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..:: The Observer VII
/ The Light ::..
By
Alan Schneider
The latest essay
addressed the question of immortality in several of its aspects, but
what remains to be considered is the spiritual essence of who
we are, what we are, and what God and the manifest universe are,
as well. This final essay in The Observer Series will address
these issues of our human consciousness and condition.
If the root process of all
observation originates in the Jungian Self at the center of the
Psyche, and if we create the world through observing it into
manifestation as does the Logos which I have equated with that Self
essentially a process of co-creation in partnership with God then
what is the ultimate and final expression of sentient presence
in the universe? What is the universal carrier of observation,
information, and intelligence? I believe this mechanism, which serves
as the essence of all expression, is radiant energy predominantly
visible light.
The Solar Philosopher
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov maintained in one of his many books,
Light is a Living Spirit, that light was the essence of Creation.
In this case, he was referring to the visible light spectrum, and
postulated in that work that the seven prismatic colors that compose
visible light are the symbol of man, and human consciousness thereby.
If we take this analogy a step further, extending the definition of
light to include the full radiant energy spectrum known to modern
science, a number of fascinating possibilities emerge into our
observational field.
In a previous series of essays, entitled Evidence I, II, and III, I noted
the curious behavior of a small radio frequency signal detector, in that
it seemed to consistently register that type of signal emitting from the
human body at, or very near, the Astral locations of the Chakras, and
suggested that it had a secondary application as a Kundalini
detector, frequently noting the incredible responses of my friend Jenna,
a very high spiritual person. Radio frequency emissions are a part of
the radiant energy spectrum, occurring at lower frequencies and longer
wave lengths than visible light. I suggested in these essays that the
possibility existed that the detector may have been registering in the
infrared (thermal) emission region, immediately below the radio
frequency bandwidths, in response to increases of heat emission from the
physical endocrine glands known to be associated on the Physical
Plane with the Chakras located in the Astral Body on the Astral Plane.
This increase in glandular heat emission was presumably associated with
enhanced Kundalini activity in the Chakras, and measured by the
detector. I suspect that Omraam was essentially correct in his
assertions about light energy, with the caveat that he did not take the
principle far enough to include the entire radiant energy spectrum as
the Divine propagation system.
In my own experience, when I
gazed out over the surface of the lake outside my window on that
Christmas morning, so temporally long ago, but still etched into my
consciousness with crystal clarity today, I seemed to experience a
series of progressively deeper altered states of awareness, in
increasing luminous intensity, culminating in the vision of the
Divine Lotus the Chakra Sahasrara brilliantly observed as a
radiant structure in my consciousness. I believe now that such
information, indeed all information, is encoded in visible light
transmissions originating locally at the Sun, and only requires the
attainment of sufficient levels of perception beyond those of the
senses and ego on the Physical Plane to be literally observed as
archetypal symbols manifest in the total Psyche of human experience.
Light and heat are two forms of radiant energy that the human organism
is well-equipped to detect on the Physical Plane, and evidently are
linked to vast storehouses of extended information once the psychic
deathtrap of the ego is overcome. We apparently do not need to resort
to active imagination or fantasies to know the archetypal symbols they
can be directly observed in deep meditation in broad daylight through
the correct spiritual methodology. Omraam called this method Sun
Gazing, or Solar Meditation, and has developed an extensive
retinue of applications using it to attain higher states of perception.
I have suggested a number of
possible approaches to this method myself, including the use of
sufficiently bright artificial, and also natural, light sources viewed
in reflection in a tray of agitated water to achieve attenuation
(reduction in intensity) of the light emitted from this type of source,
thus rendering it comfortably viewable by the observer for extended
periods of time without risk of ocular damage. Omraam suggests gazing
at the Sun at sunrise and sunset, through dark glasses or using the
closed fingers of one hand as an optical grating, but this is, in my
mind, is too restrictive to be useful as an extended observational
modality one needs to saturate the optical cortex of the brain
with neural input as I did to achieve the maximal effect of the
process.
The human receptor apparatus
unfortunately does not register adequately in the shorter wave lengths
of the radiant energy spectrum beyond visible light ultraviolet, soft
x-ray, hard x-ray, and cosmic rays. Who knows what information these
higher frequency radiant expressions may hold as observational
possibilities? Perhaps human beings will one day evolve to the level
that their senses may be capable of registering in these additional
regions, but, for now, we must work as efficiently as possible with what
we have predominantly utilizing visible light. Even this area opens
up tantalizing possibilities of observation. It is quite possible that
any visible observation of anything, even the most mundane
events, contains the same type of encoded archetypal information that I
have observed, if it can be experienced from the correct alternative
perspective with effective techniques of altered consciousness such as
chanting and meditation.
