Noetic Science and 2012
In case you missed it, and I doubt you did, author Dan Brown has a new novel called The Lost Symbol. In his new thriller, Brown discusses an area of research that I had never heard of – noetic science.
Cassandra Vieten, the director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, describes noetic science as:
“A multidisciplinary field that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the full range of human experience.”
So what does that mean? Noetic scientists tackle experiments like testing the efficacy of prayer or the existence of a soul.
In The Lost Symbol we learn that the field has made some massive discoveries and when these discoveries are made public, they will change the world; humanity will evolve and become aware of the it’s group consciousness.
Every writer draws inspiration from somewhere, in the case of The Lost Symbol, much of the spiritual aspects Dan Brown recounts in the book can be found in Mayan writings. I have selected a few fascinating paragraphs from
The Mayan Prophecies for 2012 by Gerald Benedict.
…The Prophets predicted a time when their ancient hidden knowledge would be recovered and given to the world by a future generation of elders and time keepers…
…The [Mayan] Prophecy speaks of a collective spiritual amnesia from which our civilization suffers, and it refers, in modern terminology, to what is called “recovered memory”. Once our memory of cosmic wisdom has been retrieved, we will have a deeper understanding of who we are, and of our relationship with Nature and the universe…
…Every human being can, by birthright, achieve cosmic consciousness, but the teaching tells us that some form of initiation or guidance is helpful…
…Western culture’s sensitivity to “place” has been numbed by fundamentalism and the politics of institutional religion and sectarianism. We no longer sense the numinous power and holiness of the sacred sites…
…Once we have recovered the memory of our rightful place in the universe, together with our sense of unity with it, humanity will, once again, have the means of realizing its spiritual potential and of solving the problems with which it is faced…
…Despite the persistent execution of their prophets and teachers by the Spanish colonizers, and the destruction of all but a few of their sacred codices, the Maya were able to preserve their traditional wisdom literature. The Prophecy speaks of our urgent need of teachers who, by sharing this recovered wisdom, will lead us back to the basic, but ominously neglected sources of self-fulfillment, and of life itself…
…We have given our minds over to the technology it has invented. It is generally accepted that we have never developed the genetic potential with which we are born…
“A simple theory of consciousness can be advanced by accepting that the mental is a property of matter” ~ Piero Scaruffi
“I am Another Yourself” ~ Lak’ech, the Yucatec Mayan Code of Honour
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly we shall all hang separately” ~ Benjamin Franklin
