Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Part 1 - Akasha

In the beginning was the Logos,

the Big Bang, the primordial Om.

Big Bang theory says that the physical universe

spiraled out of an unimaginably hot and dense

single point called a singularity - billions

of times smaller than the head of a pin.

It does not say why or how. The more mysterious

something is, the more we take for granted
that

we understand it.

It was thought that eventually gravity would
either

slow the expansion or contract the universe
in a big

crunch. However, images from the Hubble space
telescope

show that the universe's expansion seems to
be actually

accelerating. Expanding faster and faster
as it grows

out of the Big Bang. Somehow, there is more
mass in the

universe than physics predicted. To account
for the missing mass,

physicists now say that the universe consists
of only 4% atomic matter

or what we consider normal matter. 23% of
the universe is dark matter

and 73% is dark energy -what we previously
though of as empty space.

It is like an invisible nervous system that
runs throughout the universe

connecting all things.

The ancient Vedic teachers taught Nada Brahma
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the universe is vibration.

The vibratory field is at the root of all
true spiritual experience

and scientific investigation.

It is the same field of energy that saints,

Buddhas, yogis, mystics, priests, shamans
and seers have observed

by looking within themselves. It has been
called Akasha, the Primordial Om,

Indra's net of jewels, the music of the spheres,

and a thousand other names throughout history.

It is the common root of all religions,

and the link between our inner worlds and
our outer worlds.

In Mahayana Buddhism in the third century

they described a cosmology not unlike the
most advanced

physics of modern day.

Indra's net of jewels is a metaphor used to
describe

a much older Vedic teaching which illustrates
the way the fabric of the

universe is woven together.

Indra, the king of the gods, gave birth to

the sun and moves the winds and the waters.

Imagine a spider web that extends into all
dimensions.

The web is made up of dew drops

and every drop contains the reflection of
all the other

water drops, and in each reflected dew drop
you will find

the reflections of all the other droplets.

The entire web, in that reflection and so
on,

to infinity.

Indra's web could be described as a holographic
universe,

where even the smallest stream of light

contains the complete pattern of the whole.

The Serbian-American scientist, Nikola Tesla,

is sometimes referred to as the man who invented
the

20th century.

Tesla was responsible for discovering alternating
current

electricity and many other creations

that are now part of every-day life.

Because of his interest in the ancient Vedic
traditions,

Tesla was in a unique position to understand
science

through both an eastern and western model.

Like all great scientists, Tesla looked deeply

into the mysteries of the outer world,

but he also looked deeply within himself.

Like the ancient yogis, Tesla used the term
Akasha

to describe the etheric feel that extends
throughout all things.

Tesla studied with Swami Vivekananda, a yogi
who brought the ancient

teachings of India to the West.

In the Vedic teachings, Akasha is space itself;

the space that the other elements fill,

which exists simultaneously with vibration.

The two are inseparable. Akasha is yin to
prana's yang.

A modern concept that can help us to conceptualize
Akasha,

or the primary substance, is the idea of fractals.

It wasn't until the 1980s that advances in
computers

allowed us to actually visualize and reproduce
mathematically

the patterns in nature.

The term fractal was coined in 1980

by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot

who studied certain simple mathematic equations
that,

when they are repeated, produce an unending

array of changing mathematical or geometrical
forms

within a limited framework.

They are limited, but at the same time, infinite.

A fractal is a rough geometric shape

that can be split into parts, each of which
is approximately

a reduced sized copy of the whole pattern
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a property called self similarity.

Mandelbrot's fractals have been called

the thumbprint of God.

You are seeing artwork generated by nature
itself.

If you turn the Mandelbrot figure a certain
way,

it looks sort of like a Hindu deity or a Buddha.

This figure has been termed
the "Buddhabrot" figure.

If you look at some forms of ancient art and
architecture,

you will see that humans have long associated
beauty

and the sacred with fractal patterns.

Infinitely complex, yet every part contains
the seed

to recreate the whole.

Fractals have changed mathematicians' views
of the universe

and how it operates.

With each new level of magnification,

there are differences from the original.

Constant change and transformation occurs
as we traverse

from one level of fractal detail to another.

This transformation is the cosmic spiral.

The embedded intelligence of the matrix of
time space.

Fractals are inherently chaotic-full of noise
and order.

When our minds recognize or define a pattern,

we focus on it as if it is a thing.

We try to find the patterns we see as beautiful,

but in order to hold the patterns in our minds,

we must push away the rest of the fractal.

To comprehend a fractal with the senses

is to limit its movement.

All energy in the universe is neutral,

timeless, dimensionless.

Our own creativity and capacity for pattern
recognition

is the link between the microcosm and macrocosm.

The timeless world of waves and the solid
world of things.

Observation is an act of creation through
limitations

inherent in thinking.

We are creating the illusion of solidity,

of things by labeling, by naming.

The philosopher Kierkegaard said,

"If you name me, you negate me."

