Dear
friends
Once more I
will try to summarize my insights, acquired or given to me over the years,
about the structure of the universe, the nature of time, our psyche and our soul.
All this together amounts to a quantum jump in consciousness and for most
people this will be total weirdness, but what choice do I have, but to share.
To start
with time, I believe old Plato hinted not only at the structure and task of our
mind in Phaedrus, with his two horses (one obedient and one wild) but also knew
they refer to the two dimensions of time.
One is the logical, causal, rational, deterministic time of the clock,
not necessarily unidirectional, the other is the magical, creative, free will
dimension, the Bergson inner time. Both are real, but the free will is limited
by our self imposed worldview, it’s like the flow in the river bed of beliefs.
The clock
time stretches or bends (cyclical) in both directions, meaning any event is a
function of past, present and future (and of the consciousness of the inner or
outer (observer) resonances). So the outcome of any event/experiment is
dependent on its future tail, this explains why changing paradigms is such a
hard task. Predicting this deterministic
future is therefore not only knowing the past (the Laplace approach), but also
figuring in the future, a teleological feedforward
approach, far beyond the feedback approach now so prevalent in society and
science. When Plato spoke about Phusis, now commonly translated as nature, he didn’t mean
the static image of the measured and determined now, but nature as a process,
not only including the past but also the future, a far more dynamic image. His
fascination with prophets and augurs wasn’t superstitious, I feel, he realized
the bidirectional nature of time.
The free
will dimension complicates matters, but is essential as everything would become
static and would eventually petrify without this dimension of change, creation,
freedom. It is in this dimension that
life manifests, it is life itself and we only limit it by sticking to the
beliefs that include our human laws of nature. Any true sorcerer or believer
will tell you about the miracles that arise when we let go of our beliefs (or
create new ones).
We think
that the mind (or imagination) is the great tool to change our beliefs and
situation, but what reaches our cognitive levels is just a filtered and twisted
representation of what our primary sensor/actuators pick up. Our “primes” are the real interface with
energy, time, truth, love, danger, procreation, spirit, the fundamental
categories or dimensions that matter beyond matter. Archetypal, bodily,
emotional and cognitive filtering and mixing mechanism, both on the in and out
influence the real message or actions. Only rarely do we contact those primal
capabilities, where true creation and magical power resides and go beyond the
prison we created. Personality, body, emotions, beliefs, the world around us
(tat svam asi) all are part
of this prison.
The main
antenna for time in living beings (on this planet) is DNA, that tells the seed
to what plant it will grow, evolution is remembering the future. DNA again has
an existence in both time dimensions, this is really what epigenetics
means, we can escape the deterministic part by venturing into the free will
dimension.
Going
beyond what we call life, every existence has the two time dimensions, the drop
of rain over a watershed can make the quantum-decision to go either way, that’s
why watersheds are so holy. Some elements or forms offer a better bridge
between the time dimensions like crystals and especially gold (in fact an
isotope of gold) has special qualities there.
Crowns, gold clothes, jewelry, they are functional devices for thought
wave protection or manipulation.
The
super-dimension (this might even be the free will time one) that holds us and
everything together can be called love, chi, nature, God, but I like to call it
information. “A bit is only information if it bytes” is my keyphrase
here, and can be read as “there is only existence if the quantum probability
functions resonate (collapse)”.
Resonance is the basic mechanism of creation (which in turn is the union
of love and truth, reality is the shadow of God’s love is a great image here).
Resonance, correspondence, we would call it links in cyberspace terms, the old vedic core message “Ya evam veda”
makes the connection between power and wisdom, he who knows has the power, but
(and here the rational West missed a major part) also he who has been given the
power (initiation/crowning) will have the wisdom/knowledge. If we accept that thought (ideas) are part of
this information dimension (and alas beyond the tangible except when it is transformed
in our cells and becomes electrons and chemicals) we live in a universe full of
information waves/streams and are nothing but a cocreator
in a cosmos that exists but is framed as illusory.
Information
is really the main issue in philosophy and maybe even theology, it goes beyond
(cyber)-space and time, and infotheism or information
philosophy should be the main focus of science. Until we understand or grasp
how information (and consciousness is a part of information and therefore of
existence) underlies everything we are just like in Plato’s cave.
