DRAGONTREE 6
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Cover Art, Iona Miller
Issue 6: October 2011
"The Plenum"
1. Are You a Dragon?
Eternal Return
Trance & Layers of Consciousness
Trance & Sensing
Plumbing the Plenum, by Iona Miller
Eternal Return
Trance & Layers of Consciousness
Trance & Sensing
Plumbing the Plenum, by Iona Miller
Take the test. Are You a Dragon?
1. Are you naturally drawn to the secret wisdom of the mystery schools?
2. Do you consciously work with the Dragon Force?
3. Do you practice a healing modality that increases and/or moves the Dragon Force?
4. Have you ever been a collector of Dragon images?
5. Are you currently involved with Alchemy or Yoga?
6. Do you use a mantra for meditation?
7. Do you like ritual that awakens and activates inner and outer power?
8. Are you attracted to the study and practice of magic?
9. Are you attracted to the practices and rites of shamanism?
10. Does your sexual desire sometimes feel uncontrollable?
11. Do you rebel against the control of others?
12. Are your emotions often felt to be extremely strong, even destructive?
13. Are you attracted to those things that society normally considers taboo?
14. Do you normally feel out of place in society?
15. Do you reject religious dogma?
16. Do you believe that Spirit exists within you as you?
17. Do you seek a direct mystical experience of the Truth?
18. Do you seek to find your answers within yourself?
19. Are you consciously on a path to Gnosis?
20. Are you attracted to occult and mystical rituals?
21. Do you have a fascination for what has been called the Left Hand Path and/or the “Dark Side?”
22. Do you feel an affinity to the Goddess and Her Tradition?
23. Do you tend to be a secretive person?
24. Do you have a natural affinity to Elves, Dwarfs, Vampires, etc. ?
1. Are you naturally drawn to the secret wisdom of the mystery schools?
2. Do you consciously work with the Dragon Force?
3. Do you practice a healing modality that increases and/or moves the Dragon Force?
4. Have you ever been a collector of Dragon images?
5. Are you currently involved with Alchemy or Yoga?
6. Do you use a mantra for meditation?
7. Do you like ritual that awakens and activates inner and outer power?
8. Are you attracted to the study and practice of magic?
9. Are you attracted to the practices and rites of shamanism?
10. Does your sexual desire sometimes feel uncontrollable?
11. Do you rebel against the control of others?
12. Are your emotions often felt to be extremely strong, even destructive?
13. Are you attracted to those things that society normally considers taboo?
14. Do you normally feel out of place in society?
15. Do you reject religious dogma?
16. Do you believe that Spirit exists within you as you?
17. Do you seek a direct mystical experience of the Truth?
18. Do you seek to find your answers within yourself?
19. Are you consciously on a path to Gnosis?
20. Are you attracted to occult and mystical rituals?
21. Do you have a fascination for what has been called the Left Hand Path and/or the “Dark Side?”
22. Do you feel an affinity to the Goddess and Her Tradition?
23. Do you tend to be a secretive person?
24. Do you have a natural affinity to Elves, Dwarfs, Vampires, etc. ?
Prime Cross Fractal
ETERNAL RETURN
Trance & Layers of Consciousness
Trance and Layers of Consciousness
by Patrick Marsolek
Educational Purposes Only
http://hypnotistexaminers.org/PDF/ACHE-Article2-11b.pdf
Any time your sense of self, the world, or time is altered in some way, you have shifted into a light trance. As in daydreaming, you’re still aware, but your orientation to the world around you has shifted. In trance, the conscious mind is not as dominant. With the conscious mind relaxed and passive, the unconscious processes are more free to come to the surface of awareness.
Normal unconscious processes like digestion, stress relief, relaxation and healing work more naturally and efficiently when the conscious mind is out of the way. Deeper, unconscious wisdom and intelligence flows more freely through your whole mind/body system. Thus, the trance states you experience can be very beneficial for your total health.
The trance state of sleep rejuvenates the body. Even lighter states like daydreaming and napping allow our minds to rest and restore. In one study students who napped between tests performed better than non-nappers. The researchers theorized that naps allowed the neural circuits involved in the testing to be refreshed.
muscles. If you hold any muscle in your body tense, it will quite quickly experience fatigue, stress, and signs of disorder. In order to restore it to normal functioning you have to let it relax. The same is true with our consciousness. Since we live in a time of continual demands on our attention, we tend to be always outwardly focused and attentive. If we attend this way for a long time, we experience stress. Thus, shifting into sensation and that more immersed way of attending tends to be stress relieving and relaxing. That is why we daydream. Our unconscious is trying to get us to make a healthy shift in our awareness.
When we enter into the richness of our sensory experience, we come more into balance with the whole mind/body system, including all of our unconscious resources. Both the conscious and unconscious are fundamental aspects of who we are. When we are healthy and attuned to ourselves these parts are balanced and integrated, and one is not more dominant than the other.
One way to represent the relationship between conscious, unconscious and higher consciousness parts is to imagine three nested circles, one inside the other going from small to medium to larger. Conscious awareness is the center circle and the center of our ego and self-identity. As the center of our attention, it represents a very small portion of our whole self. The unconscious is the next circle out. It lies all around at the periphery of conscious awareness. The automatic and expanded functions of the mind, body, and emotions reside in the unconscious. The division between these two circles and between conscious and unconscious is permeable. Many aspects in the unconscious can be accessed consciously. The conscious and unconscious often use different languages. The unconscious communicates in different sensory channels and symbols, which include images.
Farther out in the largest circle we approach higher consciousness. This is the realm of Carl Jung’s collective unconscious, and our awareness of spirit or higher selves. This region is even more removed from conscious awareness. Our individual identity has access to all these layers, these more expanded parts is always translated through the subconscious and then by our conscious mental framework and personality.
Then imagine putting an image of the body over these circles with the head at the center of the three circles, in the center of conscious awareness. Typically when we’re only in our head, our awareness is limited to what we can hold in conscious awareness. In that state, the division between conscious and unconscious is very distinct. But even when we’re in our head we are still connected to the body and the unconscious. It’s just that information coming from the unconscious has to be stronger to get through to the conscious mind.
When we extend our awareness beyond what’s in our head into our larger body, then the unconscious becomes accessible. The body is a very direct connection to the unconscious. The body is physical, but it is also symbolic. It is also an extension of our sense of self into emotional and mental spheres. This body also extends into the higher consciousness areas of collective and intuitive reality.
Returning then to the three circles, the areas at the edge of this diagram signify the basis of our conscious experience. We are always immersed in this fundamental ground of being that is connected to everything around us. When we are narrowly focused on our conscious intentions, we are generally not aware of this larger field, except through memory, dream or other unconscious aspects. But there is always a larger percentage of our experiencing body dwelling in the unconscious. That larger, unconscious part of us is also always connected to the ground through the unconscious. Thus the outermost circle is also permeable and may even have no limit.
Excerpted from A Joyful Intuition, copyright 2010 by Patrick Marsolek.
Patrick Marsolek works with businesses, individuals and families on how to communicate effectively and how to access untapped inner resources for growth and effectiveness. He is a Clinical Hypnotherapist in Montana and the author of A Joyful Intuition and Transform Yourself: A Self-Hypnosis Manual. You can contact Patrick at [email protected] or read more at www.InnerWorkingsResources.
by Patrick Marsolek
Educational Purposes Only
http://hypnotistexaminers.org/PDF/ACHE-Article2-11b.pdf
Any time your sense of self, the world, or time is altered in some way, you have shifted into a light trance. As in daydreaming, you’re still aware, but your orientation to the world around you has shifted. In trance, the conscious mind is not as dominant. With the conscious mind relaxed and passive, the unconscious processes are more free to come to the surface of awareness.
Normal unconscious processes like digestion, stress relief, relaxation and healing work more naturally and efficiently when the conscious mind is out of the way. Deeper, unconscious wisdom and intelligence flows more freely through your whole mind/body system. Thus, the trance states you experience can be very beneficial for your total health.
The trance state of sleep rejuvenates the body. Even lighter states like daydreaming and napping allow our minds to rest and restore. In one study students who napped between tests performed better than non-nappers. The researchers theorized that naps allowed the neural circuits involved in the testing to be refreshed.
muscles. If you hold any muscle in your body tense, it will quite quickly experience fatigue, stress, and signs of disorder. In order to restore it to normal functioning you have to let it relax. The same is true with our consciousness. Since we live in a time of continual demands on our attention, we tend to be always outwardly focused and attentive. If we attend this way for a long time, we experience stress. Thus, shifting into sensation and that more immersed way of attending tends to be stress relieving and relaxing. That is why we daydream. Our unconscious is trying to get us to make a healthy shift in our awareness.
When we enter into the richness of our sensory experience, we come more into balance with the whole mind/body system, including all of our unconscious resources. Both the conscious and unconscious are fundamental aspects of who we are. When we are healthy and attuned to ourselves these parts are balanced and integrated, and one is not more dominant than the other.
One way to represent the relationship between conscious, unconscious and higher consciousness parts is to imagine three nested circles, one inside the other going from small to medium to larger. Conscious awareness is the center circle and the center of our ego and self-identity. As the center of our attention, it represents a very small portion of our whole self. The unconscious is the next circle out. It lies all around at the periphery of conscious awareness. The automatic and expanded functions of the mind, body, and emotions reside in the unconscious. The division between these two circles and between conscious and unconscious is permeable. Many aspects in the unconscious can be accessed consciously. The conscious and unconscious often use different languages. The unconscious communicates in different sensory channels and symbols, which include images.
Farther out in the largest circle we approach higher consciousness. This is the realm of Carl Jung’s collective unconscious, and our awareness of spirit or higher selves. This region is even more removed from conscious awareness. Our individual identity has access to all these layers, these more expanded parts is always translated through the subconscious and then by our conscious mental framework and personality.
Then imagine putting an image of the body over these circles with the head at the center of the three circles, in the center of conscious awareness. Typically when we’re only in our head, our awareness is limited to what we can hold in conscious awareness. In that state, the division between conscious and unconscious is very distinct. But even when we’re in our head we are still connected to the body and the unconscious. It’s just that information coming from the unconscious has to be stronger to get through to the conscious mind.
When we extend our awareness beyond what’s in our head into our larger body, then the unconscious becomes accessible. The body is a very direct connection to the unconscious. The body is physical, but it is also symbolic. It is also an extension of our sense of self into emotional and mental spheres. This body also extends into the higher consciousness areas of collective and intuitive reality.
Returning then to the three circles, the areas at the edge of this diagram signify the basis of our conscious experience. We are always immersed in this fundamental ground of being that is connected to everything around us. When we are narrowly focused on our conscious intentions, we are generally not aware of this larger field, except through memory, dream or other unconscious aspects. But there is always a larger percentage of our experiencing body dwelling in the unconscious. That larger, unconscious part of us is also always connected to the ground through the unconscious. Thus the outermost circle is also permeable and may even have no limit.
Excerpted from A Joyful Intuition, copyright 2010 by Patrick Marsolek.
Patrick Marsolek works with businesses, individuals and families on how to communicate effectively and how to access untapped inner resources for growth and effectiveness. He is a Clinical Hypnotherapist in Montana and the author of A Joyful Intuition and Transform Yourself: A Self-Hypnosis Manual. You can contact Patrick at [email protected] or read more at www.InnerWorkingsResources.
Trance & Sensing
Trance and Sensing
by Patrick Marsolek
http://hypnotistexaminers.org/PDF/ACHE-Article2-11a.pdf
Mirrored for educational purposes
Trance isn’t an on-or-off experience where you’re in it or not. Rather, it has subtle gradations. While you’re remembering falling to sleep or into another state, you are shifting a little. When you sense an object, you may also have shifted more. If your mind wanders to something you need to do, or to the sound of someone else moving in your house, your trance may shift again. You are continually shifting your focus, and consequently your trance, anytime your attention is drawn into a different way of perceiving or processing information.
Trance is a natural process that allows flexibility of mind and a connection between the conscious and unconscious. Even a brief dip into an inner memory, perhaps triggered by a phrase you read here, allows you to connect to a thought or a feeling in a different and meaningful way. If you’re focused on reading and you feel a wave of sleepiness, you could stop and nap briefly. Afterwards, your mind and body will feel different. You may find yourself energized. While you’re asleep, you may dream about intuitive processes. There is often an intelligence in the way your subconscious moves you away from the focus of your conscious mind.
En-trances can occur in an infinite number of ways. If you are visually dominant, your awareness of trance may begin with an alteration in your visual field. If you stare at an object and stay focused there, you may start to notice changes in your vision. You might experience blurred or extra-sharp focus, darker or lighter colors, loss of peripheral vision, pulsations in light, intensity and color, multiple vision, or even a general fading of your entire visual field. At some point your eyes will get tired. Then when you close them and let go of your holding focus, you might relax your whole mind and body and go into a deeper trance. This is the beginning of a common induction into self-hypnosis and intuitive visioning.
When these kinds of alterations occur in our vision or in our other senses during normal daytime activities, we often ignore them. Since we’re “on task” with our conscious focus, we reestablish our normal vision as quickly as possible. Yet, these subtle shifts may indicate unconscious information wanting to come to consciousness.
When you allow small changes in your sensing or experiencing, these changes may open a flow of intuitive information. Similar visual distortions to those I have described are utilized by psychics who work with crystal balls. When focused on the ball, the psychic allows her consciousness to shift. Then internal, intuitive images start to arise and are allowed into consciousness. There is nothing special about the ball. It is the changes in the psychic’s awareness that opens up her intuition. The ball serves as a visual focus, an entryway into the trance.
As one goes deeper into trance and more into an altered state of awareness, more internal imagery begins to form. David Lewis-Williams, an archaeologist who specializes in prehistoric art, describes how this next step is experienced in trance:
People “see” geometric forms, such as dots, zigzags, grids, sets of parallel lines, nested curves, and meandering lines. The forms are brightly colored and flicker, pulsate, enlarge, contract, and blend one with another. With the eyes open, they are projected luminously onto surfaces such as walls and ceilings.
These visual forms have been discovered in rock art dating back at least thirty thousand years. They are thought to be the record of shamanic altered states. They also occur in drug-induced states of consciousness. These “entoptic” images, or images from within the mind, are transitional phenomena that develop into more complex visual imagery in even deeper trance states. They can evolve into symbolic images and dream-like imagery that can relate specifically to conscious intentions.
If your awareness is centered around another sense, you may experience the same relaxation of perception and alteration. If you focus on the auditory channel, you may experience subtle changes in the background sounds in the space you’re in. You may start to hear new sounds, low tones, buzzing or clicking, or words and phrases. Hearing one’s name spoken is a common auditory hallucinatory phenomenon. Others report hearing music. As with a visual technique, the auditory stimulus can lead into a flow of increasingly complex “hallucinations.” This can occur with any sense.
If your kinesthetic channel is dominant, you might experience the same progression as a range of sensations in the body. Spontaneous muscle twitches may progress into complete physical sensations of movement or other activity.
Becoming adept at utilizing deeper trance states relies on allowing the manifestations of trance as they occur. These manifestations can be difficult in the beginning as any abnormal phenomena may be disconcerting or even overly exciting. Many people focus on phenomena that arise with conscious awareness. For example, have you ever thought you saw something out of the corner of your eye? What happened when you looked at it? Directing your conscious, focused mind on these unconscious signals chases them away. We activate a different state of mind which causes a shift to objective awareness. We terminate the trance state.
As you learn to be more receptive and more comfortable allowing unknown senses and feelings, you can allow subconscious perceptions coming into the periphery of your awareness. You can recognize when something unusual is happening and relax into it, before you try to “look” directly at it and figure out what it is. Any alteration you sense can be the beginning of information coming from your unconscious, whether you call it intuition, insight, or hallucination.
Excerpted from A Joyful Intuition, copyright 2010 by Patrick Marsolek.
by Patrick Marsolek
http://hypnotistexaminers.org/PDF/ACHE-Article2-11a.pdf
Mirrored for educational purposes
Trance isn’t an on-or-off experience where you’re in it or not. Rather, it has subtle gradations. While you’re remembering falling to sleep or into another state, you are shifting a little. When you sense an object, you may also have shifted more. If your mind wanders to something you need to do, or to the sound of someone else moving in your house, your trance may shift again. You are continually shifting your focus, and consequently your trance, anytime your attention is drawn into a different way of perceiving or processing information.
