Fractal Zoom

by The Cleaver

The fractal spiral is the evolutionary movement of consciousness through the universe. Each iterative resolution of the fractal is encoded with the whole, meaning that every element and compound, from a hydrogen molecule to a Beethoven symphony, unfolds from the same elegant rule set and is capable of connecting to, or becoming, anything else in the universe. Every holographic fragment contains the big picture. It is the frequency of one’s own channel of consciousness that determines how deeply we can go.

Consciousness traces the logarithmic spiral arcs into ever higher dimensions of being, or more precise configurations of energy, as you prefer. It is useful to visualize the spiral as a three dimensional object, a cone. As we move towards the point, each augmentation of the fractal indicates an exponentially higher level of density and complexity. More information in less space, deeper awareness in less time, all accumulating from each previous resolution. This continues as we progress through the spiral, which becomes denser as we approach its singularity point, where no further complexity or geometric enfoldment is possible. This represents a natural completion and integration stage. A dimensional shift. We are at one of these points now.

That which springs from the spiral contains the whole spiral. With sufficient awareness, intuition and symbol decoding, one can determine specific imprints of the fractal spiral in any component of its creative expression. This can be used to plot trends, calculate future events or connect seemingly diverse memes into a more coherent whole. So, if we accept that (a) we are currently at the completion stage of the current resolution of the fractal spiral, and (b) we live in a time of high-density information saturation, we can fairly assume that imprinting of the spiral is omnipresent in our felt experience of the world. It is all around us.

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“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.” Max Planck

by Roger Blomquist, M.D.

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Introduction :

Most scientific theories describing the fundamental nature of the universe treat the existence of life--of intelligence--as an evolutionary afterthought or "lucky accident" which somehow occurred by mere chance. "Integrated Theory of Intelligence" rejects this view as fundamentally lacking. In this pioneering effort, intelligence-consciousness is proposed as an intrinsic aspect of existence just as fundamental as the known attributes of matter-energy and space-time, forming with them an interdependent process of ongoing creation that has resulted in our present universe.

Working from an original set of axioms defining the basic properties exhibited by intelligence, the reader is taken on a thought-provoking tour which integrates into the book's proposed theoretical framework the latest findings from a host of scientific disciplines. Interwoven with the text are insights from such fields as biochemistry, neurophysiology, physics, cosmology, biology, genetics, and humanistic psychology, among others. Both panoramic and detailed, this look at the accumulating evidence posits the existence of intelligence as an unavoidable force in the operation of all phenomena, ultimately giving rise to the evolution of life and consciousness.

Written at a level that both lay readers and scientists not yet acquainted with these specialized fields can understand and absorb, this new view should fascinate anyone who is at all interested in intelligence and consciousness and how they have developed.

Rigorous yet balanced in its approach, "Integrated Theory of Intelligence" will challenge theorists and mystics alike to rethink how they look at the universe, mind, consciousness, the brain, and ultimately life itself.

In the book entitled the "Integrated Theory of Intelligence" the premise is developed that all facets of our existence are strongly interrelated and interdependent. Many centuries ago it was postulated that all physical existence was comprised of earth, water, fire and air. The current theory reframes these basic "ingredients" in the present-day language of matter-energy, space-time, and intelligence-consciousness. Others may choose to list a different set of ingredients based upon their interpretation of reality; but no matter how our analytical-reductionist mind may divide existence into discrete entities, someday it will nevertheless be established that all objects within our perceived reality are interrelated and interdependent. This in fact is the present-day goal of physicists pursuing what has come to be known as the "Theory of Everything."

The Integrated Theory of Intelligence predicts that not only are the basic ingredients interrelated - no matter how we define them - but that someday it will be proven there is actually only one basic substance within the universe, and that the ingredients as we presently perceive them would be more usefully viewed as evolved properties of that one substance. This is somewhat analogous to the way many physicists now believe that there was only one superforce at the moment of universal creation, which soon thereafter divided into the four (or more) physical forces.

The theory postulates that as matter-energy is continually subdivided within the subatomic realm into smaller and smaller components, it eventually dissolves, or reduces to, the background of space to become part of it. It is suggested here, therefore, that matter is actually a very highly condensed form of space. If so, this would account for the "virtual particles" which seem to be continuously popping into and out of existence everywhere throughout space. If this is true, it would provide us with the link between matter-energy and space-time. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity also makes the prediction that matter-energy is interrelated to space-time.

It will be considerably more difficult to prove that intelligence-consciousness forms a common bond with matter-energy and space-time for the following reasons. Most scientists are searching for an explanation of our physical existence that incorporates only matter-energy and space-time and many of them also believe that intelligence-consciousness is an epiphenomenon that occurred by chance, playing no role in the direction of the evolutionary process. This bias will slow the recognition of the interdependence of these properties.

The evidence to date is insufficient to prove that the universe is comprised of only one basic substance as here suggested. Nevertheless, in the interest of sketching out the ramifications of the theory in full, it should be stated here that the theory does lead to such an eventual prediction.

The nature of consciousness has yet to be defined in modern terms even though a great deal of time and effort has been devoted to this endeavor, particularly over the last several decades. The question as to its origin and significance dates back to antiquity but only recently have we gained enough understanding as to its place within the usual scheme of things, to begin to unravel this mystery. It is my current belief that we must begin with one of two choices. It would appear that consciousness must either be a primary property of the universe being present at the beginning or developed later as an epiphenomenon. If one were to poll most scientists I would guess that the majority would side with those individuals who believe consciousness to be an epiphenomenon. Most research scientists who have devoted themselves to the study of the mind-brain believe consciousness to be an epiphenomenon of the electrochemical events occurring within the brain. There is simply no question that consciousness is heavily influenced by these electrochemical events but it is also most doubtful that they are the cause of consciousness.

For many years I remained an agnostic relative to whether consciousness represents a primary or secondary phenomenon since I could not find compelling reasons to choose either viewpoint over the other. I now believe that there is enough information, much of which is scientifically based, to allow for a clear choice. As a matter of fact I would even suggest that the evidence is overwhelming and those whose persist in choosing the other alternative are selectively ignoring the preponderance of information available.

When the Integrated Theory of Intelligence was first developed in 1984 there was less scientific evidence to support the conclusions offered in the text. Since then there has been considerable progress and there is more scientific evidence accumulating to support the theory. For those that are interested, a reading list of books can be accessed through this web page, each with a short synopsis summarizing how the information within the book gives additional support to the concepts presented in the "Integrated Theory of Intelligence".

The hypothesis being presented is based upon the premise that consciousness is a primary property of the universe. Since most scientists are not willing to embrace this concept, the world view which ultimately follows, is still subject to question. It is my postulate that by accepting the premise that consciousness is a primary property, a more consistent picture emerges that best describes our reality.

There is now very strong evidence which suggests that our universe began in a manner best defined by the "Big Bang" Theory. Even though I have always been somewhat offended by a comic book name for what is arguably the greatest single event in the history of the universe, it would appear that the most essential parts of the theory are approximately correct.

The big bang theory postulates that the universe sprang forth from a singularity where matter-energy-space-time were compressed into an extraordinarily small volume prior to the moment of creation. Just prior to the expansion process there would have been an infinitely high or near infinitely high focus of energy without any formed matter in an infinitely or near infinitely small volume of space without the existence of time. This energy focus would have been homogeneous and undifferentiated without any recognizable form. One of the most important questions ever posed is whether intelligence-consciousness existed at the moment of creation or became manifest at some later date as a chance epiphenomenon. To explain all phenomenon that we observe I would have to conclude that intelligence-consciousness existed at the moment of creation and has been an active participant ever since. Whether the universe began as a singularity or not is currently open to debate. For example superstring theory does not require a singularity with infinite energy being compressed into an infinitely small volume of space. In superstring theory the expansion began with nearly infinite energy within a very small volume of space.

It would seem probable that at the moment of creation there was one uniform homogeneous basic substance without any form which best could be described as an almost infinitely high concentration of energy with the property of intelligence-consciousness and that following the big bang this energy began to rapidly dissipate into an increasingly larger volume of space being influenced by this property of intelligence-consciousness. This extremely high energy could not be manipulated into any significant form until it had dissipated into a sufficiently large volume of space thus allowing for a tremendous decrease in energy density. The higher the energy density the greater the chaos and the less order possible. Increasing order gradually appeared only as the energy density decreased. Spatial expansion was absolutely essential to allow for the evolution of higher order systems. There is a direct mathematical relationship between a decreasing energy density and the evolution of increasingly higher order systems. We will later discuss how increasing heat entropy, as defined by the second law of thermodynamics, is an essential part of the evolution to increasingly higher order systems containing increasingly greater amounts of information. This relationship is interrelated and both are dependent upon each other. We began with a universe that was infinitely hot with maximum chaos devoid of order which has evolved to a state where chaos has drastically decreased and order dramatically increased. This has occurred exponentially over time and will continue to do so as long as the universe is in state of expansion. The rate of evolution to higher order systems is directly dependent upon the rate of universal expansion. The greater the volume of the universe the less the energy density and the more that the chaos, which is a function of energy out of control, can be manipulated into order by the property of intelligence-consciousness.

A single superforce was present at the moment of creation as another property of the uniform, homogeneous, undifferentiated basic substance which differentiated into the four physical forces which we currently recognize.

At the moment of creation, intelligence-consciousness was totally unified with matter-energy without differentiation but with the potential to be divided up and fractionated into many forms, only a few of which we are currently aware. Our current paradigm would lead most to conclude that intelligence-consciousness is limited to humans or perhaps other human-like creatures on other planets in other galaxies. The theory being presented would allow for a great many other material and non-material forms that possess intelligence-consciousness, including systems that are both living and non-living. Intelligence-consciousness permeated the early universe and would have taken on any form that currently existed at any time throughout the evolutionary process. This is how intelligence-consciousness was able to influence this process resulting in a highly organized universe balanced between order and chaos. It began in a state of maximum chaos and minimal order and has evolved to greater and greater levels of order with lesser and lesser degrees of chaos, and has done so exponentially over time.

How Consciousness creates the Material World ?

By Amit Goswami 

Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Monistic Idealism - Mysticism & Religion

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Religion

To arrive at an understanding of Truth, a mystic usually discovers and employs a particular methodology. The methodologies, or spiritual paths, have both similarities and differences. The differences, which are secondary to the universality of the mystical insight itself, contribute to the differences in the religions founded on the teachings of the mystics. For example, Buddhism developed from the teachings of the Buddha, Judaism from the teachings of Moses, Christianity from those of Jesus, Islam from those of Mohammed (although strictly speaking, Mohammed is regarded as the last of a whole lineage of prophets, including Moses and Jesus), and Taoism from the teachings of Lao Tzu. This rule however, is not without exception. Hinduism is not based on the teachings of a particular teacher but instead encompasses many paths, many teachings.

Mysticism involves a search for the truth about ultimate reality, but the function of the religion is somewhat different. The followers of a particular mystic (most often after the mystic's death) may recognize that the individual search for truth is not for everyone. Most people, lost in the illusion of their ego-separateness and busy in its pursuits, are not motivated to discover the truth themselves. How, then can the light of the mystic's realization be shared with these people?

