New Consciousness Review Spring, 2017 | Page 49

When you see something impossible happen , it changes
W you . It sparks a new consciousness — an openness to different ways of seeing the world . After all , no matter what your hyper-logical engineering colleagues may say , you know there ’ s something inexplicable beneath and beyond the material world around you .

AWAKENING HEALTH

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The Power of the Seeing the Impossible :

How New Consciousness Emerges Barbara Oakley , PhD

When you see something impossible happen , it changes

W you . It sparks a new consciousness — an openness to different ways of seeing the world . After all , no matter what your hyper-logical engineering colleagues may say , you know there ’ s something inexplicable beneath and beyond the material world around you .

Click , click , click — it was the padlock that cinched together the doors of the 300-lb wall locker . The padlock was unlocking itself .

The back of my neck tingled . It was my hair puffed on end with primordial feelings of fear . This couldn ’ t be happening .
But what next unfolded spooked me even more . The newly unlocked padlock unhooked itself and flew across the room . It kapowed against the cement wall on the other side , strong as mortar fire .
No one was by the locker . The padlock did this all by itself .
That long-ago evening in the military barracks , four other women were with me . We all saw impossibilities like the flying padlock — moving things that couldn ’ t be moving . We heard extraordinary thumps and knocks that circled the room . “ It hap-
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