Trance is a natural process that allows flexibility of mind and a connection between the conscious and unconscious. Even a brief dip into an inner memory, perhaps triggered by a phrase you read here, allows you to connect to a thought or a feeling in a different and meaningful way. If you’re focused on reading and you feel a wave of sleepiness, you could stop and nap briefly. Afterwards, your mind and body will feel different. You may find yourself energized. While you’re asleep, you may dream about intuitive processes. There is often an intelligence in the way your subconscious moves you away from the focus of your conscious mind.
En-trances can occur in an infinite number of ways. If you are visually dominant, your awareness of trance may begin with an alteration in your visual field. If you stare at an object and stay focused there, you may start to notice changes in your vision. You might experience blurred or extra-sharp focus, darker or lighter colors, loss of peripheral vision, pulsations in light, intensity and color, multiple vision, or even a general fading of your entire visual field. At some point your eyes will get tired. Then when you close them and let go of your holding focus, you might relax your whole mind and body and go into a deeper trance. This is the beginning of a common induction into self-hypnosis and intuitive visioning.
When these kinds of alterations occur in our vision or in our other senses during normal daytime activities, we often ignore them. Since we’re “on task” with our conscious focus, we reestablish our normal vision as quickly as possible. Yet, these subtle shifts may indicate unconscious information wanting to come to consciousness.
When you allow small changes in your sensing or experiencing, these changes may open a flow of intuitive information. Similar visual distortions to those I have described are utilized by psychics who work with crystal balls. When focused on the ball, the psychic allows her consciousness to shift. Then internal, intuitive images start to arise and are allowed into consciousness. There is nothing special about the ball. It is the changes in the psychic’s awareness that opens up her intuition. The ball serves as a visual focus, an entryway into the trance.
As one goes deeper into trance and more into an altered state of awareness, more internal imagery begins to form. David Lewis-Williams, an archaeologist who specializes in prehistoric art, describes how this next step is experienced in trance:
People “see” geometric forms, such as dots, zigzags, grids, sets of parallel lines, nested curves, and meandering lines. The forms are brightly colored and flicker, pulsate, enlarge, contract, and blend one with another. With the eyes open, they are projected luminously onto surfaces such as walls and ceilings.
These visual forms have been discovered in rock art dating back at least thirty thousand years. They are thought to be the record of shamanic altered states. They also occur in drug-induced states of consciousness. These “entoptic” images, or images from within the mind, are transitional phenomena that develop into more complex visual imagery in even deeper trance states. They can evolve into symbolic images and dream-like imagery that can relate specifically to conscious intentions.
If your awareness is centered around another sense, you may experience the same relaxation of perception and alteration. If you focus on the auditory channel, you may experience subtle changes in the background sounds in the space you’re in. You may start to hear new sounds, low tones, buzzing or clicking, or words and phrases. Hearing one’s name spoken is a common auditory hallucinatory phenomenon. Others report hearing music. As with a visual technique, the auditory stimulus can lead into a flow of increasingly complex “hallucinations.” This can occur with any sense.
If your kinesthetic channel is dominant, you might experience the same progression as a range of sensations in the body. Spontaneous muscle twitches may progress into complete physical sensations of movement or other activity.
Becoming adept at utilizing deeper trance states relies on allowing the manifestations of trance as they occur. These manifestations can be difficult in the beginning as any abnormal phenomena may be disconcerting or even overly exciting. Many people focus on phenomena that arise with conscious awareness. For example, have you ever thought you saw something out of the corner of your eye? What happened when you looked at it? Directing your conscious, focused mind on these unconscious signals chases them away. We activate a different state of mind which causes a shift to objective awareness. We terminate the trance state.
As you learn to be more receptive and more comfortable allowing unknown senses and feelings, you can allow subconscious perceptions coming into the periphery of your awareness. You can recognize when something unusual is happening and relax into it, before you try to “look” directly at it and figure out what it is. Any alteration you sense can be the beginning of information coming from your unconscious, whether you call it intuition, insight, or hallucination.
Excerpted from A Joyful Intuition, copyright 2010 by Patrick Marsolek.
Integral Enlightenment
Conversations about the "self" have always been a big part of humanity's spiritual dialogue. Traditions ancient and modern have talked about there being a "Self Absolute," a "true Self," a "Higher Self," an "essential Self," an "Unmanifest Self," or even "No-self." But historically, within the great wisdom traditions of the world, when we hear about our spiritual self by any name, we're usually hearing about a part of the self that is beyond time and change, a great Self that is one with all, that was never born, never dies, and is identical with the Source itself.
Enlightenment has also generally referred to our awakening to this part of our self that is already free from everything, already at peace, already awake beyond ego.
We've been told by masters ancient and modern that if we can only discover "who we really are," we will find ourselves in a state of eternal contentment and joy, no longer perturbed by the vicissitudes of life.
Yet many of us have had the experience of awakening to this part of ourselves even for extended periods of time, only to fall back into the limitations and contractions of the ego once again. We see this happen time and time again. In this supercharged environment, people regularly experienced powerful spiritual awakenings to their deeper Self, or their ultimate nature beyond the mind.
But, no matter how long they stayed there, they would inevitably come crashing back down into the limited, narrow confines of the small self. Then something unexpected began to happen. We began to notice that occasionally a very different part of the self would become activated. It wasn't the small, contracted ego self. But it wasn't the Absolute Self, the Self beyond time and change that's discovered in traditional enlightenment.
This part of the self was alive, engaged, animated with Spiritual presence and vitality. It was unambivalent about life. It was excited by change. It didn't resist feedback or opportunities for growth. To the contrary, it thrived on them. This was an utterly life-positive, non-resistant, spiritually robust part of the Self that seemed to be saying an unconditional YES to Life.
And perhaps the most intriguing thing about this aspect of the self was that it wasn't awakening in meditation or other solitary spiritual practices. It seemed to be waking up in the midst of communicating and engaging with other people--with kindred spirits when engaged in transformational conversations and other creative interactions.
We co-awaken to a conscious embodiment of the spirit of evolution itself, as though the big YES that thrust the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago was waking up in human form. The great miracle of this part of the self was that it was no longer resistant to the challenge of self-evolution. It was willing to face whatever it had to face, to struggle with whatever it had to struggle with to evolve.
And, if you've been on the path for any length of time, you know how significant that is. If we let in the implications of what we are discovering, our entire orientation as a spiritual community begins to change. To what? To doing whatever we needed to do to awaken and activate this part of the self. We begin to discover that as long as we keep this part of the self in the driver's seat of our life, everything else works miraculously.
Instead of struggling endlessly against their ego resistances, people change immediately in response to feedback, because they only want to grow and awaken. Instead of feeling like spiritual practice was a burden or something one had to do, it becomes an inspired engagement with the Divine. Instead of falling back into old habit patterns again and again, people find themselves relating to life from a place where those old patterns no longer held any power. They don't necessarily disappear. They just aren't compelling any longer.
In addition, this deeper part of the self seemed to have a sort of built-in spiritual/moral/evolutionary compass. Meaning that it has an uncanny ability to respond to any situation in a helpful, evolutionary and "on target" way. This high-tech spiritual navigation system we begin to discover is not a supernatural power but simply grows out of an unwavering interest in seeing clearly and responding in an evolutionary way to whatever presents itself.
This "Evolutionary Self" becomes part of our character that is on fire with a passion for higher evolution. In fact, it quite literally feels like the very Impulse of Evolution itself alive within a human being. An Evolutionary Self.
For anyone who wants to discover and begin to live from this "Evolutionary Self," there are three big questions that need to be considered:
1) how do we awaken this part of the Self?
2) how do we keep it in the driver's seat of our life?
3) how do we create culture, community and relationships that express it?
Three Pillars of Conscious Evolution; Awakening the Evolutionary Self
If we're serious about conscious evolution, our first critical work is to awaken this part of the self. Which means to bring it to the forefront of our conscious awareness.
The reason this is important is that for most of us, this part of the self is in the background. So, even though it's there within us, most of the time we can't see it.
And in order to be able to let it infuse our lives with its wisdom and passion, we need to wake it up, to bring it out of the closet, to let its light shine into our consciousness.
If we don't do this, we're probably going to find ourselves on a hamster wheel. We'll keep working away at our path but with no living source of divine inspiration infusing our path and practice, we'll probably find it impossible to change in a meaningful way.
We'll also likely find that our old patterns keep resurfacing because we won't have any conscious reference points beyond the ego to help us navigate challenging situations.
When we awaken the Evolutionary Self, however, we begin to have a very different relationship to difficulties. We are undaunted by what life throws at us because we find we are plugged into a boundless source of energy, inspiration and creativity, and tapped into a wellspring of strength.
Our spiritual practices like meditation also begin to become supercharged instead of just something we do because we think we should.
Now, to awaken the Evolutionary Self, we first have to let go of the idea that it is far away or needs to be cultivated. We need to accept that it is always right here and that we have the ability to give our attention to it.
To begin to get a taste of how easily your own perspective can shift, try the following experiment:
*Choose an issue in your life where you feel stuck, or where you're struggling. This could be a relationship issue, an issue related to your career, or an issue on your spiritual path. Allow yourself to connect with the core sense of stuckness or confusion, of not knowing how to resolve the situation. Once you have a clear issue in mind, let go of it.
Right now, in this moment, allow yourself to connect with the part of you that gets excited by change. The part of you that is happy when things don't go according to plan because it means something unexpected is going to happen. This is also the part of you that is interested in growth and evolution. The part of you that wants to make the world a better place.
Now realize that this part of you is not separate from the impulse of evolution itself. 13.7 billion years ago, this evolutionary impulse burst into existence. And it's been unfolding its creativity ever since. And now, the leading edge of that creative unfolding is waking up in and as you!
Allow yourself to become this evolutionary impulse itself, to step fully into it, to embody it, to discover what it feels like to "be" evolution in action.
Now, from this expansive place, look at the issue you're struggling with. How does it look from here? What can you see about how to address it? Is it a problem in the way it usually seems?
Whether or not you are able to instantly access a perspective shift in this moment is not important. But I encourage you to experiment with this shift in vantage point as you go through your day.
Enlightenment has also generally referred to our awakening to this part of our self that is already free from everything, already at peace, already awake beyond ego.
We've been told by masters ancient and modern that if we can only discover "who we really are," we will find ourselves in a state of eternal contentment and joy, no longer perturbed by the vicissitudes of life.
Yet many of us have had the experience of awakening to this part of ourselves even for extended periods of time, only to fall back into the limitations and contractions of the ego once again. We see this happen time and time again. In this supercharged environment, people regularly experienced powerful spiritual awakenings to their deeper Self, or their ultimate nature beyond the mind.
But, no matter how long they stayed there, they would inevitably come crashing back down into the limited, narrow confines of the small self. Then something unexpected began to happen. We began to notice that occasionally a very different part of the self would become activated. It wasn't the small, contracted ego self. But it wasn't the Absolute Self, the Self beyond time and change that's discovered in traditional enlightenment.
This part of the self was alive, engaged, animated with Spiritual presence and vitality. It was unambivalent about life. It was excited by change. It didn't resist feedback or opportunities for growth. To the contrary, it thrived on them. This was an utterly life-positive, non-resistant, spiritually robust part of the Self that seemed to be saying an unconditional YES to Life.
And perhaps the most intriguing thing about this aspect of the self was that it wasn't awakening in meditation or other solitary spiritual practices. It seemed to be waking up in the midst of communicating and engaging with other people--with kindred spirits when engaged in transformational conversations and other creative interactions.
We co-awaken to a conscious embodiment of the spirit of evolution itself, as though the big YES that thrust the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago was waking up in human form. The great miracle of this part of the self was that it was no longer resistant to the challenge of self-evolution. It was willing to face whatever it had to face, to struggle with whatever it had to struggle with to evolve.
And, if you've been on the path for any length of time, you know how significant that is. If we let in the implications of what we are discovering, our entire orientation as a spiritual community begins to change. To what? To doing whatever we needed to do to awaken and activate this part of the self. We begin to discover that as long as we keep this part of the self in the driver's seat of our life, everything else works miraculously.
Instead of struggling endlessly against their ego resistances, people change immediately in response to feedback, because they only want to grow and awaken. Instead of feeling like spiritual practice was a burden or something one had to do, it becomes an inspired engagement with the Divine. Instead of falling back into old habit patterns again and again, people find themselves relating to life from a place where those old patterns no longer held any power. They don't necessarily disappear. They just aren't compelling any longer.
In addition, this deeper part of the self seemed to have a sort of built-in spiritual/moral/evolutionary compass. Meaning that it has an uncanny ability to respond to any situation in a helpful, evolutionary and "on target" way. This high-tech spiritual navigation system we begin to discover is not a supernatural power but simply grows out of an unwavering interest in seeing clearly and responding in an evolutionary way to whatever presents itself.
This "Evolutionary Self" becomes part of our character that is on fire with a passion for higher evolution. In fact, it quite literally feels like the very Impulse of Evolution itself alive within a human being. An Evolutionary Self.
For anyone who wants to discover and begin to live from this "Evolutionary Self," there are three big questions that need to be considered:
1) how do we awaken this part of the Self?
2) how do we keep it in the driver's seat of our life?
3) how do we create culture, community and relationships that express it?
Three Pillars of Conscious Evolution; Awakening the Evolutionary Self
If we're serious about conscious evolution, our first critical work is to awaken this part of the self. Which means to bring it to the forefront of our conscious awareness.
The reason this is important is that for most of us, this part of the self is in the background. So, even though it's there within us, most of the time we can't see it.
And in order to be able to let it infuse our lives with its wisdom and passion, we need to wake it up, to bring it out of the closet, to let its light shine into our consciousness.
If we don't do this, we're probably going to find ourselves on a hamster wheel. We'll keep working away at our path but with no living source of divine inspiration infusing our path and practice, we'll probably find it impossible to change in a meaningful way.
We'll also likely find that our old patterns keep resurfacing because we won't have any conscious reference points beyond the ego to help us navigate challenging situations.
When we awaken the Evolutionary Self, however, we begin to have a very different relationship to difficulties. We are undaunted by what life throws at us because we find we are plugged into a boundless source of energy, inspiration and creativity, and tapped into a wellspring of strength.
Our spiritual practices like meditation also begin to become supercharged instead of just something we do because we think we should.
Now, to awaken the Evolutionary Self, we first have to let go of the idea that it is far away or needs to be cultivated. We need to accept that it is always right here and that we have the ability to give our attention to it.
To begin to get a taste of how easily your own perspective can shift, try the following experiment:
*Choose an issue in your life where you feel stuck, or where you're struggling. This could be a relationship issue, an issue related to your career, or an issue on your spiritual path. Allow yourself to connect with the core sense of stuckness or confusion, of not knowing how to resolve the situation. Once you have a clear issue in mind, let go of it.
Right now, in this moment, allow yourself to connect with the part of you that gets excited by change. The part of you that is happy when things don't go according to plan because it means something unexpected is going to happen. This is also the part of you that is interested in growth and evolution. The part of you that wants to make the world a better place.
Now realize that this part of you is not separate from the impulse of evolution itself. 13.7 billion years ago, this evolutionary impulse burst into existence. And it's been unfolding its creativity ever since. And now, the leading edge of that creative unfolding is waking up in and as you!
Allow yourself to become this evolutionary impulse itself, to step fully into it, to embody it, to discover what it feels like to "be" evolution in action.
Now, from this expansive place, look at the issue you're struggling with. How does it look from here? What can you see about how to address it? Is it a problem in the way it usually seems?
Whether or not you are able to instantly access a perspective shift in this moment is not important. But I encourage you to experiment with this shift in vantage point as you go through your day.
Martina Hoffmann - "Spirit Wind" is a painting about awakening to "the Source" and higher consciousness. This term is more neutral and has less overlays than the word God or other names that have been given to the energetic, organizing, and spiritual force that guides all existences throughout the Universe. I consider the Source to be infinite and abundant in essence and available to us all. At this planetary turning point we have the choice to rename the ‘Void’ as the ‘Plenum' and to acknowledge the fact that there is unlimited free energy potential within our reach.
SOURCE MYSTICISM
Plumbing the Plenum
An Exploration of Virtual Physics, Cosmology & Consciousness
by Iona Miller, (c)2011
An Exploration of Virtual Physics, Cosmology & Consciousness
by Iona Miller, (c)2011
DAIHMON's First Sermon to the Dead
Then DAIHMON lifted his voice and taught them, saying (and this is the first sermon to the dead)
"Now hear: I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as thefullness. In infinity full is as good as empty. Nothingness is empty andfull. You might just as well say anything else about nothingness, forinstance, that it is white, or black, or that it does not exist, or that itexists. That which is endless and eternal has no qualities, since it has all
qualities.
