After the therapeutic period I entered intense phases of mystic experiences. In these phases I got the impression that the knowledge I could gather beyond normal reality is related in a holographic manner (fourier transformed manner) to everyday experience. As I am physicist I`m used to scientific metaphoric thinking.

By the way, today I`m a German pioneer of EEG-Biofeedback (neurofeedback). Maxwell Cade whom you spoke of and Anna Wise prepared the training route for normal people to reach “peak performance states” of consciousness.
That`s not enough: elaborated EEG-Biofeedback today guided by skilled trainers offers new and exciting therapeutic pathways!
Thank you,
Dr. Uwe Gerlach from Germany

The discussion seems to highlight the fact that it is not necessarily what we “know” – but more about how we “behave” that matters

I wrote the following to myself a number of years ago after years of doing things, or behaving in ways, which I “knew” were wrong and despite “knowing” that (For example perhaps even minor displays of anger or frustration).

“Knowing is one thing
Being another
Distraction the reality
Illusion it’s brother”

(The distraction and illusion originating it would seem in the left hemisphere of my brain!)

With the human race the answers to it’s life issues are not always to be found through increased knowledge.

I believe It is “conscience” rather than “consciousness” that we may need to concentrate upon in order to “shift” things.

We can advance from our current behavioural position right now, by using our individual “conscience’s” in a collective approach, without any increase in “knowledge” being required.

I do agree however that to do this we need to raise everyone’s “Consciousness” of that fact!

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to comment

Egal Bohen..

When the material world and the divine world are well co-related, when the hearts become heavenly and the aspirations grow pure and divine, perfect connection shall take place. Then shall this power produce a perfect manifestation. Physical and spiritual diseases will then receive absolute healing.”

“There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.”

On another occasion ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said with regard to the same subject, “All that we see around us is the work of mind. It is mind in the herb and in the mineral that acts on the human body, and changes its condition.”

“As regards thine assertions about the beginning of creation, this is a matter on which conceptions vary by reason of the divergences in men’s thoughts and opinions. Wert thou to assert that it hath ever existed and shall continue to exist, it would be true; or wert thou to affirm the same concept as is mentioned in the sacred Scriptures, no doubt would there be about it, for it hath been revealed by God, the Lord of the worlds. Indeed He was a hidden treasure. This is a station that can never be described nor even alluded to. And in the station of ‘I did wish to make Myself known’, God was, and His creation had ever existed beneath His shelter from the beginning that hath no beginning, apart from its being preceded by a Firstness which cannot be regarded as firstness and originated by a Cause inscrutable even unto all men of learning.
That which hath been in existence had existed before, but not in the form thou seest today. The world of existence came into being through the heat generated from the interaction between the active force and that which is its recipient. These two are the same, yet they are different. Thus doth the Great Announcement inform thee about this glorious structure. Such as communicate the generating influence and such as receive its impact are indeed created through the irresistible Word of God which is the Cause of the entire creation, while all else besides His Word are but the creatures and the effects thereof. Verily thy Lord is the Expounder, the All-Wise.
Know thou, moreover, that the Word of God—exalted be His glory—is higher and far superior to that which the senses can perceive, for it is sanctified from any property or 141 substance. It transcendeth the limitations of known elements and is exalted above all the essential and recognized substances. It became manifest without any syllable or sound and is none but the Command of God which pervadeth all created things. It hath never been withheld from the world of being. It is God’s all-pervasive grace, from which all grace doth emanate. It is an entity far removed above all that hath been and shall be.”

“Every thing must needs have an origin and every building a builder. Verily, the Word of God is the Cause which hath preceded the contingent world—a world which is adorned with the splendours of the Ancient of Days, yet is being renewed and regenerated at all times. Immeasurably exalted is the God of Wisdom Who hath raised this sublime structure.
Look at the world and ponder a while upon it. It unveileth the book of its own self before thine eyes and revealeth that which the Pen of thy Lord, the Fashioner, the All-Informed, hath inscribed therein. It will acquaint thee with that which is within it and upon it and will give thee 142 such clear explanations as to make thee independent of every eloquent expounder.
Say: Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the Maker, the Creator. Its manifestations are diversified by varying causes, and in this diversity there are signs for men of discernment. Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world. It is a dispensation of Providence ordained by the Ordainer, the All-Wise. Were anyone to affirm that it is the Will of God as manifested in the world of being, no one should question this assertion. It is endowed with a power whose reality men of learning fail to grasp. Indeed a man of insight can perceive naught therein save the effulgent splendour of Our Name, the Creator. Say: This is an existence which knoweth no decay, and Nature itself is lost in bewilderment before its revelations, its compelling evidences and its effulgent glory which have encompassed the universe.”

