SPACE, time, matter and consciousness are omnipresent. But in science, a fundamental problem is created because they are considered independent things—a mistaken starting point for unlocking the nature of reality.
Their view is sustained because “most researchers still believe they can build from one side of nature, the physical, without the other side, the living,” writes Dr. Robert Lanza, in the May, 2009 book Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe.
The One Life
Dr. Lanza is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. “Biocentrism” is his persuasive, and eloquently intuitive ‘theory of everything,’ and parallels what H. P. Blavatsky taught.
In her article The Life Principle, Blavatsky wrote:
THE ONE LIFE–is deity itself, immutable, omnipresent, eternal. The distinction between organic and inorganic matter [is] fallacious and nonexistent in nature… matter in all its phases, [is] merely a vehicle for the manifestation through it, of LIFE.
And, in The Secret Doctrine, taking aim at orthodox religion:
… we connote by the word God, not the crude anthropomorphism, which is still the backbone of our current theology, but the symbolic conception of [the] Life and Motion of the Universe …
The Secret of Life
Correlating with Dr. Lanza’s main idea, we offer again a foundational quote from The Secret Doctrine—reprinted from a previous post, Hanging by a Thread:
“…the whole secret of Life is in the unbroken series of its manifestations: whether in, or apart from, the physical body. Because if —
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity…
—yet it is itself part and parcel of that Eternity—for life alone can understand life.”
“Both Sides Now”
(Enjoy the song!)
“I’ve looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s life’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know life at all.”
-Joni Mitchell
The Numbers Game
“By inclination and training [one sided] scientists
are obsessed with mathematical
descriptions of the world.”
-Robert Lanza, MD
“The Greater Answer”
“If only, after leaving work, they would look out with equal seriousness over a pond,” he writes, “and watch the schools of minnows rise to the surface.
The fish, the ducks, and the cormorants, paddling out beyond the pads and the cattails, are all part of the greater answer.”
“Between us and a golden orb web spider, Dr. Lanza observes, “there is something kindred…”
“We humans, too, lie at the heart of a great web of space and time whose threads are connected according to laws that dwell in our minds.”
All Things Connect
Continuing his thread of thought, Dr. Lanza wonders: “Is the web possible without the spider? Are space and time physical objects that would continue to exist even if living creatures were removed from the scene?” 
Answering, he writes: “…consciousness is the matrix upon which the cosmos is apprehended. … In the broadest sense, we cannot be sure of an outside universe at all. …
Instead of assuming a reality that predates life and even creates it, we propose a biocentric picture of reality. From this point of view, life—particularly consciousness—creates the universe, and the universe could not exist without us.“
When we understand, with Theosophy, that the universe and everything in it, are parts of a sentient, interdependent web of life, this changes everything. For emphasis, we turn again to Dr. Dean Radin’s description of:
Global Consciousness
The Secret Doctrine
(SD 1:274):
“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.”
A Universal Compass
Theosophy, along with scientists Robert Lanza, Dean Radin, Rupert Sheldrake, and hundreds of key frontier thinkers around the world, are all unlocking the cage of separative thinking.
Consciousness, in all its many forms, does rule the world. And, gradually it is becoming understood, there exists a moral awareness that is not confined to humans.
“[T]he child’s first feeling is for its mother and nurse,” says The Secret Doctrine, and notes that this feeling lies the root of a profound, lifelong devotional sensibility. Blavatsky asserts that this is “the first and foremost motor…,” adding:
“it is the only one which is natural in our heart, which is innate in us, and which we find alike in human babe, and the young of the animal.”
New research shows that it’s not just humans who have complex emotions. Animals ‘can tell right from wrong.’ “Species ranging from mice to wolves are governed by similar codes of conduct as humans, say ecologists,” confirms the Daily Mail Report, May 26, 2009.
“Science and The Sacred”
with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake
Wild Justice
Richard Gray, Science Correspondent for telegraph.co.uk, in an article, May 23, 2009, reports that “until recently, humans were thought to be the only species to experience complex emotions and have a sense of morality.” And:
“Recent neurology work has also revealed that distantly related mammals such as whales and dolphins have the same structures in their brains that are thought to be responsible for empathy in humans.”
“Other findings have also suggested that some animals may even be capable of showing empathy with the suffering of other species,” he writes.
Prof Bekoff, from the University of Colorado is quoted as saying: “There are cases of dolphins helping humans to escape from sharks and elephants that have helped antelope escape from enclosures.”
His ideas have met with some controversy in the scientific community, Richard Gray writes, “but many admit it is difficult to argue that animals do not share many of the psychological qualities previously only attributed to humans.”
Prof Bekoff, who presents his case in a new book Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, writes:
“The belief that humans have morality and animals don’t is a long-standing assumption, but there is a growing amount of evidence that is showing us that this simply cannot be the case.”
Gana Grieving
Gorilla mother Gana carries her dead baby at the zoo in Muenster, western Germany, Photo: AP
Telegraph.co.uk:
“Do animals experience emotions? Of course they do, and solid science, combined with countless stories, show this to be so. It is bad science to rob animals of their feelings. When someone tells me they are not sure if dogs, for example, experience joy or grief, I say I’m glad I’m not your dog.
“This week’s picture of Gana, the 11-year-old gorilla shown grieving the loss of her infant, was one of the most poignant images I have ever seen of an animal in distress.”
Full Story: Mother gorilla’s grief shows emotion is not only human
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