"We call this nothingness or fullness the Pleroma. Therein both thinking andbeing cease, since the eternal and endless possess no qualities. No one isin it, for he would then be distinct from the Pleroma, and would possessqualities that would distinguish him as something distinct from the Pleroma.
"In the Pleroma there is nothing and everything. It is fruitless to thinkabout the Pleroma, for this would mean self-dissolution.
"Creation is not in the Pleroma, but in itself The Pleroma is the beginningand end of creation. It pervades creation, just as the sunlight pervadesthe air. Although the Pleroma is altogether pervasive, creation has no sharein it, just as a wholly transparent body becomes neither light nor darkthrough the light pervading it.
"We are, however, the Pleroma itsel£ for we are a part of the eternal andthe endless. But we have no share therein, as we are infinitely removed fromthe Pleroma; not spatially or temporally; but essentially, since we aredistinguished from the Pleroma in our essence as creation, which is confinedwithin time and space.
"Yet because we are parts of the Pleroma, the Pleroma is also in us. Even inthe smallest point the Pleroma is endless, eternal, and whole, since smalland great are qualities that are contained in it. It is nothingness that iswhole and continuous throughout. Only figuratively; therefore, do I speak ofcreation as part of the Pleroma. Because, actually; the Pleroma is nowheredivided, since it is nothingness. We are also the whole Pleroma, because,figuratively; the Pleroma is the smallest point in us, merely assumed, notexisting, and the boundless firmament about us. But why then do we speak of the Pleroma at all, if it is everything and nothing!
"I speak about it in order to begin somewhere, and also to free you from the delusion that somewhere without or within there is something fixed or in some way established from the outset. Every so-called fixed and certaint hing is only relative. That alone is fixed and certain that is subject to change.
"Creation, however, is subject to change; therefore it alone is fixed and determined because it has qualities: indeed, it is quality itself.
"Thus we ask: how did the creation come into being! Creatures came into being, but not creation: since creation is the very quality of the Pleroma, as much as non-creation, eternal death. Creation is ever-present, and so is death. The Pleroma has everything, differentiation and non-differentiation .
"Differentiation is creation. It is differentiated. Differentiation is its essence, and therefore it differentiates. Therefore man differentiates,since his essence is differentiation. Therefore he also differentiates the qualities of the Pleroma that do not exist.
He differentiates them on account of his own essence. Therefore he must speak of those qualities of the Pleroma that do not exist. "You say: 'what use is there in speaking about it at all! Did you yourself not say that it is not worth thinking about the Pleroma!
"I mentioned that to free you from the delusion that we are able to thinkabout the Pleroma. When we distinguish the qualities of the Pleroma, we are speaking from the ground of our own differentiated state and about our own
differentiation, but have effectively said nothing about the Pleroma. Yet we need to speak ( about our own differentiation, so that we may sufficiently differentiate ourselves. Our very nature is differentiation. If we are not true to this nature we do not differentiate ourselves enough. We must therefore make distinctions between qualities. "You ask: 'what harm is therein not differentiating oneself!
If we do not differentiate, we move beyond our essence, beyond creation, and we fall into non-differentiation , which is the other quality of the Pleroma.We fall into the Pleroma itself and cease to be created beings. We lapse into dissolution in nothingness. This is the death of the creature.Therefore we die to the same extent that we do not differentiate. Hence the creature's essence strives toward differentiation and struggles against primeval, perilous sameness. This is called the principium individuationis.This principle is the essence of the creature. From this you can see why non-differentiation and nondistinction pose a great danger to the creature.
"We must, therefore, distinguish the qualities of the Pleroma. These qualities are pairs of opposites, such as:
"the effective and the ineffective,
the fullness and the emptiness,
the living and the dead,
the different and the same,
light and darkness,
hot and cold,
force and matter,
time and space,
good and evil,
the beautiful and the ugly;
the one and the many; etc.
"The pairs of opposites are the qualities of the Pleroma that do not exist,because they cancel themselves out. As we are the Pleroma itself, we also have all these qualities in us. Since our nature is grounded in differentiation, we have these qualities in the name and under the sign of differentiation, which means:"
"First: these qualities are differentiated and separate in us; thereforet hey do not cancel each other out, but are effective. Thus we are the victims of the pairs of opposites. The Pleroma is rent within us."
"Second: these qualities belong to the Pleroma, and we must possess and live them only in the name and under the sign of differentiation. We must differentiate ourselves from these qualities. They cancel each other out int he Pleroma, but not in us. Distinction from them saves us."
"When we strive for the good or the beautiful, we forget our essence, which is differentiation, and we fall subject to the spell of the qualities of the Pleroma, which are the pairs of opposites. We endeavor to attain the good and the beautiful, yet at the same time we also seize the evil and the ugly;since in the Pleroma these are one with the good and the beautiful. But if we remain true to our essence, which is differentiation, we differentiate ourselves from the good and the beautiful, and hence from the evil and ugly. And thus we do not fall under the spell of the Pleroma, namely into nothingness and dissolution.
"You object: you said that difference and sameness are also qualities of the Pleroma. What is it like if we strive for distinctiveness? Are we, in so doing, not true to our own nature? And must we nonetheless fall into sameness when we strive for distinctiveness?
"You must not forget that the Pleroma has no qualities. We create these through thinking. If, therefore, you strive for distinctiveness or sameness,or any qualities whatsoever, you pursue thoughts that flow to you out of the Pleroma: thoughts, namely; concerning the non-existing qualities of the Pleroma. Inasmuch as you run after these thoughts, you fall again into the Pleroma, and attain distinctiveness and sameness at the same time.Not your thinking, but your essence, is differentiation. Therefore you mustn ot strive for what you conceive as distinctiveness, but for your own
essence. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely the striving for one's own essence. If you had this striving, you would not need to know anything about the Pleroma and its qualities, and yet you would attain the right goal by virtue of your own essence. Since, however, thought alienates us from our essence, I must teach you that knowledge with which you can bridle your thoughts."
The dead faded away grumbling and moaning and their cries died away in the distance.
~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Scrutinies, Pages 347-348.
We take our world to be an objective reality, but is it? The assumption that the physical world exists in and of itself has struggled to assimilate the findings of modern physics for some time now. For example, an objective space and time would just "be", but in relativity, space contracts and time dilates. Likewise objective "things" should just inherently exist, but the entities of quantum theory are probability of existence smears, that spread, tunnel, superpose and entangle in physically impossible ways. Cosmology even tells us that our entire physical universe just "popped up", from nowhere, about 14 billion years ago. This is not how an objectively real world should behave! Yet traditional alternatives don't work much better. That the world is just an illusion of the mind doesn't explain its consistent realism and Descartes dualism, that another reality beyond the physical exists, just doubles the existential problem. It is time to consider an option that we inhabit a Virtuality.
MWI is among contending theoriesof physics. It is a literal reading of the SWE, without collapse. Decoherent branches are a feature that comes out of MWI, not its basis. In the QC case, MWI says that all branches of the superposition actually, literally exist, and continue to do so even after "measurements" (whatever that might mean).
With collapse, only one result of any particle interaction actually occurs (all the others vanish instantly). With MWI, all occur, and are available to a QC. Copehangenists have to explain where all the computation is actually done. With present QCs (4-8 qubits) there is of course plenty of matter available to do the computation even classically. If (big if) we can build QCs large and dense enough, the computation can exceed what is physically possible in a single-valued world. Of course we may not ever get there; Feynman's physical bounds of computation are a long way from where we are today.
MWI is among contending theoriesof physics. It is a literal reading of the SWE, without collapse. Decoherent branches are a feature that comes out of MWI, not its basis. In the QC case, MWI says that all branches of the superposition actually, literally exist, and continue to do so even after "measurements" (whatever that might mean).
With collapse, only one result of any particle interaction actually occurs (all the others vanish instantly). With MWI, all occur, and are available to a QC. Copehangenists have to explain where all the computation is actually done. With present QCs (4-8 qubits) there is of course plenty of matter available to do the computation even classically. If (big if) we can build QCs large and dense enough, the computation can exceed what is physically possible in a single-valued world. Of course we may not ever get there; Feynman's physical bounds of computation are a long way from where we are today.
Reality Maps
Beginning long before the fad for the source field, over the years, I've written numerous articles on the plenum or vacuum potential, working with notables in that arena. This is a fertile area of research whose stock 'has risen' over the last decade or so. The Plenum can be modeled as a holographic realm, either with or without string theory, which may or may not be an accurate reflection of the true nature of Reality -- the total field of direct experience.
Continuous Creation
Theories must be examined for their phenomenological and metaphysical utility. Nature turns herself inside out in quantum zitterbewegung -- negative energy states -- resulting in our realm of Light, Energy, and Mass. It is the Source of our Being, of all Being. As electrons zip through the vacuum, the lightest known fundamental particle, they display a super-fast trembling motion, a perturbation of vacuum fluctuation. Seething behind a mask of emptiness, this force is greater than all of the energy composing the visible or manifest universe. Infinite luminosity literally radiates existence, a process which continues utterly irrespective of any Observer Effect required by the Standard Model.
Is the Copenhagen Interpretation a 'scientific' example of magical thinking that holds emotions and thoughts are always active in nature? Is such a belief supportable? Are all things in the cosmos, past, present, and future, actually or potentially interconnected, with connections are affected by people’s behavior, emotions, and intentions? Such controversies highlight the fact that there is no consensus in mainstream physics. Scientists may try to approach the field scientifically, yet their perceptual probing is subject to their conventional and unconventional beliefs about the nature of reality. People and atoms are not things.
ll contemporary models [Transactional (quantum handshake), Quantum Field Theory (QFT), Many-Worlds (decoherence), M-Theory (strings), Copenhagen (wave-function collapse), Holographic (frequency domain; resolution), Implicate (hidden information), etc] are essentially philosophical, or colored by the psyche and philosophy of their originators. Imagination has to cross the boundaries of disciplines to somehow find links between the observable and unknowable. Both matter and psyche are in a constant state of redefinition.
Source Mysticism
This Quantum Vacuum is more aptly named the unmanifest Plenum, whose vast energy density some consider the source of sentient Being. The dynamic discovered to be the very substance of the Plenum of space is light itself, the spectrum of fluctuating electromagnetism called the Zero Point Energy (ZPE). The "Quantum Vacuum" points to the fact that it is not a vacuum - an emptiness pure and simple, but rather is saturated with vibrant potential energy and is in fact a highly energetic medium, an absolute fullness of potential energy, the dynamic modification of which actually "emanates" what we call mass, matter or material form. Qabalistic creation stories say much the same, describing three Veils of Negative Existence.
This correlation between Source Mysticism and leading edge physics yields many interesting ideas for exploration that recontextualize science. The Secret of the Universe is that it is alive with energy, an endless space of pure potential and dynamism. The groundstate of nature is the heart of matter. Our nature is radiant scalar energy, the nonobservable yet roiling cosmic ocean of vacuum fluctuation, the disassembled roots of all being, the true primordial soup. The Heart Sutra claims that all form is nothing but Void and quantum physics agrees.
Beginning long before the fad for the source field, over the years, I've written numerous articles on the plenum or vacuum potential, working with notables in that arena. This is a fertile area of research whose stock 'has risen' over the last decade or so. The Plenum can be modeled as a holographic realm, either with or without string theory, which may or may not be an accurate reflection of the true nature of Reality -- the total field of direct experience.
Continuous Creation
Theories must be examined for their phenomenological and metaphysical utility. Nature turns herself inside out in quantum zitterbewegung -- negative energy states -- resulting in our realm of Light, Energy, and Mass. It is the Source of our Being, of all Being. As electrons zip through the vacuum, the lightest known fundamental particle, they display a super-fast trembling motion, a perturbation of vacuum fluctuation. Seething behind a mask of emptiness, this force is greater than all of the energy composing the visible or manifest universe. Infinite luminosity literally radiates existence, a process which continues utterly irrespective of any Observer Effect required by the Standard Model.
Is the Copenhagen Interpretation a 'scientific' example of magical thinking that holds emotions and thoughts are always active in nature? Is such a belief supportable? Are all things in the cosmos, past, present, and future, actually or potentially interconnected, with connections are affected by people’s behavior, emotions, and intentions? Such controversies highlight the fact that there is no consensus in mainstream physics. Scientists may try to approach the field scientifically, yet their perceptual probing is subject to their conventional and unconventional beliefs about the nature of reality. People and atoms are not things.
ll contemporary models [Transactional (quantum handshake), Quantum Field Theory (QFT), Many-Worlds (decoherence), M-Theory (strings), Copenhagen (wave-function collapse), Holographic (frequency domain; resolution), Implicate (hidden information), etc] are essentially philosophical, or colored by the psyche and philosophy of their originators. Imagination has to cross the boundaries of disciplines to somehow find links between the observable and unknowable. Both matter and psyche are in a constant state of redefinition.
Source Mysticism
This Quantum Vacuum is more aptly named the unmanifest Plenum, whose vast energy density some consider the source of sentient Being. The dynamic discovered to be the very substance of the Plenum of space is light itself, the spectrum of fluctuating electromagnetism called the Zero Point Energy (ZPE). The "Quantum Vacuum" points to the fact that it is not a vacuum - an emptiness pure and simple, but rather is saturated with vibrant potential energy and is in fact a highly energetic medium, an absolute fullness of potential energy, the dynamic modification of which actually "emanates" what we call mass, matter or material form. Qabalistic creation stories say much the same, describing three Veils of Negative Existence.
This correlation between Source Mysticism and leading edge physics yields many interesting ideas for exploration that recontextualize science. The Secret of the Universe is that it is alive with energy, an endless space of pure potential and dynamism. The groundstate of nature is the heart of matter. Our nature is radiant scalar energy, the nonobservable yet roiling cosmic ocean of vacuum fluctuation, the disassembled roots of all being, the true primordial soup. The Heart Sutra claims that all form is nothing but Void and quantum physics agrees.
Wonder of Birth, Randy Mack
Cosmosis: Turning Empty Space Inside-Out
"As Above; So Below". Your blood cells are a torus. DNA is a torus. Magnetic fields, galaxies.
Reality Probes
We can plumb the depths of space and of ourselves with our minds. We can explore finer and finer embedded fractal domains of reality down to the holographic blueprints of matter -- the dynamic nothingness of active infolded space. When we reach the lower limit of observability, we can still infer dynamics from their effects.
For the first time in 200,000 years we are able to contemplate the universe as a whole. Solving the riddles that perplexed our ancestors, we've created several models of real and imaginary universes. But beyond mathematical proofs, we also want to know if it is a "true" description of the universe in which we live. As ever, "Truth" remains elusive, in physics and metaphysics. Further, metaphysics is implicit in science. Despite all we think we know, both the cosmos and ourselves remain unfathomable yet explorable.
Is the plenum/void a wellspring of unconditioned consciousness, of creativity? Physics attempts to unify the laws of the universe and cosmology attempts to explain the origin of the universe. Cosmology attempts to describe the behavior of the entire universe using physical laws. Mostly it works backward from observations. There is no consensus on a theory of initial conditions. However, evidence shows the Universe is a self-creating, self-organizing, self-quantifying strictly determined and evolving process and cycle of the construction and de-construction of matter.
Does such an initial field exist, along with the governing information it must still contain? Scientists are finding evidence in the cosmic microwave background of events that predate the Big Bang shockwave of outward propagating energy. Did a collision of branes initialize the Big Bang? A theory formally called "eternal inflation" suggests that such universes are popping into and out of existence and colliding all the time, with the space between them rapidly expanding - meaning that they are forever out of reach of one another.
What if there are no "branes" or the Big Bang really didn't happen? Inflation may be an artifact of modeling. Other theories such as Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), combining Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, propose a Big Bounce as a recycling of earlier universes through death and rebirth, reminiscent of the mystical Ages and "grand dissolutions" -- the Great Cycle recounted in the perennial philosophy. Such questions arise from inconsistencies among models, which all fall short of the Theory of Everything, the elusive TOE.
Culture & Consciousness
Is consciousness a substructure or a superstructure? What is the function or activity which maintains the relation of psychic contents to the ego, distinguished conceptually from the psyche, which encompasses both consciousness and the unconscious? What distinguishes high emotional tension from contemplation? Does it well up from the very depths of being? The question only points out our naivete about the whole field of inner and outer experience. In alchemical terms, the shadow of reality is seen, but it is not physical, in the absence of the light of the Alchemical Sun. Matter and light share the same substance but at radically different vibratory rates.
