden. That is a metaphor or a symbol of I think the left and right brain that are separate. The male and female way of perception that see the world differently. And the Garden of Eden is this prenatal way of this unity of the harmonic harmony between the right and left brain.
Alan Steinfeld
When Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden, it means they were thrown out of the idyllic place where that harmony existed and brought into the real world where the ego mind develops and is then has to be balanced by the connection to the non-egoic self which is really the right brain. So it’s a way we’re trying to get back to this garden of harmony becoming whole brain beings. And that’s really the symbolic understanding of much of the stories of all our religions. Each religion has its own little form of symbolic understanding. The Christian religion is the symbol of Jesus whether he was a real or not real person doesn’t matter. It’s what we’ve done with that story in order to symbolize an evolutionary path. We are all born of the virgin birth, which means that none of us were really born physically in the body.
Alan Steinfeld
We all came through from we’re all souls that are incarnating into this existence as sentient beings. You know we are all not born we are all eternal beings. So the idea of this virgin birth I think is that we’re not created of nothing we come in and we in a sense give birth to ourselves. You know so much of the Christian mythology is based on the understanding of our own evolution. It’s a kind of code if you look at the esoteric traditions in Christianity and in Judaism. And even Islam, there’s symbols in actually all the great religions. Hinduism, Buddhism, the Buddha whether he existed or not, he becomes a symbol of reality for people who buy that story. I mean your own life in a sense becomes a symbol of a story you’re telling yourself about your own evolution.
Alan Steinfeld
So part of this understanding of the symbolic nature is to understand that and it’s also a story and it’s also symbolic of this left and right brain awareness. The left brain sees the world as it is. It sees the literalness of the world. It sees the linearity of the world. The right brain sees the non-linearity of the world. It sees it from a totality perspective. It sees the forest let’s say and not the trees. The left brain sees the trees, it doesn’t see the forest. The right brain sees the forest and not the trees. It means it has a broader more encompassing view. But it needs the left brain in order to have things happen in the world.
Alan Steinfeld
So in a sense the left brain represents time, the right brain represents space, or the feminine, or the moon, and the left brain represents the masculine side, or the sun, the light of day, the ego nature. And so we have these two halves to ourselves that we have to then bring together into a totality returning to the Garden of Eden. That is the return to harmony, that’s the return of the Messiah, that’s the return of the divine. It’s the return to whole brain thinking. It’s living in the moment as a right brain being with a sense of self which is the left brain being. So it’s the interweaving of the left and right brain awareness to create a totality, a union of who we are.
Alan Steinfeld
So the understanding now is what is the ultimate goal of symbols and symbology. It’s really to lead us back to the divine. That was a quote from Ernst Cassirer who wrote The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. And a lot of the deep philosophical thinking about symbols really goes back to Immanuel Kant who wrote something called The Critique of Pure Reason. And he in that he talks about a metaphysics in understanding the world in the attempt to understand the world through rational thinking that cannot be understood through rational thinking. So his critique of pure reason ultimately comes down that you can’t understand the world through pure reason. That’s really was the genius of Immanuel Kant in my understanding.
Alan Steinfeld
So going back to this other understanding I was taking notes on this instance and this symbolic nature reality in order to make sense of it for me. So you see signs, signs are different than symbols. A sign is an image in the world that represents a symbolic nature that can’t be defined. So a sign would be like well symbol the American flag, it’s a piece of cloth but it represents it represents a country. So the sign of it is this the stripes and stars that are the signs that we interpret symbolically to mean something greater than the sign itself. So like a stop sign is a sign, the sign that represents stop. But if you put a stop sign into a painting, it takes on many levels of meaning. It no longer just becomes a stop sign.
Alan Steinfeld
So that’s how I’m understanding the how to expand our concepts of what we see out there. So Carl Jung understood that the nature of symbols showed that our experience is an experience of being of pure being, pure divine being. He proposed that human events interweave on a plane which is not consciously understood. In the sense that human spirit, the human spirit perceives a reality beyond its linear understanding. Symbols are a synthesis of the world and spirit. Hegel writes that the strength of spirit is only as great as its expressions. It steps as deep as its revelation and if it dares to expand itself.
