0:00:19.015,0:00:21.055 In the beginning was the Logos, 0:00:21.055,0:00:25.259 the Big Bang, the primordial Om. 0:00:25.259,0:00:29.279 Big Bang theory says that the physical universe 0:00:29.279,0:00:31.074 spiraled out of an unimaginably hot and dense 0:00:31.074,0:00:34.093 single point called a singularity - billions 0:00:34.093,0:00:39.012 of times smaller than the head of a pin. 0:00:39.012,0:00:44.001 It does not say why or how. The more mysterious 0:00:44.001,0:00:47.043 something is, the more we take for granted[br]that 0:00:47.043,0:00:54.479 we understand it. 0:00:54.479,0:01:03.004 It was thought that eventually gravity would[br]either 0:01:03.004,0:01:08.089 slow the expansion or contract the universe[br]in a big 0:01:08.089,0:01:12.051 crunch. However, images from the Hubble space[br]telescope 0:01:12.051,0:01:16.017 show that the universe's expansion seems to[br]be actually 0:01:16.017,0:01:20.083 accelerating. Expanding faster and faster[br]as it grows 0:01:20.083,0:01:26.069 out of the Big Bang. Somehow, there is more[br]mass in the 0:01:26.069,0:01:33.043 universe than physics predicted. To account[br]for the missing mass, 0:01:33.043,0:01:37.054 physicists now say that the universe consists[br]of only 4% atomic matter 0:01:37.054,0:01:47.012 or what we consider normal matter. 23% of[br]the universe is dark matter 0:01:47.012,0:01:55.007 and 73% is dark energy -what we previously[br]though of as empty space. 0:01:55.007,0:02:00.046 It is like an invisible nervous system that[br]runs throughout the universe 0:02:00.046,0:02:08.119 connecting all things. 0:02:08.119,0:02:11.031 The ancient Vedic teachers taught Nada Brahma[br]- 0:02:11.031,0:02:13.097 the universe is vibration. 0:02:13.097,0:02:17.053 The vibratory field is at the root of all[br]true spiritual experience 0:02:17.053,0:02:20.081 and scientific investigation. 0:02:20.081,0:02:25.086 It is the same field of energy that saints, 0:02:25.086,0:02:31.043 Buddhas, yogis, mystics, priests, shamans[br]and seers have observed 0:02:31.043,0:02:42.059 by looking within themselves. It has been[br]called Akasha, the Primordial Om, 0:02:42.059,0:02:47.359 Indra's net of jewels, the music of the spheres, 0:02:47.359,0:02:55.023 and a thousand other names throughout history. 0:02:55.023,0:03:05.012 It is the common root of all religions, 0:03:05.012,0:03:34.239 and the link between our inner worlds and[br]our outer worlds. 0:03:34.239,0:03:36.079 In Mahayana Buddhism in the third century 0:03:36.079,0:03:39.709 they described a cosmology not unlike the[br]most advanced 0:03:39.709,0:03:42.599 physics of modern day. 0:03:42.599,0:03:45.579 Indra's net of jewels is a metaphor used to[br]describe 0:03:45.579,0:03:49.073 a much older Vedic teaching which illustrates[br]the way the fabric of the 0:03:49.073,0:03:51.079 universe is woven together. 0:03:51.079,0:03:55.449 Indra, the king of the gods, gave birth to 0:03:55.449,0:04:04.349 the sun and moves the winds and the waters. 0:04:04.349,0:04:09.219 Imagine a spider web that extends into all[br]dimensions. 0:04:09.219,0:04:10.799 The web is made up of dew drops 0:04:10.799,0:04:15.219 and every drop contains the reflection of[br]all the other 0:04:15.219,0:04:19.069 water drops, and in each reflected dew drop[br]you will find 0:04:19.069,0:04:23.003 the reflections of all the other droplets. 0:04:23.003,0:04:27.001 The entire web, in that reflection and so[br]on, 0:04:27.001,0:04:29.019 to infinity. 