An Essay from my new book
We can see that Light and Magnetism enjoy identical nature
and essence. Further, we can see that
their union produces and sustains Life.
It is this last observation that serves as the root of Wisdom. To co-emanatory and inter-reliant energies
align in their union to provide the abundance upon which life, as we understand
it, depends. The impulse to place any
delimitation around this purposeful unity by ascribing to it some human-derived
name or principle diminishes the elegant completeness that it represents. By understanding its true essence and
observing its core nature, we can precisely see how our lives, our stories, our
obscurations and our contrivances foster an illusion of separation from perfect
coherence with Source.
I use the term “Source” for its precision. Unlike “origin” which implies some Euclidean
distance in time or space limited to linear projections, Source evokes the same
essential nature as its first order expressions – Light and Magnetism: namely,
persistence, generative, and infinitely orthogonal. Mesopotamian cultures known to have a
profound knowledge of these first order expressions used the cuneiform
representation IDIGNA to represent the artesian source of the rivers around
which much of civilization organized – the Tigris and Euphrates. In the Indus, the might Himalayas gave rise
to great rivers around which Indic and Sinic culture emerged and
flourished. The Andean cultures had some
of their greatest temples at the artesian and mountain springs which fed the
Pacific and created the alluvial Amazonia.
:and preserving the reflected wavelength and essence of the
observed Sun was used to adorn the head of the kings and priests. Was this because it was known to amplify
reception and the transmission of energies to and from the head of its
wearer? Was it known to be a conductor
of the wisdom afforded by a deep understanding of Light and Magnetism
throughout the cosmos? While we can only
speculate, its universality would point to purpose and knowledge over some
coincidence. Why did many cultures find
copper to be an important symbol of power and health – two highly correlated
expressions in a functioning society?
Like gold, it enjoys high conductivity and luminosity.
The essential nature of Source must be clearly articulated
to recognize its coherence or the capricious introduction of willful dissonance. I will attempt to add precision to the
tripartite nature of Source and its First Order manifestations: Light and Magnetism.
Persistence:
This is the nature of that which has the capacity to emanate and engages
the same in complete manifestation unaltered by any exogenous condition. Rather than relying on an external stimulus
to spring into action, persistence self-activates and does not concern itself
with reflexive responses and patterns in the field. It has perfect awareness knowing that the
activity engaged is fully provisioned at the pace, intensity, and frequency
suitable for the action. It exists with
total ecosystem awareness conscripting that which is required not for its
consumption but for its energetic emancipation from a potentiated state into an
actualized purpose.
Generative: This is the nature of that which, at its
essence is wholly aligned for the emanation of that which can be experienced by
and benefit other matter an energy.
Beyond the notion of creation or destruction – a duality that is the
product of a constricted perception – generation is that which organizes cycles
of perpetual transformation. Generative
processes in and of themselves neither define nor delimit themselves. Rather, the perpetually align matter and
energy in such a way that other systems flourish.
Infinitely Orthogonal: This is the principle of absolute
perspectival equanimity. Regardless of
the point of view of the observer/participant/beneficiary, the capacity for
equivalent observation or us is complete.
The elegance of orthogonality is that, as each perspective is entirely
uncorrelated to each other perspective, perfect symmetry independent of
perspective is achieved through dimensional indifference.
When we consider the Sun’s expression of Light or the bar
magnet’s expression of magnetism, we see that Source in situ has an effect on, but does not require a response from,
that which it encounters. When Source
is animated or in approximation, sensitive respondents consciously engage and
animate. The heliotropic dance of the
flower is evidence of conscious recognition of the essentiality of Source
awareness. The iron filings that align
to the infinite sweeps of the magnetic field are evidencing Source
awareness.
Source Awareness has a few essential attributes. First, Proximity. The more coherent and unimpeded the path
between Source and respondent, the more effortless the interaction and the more
identical the effect in evidence.
