Is it time for revision of vision?
David Kranz, Jan 2016
We all give meaning to events according the way we ‘see’ them.
How we see things determines what they ‘mean’ to us.
The things that mean most to us shape our view of the world.
It was ever thus.
Tribal ancestors, all around the world, saw stuff they liked, stuff they didn’t like, and stuff that mystified them.
If we focus on the ‘mystical’ we can see similarities and diversity in ancestral ‘meanings’.
Simply put, they all sensed the presence of powerful sources ‘out there’ that influenced what happened ‘down here’, but differed markedly on the nature of those sources.
There were demons to be avoided and gods to be heeded—nearly four thousand of them according to godchecker.com. (How about ‘Aluelop’, the Oceanic ‘Sky God’ who doubles up as ‘God of Hairdressers and Stylists’?)
Things change through time. Meanings change as circumstances change. Histories are recorded. Sacred texts evolve. Yet the fact remains that such meanings continue to be revised human constructs—best efforts at distilling the majesty of mystery—products of intuition, inspiration, and transforming experiences attributed to a revered god.
Such ‘meanings’ gel into ‘beliefs’. Beliefs give rise to ‘value systems’. Value systems drive behaviours and underpin cultural and social mores, political ideologies, and religious theologies—domains tainted with toxic instability where believers kill and die for the values they have chosen to live by!
What an apparent paradox— global dissonance derives from resonance with mystery!
Not so! The dissonance derives from disagreement about the nature of mystery. The disagreements will continue when fuelled by ‘faith-based’ beliefs that reject ‘evidence-based’ thoughts. Below is a classical example of such tension.
In the 1930’s, Teilhard de Chardin, palaeontologist and Jesuit Priest, drafted the book, The Phenomenon of Man, which described evolution ‘as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness’. His work was reviewed, rejected, and deemed to be heresy by Pope Pius X on the grounds that it ‘contradicted orthodoxy’. It was published, posthumously, in 1955 and later ‘ratified’ by Pope Benedict.
Chardin is just one distiller of evidence to glean new insight into the realm of mystery. His notion of ‘the unification of consciousness’ is paramount— imagine— all is one!
Here is the essence of the discord.
The evidence-based conclusion of ‘oneness’, clashes with the faith-based orthodoxy that perpetuates the age-old duality where God is ‘up there’ and we are ‘down here’. Liturgies reaffirm ‘separateness’ with each supplication for God to ‘abide with us’ and the like. The anthem, ’Come down O love divine’, implies that it’s God’s job to visit and do stuff for us. It’s folly to ask for what we ready have—an ever-present, seamless, intimacy with the consciousness of ‘all that is’ that enables us to do the very stuff we ask God to do. Our attachment to dualism tends to blinker our awareness of our actual creative capacities.
Life is enriched by simply becoming conscious of the ‘one-ness’ of consciousness.
A thumbnail of consciousness
Consciousness has been eternally present as ‘infinite possibilities’. From this latency it has been dubbed the ‘Ground of all being’—the source of creativity. The ‘Big Bang’ was an expression of just one of those possibilities. What we call ‘time’ was simultaneously another. That was around fourteen billion years ago. It was a meagre 50,000 years ago when humans started to describe the wonder around them—and their yearning to ‘know’ it. They sensed its mystery, felt connected to it, and gave it their meaning. We, in our time, are slowly becoming conscious of our seamless connection with consciousness. This gives us new insights to update our meaning. We are not finished yet!
To date, the biological sciences have embraced the dual separation of ‘body’ and ‘mind’ where ‘matter’ is fundamental and consciousness is simply an ‘epi-phenomenon of the brain’—stuff that our heads do that we become aware of. There is more to it than that.
The evidence suggests that the brain is fundamentally a ‘receiver’ that is always ‘on line’ to Cosmic Consciousness— even though we may be unaware of its presence in sleep, or when our ego is busy doing its job of monitoring our security, gratifying our desires, and, sadly, making sure that we prefer ‘separateness’ to ‘one-ness’.
We resonate with consciousness in our creative moments. We may call it intuition when the Cosmos is our teacher. We may call it inspiration when we ‘breathe in’ the wisdom of the Cosmos. We, in turn, ascribe its meaning. Ponder the significance, the one-ness, of this profound intuition from the 19th century poet, Percy Bysshe Shelly:
‘ I am the eye with which the Universe beholds itself and knows it is divine’.