It can be argued that light
itself is the fundamental building block of creation. The activity of
almost all radiation detectors, such as the one I have noted in these
essays, depends on the impingement of photons of the radiation
in question on an element within the detector that then responds through
the release of electrons that can be used eventually (customarily
through additional amplification) to activate a display or other output
device. The electron is the key subatomic element active in the physical
manifestation of form in the universe, both in physics and chemistry
it essentially vibrates at a lower frequency than does the photon, which
accounts for the emission of residual trace radiation from most
detectors, customarily gamma rays that vanish as soon as they are
released from the detection reaction. If light is both the message and
the messenger of Creation, eventually assuming the dense form of matter
under conducive circumstances, then it is also the key factor in
observation and consciousness, enabling both, and expressing
both on all levels, including the archetypes, archetypal symbols, and
the Self. In this sense, light is the Soul of the universe, and a key
to the comprehension of immortality.
If we observe the world in the context of
the Physical Plane of Expression, we can literally only see what is
reflected from the multitude of surfaces present there the radiant
energy source, the Sun, is flooding the Solar system with much
radiation, some of it very harmful, and the volume of even the
relatively benign visible light is far too intense to observe for more
than an instant without ocular damage. Science tells us that the
physical nature of the Sun is that of an enhanced thermonuclear reaction
an enormous fusion bomb floating in space utilizing an extended, but
presumably not inexhaustible, fuel source of gigatons of internally
compressed hydrogen. This is the Suns material nature, but, what is
its spiritual nature?
The application of Chaos
Theory can perhaps once again yield some promising insights
regarding this question. The interior of the Sun cannot, of course, be
directly observed all that we have scientifically concluded regarding
its nature is the result of indirect measurement and inference based
upon its surface characteristics. This makes the interior of the Sun
an ideal Chaotic threshold phenomenon, existing beyond the capability of
direct observation, but evidently containing something, based
upon its external behavior. As we have noted in these essays, the
somethings of Chaos Theory are the strange attractors, and if we set
aside the surface science of physics for a moment and shift our
perspective to the intuitive science of metaphysics, we can address this
matter in an entirely different complexion. It is within the field of
metaphysics that the considerations of the observer, perception, and
consciousness attain their greatest significance, both as psychological
and spiritual phenomena. What might be the nature of the Solar strange
attractors, given this argument? What might be the variety of their
manifestation as they emerge into observational focus as radiant
energy? What does the light hold forth when observed through the
spiritual lens?
The Russian mystic Omraam clearly felt that
light was the embodiment of all spiritual manifestation, and I tend to
agree with him. In the sense of Chaos science, the spiritual nature of
the Sun is Universal Manifestation literally every archetypal
symbol is implicitly present in visible light, remaining only to be
segregated by human observers into the forms experienced on the Physical
Plane as reality. The Sun and the Self are functionally equivalent
expressions of the same principle active externally in the first
case, and internally in the second. As the origin and driver of all
manifestation in the solar system, the Sun created human consciousness
featuring an internal reflection of its action in the form of the Self
of this there can be no doubt. We are the conscious culmination of
evolution on Earth, and probably in the solar system. The remaining
question is this what is the common principal behind the Sun, the
Light, and the Psyche?
If everything can be
conceived of as a derivation of radiant energy, then so ultimately must
the human body and sensory apparatus be. We ourselves are composed of
modified light waves in the physical sense, and electrical waves in the
psychological sense of neural impulses in the brain the former
comprising physical manifestation, and the latter mental manifestation,
occurring in the physical form of the brain. Referring once more to my
Christmas vision, the final observation that took place was comprised of
three phases an intense field of omnipresent white light, an emotional
sensation of pure, unconditional love, and a general perception of a
universal Presence causally associated with both. The Light of this
experience was directly observable, and seemed to be occurring within my
visual perception, while the Love was felt on an emotional level, but
not tangibly perceived. I cannot say on what level of perception or
observation the Presence was experienced, but I have since become
convinced that this was the Jungian Self of the Psyche. Once
again, what do all of these have in common Light, Love, the Self, and
Psyche?
