Philosophy

Input & Output – Perceiving and Creating

There might have been a bit of confusion when trying to understand my precious article Intuition & Ego. In that posting, I didn’t clearly define the terms that I used and used a number of different words in order to try to explain the same (or similar) thing. Hopefully, the information below will help clarify what I’d intended to say.

To begin, I’d like to make sure my understanding of Your Being is clear. To help, I’d like to bring in what the Wikipedia has to say as a reference. But, in doing so, we have to look at how they describe Being, for I want to deal with the concept Your Being. So, the Wikipedia states:

Being (i.e. be+-ing, by synecdoche), is an English word used for conceptualizing subjective and objective aspects of reality, including those fundamental to the self —related to and somewhat interchangeable with terms like “existence” and “living“. In its objective usage —as in “a being,” or “[a] human being” —it refers to a discrete life form that has properties of mind (sentience), which are deemed to constitute a more complex state than simple organisms (i.e. that have only “life functions“).[citation needed]

In abstract usage, “the being” or “one’s being” is the mind’s concept of the self as a whole entity —including both mind and body —wherein the being is in the mind, and the “body” is all sensory aspects within the being. Heidegger coined the Germanic term “dasein” for this property of being in his influential work Sein und Zeit (“this entity which each of us is himself…we shall denote by the term “dasein.””[1]), in which he argued that being or “dasein” links one’s sense of one’s body to one’s perception of world. Heidegger, amongst others, referred to an innate language as the foundation of being, which gives signal to (and from, cf. cognition) all aspects of being.

The way that I used the word Being in the previous posting fit directly with the first part of the second paragraph where it refers to the “concept of the self”. The difference is that in that quote it’s stated that “…the being is in the mind, and the “body” is all sensory aspects within the being.”

With my current understanding, I would word this differently. Something like: Your Being encompasses all that you are including your mind, body and everything else that makes up who and what You are. Your Being is the root of who you are. Your Being is the ‘I’ in I am. In the context in which I’ll write, Your Being is a unique living entity that has a whole bunch of tools at its disposal in which to enhance the experience of life.

I would also like to clarify what it means to sense something for it’s a pretty abstract concept that most people have come to understand as being fairly limited. To me, there are clear differences between a sense organ and the act of sensing. One is the tool and the other is how it interacts with Your Being. The Wikipedia has also made the distinction where they list “Sense” and “Sense (disambiguation)”. From Sense, we read the sense organ type definition:

Senses are the physiological capacities within organisms that provide inputs for perception.

From Sense (disambiguation) we read:

A sense in biology and psychology, is a physiological method of perception. In common usage, a sense may also mean an understanding or awareness of something in particular.

This second definition is in line with what I’m referring to when I write sensing. But to fill it out more, sensing, and the act of perception, are really closely intertwined. For when you perceive something, you’ve applied your understanding to what you’ve sensed. The semiformal definition of perception comes across like:

Perception (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information.[1][2] All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs.[3] For example, vision involves light striking the retinas of the eyes, smell is mediated by odor molecules and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but can be shaped by learning, memory and expectation.[4][5] Perception involves these “top-down” effects as well as the “bottom-up” process of processing sensory input.[5] Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness.[3]

This definition is mostly in line with my understanding. The part that I somewhat disagree with is the part “All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs.[3]”. If the definition of nervous system was Your Being and they dropped the part about “… which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs” I might feel better about what’s been collectively written.

I might write the definition like; Perception is the process of understanding or becoming aware of sensory information. Perception is a conscious activity, yet sensory stimulation quite often happens outside of conscious awareness.

Let’s now bring these three together.

  • Your Being perceives by sensing.  

That came together pretty easy! In a way, it seems so simple. This, to me, is the input side of life.

Because during the process of life we interact with our environment, there is a similar path for the output side of life.

To get a better feel for this let’s play with the idea of creativity. What does it mean to create? The common idea for creativity (similar to the common five senses) comes across like this:

Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art, a novel, a joke, etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as “new” may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as “valuable” is similarly defined in a variety of ways.

