TRANSPERSONAL
All I can is that there seems to be a vision possible to man, as from some more universal standpoint, free from the obscurity and localism which specially connect themselves with the passing clouds of desire, fear, and all ordinary thought and emotion; in that sense another and separate faculty...How can I express it?...for the sense that one is those objects and things and persons that one perceives - a sense in which sight and touch and hearing are all fused in identity. Nor can the matter be understood without realizing that the whole faculty is deeply and intimately rooted in the ultramoral and emotional nature and beyond the thought-region of the brain.
- Edward Carpenter, from Towards Democracy
[that future] when through these states walk a hundred million of superb persons [that is, persons filled with Christ realization] I see, dance, laugh, sing. Wandering, amazed at my own lightness and glee, O, the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged...it darts like lightning...Joy, joy in freedom, worship, love! Joy in the ecstasy of life!
- Walt Whitman, from The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
“We are not onlookers peering into the unified field of separate, objective reality - we are the unified field. We can reach beyond the physical body and extend the influence of intelligence. Every thought you are thinking creates a wave in the unified field. It ripples through all the layers of intellect, mind, senses, and matter, spreading out in wider and wider circles. You are like a light radiating not photons but consciousness. As they radiate, your thoughts have an effect on everything. Your relationship to life is the same as that of one cell to your whole body. One cell can talk to your whole body. One cell can influence your whole body. You can talk to the whole of life - influence the whole of life. The whole of life is as alive as we are. The distinction between 'in here' and 'out there' is a false one - as if the heart disregarded the skin because it was not on the inside.”
- Deepak Chopra
And he who beholds all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he never turns away from it. When to a man who understands, the Self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity?
- Khandogya Upanishad