Relevant issues include knowledge about the true nature of total metaphysical and physical (hyperspacetime and spacetime) reality, its electro-gravitational dynamics, holofractal geometries, the nature of information storage, transformation, transmission, and perception.The nature of consciousness is fundamental to our exploration. Still, functional models of natural cognition and structural coding remain elusive. Yet modulatory EM fields are clearly connected to cells. Still, all theories of brain function invoke electrical potentials, the electrical field. Are they making 'something' out of 'nothing'?
According to Francisco Di Biase, "the eletromagnetic theory of brain function is already very well developed in its holographic and quantum implications by Sir John Eccles, Karl Pribram, Walter Schempp and Marcer (these last have also developed all the Magnetic Resonance math, physics and medical applications). Also the EEG is a registration of the oscillating magnetic fields (and not action potentials) in the teledendritic-synaptic network that is the foundation of the quantum-holographic fields that are responsible for our consciousness and memory that are non-local distributed fields." (JCS-Online, 8/9/11)
But doesn't the issue remain: is the EM field 'delivering' data or "is" it the data? R. L. Gerl counters, "Without knowing what consciousness is, the claim that there is nothing else there, except space, is unsubstantiated. Space is filled with a number of different quantum fields even if their vacuum expectation values are zero in and around living organisms. Also, in many extensions of current physical theory, the quanta vibrate in several other spatial dimensions in addition to the three that people always observe. If this line of thought is true then all material objects have `projections' into these other dimensions. In that case, consciousness could be activity in and around those projections rather than something that resides in the usually observed 3-space."
All these pursuits are embedded in the context of culture which constrains and defines our view of human experience and reality. Because the evidence of our perceptions is open to interpretation, meanings and the environment fuse as a single socio-environmental configuration space. To be a human is to be a part of such a structure. Individuals tend to align with the culture's core meanings, purposes, and goals. However, in order to see through and rectify the flaws of social structures and meanings some of its members must be allowed to step outside its norms and assumptions to first speculate and then to create new contexts and models.
Who Are the Masters of Mysteries?
Referring to the subjective aspects of cognitive perception, in "The Anti-Physicalist Manifesto Part V," Christopher Holvenstot states in the Journal of Consciousness Studies (JCS-Online) forum:
Human cultures manufacture shared meanings, project them outwardly, and then invest in the projected meanings as if these were intrinsic to the external environment. Shared meanings function best for a culture when they are perceived by individuals as objective absolute truths (perceived as external objective truths rather than as subjective, self-manufactured participatory agreements). The culture's meanings are considered objectively true by virtue of being shared meanings formulated via the elimination of the individual subjective perspectives that are unique and/or inconsistent with the group's aspirations. Yet the culture itself is a subjective entity as well. The culture channels the making of meaning onto the objects and circumstances associated with the culture's own unique purposes and goals. The culture can be viewed as a living cognitive entity with its own self-model and its own self/world boundary (us and them), its own positive valuation of its continued existence, its own assumptions of volitional capabilities (the formation of governments and economies, exploration, expansion, colonization, war, etc). ...Without the liminal gap between culture and species we end up taking our species-wide assumptions about ourselves and the world as unquestioned absolute truths rather than as critique-able, arbitrary, contingent, and malleable assumptions. This can best be rectified by the acknowledgement of a valid liminal space between culture and species.
The limits of the human mind are far more finite than those of the cosmos. To the end of his life Ervin Schrodinger remained profoundly unsettled by the high strangeness revealed by his Uncertainty Principle. Einstein, too recoiled at the unsettling picture of quantum physics. It tells us the world is unlike anything our bodies know. So why should we expect subquantal theories to be any less weird? We don't even have an adequate metaphor for atoms from which we are made. Nature remains elementally wild.
Biologist Bruce Lipton claims energy is more effective than molecules at controlling biology. He describes how using the energy for moving away, for defense, gradually kills, and how our economy is having just that problem. Even cells perceive their environment through Em and chemical signals and nervous system. Yet beliefs, including those about the experiential nature of reality, directly control cell behavior. So, we need to learn more about the nature of that energy, energy's action within and on itself.
Thus, the most exciting frontiers remain in the gaps in our working knowledge. Arguably, they are most fruitfully explored from many points of view, from several disciplines. We have metaphysical theories about the physical nature of existence. Physics is not exempt from this cultural embedding, despite its quest for objectivity. Non-physics aspects of theory -- metaphysics -- have more of a psychological meaning than philosophical meaning. If metaphysics can make progress, physicists can also change their minds on metaphysical, psychological, and physics theory issues, widening the multidisciplinary dialogue. David Deutsch is interested in neo-Darwinian accounts of the evolution of culture. Such accounts treat cultural items — languages, religions, values, ideas, traditions — in much the way that Darwinian theories of biological evolution treat genes. They are called “memes,” and are treated as evolving, just as genes do, by mutation and selection, with the most successful memes being those that are the most faithfully replicated. Deutsch writes with enormous clarity and insight about how the mechanisms of mutation and transmission and selection of memes are going to have to differ, in all sorts of ways, from those of genes.
He also provides an elegant analysis of two particular strategies for meme-replication, one he calls “rational” and the other he calls “anti-rational.” Rational memes — the sort that Deutsch imagines will replicate themselves well in post-Enlightenment societies — are simply good ideas: the kind that will survive rigorous scientific scrutiny, the kind that will somehow make life easier or safer or more rewarding because they tell us something useful about how the world actually works. Irrational memes — which are more interesting, and more diabolical, and which Deutsch thinks of as summing up the essential character of pre-Enlightenment societies — reproduce themselves by disabling the capacities of their hosts (by means of fear, or an anxiety to conform, or the appearance of naturalness and inevitability, or in any number of other ways) to evaluate or invent new ideas. And one particular subcategory of memes — about which Deutsch has very clever things to say — succeeds precisely by pretending not to tell the truth.
Another chapter is devoted entirely to the evolution of creativity. At first glance, the ability to come up with new and better ways of doing things would appear to confer an obvious survival advantage. But if that’s how it worked — or so Deutsch argues — then the archaeological record ought to contain evidence of the accumulation of such better ways of doing things that are contemporaneous with the time when the human brain was actually in the process of evolving. And it doesn’t, which would seem to amount to a puzzle. Deutsch has a cute proposal for solving it. The thought is that the business of merely passing on complicated memes, without any thought of innovation, requires considerable creativity on the part of their recipients. Learning a language, for instance, is a matter of inferring, from a small number of examples, a collection of general rules, each with a potentially infinite number of applications, governing the uses of the words involved. In Deutsch’s view, the work of keeping such complex memes in place, from generation to generation, is no less a creative business than the work of improving them. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/the-beginning-of-infinity-by-david-deutsch-book-review.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
Reality Probes
We can plumb the depths of space and of ourselves with our minds. We can explore finer and finer embedded fractal domains of reality down to the holographic blueprints of matter -- the dynamic nothingness of active infolded space. When we reach the lower limit of observability, we can still infer dynamics from their effects.
For the first time in 200,000 years we are able to contemplate the universe as a whole. Solving the riddles that perplexed our ancestors, we've created several models of real and imaginary universes. But beyond mathematical proofs, we also want to know if it is a "true" description of the universe in which we live. As ever, "Truth" remains elusive, in physics and metaphysics. Further, metaphysics is implicit in science. Despite all we think we know, both the cosmos and ourselves remain unfathomable yet explorable.
Is the plenum/void a wellspring of unconditioned consciousness, of creativity? Physics attempts to unify the laws of the universe and cosmology attempts to explain the origin of the universe. Cosmology attempts to describe the behavior of the entire universe using physical laws. Mostly it works backward from observations. There is no consensus on a theory of initial conditions. However, evidence shows the Universe is a self-creating, self-organizing, self-quantifying strictly determined and evolving process and cycle of the construction and de-construction of matter.
Does such an initial field exist, along with the governing information it must still contain? Scientists are finding evidence in the cosmic microwave background of events that predate the Big Bang shockwave of outward propagating energy. Did a collision of branes initialize the Big Bang? A theory formally called "eternal inflation" suggests that such universes are popping into and out of existence and colliding all the time, with the space between them rapidly expanding - meaning that they are forever out of reach of one another.
What if there are no "branes" or the Big Bang really didn't happen? Inflation may be an artifact of modeling. Other theories such as Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), combining Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, propose a Big Bounce as a recycling of earlier universes through death and rebirth, reminiscent of the mystical Ages and "grand dissolutions" -- the Great Cycle recounted in the perennial philosophy. Such questions arise from inconsistencies among models, which all fall short of the Theory of Everything, the elusive TOE.
Culture & Consciousness
Is consciousness a substructure or a superstructure? What is the function or activity which maintains the relation of psychic contents to the ego, distinguished conceptually from the psyche, which encompasses both consciousness and the unconscious? What distinguishes high emotional tension from contemplation? Does it well up from the very depths of being? The question only points out our naivete about the whole field of inner and outer experience. In alchemical terms, the shadow of reality is seen, but it is not physical, in the absence of the light of the Alchemical Sun. Matter and light share the same substance but at radically different vibratory rates.
Relevant issues include knowledge about the true nature of total metaphysical and physical (hyperspacetime and spacetime) reality, its electro-gravitational dynamics, holofractal geometries, the nature of information storage, transformation, transmission, and perception.The nature of consciousness is fundamental to our exploration. Still, functional models of natural cognition and structural coding remain elusive. Yet modulatory EM fields are clearly connected to cells. Still, all theories of brain function invoke electrical potentials, the electrical field. Are they making 'something' out of 'nothing'?
According to Francisco Di Biase, "the eletromagnetic theory of brain function is already very well developed in its holographic and quantum implications by Sir John Eccles, Karl Pribram, Walter Schempp and Marcer (these last have also developed all the Magnetic Resonance math, physics and medical applications). Also the EEG is a registration of the oscillating magnetic fields (and not action potentials) in the teledendritic-synaptic network that is the foundation of the quantum-holographic fields that are responsible for our consciousness and memory that are non-local distributed fields." (JCS-Online, 8/9/11)
But doesn't the issue remain: is the EM field 'delivering' data or "is" it the data? R. L. Gerl counters, "Without knowing what consciousness is, the claim that there is nothing else there, except space, is unsubstantiated. Space is filled with a number of different quantum fields even if their vacuum expectation values are zero in and around living organisms. Also, in many extensions of current physical theory, the quanta vibrate in several other spatial dimensions in addition to the three that people always observe. If this line of thought is true then all material objects have `projections' into these other dimensions. In that case, consciousness could be activity in and around those projections rather than something that resides in the usually observed 3-space."
All these pursuits are embedded in the context of culture which constrains and defines our view of human experience and reality. Because the evidence of our perceptions is open to interpretation, meanings and the environment fuse as a single socio-environmental configuration space. To be a human is to be a part of such a structure. Individuals tend to align with the culture's core meanings, purposes, and goals. However, in order to see through and rectify the flaws of social structures and meanings some of its members must be allowed to step outside its norms and assumptions to first speculate and then to create new contexts and models.
Who Are the Masters of Mysteries?
Referring to the subjective aspects of cognitive perception, in "The Anti-Physicalist Manifesto Part V," Christopher Holvenstot states in the Journal of Consciousness Studies (JCS-Online) forum:
Human cultures manufacture shared meanings, project them outwardly, and then invest in the projected meanings as if these were intrinsic to the external environment. Shared meanings function best for a culture when they are perceived by individuals as objective absolute truths (perceived as external objective truths rather than as subjective, self-manufactured participatory agreements). The culture's meanings are considered objectively true by virtue of being shared meanings formulated via the elimination of the individual subjective perspectives that are unique and/or inconsistent with the group's aspirations. Yet the culture itself is a subjective entity as well. The culture channels the making of meaning onto the objects and circumstances associated with the culture's own unique purposes and goals. The culture can be viewed as a living cognitive entity with its own self-model and its own self/world boundary (us and them), its own positive valuation of its continued existence, its own assumptions of volitional capabilities (the formation of governments and economies, exploration, expansion, colonization, war, etc). ...Without the liminal gap between culture and species we end up taking our species-wide assumptions about ourselves and the world as unquestioned absolute truths rather than as critique-able, arbitrary, contingent, and malleable assumptions. This can best be rectified by the acknowledgement of a valid liminal space between culture and species.
The limits of the human mind are far more finite than those of the cosmos. To the end of his life Ervin Schrodinger remained profoundly unsettled by the high strangeness revealed by his Uncertainty Principle. Einstein, too recoiled at the unsettling picture of quantum physics. It tells us the world is unlike anything our bodies know. So why should we expect subquantal theories to be any less weird? We don't even have an adequate metaphor for atoms from which we are made. Nature remains elementally wild.
Biologist Bruce Lipton claims energy is more effective than molecules at controlling biology. He describes how using the energy for moving away, for defense, gradually kills, and how our economy is having just that problem. Even cells perceive their environment through Em and chemical signals and nervous system. Yet beliefs, including those about the experiential nature of reality, directly control cell behavior. So, we need to learn more about the nature of that energy, energy's action within and on itself.
Thus, the most exciting frontiers remain in the gaps in our working knowledge. Arguably, they are most fruitfully explored from many points of view, from several disciplines. We have metaphysical theories about the physical nature of existence. Physics is not exempt from this cultural embedding, despite its quest for objectivity. Non-physics aspects of theory -- metaphysics -- have more of a psychological meaning than philosophical meaning. If metaphysics can make progress, physicists can also change their minds on metaphysical, psychological, and physics theory issues, widening the multidisciplinary dialogue. David Deutsch is interested in neo-Darwinian accounts of the evolution of culture. Such accounts treat cultural items — languages, religions, values, ideas, traditions — in much the way that Darwinian theories of biological evolution treat genes. They are called “memes,” and are treated as evolving, just as genes do, by mutation and selection, with the most successful memes being those that are the most faithfully replicated. Deutsch writes with enormous clarity and insight about how the mechanisms of mutation and transmission and selection of memes are going to have to differ, in all sorts of ways, from those of genes.
He also provides an elegant analysis of two particular strategies for meme-replication, one he calls “rational” and the other he calls “anti-rational.” Rational memes — the sort that Deutsch imagines will replicate themselves well in post-Enlightenment societies — are simply good ideas: the kind that will survive rigorous scientific scrutiny, the kind that will somehow make life easier or safer or more rewarding because they tell us something useful about how the world actually works. Irrational memes — which are more interesting, and more diabolical, and which Deutsch thinks of as summing up the essential character of pre-Enlightenment societies — reproduce themselves by disabling the capacities of their hosts (by means of fear, or an anxiety to conform, or the appearance of naturalness and inevitability, or in any number of other ways) to evaluate or invent new ideas. And one particular subcategory of memes — about which Deutsch has very clever things to say — succeeds precisely by pretending not to tell the truth.
Another chapter is devoted entirely to the evolution of creativity. At first glance, the ability to come up with new and better ways of doing things would appear to confer an obvious survival advantage. But if that’s how it worked — or so Deutsch argues — then the archaeological record ought to contain evidence of the accumulation of such better ways of doing things that are contemporaneous with the time when the human brain was actually in the process of evolving. And it doesn’t, which would seem to amount to a puzzle. Deutsch has a cute proposal for solving it. The thought is that the business of merely passing on complicated memes, without any thought of innovation, requires considerable creativity on the part of their recipients. Learning a language, for instance, is a matter of inferring, from a small number of examples, a collection of general rules, each with a potentially infinite number of applications, governing the uses of the words involved. In Deutsch’s view, the work of keeping such complex memes in place, from generation to generation, is no less a creative business than the work of improving them. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/the-beginning-of-infinity-by-david-deutsch-book-review.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
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Higg's Field or No Higg's
Is the Higgs boson is a "scalar" field "particle" that may be the fundamental root of all scalar fields affecting our everyday reality? Is this the most fundamental component of scalar field technology?
Experimental solutions are pursued through the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The field itself, aside from being the explanation for why everything in the universe has mass, is also one of the final pieces of the Standard Model of physics which ties together elements of quantum mechanics and electromagnetism.
The predicted Higgs particle is called the “God Particle,” because it would explain the difference between objects with mass and objects that have only energy — objects with form and objects without. If we do find it, we’ll know that we have the right idea about how particles acquire mass — as in, how photons, riding on beams of light, have no mass at all, while the W and Z bosons (two particles that govern the “weak force,” one of the fundamental forces that keep atoms together) have the masses that they do, and why other subatomic particles have the weights that they have.
English physicist Peter Higgs set out to understand how exactly energy in the universe became mass — how particles, with their wave-like characteristics, acquired mass and interacted with other particles around them. He theorized a field, one that made up the lattice of the entire universe, that’s responsible for the mass of objects, specifically particles. The Higgs boson would be a density of that field, or an observable indication that it exists. Yet, results remain open to analysis and interpretation.