If you look at this common definition while keeping the idea of senses in mind, you’ll get the feeling that the type of things that they list as being ‘created’ are things that are clearly discoverable by the standard five senses.

To get a better feel for how I’m using it, we want to go a little deeper.

It is generally thought that “creativity” in Western culture was originally seen as a matter of divine inspiration.[1]

Following the link to divine inspiration we can see that they broke it up into different sections. The one that looks most promising is:

Epiphany (feeling), the sudden realization or comprehension of the essence or meaning of something

Linking again:

An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphaneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”) is the sudden realization or comprehension of the (larger) essence or meaning of something. The term is used in either a philosophical or literal sense to signify that the claimant has “found the last piece of the puzzle and now sees the whole picture,” or has new information or experience, often insignificant by itself, that illuminates a deeper or numinous foundational frame of reference.

What we see here is that when someone has an epiphany, they have a sudden realization or comprehension of something. Simply put, how I would interpret this is that Your Being suddenly becames conscious of something (new). The knowledge or understanding that already existed now becomes something you can consciously act upon.

And if you’re taking notes, this is similar to what we saw in the previous posting regarding intuition!

When we go to put these ideas together, I generally refer to creativity as the process by which Your Being transfers knowledge or understanding (which is generally thought of as an epiphany or intuitive understanding) where you actively express that new understanding in some form. Typically, someone may verbalize the experience to someone, it may be written down or acted out or felt. In general, it is the act where Your Being communicates in a way that is detected consciously and acted upon.

Thus we have our output path:

  • Your Being creates consciously.

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The thing that unites these two different key characteristics that make up how you function is energy! I will leave the energy discussion for another day, but for Your Being to be able to either receive or transmit information, that information, however subtle it is, needs to flow to the tools that we have that can interpret it.

The most interesting part is not the energy, but rather the energy flow. The energy flow is what we experience and call life! That is what needs to happen for us to either sense or create something. The stronger the energy flow, the larger the impression on Your Being. If the energy flow is subtle, than the more stimulating energy flows need to be calmed so that the tools that receive the subtle flows can actually sense or intuit it!

I am so looking forward to expanding upon these ideas with more detailed postings. For now, I hope you have a better understanding with regards to the words I used in my previous posting (and some even earlier postings).

Intuition & Ego

I love exploring the intricate aspects of what it means to be human. Sure, we are made of flesh and bone, but there is so much more that really goes into defining how we experience life than the simple senses: taste, touch, smell, seeing and hearing! We are highly developed sensory Beings that can – not only sense what’s going on around us – but actually shape our own experience. It’s subtle, but observable – if you put the effort into watching, practicing and consciously participating in what you do and how the world responds to what you do.

In order to really do this, one needs to understand what and who they are.

A great book to help the reader get a better understanding of who they are can be found in just about any bookstore today.  It is:

Eckhart Tolle distills complex spiritual theory down into common truth. That common truth can forever change the way you perceive your world – if you understand what he’s saying. Fortunately for us, his words have been viewed by so many that it’s easy to find some of this key ideas on the web.

Looking at Wikipedia, I’d like to repeat the following section on the ego and internal presence:

The ego and the deeper Presence

The book begins with Tolle recalling his initial transformational experience when he was twenty-nine. This spiritual experience was one that not only jolted him into an intense awareness of the present moment, but also one that suggested his inner being or self had hitherto unsuspected depths: “am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.”[15]

For Tolle the ego is a sense of self derived from the content and activity of the mind. It is “a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning.”[16] He notes that virtually everyone hears a “voice” in their head all the time, the involuntary and often repetitive thought-processes of our minds. As we live “the voice comments, speculates, judges, compares, complains, likes, dislikes, and so on.” It may be reliving the past or rehearsing imagined future situations.[17]

Tolle claims there is a deeper sense of self than the ego, a conscious presence which may be known in various ways. One method he recommends is simply to listen to the voice in the head without judging it in any way or getting caught up in its contents. Just by ‘watching the thinker’ in the head, he says, “You’ll soon realise: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it.” That I am realisation is “a sense of your own presence … (arising) from beyond the mind.”[18] And as one becomes aware of this deeper self as a conscious presence, so the involuntary thinking begins to subside, giving way to stillness, peace and what he calls “the joy of Being.”[19]

To me, the most important thing that he presents really well is all summed up on the last paragraph (where I quote the quote): “You’ll soon realise: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it.”