0:04:29.019,0:04:32.004 Indra's web could be described as a holographic[br]universe, 0:04:32.004,0:04:35.000 where even the smallest stream of light 0:04:35.000,0:04:42.069 contains the complete pattern of the whole. 0:04:42.069,0:04:46.003 The Serbian-American scientist, Nikola Tesla, 0:04:46.003,0:04:49.031 is sometimes referred to as the man who invented[br]the 0:04:49.031,0:04:50.789 20th century. 0:04:50.789,0:04:53.004 Tesla was responsible for discovering alternating[br]current 0:04:53.004,0:04:55.081 electricity and many other creations 0:04:55.081,0:04:59.389 that are now part of every-day life. 0:04:59.389,0:05:02.049 Because of his interest in the ancient Vedic[br]traditions, 0:05:02.049,0:05:05.062 Tesla was in a unique position to understand[br]science 0:05:05.062,0:05:10.229 through both an eastern and western model. 0:05:10.229,0:05:13.006 Like all great scientists, Tesla looked deeply 0:05:13.006,0:05:15.289 into the mysteries of the outer world, 0:05:15.289,0:05:19.065 but he also looked deeply within himself. 0:05:19.065,0:05:23.059 Like the ancient yogis, Tesla used the term[br]Akasha 0:05:23.059,0:05:31.849 to describe the etheric feel that extends[br]throughout all things. 0:05:31.849,0:05:35.099 Tesla studied with Swami Vivekananda, a yogi[br]who brought the ancient 0:05:35.099,0:05:38.689 teachings of India to the West. 0:05:38.689,0:05:42.068 In the Vedic teachings, Akasha is space itself; 0:05:42.068,0:05:45.021 the space that the other elements fill, 0:05:45.021,0:05:49.018 which exists simultaneously with vibration. 0:05:49.018,0:05:59.949 The two are inseparable. Akasha is yin to[br]prana's yang. 0:05:59.949,0:06:09.005 A modern concept that can help us to conceptualize[br]Akasha, 0:06:09.005,0:06:16.009 or the primary substance, is the idea of fractals. 0:06:16.009,0:06:20.025 It wasn't until the 1980s that advances in[br]computers 0:06:20.025,0:06:23.439 allowed us to actually visualize and reproduce[br]mathematically 0:06:23.439,0:06:26.479 the patterns in nature. 0:06:26.479,0:06:28.099 The term fractal was coined in 1980 0:06:28.099,0:06:31.479 by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot 0:06:31.479,0:06:34.659 who studied certain simple mathematic equations[br]that, 0:06:34.659,0:06:36.086 when they are repeated, produce an unending 0:06:36.086,0:06:40.025 array of changing mathematical or geometrical[br]forms 0:06:40.025,0:06:41.093 within a limited framework. 0:06:41.093,0:06:48.139 They are limited, but at the same time, infinite. 0:06:48.139,0:06:51.629 A fractal is a rough geometric shape 0:06:51.629,0:06:56.005 that can be split into parts, each of which[br]is approximately 0:06:56.005,0:06:58.062 a reduced sized copy of the whole pattern[br]- 0:06:58.062,0:07:05.759 a property called self similarity. 0:07:05.759,0:07:06.096 Mandelbrot's fractals have been called 0:07:06.096,0:07:22.087 the thumbprint of God. 0:07:22.087,0:07:26.849 You are seeing artwork generated by nature[br]itself. 0:07:26.849,0:07:29.052 If you turn the Mandelbrot figure a certain[br]way, 0:07:29.052,0:07:33.749 it looks sort of like a Hindu deity or a Buddha. 0:07:33.749,0:07:53.259 This figure has been termed [br]the "Buddhabrot" figure. 0:07:53.259,0:08:01.099 If you look at some forms of ancient art and[br]architecture, 0:08:01.099,0:08:03.599 you will see that humans have long associated[br]beauty 0:08:03.599,0:08:18.009 and the sacred with fractal patterns. 