The Standard Model is not the only model of the Field. Other physicists are working on theories to explain the same phenomenon without the need for the Higgs boson or the Higgs field at all — if it doesn’t exist, science will move to the next set of likely theories.
Experimental solutions are pursued through the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The field itself, aside from being the explanation for why everything in the universe has mass, is also one of the final pieces of the Standard Model of physics which ties together elements of quantum mechanics and electromagnetism.
The predicted Higgs particle is called the “God Particle,” because it would explain the difference between objects with mass and objects that have only energy — objects with form and objects without. If we do find it, we’ll know that we have the right idea about how particles acquire mass — as in, how photons, riding on beams of light, have no mass at all, while the W and Z bosons (two particles that govern the “weak force,” one of the fundamental forces that keep atoms together) have the masses that they do, and why other subatomic particles have the weights that they have.
English physicist Peter Higgs set out to understand how exactly energy in the universe became mass — how particles, with their wave-like characteristics, acquired mass and interacted with other particles around them. He theorized a field, one that made up the lattice of the entire universe, that’s responsible for the mass of objects, specifically particles. The Higgs boson would be a density of that field, or an observable indication that it exists. Yet, results remain open to analysis and interpretation.
The Standard Model is not the only model of the Field. Other physicists are working on theories to explain the same phenomenon without the need for the Higgs boson or the Higgs field at all — if it doesn’t exist, science will move to the next set of likely theories.
Don't panic about the missing Higgs – for now, 28 August 2011 by Lisa Grossman
The world's most-wanted particle continues to elude the world's most powerful particle accelerator. A sign that the elusive Higgs boson doesn't exist? Not so fast. For now, there are good reasons to assume the Higgs is just hiding.
"It's never too early to think about it, but it is too early to worry," says Nobel prize-winner Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The still-hypothetical Higgs boson is thought to endow all other particles with mass. Confirming its existence would complete the standard model of physics, the leading theory for how particles and forces interact. Finding the Higgs and pinning down its mass, or ruling out its existence and paving the way for new models, is one of the goals of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.
Since it started smashing protons together in 2009, the LHC has steadily collected data that help rule out various masses for the Higgs from a range of possibilities allowed by the standard model. Combined with earlier results from other accelerators, the latest LHC limits, announced on 22 August at the Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India, mean the Higgs is now restricted to having a mass of between 115 and 145 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), or 122 to 154 times the mass of a proton (mass and energy can be treated interchangeably for particles).
Low-hanging fruit
This means that about 90 per cent of the possible masses for the Higgs are now ruled out, says CERN spokesman James Gillies.
And that has sparked speculation that the Higgs might not exist at all. If this turns out to be true – and it's certainly a possibility – it would leave room for exotic theories involving an extra force of nature. Indeed, some are banking on this. "I don't pay close attention to it, because I don't think it's going to show up anyway," says Ken Lane of Boston University.
It is still too soon to assume the universe is Higgs-less, however. Take the small mass range that's now left. It is at the low end of potential masses and so is the most difficult for the LHC to explore. A heavier Higgs would leave clearer tracks in the detector, but the lighter it is, the harder it would be to tell a true signal from other particles that produce similar tracks.
"In the low mass range, disentangling signals from noise is a more painstaking process, and needs more data," Gillies says. In other words, rather than sounding a death knell for the Higgs, the latest limits could merely signal that we have sorted through the low- hanging fruit.
Strict supersymmetry
Some Higgs hunters are actually relieved that it hasn't shown up yet as they never expected the particle to be heavier than 145 GeV. That's because, as the Higgs gives mass to the known particles, these particles can put limits on the Higgs's mass. Earlier experiments at accelerators like the Tevatron, the Large Electron Positron Collider and the Stanford Linear Collider suggest that the Higgs should be slightly heavier than the W and Z bosons, at between 120 and 130 GeV.
An extension of the standard model called supersymmetry makes an even stronger case for a light Higgs. Theoretically, the standard model allows the Higgs to weigh almost anything. But supersymmetry, which calls for twice as many particles as the standard model, has stricter rules. This theory directly links the Higgs mass to the W and Z boson
masses, plus offers some quantum corrections that bump it up to about 130 GeV.
"In a sense, these [latest] results from the LHC are not surprising," Wilczek says. "It would have been very embarrassing for supersymmetry and the properties of the particles we know about if the Higgs had been discovered in the range of masses that have [now] been explored."
There's another explanation for the Higgs's absence: it decays into particles we don't know how to detect, such as dark matter or as yet unknown particles. In that case, the only way to detect the Higgs would be by looking for tiny amounts of missing energy.
The world's most-wanted particle continues to elude the world's most powerful particle accelerator. A sign that the elusive Higgs boson doesn't exist? Not so fast. For now, there are good reasons to assume the Higgs is just hiding.
"It's never too early to think about it, but it is too early to worry," says Nobel prize-winner Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The still-hypothetical Higgs boson is thought to endow all other particles with mass. Confirming its existence would complete the standard model of physics, the leading theory for how particles and forces interact. Finding the Higgs and pinning down its mass, or ruling out its existence and paving the way for new models, is one of the goals of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.
Since it started smashing protons together in 2009, the LHC has steadily collected data that help rule out various masses for the Higgs from a range of possibilities allowed by the standard model. Combined with earlier results from other accelerators, the latest LHC limits, announced on 22 August at the Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India, mean the Higgs is now restricted to having a mass of between 115 and 145 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), or 122 to 154 times the mass of a proton (mass and energy can be treated interchangeably for particles).
Low-hanging fruit
This means that about 90 per cent of the possible masses for the Higgs are now ruled out, says CERN spokesman James Gillies.
And that has sparked speculation that the Higgs might not exist at all. If this turns out to be true – and it's certainly a possibility – it would leave room for exotic theories involving an extra force of nature. Indeed, some are banking on this. "I don't pay close attention to it, because I don't think it's going to show up anyway," says Ken Lane of Boston University.
It is still too soon to assume the universe is Higgs-less, however. Take the small mass range that's now left. It is at the low end of potential masses and so is the most difficult for the LHC to explore. A heavier Higgs would leave clearer tracks in the detector, but the lighter it is, the harder it would be to tell a true signal from other particles that produce similar tracks.
"In the low mass range, disentangling signals from noise is a more painstaking process, and needs more data," Gillies says. In other words, rather than sounding a death knell for the Higgs, the latest limits could merely signal that we have sorted through the low- hanging fruit.
Strict supersymmetry
Some Higgs hunters are actually relieved that it hasn't shown up yet as they never expected the particle to be heavier than 145 GeV. That's because, as the Higgs gives mass to the known particles, these particles can put limits on the Higgs's mass. Earlier experiments at accelerators like the Tevatron, the Large Electron Positron Collider and the Stanford Linear Collider suggest that the Higgs should be slightly heavier than the W and Z bosons, at between 120 and 130 GeV.
An extension of the standard model called supersymmetry makes an even stronger case for a light Higgs. Theoretically, the standard model allows the Higgs to weigh almost anything. But supersymmetry, which calls for twice as many particles as the standard model, has stricter rules. This theory directly links the Higgs mass to the W and Z boson
masses, plus offers some quantum corrections that bump it up to about 130 GeV.
"In a sense, these [latest] results from the LHC are not surprising," Wilczek says. "It would have been very embarrassing for supersymmetry and the properties of the particles we know about if the Higgs had been discovered in the range of masses that have [now] been explored."
There's another explanation for the Higgs's absence: it decays into particles we don't know how to detect, such as dark matter or as yet unknown particles. In that case, the only way to detect the Higgs would be by looking for tiny amounts of missing energy.
Cosmos & Consciousness
Quantum cosmology is another theory of initial conditions. It puts a metaphorical microscope on the subquantal, nonmaterial cosmos that is everywhere, including inside us. We can imagine more complex spaces than we can mathematically describe. They are explored with multidisciplinary approaches from sciences and the arts.
The Origin of Cognition narrative belongs to anyone and everyone from any field of interest who can contribute to its formulation. No one knows. Questions of consciousness, mind, memory (qualia and composite structural information) and the source of the fundamental forces that drive the quantum wave motion have never been adequately explained.
Biophysics explores the electronic nature of organisms. Consciousness Studies attempts to apply biophysics to model the nature of consciousness with that consciousness of nature. Conventional quantum theories ignore pervasive (unconditioned) consciousness as a fundamental causative aspect of ubiquitous zero-point absolute (empty of form but full of potential energy) negentropic ground space. Beginning with the ancient Vedas, many idiosyncratic theories have been proposed which consider consciousness as fundamental, along with primal matter, whose field frequencies can range between zero and infinite — and can carry infinite holographically encoded structural information.
Emission Groundstate
The 'empty space' within and near particles such as electrons and quarks is far more active and complex than in the lower-energy 'empty space' within the boundaries of atoms. There is no such thing as 'empty space' anywhere in nature. There are only apparent 'voids' that seem not to contain matter or energy, but at the level of the quantum world, even 'empty' voids are teeming with activity as particles come and go, created out of quantum fluctuations in any of a variety of fields in nature. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle all but guarantees the existence of such a dynamic, physical vacuum.
Empty space is dimensionless, yet, contains the universe. In this realm, we need to think in terms of state, not in terms of process. The common substrate of all matter is the Primordial Groundstate. Process occurs as spacetime. Is consciousness a metaphysical entity that precedes matter or an intrinsic property of Nature? Unconditioned Consciousness may be more than the brain‘s neurons linking and resonating together in synesthetic-metaphoric patterns determined by materialist-mechanistic evolution, as described by Ramachandran in The Tell-Tale Brain.
The Origin of Cognition narrative belongs to anyone and everyone from any field of interest who can contribute to its formulation. No one knows. Questions of consciousness, mind, memory (qualia and composite structural information) and the source of the fundamental forces that drive the quantum wave motion have never been adequately explained.
Biophysics explores the electronic nature of organisms. Consciousness Studies attempts to apply biophysics to model the nature of consciousness with that consciousness of nature. Conventional quantum theories ignore pervasive (unconditioned) consciousness as a fundamental causative aspect of ubiquitous zero-point absolute (empty of form but full of potential energy) negentropic ground space. Beginning with the ancient Vedas, many idiosyncratic theories have been proposed which consider consciousness as fundamental, along with primal matter, whose field frequencies can range between zero and infinite — and can carry infinite holographically encoded structural information.
Emission Groundstate
The 'empty space' within and near particles such as electrons and quarks is far more active and complex than in the lower-energy 'empty space' within the boundaries of atoms. There is no such thing as 'empty space' anywhere in nature. There are only apparent 'voids' that seem not to contain matter or energy, but at the level of the quantum world, even 'empty' voids are teeming with activity as particles come and go, created out of quantum fluctuations in any of a variety of fields in nature. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle all but guarantees the existence of such a dynamic, physical vacuum.
Empty space is dimensionless, yet, contains the universe. In this realm, we need to think in terms of state, not in terms of process. The common substrate of all matter is the Primordial Groundstate. Process occurs as spacetime. Is consciousness a metaphysical entity that precedes matter or an intrinsic property of Nature? Unconditioned Consciousness may be more than the brain‘s neurons linking and resonating together in synesthetic-metaphoric patterns determined by materialist-mechanistic evolution, as described by Ramachandran in The Tell-Tale Brain.
Negative Existence
The historically pre-scientific qabalistic Tree of Life depicts 4 Worlds of Manifestation in three pillars. Overarching this glyph of manifestation, the active dynamic infolding of space is described as Ain, Ain Soph, and Ain Soph Aur-- the Three Veils of Negative Existence. They reside above the Tree of Llife and represent the outer limit of existence and the initial impulse of creation. Ain is the highest and first of the veils. It is literally translated as 'nothing', or simply 'no'; it is absolute emptiness, the opposite of existence, complete absence.
Ain Soph is the middle of the three veils, and it proceeds from Ain by necessity. It is literally translated as 'no limit'. If there is nothing then there are no boundaries or limitations; this is the limitless foundation - the eternal in its purest sense.
Ain Soph Aur is the lower veil, situated closest to the Tree of Life, and it proceeds from Ain Soph as a necessity. It means 'limitless or eternal light'. Light plays a very important role in the philosophy and symbolism of Qabalah, and the Ain Soph Aur is that light. Light means many things to a Qabalist - the light of wisdom, of life, of grace and so on, but these refer to our human experience of light, and the way an inner communion with the eternal light can heal and transform you, but not the simple nature of light in and of itself.
So what is the nature of this mysterious light? The light of Qabalah is the same as the light described in science and experienced in our every day life, experienced in a more direct (gnostic) manner, or in the manner that it experiences itself. As Einstein's theory of relativity explains, if you were to travel at the speed of light then strange things would happen to space and time, and you would experience yourself to be in all places and times at once. You would, in other words, be eternal. This is the experience of light from its own perspective. When the world was created and the first light came into being the entirety of space and time were created and held in a singular moment within the nature of light itself. This eternal moment was the Ain Soph Aur.
Whatever form or shape – inside or outside -- can be seen (comes into sight -- gross or subtle), is illusory and impermanent. Beyond this is a Realm which has never been born and will never die or be destroyed. That alone is Truth. It is indestructible. It has no color, no shape or form, and no particular name [is Nameless, Soundless, Formless]; but it is something which can be perceived or understood and, therefore, is entitled to be described or explained with the help of a (symbolic) name. The soul is an inseparable part of it, likewise indestructible.
Within an atom, much of the activity is carried by 'virtual photons' that mediate the electromagnetic force, and by the occasional electron-positron pairs that appear and vanish. At very high energies, and correspondingly small length scales, the vacuum fills up with the comings and goings of even more high energy particles; quarks-antiquarks, gluons-antigluons, muons-antimuons, and a whole host of other particles and their anti-matter twins. Within the nucleus of an atom, gluons and their anti- particles are everywhere, going about their business to keep the quarks bound into the nuclear 'quark-gluon plasma', portions of which we see as protons and neutrons.
Ain Soph is the middle of the three veils, and it proceeds from Ain by necessity. It is literally translated as 'no limit'. If there is nothing then there are no boundaries or limitations; this is the limitless foundation - the eternal in its purest sense.
Ain Soph Aur is the lower veil, situated closest to the Tree of Life, and it proceeds from Ain Soph as a necessity. It means 'limitless or eternal light'. Light plays a very important role in the philosophy and symbolism of Qabalah, and the Ain Soph Aur is that light. Light means many things to a Qabalist - the light of wisdom, of life, of grace and so on, but these refer to our human experience of light, and the way an inner communion with the eternal light can heal and transform you, but not the simple nature of light in and of itself.
So what is the nature of this mysterious light? The light of Qabalah is the same as the light described in science and experienced in our every day life, experienced in a more direct (gnostic) manner, or in the manner that it experiences itself. As Einstein's theory of relativity explains, if you were to travel at the speed of light then strange things would happen to space and time, and you would experience yourself to be in all places and times at once. You would, in other words, be eternal. This is the experience of light from its own perspective. When the world was created and the first light came into being the entirety of space and time were created and held in a singular moment within the nature of light itself. This eternal moment was the Ain Soph Aur.
Whatever form or shape – inside or outside -- can be seen (comes into sight -- gross or subtle), is illusory and impermanent. Beyond this is a Realm which has never been born and will never die or be destroyed. That alone is Truth. It is indestructible. It has no color, no shape or form, and no particular name [is Nameless, Soundless, Formless]; but it is something which can be perceived or understood and, therefore, is entitled to be described or explained with the help of a (symbolic) name. The soul is an inseparable part of it, likewise indestructible.
Within an atom, much of the activity is carried by 'virtual photons' that mediate the electromagnetic force, and by the occasional electron-positron pairs that appear and vanish. At very high energies, and correspondingly small length scales, the vacuum fills up with the comings and goings of even more high energy particles; quarks-antiquarks, gluons-antigluons, muons-antimuons, and a whole host of other particles and their anti-matter twins. Within the nucleus of an atom, gluons and their anti- particles are everywhere, going about their business to keep the quarks bound into the nuclear 'quark-gluon plasma', portions of which we see as protons and neutrons.
THE NATURE OF EMBODIMENT IS LIGHT
Radiant Fields
We’ve become accustomed to speculating on the nature of quantum mind -- nonlocal mind -- but we can drop down another domain to imagine an even more primordial awareness at Zero Point. This is the virtual still point of our recalibration – Cosmic Zero, everywhere now-here all the time forever, the well-spring of Creation.