Second, Purity. The less
interference between Source and respondent, the more effective the transmission
and empowerment. And finally,
Proven. This is the certitude of
performance where there can exist no other explanation or attribution because
the complete validation is evident and incontrovertible. In contrast, Source defilement also has three
attributes: Remote, anonymous, and
unverifiable. Every harm done to this
planet and to each other is directly dependent on one or more of these defiling
impulses. And most insidious of all, the
defiling attributes are frequently cloaked in the deception of terms like “Trust”
(remote from actual experience), “Faith” (reliance on an anonymous actor or
energy beyond perception), and “Belief” (the requirement to dissociate
discernment and perception in order to acquiesce to illusion). None of these words nor the energies they
represent have coherence with Source regardless of their profligate use and
their apparent resonant proximity.
While I’ve used as examples the Sun and a bar magnet to describe
First Order expressions of Source, these are quite grand in scale and may be
too mysterious to engage. So let’s
examine some examples of Source much closer in.
Inside your chest at this precise moment is an agent of Source. And
while we can rush emotionally to the heart, that’s close but not spot on. Inside the heart wall are a series of cells
that self-activate. We call them the
pacemaker. Now these cells, when
functioning in absolute coherence are what literally keeps us alive and our
heart beating. However, when these same
highly differentiated myocardial cells elect to function in resonance or
dissonance they can stimulate all manners of arrhythmias and can cause
death. The small coordinated node is
Source and Life. The cells either behave
like photons and fields in coherence or, when going it alone, act like
manipulators and agents of death. These
cells, when properly functioning – as the sun activates pure photonic animation
– activate nerve fibers which transmit the impulse to the rest of the heart and
the muscle pumps.
I recently experienced another evidence of embodied
Source. On an early morning hike on an
overcast morning, I hiked up Ekajati Peak for what I knew was my last time
during a sojourn in Southern Colorado at the Tara Mandala retreat. As I approach the stupa marking the life of
the retreat’s co-founder David Petit, I chose to read aloud the tribute written
about him by his beloved partner Lama Tsultrim Allione. I had read the plaque on a previous occasion
and had done so in silence. The moment I
started vocalizing the tribute to David, Source emanated from within me. While tears came to my eyes and my voice started
to quiver, I felt a heat in my chest – not my heart, not my lungs – but rather
some middle space just below my sternum.
I had no temporal or spatial association with David or Lama Tsultrim
but, in that moment the Source emanation in the form of a lover’s tribute,
connected their literal energy and lives to mine in an undifferentiated simultaneity. I was weeping at the end – no sadness, no
sense of loss or sympathy. Just profound
reverence for an expression of pure love written years ago.
If you’ve ever seen Michelangelo’s David in Florence, you
can experience and watch in the eyes of other first time onlookers Source
awareness. Here, the genius in his art
took simple marble and brought forth something far more transcendent than a
nude statute of a young man. Within the
marble, he expressed the essence of a shepherd, warrior, lover, king standing
in perfect elegance and capable of communicating to persons from every culture
regardless of the familiarity with the Biblical account. David’s elegant atemporal beauty is Source
emanating from marble interacting with Michelangelo’s genius.
And David gives us another important path to ancient
wisdom. The marble is starting to crack
in the ankles and many fear that one day, he will fall. Like one day the Sun will supernova or burn
out or like one day magnetized matter will compress in infinite density and
give rise to the hyperpolarized nursery to birth the process all over again. Abrahamic faiths have a universal prohibition
on making graven images. This was an
important concession to the realization that humans tend to imbue in the
artifact what they perceive to be the representation of the essence. And if this goes on, the risk is that the
artifact becomes the agent of reverence and, in so doing, supplants the consciousness
of the essence. Islam and Aztecs have
their geometry; Inca and Egyptians have their architecture. And the more the incarnate form or artifact
is revered, the more distant the participant / supplicant is from Source. The incarnation that is coherent with Source
is but one photon transmitting the energy.
And the world would do well to realize that imitation and adherence are
not aspirational ideals as to be an aspirant is to reify the illusion of
separation. And Source is coherently One
– always and in every phase and state.
