 131. Quantum Physics (Living Light) |
The Ultimate Vision
The idea of a solid or objective world of “matter” and “one shot” mortality is an archaic and even “Victorian” concept that survives to this day in popular pseudo-scientific descriptions of the world and of human existence. But the now firmly established modern scientific conception that applies to all events (whether “material” or “mental”) is that all phenomena and all beings are actually temporary states of atomic energy, or light. And energy, or light itself, is an eternally continuous process of transformation. Form always changes, but energy is always conserved. Therefore, individual beings, experiences, and worlds themselves are, each and all, only temporary events, or moments of the everlasting play of energy. But since all phenomena are changing and passing into new forms or states of energy, all beings, human or otherwise, since they are only energy itself, will also be conserved forever, although forever in new forms.
This conception of the world and of human existence is modern and also ancient. The ancient sages comprehended the world as permutations of energy and saw that a human lifetime is only a single event in a beginningless and endless procession of transformations (or births and deaths in all the subtle and gross or high and low realms of phenomenal possibility). Some interpreted the factuality of eternal survival to be the ultimate Truth. These were the religious mystics, yogis, and magicians, who became enamored of experience and perpetual devotion to self-existence. Others, such as the classical Buddhists, were psychologically disposed to interpret the endlessness of factual survival negatively, as inherently a matter of suffering, since living beings appeared only to be constantly changing and dying and being born again, sometimes rising up and sometimes falling again, under the perpetual force of mechanical necessity. Even since ancient times, those of a superficial and unillumined mind have been possessed by the self-indulgent and world-resisting fear of mortality, while others, being more profoundly informed by experience, have been consoled by factual immortality, and still others have been determined to bring a factual and final end to the perpetual cycles of mechanical and self-centered experience. But what is the Truth? What is the Realization that transcends both positive and negative concerns for mortality and immortality?
The Truth that must ultimately be Realized is spontaneously Awakened when the body-mind and the world and all experience become suddenly “transparent” to the fundamental consciousness. This “transparency” is not generally or necessarily associated with a visual experience. Rather, it is at first a matter of ego-death, or the establishment of natural identification with the deepest or “native” position of ordinary consciousness. Then the “eyes” of intuition must open. That is, the state of the atomic energies that compose or define the body-mind, and the world, and all experience, must become obvious.
It is like having one’s visual awareness suddenly established in the plane of the atom. Then, instead of viewing the body-mind, and the world, and all experience as “objective” or solid phenomena that cannot be penetrated by consciousness, there is the sudden awareness that all phenomena are made of transparent fields of apparent “particles” of energy that are suspended in “space” and moving about in mysterious and ever-changing associates with one another. Thus, even the empirical “self”, the total body-mind, is viewed or understood as a transparent field of suspended particles or vortexes of energy. The body-mind is mostly “space,” and none of its suspended particles seem to touch one another, but only to move relative to one another as if controlled by invisible flows of pervasive magnetic or electronic energy. And the difference between the particles that compose the body-mind and those that compose the world “outside” is not any longer profound. Only certain magnetic or electronic influences make the difference between the form of the body-mind and that of the world, but the space between the particles of the body-mind and the space between the particles of the world are the same continuous or absolute space.
Once this “vision” or intuitive understanding is Awakened, the idea of a solid and separate self, or a solid body that somehow materially creates or contains consciousness, is instantly (or inherently) dissolved. Only the absence of “transparency” (or self-transcendence) creates or implies the illusion of a limited consciousness necessarily bound to a fixed physical entity. In fact, consciousness is limited only to the degree it identifies with the solid personal appearance of the body-mind, the world, and the conventions of psycho-physical experience. The deeper the personal consciousness enters into its psycho-physical situation, the more its perceptions and conceptions project beyond the limited self into psychically expanded space-time phenomena. And when there is intuitive penetration of the total body-mind, the solid or objective world, and all the limits of experience, it is Realized that consciousness is Infinite.