A twisted interpretation might be, not only do I have the sense of touch, the sense of smell and the sense of sight, but I have the sense of self! That’s right, it’s another attribute of our being human! That voice in your head is no more evil than your sense of smell. It is … what it is.

That sense of smell can sense small amounts of vapors or various substances but there are a sequence of events that occur based upon that stimuli. To start with, if you’ve never smelt a rotting animal, the experience upon detecting this smell is immediately emotional. The smell is repulsive. Instinctively, you would step away from the smell. Meanwhile, as soon as the smell is detected, the voice in your head might say “Oh my God! What a foul smell. What could that be? It’s disgusting…” Then, through a little bit of investigation you discover the source of the foul smell. At that point, an association is made between the smell and the source of the smell. Depending on the level education (ability to label things), you may be able to describe the experience well. If you don’t have any idea what it is, all you can go on is the emotional experience.

The key thing to notice in this discovery process is that when you sense something it is your Being that experiences what the senses provide. The voice in your head is a side show that may or may not fully understand what is being sensed. To me, this is a very strong statement that you might not want to simply breeze by.

Your Being receives what you sense. The voice in your head does not! Your Being acts upon the stimuli in a pure unhindered way. The voice in your head responds to what your Being experiences in order to enhance it. The voice in your head adds an intellectual understanding to the raw experience.

That voice in your head, because it is language based, can also be thought of as a translator. It is used to ‘label experiences’ in ways that can be shared with others. Note that the voice in your head didn’t cause the experience, it just translates (or maybe narrates) the experience.

The experience still happens to the Being.

Thinking back to the smell example above, how is it that the Being (you) first react to the smell? Does your body process the smell, associate it with rotting flesh and the voice in your head yells danger – danger? No. You immediately feel repulsed by the smell. You have an emotional reaction. If the smell had been that of a ripe cantaloupe, the emotional response would most likely be attractive. The smell would make you feel good. Upon investigating the smell, you may discover something wonderful to eat. But in every case, the response is emotional.

Senses generate emotional responses.

Now, what are emotions?

Emotions aren’t something you can touch, smell or see, but there are none-the-less sensed! You might say that we have the sense of emotion! Ha! We’ve found another human sense!

When dealing with emotions, we generally feel either attracted or repealed (to some degree). It’s only when the translator gets involved that we start thinking about it as love or hate, or happiness or sadness, etc.. Keeping the translator aside, the sense of emotion is normally strong or weak rather than good or bad.

Physically speaking, emotions take the form of energy (light or electrical pulse) more-so then just about anything. When you deal with the five primary senses, a scientist would say that the vapor triggers the receptors in your nose to send a signal (via your nervous system) to your brain where it is processed. If you where to ask me, I’d say that the vapor triggers a receptor that sparks the flow of emotion which is understandable by your Being (consciousness).

This brings us around to how your Being communicates.

If you ‘listen to the voice in your head’ – how do you hear it? You’re ears translate sound waves into electrical impulses (energy, light) that enters your nervous system that get processed by your Being. It would seem that the voice in your head would do the same thing if it wanted to be heard (sorry about talking about it as if it had a ‘mind’ of its own). In other words, the evidence suggests that your Being doesn’t hear sound, it senses energy. The voice in your head is simply energy shaped by your Being.

Converting physical sensations into energy is the technique by which the Being realizes its experience in the world. The Being doesn’t use organs like eyes and ears, but rather has eyes and ears and crude ways to sense specific types of energy.

The reverse process: Creation (part of communication).

If you turn this process around, it would make sense that the Being also uses energy to communicate. If you want to convey something that you ‘know’ to someone else, it generally has to be translated by physical senses (created) so that it can be shared. This would involve describing a smell or texture in a way that someone else can relate. If they don’t have an understanding of the words (or the other means of expression) they will not understand what you’re trying to communicate.

Yet, when you look at how the senses are designed, there are unique paths for input and output.