“As to thy question whether the physical world is subject to any limitations, know thou that the comprehension of this matter dependeth upon the observer himself. In one sense, it is limited; in another, it is exalted beyond all limitations. The one true God hath everlastingly existed, and will everlastingly continue to exist. His creation, likewise, hath had no beginning, and will have no end. All that is created, however, is preceded by a cause. This fact, in itself, establisheth, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the unity of the Creator.”

–from the Holy Writings of Bahá’u'lláh

In Bible it is written that in the beginning was the Word; the Word was with God; and the Word was God.
According to Radhasoami Faith “Shabd (Word) is the beginning and end of all. The three loks (worlds) and the fourth Lok, all have been created by Shabd.” (Sar Bachan Poetry)

The author with his limited knowledge of modern science and Hindu philosophy has tried to explain from his own understanding and introspections, the wild goose chase of modern science in its search for Reality.
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1. Creation is a mental projection of ‘Consciousness’ and we are but the characters in that projection. This is similar to the dream that we have. While dreaming we are all too taken up with the dream and think that it is true. On waking up we come to realise that it was but a dream; during the dream our mind believes (witnessed by the Consciousness) that it is real and we even perspire and pant on waking up from a particularly fearsome one. Even this ‘Awake- condition’ which is the reality now for us, is but a dream from which we have to wake up to come to terms with The Reality as it is.

2. All these are but mere mental projections of Consciousness; which when winds up these mental projections, similar to our waking up, drops the function of the mind and stays within itself, by itself as a ‘Singularity’ or Unitary Consciousness. This is the realm of ‘Nirvana’ or Liberation. While the consciousness is conjuring up the mental projections, we the characters believe that we are real individuals transacting in this world. The reality we feel is but ‘Maya’ or illusion. We also believe that we have a Free will and have a choice in all our transactions. Such belief is necessary for the illusion to be maintained.

3. We have come into this dreamlike creation with a certain quota of experiences and we have to fulfill them willy-nilly. This quota of experiences is actively aided, in and during its ongoing compilation, by our mental reactions to each precedent activity, even though we had no choice in undergoing the preceding activity. Our Free will comes into operation only with regard to our desire for Liberation or Nirvana. This freewill is given to the Jivathma (human) at the time of Creation by the Consciousness (There is no creation really as it is a piece of mental activity only to the Consciousness, of which we are but parts of the dream). The ‘One Consciousness’ decided that it will become ‘The Many’, and as such we became its parts. A Jivathma who appears to be one of the many in Creation has the power to spring back to the original ‘Oneness’ when it/he firmly denies creation and its/his own part in it; his compiled experiences thus far are automatically cancelled with this denial and the desire to get out of the game. The Consciousness which is a witness to all the activities in the Dream is always ‘One’ only even though our own experience is to the contrary.

4. As the Creation drama happened when the One Consciousness decided to become the many, an activity similar to Big Bang postulated by modern scientists may have happened and the Singularity exploded to become the many to fulfill (being Conscious) its own desire. The dreamy fragments became the space, air, fire, water, earth and its particles to conjure up the Universe in the realm of Maya or illusion. The path for involution or dissolution of the Universe from the standpoint of a Jivathma is called ‘The Apavadha’ theory or retracing to Singularity or Advaitha (meaning ‘non- dual’; as there was never anything other than Singularity, -‘not duality’ is just a thought process for those who now believe out of ignorance, due to their experiences in the manifested Universe, that they are but ‘one of the many’).

5. Ramana Maharishi, of whom the author would like to believe to be his Guru and would also like to believe that he has understood at least some of his teachings, has no use for the Adhyaropa and Apavadha theory; he says that the Jivathma (human), the Universe that he experiences, and the God who projects the Universe- all come into existence at the same time and get dissolved at the same time, supported and witnessed by the One Consciousness or Reality (if you understand that the manifested god is also but part of the creation). The experiences seem to be the only watchword that matters and the rest of the creation is merely designed to provide those, for the benefit of the Consciousness – they are mere appendages conjured up to provide those experiences. The witnessing Consciousness is not particularly exhilarated or altered by the experience. It does not make judgments nor is affected by them!
(My reference to Ramana Maharishi’s thoughts anywhere in this collection of thoughts may be in error and is based on my own understanding of His thoughts.)