The answer is, by simplifying it. The followers simplify the truth to make it accessible to the average person. Such a person is usually caught up in the demands of the daily life. Lacking the time and devotion necessary to understand the subtlety of transcendence, he or she cannot appreciate the importance of direct mystical experience. So, the purveyors of the mystic's truth replace direct experience of unitive consciousness with the idea of God. Unfortunately, God, the transcendent creator of the immanent world, is recast in the ordinary person's mind into the dualistic image of a mighty King in Heaven who rules the Earth below. Unavoidably, the mystic's message is diluted and distorted.

The mystic's well-meaning followers inadvertently play the role of the devil in an old joke: God and the devil were talking together when God picked up a piece of paper. " What does it say?" the devil inquired. "Truth", said God serenely. "Give it to me, " said the devil eagerly. " I'll organize it for you."

Yet, despite the difficulties and fallibilities of organization, the religion does convey the spirit of the mystic's message; this is what gives religion its vitality. After all, the value to mystics of realizing the transcendent nature of Reality is that they become secure in a mode of being in which such virtues as love become simple. How can you not love when there is one consciousness and you know that you and the other are not really separate?

But how does one motivate an ordinary person who does not realize oneness to love others? The mystic clearly sees that ignorance of the transcendent oneness is the barrier to love. The net effect of absence of love is suffering. To avoid suffering, counsels the mystic, we must turn inward and commence the journey to self-realization. In the religious context, this teaching is translated into the dictum that if we are to redeem ourselves, we must turn to God as the supreme value in our lives. The method of this redemption is a set of practices, based on the original teachings, that forms the moral code of the particular religion - the ten commandments and the Golden Rule of Christian ethics, the Buddhist precepts, the Koranic or Talmudic law, and so forth.

Of course, not all religions introduce the concept of God. In Buddhism, for example, there is no concept of God. On the other hand, in Hinduism there are many gods. Even in these cases, however, the above considerations of religion are evident. Thus we arrive at three universal aspects of all exoteric religions:

1. All religions start with the premise that there is a wrongness in the way we are. The wrongness is variously called ignorance, original sin, evil, or just suffering.
2. All religions promise an escape from this wrongness, provided the "way" is followed. The escape is variously called salvation, liberation from the wheel of suffering in the world, or an eternal life in the kingdom of God, Heaven.
3. The way consists of taking refuge in the religion and the community formed by the followers of the religion and following a prescribed code of ethics and social rules. Aside from how esoteric teaching of transcendence is compromised, it is in the codes of ethics and social rules that the various religions differ from one another.

Notice the essential dualism in the first premise: wrong and right (or evil and good). In contrast, the mystical journey consists in transcending all dualities, including the one of evil and good. Also notice that the second premise is turned by the clergy into carrots and sticks - heaven and hell. Mysticism, on the other hand, does not dichotomize heaven and hell; both are natural concomitants of how we live.

As you can see, when filtered by the world's religion, the monism of monistic idealism becomes ever more obscure, and dualistic ideas prevail. In the East, thanks to an endless supply of students of mysticism, monistic idealism in its esoteric form has popularly retained at least some passing familiarity and respect. In the West, however, mysticism has had relatively little impact. The dualism of Judeo-Christian monotheistic religions has dominated the popular psyche, supported by a powerful hierarchy of interpreters. Like mind-body Cartesian dualism, however, the dualism of God and the world does not seem to hold up to scientific scrutiny. As scientific data undermine religion, there is a tendancy to throw out the baby with the bathwater - the baby being the ethics and values that the religion teaches, ethics and values that continue to have validity and usefulness.

Exposing the illogic of dualistic religions need not result in the monistic philosophy of material realism. As we have seen, an alternative monism is available. In view of the way quantum physics has demolished material realism, monistic idealism may be the only viable monistic philosophy of reality. The other option is to give up on metaphysics entirely, which for a while was the direction in philosophy. The trend now seems to be reversing.

Now we must face the crucial question: is science compatible with monistic idealism? If not, we must abandon metaphysics when doing science, adding the looming crisis of faith. If yes, we must reformulate science in accordance with the demands of philosophy. In this book, we argue that monistic idealism is not only compatible with quantum physics but even essential to its interpretation. The paradoxes of the new physics disappear when we examine them from the point of view of monistic idealism. Furthermore, quantum physics combined with monistic idealism gives us a powerful paradigm with which we can resolve some of the paradoxes of mysticism, such as the question of transcendence and plurality (how does the one consciousness become many?). Our work points toward the beginnings of an idealist science and the revitalization of religions.

by The Cleaver

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You have to work on yourself before you can really get anywhere. No one can do it for you. The magical codex and the dimensional escape hatch remain firmly out of reach for now. The flame will burn those who are unable to hold it safely in their hands. The universe insists, most adamantly, that we learn how to do it all by ourselves. Gnosis, spiritual attainment, esoteric wisdom. Whatever you want to call it. No cheating, no looking at your friend's paper, no plagiarising - you must do your own thing in your own way. Otherwise, we are compelled to repeat the same tests over and over again, through multiple lifetimes, until we finally figure it out. So you have to do the homework. Sharpen your blade. Keep moving. Fortunately, there is no time limit and everyone’s ascendant path is custom-built for their own unique growth pattern. In spiritual terms, it’s a win-win situation.

To help penetrate the all-pervading mists of the illusion, one must first acknowledge that consciousness is not the accidental and purposeless by-product of the human condition. The perceived world that we appear to be locked inside, like the silver ball in a pinball machine, is wholly a construct of consciousness. The pinball constructs the machine around itself. Whilst a testing notion for even the most elastic of modern philosophical minds, it has been known for aeons by the ancient mystical traditions and experienced directly by the indigenous shamanic cultures of every continent. Now, it is being evoked again as a progressive scientific theory in quantum physics. It is not new information we are bringing to mind, not by any means. It is better described as a remembrance.

Consciousness is a transcendental music with which we can attune, conduct and create. The spiritually synchronized mind instinctively discerns this. Consciousness flows through all things. It follows that consciousness itself does not originate in the brain of the individual. It is at root, a non-local force. The quantum and holographic traces of this have been unfolding for some time now, most intriguingly in the works of Gebser, Bohm, Pribram and Laszlo. The personal experience of consciousness is better conceived of as a tunnel, or an uplink, to the akashic field (aka the universal field, vacuum field, noosphere etc) which is dynamically connected to everything and everywhere. Perhaps the field is composed of the same subspace luminous filaments that Castaneda’s mythical figure of Don Juan spoke of so enigmatically; these being the fractal structures of consciousness itself, elaborately extending themselves across the multiverse, articulating every conceivable resolution. Our thoughts, feelings and articulations are unique expressions [configurations] of the field. Our imaginal thoughtforms sculpt its physical and psychic manifestations.

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by Michael Hayes

Ever since my formative years, when I first began to think in concepts, I have always been confounded by the mystery of human existence. By and large we all tend to take this consciousness of ours for granted, but for me it has always been a source of wonder. Equally perplexing is that ultimate question in life: death – that future happening looming over the horizon of all of our lives like some conceptual black hole. What, one wonders, is the purpose in the unending cycle of the genesis and inevitable destruction of all of us? Why are millions of sentient beings all over our planet created, only to starve or be slaughtered wholesale, many without ever having been given the opportunity to fulfil themselves?

On the wider scale of evolution, we see evidence in palaeontological and fossil records, of the emergence and subsequent violent extinction of whole races of people and species of animal. These entities come and go with alarming regularity. But to what avail?

In the greater universe also, existence is no less capricious, with the continuous formation and devastating destruction of planets, stars – even entire galaxies. And who knows what countless other life-forms out there are being indiscriminately annihilated in this way? Just normal, everyday occurrences – but these inviolable and often disturbingly violent events have persistently gnawed at my reason. Why, I ask myself, would the theologians all-wise and all-knowing Benefactor – if he exists – create such a myriad of wonderful forms and then turn round and simply destroy them? These endless cycles of life and death, creation and destruction – what kind of devilment is this?

The ongoing debate over the possible existence and modus operendi of a conscious, all-knowing creator proceeds unabated, with contributors from all disciplines lining up to have their say. However, owing to a specific sequence of events which led me on a solitary quest which was to last nearly fifteen years, I believe I have found a way of understanding what might really be going on in and around us. And ultimately, if I am right, the future looks not all bad. What is more, in this particular scheme of things, God is tangible, very much alive, and undeniably omnipresent.

Strange as this may seem, this whole scenario can all be explained with numbers.

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How Consciousness creates the Material World ?

By Amit Goswami

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Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Monistic Idealism - Mysticism & Religion

Mysticism

Realism grew out of everyday perceptions. In our everyday experiences of the world, evidence abounds that things are material and separate from each other and from us.

Of course, mental experiences do not fit neatly into such a formulation. Mental experiences, such as thought, do not seem to be material, so we have developed a dualistic philosophy that relegates mind and body to separate domains. The shortcomings ofdualism are well known. Notably, ikt cannot explain how a separate, non-material mind interacts with a material body. If there are such mind-body interactions, then there have to be exchanges of energy between the two domains. In myriad experiments, we find that the energy of the material universe by itself remains a constant (this is the law of conservation of energy). Neither has any evidence shown that energy is lost or gained from the mental domain. How can that be if there are interactions going on between the two domains?

Idealists, although they hold consciousness to be the primary reality and thus give value to our subjective, mental experiences, do not propose that consciousness is mind (beware of possible semantic confusion: consciousness is a relatively modern word in the English language. The word Mind is often used to denote consciousness, especially in the older literature. In this book, the distinction between the concepts of Mind and Consciousness is necessary and important.). Instead, they propose that material objects (such as a ball) and mental objects (such as the thought of a ball) are both objects in consciousness. In an experience there is also the subject, the experiencer. What is the nature of this experiencer? This is a question of utmost importance in Monistic Idealism.

According to Monistic Idealism, the consciousness of the subject in a subject-object experience is the same consciousness that is the ground of all being. Therefore, consciousness is unitive. There is only one subject - consciousness, and we are that consciousness. "Thou art that" say Hindu holy books known collectively as the Upanishads.

Why then in our ordinary experience do we feel so separate? This separateness, insists the mystic, is an illusion. If we mediate on the true nature of our self, we shall find, as mystics from many ages and times have found, that there is only one consciousness behind all the diversity. This one consciousness/subject/self goes by many names. Hindus refer to it as the atman. Christians call it the Holy Spirit, or in Quaker Christianity, the Inner-Light. By whatever name it is called, all agree that the experience of this one consciousness is of inestimable value.

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Mystics, then, are hose people who offer testimony to this fundamental reality of unity in diversity. A sampling of mystical writings from different cultures and spiritual traditions bears witness to the universality of the mystical experience of unity:

"My being is God, not by simple participation, but by a true transformation of my being" Christian mystic Catherine Adorna of Genoa (XV^th).