0:08:18.009,0:08:21.479 Infinitely complex, yet every part contains[br]the seed 0:08:21.479,0:08:24.479 to recreate the whole. 0:08:24.479,0:08:26.979 Fractals have changed mathematicians' views[br]of the universe 0:08:26.979,0:08:29.779 and how it operates. 0:08:29.779,0:08:32.539 With each new level of magnification, 0:08:32.539,0:08:35.919 there are differences from the original. 0:08:35.919,0:08:38.539 Constant change and transformation occurs[br]as we traverse 0:08:38.539,0:08:42.065 from one level of fractal detail to another. 0:08:42.065,0:08:46.025 This transformation is the cosmic spiral. 0:08:46.025,0:09:14.067 The embedded intelligence of the matrix of[br]time space. 0:09:14.067,0:09:19.003 Fractals are inherently chaotic-full of noise[br]and order. 0:09:19.003,0:09:22.075 When our minds recognize or define a pattern, 0:09:22.075,0:09:26.079 we focus on it as if it is a thing. 0:09:26.079,0:09:29.094 We try to find the patterns we see as beautiful, 0:09:29.094,0:09:32.079 but in order to hold the patterns in our minds, 0:09:32.079,0:09:53.026 we must push away the rest of the fractal. 0:09:53.026,0:09:55.009 To comprehend a fractal with the senses 0:09:55.009,0:10:01.018 is to limit its movement. 0:10:01.018,0:10:05.017 All energy in the universe is neutral, 0:10:05.017,0:10:10.018 timeless, dimensionless. 0:10:10.018,0:10:13.068 Our own creativity and capacity for pattern[br]recognition 0:10:13.068,0:10:17.062 is the link between the microcosm and macrocosm. 0:10:17.062,0:10:24.006 The timeless world of waves and the solid[br]world of things. 0:10:24.006,0:10:29.031 Observation is an act of creation through[br]limitations 0:10:29.031,0:10:31.058 inherent in thinking. 0:10:31.058,0:10:34.013 We are creating the illusion of solidity, 0:10:34.013,0:10:37.004 of things by labeling, by naming. 0:10:37.004,0:10:39.065 The philosopher Kierkegaard said, 0:10:39.065,0:10:43.026 "If you name me, you negate me." 0:10:43.026,0:10:46.043 By giving me a name, a label, you negate all 0:10:46.043,0:10:49.096 the other things I could possibly be. 0:10:49.096,0:10:52.066 You lock the particle into being a thing 0:10:52.066,0:10:55.075 by pinning it down, naming it, 0:10:55.075,0:10:57.044 but at the same time you are creating it, 0:10:57.044,0:11:03.005 defining it to exist. 0:11:03.005,0:11:06.046 Creativity is our highest nature. 0:11:06.046,0:11:10.000 With the creation of things comes time, 0:11:10.000,0:11:16.056 which is what creates the illusion of solidity. 0:11:16.056,0:11:22.081 Einstein was the first scientist to realize 0:11:22.081,0:11:26.005 that what we think of as empty space is not[br]nothing, 0:11:26.005,0:11:28.052 it has properties, 0:11:28.052,0:11:30.033 and intrinsic to the nature of space 0:11:30.033,0:11:35.018 is nearly unfathomable amounts of energy. 0:11:35.018,0:11:38.037 The renowned physicist Richard Feynman once[br]said, 0:11:38.037,0:11:40.099 "there is enough energy in a single cubic[br]meter 0:11:40.099,0:11:48.061 of space to boil all the oceans in the world." 0:11:48.061,0:11:51.017 Advanced meditators know that in the stillness[br]lies 0:11:51.017,0:11:54.029 the greatest power. 