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Usage examples of nonlocal.

In a meditative state of mind, we can become aware that we are not a body, but rather limitless, nonlocal awareness animating or residing as a body.

Since it is rare that most of us attend to the background, or nonlocal, during the course of our everyday affairs, we perceive things without the subtle awareness that would bring the full grandeur of reality into play.

This seemingly radical idea of nonlocal connections is finding increasing acceptance in the data of modern physics, of all places.

This looks to me like a nonlocal telepathic connection - inexplicable, but real.

EPR analysis from the 1930s, together with contemporary experiments, gives scientific support to the current view of nonlocal connectedness.

My colleagues and I do not believe, however, that EPR-type correlations are, in themselves, the explanation for mind-to-mind connections, but we do think that they are an unequivocal laboratory example of the nonlocal nature of our universe.

Einstein published these ideas sixty years ago, the smartest physicists in the world still do not agree on all of the implications of these nonlocal connections.

One may imagine that life may exist from the beginning as a cooperative whole, directly interconnected at a distance by Bell-type nonlocal interactions, following which modifications through the course of evolution cause organisms to be interconnected directly with each other.

And human beings can access all of the universe through our own consciousness and our nonlocal mind.

This philosophy also maintains that we have a dual nature, both local and nonlocal, both material and nonmaterial.

Finally, the perennial philosophy teaches that the purpose of life is to become one with the universal, nonlocal, loving consciousness that is available to us.

Dzogchen master Garab Dorje taught what he knew by direct experience: that our awareness is nonlocal and unlimited by space and time.

This is exactly the nonlocal connectivity that we discussed in Chapter 1.

In contemporary terms, I would say that if we live in a nonlocal universe, as we appear to, then we are, or can be, in direct contact with both our past and future selves.

From what we have already related, it should be apparent that our personal connection to this nonlocal spiritual community has many of the omnipresent and omniscient properties that people often associate with an experience of God.