Alan Steinfeld
Symbols are inherent in our nature as spiritual beings. In order as spiritual beings to understand the world we need to equate the world to the world of symbols. And there’s many archetypal symbols that help us understand the world, you know. Circle, a circle is a basic symbol in all cultures that represents the infinity of spirit because there’s no beginning and end to spirit or to a circle. A square traditionally represents the world of matter. A triangle represents the power of coming from the world of matter up to the world of spirit or descending from the world of spirit into the world of matter. That’s the power of the triangular form.
Alan Steinfeld
And if you put those together you have as above so below in this alchemical tradition. I might get into alchemy a little bit, but I just want to continue along these lines about symbolic nature of reality because Dr. Ling wrote if symbolism is understood correctly then it can change a person’s life all together. Most of the problems of the world result from the ignorance of symbolism. The whole conduct of human life depends on the way we understand the world and the way we are conditioned to understand the world. There’s no traditional doctrine that does not teach that this world is a world of symbols. Inasmuch as it contains nothing but symbols. In other words there is nothing out there except the meaning that we give it. Except the interpretation of what it is, of the reality around us.
Alan Steinfeld
I mean yeah there are objects out there, but there are only objects until we define them in certain terms. And that’s really sort of understanding now if you can understand that then you have power over the kind of reality that you create. But you need to understand that it’s symbolic power. So I equate that to the understanding that if you look at a website on the internet, you know, the website exists as a kind of linear presence. So you can’t change those web pages unless you know the coding. The coding, knowing how to tap into the source of the coding, changes the reality of those webpages. So you need to understand the source, you need to understand how to code, you need to understand how to tap into the source. Well that all has to do with tapping into the right brain.
Alan Steinfeld
See you can only change what’s out there by tapping into the source code. The source code, you know, how to change reality by changing the right brain perception of the symbols that you see around you. See that’s my so you do that by you do that in many ways. You do that through meditation, or into, or altered states of consciousness. When you’re in an altered state you’re more aware of this subconscious part. The part that is creating their reality. So in meditation, if you become lucid in meditation, or in dream states, you have the ability then to go drop into your subconscious mind and then create the world differently. Create your feelings about the world differently.
Alan Steinfeld
You can access the source in those altered states and when you do that, the reality around you actually changes. The symbolic nature that you’ve tapped into in the subconscious level it can be manipulated and changed. And that’s the understanding of how to tap into those alternate realities by going into altered states and therefore changing how we see things just just around where we are. There’s another interesting understanding along those lines by Joseph Chilton Pearce. He wrote a lot of great books, the Cosmic Cracking the Cosmic Egg. That is a really genius way of understanding the nature of reality. And I think this actually all goes back to the understanding of Pythagoras. And how things are created through certain shapes that Pythagoras used as symbols.
Alan Steinfeld
So I’m gonna read a little bit from the Crack in the Cosmic Egg and understand and show sort of how we’ve been so conditioned to think that we’re not in control of the world around us. That we don’t have control over the symbolic nature. The Crack in the Cosmic Egg was the breakthrough in awareness that we do have more control than we actually once thought that we did. So I’ll find this. If there’s any questions about anything I said, if anyone’s following anything I said, I totally welcome comments and ideas and exchange. I hope I said something interesting out there.
Alan Steinfeld
So I’m just looking now for this understanding about how to crack the cosmic code of awareness that who he’s a great writer, Joseph Chilton Pierce, he’s also just written something called The Death of Religion and the Birth of Spirit. So let me look at this. I think it is important to point out the element of play. I’m going to read a little section from that because that was a really relevant reading that I just came across and also he wrote The Magical Child. I hope to have him as a guest on my show at some point. That’s Joseph Chilton Pierce. Yeah, this little piece that that he wrote is is really relevant to this whole understanding about how we get conditioned into believing and thinking that we aren’t who we really are.
