 Nine years ago this month, the world witnessed an event so horrific that it bypasses all language barriers and we collectively identify it by just two numbers, 9/11. Just the mention of those numbers over the years since draws us all back to that terrible day. I was sitting by my mother's bedside in the intensive care ward of Royal Perth Hospital and, strange as it may seem given her condition, I gave thanks that she, at least, was unaware of the horror that had gripped the world.
But in that horror, as we are only discovering now, something wonderful happened. Immediately after the twin towers crashed to the earth, the earth's magnetic field registered a sharp spike that's clearly identifiable on a graph. The hypothesis for this otherwise inexplicable event is that the sudden immense outpouring of emotion as people everywhere began to pray for the victims or simply to send, unbidden, thoughts of compassion was heard by the universe. And it responded. As the mystics and seers tell us, what is in one is in the whole.
We owe this awe-filled insight to the work of Gregg Braden who shared it with us during last month's I Can Do It event in Sydney and Perth. In a fascinating talk, he put forward the theory that the universe responds to feeling, a phenomenon called heart coherence. It's led to an experiment called the Global Coherence Initiative, which has the aim of redefining our relationship with the earth. (See www.greggbraden.com) It's big picture thinking and it tends to put politics in the shade doesn't it.
If this theory is correct, and if we consider that our heart has a magnetic field 500 times stronger than that of our overworked brain, the possibilities for healing seem, well, mind-boggling. If our universe really is a feeling organism, not the purely rational entity that science has led us to believe until now, then transformational change really does seem to be in our grasp. I urge you if you're at all serious about living your life in a more conscious, coherent way, to take a look at this website.
Closer to home for me this month, I've come across something similar in talking with David Michie, author of the bestseller Buddhism for Busy People. We were discussing the concept of bodhichitta, the compassionate mind of enlightenment practised by Tibetan Buddhists. In his view, if enough people decide to take up this path and if in the process the world shifts towards becoming just slightly more compassionate and more caring towards our fellow human souls, whether they be in Pakistan, or Iraq or on a boat on the high seas, or here at home, to quote David "what a fantastic place it would be".
Increasingly I feel there is growing momentum towards really believing we can make a change. Of course, the sceptics and the cynics will have their say, but the choice never was in their hands. And now science itself seems to be falling in behind those who've always been more attuned to their souls than their minds. Let's really start to believe that how we think, the words we utter and the actions we take in our daily lives really do matter. And that wonderful times are ahead.
Margaret Evans
NOVA Editor
September 2010
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