For instance, even though we hear with our ears (which are considered sensory organs) we speak to generate sound. The sound that we generate is a direct reflection of our Being. There is nothing stopping you from saying whatever it is that you want to say. The only time your sound is censored is when your Being consults the translator (voice in your head) to make sure that what will be said is exactly what you intend to say.

There is also movement and expression. Your body will naturally reflect your current emotional state. It is pretty easy to physically see the difference between someone that is happy and someone that is sad. These are universal traits that form a layer of communication – weather you are aware if it or not.

When it comes to communication, the energy flows from your Being and gets translated as that energy makes it into physical form. If the energy can make it through unedited, it’s a pure reflection or manifestation of your Being. Singing, dancing, making something (creating) and intuition are quite often considered uninterrupted.

Now, how does all this related back to the title intuition and ego? Well, let’s look at the widely accepted public definition from the Wikipedia for Intuition:

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason.[1]

Considering this, along with my interpretation above, when you intuit something you experience pure understanding from your Being without having to translate it through the ego. That understanding comes from pure energy. As that energy leaves the spirit (Being) it enters the body and gets processed by the appropriate ‘tool’. If it comes through as logical energy, it might feed the ‘translator’ in such a way that the energy is intellectualized so that it can be recorded or spoken. That energy may also come through as a feeling, which, rather than being intellectualized, it is expressed through the body.

In any case, it is energy that you share with yourself. It is a very subtle energy that many people overlook, or undervalue, yet it is there always available for the observant.

Meditation, as it turns out, is a conscious practice where major energy components of the body (and mind) are energetically reduced in order to allow essence of your Being shine through. As you reduce the energy flows to places like your ego, the synchronicity of the underlying subtle energies (like emotions) become more predominant. When the energy flows slow, the affect is like removing all the big waves from a pond. After doing so, any small wave can be observed and explored.

It is in these states that the Being can sense subtle energies that don’t normally come through the standard sensory paths (eyes, ears, etc.). It is in this calm that things like intuition can be felt. Or, more importantly, the emotional energy that surrounds you. Or even, it is in this calm that you can sense the energy of others!

Yes, that is correct. The energy that you give out influences your environment. Likewise, the energy that others give out also influence the environment and you can pick this up just like you sense your own energy! The problem most people experience is that they can’t tell the difference between weather it’s their emotion or if it’s someone else’s emotion.

This is where intuition and ego (the translator) get involved. If you are in harmony with yourself, you should intuitively know if the emotion is yours or not. If there is too much noise preventing the intuitive understanding from coming through, consult the translator. The ego is a good consultant that should be able to help you identify the source of the emotional energy.

A couple key things that the ego and intuition show us is that at our core, the I am inside each one of us receives and emits energy as it’s form of perception and creation. We sense energy. We have physical tools that help us sense energy. We are not simply hands and feet (flesh and bone) but the core spirit uses energy as its key interface into our physical world.

So, even though you may not make a sound, you can still be heard.

Sending an emotion is much stronger than sending a thought.

Calming yourself helps you feel other energies.

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Wow.  I loved writing this. I hope you can feel the energy too!

Swami Satchidananda Speaking about Death

Not exactly sure how I came across this video, but I found myself watching it a few times in order to feel what the light hearted Swami is really saying. His words and analogies apply very well to matter and low level quantum type situations, but there is something fundamental that I believe he’s missing here.

Before the critic in me comes out too strong, I highly recommend giving this eight+ minute video a going over. Pay close attention to his words or you may be watching it multiple times like I did.

Without further delay:

I have to admit that I love the hanky display. But he asks a question (at 2:40) while he’s holding up the hanky “where did the knot come from then?” Shortly thereafter, he pulls the knot out of the hanky and asks (3:25) “where did the knot go? And where from it came? Huh?” He pauses and then concludes: “That is death and life.”

In this grand scheme of things, the great yogi states that we don’t really lose anything – stuff just changes form. The tree dies and turns into a chair. Its death comes at the hands of the fire where ashes are born which replenishes the earth where the cycle can continue. This argument revolves around the idea that matter simply changes shape – nothing is really lost.

