 112. Mysticism (Inner Sky & Sun) |
Rather, practice in this Way is engaged for the sake of direct inspection of mystical phenomena, re-cognition of them as merely conditions of one's own body-mind, and thus the transcendence of mysticism itself.
The mystical tour of our esoteric anatomy may be summarized as contemplation of the Life-Current via the roots of the senses and the brain-mind in the brain core. The route of that tour of inspection begins at the junction of the medulla, the cerebellum, and the fourth ventricle of the brain-even though concentration is simply directed into the basic brain core, immediately above and between the eyes and ears. The progress of inspection is upwards from the medulla, the pons, and the midbrain, in association with the cerebral aqueduct. From thence the circuit may appear to go up and then down and up again, as the course moves forward to the region of the pituitary body, then up and back to the thalamus (which is divided into two parts). Then the course may appear to go further back and somewhat down toward the pineal body, before continuing up and back to the visual cortex.
The entire brain core, and not merely the pineal body, is the true ajna chakra, the mystical third eye, or the "seat of the soul" (as presumed by the ancients). And by surrendering into the Life-Current via the roots of the senses in the brain core we may transcend all limiting associations with the phenomena of body and mind, and so regain our intuitive identification with the Radiant Life-Current or Transcendental Consciousness Itself. However, this Ultimate Event may not be Realized through upward concentration of attention in the brain core. First there must be the dissolution of attention in the Transcendental Consciousness, via penetration of the bodily root of self-consciousness in the region of the heart. Such is the Realization in the sixth stage of life. Then the Transcendental Consciousness resumes its Identity with the Radiant Life-Current, prior to all confusion by the phenomena of psycho-physical experience. The mind, or attention, is Translated into the Transcendental Consciousness, and the body is Translated into the Radiant Current of Life. Such is the Realization in the seventh stage of life.
When the Transcendental Consciousness and the Radiant Life-Current are Realized to be One and Free, the anatomical correspondences to that Realization are found in the heart and the upper brain. The anatomical reference of the Intuition of the Transcendental Consciousness is in the region of the heart, on the right side. And the anatomical reference of the Realization of the Radiant Life-Current, prior to the body-mind, is the crown of the brain, or the upper region of the corpus callosum, the upper extremities of the lateral ventricles, and the corona radiata (the true sahasrar or, metaphorically, the Highest Heaven of God.)
Between the heart on the right and the corona radiata above, the Current of Life is felt to stand like a pillar (or a "lingam"). Its Circuit appears like an S-curve, moving up and forward from the right side of the heart, including the total heart in the process, and then passing back and up through the base of the throat to the fourth ventricle, then up into the brain core and the third ventricle, and thence to the lateral ventricles and the corona radiata, or the Infinite Radiance of Bliss.
-Franklin Jones
In the field of physiology, the human nervous system is divided into two anatomical systems: (1) the central nervous system, consisting of the brain and the spinal cord; and (2) the peripheral nervous system, which is subdivided into (a) the somatic system (voluntary), consisting of both motor and sensory fibers, and (b) the autonomic nervous system (so-called involuntary), which also has two parts, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic divisions.
Medical anatomists point out that the division of the nervous system into a somatic or conscious system and a visceral or non-conscious system, though offering a convenient physiological description, does not imply the presence of two anatomically distinct systems. The two divisions are different aspects of a single, integrated neural mechanism, and they are closely interrelated both centrally and peripherally.
