Attunement to God, Attunement to Self, Attunement to Others

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Attunement to God, Attunement to Self, Attunement
to Others
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Contact Information

• Patricia Romano McGraw, Ph.D.
• Licensed Psychologist
• Forensic Psychology Services
• 300 Allegheny Ave. Baltimore, MD 21204
• PRNJ9_at_msn.com 410-583-2244

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Agenda for Weekend

• Friday night and Saturday AM Get Acquainted,
  Set Goals
• Saturday AM The Twelve Assumptions Outline
  Provided
• Saturday PM The Overcoming Trauma in order to
  Attune to God, Self, Others Material presented
  in text Its Not Your Fault How Healing
  Relationships Change Your Brain and Can Help You
  Overcome a Painful Past
• Sunday AM Making Sure Goals Have Been Met
  Questions and Answers-Evaluation

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Method

• Ongoing Consultation
• Begin with Bahai Principles and compare and
  contrast scientific information
• Laugh! Tell Stories! Have Fun! Learn!

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Religion and Science Must Agree

• Yet
• In 1981 National Academy of Sciences of US
  religion and science are separate and mutually
  exclusive realms of human thought. (Satinover,
  p. 201)

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Twelve Assumptions
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1. Reality is One

• The organization of God is one. The evolution of
  existence is one. The divine system is one.
  Whether they be small or great beings, all are
  subject to one law and system. BWF, p. 312

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2. Human beings are one with REALITY.

• Humans are basically spiritual, non-material
  beings and one with the REALITY.
• Everything is connected.
• Didst Thou Think Thyself a Puny Form when
  within thee the whole universe is enfolded?

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3. We now exist in contingent reality or in
RELATIONSHIP

• our brain is not a storage medium but a
  receiving mechanism in every sense (McTaggart, p.
  95)
• The neurology of transcendence can, at the very
  least, provide a biological framework within
  which all religions can be reconciled. But if
  unitary states that the brain makes possible are,
  in fact, glimpses of an actual higher reality,
  then religions are reflections not only of
  neurological unity, but of a deeper absolute
  reality. (Newberg, et al, p. 168)

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4. Humans Have Free Will

• Know thou that all men have been created in the
  nature made by GodAll that which ye potentially
  possess can, however, be manifested only as a
  result of your own volition. Your own acts
  testify to this truth (BWF, Abdul-Baha, p.
  119)

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Some Fundamental Choices

• Beliefs
• Intentions
• Attention
• Action

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The world that is brought forth is contigent upon

• Intention
• Attention
• Belief
• Action
• And is UNIQUE to YOU!!! You are on one side of
  the FISHTANK

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The Heisenburg Principle

• No particle ever stays completely at rest but is
  constantly in motion due to the ground state
  field of energy constantly interacting with all
  subatomic matter. It means that the basic
  substructure of the universe is a sea of quantum
  fields that cannot be eliminated by any known law
  of physics What we believe to be our stable,
  static universe is in fact a seething maelstrom
  of subatomic particles fleetingly popping in and
  out of existence. (McTaggart, p. 19)

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No such thing as nothing

• What we tend to think of as a vacuum, or
  nothingness..or a sheer voidis in subatomic
  terms, a hive of activity. P. McTaggart, p. 19

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A Sea of POSSIBILITIES

• The Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle
• The path of an electron comes into existence
  only when we observe it. When we measure it, we
  always find the electron localized as a particle.
  We may say that our measurement reduce the
  electron wave to the particle state.

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5. Bringing Forth a World

• Bringing forth a world in which to live is an
  active process of
• Belief, Intention, Attention, Action It is
  fundamentally an act of RELATIONSHIP
• Know that every created thing is a sign of the
  revelation of God. (Bahaullah, BWF, p. 97)

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6. Pattern and Organization

• Brain as a multi-layered, iterative,
  self-organizing system
• Creates patterns according to quantum logic, i.e.
  STRUCTURE is based on function with goal of
  LEARNING
• Patterns change when NEW INFORMATION enters the
  system

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7. Creating AN Order, not THE order

• The order that is created, the pattern, is a
  choice and is based on the processes of
  believing, choosing, paying attention, and
  acting. But living is creating AN order not THE
  pre-existing order. You bring forth a world that
  is ONE of the many possibilities.

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8. Hierarchy of order

• Or identity with all there is or a realization
  of your true nature as part of the universe
• The greater the complexity and interconnectedness
  of the order we create, the more it approaches
  the ALL.

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9. Goal of Unity with the Ultimate Spiritual
Happiness

• BELIEVING, INTENDING, ATTENDING AND ACTING in
  ways that create unity and greater connectedness
  and complexity
• however

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10. Love is the Secret

• You cant create order out of conflict and
  disconnection, order is a connecting
• To connect, heart to heart, requires love -
  Love is the Secret
• Love comes from the Field, from God, and our
  brains are designed to RECEIVE this love and
  bring forth a world that reflects this love

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11. Thought Alone Not the Best Way

• Thought and language are based on distinctions
  or differences-
• When we experience unity in all its forms being
  in love, being at the deepest state of
  meditation, seeing the sunset, watching a child
  being bornthere are no words to describe

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12. Love is the Secret