At 4:50 he states a yogic principle of:

  • Earth to earth
  • Fire to fire
  • Water to water

The idea is what comes from one type of matter goes back to its source. There is nothing lost, but things get transformed along the way until they finally make it back to their original state.

The problem is that (at 4:48) he seems to conclude that “where did you come, you go back to your source” implying that we, too, are simply matter. When we die, we go back to where we came from, but he doesn’t state where, he just seems to know that we follow similar natural laws where nothing is lost, it’s just transformed.

But let’s look back at the question this swami posed about the knot in the hanky: “where did the knot come from then?”

I believe that this is where the swami’s simple argument about life and death falls apart. The knot was created through conscious intent but it is no more alive than the hanky!

When something is alive, it has consciousness. When something is alive, the spirit is linked to the matter in such a way that the consciousness gains experience. Life and death are relative to the means by which the conscious spirit is linked to matter in order to gain sensual experiences. The life cycle and conscious understanding of a tree is different than a rock. You may not be sensitive enough to feel the life spirit that dwells in a rock or in a tree, but I’m pretty sure you could sense the life spirit that dwells in a dog or cat.

As the Swami speaks, he seems to lead the listener to believe that death is just a transformation of matter. I would contend that death is the point where consciousness severs its link to matter. At that point you could say “spirit to spirit” but that might be a little harder for him to speak about in an eight minute video.

So, I guess I disagree with this swami – as he speaks in this video. Life is the act of spirit interacting consciously with matter. Death is the point where the spirit can no longer interact – the bond has been broken.

Life and death also come with varying degrees of intensity. When an animal dies, it is clear that consciousness leaves quickly. When a tree dies, it may take a long time to notice. When water dies, could you even tell?

If the knot where conscious, I would have felt something for it when the swami pulled it apart. But, it is not. The matter making up the hanky has some very small sense of life, but the consciousness is too low to be commonly considered alive. If he were to burn the hanky, it would have most likely freed the last remaining spirit it held – in which case, it probably would have stirred some emotion in the viewer.

So, the next time someone talks that death is a simple transformation of matter, correct them by bringing in consciousness.

Life is precious. Life is a conscious experience. Make it everything you want it to be!

Life-Force Energy and Transformations

No matter how many times I think about it or study it, the fact that our bodies run on light never fails to fascinate me. Some people say that our bodies are electric, which I’m sure they are in some form, but even that electricity links back to light. We actually physically run on light. Our bodies are so efficient that is really doesn’t take much either!

You can go study all the metaphysical books that you want too, but if you leave out some physical science, you’ll miss making some of the biggest connections between spirit and matter that can actually be pretty obvious.

I love YouTube! It’s amazing to be able to view the words of others as their journeys unfold. Everyone has different worldly experiences and unique points of view, but when you get to view things in a high information environment (like we have today with the net), you can start making connections with topics that the authors of the videos might know, but in a different way. Hopefully, the ideas will come together so that everyone can benefit.

On to the idea of Life-Force Energy.

I’d like to share a couple videos that I’ve come across in the last few months. This first one is from John at okraw.com. He’s interviewing Dr. Flora about her raw food experiences. He asks a couple simple questions. This video is 7:36 minutes long, but they get into the idea of living foods right off the bat. Pay special attention to Dr Flora’s words, for I’m not sure if John’s getting it the way that she’s intending it to come across.

Here is the video from John at okraw:

I love how she says “Just go all electric food” at the end. When John comes around to sum things up, he says get fresh fruits and vegetables. It comes across as if John knows eating raw fruits and vegetables is the right thing to do, but it seems like the good Doctor has spent some time – philosophically – thinking about why you eat raw fruits and vegetables.

I like the way Dr. Flora mentions Chi as the deciding (or defining) factor with regards to the foods that she chooses. She links it in with picking the food fresh and eating it on the spot. It seems to me that she stresses the importance of eating food that is still vibrant with Chi more so than simply eating the food raw.

I did a quick search to see if I could find a good definition of Chi. Turns out there is a great explanation at TheBuddhaGarden.com. I’ve selected a bit of it to repeat here:

Most martial arts practitioners have some idea about the concept of Chi energy. Chi refers to the natural energy of the Universe, which permeates everything. All matter, from the smallest atoms and molecules to the largest planets and stars, is made up of this energy. It is the vital force of life. It is the source of every existing thing. Chi has many manifestations. To the kung fu and taiji practitioners of China it is known as “Chi,” but different philosophies and cultures call it by different names. Japanese martial arts call it “Ki.” Metaphysical science calls it “vital force.” Friedrich Mesmer called it “animal magnetism.” The Indian and Hindu yogis call it “Prana.” Western science defines it as “biorhythm,” and New Age thinkers simply call it “cosmic energy.”

Naturally, in each manifestation the Chi is viewed and defined differently, but basically it is the same thing. It is the power which enables us to think, move, breathe, and live – the power that makes gravity act like gravity. It is what makes electricity electric. It is the link between our perception of the inner and outer worlds.

It is our connection to the very flow of the universe and the prime moving force within the human body. Chi is not breath; it is the power that makes it possible for us to breathe. Chi is not simply “energy,” it is what gives energy the power to be energy. Chi is the power behind movement and thought…and it is everywhere. It is in the oxygen we breathe and the blood that flows through us.

If I’d written that last sentence, I might have said that “it is in the oxygen, but it is not oxygen. It is in our blood. It is the flow that gives us life.” Chi is life force energy. I really like the part where they say “It is the power which enables us to think, move, breathe, and live…”

Later in the same article by Aaron Hoopes at TheBuddhaGarden we read:

Chi within the body is like power in a rechargeable battery. Occasionally it needs to be replenished. The Chi of the universe is inexhaustible, yet the body needs fresh Chi to maintain its vitality. When you are exchanging the Chi within you with the Chi of the universe, you feel healthy and vigorous. By energizing the body with Chi it is revitalized naturally, enabling it to fight off illness and maintain good health. The true secret to replenishing Chi resides in our breathing.

All living things have Chi. I believe that Dr Flora understands the concept of Chi when she states that you want to eat foods that contain Chi.

It’s also interesting that Chi is not constant. It is something that you want to constantly replenish. Breathing is one way, food is another.

Let’s move on to the second video. Here, sometimes I can’t help but think that Matt Monarch is a modern day Forrest Gump as he works his way through life. He’s on a great journey. It appears that he’s doing the right things yet it comes across that he really doesn’t know why.

The first part of this video really isn’t all that interesting. I highly recommend skipping ahead to the 5 minute mark. That’s where he starts into the topic of interest for this article. Also be for warned that he’s a little rough under the edges in this video.

I love his phrase “I’ve evolved!” He’s pretty passionate about that. Matt’s living through a personal transformation (alchemy in a way) that allows for his body to pick up subtle energy systems in a conscious way. I’m looking forward to his future videos where his understanding leads to be being able to explain this process just a little bit better.

The first thing I wanted to reference here is his comments about eating less. He’s claiming that people don’t need to eat as much as they do for they are doing more harm than good. My take on this is slightly different, you see, what Matt doesn’t cover here is the content of what is eaten rather than how much is eaten. Matt has a lifestyle where he eats foods in a way that allows his body to get extra Chi – he’s eating live food! If you were to compare what he eats against a standard western civilization citizen, you’d probably find that Matt eats in one day what other people eat in weeks with regards to Chi in their food. In other words, it probably takes someone eating a standard diet a month’s worth of eating to acquire the Chi that Matt gets in one day.

Standard foods are processed, refined, cooked and distorted so far beyond the living state that the Chi that it had when it was living is long gone. As Dr. Flora mentioned, you want to eat it while it’s still full of life. The volume of food that he talks about may very well be related to the volume of Chi one consumes. If they do a good job eating high Chi foods the body will do just fine on smaller volumes of food.

Now Matt’s case is also interesting because he’s witnessing his body becoming more efficient. This is not the first time in his videos where he talks about it, yet it still comes across as if it’s completely due to his clean body or his practice of getting colonics. This is where I’m not sure if Matt gives enough credit to his consumption of life-force energy (Chi).