The groundstate of nature is the heart of matter. Our nature is radiant scalar energy, the nonobservable yet roiling cosmic ocean of vacuum fluctuation, the disassembled roots of all being, the true primordial soup. The Heart Sutra claims that all form is nothing but Void and quantum physics agrees.
ZPE-originated fields are located everywhere (in the Planck false vacuum) and their ultimate radial extension is infinite — they interpenetrate each other in the vast sea of pulsating cosmic spacetime. Together they constitute the basis of our holographic universe. This entire cycle of cosmic radiation, inflation, expansion, involution, compression, starting from and ending at the zero-point singularity (fundamental spin momentum) of absolute (zero-point) space, is the fundamental root of the "holographic principle" which underlies all phenomenal reality.
All radiant electrodynamic fields, within any frequency spectrum phase order, must have a series of fractal harmonics extending throughout its entire spectral range, which also resonates with all other (higher and lower) phase order fields. All information is carried on such fields as modulated wave interference patterns — so that, once recorded, no information is ever lost.
All structural information is contained in the infinite spin-momentum (singularity) source of all (harmonic) fractal involved cosmic fields, along with all particle standing waves (as well as all their formative combination's and permutations) at different frequency phase orders. All information is transformed from field to field by phase conjugate adaptive resonance.
Arguably, all radiant fields in spacetime are vibrating at their individual natural frequencies (between zero and infinite) as spherical standing waves. Each time the cyclically outgoing and incoming wave form passes through its neutral Zero Point center it is crossing through the singularity. This appliers to all fields from the smallest particle field in the Planck volume (at near infinite mass-energy) up to the total spacetime field of the inflated universe after its big bang, as well as the initial field of cosmogenesis at near infinite frequency.
Therefore, the singularity is everywhere, since all fields originate from a ZP center. This is the fundamental nature of the absolute (0 degrees K) space, located everywhere in overall multidimensional spacetime, acting as a BEC [Bose-Einstein condensate].
This static absolute zero-point space, therefore, must be the source of pure unconditioned consciousness -- which is at the center of all radiant fields, including charges surrounding all particle-standing waves, all atoms and molecules, and all their composite forms of inorganic and organic matter.
Accordingly, the fundamental nature of all phenomenal reality is fractal involved harmonically resonant, coenergetic standing wave fields of Electro-Gravitation al spacetime vibrating at frequencies between zero and infinite. The zero point centers, lines of force, and the spherical surfaces of all of these fields are equivalent to the "singularities" , "micro black holes", "wormholes", "twistors"," strings", "superstrings' ', "branes", "quantum loops", etc. of the current variety of cosmological theories now competing with each other, as well as with the current standard big bang-inflationary theories.
All of these, in contrast to the above explained nature of fundamental reality, plus the assumption that the ZP center of all fields must be empowered by potential energy in the form of non-dimensional and timeless spin momentum -- are fundamentally wrong. Even so, they may all have many localized aspects of mutual agreement, e.g., multidimensionality, mass/energy properties, etc. According to Sisir Roy, extended formulations of electromagnetic theory in vacuo can be modeled on a nonzero electric field divergence and a nonzero electric conductivity.
Energy/Time
Time itself is compressed energy. Time energy is transduced into dynamic spatial energy as cosmic jitter (ZPE; zitterbewegung), cosmic acceleration, and mass. The engine of the universe runs by consuming the negentropy of highly compressed spacetime. So do we. We don’t feed on energy, but on negentropy.
The flow of mass, and our own mass, through time is generated by the ubiquitous interaction of photons with the mass. This is so for both virtual and observable photons. Mass moves through time by integrating virtual photons, and absorption/emission of observable photons/biophotons. The internal dynamic flow of time has infolded sublevels and engines that pump up the quantum field effects to breech the mystic threshold of observability.
All living systems emit a weak but permanent photon flux in the visible and ultraviolet range. This biophoton emission is correlated with many, if not all, biological and physiological functions. This overlooked information channel of living systems will lead to the medicine of the future. Biophotons regulate biological rhythms, including chemical reactivity in cells, growth control, differentiation and intercellular communication. Biophotons are photonic light impulses, that are emitted and/or reflected by living cells. There are approximately 100 000 impulses per cell per second, which steer all the biochemical functions in our bodies. The speed of light is necessary to perform all the tasks that keep our bodies in good functioning order.
On one level, we know that cymatics, sound structures geometric form and the structure of matter. Topological geometry indicates a continuous analogous and corresponding repetition of the initial cosmic hyperspherical standing wave — beginning at the lowest possible near zero frequency and longest wave length, as it fractal harmonically steps down to the highest possible frequency and shortest wave length closest to the zero-point on the 4th lowest frequency phase order physical plane.
Thus, energy and time are co-determinate and interdependent. But, since frequency is a sinuous wave motion of ZPE space, and time is simply the measure of its duration or change in its moment to moment zero-point spatial position — they would have to be considered as categorically different aspects of total reality — one, dimensionally dynamic, and the other temporally durational (based on Patanjali's "ultimate division of time" — which is also scale-invariant).
The groundstate of nature is the heart of matter. Our nature is radiant scalar energy, the nonobservable yet roiling cosmic ocean of vacuum fluctuation, the disassembled roots of all being, the true primordial soup. The Heart Sutra claims that all form is nothing but Void and quantum physics agrees.
ZPE-originated fields are located everywhere (in the Planck false vacuum) and their ultimate radial extension is infinite — they interpenetrate each other in the vast sea of pulsating cosmic spacetime. Together they constitute the basis of our holographic universe. This entire cycle of cosmic radiation, inflation, expansion, involution, compression, starting from and ending at the zero-point singularity (fundamental spin momentum) of absolute (zero-point) space, is the fundamental root of the "holographic principle" which underlies all phenomenal reality.
All radiant electrodynamic fields, within any frequency spectrum phase order, must have a series of fractal harmonics extending throughout its entire spectral range, which also resonates with all other (higher and lower) phase order fields. All information is carried on such fields as modulated wave interference patterns — so that, once recorded, no information is ever lost.
All structural information is contained in the infinite spin-momentum (singularity) source of all (harmonic) fractal involved cosmic fields, along with all particle standing waves (as well as all their formative combination's and permutations) at different frequency phase orders. All information is transformed from field to field by phase conjugate adaptive resonance.
Arguably, all radiant fields in spacetime are vibrating at their individual natural frequencies (between zero and infinite) as spherical standing waves. Each time the cyclically outgoing and incoming wave form passes through its neutral Zero Point center it is crossing through the singularity. This appliers to all fields from the smallest particle field in the Planck volume (at near infinite mass-energy) up to the total spacetime field of the inflated universe after its big bang, as well as the initial field of cosmogenesis at near infinite frequency.
Therefore, the singularity is everywhere, since all fields originate from a ZP center. This is the fundamental nature of the absolute (0 degrees K) space, located everywhere in overall multidimensional spacetime, acting as a BEC [Bose-Einstein condensate].
This static absolute zero-point space, therefore, must be the source of pure unconditioned consciousness -- which is at the center of all radiant fields, including charges surrounding all particle-standing waves, all atoms and molecules, and all their composite forms of inorganic and organic matter.
Accordingly, the fundamental nature of all phenomenal reality is fractal involved harmonically resonant, coenergetic standing wave fields of Electro-Gravitation al spacetime vibrating at frequencies between zero and infinite. The zero point centers, lines of force, and the spherical surfaces of all of these fields are equivalent to the "singularities" , "micro black holes", "wormholes", "twistors"," strings", "superstrings' ', "branes", "quantum loops", etc. of the current variety of cosmological theories now competing with each other, as well as with the current standard big bang-inflationary theories.
All of these, in contrast to the above explained nature of fundamental reality, plus the assumption that the ZP center of all fields must be empowered by potential energy in the form of non-dimensional and timeless spin momentum -- are fundamentally wrong. Even so, they may all have many localized aspects of mutual agreement, e.g., multidimensionality, mass/energy properties, etc. According to Sisir Roy, extended formulations of electromagnetic theory in vacuo can be modeled on a nonzero electric field divergence and a nonzero electric conductivity.
Energy/Time
Time itself is compressed energy. Time energy is transduced into dynamic spatial energy as cosmic jitter (ZPE; zitterbewegung), cosmic acceleration, and mass. The engine of the universe runs by consuming the negentropy of highly compressed spacetime. So do we. We don’t feed on energy, but on negentropy.
The flow of mass, and our own mass, through time is generated by the ubiquitous interaction of photons with the mass. This is so for both virtual and observable photons. Mass moves through time by integrating virtual photons, and absorption/emission of observable photons/biophotons. The internal dynamic flow of time has infolded sublevels and engines that pump up the quantum field effects to breech the mystic threshold of observability.
All living systems emit a weak but permanent photon flux in the visible and ultraviolet range. This biophoton emission is correlated with many, if not all, biological and physiological functions. This overlooked information channel of living systems will lead to the medicine of the future. Biophotons regulate biological rhythms, including chemical reactivity in cells, growth control, differentiation and intercellular communication. Biophotons are photonic light impulses, that are emitted and/or reflected by living cells. There are approximately 100 000 impulses per cell per second, which steer all the biochemical functions in our bodies. The speed of light is necessary to perform all the tasks that keep our bodies in good functioning order.
On one level, we know that cymatics, sound structures geometric form and the structure of matter. Topological geometry indicates a continuous analogous and corresponding repetition of the initial cosmic hyperspherical standing wave — beginning at the lowest possible near zero frequency and longest wave length, as it fractal harmonically steps down to the highest possible frequency and shortest wave length closest to the zero-point on the 4th lowest frequency phase order physical plane.
Thus, energy and time are co-determinate and interdependent. But, since frequency is a sinuous wave motion of ZPE space, and time is simply the measure of its duration or change in its moment to moment zero-point spatial position — they would have to be considered as categorically different aspects of total reality — one, dimensionally dynamic, and the other temporally durational (based on Patanjali's "ultimate division of time" — which is also scale-invariant).
"Asleep In A Sea of Consciousness"
by Walter Bruneel
by Walter Bruneel
Hyperspatial Virtual Photons
Aethyr Or...the Root of the Arising of Phenomena
These concepts of the aether seems to agree substantially with Einstein's 1920 Leyden lecture and some theories of cosmogenesis and consciousness.
The aether (or absolute space) is the primal rootless root of (1) potential consciousness (pure awareness, will) -- as well as of (2) noumenal spacetime-matter- energy (fundamental zero-point spin momentum)... This static "spinergy" is located everywhere in the Planck vacuum. While dimensionless, insubstantial, and timeless it could be considered as the smallest physical "quanta". Some physicists call this the "axion" or the "tachyon", whose abstract motion or fundamental non linear spin velocity (on infinite potential spherical axes) would necessarily rotate (without inhibitory frictional forces) *infinitely* faster than the linear velocity of ordinary sidereal light.
It follows that, at the primal beginning, all spacetime electro-gravitational fields would have to emanate holographically and ubiquitously from a unique triple axis spin-momentum of the primal aether "singularity". This series of fractally involved spherical fields on each axis, spiral vortically woven (in a Mobius-klein topology, like bubbles within bubbles within bubbles) from a dual opposite 1-dimensional ray or positive and negative gravitational ray or "superstring" of primal zero-point G-force "spinergy" -- that descends, in three fractal iterations (1st, 2nd and 3rd logos), from near infinite frequency-energy spectrum phase order, to near zero electromagnetic frequency phase order (representing our metric material spacetime universe).
At the 3rd Logos, this initially supersymmetric spherical spacetime field on the fourth lowest frequency-energy phase order, breaks symmetry at each of its ubiquitous zero-points, to precipitate out all the fundamental quantum particles as standing waves -- each, at a different frequency-mass- energy -- that, ultimately, coalesces and combines into atoms, molecules and all the gross forms of light and dark matter-energy in the universe. Note that light matter-energy fields form on only one overall cosmic field axis (Z) -- while dark matter-energy fields form on the other two axes (X,Y) -- with consciousness (awareness, will, qualia, etc.) remaining the quality of the ubiquitous zero-point of pure absolute space at the center of every hyperspace and metric spacetime ZPE field (ZPF) that are holographically and coenergetically connected to each other.
This descending order fractal configuration of overall spacetime, would indicate that each corresponding fractally involved hyperspace field has its own individual light frequency spectrum, and that when sidereal light photons on the lower order ponderable material level reach their maximum velocity (e.g., at the edge of the event horizon of a black hole) they do not return to the aether, but transform into the next higher frequency energy phase order (Astral field) at a correspondingly higher maximum velocity, possibly c^2 (to c^6 *by the time its accumulated quantal energy, along with its informational modulations, arrives at the pure aether singularity of the black hole). It's there at its center of spinergy, acting like a BEC, that all cosmic, as well as each individual's non contradictory, conscious experience is more or less permanently stored. This accounts for species instinctive and individual long term memory storage.
Thus, the light we see, as reconstructed holographic images in our mind-memory fields, are within the frequency spectrum of those higher order astral-mental fields. It follows that all sensory information, after electrochemical processing (NCC) in the brain, is carried by, stored, and transmitted directly to zero-point consciousness --
through those higher order mind-memory fields -- by electrodynamic phase conjugate adaptive resonance processes. In constructing a valid and consistent, all inclusive theory of consciousness -- we must first ask and satisfactorily answer the following questions:.. even if only as a theoretical hypothesis of a fundamental cosmogenetic reality that explains them all.
1. What is the necessary condition of individual consciousness (in terms of position, motion, location, etc) , that enables it to perceive, as an instantaneous gestalt, a 3-D composite image of the outer world -- which appears to be an orderly matrix of infinitesimal adjacent pixels (that are apparently detected by individual retinal cells) each transforming and transmitting different qualities of color, tone, shade, etc.?
2. If the visual image were a physical entity in our brain, with each pixel determined by a single neuron or group of neurons -- why does the overall image remain stationary when we turn our head? And, if the fixed image was a direct perception of the outer world, why is the observing consciousness, no matter where located in physical space, always at the exact center of the total space observed?
3. What is the nature of the *medium* that carries the visual information in the mind -- that is capable of being perceived (viewed) from a single point of observation in the center of the head -- as if it were projected on infinite inside surfaces of a spherical globe of apparently infinite radius -- which, with one eye only, appears as a single 2-d surface, and with both eyes open, is seen in full 3-d depth perception? How do we explain the mechanisms of stereo-binocular vision.
4. What is the form of that informational data, prior to its being perceived as an apparent holographic image in the visual field of the mind?
5. What are the characteristics of the final assembled image produced by the brain, and how is it transformed into an image inside the mind field as the appropriate data capable of being detected, reconstructed holographically, and perceived by the single point of view in the center of our head?
6. Since what we see is a true 3-D holographic image -- what is the structural nature (form) of the encoded visual information (hologram) in the mind field.
7. What must be the condition or state of the singular point of perception, so as to be able to detect and discriminate between the particular chroma, hue, tint, shade, etc. frequency value of each individual pixel, and convert that information into a subjective experience centered on that point?
8. How can all sentient organisms, equipped with functional optical transducer organs, perceive their surrounding world and intuitively know and control their exact bodily location and orientation in 3-D space -- with or without a complex brain structure or neural system?
9. Why do we feel the experience of consciousness at the point of sensory impression, and simultaneously at our global self consciousness -- while being able to know the exact 3-D geometric coordinate location point of such sensory impression, without any thought or explainable calculation? Until all those questions (among others too numerous to mention is this email) are answered, no logical scientific theory of consciousness -- which resolves all the hard problems of explaining the experience (qualia) of consciousness, brain-mind binding, non locality, entanglement of local and global awareness, intentional and autonomic/reflexive action of will, as well as all psi phenomena -- can ever be complete and all inclusive.
Apparently, all the conventional approaches to these questions based on the reductive materialist assumptions of conventional physics and its "scientific method" -- which don't even understand the cause and mechanisms of entanglement, the way the DNA actually works, or how structural and memory information is encoded, stored, transmitted, materialized or perceived -- has failed to give us any logically consistent theory of consciousness, and its interconnection (i.e., mechanisms) linking it with mind, memory, brain, body, world, universe, etc.
This new paradigm would start with the reasonable fundamental propositions (some already presumed as aspects of advanced physics) that:
(1) Unconditioned pre-cosmic space is the ground of all reality; (
2) Such absolute (0°K) space is inherently potentially conscious as well as potentially infinitely energetic -- in the form of abstract cyclic motion or zero-point angular spin momentum;
(3) Such zero-points of both consciousness and infinite potential mass-energy, located everywhere in total cosmic space-time, necessarily contains the infinite structural information of the entire cosmos -- which could, logically, only be the conserved memory of all previous cyclic manifestations and evolutions of the cosmos.