"Our very self-nature is Buddha, and apart from this nature there is no other Buddha" Zen Buddhist Hui-Neng (VI^th)

"Thou art neither ceasing to be nor still existing. Thou art He, without one of these limitations. Then if thou know thine own existence thus, then thou knowest God; and if not, then not" Sufi mystic Ibn al-Arabi (XII^th).

"God...when he has just decided to launch upon his work of creation is called He. God in the complete unfolding of his Being, Bliss and Love, in which he becomes capable of being perceived by the reason of the heart...is called You. But God, in his supreme manifestation, where the fullness of His Being finds its final expression in the last and all-embracing of his attributes, is called I. Kabbalist Moses de Leon (XIV^th).

"But when you finally discover me, the inner naked Truth arisen from within, Absolute Awareness permeates the Universe" Buddhist Yeshe Tsogyel & Padmasambhava (VIII^th).

"In this breaking-through I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things" Dominican monk Meister Ekhart (XIII^th).

"I am the Truth!" Sufi mystic Monsoor al Halaj (X^th).

"I am reality without beginning, without equal. I have no part in the illusion of I and You,  this and that. I am Brahman, one without a second, bliss without end, the eternal, unchanging truth...I dwell within all beings as the soul, the pure consciousness, the ground of all phenomena, internal and external. I am both the enjoyer and that which is enjoyed. In the days of my ignorance, I used to think of these as being separate from myself. Now I know that I am All" Hindu mystic Shankara (VII^th)

"My father and I are one" Jesus of Nazareth

What is the value of the experience of unity, For the mystic, it opens the door to a transformation of being that liberates love, universal compassion, and freedom from the bondage of living in acquired separateness and from the compensating attachments to which we cling. (This liberated being is called moksha in Sanskrit).

The idealist philosophy grew out of the experiences and creative intuitions of mystics, who constantly stress the direct experiential aspect of the underlying reality. "The Tao that can be spoken is not the absolute Tao, "said Lao Tzu. The Mystics caution that all teachings and metaphysical writings must be regarded as fingers pointing to the moon rather than as the moon itself.

As the Lankavatara Sutra reminds us: "These teachings are only finger pointing to the Noble Wisdom...They are intended for the consideration and guidance of the discriminating minds of all people, but they are not the Truth itself, which can only be self-realized within one's own deepest consciousness"

Alternatively, some mystics resort to paradoxical descriptions. Writes Ibn al-Arabi: "It (consciousness) is neither attributed with being nor with nonbeing...It is neither existent nor non-existent. It is not said to be either the First or the Last."

Indeed, the idealist metaphysics itself can be seen to be paradoxical, involving as it does, the paradoxical concept of transcendence. What is transcendence? The philosophy can only say, neti, neti - not this, not that. But what it is? The philosophy remains silent. Or, alternatively, says one of the Upanishads: "It is within all this / It is outside all this"

Is the transcendent realm within the immanent world? Yes. Is it outside the immanent world ? Yes. It gets very confusing.

The idealist philosophy also remains largely silent in answering such question as, How does the undivided consciousness divide into subject-object reality? How does the one consciousness become many? Saying that the observed multiplicity of the world is an illusion hardly satisfy us.

[...] monistic idealism is the correct philosophy for science in view of quantum physics. The integration of science and mysticism also helps resolve one of the difficult question raised by mysticism.

The integration of science and mlysticism should not be too disconcerting. After all, they share an important similarity: Both grew out of empirical data interpreted in the light of theoretical explanatory principles. In science, theory serves both as explanation of data and as the instrument of prediction and guidance for future experiments. The idealist philosophy, too, can be viewed as a creative theory that acts as an explanation of empirical observations of the mystics as well as guidance for other researcher of Truth. Finally, like science, mysticism seems to be a universal enterprise. There is no parochialism in mysticism. Parochialism enters when religions simplify mystical teachings to make them more communicable to the masses of humankind.

Book by Ervin Laszlo

Ervin Laszlo, holder of the highest degree of the Sorbonne (the State Doctorate), is recipient of four Honorary Ph.D.s and numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2001 Goi Award (the Japan Peace Prize) and a nomination for the 2004 and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a former professor of philosophy, systems theory, and futures studies in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East and founder and president of the international think-tank The Club of Budapest as well as of the General Evolution Research Group. The author of 75 books, translated into 20 languages, he lives in Italy.

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from Chapter 4

The Crucial Science Fable--In-formation in Nature

Our review of the puzzles encountered at the frontiers of science has set the stage for the quest to which Part One of this book is dedicated: to discover the basis for a scientifically founded Integral Theory of Everything (I-TOE). We have gained an important insight. We have found that in order to account for a growing number of things and processes that are undoubtedly real and are likely to be fundamental, a new factor needs to be added to the repertory of laws and concepts of contemporary science. What is this new factor? Let us look at the principal findings:

• Astonishingly close connections exist on the level of the quantum: every particle that has ever occupied the same quantum state as another particle remains correlated with it in a mysterious, non-energetic way.
• The universe as a whole manifests fine-tuned connections that defy commonsense explanation.
• Post-Darwinian evolutionary theory and quantum biology discover similarly puzzling connections within the organism, as well as between the organism and its milieu.
• The connections that come to light in the farther reaches of consciousness research are just as strange: they are connections between the consciousness of one person and the mind and body of another.

These connections indicate links between the particles that make up the material substance of the universe, as well as between the parts or elements of the integrated systems constituted of the particles. The links fine-tune the particles and the elements of the systems, creating space- and time-transcending coherence among them.

The surprising “nonlocal” forms of coherence crop up in fields as diverse as quantum physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, and consciousness research. Some physicists--John Bell and Chris Clarke among them--suggest that nonlocality may be in fact the deeper reality; ordinary, so-called “classical” or “decoherent” states (states where things have a unique location and a unique set of physical characteristics) may appear merely as a consequence of the way we interact with medium-sized things--things that are neither as small as quanta nor as large as the cosmos.

Independent of the truth of such speculations, it is clear that nonlocal coherence has important implications. It signals that there is not only matter and energy in the universe, but also a more subtle yet real element: an element that connects and produces the observed quasi-instant forms of coherence.

ENTER THE AKASHIC FIELD

The idea that information is present throughout nature is a recurrent theme in cultural history, but it is new to Western science. It calls for the recognition that information is not an abstract concept: as “in-formation” it has a reality of its own. It is a part of the physical universe. And since it is present throughout nature, it is best conceptualized as an extended field.

Rationale for an In-formation Field

The evidence for a field that would conserve and convey information is not direct; it must be reconstructed in reference to more immediately available evidence. Like other fields known to modern physics, such as the gravitational field, the electromagnetic field, the quantum fields, and the Higgs field, the in-formation field cannot be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. However, this field produces effects, and these can be perceived. This is the same in regard to all the fields known to science. For example, the gravitational or G-field cannot be perceived: when we drop an object to the ground, we see the object falling but not the field that makes it fall--we see the effect of the G-field but not the G-field itself.

In the case of the field that could account for the presence of in-formation in nature, the evidence is the puzzling, quasi-instant form of coherence that comes to light in the physical, cosmological, and biological sciences, as well as in consciousness research. These phenomena call for an explanation, and the simplest and most logical explanation is a field that links the entities that prove to be nonlocally coherent.

Although fields, like other entities, are not to be multiplied beyond the scope of necessity, it seems evident that a further field is required to account for the special kind of coherence revealed at all scales and domains of nature, from the microdomain of quanta, through the meso-domain of life, to the macrodomain of the cosmos. We need to recognize that just as electric and magnetic effects are conveyed by the EM-field, attraction among massive objects by the G-field, and attraction and repulsion among the particles of the nucleus by quantum fields, so nonlocal coherence is conveyed by a field: the universal in-formation field.

The Akashic Field

In my previous books I named the universal in-formation field the Akashic Field, or A-field for short. What is the reason for this name?

In the Sanskrit and Indian cultures, Akasha is an all-encompassing medium that underlies all things and becomes all things. It is real, but so subtle that it cannot be perceived until it becomes the many things that populate the manifest world. Our bodily senses do not register Akasha, but we can reach it through spiritual practice. The ancient Rishis reached it through a disciplined, spiritual way of life, and through yoga. They described their experience, and made Akasha an essential element of the philosophy and mythology of India.

The Akashic vision of a cyclic universe--of a Metaverse that creates universe after universe--is essentially the vision we now get from cosmology. In the new physics the unified, physically real vacuum is the equivalent of Akasha. It is the original field out of which emerged particles and atoms, stars and planets, human and animal bodies, and all the things that can be seen and touched. It is a dynamic, energy-filled medium in ceaseless fluctuation. The vacuum is Akasha and Prana rolled into one--the womb of all the “matter” and all the “force” in the universe.

Book Content

Introduction: A Meaningful Scientific Worldview for Our Time

PART ONE

THE FOUNDATIONS OF AN INTEGRAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING
How Information Connects Everything to Everything Else

1   The Challenge of an Integral Theory of Everything
     
2   On Puzzles and Fables: Drivers of the Next Paradigm Shift in Science

3   A Concise Catalog of the Puzzles of Coherence
       
4   The Crucial Science Fable--In-formation in Nature
       

PART TWO

THE IN-FORMED UNIVERSE
Perennial Questions and Fresh Answers from the Integral Theory of Everything

5   The Origins and Destiny of Life and the Universe
        Where Everything Came From--and Where It Is Going
        Origins and Evolution of Our Universe
        Life on Earth and in the Universe
        The Future of Life in the Cosmos
        Glimpses of Ultimate Reality

6   Consciousness--Human and Cosmic
        The Roots of Consciousness
        Evolutionary Panpsychism
        The Wider In-formation of Consciousness
        The Next Evolution of Human Consciousness
        Cosmic Consciousness
        The Farthermost Reaches of Consciousness

7   The Poetry of Akashic Vision

The Phenomenon of Coherence:
   A Deeper Look at the Scientific Evidence

Over Four Decades in Quest of an Integral Theory of Everything:
   An Autobiographical Retrospective

by Peter Russell

from "FROM SCIENCE TO GOD, The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light"

The Great Awakening

The more I have studied the nature of consciousness, the more I have come to appreciate the critical role that inner awakening plays in the modern world–a world which, despite all its technological prowess, seems to be getting deeper and deeper into trouble.

Most of today’s problems–from personal worries to social, economic, and environmental issues–stem from human actions and decisions. These arise from human thinking, human feelings, and human values, which in turn are influenced by our belief that happiness comes from what we have and do, and by our need to bolster an ever-vulnerable sense of self. Psychological issues such as these lie at the root of our problems. The growing crises we observe around us are symptoms of a deeper inner crisis–a crisis of consciousness.

This crisis has been a long time coming. Its seeds were sown thousands of years ago when human evolution made the leap to self-awareness, and consciousness became conscious of itself.

The first appearance of self-awareness probably involved a sense of identity with one’s tribe and kin, but not a strong personal self. Gradually this inner awareness evolved, becoming more focused, until today it has reached the point at which we have a clear sense of being a unique self, distinct from others and the natural environment.