I would almost turn Matt’s comments upside down and build off the idea that because he’s living a lifestyle that is high in Chi, his body doesn’t need standard fuels (food) like others. And, in the process of doing so, the side-effects (by products) of eating doesn’t ‘cloud his vision’ (so to speak) with regards to his body’s ability to attune to subtle energies.

The basic idea is that if your body is full of Chi and you remove the debris that clouds the flow of light (mud, molecules, waste), your body functions more efficiently. In the act of functioning more efficiently, the subtle things in life start to stand out as he references with his third eye. You start to feel things. You’re connection with spirit becomes highlighted.

Now, this gets even more interesting if you don’t believe another comment made by Aaron Hoopes at TheBuddhaGarden. He states:

It is difficult to define Chi concretely. It cannot be seen or measured, it cannot be touched or captured. It is everywhere, yet we have no way to touch it, make it tangible, or even prove its existence. Therefore Chi is a difficult concept to accept. The Western mind likes the tangible, the concrete and the specific. It likes a scientific explanation which defines, dissects, and categorizes. Chi transcends this kind of explanation. It doesn’t fit easily into a strict biomedical framework. It is simply indefinable in those terms.

You could stay very similar things about radio waves. If you put yourself a couple hundred years into the past, radio waves could not be measured, touched or captured, yet they are still everywhere (in varying degrees of strength). Yet, radio waves exist. Just because mankind hasn’t figured out how to capture and/or create something doesn’t mean that is doesn’t exist.

With Chi, it would seem, mankind simply hasn’t figured out how to measure it, capture it or recreate it. We may, or may not ever be able to do this, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t exist.

In a way, this idea of Chi, and how it acts in the body, seems to align with properties that seem to follow the Philosopher’s Stone; at least to some degree. Doing a quick search of the net brings up a posting at the Temple of Mars website which reads:

… when the Elixir of Life is properly prepared and ingested it greatly increases your mental abilities, including intuition and awareness(of God), Artistic Ability and Creatitivity. It also activates you beta recpetors and allows you to recieve transmissions, as thoughts, from the netherworld. Messages from God, and other spiritual entities.

From the Wikipedia’s version of the Philosopher’s Stone, we read:

… It is said that consuming even a small portion of the philosopher’s stone will instantaneously heal all forms of illness without exception. It is sometimes further claimed that a senior person will become once more fit and youthful.

The traits associated with the philosopher’s stone really seem to align well with the experiences that people have when they change their diet to raw and living foods. Not only do they find that the body transforms itself (spiritual alchemy) but the body becomes more sensitive to subtle energy (physical alchemy). Things like – feeling – become natural and your connection with spirit becomes enhanced.

At this point, I have to wonder if it could be possible to capture Chi. Or, better yet, if it could be refined so as to concentrate it. I would also have to wonder if there is a link between the historical philosopher’s stone – as being life energy – and Chi – being life energy. There are a lot of similar characteristic shared here.

Did I say that it makes you wonder?

Even if the common person doesn’t come to learn how to create the philosopher’s stone, it would seem to me that attributes associated with the stone align well with what people have come to understand as Chi. There is a Life-Force Energy that flows through us and it seems to be related to living in perfection.

There is also nothing stopping you from making the personal decisions to transform your own life to one that is more in touch with living Life-Force Energy by learning how to consume this Life-Force Energy by consciously breathing and consciously eating.

The choice is yours.

Enlightenment through Cooperative Spirit

The other day during my morning meditation, I was empresses with the idea:

If we enlighten metals, they will enlighten us.

I wrote this phrase down right away, but I’m just now getting back to blog about it. It seems that understanding is a fluid thing. The way you perceive something today may be very different than how you might perceive it a year from now. Having thought about this for two days, it seems my perspective has already changed.

The basic concept is that if we make the conscious effort to enlighten individual little things those little things will go to work to enlighten us! And I’m not simply talking about pasting a bunch of positive sayings around the house.

It is quite literal and quite specific. You have to make a conscious effort to increase the energy contained within metals that you place in your body. The metals should be consciously spun to the point of enlightenment and then consumed.