By giving me a name, a label, you negate all

the other things I could possibly be.

You lock the particle into being a thing

by pinning it down, naming it,

but at the same time you are creating it,

defining it to exist.

Creativity is our highest nature.

With the creation of things comes time,

which is what creates the illusion of solidity.

Einstein was the first scientist to realize

that what we think of as empty space is not
nothing,

it has properties,

and intrinsic to the nature of space

is nearly unfathomable amounts of energy.

The renowned physicist Richard Feynman once
said,

"there is enough energy in a single cubic
meter

of space to boil all the oceans in the world."

Advanced meditators know that in the stillness
lies

the greatest power.

The Buddha had yet another term for the primary
substance;

what he termed kalapas, which are like tiny
particles

or wavelets that are arising and passing away
trillions

of times per second. Reality is, in this sense,

like a series of frames in a holographic film
camera

moving quickly as to create the illusion of
continuity.

When consciousness becomes perfectly still,

the illusion is understood

because it is consciousness itself that drives
the illusion.

In the ancient traditions of the East,

it has been understood for thousands of years

that all is vibration.

"Nada Brahma" - the universe is sound.

The word "nada" means sound or vibration

and "Brahma" is the name for God.

Brahma, simultaneously IS the universe and
IS the creator.

The artist and the art are inseparable.

In the Upanishads,

one of the oldest humans records in ancient
India,

it is said "Brahma the creator, sitting on
a lotus,

opens his eyes and a world comes into being.

Brahma closes his eyes,

and a world goes out of being."

Ancient mystics, yogis and seers

have maintained that there is a field

at the root level of consciousness.

The Akashic field or the Akashic records

where all information, all experience past,

present and future, exists now and always.

It is this field or matrix

from which all things arise.

From sub-atomic particles, to galaxies,

stars, planets and all life.

You never see anything in its totality

because it is made up of layer upon layer

of vibration and it is constantly

changing, exchanging information with Akasha.

A tree is drinking in the sun, the air,

the rain, the Earth.

A world of energy moves in and out

of this thing we call a tree.

When the thinking mind is still,

then you see reality as it is.

All aspects together.

The tree and the sky and the Earth,

the rain and the stars are not separate.

Life and death, self and other are not separate.

Just as the mountain and the valley are inseparable.

In the native American

and other indigenous traditions

it is said that every thing has spirit

which is simply another way of saying

everything is connected to the one vibratory
source.

There is one consciousness, one field,

one force that moves through all.

This field is not happening around you,

it is happening THROUGH you

and happening AS you.

You are the "U" (you) in universe.

You are the eyes through which creation sees
itself.

When you wake from a dream you realize that

everything in the dream was you.

You were creating it.

So called real life is no different.

Every one and every thing is you.

The one consciousness looking out of every
eye,

under every rock, within every particle.

International researchers at CERN,

the European laboratory for particle physics,

are searching for this field

that extends throughout all things.

But instead of looking within,

they look to the outer physical world.

Researchers at the CERN laboratory in Geneva,

Switzerland announced that they had found

the Higgs Boson, or the God Particle.

The Higgs Boson experiments prove scientifically

that an invisible energy field fills the vacuum
of space.

CERN's large hadron collider consists of a
ring

17 miles in circumference, in which two beams

of particles race in opposite directions,

converging and smashing together at nearly
the

speed of light.

Scientists observe what comes out of the

violent collisions.

The standard model can not account for

how particles get their mass.

Everything appears to be made of vibration

but there is no 'thing' being vibrated.

It is as if there has been an invisible dancer,

a shadow dancing hidden in the ballet of the
universe.

All the other dancers have always danced

around this hidden dancer.

We have observed the choreography of

the dance, but until now we could not see
that dancer.

The so-called "God Particle",

the properties of the base material of the
universe,

the heart of all matter which would account
for the

unexplained mass and energy that drives the
universe's expansion.

But far from explaining the nature of the
universe,

the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply presents
an

even greater mystery, revealing a universe
that is

even more mysterious than we ever imagined.

Science is approaching the threshold between
consciousness

and matter.

The eye with which we look at the primordial
field

and the eye with which the field looks at
us

are one and the same.

The German writer and luminary Wolfgang Von
Goethe said,

"the wave is the primordial phenomenon

which gave rise to the world."

Cymatics is the study of visible sound.

The word cymatic comes from the Greek root
"cyma"

which means wave or vibration.

One of the first Western scientists to seriously
study

wave phenomenon was Ernst Chladni,

a German musician and physicist,

who lived in the eighteenth century.

Chladni discovered that when he spread sand

on metal plates and then vibrated the plates

with a violin bow, the sand arranged itself
into patterns.

Different geometrical forms appeared

depending on the vibration produced.

Chladni recorded an entire catalogue

of these shapes and they are referred to as

Chladni Figures.

Many of these patterns can be found throughout

the natural world. Such as the markings of
the tortoise

or the spot patterns of the leopard.