0:11:54.029,0:11:59.026 The Buddha had yet another term for the primary[br]substance; 0:11:59.026,0:12:03.047 what he termed kalapas, which are like tiny[br]particles 0:12:03.047,0:12:07.064 or wavelets that are arising and passing away[br]trillions 0:12:07.064,0:12:17.087 of times per second. Reality is, in this sense, 0:12:17.087,0:12:21.035 like a series of frames in a holographic film[br]camera 0:12:21.035,0:12:27.047 moving quickly as to create the illusion of[br]continuity. 0:12:27.047,0:12:30.025 When consciousness becomes perfectly still, 0:12:30.025,0:12:32.013 the illusion is understood 0:12:32.013,0:13:18.008 because it is consciousness itself that drives[br]the illusion. 0:13:18.008,0:13:20.018 In the ancient traditions of the East, 0:13:20.018,0:13:22.061 it has been understood for thousands of years 0:13:22.061,0:13:25.057 that all is vibration. 0:13:25.057,0:13:30.088 "Nada Brahma" - the universe is sound. 0:13:30.088,0:13:35.036 The word "nada" means sound or vibration 0:13:35.036,0:13:37.088 and "Brahma" is the name for God. 0:13:37.088,0:13:43.061 Brahma, simultaneously IS the universe and[br]IS the creator. 0:13:43.061,0:13:48.098 The artist and the art are inseparable. 0:13:48.098,0:13:50.076 In the Upanishads, 0:13:50.076,0:13:53.099 one of the oldest humans records in ancient[br]India, 0:13:53.099,0:13:58.064 it is said "Brahma the creator, sitting on[br]a lotus, 0:13:58.064,0:14:05.074 opens his eyes and a world comes into being. 0:14:05.074,0:14:07.034 Brahma closes his eyes, 0:14:07.034,0:14:14.014 and a world goes out of being." 0:14:14.014,0:14:16.000 Ancient mystics, yogis and seers 0:14:16.000,0:14:17.066 have maintained that there is a field 0:14:17.066,0:14:20.007 at the root level of consciousness. 0:14:20.007,0:14:24.045 The Akashic field or the Akashic records 0:14:24.045,0:14:28.025 where all information, all experience past, 0:14:28.025,0:14:31.082 present and future, exists now and always. 0:14:31.082,0:14:33.079 It is this field or matrix 0:14:33.079,0:14:36.033 from which all things arise. 0:14:36.033,0:14:40.014 From sub-atomic particles, to galaxies, 0:14:40.014,0:14:51.024 stars, planets and all life. 0:14:51.024,0:14:53.026 You never see anything in its totality 0:14:53.026,0:14:56.018 because it is made up of layer upon layer 0:14:56.018,0:14:59.045 of vibration and it is constantly 0:14:59.045,0:15:05.004 changing, exchanging information with Akasha. 0:15:05.004,0:15:10.000 A tree is drinking in the sun, the air, 0:15:10.000,0:15:16.084 the rain, the Earth. 0:15:16.084,0:15:18.085 A world of energy moves in and out 0:15:18.085,0:15:22.029 of this thing we call a tree. 0:15:22.029,0:15:23.094 When the thinking mind is still, 0:15:23.094,0:15:27.044 then you see reality as it is. 0:15:27.044,0:15:30.038 All aspects together. 0:15:30.038,0:15:33.014 The tree and the sky and the Earth, 0:15:33.014,0:15:36.045 the rain and the stars are not separate. 0:15:36.045,0:15:41.005 Life and death, self and other are not separate. 0:15:41.005,0:15:45.097 Just as the mountain and the valley are inseparable. 0:15:45.097,0:15:47.006 In the native American 0:15:47.006,0:15:49.041 and other indigenous traditions 0:15:49.041,0:15:52.025 it is said that every thing has spirit 0:15:52.025,0:15:54.029 which is simply another way of saying 0:15:54.029,0:15:58.079 everything is connected to the one vibratory[br]source. 0:15:58.079,0:16:02.037 There is one consciousness, one field, 0:16:02.037,0:16:05.038 one force that moves through all. 0:16:05.038,0:16:07.072 This field is not happening around you, 0:16:07.072,0:16:10.024 it is happening THROUGH you 0:16:10.024,0:16:15.028 and happening AS you. 0:16:15.028,0:16:18.074 You are the "U" (you) in universe. 