Refer to the holographic, Astro Biological Coenergetic (ABC) holographic, fractal involved field theory of cosmogenesis, mind and consciousness: http://knol. google.com/ k/how-it- all-began#
Consciousness exploration paper http://www.jcer. com/index. php/jcj/article/ view/85 (PDF) http://leonmaurer. tripod.com/ (web reprint) -- Leon Maurer
The aether (or absolute space) is the primal rootless root of (1) potential consciousness (pure awareness, will) -- as well as of (2) noumenal spacetime-matter- energy (fundamental zero-point spin momentum)... This static "spinergy" is located everywhere in the Planck vacuum. While dimensionless, insubstantial, and timeless it could be considered as the smallest physical "quanta". Some physicists call this the "axion" or the "tachyon", whose abstract motion or fundamental non linear spin velocity (on infinite potential spherical axes) would necessarily rotate (without inhibitory frictional forces) *infinitely* faster than the linear velocity of ordinary sidereal light.
It follows that, at the primal beginning, all spacetime electro-gravitational fields would have to emanate holographically and ubiquitously from a unique triple axis spin-momentum of the primal aether "singularity". This series of fractally involved spherical fields on each axis, spiral vortically woven (in a Mobius-klein topology, like bubbles within bubbles within bubbles) from a dual opposite 1-dimensional ray or positive and negative gravitational ray or "superstring" of primal zero-point G-force "spinergy" -- that descends, in three fractal iterations (1st, 2nd and 3rd logos), from near infinite frequency-energy spectrum phase order, to near zero electromagnetic frequency phase order (representing our metric material spacetime universe).
At the 3rd Logos, this initially supersymmetric spherical spacetime field on the fourth lowest frequency-energy phase order, breaks symmetry at each of its ubiquitous zero-points, to precipitate out all the fundamental quantum particles as standing waves -- each, at a different frequency-mass- energy -- that, ultimately, coalesces and combines into atoms, molecules and all the gross forms of light and dark matter-energy in the universe. Note that light matter-energy fields form on only one overall cosmic field axis (Z) -- while dark matter-energy fields form on the other two axes (X,Y) -- with consciousness (awareness, will, qualia, etc.) remaining the quality of the ubiquitous zero-point of pure absolute space at the center of every hyperspace and metric spacetime ZPE field (ZPF) that are holographically and coenergetically connected to each other.
This descending order fractal configuration of overall spacetime, would indicate that each corresponding fractally involved hyperspace field has its own individual light frequency spectrum, and that when sidereal light photons on the lower order ponderable material level reach their maximum velocity (e.g., at the edge of the event horizon of a black hole) they do not return to the aether, but transform into the next higher frequency energy phase order (Astral field) at a correspondingly higher maximum velocity, possibly c^2 (to c^6 *by the time its accumulated quantal energy, along with its informational modulations, arrives at the pure aether singularity of the black hole). It's there at its center of spinergy, acting like a BEC, that all cosmic, as well as each individual's non contradictory, conscious experience is more or less permanently stored. This accounts for species instinctive and individual long term memory storage.
Thus, the light we see, as reconstructed holographic images in our mind-memory fields, are within the frequency spectrum of those higher order astral-mental fields. It follows that all sensory information, after electrochemical processing (NCC) in the brain, is carried by, stored, and transmitted directly to zero-point consciousness --
through those higher order mind-memory fields -- by electrodynamic phase conjugate adaptive resonance processes. In constructing a valid and consistent, all inclusive theory of consciousness -- we must first ask and satisfactorily answer the following questions:.. even if only as a theoretical hypothesis of a fundamental cosmogenetic reality that explains them all.
1. What is the necessary condition of individual consciousness (in terms of position, motion, location, etc) , that enables it to perceive, as an instantaneous gestalt, a 3-D composite image of the outer world -- which appears to be an orderly matrix of infinitesimal adjacent pixels (that are apparently detected by individual retinal cells) each transforming and transmitting different qualities of color, tone, shade, etc.?
2. If the visual image were a physical entity in our brain, with each pixel determined by a single neuron or group of neurons -- why does the overall image remain stationary when we turn our head? And, if the fixed image was a direct perception of the outer world, why is the observing consciousness, no matter where located in physical space, always at the exact center of the total space observed?
3. What is the nature of the *medium* that carries the visual information in the mind -- that is capable of being perceived (viewed) from a single point of observation in the center of the head -- as if it were projected on infinite inside surfaces of a spherical globe of apparently infinite radius -- which, with one eye only, appears as a single 2-d surface, and with both eyes open, is seen in full 3-d depth perception? How do we explain the mechanisms of stereo-binocular vision.
4. What is the form of that informational data, prior to its being perceived as an apparent holographic image in the visual field of the mind?
5. What are the characteristics of the final assembled image produced by the brain, and how is it transformed into an image inside the mind field as the appropriate data capable of being detected, reconstructed holographically, and perceived by the single point of view in the center of our head?
6. Since what we see is a true 3-D holographic image -- what is the structural nature (form) of the encoded visual information (hologram) in the mind field.
7. What must be the condition or state of the singular point of perception, so as to be able to detect and discriminate between the particular chroma, hue, tint, shade, etc. frequency value of each individual pixel, and convert that information into a subjective experience centered on that point?
8. How can all sentient organisms, equipped with functional optical transducer organs, perceive their surrounding world and intuitively know and control their exact bodily location and orientation in 3-D space -- with or without a complex brain structure or neural system?
9. Why do we feel the experience of consciousness at the point of sensory impression, and simultaneously at our global self consciousness -- while being able to know the exact 3-D geometric coordinate location point of such sensory impression, without any thought or explainable calculation? Until all those questions (among others too numerous to mention is this email) are answered, no logical scientific theory of consciousness -- which resolves all the hard problems of explaining the experience (qualia) of consciousness, brain-mind binding, non locality, entanglement of local and global awareness, intentional and autonomic/reflexive action of will, as well as all psi phenomena -- can ever be complete and all inclusive.
Apparently, all the conventional approaches to these questions based on the reductive materialist assumptions of conventional physics and its "scientific method" -- which don't even understand the cause and mechanisms of entanglement, the way the DNA actually works, or how structural and memory information is encoded, stored, transmitted, materialized or perceived -- has failed to give us any logically consistent theory of consciousness, and its interconnection (i.e., mechanisms) linking it with mind, memory, brain, body, world, universe, etc.
This new paradigm would start with the reasonable fundamental propositions (some already presumed as aspects of advanced physics) that:
(1) Unconditioned pre-cosmic space is the ground of all reality; (
2) Such absolute (0°K) space is inherently potentially conscious as well as potentially infinitely energetic -- in the form of abstract cyclic motion or zero-point angular spin momentum;
(3) Such zero-points of both consciousness and infinite potential mass-energy, located everywhere in total cosmic space-time, necessarily contains the infinite structural information of the entire cosmos -- which could, logically, only be the conserved memory of all previous cyclic manifestations and evolutions of the cosmos.
Refer to the holographic, Astro Biological Coenergetic (ABC) holographic, fractal involved field theory of cosmogenesis, mind and consciousness: http://knol. google.com/ k/how-it- all-began#
Consciousness exploration paper http://www.jcer. com/index. php/jcj/article/ view/85 (PDF) http://leonmaurer. tripod.com/ (web reprint) -- Leon Maurer
UNCONDITIONED CONSCIOUSNESS
Is Consciousness more than Awareness that is involved in a relation with Itself? The same fundamental existential substance undergirds experience regardless of whether or not it is involved in a relation with Itself, and regardless of how many expressions of it arise and decay. Does that mean uncaused existence is intrinsically self-aware, an inseparable part of created relative existence? Does death give life its mortal meaning?
Evidence is mounting that consciousness and matter have a primal relationship. There is only one quality of fundamental reality that is unpredictable and indeterminate. And that is phenomenally subjective consciousness itself. Our whole problem in understanding consciousness, is the separation of our human consciousness from that cosmic consciousness – which stands alone, independent of ALL phenomenal matter-energy – while its individual rays (our selves) link up with the physical matter-energy form that each of us temporarily lives in.
But, a photon particle, (which has been demonstrated to be a standing wave of pure energy or space in vibratory motion) remains a photon no matter what direction or velocity it is moving in. It's only indeterminacy is when an outside conscious entity attempts to observe its velocity and momentum simultaneously. However, if it was unpredictable as it exists in itself, we could never observe and discriminate a particular color frequency transmitted by it. And there would be no way that we could each observe a photograph or a visual scene identically. Imagine if everyone saw a motion picture, where each light or sound pixel was indeterminate as to its frequency governing chroma, hue, tone, shade, amplitude, modulation, etc. If light or sound energies, or the wave patterned modulated information they carry, were unpredictable in themselves – how could we communicate with each other, think, imagine, enjoy music, appreciate art and nature, survive, etc.?
Therefore, its only our conscious choices, based on our individual knowledge or different ideas, emotions, etc. that are unpredictable by others (and most times, even ourselves;-) . It follows that it's only the future of any complex living system that is unpredictable – due solely to the unpredictability of the individual centers of consciousness in each of its parts... While the individual energies of their forms, at their fundamental energy levels, are entirely predictable – since they unconsciously (without freewill) can only do their thing, governed by the fundamental laws of physics. If we understand all that, there can be no such thing as "conscious energy".
There can only be individual consciousness itself that, as the aware observer of subjective experience and willful responder, can guide the energetic actions of the form it inhabits. But, the energies themselves, while transformable from one phase to another is forever determinable in accord with the fundamental laws of nature that govern them. This was the basis of the argument that Einstein had with Bohr and Heisenberg, when he disagreed with indeterminacy theory and the standard Copenhagen quantum "probability" model by saying that "God doesn't play dice". By God, he meant the cosmic consciousness coupled with its infinite intelligence and the fundamental laws that govern ALL energies and their dynamics in any relative frame of reference.
Where those laws come from and how they function in holonomically (word coined by Karl Pribram) linking consciousness with mind, memory, brain, body senses, etc., is fully explained in my ABC model of fundamental reality – beginning with cosmogenesis and its initial involutional fractal geometry. Incidentally, this theoretical model was personally confirmed by direct experience using an advanced form of inner observation of my own conscious mind, and ultimately cosmic mind itself, coupled with experiments related to observation of the universal hologram from various zero-points of view in 3-space. Proving that all universal structural information converges in and is radiated from every zero-point center of unconditioned consciousness located everywhere and everywhen in total space and time. Leon Maurer http://leonmaurer. tripod.com/ http://knol. google.com/ k/how-it- all-began# http://tinyurl. com/ABC-prelim- notes
The initial, all encompassing spacetime field inflates to infinite diameter at near infinite frequency at the first moment of cosmogenesis. It is the source of all subsequent electromagnetic and gravitational fields and forms of mass-energy in our universe. Naturally, this initial field is triune, like two bubbles within a surrounding bubble -- since the first 1-d ray of energy emanated from the spin momentum (or what I call "spinergy" or G-force) of the singularity, must follow a continuously repeating three cycle mobius-Klein, spiral vortex, triple loop path, like a figure eight inside a circle. Obviously, no circular energy field matrix can exist without its lines or rays (strings) of force being directly connected to its initial spin momentum center of origin or ZPE. Vide, the magnetic field of the Earth, the Sun, and that surrounding any magnetized object or particle.
Therefore, this cyclic 2-d triple loop path, as it rotates laterally around its zero-point of origin, forms the first fractal involved hyperspherical spacetime field that carries all the structural and experiential information (retained from its previous cycle of phenomenal existence) as holographic wave interference patterns on its outer surface... Which information is resonant with its twin harmonic inner fields and with all their subsequent harmonic fractal involutions -- as their inner fields, analogously, cyclicly radiates outward and inward around their own zero-pont centers, ad infinitum. Picture this in symbolic cross section diagram at:
http://leonmaurer. info/ABCimages/ Cyclic-paths- cosmogenesis. jpg
Since, the frequencies of this initial and all subsequent inner fractal harmonic spherical standing waves is determined by the cyclic rate of the outward or positive wave form coupled with the inward or negative wave form -- which, in continued repetition in each 3 cycle moment to moment of relative time at each descending frequency phase level, and since there can be only one energy source throughout total spacetime... Therefore, it seems obvious that the outward or expanding wave form is the source of the electrodynamic fields, and the inward compressive wave form is the source of the gravitational field... And, that the entire cycle of inward outward change of the total field from positive to negative, is the basis of relative time as well as relative velocity at each frequency phase level... While also determining the linear dimension or radius of each spherical standing wave... Beginning with the initial cosmic spacetime field down to the smallest particle next to the absolute zero point's abstract nonlinear motion or infinite angular spin momentum itself.
Note that each spherical particle-wave, at its fundamental frequency, including its spin momentum source, would have a finite metric mass-energy relative to the infinite potential mass-energy at its ZP center.
Since this fractal harmonic involution of the initial cosmic standing wave continues reaching down to the most fundamental particle-standing wave field surrounding the zero-point in the center of the Planck volume... And, continues on down through their inner harmonics until the zero-point spin momentum itself -- still carrying the interference patterned information of the total cosmos on their resonant surfaces... Therefore, since all cosmic information is contained in each absolute zero-point, our 4th lowest frequency phase order physical universe would appear to be an infinitely composite hologram -- with resolutions stepping down, fractally, between zero and infinite in in each successive analogous and corresponding frequency phase order (i.e., spiritual, mental, astral, physical).
However, the amount and resolution of information carried by each descending field is determined by the natural frequency of the field itself -- which varies in descending phase orders. Therefore, the information carried by the initial cosmic field is infinite... While the information of its fractal involved fields are relatively finite on each descending frequency phase order. Thus, each particle-standing wave's physical harmonic carries only the information pertaining to its own particular structure and properties.
Also, it's apparent that the information carried by such field's outer spherical surface is equivalent to the event barrier of the supposed black holes on the cosmological level -- which are also "things" -- like the possible "dark matter-energy fields" spinning on the two axes of the overall cosmos that are perpendicular to the spin axis of the seven fold light matter-energy fields we are made out of and experience.. . But, even then, if we consider only our physical/material brain, body, senses, etc., we materially exist only on a small, lower frequency phase order part of the 4th lower physical phase order of the total cosmos... Yet our highest order spiritual field reaches its furthest boundary.
That said, the only thing in the cosmos that is "no thing" (in physical terms) is the pure unconditioned consciousness of the zero-point of the thing I call (zero-point absolute space's) "spin momentum" -- that Einstein called the "singularity" and current physics calls, "ZPE" -- which is located everywhere in metric spacetime.
Apparently, the only place that consciousness can be -- considering that, in order to detect, distinguish and discriminate between the finest frequency modulations on any of the surrounding fields of mind, memory-etc. it must be absolutely stationary relative to the vibrating field -- is in the eternally non moving zero-point center of the "singularity" of absolute space itself.
Also, where else could it be located in order to serve as a perfectly static visual reference point (relative to the entire body) -- which can enable us to coordinate the location of any part of our body with the holographic brain field image controlling the body movements and positions, relative to the image of the outer world seen in our mind field from a singular point in the center of our head?
Obviously, then, the processes used by the mind and brain to control and coordinate such instantaneous motional positions in conjunction with thought and intention, is entirely analog, based on phase conjugate adaptive resonance between interpenetrating fractally harmonic electromagnetic fields... All, originating from the same entangled zero-point sources.
Apparently, that process of spherical geometric location using triangulation relative to a fixed point of reference, is almost similar to the GPS system. The only difference is the relative instantaneousness of resonance between coadunate but not consubstantial EM fields directly linked to conscious awareness, vs. long distance projection, reflection, and digital processing of radio transmissions of information, that still has to be indirectly relayed and interpreted before we can consciously make use of it. Thus, showing us that nature, obeying Occam's razor to the letter, is far simpler and more efficient than any of our man-made technological systems can ever be.
ALL it takes is intuitive imagination and thought experiments, to put all these apparent mysteries into a comprehensive order that the awakened mind can grasp... Proving to each of us who can comprehend the total reality as a holographic gestalt, that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than (most reductive scientists, physicalists, or other eliminative materialists) can dream of in their philosophies. ;-)
After doing that intuitive trip for so many years -- every time I look at any material object in the universe, along with the reflection from their surfaces, I can also see the infinite conscious zero-points at the origin of all their particle standing wave fields -- and realize that I am seeing it all from the zero-point of my visual awareness in the center of my overall brain field, through its harmonic higher order physical mind-memory fields... And that this point is entangled with my true individual self consciousness located in the center of my overall body field or aura. This assures me that I am not my brain-body, or even my mind and soul -- but am truly that absolute zero-point of cosmic consciousness itself.