Awareness of this individual self is not, however, the final stage of our inner evolution. Dotted through history have been those who have discovered there is much more to consciousness than most of us usually realize. This self, they tell us, is not our true identity. Moreover, it has serious shortcomings. If our awareness of self is limited to this separate, dependent, ever-vulnerable self, our thinking is distorted, and our actions are misguided, bringing much unnecessary suffering upon ourselves. To free ourselves from this handicap, we must take a further step in our inner journey and discover the true nature of consciousness.

Our Final Exam

In the past, greater awareness of the true self was deemed important for personal well-being. Today the game has changed; it is now imperative for our collective survival.

Our knowledge of the external world has been growing at an accelerating pace, bringing with it an unprecedented ability to modify and manipulate our surroundings. The technologies we now have at our disposal have amplified this potential so much that we can now create almost anything we dream of. Our knowledge of the inner realms, however, has developed much more slowly. We are probably as prone to the failings of a limited sense of self as were people two thousand years ago. This is the source of our problems. Advanced technology may have amplified our capacity to control our environment, but it has also amplified the shortcomings of our partially developed consciousness. Driven by the dictates of a derived identity, and by our belief that inner well-being depends upon external circumstances, we have misused our newfound powers, plundering and poisoning the planet.

We have reached what Buckminster Fuller called our "final evolutionary exam." The questions before us are simple: Can we move beyond this limited mode of consciousness? Can we let go of our illusions, discover who we really are, and find the wisdom we so desperately need?

These questions face us everywhere we look. Degradation of the environment is forcing us to examine our priorities and values. Political and economic crises reveal the shortcomings of our self-centered thinking. Disillusionment with materialism implores us to ask what it is we really want. The ever-accelerating pace of change demands that we become less attached to how we think things should be. Many social problems reflect the meaninglessness inherent in the contemporary worldview. And our personal relationships are continually challenging us to move beyond fear and judgment, to love without conditions. From all directions, the message is "Wake up!"

A Spiritual Renaissance

Never before has the pressure for a spiritual renaissance been so strong; and never before have the possibilities for such a renaissance been so great.

Our choice of spiritual path is no longer limited to the tradition into which we were born. We can draw from the entire spectrum of the world’s wisdom. We can learn from cultures as far apart as Tibet and Peru; from traditions as different as Buddhism, Christianity, and Shamanism; from teachings given thousands of years ago, and from contemporary adepts.

Moreover, the quality of the knowledge can be preserved in ways not possible before. In the past, as spiritual teachings were passed on from person to person, translated into different languages, and absorbed by foreign cultures, some of the teaching was inevitably misunderstood or lost, while embellishments were added. What remained was a poor rendering of the original inspiration.

Today, teachings are disseminated much more accurately and easily. We can watch videos, and listen to audiotapes as we travel. We can tune in to a satellite broadcast of a seminar taking place on the other side of the planet–and record it for later viewing. We can speak directly to almost anyone, anywhere in the world. We can search the Internet and draw on the insights and realizations of countless people whom we may never meet or know. For the first time, the essence of spiritual wisdom is being made globally available.

Whereas people in past centuries learned largely from their own experience and from those in their immediate vicinity, we can benefit from the learning of countless others around the globe. We are cross-catalyzing each other’s awakening.

A Collective Awakening

When I began exploring consciousness in the sixties, there were few books on the subject. Although Cambridge had one of the largest bookstores in Britain, books on "esoteric studies" were only to be found on one small shelf in the corner of the theology section. Three decades later, the situation is very different. There is hardly a city or large town in the West that does not have a bookstore devoted to personal development and human consciousness.

The thousands of books in this field published over the past thirty years reflect the myriad insights and discoveries people are making in their personal journeys. Reading these books guides or inspires some in their own awakening, who in turn pass their discoveries on to others–perhaps in books of their own, in talks and tapes, through websites, or simply in conversations with friends and family. The more each of us matures spiritually, the more we have to offer others; and the more they mature, the more they contribute to the collective awakening.

This mutual feedback not only results in an ever greater accessibility to information and guidance on inner development; it also leads to a honing of our understanding of the essential wisdom. When I discover a teaching that resonates with my inner knowing, clarifies my understanding of the mind, or adds helpful elements to my inner practice, I quite naturally integrate it into my own thinking. This is reflected in the ideas and insights I later share with others, which may resonate with their own thinking and clarify their own understanding. We are fine-tuning each other’s comprehension of the essential spiritual wisdom, drawing each other closer to a common appreciation of our inner worlds.

As we share our realizations, our various expressions of this knowledge come to sound more and more alike. At a talk I gave recently, a person asked if I was saying anything that different from what many other people were saying. My answer was "I hope not." If I am saying something markedly different, I am probably off track.

Today we easily fall into the assumption that what is new is best. We become excited by the latest breakthroughs in physics, biology, and astronomy, and are quick to embrace medical advances and new information technologies. But when it comes to spiritual technologies, what is best is that which has been tested and validated over the eons.

Our external circumstances have changed tremendously during the course of human history, and we may have very different opinions from people in the past, but the way the mind functions has not changed. The way we become caught in our interpretations of reality, the way we identity with limited aspects of ourselves, the way our attachments and fears condition our actions, the way we create suffering for ourselves–these have not changed. Nor have the basic practices that can liberate us from these impediments. In this arena it is not new knowledge that is required, but a re-formulation of the timeless wisdom in a contemporary context.

The Bridge

Buddha phrased his insights in terms appropriate to ancient India, Jesus in those of Judaism two millennia ago, and Mohammed in those of his own time and culture. Today we are rediscovering that same essential wisdom and expressing it in the language of the twenty-first century.

We live in an era dominated by science and reason. For new ideas to be accepted, they need to satisfy our rational mind and be testable. It is not enough that they should resonate with our intuition; they must also make sense within the contemporary worldview.

For several hundred years our dominant worldview has been based on the assumption that the real world is the world of space, time and matter. This materialistic model has successfully accounted for most worldly phenomena and explained many mysteries–so well that it often appears to ruled out the existence of God.

Astronomers have looked out into deep space, to the edges of the universe. Cosmologists have looked back in deep time to the beginning of creation. And physicists have looked down into the deep structure of matter, to the fundamental constituents of the cosmos. In each case they have found no evidence of a God, nor any need for God. The Universe seems to work perfectly well without divine assistance.

Thirty years ago I had sympathy for such arguments. Today, I realize that the notion of God that science–and I–rejected was naïve and old-fashioned. When we consider the writings of great saints and sages, we do not find many claims for God being in the realm of space, time, and matter. When they talk of God–the Holy Spirit, the Divine Light, the Beloved, Yahweh, Elohim, Brahman, Buddha nature, the Being behind all Creation–they are usually referring to a profound personal experience. If we want to find God we have to look within, into deep mind–a realm that Western science has yet to explore.

I believe that when we delve as fully into the nature of mind as we have into the nature of space, time, and matter, we will find consciousness to be the long-awaited bridge between science and spirit.

This may be the greatest value of the new metaparadigm. In expanding our worldview to include consciousness as fundamental to the cosmos, this new model of reality not only accounts for the anomaly of consciousness; it also revalidates the spiritual wisdom of the ages in contemporary terms, inspiring us to dedicate ourselves anew to the journey of self-discovery.

If this new worldview becomes a personal experience–a shift in the way we perceive reality rather than just a new understanding of reality–our world would change in ways that we can hardly imagine. Five hundred years ago, Copernicus could not have foreseen the full impact of his new model of the universe. Today, we can have little appreciation of how the world might be when generations have been brought up knowing that consciousness is primary, and that each and every one of us is holy.

One thing we can say: It will be a much kinder and wiser world; a world in which it will be natural to have the compassion of St. Francis, the insights of Ramana Maharshi, and the wisdom of the Dalai Lama. Freed from many of our delusions, and from much of our fear and judgment, we will no longer cause each other unnecessary pain and suffering. Inner well-being and happiness will become the true measure of social progress.

By today’s standards this might sound like heaven on Earth, but isn’t this what spiritual teachings have always prophesied? When we realize the errors in our thinking, let go of our attachments, transcend our limited sense of self, and discover the true nature of our being, then darkness will give way to light. We will find the salvation we’ve been seeking, and our hearts will be at peace.

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by Ann K Elliott  

Land of the Shadow

Just as (in Part I) the mandalic Garden was divided into four by its four rivers, so now in the dynamics of the drama that takes place in Eden there are the four players who represent the four primary archetypes of the psyche (The players are the four primary archetypes. As Adam and Eve and Yahweh and the Serpent, they represent the masculine and the feminine and the divine and the instinctual. They are the four corners upon which consciousness is founded. As they become reconciled in us we become whole.). And corresponding to the central fountain is the Self--the wholeness-ordering wisdom of the psyche. The Self is the hidden treasure, the pearl of great price buried in the field of the human psyche.

Back in Genesis, after Adam's and Eve's expulsion from the Garden, the Tree of Life was placed under guard on all sides by a flaming sword. In similar mythic truth, the Self is guarded all around by a fire-breathing dragon. This means that in the search for wholeness the realm of the dragon--the unconscious--will have to be entered and our own inner dragons encountered.

Encountering dragons involves facing up to having those inner selves we try so hard to conceal, both from ourselves and others: our angry, prideful, deceitful selves, as well as the envy, greed, lust or laziness we disown but project onto others. It means removing the "log" from our own eye rather than the "specks" we think we detect in the eyes of others. Put together, those selves we disown form the archetypal shadow about whom Jung warns:

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

Condemned to the unconscious, the shadow is capable of wrecking havoc in lives, particularly in relationships where we condemn in others what we have yet to accept as part of our own human nature. But in recognizing and accepting the shadow we are put in touch with our own vulnerable human sameness. As a result we become less judgmental and more kindly inclined towards ourselves and others.

The dragon (as shadow) is caught off guard, and therefore disarmed, when accepted. Similarly the ego, when taking a stance in opposition to the Self, is disarmed by our acceptance of human nature as a co-mingling of light and dark. Moreover, this is the way we assume responsibility for the darkness apportioned each of us, and until we do we will continue to project our own capacity for evil onto others, thus increasing rather than decreasing humanity's collective shadow.

Doorways into Archetypal Reality

Owning one's shadow takes considerable moral effort because the only way to become conscious of the shadow, as well as other archetypal aspects of the psyche, is through self-knowledge. And there is only one way to gain self-knowledge, and that is through self-observation. For this a shift of perception is needed so as to discern our own unconscious processes at work. Following Jung, we will here approach archetypal reality indirectly, as through a backdoor into the psyche.

Metaphor, myth and symbolic image are all doorways into archetypal reality. For just as the shaman uses the drum as "canoe" or "horse," so the repetitive rhythms of metaphor, myth and image are primary modes for being transported into the land of the archetypes. Try entering by so-called rational means and you will not get there. Knock, however, on the doors of symbolic perception and the way will be opened.