0:16:18.074,0:16:24.068 You are the eyes through which creation sees[br]itself. 0:16:24.068,0:16:27.006 When you wake from a dream you realize that 0:16:27.006,0:16:30.029 everything in the dream was you. 0:16:30.029,0:16:32.006 You were creating it. 0:16:32.006,0:16:34.071 So called real life is no different. 0:16:34.071,0:16:38.008 Every one and every thing is you. 0:16:38.008,0:16:46.007 The one consciousness looking out of every[br]eye, 0:16:46.007,0:17:06.077 under every rock, within every particle. 0:17:06.077,0:17:09.003 International researchers at CERN, 0:17:09.003,0:17:12.015 the European laboratory for particle physics, 0:17:12.015,0:17:13.419 are searching for this field 0:17:13.419,0:17:16.001 that extends throughout all things. 0:17:16.001,0:17:17.579 But instead of looking within, 0:17:17.579,0:17:23.071 they look to the outer physical world. 0:17:23.071,0:17:25.819 Researchers at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, 0:17:25.819,0:17:28.011 Switzerland announced that they had found 0:17:28.011,0:17:32.000 the Higgs Boson, or the God Particle. 0:17:32.000,0:17:35.022 The Higgs Boson experiments prove scientifically 0:17:35.022,0:17:41.044 that an invisible energy field fills the vacuum[br]of space. 0:17:41.044,0:17:44.034 CERN's large hadron collider consists of a[br]ring 0:17:44.034,0:17:47.097 17 miles in circumference, in which two beams 0:17:47.097,0:17:50.095 of particles race in opposite directions, 0:17:50.095,0:17:53.013 converging and smashing together at nearly[br]the 0:17:53.013,0:17:55.041 speed of light. 0:17:55.041,0:17:56.056 Scientists observe what comes out of the 0:17:56.056,0:18:02.024 violent collisions. 0:18:02.024,0:18:04.003 The standard model can not account for 0:18:04.003,0:18:06.092 how particles get their mass. 0:18:06.092,0:18:09.026 Everything appears to be made of vibration 0:18:09.026,0:18:16.012 but there is no 'thing' being vibrated. 0:18:16.012,0:18:18.062 It is as if there has been an invisible dancer, 0:18:18.062,0:18:23.024 a shadow dancing hidden in the ballet of the[br]universe. 0:18:23.024,0:18:26.015 All the other dancers have always danced 0:18:26.015,0:18:28.082 around this hidden dancer. 0:18:28.082,0:18:30.053 We have observed the choreography of 0:18:30.053,0:18:41.016 the dance, but until now we could not see[br]that dancer. 0:18:41.016,0:18:44.009 The so-called "God Particle", 0:18:44.009,0:18:47.008 the properties of the base material of the[br]universe, 0:18:47.008,0:18:49.017 the heart of all matter which would account[br]for the 0:18:49.017,0:18:56.006 unexplained mass and energy that drives the[br]universe's expansion. 0:18:56.006,0:18:59.002 But far from explaining the nature of the[br]universe, 0:18:59.002,0:19:01.084 the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply presents[br]an 0:19:01.084,0:19:05.001 even greater mystery, revealing a universe[br]that is 0:19:05.001,0:19:10.092 even more mysterious than we ever imagined. 0:19:10.092,0:19:13.073 Science is approaching the threshold between[br]consciousness 0:19:13.073,0:19:15.043 and matter. 0:19:15.043,0:19:18.054 The eye with which we look at the primordial[br]field 0:19:18.054,0:19:21.004 and the eye with which the field looks at[br]us 0:19:21.004,0:19:35.000 are one and the same. 0:19:35.000,0:19:38.038 The German writer and luminary Wolfgang Von[br]Goethe said, 0:19:38.038,0:19:40.098 "the wave is the primordial phenomenon 0:19:40.098,0:19:45.039 which gave rise to the world." 