Alan Steinfeld
You know. So Joseph Chilton Pierce in this chapter called the the book called The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit, which is really where we’re all heading because as a collective culture we’re moving away from religion and we’re moving towards a personal realization of the divinity within. So Joseph Chilton Pierce says that play really is the very reason for life. Play, not work, but play. And it’s like if you’re not doing something you enjoy, then stop doing that and start playing. You know, that’s how you change reality around you. The reason why nature built such a lifelong compulsion in us to play is because play is life living itself.
Alan Steinfeld
Nature celebrates herself with no explanation or no need for justification. We are born to play. But religion comes along with some annual type of ritual and it turns that into, I’m paraphrasing here, it turns play into a kind of a ritual and dogma and it takes away the play and replaces it with things we have to do. But from the moment of conception life expands through bonds of belonging. Life expands through pleasure and joy. Relating with each other on earth is play. The more complex the organism the higher its intelligence and the more complex its play of relationships. With the highest of all beings ever being the expression of love.
Alan Steinfeld
Play expresses life’s love of itself, the highest moral imperative. The act of love. Early on the infant plays with the nipple of the mother, playing peekaboo with faces. This is the infant’s world. The infant knows nothing but to play. Until we set about to adjust its reality and teach it to take life seriously. In play, every action is learning. That’s the idea. That’s why play is programmed into us. Because everything we do is an experiment. It’s an avenue into the unknown. So the highest of our brain is free to imprint without censor or pressure these new avenues of play. Under any such pressure energies shift back to the hindbrain making the forebrain’s action limited.
Alan Steinfeld
So what he’s saying here is that when you’re allowed to play the frontal lobes develop. Frontal lobes are where creative thought is is allowed to roam free. If there’s if you’re threatened or you’re told not to play the avenue of concentration moves back to the hind parts of the brain, the survival mechanisms. So if play is taken away from you and replaced with things you have to do, your survival instinct will be more activated. If you’re allowed to play as a child, your creative abilities will be more activated. And we’re really here to be creative beings. William Blake said that the imagination, creative imagination is the human element in in humanity. It’s the human part, it’s the divine part of this. Without imagination and play we’re not human.
Alan Steinfeld
So I just want to keep reiterating some more of Joseph Chilton Pierce’s points. He says, playful relationships also establish the context for learning and development. Because learning and development are the underlying survival instincts built into us. Play is a survival instinct as well. But this is a more advanced level of survival instinct. It’s a creative aspect of the survival instinct. You see, without the ability to play we then follow someone else’s rules. If that is taken away from us we have to follow someone else’s way of creating reality. If you can play, you have the power to create the reality that you want through your own creative imagination.
Alan Steinfeld
So Chilton Pierce says through the ongoing mirroring of relationships within ever-widening circles, the child discovers and defines who they are and what place they have in the world. And ultimately what the universe might be. Through the nature and quality of this play, the ability to move into new and creative directions and contribute to the world is allowed to develop. Your destiny why you’ve incarnated in the first place is allowed to unfold. Joy and pleasure. This is Chilton Pierce again says, are the bricks and mortar of physical, psychological, social and spiritual development. The developing brain must experience joy and pleasure if the complex integration of sensation is to take place.
Alan Steinfeld
In those first three years or so, an infant that is denied joy and pleasure, touching, caressing, movement develops a brain that is neuro dissociative. As James Prescott explained, one that fragments its reality rather than integrates its experience. So if you’re not allowed to play and develop your own sense of joy then you grow up from three years old on in a sense of being separate from the world. So the same critically holds true for puberty and adolescence. Chilton Pierce says. Eliminating the safe space of pleasure and joy, acceptance and nurturing, and this expansive integrative exploration of the world is curtailed and impeded.
