Research Question #5

How does our awareness of the One Mind within us all (a.k.a. “God,” “Ultimate Reality”) bring Inner Peace, emotional healing, and expanded kindness?

“Those who are philosophically inclined may find it helpful to understand God’s unlimited love as the original and ongoing basic creative force of the universe. This love was present before the beginning, and it continues to hold all things together. Our fleeting human emotions and perceptions are in fact mere glimpses of God’s perfect love.”
—Sir John Templeton, Pure Unlimited Love

WH Auden referred to our time as The Age of Anxiety. Inner Peace is in part the fruit of moral integrity—i.e., being true to conscience and fully “integrated” with it. All the great spiritual traditions understand conscience as a manifestation of an Inner Light. Peace arises from being conscious of the One Mind within. What is One Mind? One Mind only, the awareness of which is Inner Peace, was there in the beginning. One Mind underlies the universe and all its laws and beauty. But this One Mind is also present within each human being, a small point of light with which we can connect through spiritual practices. The Hindu greeting Namaste means, “I honor the divine in you as you honor it in me.” It is time for humanity to finally emerge from its destructive darkness to become aware of the infinite worth of one another and of “self.” Love must be returned to the One Mind, to one another, and to nature; all three are inextricably interwoven. This is the answer to the quest for Inner Peace--and, by extension, peace in the world.

“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that in the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushed against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Truly yours”
—Albert Camus

“The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful it can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when God comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.”
—Paramahansa Yogananda

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
—Rumi

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.”
—I John 5

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Can Unlimited Love Manifest in the Realm of Mind?

By Jo-Ann Triner

Unlimited Love manifests in the intangible world of mind and spirit just as it does in the tangible world where evidence is visible. Accessing that intangible evidence takes a little more effort but is easily retrieved through the testimony of those who experience it firsthand. The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love shares such evidence via Guiding Question 5, parting the veil to offer glimpses of spiritual experiences that quell the curiosity. This takes us into the study of shared consciousness or nonlocal mind, a concept difficult to discern as a mental construct, but easily grasped through true stories.

Adding to that body of evidence here are three real-world accounts that exemplify just how minds are interconnected, even when the individuals involved are continents apart. Such events read like a great concert in which the conductor is in one place and the orchestra in another, yet the music of life plays through them perfectly. Whether we call this phenomenon One-Mind or nonlocal mind, it speaks to the mystery of Infinite Mind in which all of us participate.

A Loving Brother in Peril

My mother was a firsthand witness to the encounter below. She was still a young girl when the event occurred and relayed the story to me countless times with the utmost conviction:

My dearly beloved grandfather, his wife and their five children slept soundly most nights, warmed by the coal furnace that he so lovingly tended each evening. In both a physical and a spiritual sense, he was the keeper of the fire, a man of unusual love and warmth. But on this particular occasion, as all slept peacefully, that cozy family feel was interrupted when he arose from a vivid dream in a deep state of anguish, distraught enough to throw on the house lights and awaken all from their slumber. He was a man of steel and not easily shaken, but on this night he was inconsolable, overcome with emotion, recounting the horrific images of his brother in Poland, trapped in a barn fire and crying out for help. Convinced that something dreadful had actually happened, he marked the wall calendar in the kitchen. Months later he received a letter from family members in Poland, disclosing the violent death of his brother in a barn fire on that very same night.

The Crucifix Carrying Salesman

The characters in this story speak of this blessed event through every decade of their lives, each time with religious fervor and with grateful hearts, certain that on this day they were doubly blessed:

My twin sister and her husband tell the story of their early years as a couple, trying at length to bear children and eventually building a new home in the suburbs and settling into hopeful wonder. One winter evening, just after dinner, they answered the doorbell to find a salesman selling crucifixes. With so many other priorities, they simply said ‘no thanks’, but as they closed the door, both of them experienced a change of heart and were prompted to make the purchase. On re-opening the door only seconds later, they found no trace of this man, not even his footprints in the fresh snow that lined the landscape around their home. He had simply vanished. Months later they realized that it was on this blessed night that their twins were conceived. Of this, they are certain. For them, the mysterious visit of a crucifix carrying man became the symbol of an unexpected blessing and a foreshadowing of their children’s miraculous conception.