Non-ordinary reality can be recognized in several ways. There will be about the landscape a subtle sense of other-worldliness, something qualitatively different--a numinosity. And about its lighting there will be a peculiar luminosity. The atmosphere also will feel "charged," "heightened," "enlivened." Finally there may be a feeling or a sense of familiarity--of having been there before.

Self-Knowledge As a Pressing Necessity

In assessing the collective psychic condition of the mid Twentieth Century, Dr Jung wrote that "self-knowledge in particular has become one of the most pressing contemporary problems."He goes on to explain that this is what affords the individual protection from the "isms" of mass-mindedness and its "irresistible urge to catastrophe."

Self-knowledge is what inoculates the individual from the contagion of fear constantly loosed in the collective. Jung cites two areas in particular where self-knowledge is needed. The first is for recognition of the shadow component of human nature which unrecognized is projected onto other people, races, religions, organizations, institutions and governments. The blind-to-self shadow tries to make itself right by making what is wrong "out there," thus avoiding personal responsibility for the resolution of collective problems. Concerning the shadow and self-knowledge, John Sanford advises:

The kingdom requires a morality which is not founded on rules and regulations imposed from outside, but on self-knowledge. This self-knowledge can be achieved through inner confrontation. The inner confrontation occurs when we confront the person within us for whom the Law is necessary. It would not be necessary to have a Law forbidding murder, adultery, stealing, coveting, and slander if there was not a part of our personality which might do exactly these things. The scribes and Pharisees seek to avert the danger of this inner "shadow" by following rules which prohibit these things. But the higher morality requires confronting the shadowy one within us who has made the rules necessary in the first place. In this way we achieve a truly differentiated moral attitude toward ourselves and life and are fit for the creative life of the kingdom.

The second necessity Jung called for was recognition of "the existence and the importance of the archetypes." Shadow and other archetypes inform us concerning our human commonality, knowledge of which perhaps really is, at this point in history, our most pressing need if we are to survive this present evolutionary passage.

by Ann K Elliott  

JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS as informed by ART & RELIGION, PSYCHOLOGY & SYMBOLOGYand envisioned as the Eternal Spiral Return--master motif of the soul's journey--the path of life--of heart, mind and soul.

From birth to mid-life the spiral moves out, expanding and extending until reaching the mid-point. There the direction reverses and the journey outward turns back inward--the soul back to its Source.Return to the Whole explores the landscape symbolism of the Bible, from the perspective of Christic spirituality and Jungian psychology, informed mainly by four disciplines:

The role of ART in expressing the emotional dimension of the spiritual journey;

The function of RELIGION in preserving the essence of the teachings of those who have known God intimately;

The provision, in the PSYCHOLOGY of C G Jung, of a map of the known and unknown territories of human consciousness;

And from the synchronization of the SYMBOLOGY of East and West, an indication of an archetypal level--a unifying field--where "the many are one."

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BOOK ONE : FROM GARDEN BEGINNINGS

BOOK TWO : THE WILDERNESS

by Michael S.Schneider 

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California - Botanical Garden

With its inherent harmony, the spiral is a metaphor for our inevitable transformation within. The inner spiral is not the physical spiral of our body, the embryo and ears, hair and heart, fists and fingerprints, but rather a psychic one, beckoning us as a symbol of consciousness and the way we live.

Our own inner spiral process whirls us into the mystery of the infinite within us. The spiral shows us that we are comprised of a continuum, not fragments, as we ordinarily appear to ourselves. A clue waits coiled in the spiral's principles of self-replication, self-accumulation, self-recurrence, and self-similarity. The recuring word is "self". The message of the spiral is growth and the tranformation of our Self.

At the center of our Self, deep within our consciousness, is a calm "I". Like the calm "eye" within a storm, our center is untouched by psychological turbulence. Peaceful, it observes all from the vantage of wisdom. Placid, it is unmoved by the turbulent weather of the surrounding psyche. When you are feeling connected with your center it semms very familiar. It feels like the Self you know best, like who and what you know your Self to be, calm in knowing without thinking. To be centered is not the same as being "self-centered" or selfish. Instead it is identity with the deep, divine power that motivates us.

Consider a spiraling top spinning "centered" on its calm eye. As soon as it tilts slightly, the top goes off center and its path widens, spiraling away from its center of stability, away from its center of gravity. The further from its center it moves, the more it wobbles. Leaving the center creates the trail of the spiral, an attept to regain balance.

The center within us is the truth of our higher Self, the reality deepest within which each of us call "I". Each time we lose sight of the "I" we spiral towards periphery. We appear to leave the center because we feel a sense of separation somewhere in our lives. We lose our vantage point of the center when we artificially divide our Self and try to look at it, think about it, want it, grasp at it. When we leave our center, we are simply identifying with other possibilities of our Self, distracted by the turbulent realm of the four elements. And when we do, we miss the peace of the calm "I" and yearn to return to it, to transform  our selves back to identity with it. Identity with our center is always possible, as a wobbling top can sometimes be helped to regain balance.

by Michael S.Schneider

The Golden Ratio (Φ) within a Golden Spiral

The calm « I » of the storm

Cirles and spheres, triangles, squares, pentagons, spirals and the five Platonic volumes represent principles that shape the world. When we see stars and spirals we know that there is life and excellence, motion, balance, and transformation. But the Universe is not like a room filled with geometric shapes. These forms are the shape of the universe, the shapes of space itself. What we see and touch are the visible expression of forces and principles we can rain ourselves to understand. For the sake of solving our environmental and social problems, we can, and must, learn to see with new eyes.

The lesson of the spiral is that every "thing" is not a noun but a process, a dynamic "energy event". The world resembles a whirpool of transformation with which we can cooperate for our benefit

We can also use our experience to lear to see ourselves differently. A glance at the human body shows that in structure and function we carry the pentagonal flag of life and excellence. Like other living forms, our body's ideal proportions grow in accordance with the golden mean, the f relationship weaving balance, harmony, and beauty among its parts. This same accumulative proportion is found in the physical structure of living sea, land, and sky creatures and in the paths of atoms and galactic clusters. It is stirring to realize that each of the physical strucrutes of the universe is a repackaging of the others. We hold the peoportions of the slar system in our hands, face, and whole body. One can fold an outline of the human body differently and create the proportions of a starfish and seashell, a rose, and the Milky Way galaxy. Perhaps the entire universeis a great, living, intelligent being we just don't recognize, in the same way  that one cell in your body doesn't suspect the existence of the eprson reading this or even have the ability to comprehend your possibility.

By turning from the world outside ourselves to the subtle world within, we move from the symbolic to the sacred. In symbolic geometry the essential principle of the Pentad if life and "regeneration", expressed by the property of self-similarity. Inwardly, this characteristic indicates the possibility of spiritual regeneration, rebirth from the human to the divine as sought by every one of history's religions. Methods for attaining it differ, but curiously they share the spiral as a universal symbol of spiritual transformation of forces in nature. In the Bible the Deity speaks to prophets from the same whirlwinds on which Native American initiates, like those in many other cultures, were carried to "heaven". The aproach to heaven, not a location in the clouds but a symbol of regeneration to conscious identity with the Higher Self within, is never depicted as a straight line. Neither is the descent to hell, as Dante tells us from his downward spiral tour.

Craftspeople from Ancient Egypt, Babylon, China, Africa, Europe, India, and Polynesia, and great artists from Brueghel to Blake have symbolized the spiritual path as a spiral. All people seem to understand this intuitively. Even the makers of popular movies feel it [...]

With its inherent harmony, the spiral is a metaphor for our inevitable transformation within. The inner spiral is not the physical spiral of our body, the embryo and ears, hair and heart, fists and fingerprints, but rather a psychic one, beckoning us as a symbol of consciousness and the way we live.

Our own inner spiral process whirls us into the mystery of the infinite within us. The spiral shows us that we are comprised of a continuum, not fragments, as we ordinarily appear to ourselves. A clue waits coiled in the spiral's principles of self-replication, self-accumulation, self-recurrence, and self-similarity. The recuring word is "self". The message of the spiral is growth and the tranformation of our Self.

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by Michael S.Schneider

To the geometer's eye, the vesica pisces inherently holds the proportions and patterns of the basic shapes even before they are constructed.

The goddess gives birth. The geometer makes visible the archetypal proportions inherent in the vesica pisces, helping them through the birth portal [...]

Nature's pattern are based on the mathematics of three-dimensional space. Inessence, nature's creating process yields its fruit by giving birth to volume. Constructing the universe therefore, involves the process of volumization.

The archetypal field where the patterns first appear is a sphere, a Monad. The geometry that arises within this sphere is obliged to manifest the Monad's principle of equality in all directions. Nature adheres to this principle by configuratting primary volumes that divide the sphere equally in all directions. An experiment with a rubber ball and a piece of chalk will how that there are very few ways to put points around a sphere so that when they are connected by lines they form identicaly shaped surfaces, edge lenghts, and angles. Nature's first expressions in three dimensions are such forms that fit perfectly within the sphere and present us with an identical view in all directions, no matter how you turn it. These forms, or "volumes", are based on surfaces with the same shape, either square, triangle, or pentagon . Ruled by the Monad, three-dimensional nature is structurally disposed to the geometry of equality in all directions.

There are only five volumes tha fulfill this requirement of equality by repeating the identical corner angles, edge angles, edge lenghts, and surface shapes around a sphere. Although scores of stone models of each of the five types dating from 1500 BC have been found in Scotland, no one has ascertained their puropose. The five volumes were discribed by Plato in Timaeus and are known to mathematicians as the "Platonic Solids" and more normally the "regular polyhedra" ("many base"). Four were identified by Plato with the four ancient elements, or states of matter, and the fifth, the quintessence ("fifth being"), represents their all-encompassing "cosmos". Their names derive from the number of faces they have.

Mathematicians have long known there can be only five possible "equal divisions" of three-dimensional space. Highly respected, discussed, and wondered at in ancient times, the construction and study of these five volumes were considered the ultimate goal toward which the elementary constructions built, the culmination and pinnacle of ancient geometric and esoteric knowledge.

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The following is an excerpt describing the birth/creation of  archetypal Nature !

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 Mater makes Matter

Everything created shares the urge to create.Through the miracle of birth the great cosmic creating process expresses its archetype and becomes more conscious of itself. By bringing into expression the vision locked in our hearts we resemble that process and grow in self-awareness. Through geometric replication of nature's formation we can learn about the archetypal principles inherent in universal design and in ourselves.

In ancient mathematical philososphy, the first stirring of the Monad results in the polar Dyad. Its geometric metaphor is the construction of the vesica piscis. In myth, it is represented as the meeting of primeval parents.

All creation is due to polarity. Every birth occurs through this interpenetration of positive and negative, light and dark, male and female, god and goddess, electricity and magnetism, and the two circles of the vesica piscis where geometric forms configure.

While modern science understands the universe as the synchronisation of electronic power with magnetic fields, vibratory patterns of electromagnetc frequencies, and energy bonds, the ancient bards sang of the union of the Great Father and Great Mother. [...]

