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Today’s topic: Prayers
The power of the universe is further strengthened when prayers are made as a Noetic Prayer,
The Noetic Prayer connects us with the Noosphere.
The way is that the brain connects to consciousness, and consciousness to the Cosmic Christ.
“Experiments at facilities like the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab had categorically proven that human thought can affect and change physical mass if properly focused. Their experiments were no “spoon-bending” parlour tricks but instead highly controlled inquiries that all produced the same extraordinary result: our thoughts interacted with the physical world, whether or not we knew it, affecting change down to the subatomic realm.
Not known in the Christian world, but widely used by the Orthodox Churches.
Christian contemplation refers to several Christian practices which aim at “looking at”, “gazing at”, “being aware of” God or the Divine. It includes several methods and theological concepts. Until the sixth century, the practice now called mysticism was referred to as contemplation.
Christianity adopted both Greek (theoria) and Latin (contemplatio) terminology to describe various forms of prayer and the process of coming to know God. Eastern and Western traditions of Christianity grew apart as they incorporated the general notion of contemplation into their respective teachings.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “the Christian tradition comprises three major expressions of the life of prayer: vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplative prayer. They have in common the recollection of the heart.” Three stages are discerned in contemplative practice, namely purgative contemplation, contemplation proper, and the vision of God.
Contemplative or mystical practice is a longstanding and integral part of the life of Christian churches. In the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the predominant form is hesychasm (“stillness”). In both Eastern and Western Christianity, it is part of mystical practices.
In discursive meditation, the mind, imagination and other faculties are actively employed to understand our relationship with God. In contemplative prayer, this activity is curtailed, so contemplation has been described as “a gaze of faith” and “a silent love”. There is no clear-cut boundary between Christian meditation and Christian contemplation, and they sometimes overlap. Meditation serves as a foundation on which the contemplative life stands, the practice by which someone begins the state of contemplation.
John of the Cross described the difference between discursive meditation and contemplation by saying:
The difference between these two conditions of the soul is like the difference between working and the enjoyment of the fruit of our work; between receiving a gift and profiting by it; between the toil of travelling and the rest of our journey’s end”.
In the Orthodox Churches, noetic prayer is the first stage of contemplation.
Theoria proper is the vision of God, which is beyond conceptual knowledge, like the difference between reading about the experience of another and reading about one’s own experience.
Natural or acquired contemplation has been compared to the attitude of a mother watching over the cradle of her child: she thinks lovingly of the child without reflection and amid interruptions. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
What is contemplative prayer? St. Teresa answers: ‘Contemplative prayer in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.’ Contemplative prayer seeks him whom my soul loves. It is Christ because to desire him is always the beginning of love, and we seek him in that pure faith that causes us to be born of him and to live in him. In this inner prayer, we can still meditate, but our attention is fixed on the Lord himself.
Contemplation equals illumination
The Buddha, the Enlightened One, taught a spiritual path that included ethical training and meditative practices such as jhana and mindfulness.
He achieved high levels of meditative consciousness, called “The Sphere of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception.” Understanding meditation is the path to awakening,
Fifteen Carmelite nuns allowed scientists to scan their brains with fMRI while meditating in a state known as Unio Mystica. The results showed the brain regions that were activated when they considered themselves to be in mystical union with God.
In philosophy, noetic is a branch of metaphysics concerned with the study of the mind and intellect. There is also a reference to the science of noetics, which encompasses the fields of thinking and knowing, thought and knowledge, mental operations, processes, states, and products, as evidenced by the data of the written word.
Perfect prayer is noetic and at the same time of the heart. The mind prays within the heart, which is the centre of our existence. Thus the whole person, from their innermost self and their centre, prays, fulfilling the injunction of God: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbour as yourself. The whole person is offered to God.
EMMI Christian Prayers are in a noetic way. When you request prayer for yourself, your family, or your friends, we meditate on your request and transmit it in a noetic fashion.
Several authors who write about consciousness, spirituality, and cosmology have employed the term ” noetic. The Institute of Noetic Sciences proposes noetic sciences as an alternative theory of “how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world.”
Some, such as IONS, claim that Noetics is a form of science. However, noetics have been harshly panned by the scientific community. They have been criticized for not first experimenting in the generally accepted manner and analyzing data afterward, and for equating correlation with human emotions/experiences and with falsifiable evidence.
The scientific literature on consciousness consists of studies that examine the relationship between subjects’ experiences and the activity that simultaneously occurs in their brains, that is, the neural correlates of consciousness. The hope is to find that activity in a particular part of the brain or in a specific global brain activity pattern that is strongly predictive of conscious awareness. Several brain imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used to measure physical brain activity in these studies.
Another idea that has drawn attention for several decades is that consciousness is associated with high-frequency (gamma band) oscillations in brain activity. This idea arose from proposals in the 1980s by Christof von der Malsburg and Wolf Singer that gamma oscillations could solve the so-called binding problem by linking information represented in different parts of the brain to a unified experience.
The Noosphere is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky and the French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Vernadsky defined the Noosphere as the new state of the biosphere and described it as the planetary “sphere of reason”. The Noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development, its defining factor being the development of humankind’s rational activities.
Teilhard perceived directionality in evolution along an axis of increasing complexity consciousness. For Teilhard, the Noosphere is the sphere of thought encircling the earth that has emerged through evolution due to this growth in complexity/consciousness.
Therefore, the Noosphere is as much a part of nature as the barysphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
Teilhard sees the “social phenomenon as the culmination of and not the attenuation of the biological phenomenon.” These social phenomena are part of the Noosphere and include, for example, legal, educational, religious, research, industrial and technological systems. In this sense, the Noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The Noosphere thus grows in step with the human mass organization, concerning itself as it populates the earth. Teilhard argued that the Noosphere evolves towards ever greater personalization, individuation and unification of its elements. He saw the Christian notion of love as being the principal driver of noogenesis. Evolution would culminate in the Omega Point, an apex of thought/consciousness, which he identified with the eschatological return of Christ.
When I pray, I’m in tune with the universe to access the noosphere plane, the metaphysical place that resides the Cosmic Christ.
text adapted from wikipedia.org by the Archbishop Eric Michel
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