In this case, what is the point of enlightenment for the metals? It is the point where energy flows through the metals with no resistance or loss. It is the point where the atom generates its own electro-magnetic (Meisser) field. It is the point where that atom is in resonance with its source.

It is in this situation where the individual particle of metal no longer acts like a metal, but rather acts as pure energy. When it does, it influences other particles in its environment to bring them into the enlightened state too. Basically, the energy flows from the in-resonance particle to the ones that are not in-resonance until the energy level is high enough in the other particles so that they resonate with the source too.

The surplus energy that flows through the original in-resonance particle charges the other particles that surround it. Eventually, the surrounding particles get to the point where they, too, resonate with the source and provide surplus energy into their environment.

So, what is the enlightenment of metals? Well, that’s where White Gold Powder, or ORMUS, or any of the other names given to this class of substances come into play. These are the substances that should be refined to the point where they can be ingested. They make up the class of substances that you have to consciously make an effort to include in your life.

Why?

Well, these substances are directly related to life. They go hand in hand with what might be called life-force energy. They exist all around us in all living matter. The higher the natural concentration, the higher the consciousness of the life form. Lower life forms have smaller concentrations of this life-force energy.

As it turns out, these life-force energy particles get recycled from life form to life form. But it is man that can choose to concentrate this life-force energy so as to enhance his body to be more in sync with pure energy. It is through this concentration process that the energy can really be put to work – or shaped – or channeled – so as to enhance the general life experience that we, as spirits, get to have while we’re connected to our physical bodies.

But we can’t be a fallen angle.

As it turns out, these highly charged particles can fall out of sync with their energy source. It would be as if the battery ran dry. When I thought about this in my meditation, I was impressed that we have to consciously setup an environment where the particles will not fall out of resonance with their source in order for them to transform the inner environment.

The act that we have to perform is that open our heart so as to let the energy of creation flow through us. The electro-magnetic field of the heart is in resonance with these life-force energy particles which keeps them in a high energy state. If we don’t use our heart, but rather use our head (thoughts), there is a dissidence that is setup that slowly takes the particles out of their high spin state back down to a normal spin state (metal). In other words, if we don’t focus the energy of the heart, we become fallen angles. We have potential, but we live a lower existence because we get by on a minimal amount of life-force energy.

Time also plays a role. If you can concentrate life-force energy and consume it while at the same time making an effort to keep your Being synchronized through the actions of your heart, changes should take place in the body on a molecular level.

We know that atoms in different energy states can be used to create different molecules. Plants can’t make sugar without the extra energy of the sun, in the same way, the body can’t make molecules attuned to higher energies without atoms that spin in the higher states.

In that same morning meditation, I was impressed that the longer the high spin atoms remain in the body, the higher the probability that they will act as a signal on the cellular level to trigger the construction of new protein molecules. These new protein molecules can enhance the physical sensitivities of the body. If you can’t see auras today, you should be able to once the specific protein molecules are built.

So, what was I impressed to do during my morning meditation?

Well, to start with, concentrate life-force energy so that it can be ingested. This will involve perfecting the refinement process for producing White Powder Gold, or refining ORMUS down to its superconductive elements. I’m sure this will be a story all its own (which I’m hoping to be able blog about someday).

At the same time, perform the work of the heart! This is the difference between living a conscious life and unconscious one.

Lastly, give it all time to work and enjoy the ride!

Looking back upon the opening statement, the path to enlightenment is a cooperative path for if you enlighten a simple little particle, it will work endlessly to enlighten you! All it takes is to live life by following your heart (consciously radiating creative energy) and the little particle that you enlighten will continue to work to enlighten more in its environment (you). If you can get enough of the little particles in you, the process of change will be sped up – provided you maintain the harmonic heart resonance that keeps the particles in their high-spin state.

A closing thought. When you ingest these high-spin state metals, they all have miniature Meisser fields. Because we are cellular Beings, the act of ingesting the particles will most likely have a even distribution within the body, yet they will all be influenced by the energies of the heart which will make the energy of the heart even more pronounced!

I’m looking forward to my next meditation. The work is to get out of the head and into the heart!