literally
and explains why our attitudes and beliefs sometimes become fixed and resistant
to change. Studies have shown that vortices are often remarkably stable. The
Great Red Spot of Jupiter, a giant vortex of gas over 25,000 miles wide, has
remained intact since it was first discovered 300 years ago. Shainberg believes
this same tendency toward stability is what causes certain vortices of thought
(our ideas and opinions) to become occasionally cemented in our consciousness.
He feels the virtual
permanence of some vortices is often detrimental to our growth as human beings.
A particularly powerful vortex can dominate our behavior and inhibit our
ability to assimilate new ideas and information. It can cause us to become
repetitious, create blockages in the creative flow of our consciousness, keep
us from seeing the wholeness of ourselves, and make us feel disconnected from
our species. Shainberg believes that vortices may even explain things like the
nuclear arms race: “Look at the nuclear arms race as a vortex arising out of
the greed of human beings who are isolated in their separate selves and do not
feel the connection to other human beings. They are also feeling a peculiar
emptiness and become greedy for everything they can get to fill themselves.
Hence nuclear industries proliferate because they provide large amounts of
money and the greed is so extensive that such people do not care what might
happen from their actions.”
Like Bohm, Shainberg
believes our consciousness is constantly unfolding out of the implicate order,
and when we allow the same vortices to take form repeatedly he feels we are
erecting a barrier between ourselves and the endless positive and novel
interactions we could be having with this infinite source of all being. To
catch a glimmer of what we are missing, he suggests we look at a child.
Children have not yet had the time to form vortices, and this is reflected in
the open and flexible way they interact with the world. According to Shainberg
the sparkling aliveness of a child expresses the very essence of the
unfolding-enfolding nature of consciousness when it is unimpeded.
If you want to become
aware of your own frozen vortices of thought, Shainberg recommends you pay
close attention to the way you behave in conversation. When people with set
beliefs converse with others, they try to justify their identities by espousing
and defending their opinions. Their judgments seldom change as a result of any
new information they encounter, and they show little interest in allowing any
real conversational interaction to take place. A person who is open to the
flowing nature of consciousness is more willing to see the frozen condition of
the relationships imposed by such vortices of thought. They are committed to
exploring conversational interactions, rather than endlessly repeating a static
litany of opinions. “Human response and articulation of that response, feedback
of reactions to that response and the clarifying of the relationships between
different responses, are the way human beings participate in the flow of the
implicate order,” says Shainberg.
Another psychological
phenomena that bears several earmarks of the implicate is multiple personality
disorder, or MPD. MPD is a bizarre syndrome in which two or more distinct
personalities inhabit a single body. Victims of the disorder, or “multiples,”
often have no awareness of their condition. They do not realize that control of
their body is being passed back and forth between different personalities and
instead feel they are suffering from some kind of amnesia, confusion, or
black-out spells. Most multiples average between eight to thirteen personalities,
although so-called super-multiples may have more than a hundred
subpersonalities.
One of the most telling
statistics regarding multiples is that 97 percent of them have had a history of
severe childhood trauma, often in the form of monstrous psychological,
physical, and sexual abuse.
and explains why our attitudes and beliefs sometimes become fixed and resistant
to change. Studies have shown that vortices are often remarkably stable. The
Great Red Spot of Jupiter, a giant vortex of gas over 25,000 miles wide, has
remained intact since it was first discovered 300 years ago. Shainberg believes
this same tendency toward stability is what causes certain vortices of thought
(our ideas and opinions) to become occasionally cemented in our consciousness.
He feels the virtual
permanence of some vortices is often detrimental to our growth as human beings.
A particularly powerful vortex can dominate our behavior and inhibit our
ability to assimilate new ideas and information. It can cause us to become
repetitious, create blockages in the creative flow of our consciousness, keep
us from seeing the wholeness of ourselves, and make us feel disconnected from
our species. Shainberg believes that vortices may even explain things like the
nuclear arms race: “Look at the nuclear arms race as a vortex arising out of
the greed of human beings who are isolated in their separate selves and do not
feel the connection to other human beings. They are also feeling a peculiar
emptiness and become greedy for everything they can get to fill themselves.
Hence nuclear industries proliferate because they provide large amounts of
money and the greed is so extensive that such people do not care what might
happen from their actions.”
Like Bohm, Shainberg
believes our consciousness is constantly unfolding out of the implicate order,
and when we allow the same vortices to take form repeatedly he feels we are
erecting a barrier between ourselves and the endless positive and novel
interactions we could be having with this infinite source of all being. To
catch a glimmer of what we are missing, he suggests we look at a child.
Children have not yet had the time to form vortices, and this is reflected in
the open and flexible way they interact with the world. According to Shainberg
the sparkling aliveness of a child expresses the very essence of the
unfolding-enfolding nature of consciousness when it is unimpeded.
If you want to become
aware of your own frozen vortices of thought, Shainberg recommends you pay
close attention to the way you behave in conversation. When people with set
beliefs converse with others, they try to justify their identities by espousing
and defending their opinions. Their judgments seldom change as a result of any
new information they encounter, and they show little interest in allowing any
real conversational interaction to take place. A person who is open to the
flowing nature of consciousness is more willing to see the frozen condition of
the relationships imposed by such vortices of thought. They are committed to
exploring conversational interactions, rather than endlessly repeating a static
litany of opinions. “Human response and articulation of that response, feedback
of reactions to that response and the clarifying of the relationships between
different responses, are the way human beings participate in the flow of the
implicate order,” says Shainberg.
Another psychological
phenomena that bears several earmarks of the implicate is multiple personality
disorder, or MPD. MPD is a bizarre syndrome in which two or more distinct
personalities inhabit a single body. Victims of the disorder, or “multiples,”
often have no awareness of their condition. They do not realize that control of
their body is being passed back and forth between different personalities and
instead feel they are suffering from some kind of amnesia, confusion, or
black-out spells. Most multiples average between eight to thirteen personalities,
although so-called super-multiples may have more than a hundred
subpersonalities.
One of the most telling
statistics regarding multiples is that 97 percent of them have had a history of
severe childhood trauma, often in the form of monstrous psychological,
physical, and sexual abuse.
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