Where modern science observes the triad of light, energy, and mass as E=mc², the ancients mythologized a mystic marriage and birth in three stages: a field or womb of light arises, it swirls as an energy pattern, and physical forms precipitate upon the pattern. The geometer replicates this cosmic configurating process with three tools. When the precise union of circle occurs, the three-stages process of birth begins, culminating in forms clothed by the four states of matter. [...]

Archetypal patterns arise. The electromagnetic field spins like a sun on its axis. Massless light whirls in mathematically precise rythms and patterns. [...] 

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excerpt from Crossing The Rubicon: Breaking The Fake News Trance  by the Cleaver 

 [...]

Imagination is our holographic engine. It makes the world. Literally. If our imagination is running someone else’s program, we are living in someone else’s dream. It is time to take control and observe how manipulated scientific and religious dogma has misled us about how our world actually functions. Time is not linear. We are not hopeless wanderers in a cold lifeless universe. We do not cease to exist when the body (the bio-suit) is finished. Life is a progression of many lives, many consciousnesses and many worlds. This is one of them. You are one story; one piece of cosmic consciousness. Indestructible. We are designed to interact with the universe by articulating and encoding it with our wisdom, love, intent and creativity. These are things of galactic significance. Not nice-to-haves.

Do not let someone else’s belief system restrict your imagination. No religion, no government, no teacher can guide you better than you can guide yourself. The very act of comprehending the nature of our creative consciousness undermines the Control System by raising the frequency of consciousness out of the manipulation field and into inspired independence. I believe, as others have for millennia, that the outer world is a direct reflection of our own private inner consciousness. When a critical mass of people understand that the game is not a good game anymore, that there is a better way of living and evolving, then the awesome synchronous power of the universe begins to paint a new world into being.

by by Jonathan McGregor Bethel

How many of you got online today and interacted in a cybernetic way in some form or another, either by browsing the world-wide-web, checking email, chatting live with others on a chat program, or corresponding with others on an internet social network, like Myspace? If you did, then you were partaking of the awakening noosphere, the thought envelope surrounding the planet that is now coming to fruition.  Transpersonal psychologists have known since CG Jung that individual man partakes of and gives back to a collective unconscious, a global, shared field of mind full of archetypes that impel us into certain behaviors and involve particular thought forms.  An interface is now forming between this morphogenetic thought field, this collective unconscious, and the now burgeoning cyber-technological, globe-girding internet.

Many philosophers, including myself, promulgate the notion that the internet is the hardwiring for the now forming noosphere. The concept of the noosphere was an idea put forth by the French, Jesuit Priest and Paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.  The supposition that Teilhard put forth was the novel insight that the biosphere of our planet, the complete kingdom of nature in the air, in the oceans, and on the land surrounding our Earth, will soon extrude a global layer of synced and connected thought, the Noosphere.  Upon crystallization of the noosphere, a field of global telepathic connectivity will have formed, and the Omega Point will dawn, ushering in a new paradigm and lifting man to a new level of transcendence.  Teilhard had his sentiment of networked thought in the noosphere nearly fifty years before the internet came into being, and he came to his assumptions after studying Darwinian evolution and the course of biology.

If one thinks of each human as comprising one cell within the planetary brain, then the realization soon follows that we have now reached a new level in the transfer of information between those cells.  It is now common for a person during one day to be interacting online with several people throughout the world.  I may be a bit of a technophile, but in one day I can converse with five or six people at various parts of the globe: my business contacts in China, my friend in Australia, her friend in London, my Sister in Texas, and my various friends from the east coast to the west coast, not to mention interacting on various topical forums with many people in my various areas of research.  It is obvious that the interrelation of the cells of this global brain has intensified its interconnectivity and ramifications, and the flow of information now reaches passed nations and time zones; information is becoming holographic. It use to be that the other side of the earth always felt asleep to our daytime, but now the entire globe is present in the moment through the interaction taking place on the internet.

The global morphogenetic thought fields of humanity have been called many names: the collective unconscious, the genetic archives, the akashic records, and the phylogenetic unconscious.  Now these fields and their interaction with the human mind have reached a new level of operability with the advent of the internet. Another way of saying that the internet is the hardwiring of the noosphere is that between the biosphere, nature, and the crystallizing noosphere, global telepathic thought, is a layer of machination formed by elements of the biosphere, us;  this intermediary phase is called the Technosphere with its complex machines coming together and interjecting themselves within our lives, catalyzing a new way of functioning for humans in relation with each other and in relation to the collective unconscious.

From this global noosphere, the Omega Point will dawn, a singular moment where we will transform into the next stage and become unrecognizable to ourselves, a transcendence beyond anything ever imagined.  Many claim that a rapture is coming.  Indeed, a rapture is coming, but I feel it is beyond anything they have ever imagined… a rapture of your mind and being into the totality of the transcendental, a merging of the microcosmic man with the macrocosmic immensity…a union of man with God!  There is no fear and punishment in this eventuality, as they claim; it is the long sought after harmony that our soul thirsts for.

The fact that we are fast approaching a Technological Singularity is evidence we are moving into the Omega Point and the noosphere is forming.  Now our creations will take on a mind of their own, solving age old dilemmas and problems in an instant. It is the pinnacle of our evolution coming into awareness, where we leap from the animal body and enter the higher dimensional manifold that is awaiting us, a place of benevolent consciousness and beings of light that have been beckoning to us for millennia!  It is now time to lift up our heads and prepare ourselves to meet our maker and walk through the gates of a paradisiacal Utopia.  No, this is not naiveté that stipulates such preposterous concepts; these are sound proclamations based upon my and other's gnosis. 

by Peter Russell

The Primacy of Consciousness essay

This video is a presentation given at Physics of Consciousness Conference on Nov.2004

Peter Russell explores the reasons why consciousness may be the fundamental essence of the Universe.

Many have made such claims from metaphysical perspectives, but the possibility has always been ignored by the scientific community. In this talk, he discusses the problems the materialist scientific worldview has with consciousness and proposes an alternative worldview which, rather than contradicting science, makes new sense of much of modern physics. He presents a reasoned argument that shows how they are pointing towards the one thing science has always avoided considering—the primary nature of consciousness.

Outline

• What is consciousness?
• How could consciousness arise from matter?
• Paradigm shifts in science.
• The materialist metaparadigm.
• A new metaparadigm
• Consciousness is in everything.
• Everything is in consciousness.
• Matter is a mental construct.
• Relativity and light's point of view.
• Light lies beyond space, time and matter.
• Photons and the quantum of action.
• Parallels between light and consciousness.
• Consciousness as the fundamental reality.
• The mystical experience of consciousness.
• Who am I? What is the self?
• The meeting of science and spirit.

by Peter Russell

Based on the themes in the book The Global Brain,  this moving audio-visual presentation explores the idea that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being. It suggests that we stand on the threshold of a major leap in evolution, as significant as the emergence of life itself, and the essence of this leap is inner spiritual evolution. Moreover, Peter Russell maintains that it is only through such a shift in consciousness that we will be able to manage successfully the global crisis now facing us.

Using a rich variety of visual images and specially generated graphics, this award-winning video presents an inspiring and optimistic vision of humanity's future in a dynamic and captivating form. Praised by educators and politicians, and used by many international corporations, "The Global Brain video is compelling, challenging and above all timely."

The Corpus Hermeticum

by John Michael Greer

The fifteen tractates of the Corpus Hermeticum, along with the Perfect Sermon or Asclepius, are the foundation documents of the Hermetic tradition. Written by unknown authors in Egypt sometime before the end of the third century C.E., they were part of a once substantial literature attributed to the mythic figure of Hermes Trismegistus, a Hellenistic fusion of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.

This literature came out of the same religious and philosophical ferment that produced Neoplatonism, Christianity, and the diverse collection of teachings usually lumped together under the label "Gnosticism": a ferment which had its roots in the impact of Platonic thought on the older traditions of the Hellenized East. There are obvious connections and common themes linking each of these traditions, although each had its own answer to the major questions of the time.

The treatises we now call the Corpus Hermeticum were collected into a single volume in Byzantine times, and a copy of this volume survived to come into the hands of Lorenzo de Medici's agents in the fifteenth century. Marsilio Ficino, the head of the Florentine Academy, was pulled off the task of translating the dialogues of Plato in order to put the Corpus Hermeticum into Latin first. His translation saw print in 1463, and was reprinted at least twenty-two times over the next century and a half.

The treatises divide up into several groups. The first (CH I), the "Poemandres", is the account of a revelation given to Hermes Trismegistus by the being Poemandres or "Man-Shepherd", an expression of the universal Mind. The next eight (CH II-IX), the "General Sermons", are short dialogues or lectures discussing various basic points of Hermetic philosophy. There follows the "Key" (CH X), a summary of the General Sermons, and after this a set of four tractates - "Mind unto Hermes", "About the Common Mind", "The Secret Sermon on the Mountain", and the "Letter of Hermes to Asclepius" (CH XI-XIV) - touching on the more mystical aspects of Hermeticism. The collection is rounded off by the "Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon" (CH XV), which may be composed of three fragments of longer works.

The Significance of the Hermetic Writings

The Corpus Hermeticum landed like a well-aimed bomb amid the philosophical systems of late medieval Europe. Quotations from the Hermetic literature in the Church Fathers (who were never shy of leaning on pagan sources to prove a point) accepted a traditional chronology which dated "Hermes Trismegistus," as a historical figure, to the time of Moses. As a result, the Hermetic tractates' borrowings from Jewish scripture and Platonic philosophy were seen, in the Renaissance, as evidence that the Corpus Hermeticum had anticipated and influenced both. The Hermetic philosophy was seen as a primordial wisdom tradition, identified with the "Wisdom of the Egyptians" mentioned in Exodus and lauded in Platonic dialogues such as the Timaeus. It thus served as a useful club in the hands of intellectual rebels who sought to break the stranglehold of Aristotelian scholasticism on the universities at this time.

It also provided one of the most important weapons to another major rebellion of the age - the attempt to reestablish magic as a socially acceptable spiritual path in the Christian West. Another body of literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus was made up of astrological, alchemical and magical texts. If, as the scholars of the Renaissance believed, Hermes was a historical person who had written all these things, and if Church Fathers had quoted his philosophical works with approval, and if those same works could be shown to be wholly in keeping with some definitions of Christianity, then the whole structure of magical Hermeticism could be given a second-hand legitimacy in a Christian context.

This didn't work, of course; the radical redefinition of Western Christianity that took place in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation hardened doctrinal barriers to the point that people were being burned in the sixteenth century for practices that were considered evidences of devoutness in the fourteenth. The attempt, though, made the language and concepts of the Hermetic tractates central to much of post-medieval magic in the West.

by The Cleaver

keywords: transcendence, spiritual insight, consciousness, physical reality, morphic field, Aether, body-brain-mind, spirit, life, alchemy of mind, wisdom, knowledge, mastery of self

The path of transcendence and spiritual insight frequently compels the student to absorb large quantities of data in order to unearth and unite the golden strands of real wisdom. There’s a lot to assimilate and a limited amount of time to do it in. Ancient history, cosmology, the occult, shamanism, quantum physics, botany, divination, astronomy, religion, psychology and philosophy all vie for attention, each offering the potential for profound connection.

