Deepak Chopra on The Gap Between Thoughts

Finding the silent gap that flashes
In between our thoughts
Seems relatively easy, but because it flashes by,
A tiny gap is not a doorway.
The quantum body is not separate from us–it is us–
Yet we are not experiencing it right now.
Sitting here, we are thinking, reading, talking,
Breathing, digesting, and so on,
All of which happens above the line.

Here is an analogy that brings the quantum mechanical
Body into focus: take a bar magnet and place a piece
Of paper over it. Next, sprinkle iron filings on the paper
And jostle it slightly.

What will emerge is a pattern of curving lines,
One inside the other,
That arch from the magnet’s north to south pole
And back again.
The overall design you have made represents a map
Of the magnetic line of force
That otherwise would be invisible, except that
The iron particles automatically align themselves
To bring out the image.

In this analogy, we see all mind-body activity
Above the paper and the hidden field of intelligence below.
The iron filings moving around are mind-body activity,
Automatically aligning with the magnetic field,
Which is intelligence.

The field is completely invisible and unknowable
Until it shows its hand
By moving some bits of matter around.
The piece of paper is the quantum mechanical body,
A thin screen that shows exactly
What patterns of intelligence are being manifested
At the moment.

There is more to this simple comparison
Than you might at first suppose.
It is really the hidden field that is generating
These lifelike appearances.
Here you have a picture of how the body-mind
Actually relates to the field of intelligence.
The two remain separated, but the division is invisible
And has no thickness whatever.
It is just a gap.

The only way one knows
That the quantum level even exists
Is that images and patterns keep cropping up everywhere
In the body.