Is Consciousness more than Awareness that is involved in a relation with Itself? The same fundamental existential substance undergirds experience regardless of whether or not it is involved in a relation with Itself, and regardless of how many expressions of it arise and decay. Does that mean uncaused existence is intrinsically self-aware, an inseparable part of created relative existence? Does death give life its mortal meaning?
Evidence is mounting that consciousness and matter have a primal relationship. There is only one quality of fundamental reality that is unpredictable and indeterminate. And that is phenomenally subjective consciousness itself. Our whole problem in understanding consciousness, is the separation of our human consciousness from that cosmic consciousness – which stands alone, independent of ALL phenomenal matter-energy – while its individual rays (our selves) link up with the physical matter-energy form that each of us temporarily lives in.
But, a photon particle, (which has been demonstrated to be a standing wave of pure energy or space in vibratory motion) remains a photon no matter what direction or velocity it is moving in. It's only indeterminacy is when an outside conscious entity attempts to observe its velocity and momentum simultaneously. However, if it was unpredictable as it exists in itself, we could never observe and discriminate a particular color frequency transmitted by it. And there would be no way that we could each observe a photograph or a visual scene identically. Imagine if everyone saw a motion picture, where each light or sound pixel was indeterminate as to its frequency governing chroma, hue, tone, shade, amplitude, modulation, etc. If light or sound energies, or the wave patterned modulated information they carry, were unpredictable in themselves – how could we communicate with each other, think, imagine, enjoy music, appreciate art and nature, survive, etc.?
Therefore, its only our conscious choices, based on our individual knowledge or different ideas, emotions, etc. that are unpredictable by others (and most times, even ourselves;-) . It follows that it's only the future of any complex living system that is unpredictable – due solely to the unpredictability of the individual centers of consciousness in each of its parts... While the individual energies of their forms, at their fundamental energy levels, are entirely predictable – since they unconsciously (without freewill) can only do their thing, governed by the fundamental laws of physics. If we understand all that, there can be no such thing as "conscious energy".
There can only be individual consciousness itself that, as the aware observer of subjective experience and willful responder, can guide the energetic actions of the form it inhabits. But, the energies themselves, while transformable from one phase to another is forever determinable in accord with the fundamental laws of nature that govern them. This was the basis of the argument that Einstein had with Bohr and Heisenberg, when he disagreed with indeterminacy theory and the standard Copenhagen quantum "probability" model by saying that "God doesn't play dice". By God, he meant the cosmic consciousness coupled with its infinite intelligence and the fundamental laws that govern ALL energies and their dynamics in any relative frame of reference.
Where those laws come from and how they function in holonomically (word coined by Karl Pribram) linking consciousness with mind, memory, brain, body senses, etc., is fully explained in my ABC model of fundamental reality – beginning with cosmogenesis and its initial involutional fractal geometry. Incidentally, this theoretical model was personally confirmed by direct experience using an advanced form of inner observation of my own conscious mind, and ultimately cosmic mind itself, coupled with experiments related to observation of the universal hologram from various zero-points of view in 3-space. Proving that all universal structural information converges in and is radiated from every zero-point center of unconditioned consciousness located everywhere and everywhen in total space and time. Leon Maurer http://leonmaurer. tripod.com/ http://knol. google.com/ k/how-it- all-began# http://tinyurl. com/ABC-prelim- notes
The initial, all encompassing spacetime field inflates to infinite diameter at near infinite frequency at the first moment of cosmogenesis. It is the source of all subsequent electromagnetic and gravitational fields and forms of mass-energy in our universe. Naturally, this initial field is triune, like two bubbles within a surrounding bubble -- since the first 1-d ray of energy emanated from the spin momentum (or what I call "spinergy" or G-force) of the singularity, must follow a continuously repeating three cycle mobius-Klein, spiral vortex, triple loop path, like a figure eight inside a circle. Obviously, no circular energy field matrix can exist without its lines or rays (strings) of force being directly connected to its initial spin momentum center of origin or ZPE. Vide, the magnetic field of the Earth, the Sun, and that surrounding any magnetized object or particle.
Therefore, this cyclic 2-d triple loop path, as it rotates laterally around its zero-point of origin, forms the first fractal involved hyperspherical spacetime field that carries all the structural and experiential information (retained from its previous cycle of phenomenal existence) as holographic wave interference patterns on its outer surface... Which information is resonant with its twin harmonic inner fields and with all their subsequent harmonic fractal involutions -- as their inner fields, analogously, cyclicly radiates outward and inward around their own zero-pont centers, ad infinitum. Picture this in symbolic cross section diagram at:
http://leonmaurer. info/ABCimages/ Cyclic-paths- cosmogenesis. jpg
Since, the frequencies of this initial and all subsequent inner fractal harmonic spherical standing waves is determined by the cyclic rate of the outward or positive wave form coupled with the inward or negative wave form -- which, in continued repetition in each 3 cycle moment to moment of relative time at each descending frequency phase level, and since there can be only one energy source throughout total spacetime... Therefore, it seems obvious that the outward or expanding wave form is the source of the electrodynamic fields, and the inward compressive wave form is the source of the gravitational field... And, that the entire cycle of inward outward change of the total field from positive to negative, is the basis of relative time as well as relative velocity at each frequency phase level... While also determining the linear dimension or radius of each spherical standing wave... Beginning with the initial cosmic spacetime field down to the smallest particle next to the absolute zero point's abstract nonlinear motion or infinite angular spin momentum itself.
Note that each spherical particle-wave, at its fundamental frequency, including its spin momentum source, would have a finite metric mass-energy relative to the infinite potential mass-energy at its ZP center.
Since this fractal harmonic involution of the initial cosmic standing wave continues reaching down to the most fundamental particle-standing wave field surrounding the zero-point in the center of the Planck volume... And, continues on down through their inner harmonics until the zero-point spin momentum itself -- still carrying the interference patterned information of the total cosmos on their resonant surfaces... Therefore, since all cosmic information is contained in each absolute zero-point, our 4th lowest frequency phase order physical universe would appear to be an infinitely composite hologram -- with resolutions stepping down, fractally, between zero and infinite in in each successive analogous and corresponding frequency phase order (i.e., spiritual, mental, astral, physical).
However, the amount and resolution of information carried by each descending field is determined by the natural frequency of the field itself -- which varies in descending phase orders. Therefore, the information carried by the initial cosmic field is infinite... While the information of its fractal involved fields are relatively finite on each descending frequency phase order. Thus, each particle-standing wave's physical harmonic carries only the information pertaining to its own particular structure and properties.
Also, it's apparent that the information carried by such field's outer spherical surface is equivalent to the event barrier of the supposed black holes on the cosmological level -- which are also "things" -- like the possible "dark matter-energy fields" spinning on the two axes of the overall cosmos that are perpendicular to the spin axis of the seven fold light matter-energy fields we are made out of and experience.. . But, even then, if we consider only our physical/material brain, body, senses, etc., we materially exist only on a small, lower frequency phase order part of the 4th lower physical phase order of the total cosmos... Yet our highest order spiritual field reaches its furthest boundary.
That said, the only thing in the cosmos that is "no thing" (in physical terms) is the pure unconditioned consciousness of the zero-point of the thing I call (zero-point absolute space's) "spin momentum" -- that Einstein called the "singularity" and current physics calls, "ZPE" -- which is located everywhere in metric spacetime.
Apparently, the only place that consciousness can be -- considering that, in order to detect, distinguish and discriminate between the finest frequency modulations on any of the surrounding fields of mind, memory-etc. it must be absolutely stationary relative to the vibrating field -- is in the eternally non moving zero-point center of the "singularity" of absolute space itself.
Also, where else could it be located in order to serve as a perfectly static visual reference point (relative to the entire body) -- which can enable us to coordinate the location of any part of our body with the holographic brain field image controlling the body movements and positions, relative to the image of the outer world seen in our mind field from a singular point in the center of our head?
Obviously, then, the processes used by the mind and brain to control and coordinate such instantaneous motional positions in conjunction with thought and intention, is entirely analog, based on phase conjugate adaptive resonance between interpenetrating fractally harmonic electromagnetic fields... All, originating from the same entangled zero-point sources.
Apparently, that process of spherical geometric location using triangulation relative to a fixed point of reference, is almost similar to the GPS system. The only difference is the relative instantaneousness of resonance between coadunate but not consubstantial EM fields directly linked to conscious awareness, vs. long distance projection, reflection, and digital processing of radio transmissions of information, that still has to be indirectly relayed and interpreted before we can consciously make use of it. Thus, showing us that nature, obeying Occam's razor to the letter, is far simpler and more efficient than any of our man-made technological systems can ever be.
ALL it takes is intuitive imagination and thought experiments, to put all these apparent mysteries into a comprehensive order that the awakened mind can grasp... Proving to each of us who can comprehend the total reality as a holographic gestalt, that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than (most reductive scientists, physicalists, or other eliminative materialists) can dream of in their philosophies. ;-)
After doing that intuitive trip for so many years -- every time I look at any material object in the universe, along with the reflection from their surfaces, I can also see the infinite conscious zero-points at the origin of all their particle standing wave fields -- and realize that I am seeing it all from the zero-point of my visual awareness in the center of my overall brain field, through its harmonic higher order physical mind-memory fields... And that this point is entangled with my true individual self consciousness located in the center of my overall body field or aura. This assures me that I am not my brain-body, or even my mind and soul -- but am truly that absolute zero-point of cosmic consciousness itself.
All is motion, without and within. There is no force field in the vacuum, as such. But we can think of it as "virtual," rather than "observable." A virtual electric force field exists in the vacuum, comprised of accelerating virtual masses, but not an observable field. This is beyond the physical, and into the metaphysical domain. Observable particles can exist only in a physical medium. The ambient vacuum stress (potential) has a hidden internal wave structure. Its synergetic compressive stress reacts internally against atoms with their inner and outer parts. Reaction from the nucleus induces a tensile stress, which can be decomposed into opposing forces.
The vacuum may become the central ingredient of 21st-century physics. It is technically metaphysical -- beyond the realm of physics because it is virtual, rather than manifest. These causeless fluctuations in energy create force fields that emerge from nowhere. Particles flit in and out of existence at the threshold of matter. Virtual subatomic particles pop out of nothing and instantaneously disappear. Therefore, so-called "empty" space is not empty at all, but a seething sea of activity that pervades the entire Universe.
The vacuum "sea" is an inexhaustible reservoir of energy. Its permanent positive energy density is synergetically balanced by a negative pressure (a tension). This relates directly to the newest concepts about cosmic inflation in cosmology. Inflation predicts that the density of mass-energy in the Universe is right on the borderline between expansion and collapse. Vacuum energy can account for some of the missing mass predicted for the Universe.
The rest is accounted for through inertia. Inertia is generated by acceleration through the vacuum. Fluctuations in the vacuum give rise to a magnetic field through which all objects move. As they accelerate, each particle feels the grip of this magnetic field, and that resistance is inertia. The larger the object, the more inertia. By altering the vacuum state, it could be possible to alter the inertia of objects. This opens a host of engineering possibilities.
The vacuum plays a key role in structuring the Universe. Astrophysicists says that the vacuum accelerates charged particles, sweeping them up to form concentrations of matter surrounded by vast cosmic voids. Philosophers were right: Nature does abhor a vacuum. Even empty space is seething with activity. It is the vacuum energy fluctuations which cause "white noise" in electronic circuits, and limits the level to which signals can be amplified. Might this be the metaphysical basis of the audible life stream, the Sound, the Word in mysticism?
In an interview with Megabrain Report (1991), Tom Bearden made interesting comments on the collective unconscious:
"Jung's collective unconscious, for example, consists of archetypal infolded EM structures acting in common in an overall bio-quantum-potential for the entire species. Gaia, the living earth/biosphere, really does scientifically exist as a common bio-quantum-potential with infolded living EM structures for the entire earth biosphere. The bio-potential in a single body is an overall quantum potential that links and joins all the atoms and cells of the body. The "spirit" of the biosystem, if you will, is its "living biopotential"--its living quantum potential. We already know that a potential is everywhere nonzero all the way out to infinity. So the spirit of the living system is--in the virtual state--everywhere in the universe--and everywhen as well. It's all a giant hologram, not only in space, but in spacetime."
The entire universe is everywhere alive, with everything. Note that if you simply examine the "ghost forms" requirement of quantum mechanics, this conclusion is inescapable. All life is eternal. Nothing is ever lost.
A thought or thoughtform is just a specific, dynamic Whittaker structure in the hidden EM channels of the biopotential. Thoughts and thoughtforms are real. They are virtual spatially, but they occupy one "real" spacetime dimension, time. Physics and metaphysics share one common, nonobservable dimension: time. So long as physics continues to have to have time, which is nonobservable a priori, then it also must contain everything that is a structure or action in time.
With Whittaker EM engineering, you can conceivably "make" thoughtforms to order, and input them directly into the mind and longterm memory. If we view the conscious mind as a special serial computer, we have now found where the software is--for mind, longterm memory, and personality. As scalar EM technology develops, we will have direct access to the software, so to speak, for the very first time. And we will be able to engineer it at will."
The vacuum may become the central ingredient of 21st-century physics. It is technically metaphysical -- beyond the realm of physics because it is virtual, rather than manifest. These causeless fluctuations in energy create force fields that emerge from nowhere. Particles flit in and out of existence at the threshold of matter. Virtual subatomic particles pop out of nothing and instantaneously disappear. Therefore, so-called "empty" space is not empty at all, but a seething sea of activity that pervades the entire Universe.
The vacuum "sea" is an inexhaustible reservoir of energy. Its permanent positive energy density is synergetically balanced by a negative pressure (a tension). This relates directly to the newest concepts about cosmic inflation in cosmology. Inflation predicts that the density of mass-energy in the Universe is right on the borderline between expansion and collapse. Vacuum energy can account for some of the missing mass predicted for the Universe.
The rest is accounted for through inertia. Inertia is generated by acceleration through the vacuum. Fluctuations in the vacuum give rise to a magnetic field through which all objects move. As they accelerate, each particle feels the grip of this magnetic field, and that resistance is inertia. The larger the object, the more inertia. By altering the vacuum state, it could be possible to alter the inertia of objects. This opens a host of engineering possibilities.
The vacuum plays a key role in structuring the Universe. Astrophysicists says that the vacuum accelerates charged particles, sweeping them up to form concentrations of matter surrounded by vast cosmic voids. Philosophers were right: Nature does abhor a vacuum. Even empty space is seething with activity. It is the vacuum energy fluctuations which cause "white noise" in electronic circuits, and limits the level to which signals can be amplified. Might this be the metaphysical basis of the audible life stream, the Sound, the Word in mysticism?
In an interview with Megabrain Report (1991), Tom Bearden made interesting comments on the collective unconscious:
"Jung's collective unconscious, for example, consists of archetypal infolded EM structures acting in common in an overall bio-quantum-potential for the entire species. Gaia, the living earth/biosphere, really does scientifically exist as a common bio-quantum-potential with infolded living EM structures for the entire earth biosphere. The bio-potential in a single body is an overall quantum potential that links and joins all the atoms and cells of the body. The "spirit" of the biosystem, if you will, is its "living biopotential"--its living quantum potential. We already know that a potential is everywhere nonzero all the way out to infinity. So the spirit of the living system is--in the virtual state--everywhere in the universe--and everywhen as well. It's all a giant hologram, not only in space, but in spacetime."
The entire universe is everywhere alive, with everything. Note that if you simply examine the "ghost forms" requirement of quantum mechanics, this conclusion is inescapable. All life is eternal. Nothing is ever lost.
A thought or thoughtform is just a specific, dynamic Whittaker structure in the hidden EM channels of the biopotential. Thoughts and thoughtforms are real. They are virtual spatially, but they occupy one "real" spacetime dimension, time. Physics and metaphysics share one common, nonobservable dimension: time. So long as physics continues to have to have time, which is nonobservable a priori, then it also must contain everything that is a structure or action in time.
With Whittaker EM engineering, you can conceivably "make" thoughtforms to order, and input them directly into the mind and longterm memory. If we view the conscious mind as a special serial computer, we have now found where the software is--for mind, longterm memory, and personality. As scalar EM technology develops, we will have direct access to the software, so to speak, for the very first time. And we will be able to engineer it at will."