The evidence of incarnate and emanating Source is the basis for great
inspiration but should not give rise to emulation or aspiration. Rather it should serve as a reminder that we –
the great cosmic union – are born of one and are perfectly inseparable from
each other.
While essential nature shows us that we are all inextricably
united in our matter and energy and that any notion of separation is entirely
dissonant with the evidentiary witness of Source, this has not stopped at least
three millennia of corruptors from instituting cultural manipulations which
seek to prey upon the fears which can only be perceived when the illusion of
separation is imposed upon reality – notably promoted as Trust, Faith, and
Belief. Elaborate pantheons of gods,
demons, dakinis, angels, prophets and saints have been contrived, largely
through oral traditions, to obfuscate the ever present coherence of
Source. Esoteric symbols, geometric
forms – all evidencing Source influence in their basic forms – have frequently
been relegated to occult or mystery schools known by only a few and exclusively
accessible to the “initiated”. And while
traditions like the Tibetan Dzogchen contain beautiful Source-inspired photonic
practices such as “transmissions” and “empowerments” in which the guru and
disciple literally share a common mind or realization, these practices are also
restricted to approved practitioners.
When was the last time physics could show you an unqualified
photon? When did you hear of an oxygen
refusing to pair with a hydrogen to flow as water because the hydrogen was
having a bad hair day or came from the wrong side of the Periodic Table in a
previous bonding relationship? See,
while we can make light of this on one hand, when it comes to suffering, injury
and extinction, imposed qualifications are all too often the result of horrific
and callous predation using the cunning reflex of fear rather than the simple
endless mundane entropic states.
And here may be the more insidious reason why we innovate
ways to obscure Source wisdom. As it is its
own evidence and teacher, Source wisdom cannot be monetized because, thanks to
its infinite orthogonality, it can be understood by all with absolute
equivalence. Now clearly this condition
poses an existential threat to the scientist and the theologian alike. No surprise that these two professions are the
most robust in layering onto Source their own ontology and complexity so as to
make the illusion of their exclusivity and remoteness their respective rice
bowls. Is there new literacy and new
linguistics needed for the re-emergent Source awareness? Absolutely.
But it should be as easy as taking off one’s clothes and walking naked
in the garden in the blazing splendor of the Sun or as simple as playing with a
bar magnet in the dirt.
Source can be easily discerned as it is a persistent energy
all around us. But its evidence is
accessed by First Order perceivable manifestations. Light and Magnetism are, in our time, the
most uncorruptible First Order expressions universally available to any
observer. Their interactions, like
photosynthesis, oxidative phosphorylation, molecular formation, auspicious order
are isomorphic with Source as they are in coherent proximity to and fully
animated exclusively by Source. These
interactions can be considered Second Order expressions. Now it’s important to note that, like
electrons spinning around a nucleus, proximity to the center is neither better
nor worse. In fact, as we move to outer
layers, we find a very special and critical function in the outer shells – the capacity
to be the site for covalent bonding.
This is an exceptionally important and precise type of molecular
formation as it is in the covalent bond that the electron models its
indivisibility with Source. In the bond,
it’s neither one atom’s nor the others but rather occupies an egoless,
identity-free middle reality.
Consider the water molecule.
One oxygen and two hydrogen atoms bond to take these two gases and
transition their states through liquid, solid, gas, or transitional crystalline
structures and matter. While unified,
these atoms retain attributes of their discrete nature but in the shared
electron environment, they also have the capacity to transit phases and states
not accessible to themselves in isolation.
They didn’t “gain” or “lose” as some would describe. Rather they elected union based on intent and
purpose. If any hierarchy was necessary in
isomorphism, we wouldn’t have water. The
contribution of hydrogen to oxygen and vice versa are equivalently important
and can only be separated with the application of exogenous energy.
So it is that we can see that Source both emanates through and
is the patron of Covalence. It reminds
us that Together is Our essential state and allows us to quickly discern that
which and those who seek prey upon separation for their own destructive
designs. When there is an impulse to
impose separation in any form, Source Covalence is being violated and another
dissonant energy is being expressed.
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