This brings
me to the question who we are. That most of us have an inner child or self and
an outer layer of ego/personality that we think is our “I” is no news, that
understanding runs through all the traditions. Letting go of that “I” as in detachment,
meditation, bhakti-yoga, devotion, is necessary to
get in touch with the deeper layers, connecting with the self. Not an easy
process, as we have many defense layers and clicking
back into ego is the natural defense we have developed. For a while I believed
that getting to know and living the inner child was the ultimate way to reach
Samadhi or whatever we call the higher states, but that image has changed. We
have chosen this life, this body, these parents and this DNA, so our persona or
mask is also a choice we made, and as I believe in guidance and direction
beyond the dimensions, we better accept our mask as part of the great lesson.
Without the mask we wouldn’t create these circumstances, would not face the
true lessons, we would all be like God’s children, living in paradise. So hail
the mask, even as the glimpses of the inner or supersoul
we perceive in mystical moments, with the help of psychedelics, sacred
encounters, meditation or misery, are so enormous and overwhelming. Integration
is what is called for, understanding and respecting the necessity and mutual fertilization
of our mask and inner child.
The
structure of our psyche, reflected in our body down to the tiniest limb, organ
and cell, is of course a mirror of the universe, the old hermetic
understanding. If we just take the seven
correspondence (but any number would do), there are seven major celestial
bodies, seven layers of existence, seven temples including the one we build in
our mind, seven chakra’s and each of them giving rise to unique experiences. Religions
are usually mirroring our energy chakra’s, the Hinduistic
focus on truth and power relates to the 3 th,
the Christian blood/love focus to the 4th, Islamic and Jewish rules and regulations to
the 5 th, Buddhist visualization to the 6
th .
We, as humans,
usually have a specific focus, translated and carried by our body posture and
most of all our breath patterns. Typologies like the enneagram
are basically models of the way we move the chi/breath energy in our
bodies. That is different for our mask
(or masks) and our inner child, we share the hardware but the software differs,
there are thus different modes we can recognize, although others are sometimes
more aware of what mode we are in, this is the blind spot(s) phenomenon. The more interesting events in our lives,
like falling in love, healing, transformation, are rooted in our inner child
mode. I actually believe that ignoring the messages from the inner child will
lead to malfunctioning, diseases and eventually death, it’s the misunderstood and
wounded inner child that kills us. Understanding the development of the inner
child and the mask by the way illuminates the old nature/nurture question quite
well.
We develop
our awareness/consciousness in each of the energy nodes (and in the different modes
to complicate the whole deal), but in our rational worldview we value most the
cognitive awareness, intelligence. Spiritual awareness comes next and can even
be measured, we sense the holiness, especially if it centers in the inner
child. The most common mystical
experience (at least in the West) is the unity feeling of the heart, when all
is love and one. Mystical experiences in other chakra’s, like the lucidity and
all-knowing experienced when the mind exalts, the tantric orgastic
or the magical power experience are less known. There are awareness levels in
each mode and node, together a rather complex image of one’s being and
potential, and definitely not used as criteria for getting a job in big
business. These levels can be measured, maybe with some projection variations,
but this has not been the subject of any scientific research as far as I know
(excuses to Bovis, Tomatis
and the few who tried). My analysis in this respect shows me time and time
again, that we are all equally endowed with talent, but these differ in how and
where they manifest. The Down syndrome child may lack a suitable persona or
mask, but offers to us an insight and access to our own inner child and is
therefore as valuable and gifted as anyone.
Our place
in the universe, or where we are as a race, who cares? Whether we are just the
epitome of life or a mere but grandioso experiment in consciousness with the
sun as our energy source, the planets as our protection against cosmic
distortions (hail astrology) and solar heating as a way to protect us from
incoming cosmic debris, who cares but the fearful. We live here and as we don’t
even understand the basic tenets of what happiness is, why bother with the
celestial questions. Who let the sun in (Sam’s koan) is
also about everyday life!
The above
is just a tiny bit of what came to me, from the universe, the future or my
inner soul, I really don’t know.
LS oct 2011
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