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> Number 10 of The Ten Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries ::

The universe is made of stuff we can barely begin to imagine.

Everything you probably think of when you think of the universe—planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, dust—makes up just 4 percent of whatever is out there. The rest comes in two flavors of “dark,” or unknown stuff: dark matter, at 23 percent of the universe, and dark energy, at a whopping 73 percent:

Scientists have some ideas about what dark matter might be—exotic and still hypothetical particles—but they have hardly a clue about dark energy. … University of Chicago cosmologist Michael S. Turner ranks dark energy as “the most profound mystery in all of science.”

The effort to solve it has mobilized a generation of astronomers in a rethinking of physics and cosmology to rival and perhaps surpass the revolution Galileo inaugurated on an autumn evening in Padua. … [Dark energy] has inspired us to ask, as if for the first time: What is this cosmos we call home?

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Ten-Most-Disturbing-Scientific-Discoveries.html#ixzz211DKK2oY

> New clinical studies published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Vol. 56, No. 12, 2010) have established that Reiki is as effective as beta blocker drugs in re-establishing optimum heart rate in subjects who have experienced acute coronary syndrome (sudden reduced blood flow to the heart accompanied with chest pain and unstable heart rate).

> New imaging technology reveals that functional energy in the brain is even more beautifully organized than scientists had imagined. Using new software with a technique called diffusion tensor MRI that tracks water molecules as they move along axons, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that the fibers are arranged in a surprisingly regular 3-D grid. Several millineum ago, yogis described this configuration calling the linear pathways nadis (Sanskrit meaning little river) or tsa (Tibetan meaning channel).

See the hidden energy structure in humans and other primates at Smithsonian.com/brainimages

> Compelling evidence connects the Reiki lineage of healing masters to a much older lineage of healing masters from the Bon tradition of Tibet. Bon practices are said to have been developed and passed uninterrupted from master to student for 18,000 years. The modern roots of Reiki are believed to have originated with Lama Tsewang Rikdzen about 500 BC when healing practices from their established oral tradition were committed to texts. Present day practitioners can all trace their teacher lineage to Mikao Usui who developed the practice as we use it today. Usui Sensei is believed to have tirelessly researched energy healing and brought his discoveries to Japan early in the previous century.

> Lama Tsewang Rikdzen has a very extensive biography, but as far as is known it has not been translated into English. However, included below are a few very brief and very general details about him.

Lama Tsewang Rikdzin was an historical person who was one of twin sons born to Lama Drenpa Namkha.  His mother was Öden Barma, who was a Brahmin from India.  His twin brother is known as Pema Thongdrol by the Bonpos and as Guru Padmasambhava by Buddhists.  Both Lama Drenpa Namkha and Khandro Öden Barma were very realized practitioners.
            Lama Tsewang Rikdzin’s life story is told in four volumes of texts.  He is most widely practiced as a long life yidam, as one of his powers was in extending his lifespan.  Some texts say that he lived over 500 years, others say that he lived over 800 years.  He practiced with his consort, Khandro Nyima Öbar.  He was a realized practitioner of dzogchen  as well as having mastery of tantric practice. (Translated by Raven Cypress Wood of Ligmincha Institute)

 

> With the advent of the space program more than 50 years ago, there was a great deal of conjecture about the psychological consequences of breaching the cosmos. At the 1959 Symposium on Space Psychiatry Dr. Eugene Brody ominously warned that "Separation from the earth with all of its unconscious symbolic siginificance for man, ...might in theory at least be expected...to produce--even in a well-selected and trained pilot--something akin to the panic of schizophrenia."

Though pilots who had flown at high altitude expressed a much different experience. "I feel like I have broken the bonds from the terrestrial sphere," said one pilot. Other pilots expressed similar experences of euphoria. "It seems so peaceful, it seems like you are in another world: "I feel like a giant." "A king," and multiple reports of "feeling of exultation, of wanting to fly on and on."

NASA psychologists became nervous after the first two spacewalkers had expressed not only an odd euphoria but a worrisome disinclination to go back inside the capsule. "I felt excellent and in a cheerful mood and reluctant to leave free space," wrote Alexei Leonov. Gemini IV astronaut Ed White gushed that he felt "like a million dollars." and later after the crew and Mission Control spent twenty minutes pleading with him to return to the space craft. "This is the saddest moment of my life."

Gleaned from Mary Roach's Packing for Mars, 2011, Norton Books

> Physics tells us, in no uncertain terms, that everything that has temperature-everything that “is”- is constantly and dynamically emitting frequencies of electromagnetic signals (light) in the infrared spectrum: in the universe, there is actually no darkness. All electromagnetic signals, not just those in the visible light spectrum, are made up of photons. In quantum physics, photons can be described as being both particles and waves. Simply stated, all electromagnetic waves are ultimately light waves.

You may find this hard to believe, but it is accepted scientific fact: Most light is invisible to our eyes. We are blind to more than 99.999 percent of the light that actually exists in the universe. Our retinal cells only resonate with a tiny slice of the band of energy frequencies that make up the total electromagnetic pie. If you imagine that the total band of electromagnetic frequencies is represented by the height of the Empire State Building, how tall would the slice of the band of frequencies be that you can see? Would it be ten stories high, five stories high, one story high, or one foot high? None of those: something much smaller. The band you can see,visible light, is much less than the height of a grain of sand. Were it not for the advances in science and the evolution of technology, most of the universe would be unknown to us. If we limit our ideas about light simply to what we can see with our eyes, we are actually blind to the fact that the universe is a light universe, a dynamic light universe, what we can even call a living light universe.

“We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the (energy) field is extremely intense...There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the (energy) field is the only reality.”

Albert Einstein

The Energy Healing Experiments, Science Reveals our Natural Power to Heal
By Gary E. Schwartz, PhD with William L. Simon
Atria Books, New York, NY, 2007

> Newest research in neural scinece shows that the nerve connections in the human brain continue to change throughout our lives. In the previous paradigm, it was believed that our neural pathways were fixed early in childhood. Thus we can literally change our brains. According to some studies evidence of change is measurable in as little as two weeks after the onset of "training". And, perhaps the most provocative, "training" your brain can be as subtle as how your use your thoughts.

Train Your Mind Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley, Ballantine Books

> Some scientists think that their work consists entirely of exploring and discovering, and that they aren't responsible for the use their results are put to. Such a position is mere illusion, willful blindness, or, at worst, just plain dishonesty. Knowledge gives power, and power requires a sense of responsibility and an idea that we are accountable for the direct or indirect consequences of our actions.

Science is incapable of revealing all truths, and that while technology has produced huge benefits, the ravages it has caused are at least as great. What is more, science is silent when it comes to providing wisdom about how we should live.

Science can both protect life and invent the weapons that destroy it. The idea is not to muzzle research-that would be undesirable and probably impossible in any case-but to give greater emphasis to those human qualities that should inspire researchers and decision makers. All of this is also true of intelligence, wealth, and physical strength, beauty, or power. They are all intrinsically neutral tools that can be put to good or bad use.

Matthieu Ricard, Scientist & Buddhist Monk

We fear change because we had not discovered the changeless aspect of ourselves.
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche