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Conscious Universe Now is the time for reconciliation. The explorations of the reductionist science of the last three hundred years are transmuting into a wholistic science that recognises the profound inter-connection of all life. In our unfolding understanding of the energetic hologram of the Universe, echoes of ancient wisdom are re-awakening to guide us. Almost one hundred years after our first glimpses of the quantum world and the cosmology of a relativistic Universe, we are now perceiving a Universe comprised almost totally - 96% - of a combination of dark energy and dark matter whose essence we do not yet understand. Science is standing at a crossroads and our understanding of consciousness will choose our path. Viewing the Universe as a random explosion of energy, without innate purpose and considering consciousness as a consequence of physical evolution, will lead us one way. Perceiving the Universe as inherently conscious and an innately purposeful co-creation, will lead us another. Spiritual and wisdom teachings around the world, understand the Universe as an inter-connected, conscious whole. In honouring consciousness in all things, they appreciate the interweaving of all aspects of creation into an harmonious tapestry of life. In our western culture, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were times of enormous turmoil. Scientific theories and methods led by Descartes and Newton, unfolded alongside the social upheavals of the French and American revolutions and the huge economic and lifestyle changes of the industrial age. From this maelstrom, the earlier, religious based cultures were transformed and a more secular, intellectually based paradigm progressively took hold of all aspects of our lives. This scientific approach is often called “reductionism” because its method is to seek to explain a phenomenon, whether the structure of the Universe, economics or the workings of the human body, by reducing it to its smallest elemental building blocks. Whilst this approach is useful within a wider context of understanding, it is, as Deepak Chopra says, like taking apart a radio and then wondering where the music has gone! After centuries of reductionism, with both its benefits and costs, we are now on the threshold of a ‘new,’ wholistic, paradigm. The integrated approach, which some scientists are now exploring, may help us both to hear the music and understand the message of its song. The integration of new scientific theories with age-old spiritual truths is beginning to reveal the profound inter-connectedness and harmony of the Universe. In this revelation, we can regain the ancient wisdom in the experience of our daily lives, consciously re-connecting with that harmony in all aspects of our being. We can heal thereby, not only the relationships within the various aspects of ourselves and our relationships within our human family, but with the Earth and all other beings. For the first time in our history, the understanding and wisdom of many different cultures are freely available to us. Within our own spiritual journeys, we can explore one or many of these paths, finding our own route to inner awareness. The diversity and richness of the expressions of our spiritual heritage, clothe an underlying and common understanding of the Consciousness which created and continues to create and pervade the Universe and the natural principles which sustain it, enabling our individuated souls to be self-aware, to experience and to co-create. The wealth of symbolism used by wisdom teachings globally all explain Consciousness as manifesting as energy and all energy as being in vibration. The teachings describe many inter-connected vibrationary or multi-dimensional levels of existence at higher frequencies to those of the physical. They also reveal a common understanding of natural principles which underlie meta-physical awareness and that are in harmony with the physical principles which describe the structure of the physical world. Thus the intention of consciousness at higher levels of being energetically co-creates the physical world. The creation ‘myths’ of many spiritual traditions depict an initial void, an ocean of potential, from which Consciousness intended, and thus manifested, the diversity of the Universe as a means of exploring, evolving and co-creating. There are a number of natural principles that in their various expressions form the basis of spiritual and esoteric teachings around the world and which are perceived as guiding the experience of co-creation. The principle of balance describes the principle that throughout the Universe the energies of consciousness ultimately seek to come into balance. Only at the highest level of perception, that of Source, is Unity Consciousness fully revealed. At other levels of consciousness, the aspiration towards balance guides the experiences and evolution of awareness. The principle of polarity, or relativity, is probably best represented in the ancient Chinese expression of yin and yang. Polarities pervade the Universe and within each polarity, as in the yin-yang symbol, is the seed of its partner. By describing the interplay of yin and yang as ‘relativity’ rather than ‘polarity,’ we can perceive the innate dance between them through which Consciousness is experienced. Whilst incarnating on the physical plane as a man or woman, we embody both male (yang) and female (yin) aspects on emotional, mental and higher levels of vibration. This relativity is also expressed through light and shadow. In seeking balance and revealing the wholeness of who we really are, we need to acknowledge and embrace both. This is the noble middle path of the Buddha. If we espouse one aspect and reject the other, we will sooner or later experience its full expression. The
principle of correspondence expresses the
resonant inter-connection through all things of the principles and primary
energetic forces of the Universe. Correspondences
are thus found in all aspects and at all scales of creation.
This is embodied in the ancient Egyptian and hermetic teachings of
‘as above, so below’ and the work of physicists Pribam and Bohm and
their holographic model of the universe.
The principle of reflection describes the outer mirroring of our inner circumstances. The opportunity to develop self-awareness and to move towards inner balance is reflected in the outer circumstances of our experience. The principle of change underlies the gaining of awareness through experience of individuated consciousness and the evolution to higher vibrational frequencies. This is accomplished through the continuous co-creation of change (challenge or opportunity depending on your perspective) intrinsic to experience and the development of self-awareness. The principle of cause and effect is the wider context of the physical law of every action producing a reaction. Linked to the principle of balance, these action–reaction experiences are ultimately equalised. Both these principles are contained in the concept of karma, whose essence represents the flow of conscious energy, and is not a reflection of perceived morality or the judgement of actions. The principle of conservation reflects the continuous flow of energy throughout the Universe. Whilst the form of energy may change, it is always conserved. To enable this flow to be balanced in our own experience requires us to both give and receive. The principle of allowance is linked to the principle of cause and effect in that once an intention is set and manifested, allowance of its consequences forms part of the learning and integration of the experience. In the overall Consciousness of the Universe, these eight natural principles apply. Within the vibrational levels of the physical world, they are reflected in physical laws. At the beginning of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century, Isaac Newton described three laws of motion that are still used to calculate the behaviour of moving bodies. These physical laws demonstrate a simple correlation with natural principles. Newton’s first law of motion states that ‘a body in uniform motion will remain in uniform motion unless acted on by a force.’ The principle of change, which is enacted in the wisdom teaching of the waveform cycles of order and chaos, depicts the co-creativity of the flow of change in our life’s experience. Unless we allow our awareness to move with the forces of change in our lives, we continue in ‘uniform’ spiritual motion regardless of our specific circumstances. We’ve all experienced challenges or situations that form a repeating pattern in our lives until we finally appreciate the opportunity to understand, allow and move on. Newton’s second law of motion states that ‘the change in momentum (the mass of an object multiplied by its velocity – or its speed in a specific direction) of a body in motion is directly proportional to the force affecting it and takes place in the direction the force is acting.’ This expresses another aspect of the principle of change, which is that the greater the desire of our spiritual nature to become more self-aware, even if that desire is not fully acknowledged by our conscious physical self, the greater the implication at the conscious level of not doing so. When our inner knowingness is to change our attitudes or lifestyle - and yet we persist with the old - the mental, emotional and physical implications continue to increase until we acknowledge and effect those changes. Newton’s third law of motion states that ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ This reflects the natural principles of cause and effect and conservation. The development of quantum mechanics and relativity theory caused a major shift in the scientific perception of the physical Universe. The implications of these twin pillars of twentieth century physics were, however, explored by most scientists without acknowledgement of conscious intention. In exploring the sub-atomic world and the nature of light, physicists discovered the wave/particle duality of the quantum, a package of energy that, dependent upon circumstances, acts as a polarity balance of particle or wave. Einstein’s work also revealed the interchangeability of energy and matter. Within the structure of physical energy/matter, other polarities, including electric charge (positive and negative), which are reflected from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic scale where, for example, the polarity of electric and magnetic energies make up the electro-magnetic fields which pervade the physical Universe. Also enshrined within quantum mechanics, is the uncertainty principle, which states that at the quantum level, the position and momentum of a quantum cannot be measured at the same time. This principle intimately interconnects a person observing a phenomenon and the phenomenon observed. When phenomena are observed or investigated for the first time, initial experimental results often vary. However, continuing experimentation or experience by more people, produce progressively similar results. This too, helps to explain the difficulty in repeating experiments involving telepathy or telekinesis where the mindsets of the experimenters as ‘believers’ or ‘sceptics’ affects the outcome of the experiment. Instead of ‘seeing is believing,’ it seems that in the world of quantum mechanics that ‘believing is seeing.’ The accumulation of work by many researchers has shown this power of conscious intent to affect the outcome of random experiments and the effectiveness of healing – to alter the very fabric of our physical ‘reality.’ The quantum entanglement of a non-localised energy matrix is a means of connecting conscious intent with the physical Universe. Without acknowledging the primary role of consciousness, physicists have been attempting, for over eighty years, to reconcile apparent paradoxes between quantum mechanics and relativity theory and to bring the understanding of physical forces into a grand unified theory. Current attempts to understand dark energy and matter add to, and reflect, this impasse. Leading researchers are progressively viewing the physical Universe as one aspect of a multi-dimensional energy matrix that folds geometrically into itself. Adding conscious intent as initiating the enfoldment supports both theory and experimental results and connects spirituality with science. One important apparent paradox between the immediacy of non-local interconnectedness and relativity, is the latter’s assertion that the speed of light is a limiting factor in providing information about or, ‘signalling,’ events. Many wisdom traditions perceive linear time as an illusion; that there is no future or past, only an ever present ‘now.’ Whilst the perception of time may be different at higher vibrational levels of existence, the speed of light in the physical Universe does provide an arrow of time within which the natural principle of cause and effect can apply. Its ‘limiting’ nature allows for individual experience without creating anomalies in the chain of cause and effect, whilst enabling that experience to be available immediately within the collective consciousness. The physical laws structuring the physical levels of the Universe can then be seen to provide an opportunity in which, through our chosen experiences of all aspects of polarity/relativity consciousness, we can become aware and learn to take responsibility for the implications of our choices, and thereby to bring all aspects of ourselves into balance and wholeness. We can choose to live our lives with a deeper understanding, respect for and appreciation of, as the Native American tradition calls Wakantanka – All That Is. By so doing, we can lift the illusory veils that separate us and greet each other, and all other beings, as brothers and sisters in our amazing exploration of the Conscious Universe. © Jude Currivan 2003
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