0:19:45.039,0:19:53.065 Cymatics is the study of visible sound. 0:19:53.065,0:19:57.008 The word cymatic comes from the Greek root[br]"cyma" 0:19:57.008,0:20:08.073 which means wave or vibration. 0:20:08.073,0:20:11.009 One of the first Western scientists to seriously[br]study 0:20:11.009,0:20:13.005 wave phenomenon was Ernst Chladni, 0:20:13.005,0:20:15.073 a German musician and physicist, 0:20:15.073,0:20:17.099 who lived in the eighteenth century. 0:20:17.099,0:20:20.041 Chladni discovered that when he spread sand 0:20:20.041,0:20:23.076 on metal plates and then vibrated the plates 0:20:23.076,0:20:29.016 with a violin bow, the sand arranged itself[br]into patterns. 0:20:29.016,0:20:30.067 Different geometrical forms appeared 0:20:30.067,0:20:38.032 depending on the vibration produced. 0:20:38.032,0:20:40.003 Chladni recorded an entire catalogue 0:20:40.003,0:20:42.092 of these shapes and they are referred to as 0:20:42.092,0:20:45.037 Chladni Figures. 0:20:45.037,0:20:47.013 Many of these patterns can be found throughout 0:20:47.013,0:20:54.017 the natural world. Such as the markings of[br]the tortoise 0:20:54.017,0:21:03.097 or the spot patterns of the leopard. 0:21:03.097,0:21:06.094 Studying Chladni Patterns or cymatic patterns 0:21:06.094,0:21:09.098 is one secret way in which high-end guitar,[br]violin 0:21:09.098,0:21:21.084 and other instrument makers determine the[br]sound qualities of the instruments they make. 0:21:21.084,0:21:27.058 Hans Jenny expanded on Chladni's work in the[br]1960's 0:21:27.058,0:21:30.077 using various fluids and electronic amplification 0:21:30.077,0:21:37.032 to generate sound frequencies and coined the[br]term "cymatics". 0:21:37.032,0:21:40.054 If you run simple sine waves through a dish[br]of water, 0:21:40.054,0:21:43.064 you can see patterns in the water. 0:21:43.064,0:21:45.072 Depending on the frequency of the wave, 0:21:45.072,0:21:47.008 different ripple patterns will appear. 0:21:47.008,0:21:52.009 The higher the frequency, the more complex[br]the pattern. 0:21:52.009,0:21:55.008 These forms are repeatable, not random. 0:21:55.008,0:21:57.046 The more you observe, 0:21:57.046,0:22:01.088 the more you start to see how[br]vibration arranges matter into complex forms 0:22:01.088,0:22:04.007 from simple repeating waves. 0:22:04.007,0:22:29.086 This water vibration has a pattern similar[br]to a sunflower. 0:22:29.086,0:22:32.013 Simply by changing the sound frequency, 0:22:32.013,0:22:52.004 we get a different pattern. 0:22:52.004,0:22:55.037 Water is a very mysterious substance. 0:22:55.037,0:22:57.079 It is highly impressionable. 0:22:57.079,0:23:00.082 That is, it can receive and hold onto vibration. 0:23:00.082,0:23:03.059 Because of its high resonance capacity 0:23:03.059,0:23:07.022 and sensitivity and an inner readiness to[br]resonate, 0:23:07.022,0:23:09.052 the water responds instantaneously to all 0:23:09.052,0:23:12.058 types of sonic waves. 0:23:12.058,0:23:13.061 Vibrating water and earth 0:23:13.061,0:23:17.043 make up the majority of mass in plants and[br]animals. 0:23:17.043,0:23:21.095 It is easy to observe how simple vibrations[br]in water 0:23:21.095,0:23:25.000 can create recognizable natural patterns 0:23:25.000,0:23:30.008 but as we add solids and increase the amplitude, 0:23:30.008,0:23:35.012 things get even more interesting. 