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Chapter Four
The Masters of the Universe:
and the Mystery of Psi
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
 
Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
Ageless Wisdom, Timeless Mind:
The Perennial Philosophy and Our Nonlocal Awareness
This chapter is about extrasensory perception and our untapped capacities for expanded awareness. Research data from laboratories around the world show that these abilities are available and can be put to use in our lives. The idea that we are able to tap into an omnipresent nonlocal mind that transcends space and time extends from Buddhist teachings as early as 400 B.C. The Diamond Sutras of Buddha, which were the essence of his teachings, portray our consciousness as unconstrained by the apparent limits of space and time. (Ironically, as we have seen, this same insight about our nature makes possible psychic spying into the depths of a Soviet weapons laboratory by the CIA.) The Vedas, which are the oldest records of Eastern wisdom, reaching back at least 3,500 years, also teach that separation of individual minds is an illusion. This concept was described by Jesus of Nazareth, who taught of a universal love as a manifestation of our interconnectedness. Today we speak of mind-to-mind connections and nonlocality of mind, unlimited by distance or time. Recent experiments in

 
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