ONE FAMILY PLAN
Nonwhere
"Each of us contains the whole of heaven. More than that, each of us contains the location of heaven. Or as the Sufis put it, instead of having to search for spiritual reality 'in the where,' the 'where' is in us" (Talbot, p 261)
"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." (Christianity, Luke 17:20-21)
"Within" - Inside the make-up of our very beings... beyond the smallest particles... is the source.
"What the undeveloped man seeks is outside; what the advanced man seeks is within himself." (Confucianism, Analects 15:20)
"If human beings knew their own inner secrets, they would never look elsewhere seeking for happiness and peace." (Sufism, Sufi writings)
A twelfth-century Persian mystic name Sohrawardi calls it Na-Koja-Abad, "the land of nonwhere." (Henry Corbin, Mundus Imaginalis, p 4)
"It is suggested that when a person has an OBE they might not actually travel anywhere. They might be merely altering the always illusory hologram of reality so that they have the experience of traveling somewhere. In a holographic universe not only is consciousness already everywhere, it too is nonwhere." (Talbot, p 261)
"Death is like walking into your mind." (7 yr old NDEer, Kubler-Ross, Children, p 222)
"Individuals who live in this wondrous realm can materialize any body they want and can 'see' with any area of their body they wish. They can also materialize any fruit or other food they desire, although they 'are almost freed from any necessity of eating' and 'feast only on the ambrosia of eternally new knowledge.'" (Talbot, p 262)
"And when they are confronted with the multitude of relatives, fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, and friends acquired during their 'different incarnations on earth,' they are at a loss as to whom to love especially and thus learn to give 'a divine and equal love to all.'" (Talbot, p 262)
"In this realm where eating and even breathing are unnecessary, where a single thought can materialize a 'whole garden of fragrant flowers,' and all bodily injuries are 'healed at once by mere willing,' we are, quite simply, 'intelligent and coordinated images of light.'"
"To discover the new country within us we must first learn how to leave the old one behind." (Sri Aurobindo)
Sri Aurobindo believes that all separateness is an illusion as all things are ultimately interconnected and whole. Physical reality is "a mass of stable light."
"Nor must we attach ourselves even to the truths we hold most securely, for they are but forms and expressions of the Ineffable who refuses to limit itself to any form or expression." (Satprem, Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, p 195)
"Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, and perhaps biological information flow cannot just disappear at death and must be transformed into another realm." (Candace Pert, Neuropeptides, the Emotions and Bodymind in Proceedings of the Symposium on Consciousness and Survival, pp 113-14)