Alan Steinfeld
As a result, the adolescent regresses or disassociates into self-defensiveness with its implicit violence that will finally surface as domination of others or an internalization of neurosis, illness, or suicide. That’s what happens if you’re cut off from enjoying yourself in puberty and adolescence. The emotionally malnourished person may also experience an intensified sexuality at adolescence to compensate for the impoverished sensory emotional system. But this sexuality is devoid of affection or love. It’s often violent and destructive and is hardly conducive to family and nurturing of offspring and should any of it ever come to be. So he says really really he keeps going back to this theme that the idea is to play and create a reality you want.
Alan Steinfeld
He goes though into this, the fundamental Christians as seen ah, for instance he says, there is a fundamental Christian woman who explained to me at length that is our duty as adults to break the will of the infant and child. Can you imagine that? Teaching them to obey in order that they, having no will of their own, can be open to God’s will and be obedient to him. Now, that kind of thinking creates war on the planet. This woman as Joseph Chilton Pierce says, if we fail to do this, she says, and leave the child willful, both the child’s soul and the adult’s soul are imperiled and we face the risk of hell. See, this is what happens when people listen to the dogma of religion. So much for our loving God, Chilton Pierce says.
Alan Steinfeld
Books urging corporal punishment from at least 15 months on, oh this is if you’re raising children, there’s many books that say you should punish a child at 15 months, have always been bestsellers. Spare the rod and spoil the child has been a long lineage. But we might want to paraphrase that to spare the rod and spoil the corporate world which relies on such unbroken children for its laborers and our Pentagon that needs them as fodders for war. Without that rod, an actual individual may appear which is dangerous to culture itself. So this is where we need to break out of this dogmatic culture that really sees the world as just one way of being. Its fundamental way of being.
Alan Steinfeld
Break the will of the infant and then you can control that child for the rest of his life by telling him to work in factories, go to war. By telling him that they must obey. By brainwashing. It’s a whole level of mind control that is rampant in our culture. I mean, this is how we’ve been conditioned. If you go to school from five to 18, and you sit behind a desk in most traditional schools, really, all you’re qualified to do basically is sit behind a desk. So you become a lawyer or an accountant or, but you’re never actually given a chance, not to say those I don’t want to make value judgments, but you’re never actually given a chance to see how you can become a creative being in the world with your own unique perceptions and your own unique ability to create something new, something novel, something that hasn’t been created before.
Alan Steinfeld
I just want to end this little part about from this book that Joseph Chilton Pierce wrote that I totally recommend. Hopefully he will be a guest called The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit. And this is from the chapter called The Death of Play and the Birth of Religion. So he ends that chapter by saying a university professor I knew was a preacher in his early years and wrote brilliant research on what he considered the major error of history. And he said it was monotheism. My friend’s history showed that as long as any social group or individual could freely discover God within themselves and their world and work out whatever relationship seemed to flow with that individual in their own direct relationship to the divine in those cultures, peace seemed to be the predominant factor.
Alan Steinfeld
But when the notion of a single God that was outside of us, that was a jealous God, that was a violent male God, that was allowed to wreak its havoc and destruction. My God and not your God, and we can’t have both. When that happens, in those cultures, that’s when war was created. So overall, it’s coming back to the sense of developing your own relationship to your divine spirit, which is nothing else than who you are. That is the essential nature of our being, of the reality around us. So this is where we are right now. We’re in a world crisis that is pitting these two fundamental points of view against each other.
Alan Steinfeld
The belief that there’s a power outside of you that controls your reality, and the understanding that the power is within you. So it’s really the foundation of what symbols, what are the new symbols that are going to empower us to understand that the divine is within us. So science in a sense is a two-edged sword, because it’s giving us the sense that in quantum science that the observer affects reality. And in Newtonian science it says that the world is the way it is. But this new data comes down to the more we understand that the personal experience is the foundation of the reality around us. The more we understand that the divine part of us has the control over the reality that we want to create.
