Photo: Canglang Pavilion, Suzhou, China
“There is no need to study or investigate the sun in order to discover the matter of the solar world: this matter exists in ourselves and is the result of the division of our atoms. In the same way we have in us the matter of all other worlds. Man is, in the full sense of the term, a 'miniature universe'; in him are all the matters of which the universe consists; the same forces, the same laws that govern the life of the universe, operate in him; therefore in studying man we can study the whole world, just as in studying the world we can study man.”
G.I. Gurdjieff, as quoted in In Search of the Miraculous, P. 88
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Right now, you have entangled particles from other planets in your body.
You also have entangled particles from the sun in you.
You also have entangled particles from ancient and even now-expired suns in you, as well as particles in you that are entangled with particles in other galaxies—because in the beginning, everything that exists was entangled at one point or another.
This is what one might call an expansive web of identity that is already inherently present within each human being.
The particles that this entanglement consists of have a natural attraction to one another, in some ways; and it is possible to concentrate entangled particles within being. This may take place with entangled particles from the same entity – for example, the sun, whose particles are so to speak "local" (the word has, relatively speaking, a great deal less meaning in the sense of ordinary distances) and have a quite strong attraction to one another. If one concentrates enough particles which are entangled with particles in the sun, one will inevitably begin to physically and intellectually and emotionally sense what is going on in the sun.
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