Can the brain reliably store and index such a magnitude of data? Is there an upper limit? Should the prudent researcher become expert in one field or have a broad awareness of many diverse subjects? The answer is suggested in an old Japanese story about a distinguished university professor who visits a Zen master. While the master quietly serves tea, the professor expounds his views on Zen, demonstrating his voluminous academic knowledge. The master continues to pour the tea as the professor talks and talks. The cup fills to the brim but the master keeps pouring. Eventually the cup overflows and spills onto the table, causing the professor to exclaim: "It's spilling over! Stop! No more will go in!" The master replies: "You are like the cup. Before I can show you Zen, you must first empty your cup.”

Fundamental concepts, erroneously implanted in us from infancy, must be unlearnt and disengaged before we can introduce powerful new insights to the psyche. The cup need not be filled with new data – I believe the cup need not be refilled at all. The modus operandi of spiritual wisdom does not require significant local cerebral data storage. Instead, it seeks to develop a certain frequency of awareness in the student. A tuning that can be held with strong coherence, a carrier wave. Information alone is of neutral value. It is an extract of the galactic data flow: detached pixels of consciousness, fleetingly suspended in time, like dust in sunlight.

Information, with critical judgement and intuitive correlation, becomes knowledge. Knowledge, with deep absorption and spiritual insight, becomes wisdom. Information > Knowledge > Wisdom.

When wisdom has been attained, it becomes a permanent artefact in the noetic vault. It shifts densities, moving outside of the individual into a non-local quantum field. From here it is instantly accessible for future reference and teaching to anyone who possesses the codex of personal spiritual accomplishment.

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By  alchemylab.com

The Emerald Tablet is an ancient artifact that reveals a profound spiritual technology, which has survived to this day despite centuries of effort to suppress it. Encoded within the tablet's mysterious wording is a powerful formula that works in very specific and comprehensible steps on all levels of reality at once -- the physical, the mental, and the spiritual -- and shows us how to achieve personal transformation and even accelerate the evolution of our species. The source of alchemy and the Hermetic sciences, the tablet's universal approach made it forbidden knowledge, condemned by patriarchal powers for thousands of years, from the Egyptian priesthood, to the medieval Church, to our modern politicians and religious leaders. To ensure the survival of such "dangerous" principles, which guide people to higher states of consciousness, the ancients concealed their knowledge in a succinct declaration that has become a time capsule of wisdom for future generations.

Molded out of a single piece of green crystal, the Emerald Tablet carries a prophetic message full of hidden meaning. Although its true origin is lost in legends that go back over 10,000 years, the wondrous artifact was translated into Greek by Alexandrian scholars and actually put on display in Egypt in 330 BC. Around the year 400 AD, it was reportedly buried somewhere on the Giza plateau to protect it from religious zealots who were burning libraries around the world at that time. Many believe the tablet still lies hidden there.

Working only with these early translations, many seekers of truth recognized in subsequent centuries that the Emerald Tablet contained a secret formula for transforming reality. Many alchemical drawings (such as the one called the Azoth of the Philosophers), are really schematic diagrams of the steps and operations of this Emerald Formula. The alchemists used these diagrams like Eastern mandalas and meditated on them in their laboratories to achieve altered states of consciousness.   

The tablet also inspired over 3,500 years of alchemy, a period in which some of the most creative minds in the world delved into the intertwined mysteries of matter, energy, soul, and spirit. The Tablet can be seen as one of the most uncredited source of mystical and religious traditions works. Most medieval alchemists had copies of the tablet hanging on their laboratory wall. It was the only guidance they needed in both their meditation and practical work; it served as their Rosetta Stone for deciphering the deliberately obscured terminology of their art.

    As we enter the third millennium, the ancient formula is resurfacing in what people perceive as mystical or paranormal events. Such experiences are in fact simply the continuing expressions of the underlying alchemy of our lives. For many decades, knowledge of this hidden pattern has been discussed only among an elite group of esoteric scholars, but now, this amazing science of soul is available to everyone. For those with the courage to see beyond the illusions handed down to us by blind tradition, the Emerald Tablet's formula offers a way to reinstate our rightful relationship with the universe.

Translated by Doreal @ http://www.crystalinks.com/emerald.html

Tablet I:  The History of Thoth, The Atlantean

Tablet II: The Halls of Amenti

Tablet III: The Key of Wisdom

Tablet IV: The Space Born

Tablet V: The Dweller of Unal

Tablet VI: The Key of Magic

Tablet VII: The Seven Lords

Tablet VIII: The Key of Mysteries

Tablet IX: The Key of Freedom of Space

Tablet X: The Key of Time

Tablet XI: The Key to Above and Below

Tablet XII: The Law of Cause and Effect and The Key of Prophecy

Tablet XIII: The Keys of Life and Death

Supplementary Tablet XIV: Atlantis

Supplementary Tablet XV: Secret of Secrets

by lightparty.com

Hermetic Philosophy
The Ancient and Eternal Wisdom

The Bible and the Qabalah is solidly rooted in Hermetic Science. Hermetic is derived from the name Hermes (Greek) Thoth (Egyptian) and Mercury (Roman). Hermes Trismegistus make his first appearance on Earth in Ancient Egypt. Previous to this cycle he was known as Thoth, the Atlantean. To students of the occult his most known work is the Emerald Tablets . Hermes was the teacher of Abraham and was and still is the God of Wisdom. Among the arts and sciences which it is affirmed Hermes revealed to mankind were medicine, chemistry, law, art, astrology, music (Hermes created the lyre), rhetoric, magic, philosophy, geography, mathematics (especially geometry), anatomy and oratory.

In his Biographia Antigua, Francis Barrett says of Hermes..."if God ever appeared in Man, he appeared in him, as is evident both from his books and his Divine Pymander , in which works he has communicated the sum of the Abyss, and the divine knowledge to all posterity, by which he has demonstrated to himself to have been not only an inspired divine, but also a deep philosopher, obtaining wisdom from God and heavenly things, and not from Man." All the fundamental and basic teachings of every race may be traced back to Hermes. Even the most ancient teachings of India have their roots in the original teachings. Interestingly enough, it was at the time of Hermes, in Ancient Egypt that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. It was in Ancient Egypt that Jesus was initiated into the occult laws and principles. Jesus was a hermetic scientist initiated into Qabalah (Hermetic philosophy) in Jerusalem at he age of thirteen.

THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES

The principles of truth are seven; the seven hermetic principles, upon which the entire Hermetic philosophy is based, are as follows:

1. The Principle of mentalism: "The All is mind, the Universe is mental."
2. The Principle of correspondence: "As above, so below; as below, so above."
3. The principle of vibration: "Nothing rests, everything moves; everything vibrates."
4. The principal of polarity: "Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are all the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
5. The principle of rhythm: "Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."
6. The principle of cause and effect: "Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to law; chance is but a name for law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law."
7. The principal of Gender: "Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principle; Gender manifests on all planes."

In our present time and in our daily life, the Hermetic-Judeo-Christian teachings are firmly embedded on the back of the United States one dollar bill...(The Great Seal of the United States; "It's history, symbolism and message for the New Age." Paul Foster Case.) Today we see the wand of Hermes as the symbol for the medical profession. Hermes is the father of occultism as well as the father of Alchemy (chemistry) and astrology (astronomy). When we speak of Hermes we are speaking of pure intelligence itself.

Hermes Trismegistus may be viewed as the Divine Physician and as the messenger of the Gods, the gods being the Elohim. The creative powers of God which are Seven in number and are the seven colors of the rainbow. The Elohim are the thrones about the One God, the One Being, the Light Itself. The Elohim are the creative potencies of the God head itself and are represented on the tree of life as the seven sephoroth. These sephoroth have direct correspondences to the seven centers of the human bodies and communicate to the "physical" form through the vital centers known as chakras. In this way, life itself communicates and sustains its forms through a step-down of energy. These chakras flow into and communicate with the nerve plexuses as seen on page one. They sustain and maintain the physical vehicle and serve as a direct communication bridge to higher intelligence.

Healing is a positive change of vibration-Hermetic alchemy is the art and science of self- transformation through knowledge.

Alchemy also means Union with God (truth, beauty, principle) through science. Alchemy is the science of magic.

Man (Woman) is living mind, sustained by spirit. Man (Woman) is the microcosm, within the macrocosm and as such we truly are gods and goddesses possessing within ourselves all the powers of consciousness which are inherent within the mother-father mind. See "Man Know Thyself".

Mental transmutation- "Mind (body) may be transmuted, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration. True Hermetic transmutation is a mental art."

Healing is the art and or science of positively effecting a transformation of mind.

Real healing is the integration of mind and body with spirit (consciousness). See Healing Affirmation and Prayer. Once healed or integrated the alchemist takes an active part in his/her own personal growth.

The Real Healing is knowing that you are One with God (the primal will to God and the infinite creative intelligence of the universe) and that you are God manifesting yourself as you are. This constitutes real knowledge and leads to wisdom which is the direct experience of this sublime truth.

Quite old (1996) but a must see set of video (4 hours) for those interested in Spirituality and in the Shift of the Ages occuring right now. Gregg Braden easily blends the power of science and spirituality and explains the result in a pedagogical manner.

Official Site: http://www.greggbraden.com/

Awakening to Zero Point part 1

Awakening to Zero Point part 2

Awakening to Zero Point part 3

Awakening to Zero Point part 4

Keywords: Shift of the Ages, Science of compassion, Galactic Center, Schumann Resonances, Photon Belt, Hopi Prophecy, Crop Circles, Earth magnetic Field, Cymatics, Emerald Tablets of Thoth, Essenes, Christ, Secret Resonant Circuit, DNA, Cosmic Initiation, Flower of Life, Fractal Universe, Mandelbrot's set, Holographic Reality, etc.

Like always, this is not an Absolute Truth, you have to get interested in these topics and read, read read and yet read in order to forge your own conception !

by Grace F. Knoche

Theosophical University Press Online Edition

The School of Athens by Raphael

Foreword

A Mystery school is a university of the soul, a school for the study of the mysteries of the inner nature of man and of surrounding nature. By understanding these mysteries, the student perceives his intimate relationship with divinity, and strives through self-discipline and devotion to become at one with his inner god.

This book attempts to present certain fundamental lines of teaching which it is hoped will give a more or less clear picture of what a Mystery school really is. Full and specific knowledge of the Mystery schools -- where they have been, where now they function, what are their chief characteristics -- has not been given out. Modern historians of the Greek mystery centers, for example, marvel at how well the rule of secrecy imposed upon the candidates was kept. This does not pertain to the public aspect, such as the fourteen-mile procession along the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis in which men, women, and children participated. But ``the rites of the Greater Mysteries . . . the true secrets of the teletai [initiation proper] and the epopteia [the culminating vision] have never been divulged.''

The student can find, however, a generous amount of information scattered here and there in the literatures of the past and can build up for himself a coherent picture of the pageantry of the Mystery schools, a picture which will turn into the reality of experience only as he becomes inwardly prepared through lifetimes of dedication and the study and practice of the ancient wisdom.