Alan Steinfeld
And so if we dream bigger dreams, if we ask bigger questions, if we tune into bigger ideas of who we can be in this multi-dimensional world, we’re going to uplift the planet to bigger ideas, bigger possibilities, bigger perceptions. You know when the church made Galileo recant the fact that the solar system was the way that God made it and that there weren’t any new planets in there, that’s where science is now saying that you know reality is not it’s exactly what you thought and you can’t have power over it. This is where religion and science both come together. And we’re a new science, a new understanding that is saying quantum physics is saying, the new spirituality is saying is that no you can create your world and your life anyway you want it.
Alan Steinfeld
So I know I sort of repeated myself a little bit but I’ll also close from Albert Einstein that said, do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at? Well it shows you that we in our understanding of reality is still in our infancy. That’s Albert Einstein. And a lot of these great physicists have been mystics. David Bohm who wrote about the implicit order of reality said that the present view of science has contributed considerably to a disorder of the brain. To the origin of chaos in human relationships is fragmented. The untruthful way of thinking. There is an enfolding cohesive order that we’ve been disconnected from because of this inability for allowing us to be creative beings in this ongoing creation that we are embracing in the world.
Alan Steinfeld
Another great quote that I like to quote is see it goes back to this understanding of symbols and symbology and it’s something that Deepak Chopra also likes to quote it says see we can’t really know the world all we can know is our interpretation of the world. So Arthur Eddington the famous British scientist says what do we know? We know that something unknown is doing we don’t know what. Something unknown is doing we don’t know what. That really sums up how he understands the nature of reality. And as William Blake said, for those who see Blake as one of the original mystics to come into modern contemporary thought, he says that if these doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite. But we have closed ourselves up until all things are seen through a narrow chink in this cavern.
Alan Steinfeld
So the idea is to keep expanding what’s possible, what as a teacher I said, how to make known the unknown. How to keep watching for how you’ve locked yourself into a limited point of view and keep looking outside the assumptions. You know it’s like primitive cultures had no understanding of where we are now. But so science in its best is a way of breaking out of its limitations, but then it locks itself up again. So I also like this quote by Samuel Butler that said that science is man’s ignorance of man’s ignorance.
Alan Steinfeld
And I just think that is a great understanding that truly we don’t know anything. And also I’ll end on this quote by Carl Jung. It’s a common illusion to believe that all we know today is all we’ll ever know. And nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory which is an ephemeral attempt to explain the facts and not an everlasting truth. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory which is an ephemeral attempt to explain the facts and not the everlasting truth.
Alan Steinfeld
So I hope that gives people a little understanding about the symbolic nature of reality and how we’ve created it, you know, and how we’ve been conditioned to think inside a box. And the truth is that we’re much bigger than the box that we’ve been, we’re much bigger than all of the limitations we have put on ourselves. So this has been New Realities and I know I went on a little bit. Most of the time I do have guests and I’ve been exploring realms of sexuality, consciousness, UFOs and in the upcoming weeks we will be having more guests that will talk about that so I encourage you to listen and I encourage feedback about anything you may have heard here.
Alan Steinfeld
And if people want to contact me it is newrealities@earthlink.net and you can check out our website which is newrealities.tv. And also on YouTube I am all over YouTube. If you just look up newrealities on YouTube you can find me there. And let’s see what else, oh John Demartini, I just want to remind people are coming into New York on May 31st. If you have any questions about that email me at newrealities@earthlink.net.
Alan Steinfeld
And I’m gonna leave you with one of my favorite songs which is called The Song of the Soul. And it’s by Cris Williamson and it’s a great song about the fortitude of the human spirit about the everlasting power of who we are and who we are to create the reality that we want around us. So thank you for listening this has been New Realities I’m Alan Steinfeld and you can listen every Sunday at 9:30 East Coast time, 6:30 West Coast time. If you want to watch my television show it’s mnn.org Monday nights 9 PM. And I welcome comments and guests and suggestions and ideas. So here I leave you with The Song of the Soul.
Singer
Love of my life I am crying I am not dying I am dancing Dancing along in the madness There is no sadness Only a song of the soul And we’ll sing this song…