An interesting subject to contemplate......

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The universe is sending us a message we can't affor to ignore any longer. The message is a shock to our everyday beliefs. It overturns our perceptions and beliefs. But if we heed the message, human beings will begin to participate in the real universe. The message is simple: You are the universe. In other words, the cosmos is a mental construct, not a collection of stars and galaxies "out there." The universe we should be living in obeys far more nuanced rules from what traditional science currently holds true. It is, however, in agreement with the quantum view of the universe and the role of the observer, as the architects of quantum mechanics understood a century ago.

To begin with, we aren’t proposing that human mental activity is necessary for the world to exist, i.e., for it to be real. Or to put it another way, reality can be independent of the human mind, but not necessarily of mind or consciousness in general. When we say that the universe is a mental construct, many people interpret this to mean that reality is in our heads or that it is tied to a specific human being or even many human beings together. Precisely the opposite is the case: if all reality is a mental construct, then our heads and bodies, as parts of reality, are in the mind. This may sound surprising at first, but it is entirely consistent with everyday experience. There is nothing to our bodies but our felt perceptions of them. A body is what a particular swirl in a transpersonal flow of experiences looks like, just like a whirlpool is what a particular swirl in a stream of water looks like.

Indeed, to say that the universe is a mental construct does not mean that it exists only within the limited minds of humans. Instead, the universe is the expression of a universal mind that transcends personal awareness. This is what we call fundamental conscious awareness. Our seemingly separate human minds could be considered inter-related personalities of this universal mind, akin to the multiple facets of one's own personality. We are of course immersed in the universal mind and our experiences are human experiences. We are a species in a vast array of species here on Earth, and likely in almost countless planets populating the cosmos. The ideas and emotions experienced by the universal mind - within which we are all immersed - are presented to us in the form of the empirical world we see, hear, touch, taste and smell. This is analogous to how the ideas and emotions of another person are presented to us in the form of the person‘s brain activity, which we can also perceive through fMRIs and other instrumentation.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-join-universe-real-time-deepak-chopra-md-official--1/