0:23:35.012,0:23:36.095 Adding cornstarch to water, 0:23:36.095,0:23:58.045 we get more complex phenomena. 0:23:58.045,0:24:00.091 Perhaps the principles of life itself 0:24:00.091,0:24:03.009 can be observed as vibrations move the cornstarch 0:24:03.009,0:24:12.074 blob into what appears to be a moving organism. 0:24:12.074,0:24:15.023 The animating principle of the universe 0:24:15.023,0:24:18.011 is described in every major religion 0:24:18.011,0:24:20.026 using words that reflect the understanding 0:24:20.026,0:24:26.002 of that time in history. 0:24:26.002,0:24:31.035 In the language of the Incas,[br]the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, 0:24:31.035,0:24:34.092 the word for "human body" is "alpa camasca" 0:24:34.092,0:24:41.001 which means literally, "animated earth". 0:24:41.001,0:24:43.005 In Kaballah, or Jewish Mysticism, 0:24:43.005,0:24:46.059 they talk about the divine name of God. 0:24:46.059,0:24:49.309 The name that can not be spoken. 0:24:49.309,0:24:51.029 It can not be spoken because it is a vibration 0:24:51.029,0:24:56.069 that is everywhere. It is all words, all matter. 0:24:56.069,0:25:00.022 Everything is the sacred word. 0:25:00.022,0:25:02.009 The tetrahedron is the simplest shape 0:25:02.009,0:25:05.032 that can exist in three dimensions. 0:25:05.032,0:25:06.076 Something must have at least four points 0:25:06.076,0:25:09.028 to have physical reality. 0:25:09.028,0:25:11.034 The triangle structure is nature's only 0:25:11.034,0:25:13.095 self-stabilizing pattern. 0:25:13.095,0:25:17.004 In the Old Testament the word "tetragrammaton" 0:25:17.004,0:25:20.026 was often used to represent a certain manifestation[br]of God. 0:25:20.026,0:25:23.075 It was used when talking about the word of[br]God 0:25:23.075,0:25:30.088 or the special name of God, Logos or primordial[br]word. 0:25:30.088,0:25:36.022 The ancient civilizations knew that at the[br]root structure 0:25:36.022,0:25:40.047 of the universe was the tetrahedral shape. 0:25:40.047,0:25:43.091 Out of this shape, nature exhibits a fundamental[br]drive 0:25:43.091,0:25:47.055 toward equilibrium; Shiva. 0:25:47.055,0:25:50.021 While it also has a fundamental drive towards 0:25:50.021,0:25:56.086 change; Shakti. 0:25:56.086,0:25:59.035 In the Bible, the gospel of John usually reads, 0:25:59.035,0:26:01.679 "in the beginning was the word" 0:26:01.679,0:26:04.066 but in the original text the term used was 0:26:04.066,0:26:07.074 "Logos". 0:26:07.074,0:26:09.091 The Greek philosopher Heraclitus, 0:26:09.091,0:26:13.002 who lived around 500 years before Christ, 0:26:13.002,0:26:14.005 referred to the Logos as something 0:26:14.005,0:26:16.072 fundamentally unknowable. 0:26:16.072,0:26:22.029 The origin of all repetition, pattern and[br]form. 0:26:22.029,0:26:24.023 The Stoic philosophers who followed the teachings 0:26:24.023,0:26:27.039 of Heraclitus identified the term with 0:26:27.039,0:26:36.041 the divine animating principle pervading the[br]universe. 0:26:36.041,0:26:42.002 In Sufism the Logos is everywhere and in all[br]things. 0:26:42.002,0:26:52.082 It is THAT out of which the unmanifest becomes[br]manifest. 0:26:52.082,0:26:57.027 In the Hindu tradition Shiva Nataraja literally[br]means 0:26:57.027,0:26:59.092 "lord of the dance". 0:26:59.092,0:27:03.045 The whole cosmos dances to Shiva's drum. 0:27:03.045,0:27:07.099 All is imbued or ensouled with the pulsation. 