Einstein was working at the
time of his death on what he had conceived of as a consummative theory
of existence the Unified Field Theory a scientific, mathematically
verifiable explanation of all levels of physical manifestation and
related activity in the universe. This work was never completed,
although a few portions of it have been conditionally verified through
scientific experimentation. This work has been additionally expanded
to so-called Theories of Everything in modern physics, including
M-theory eleven-dimensional cosmic string theory, and several others
with quantum state applications. Although based for the most part on
sound scientific and mathematical foundations, these theories remain
inferential, as opposed to experiential they rest upon what
is calculated, not what is directly observed. I know that I can see
light, feel love, and perceive the Self and Psyche
through meditation they can all be directly known in my experience,
this is the difference between the two modes.
All forces of any kind in the
universe, including psychological ones (perhaps particularly
psychological ones) proceed from a prior condition of motivation.
The motivators of physics acting on the Physical Plane are gravity,
electromagnetism, and nuclear force. The motivators of psychology are
instinct, libido, and archetypes (including the Self), all also acting
on the Physical Plane, and arguably on the Astral Plane. The motivators
of spirituality are the Kundalini, the Soul, and the Logos, conceptually
manifest on the sequence of Planes extending from the Astral, through
the Mental, Buddhic, Atmic, and Logoic. The predominant form of
electromagnetism is radiant energy expressed as quantum
photonic and associated wave field manifestation, including visible
light. The predominant archetypal symbol is the Self. Both are
chaotic threshold phenomena as yet irreducible to any other more
fundamental form.
The physical universe is
bound together by gravitational forces whatever the nature of material
is, at that level of manifestation it displays a mutual attraction to
itself, where energy electromagnetism does not. In other words,
when the stuff of existence slows down, it wants to stick together, and
when it speeds up, it wants to fly apart. When it flies apart
vigorously enough, it becomes radiant energy. Gravity is related to
electromagnetism the enormous mass of unobservable stuff inside the
Sun gravitationally sticking together so powerfully generates the
radiant electromagnetic emission at its surface. Thus, we can
tentatively say that gravity generates all of the other fundamental
forces, including the expression of visible light, which ultimately
produced the Self here on Earth through evolution. Why, then, do things
tend to adhere to each other at the vibrational velocities of material
form? How is this to be understood?
What if the original
turbulence at the instant of Creation was Love, albeit
occurring in a form, and on a level, far removed from conventional human
perception as it occurs on the Physical Plane? What if the force of
gravitation is the Universal Love of Creation that I felt in Samadhi,
manifest in physical expression on the Physical Plane of observation?
This possibility, this theory, offers an explanation of existence that
cannot be had through science alone, because science alone is not the
whole of human experience the Psyche is this is why no
strictly scientific explanation of existence will ever be
complete. I believe that Universal Love is the driver of all
manifestation, both internally and externally in a word, God is
Love is the ultimate Mantra of the Truth knowable and expressible
this is the final common denominator of existence.
Beyond Universal Love, there
remains the Self, expressed as the Presence, unobservable in any
other terms, and the Source of All the prima materia of all
existence and the Prime Observer as well. The Self is the ultimate
source of all observation and all observers of the
total observational possibility, originating from Itself
as Itself, and subsequently cascading down through the perceptual
sequence of the Chakras as the Buddha Mind, the Soul, the Thought Form,
the Astral Form, and finally the ego on the Physical Plane of
observation. This is the ultimate Truth of Consciousness God is
Love, expressed as God interacting with God resulting in God, or
perhaps the Self interacting with the Self resulting in the Self, if you
wish the two statements are tantamount to each other. If we can
contact and sustain observation at the level of the Self, Love, and
Light, we have attained the state of immortality by experiencing Unity
with the Divine Being, the ultimate goal of human existence and
evolution. Thereafter, the condition of incarnation becomes much less
intimidating for the observer!
This completes The Observer
Series of essays. I have tried herein to do what
possibly cannot be done give a written account of all of the
possibilities of experience of which the human being is capable, up to
and including a suggestion of the experience of immortality and how this
might be known in the total observational field of the Psyche. The
Psyche itself exists beyond the realm of observation on the Physical
Plane, extending far into dimensions of experience that transcend the
body and senses, and is itself immortal for that reason alone. Physical
existence as we know it is only one mode of perception of many more that
are possible, although it is a very insistent one that often demands our
attention. Always know this: who looks without sleeps, while who
looks within awakens follow your
Heart...
- With Love, Alan -
(Copyright 2009, by Alan Schneider)
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