Studying Chladni Patterns or cymatic patterns

is one secret way in which high-end guitar,
violin

and other instrument makers determine the
sound qualities of the instruments they make.

Hans Jenny expanded on Chladni's work in the
1960's

using various fluids and electronic amplification

to generate sound frequencies and coined the
term "cymatics".

If you run simple sine waves through a dish
of water,

you can see patterns in the water.

Depending on the frequency of the wave,

different ripple patterns will appear.

The higher the frequency, the more complex
the pattern.

These forms are repeatable, not random.

The more you observe,

the more you start to see how
vibration arranges matter into complex forms

from simple repeating waves.

This water vibration has a pattern similar
to a sunflower.

Simply by changing the sound frequency,

we get a different pattern.

Water is a very mysterious substance.

It is highly impressionable.

That is, it can receive and hold onto vibration.

Because of its high resonance capacity

and sensitivity and an inner readiness to
resonate,

the water responds instantaneously to all

types of sonic waves.

Vibrating water and earth

make up the majority of mass in plants and
animals.

It is easy to observe how simple vibrations
in water

can create recognizable natural patterns

but as we add solids and increase the amplitude,

things get even more interesting.

Adding cornstarch to water,

we get more complex phenomena.

Perhaps the principles of life itself

can be observed as vibrations move the cornstarch

blob into what appears to be a moving organism.

The animating principle of the universe

is described in every major religion

using words that reflect the understanding

of that time in history.

In the language of the Incas,
the largest empire in pre-Columbian America,

the word for "human body" is "alpa camasca"

which means literally, "animated earth".

In Kaballah, or Jewish Mysticism,

they talk about the divine name of God.

The name that can not be spoken.

It can not be spoken because it is a vibration

that is everywhere. It is all words, all matter.

Everything is the sacred word.

The tetrahedron is the simplest shape

that can exist in three dimensions.

Something must have at least four points

to have physical reality.

The triangle structure is nature's only

self-stabilizing pattern.

In the Old Testament the word "tetragrammaton"

was often used to represent a certain manifestation
of God.

It was used when talking about the word of
God

or the special name of God, Logos or primordial
word.

The ancient civilizations knew that at the
root structure

of the universe was the tetrahedral shape.

Out of this shape, nature exhibits a fundamental
drive

toward equilibrium; Shiva.

While it also has a fundamental drive towards

change; Shakti.

In the Bible, the gospel of John usually reads,

"in the beginning was the word"

but in the original text the term used was

"Logos".

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus,

who lived around 500 years before Christ,

referred to the Logos as something

fundamentally unknowable.

The origin of all repetition, pattern and
form.

The Stoic philosophers who followed the teachings

of Heraclitus identified the term with

the divine animating principle pervading the
universe.

In Sufism the Logos is everywhere and in all
things.

It is THAT out of which the unmanifest becomes
manifest.

In the Hindu tradition Shiva Nataraja literally
means

"lord of the dance".

The whole cosmos dances to Shiva's drum.

All is imbued or ensouled with the pulsation.

Only as long as Shiva is dancing

can the world continue to evolve and change,

otherwise it collapses back into nothingness.

While Shiva is representative of our

witnessing consciousness, Shakti is the substance
or stuff of the world.

While Shiva lies in meditation,

Shakti tries to move him,

to bring him into the dance.

Like yin and yang,

the dancer and the dance exist as one.

Logos also means unconcealed truth.

He who knows the Logos, knows the truth.

Many layers of concealment exist

in the human world as Akasha as been swirled

into complex structures

concealing the source from itself.

Like a divine game of hide and seek,

we have been hiding for thousands of years,

eventually forgetting about the game completely.

We somehow forgot that there is anything to
find.

In Buddhism, one is taught to directly perceive
the Logos,

the field of change or impermanence within
oneself

through meditation.

When you observe your inner world,

you observe subtler and subtler sensations
and energies

as the mind becomes more concentrated and
focused.

Through the direct realization of "annica"

or impermanence at the root level of sensation,

one becomes free of attachment to transient
external forms.

Once we realize there is one vibratory field

that is the common root of all religions,

how can we say "my religion" or "this is my
primordial Om",

"my quantum field"?

The true crisis in our world is not social,

political or economic.

Our crisis is a crisis of consciousness,
an inability to directly experience our true

nature.

An inability to recognize this nature in everyone

and in all things.

In the Buddhist tradition, the "Bodhisattva"

is the person with an awakened Buddha nature.

A Bodhisattva vows to help to awaken every
being

in the universe, realizing that there is only
one consciousness.

To awaken one's true self one must awaken
all beings.

"There are innumerable sentient beings in
the universe

I vow to help them all to awaken.

My imperfections are inexhaustible.

I vow to overcome them all.

The Dharma is unknowable.

I vow to know it.

The way of awakening is unattainable.

I vow to attain it."