That which can be discovered by the sincere student may be likened to our knowledge of the atom. Who, for example, has ever seen the real atom? What microscope has penetrated the secret of its existence? Yet today we know more about the atom with its electrons than has been revealed for centuries. Although invisible to both eye and lens, scientists have detected the flash of its track, its "way of light"; through diligent and painstaking labor they have studied this way of light until, through inference and evidence, the structure of the atom and its components, its almost spiritual origin, has been revealed.

Thus with the Mysteries: as we look at the pages of history, and further into the mist of unrecorded time, we do not see the schools themselves, but through study and devotion we may glimpse the flash of their track, their way of light. From inference and spiritual testimony we can trace the pageantry of the light- bearers as they have passed from age to age, inaugurating the grand religions and philosophies of the human race. Some of these lights shine with immense glory, others with less strength, while still others are but fitful gleams of half-understood truth.

The physicist cannot point to the physical atom, yet he knows it exists as the basis, the foundation, of all matter; the student of theosophy cannot show you a Mystery school, yet he knows it exists as the heart or atomic center of the spiritual and intellectual life of the planet. Who then would dare assert the non- existence of the Mysteries, of this potent atom of esotericism, when luminous traces of spiritual power are seen scattered all over the world? If our physical bodies are rooted in invisible fiery lives, why should not our human spiritual, intellectual, and moral bodies likewise have their origin in the spiritual and intellectual fire-mist of the planet?

An uninterrupted history of the occult network of the human race is not available to us today, for such records are the guerdon of the pledged disciple, but with the powerful lens of the ancient wisdom we can study the way of light flashed forth by each lightbearer over the centuries; can recapture the atmosphere of the ancient temples; can discern the purpose of the schools, their methods of teaching; and, last but not least, can learn of the strong discipline imposed upon the candidates seeking initiation into the knowledge of their secret origin and their still more secret destiny.

The author's debt to theosophy as presented by H. P. Blavatsky cannot be measured. One can only hope that the present study will encourage those new to her writings to drink deep of the springs at their source.-- G.F.K.

Pasadena, California
October 2, 1999

complete e-book @ theosociety.org

Article by SYS 

full article in pdf format :  Planet Earth - Global Awakening.pdf

The objective now is to elaborate on the Resonance phenomenon reaching now its natural frequency of oscillation on the physical and spiritual plane of the interlinked Humanity.

Schumann Resonances must be identified as the Earthbeats (as far as I understand), the response of the celestial body Earth to the low frequency cosmic energies. Via Schumann waves the interlinked Humanity is in resonance to the mother Earth, to the Sun and to the Cosmos. This makes possible for humans a direct contact to the Universe with their consciousness if they are rightly attuned.

Now that a growing self-aware global consciousness is arising, this attuning must be seen as a Polarization of the Global Brain by the Mind of God with the omnipresent frequency of God /L.O.V.E. (Limitless Oscillating Vibrational Energy).  From a Theosophical point of view I might say we re finally accessing on a global scale what is called the Akashic Records through the all-pervading Aether ,this sea of energy all around US connecting the tiniest molecule to the Universe.

The Shift is Now !

Earth as a living organism is witnessing ascension 2 a higher level of consciousness: the global consciousness, the consciousness of God. Since Humanity has evolved and is now an integrated part (as a whole) of the Celestial Earth, it is likely to shift to a higher state of consciousness like an electronic orbital around the nucleus submitted to proper frequency radiation. Such shifts may have happened in the past and have permitted the different stages of evolution of the living beings on Earth, especially the Human Family.

Thus I might say that it is because of Earth has been submitted to Cosmic radiation and has evolved throughout the ages as a living organism that the Human Evolution has been induced. We must even see larger than this “local” ascension: this resonance is recorded here on Earth but is even recorded in the entire solar system (**).

It’s just like the Earth has got through a Solar Initiation, the Sun itself getting through a Galactic Initiation and so on … The Living Universe is evolving microscopically as well as macroscopically speaking. It regenerates Itself just like a cosmic moulting serpent.

Living Earth – Living Galaxy and evolution on a mass-scale.

We have focused our attention on the Bio-physical-related attuning with cosmic local and non-local ELF energies by The Global Mind, this attuning allows mental states to improve/ manage bio-physical states (protein synthesis, biological cycles…); but let’s not forget there is another attuning going on, a Spiritual/Metaphysical merging between cosmic higher vibrational frequencies of LIGHT and The Soul of Humanity. The Soul is submitted to higher frequency energies en entering higher modes of vibrations.

There is a (re)connection of the Human Soul with Its Higher Self and thus a (re)connection of Humanity with God! We are leaving physical reality to inhabit a spiritually empowered higher vibrational dimension. For some esoterical groups we are accesing the 5^th Dimension, the 4^th being this transitional dimension of self-understanding,  self-realization and self-achievement.

We are currently attuning to the ONE song of the UNIVERSE.

It’s Time 2 Wake Up !

Welcome 2 SYNXronisation !

(**)

 “Transformation of the Solar System”, Divine Cosmos , Chap.8 by D.Wilcock Link to free eBook 

Here is a diagram explaining my understanding of the Human Consciousness - God relationship.

Comments for a better understanding:

The Higher-Self guides the Mind of Humans.

The Mind is controlling the Etheric, Astral and Physical Bodies activities. It acts as a microprocessor. The Mind has to reconnect with the Soul’s Higher Self in order to Let God guide the Soul. Once the Mind has been reconnected, it may be called the Spirit.

The Living Soul is the Sum total of Higher Self, Mind/Spirit, Physical, Etheric and Astral Body

The connection of the Soul with its Higher-Self has been lost, maybe for every human being between his infancy and his puberty. To reactivate this connection the Living Soul needs a tool: Spirituality / Sexuality (urge to Divinity, urge to creation, lure for Truth, Knowledge and Wisdom). This will increase self-awareness, self-realization, the result of which is the increase of the vibrational state of the Living Soul and thus the attuning with L.O.V.E.

The Physical Body is the Response apparatus of the indwelling Soul to the response apparatus of the Planetary Logos. The Physical Body functioning depends on the energy streams harnessed and transmitted by the Etheric Body and the emotions/feelings generated by the Astral body.

Article by SYS

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Objects in space, such as planets, stars and galaxies, emit light (electromagnetic energy) at many different wavelengths, visible but also invisible. Some of the light they emit has very large wavelengths (> 100000 km) and thus quite low frequency (< 30Hz). These long waves presenting wavelenghts as big as the celestial bodies dimensions (radius and circumference) are in the invisible radio region of the electromagnetic spectrum and are categorized as ELF (Extremely Low Frequency: [3..30]Hz), SLF (Super Low Frequency: [30..300]Hz), and ULF (Ultra Low Frequency: [300..3000]Hz). 

 credit: berkeley.edu

Celestial bodies are very sensitive to these low frequency energies and bodies like Earth, thanks to its magnetic field and atmosphere, acts as an antenna for the reception and as a transfer function for the re-emission of this cosmic energy to us – especially for the charged Solar Wind. Such radiation as the Solar Wind induces the occurrence of ELF resonant standing waves in the cavity between earth surface and ionosphere, they are known as Schumann Resonance.

Solar Wind - Parker Spiral

From wikipedia.org “In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at maximum amplitude at a certain frequency. This frequency is known as the system's resonance frequency (or resonant frequency). When damping is small, the resonance frequency is approximately equal to the natural frequency of the system, which is the frequency of free vibrations.”. Resonance phenomenon is obtained between an emission source and a rightly attuned exposed receiver. Moreover a resonance object, whether mechanical, acoustic, or electrical, will probably have more than one resonance frequency (especially harmonics of the strongest resonance). It will be easy to vibrate at those frequencies, and more difficult to vibrate at other frequencies.

On the other side, a number of studies (*) have shown that ELF radiation has a major influence on protein synthesis, biological cycles and human mental states. Humans respond to such radiation through their central nervous system and spinal cord. “The extremely low frequency, long wavelength near field signals associated with interstellar and intergalactic gravity coupling are detected by our brain/body sensing mechanism. These naturally-occurring information signals bring about changes within the human body energy pathways, restructure body water resonances, modulate the DNA processes and stimulate other circadian rhythm entrainments. Thus supplying an intimate instantaneous interconnection of our very own brain/body/mind to the immensity of the Universe.”Earths Rythm” E.E. Richards (http://home.gwi.net/~erichard/).

Furthermore, if we analyze the electromagnetic activity of the human brain (by EEG-ElectroEncephaloGraphy), we observe production in the ELF spectrum ! The most important brainwaves are known as Delta, Theta, Alpha & Beta and each one corresponds to a mental activity.

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1. Schumann Resonance Electromagnetic Fields in the Evolution of Life by unilib.bg.ac.yu
2. Schumann resonance and Psychobiology by Richard Alan Miller and Iona Miller
3. Earth Resonance by E.E.Richards
4. The Brain as a Matter-Wave System by J.K.Harms

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Thank U The Bartonian Metaphysical Society !

"In its more esoteric or vibratory aspect, the COSMIC CUBE is like a web which resonates to a musical scale of notes, tones, and principles. This grid is strung out between 12 vertical pillars (or coils) which have earth-sky horizontal connections. The grid resonates with the harmony of the spheres, giving off a signal or returning echo. This is how the life energy dance of THE TRANSCENDENT UNIVERSE is gradually crystallized and made visible. While each cube position is firm, the persons occupying any given position in the Cube, may vary from time to time. Each is a window of opportunity for life in a New Earth Era.

1. To Establish God's Kingdom On Earth
2. To Establish The Cabin Climate Of planet Earth
3. To Magnify The Living God
4. To Bring The Cosmic Method To humanity
5. To Manifest Cosmic Design
6. To Synchronize Celestial And Global Intelligence
7. To Represent God The Businessman
8. To Vindicate Heaven On Earth
9. To Harvest God's Earth The Logos
10. To Establish Cosmic Literacy
11. To Welcome The King Of Kings

by montalk.net

or how to awake ourselves into full spiritual remembrance of who you really are: the everlasting Godspark, your consciousness, the real "spiritual you" playing a charachter in this game called Life through your physical body!

- interrupt negative materialistic absorbance, turn attention inward and observe yourself, return to your center, turn your face to the Light

- initiate positive confluence: follow your intuiton, channel your Highr Self and strenghen the connection with your Higher Self

- let your Higher Self exert influence over your thoughts (feelings, words and actions), and improve your lucidity in order to correct deviations (self-satisfaction, greed, wrath, ...)

"The process can be painted via the following story. A prince leaves his father’s kingdom and suffers a loss of memory then leads the life of a peasant until he grows weary of poverty. In his yearning for a better life, he suddenly remembers he is a prince and returns to see his father. From afar he watches his father carry out the duties of a king, then when certain of his own identity the prince gathers enough courage to speak with his father. In the years following this reunion, the king teaches his son all his wisdom until one day the prince himself becomes king"