0:27:07.099,0:27:10.021 Only as long as Shiva is dancing 0:27:10.021,0:27:13.005 can the world continue to evolve and change, 0:27:13.005,0:27:19.025 otherwise it collapses back into nothingness. 0:27:19.025,0:27:21.005 While Shiva is representative of our 0:27:21.005,0:27:26.089 witnessing consciousness, Shakti is the substance[br]or stuff of the world. 0:27:26.089,0:27:29.071 While Shiva lies in meditation, 0:27:29.071,0:27:31.096 Shakti tries to move him, 0:27:31.096,0:27:34.006 to bring him into the dance. 0:27:34.006,0:27:36.001 Like yin and yang, 0:27:36.001,0:27:42.086 the dancer and the dance exist as one. 0:27:42.086,0:27:47.179 Logos also means unconcealed truth. 0:27:47.179,0:27:51.057 He who knows the Logos, knows the truth. 0:27:51.057,0:27:53.036 Many layers of concealment exist 0:27:53.036,0:27:56.038 in the human world as Akasha as been swirled 0:27:56.038,0:27:59.003 into complex structures 0:27:59.003,0:28:01.052 concealing the source from itself. 0:28:01.052,0:28:04.046 Like a divine game of hide and seek, 0:28:04.046,0:28:07.559 we have been hiding for thousands of years, 0:28:07.559,0:28:10.809 eventually forgetting about the game completely. 0:28:10.809,0:28:17.064 We somehow forgot that there is anything to[br]find. 0:28:17.064,0:28:21.089 In Buddhism, one is taught to directly perceive[br]the Logos, 0:28:21.089,0:28:25.929 the field of change or impermanence within[br]oneself 0:28:25.929,0:28:28.016 through meditation. 0:28:28.016,0:28:30.034 When you observe your inner world, 0:28:30.034,0:28:34.017 you observe subtler and subtler sensations[br]and energies 0:28:34.017,0:28:38.063 as the mind becomes more concentrated and[br]focused. 0:28:38.063,0:28:41.027 Through the direct realization of "annica" 0:28:41.027,0:28:44.079 or impermanence at the root level of sensation, 0:28:44.079,0:28:50.097 one becomes free of attachment to transient[br]external forms. 0:28:50.097,0:28:53.042 Once we realize there is one vibratory field 0:28:53.042,0:28:55.087 that is the common root of all religions, 0:28:55.087,0:29:05.079 how can we say "my religion" or "this is my[br]primordial Om", 0:29:05.079,0:29:20.085 "my quantum field"? 0:29:20.085,0:29:28.069 The true crisis in our world is not social, 0:29:28.069,0:29:32.034 political or economic. 0:29:32.034,0:29:38.299 Our crisis is a crisis of consciousness,[br]an inability to directly experience our true 0:29:38.299,0:29:41.799 nature. 0:29:41.799,0:29:44.087 An inability to recognize this nature in everyone 0:29:44.087,0:29:53.006 and in all things. 0:29:53.006,0:29:56.035 In the Buddhist tradition, the "Bodhisattva" 0:29:56.035,0:29:59.309 is the person with an awakened Buddha nature. 0:29:59.309,0:30:03.021 A Bodhisattva vows to help to awaken every[br]being 0:30:03.021,0:30:09.309 in the universe, realizing that there is only[br]one consciousness. 0:30:09.309,0:30:16.064 To awaken one's true self one must awaken[br]all beings. 0:30:16.064,0:30:24.049 "There are innumerable sentient beings in[br]the universe 0:30:24.049,0:30:28.559 I vow to help them all to awaken. 0:30:28.559,0:30:31.087 My imperfections are inexhaustible. 0:30:31.087,0:30:34.048 I vow to overcome them all. 0:30:34.048,0:30:37.096 The Dharma is unknowable. 0:30:37.096,0:30:41.011 I vow to know it. 0:30:41.011,0:30:46.074 The way of awakening is unattainable. 0:30:46.074,9:59:59.000 I vow to attain it."