The majesty of that statement tells us who we are—the observer and the observed— the created and the creator in a domain where the super-natural is ‘natural’, where all is one and one is all. Duality is reframed as Uni-verse—the oneness that melds distortions and closes gaps in inherited ‘meanings’. The one-ness that affirms the truth inherent in such meanings—however partial—in order to transcend them with a deeper truth from which to springboard into further mystery whose added depth will lure us to itself—until full resonance prevails.
Aspects of self—in pursuit of one-ness
As hinted three paragraphs above, our selfhood is divided. We have a capital ‘S’ Self that is resonant with consciousness—in harmony with nature—congruent with the wisdom, love, and grace of the Cosmos—at one with the universe—in the mind of God! The words may differ, but the meaning is the same. Then we have a small ‘s’ self whose name is ‘ego’. Ego has evolved as our protector. Ego fabricates ‘attack thoughts’ for us to fire at those who threaten our security—our view of the way things ‘are’. Our perpetual challenge is to capitalise Self—by quenching attacks consciously! An example might help.
When in Japan, I observed a worshiper at a Shinto shrine performing rituals that had little meaning for me. My first thought was, ‘how shallow is that’! My second thought was, I think that’s one of those ‘attack thoughts’ I’ve been reading about. Then I thought, ‘I wonder what would happen if I got into the ‘Mind of God’? (This is theological parlance for ‘experiencing resonance’— a skill that I was still seeking to acquire). I got into that frame of mind, and, through teary eyes, saw ‘my brother’ seeking, in his way, to connect with the same mystery that all faithful questers seek. I was joyful—until a Pommy tourist looked on, and said quite audibly, ‘What a load of bullshit’! I had another attack thought—towards him— but, again, I got back into the mind of God, and Bingo! I saw a brother who was defending what he saw as the ‘right and proper’ way to worship.
These were memorable incidents. It was a bit like flicking a switch to move from rejection to acceptance— from separation to one-ness—from theorising to experiencing. I felt an increment of unconditional love that neither judges nor condemns. It hit me that, logically, such love cannot condemn. It hit me that I had a few ‘meanings’ to revise!
The whole bit flowed from being in the ‘Mind of God’—an achievable ‘skill’. The skill steps are similar to those learned at a Matrix Energetics Conference where the task was to ‘go down into your heart’. Let me list my version of the Matrix steps and then offer evidence for my conclusion for the similarity.
The skill steps
- Imagine here is lift in your head.
- Choose to press the button labelled ‘Mind of God’— down three floors.
- Imagine passing each floor at, say, your chin, your upper chest, your heart.
- Breathe in, abdominally, slowly and fully as the lift doors open to each side.
- Imagine the doors extending further on both sides. Follow them in your mind.
- Feel the endlessness of oneness and tell yourself, ‘I am in the mind of God’.
I must say it took a bit of practice to ‘get there’. To test myself out, I asked my pendulum, ‘Am I in the mind of God?’
Let me explain ‘pendulum’, and the stunning response to my first successful ‘entry’.
A pendulum is simply a heavy bead, or similar object attached to a cotton thread, fishing line, or similar, about 15-20 cm long. As strange as it seems at first, it will swing in either a clockwise or anticlockwise circle to indicate a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ in response to a question. (Google ‘radiesthesia’ or ‘pendulum’ for more detail.)
For more that 30 years, when indicating a ‘yes’ to a specific question, my pendulum has always swung in a circular clockwise direction. However, when I asked ‘Am I in the mind of God’, it oscillated clockwise in a clearly elliptical formation—consistent with solar orbits! How’s that for cosmological integration?
Stunning stuff that can be replicated.
What does it mean?
In some company I was told that I was dabbling in ‘Satan’s business’. In other company there is consensus that one’s ‘enquiry’ is either ‘resonant with’ or ‘dissonant with’ the wisdom’s that permeates the universe as accessible ‘encoded energy’— as evidence of the ‘Divine signature’.
We give meaning to the way we see things!
Things look different through eyes that unify consciousness— where All is One.
The warlike fragmentations are illusions forged on the anvil of separateness.
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