6. According to Ramana Maharishi (even a personal) God can function only when supported by the Consciousness, the same that supports the experiences of a Jivathma. (Consciousness itself is referred to as Parabrahmam in our scriptures. This Parabrahmam is similar to the Reality envisioned by modern scientists; the main difference being that, the scientists are looking for the tiniest particle in manifestation and may never accept that it is actually Consciousness; that it is spiritual in nature and pervades the entire manifested universe without any break in between!) Hence God and Jivathma are like two concentric circles with the same center point. For the Jivathma, the God is the infinity and the Consciousness is the Singularity or locus around whom he operates. This probably is the reason why modern scientists say that the entire Universe is in perfect symmetry irrespective of the locus of observation of the observer, in whichever direction he looks at.
One would like to even imagine that God is but the Master Software system of the Universe, of who the human is but the nth degree subsystem. The human at any particular time or space, is controlled by a chain of the previous steps of the software (meaning events of the past), while his present activities in turn control some of the following steps (meaning the events to follow in future).

7. The Universe as an event at any particular time is a web of collective control of the humans and the various inanimate objects of the Universe. This web of collection is called Easwara or god. This is referred as the ‘Oathaprotham’ or web of warp and weft of the fabric of universe in our scriptures. This is perhaps the Karma theory that is postulated by the Vedic philosophy. This is also somewhat similar to the space-time diagram/graph discussed by Physicist Richard Feynman while discussing the space-time events. Vedic philosophy (Vedanta-literally those thoughts appearing at the concluding portion of the Veda) describes man in his physical form as Vaiswanara controlled by the collective Virat during the waking state, as Taijasa controlled by the collective Hiranyagarbah during dream state and as Pragna controlled by the collective Easwara during deep sleep state. Viswanara, Taijasa and Pragna are projected to be different bodies assumed by the same Jivathma in order to enjoy/suffer the quota of experiences assigned to him!

8. Now imagine a Jivathma under the influence of a particularly disagreeable or fearful dream. Beyond a point he shudders and wakes up. He now has a body to wake up to, which was missing in experience of the dream (otherwise he would not be able to do some of the activities in his dream like flying, which is impractical during waking stage). When the Jivathma goes thro’ the experience of dying, with no ‘body’ to wake up to (at least not a body that he is used to), the dream will be endless and this is what is probably described as hell (Or heaven for that matter if the dream is most agreeable)! In fact the word swa-r-gam (heaven)–probably meaning the world earned or reached by the human through his thoughts/actions- could be heaven or hell defined only by his experiences in that realm!

9. The arguments of Rebirth as ‘possible or not possible’, is due to a misunderstanding of the term brought about by the limitations of the language. The body that dies is, never really reborn; perhaps it goes thro’ transformations as suggested by the scientific laws that govern matter/energy. The soul or Jivathma never dies, so there is never a question of rebirth! The Jivathma has no birth or death, and all his sufferings & limitations start when he mistakenly believes that he is in fact the body.

10. The wave-mass phenomenon of a particle has a similarity in Hindu thoughts. The Ardhanariswara tatwa envisions god Eswara/Siva as the right half and Sakthi as the left half of an androgynous form. This is also sometimes pictured as a fearsome female form standing/sitting astride a lying male dead body- the female form being Sakthi (power or Energy), and the male form being that of Eswara. This imagination implies that mass is energy and energy is mass, as no existence is possible for one without the other. In its transcendental aspect it has no form and so no qualities. But in the manifested state, Consciousness takes the form of ‘mass’ which is Eswara, presided by Sakthi or Energy for the continuation of the drama of creation. Wherever Siva or Parameswara is imagined or meditated to be the Consciousness it/he does not manifest as matter and is transcendental. This in fact is the original state prior to manifestation in any form.

11. In the Bindu (a point or Singularity) state the form has all potential energy and has no motion. In creation or manifestation the ball is set rolling and Sakthi is the Kinetic energy astride and riding/driving every creation of particle or mass. In non-sentient beings the Sakthi is in a state of Inertia and is called Jadasakthi. A desire to set things in motion for creation to be commenced/ sustained is described as Ichha Sakthi, and the creation enlarges. When the creation is maintained and activity is manifest, it is due to Kriya Sakthi. The final desire for liberation/ involution is described as Gnana Sakthi; this envisages a keen desire to go back to the abstract state or transcendental state of being. All things in manifestation get back into the Bindu or Singularity and even the Bindu vanishes as there is no one or nothing outside of it to witness! This is a state of Consciousness where it even looses its own desire to witness or experience. The Consciousness remains in this abstract realm for eons before the next movement happens to destabilize it to a realm, desiring Creation! How and whence this desire happens is beyond our imagination, but probably arises out of the law of probabilities presided by its own potential.

12. It looks as if the chase for isolating the God particle now called Higgs Boson, may end in fructuously in the LHC corridors (or for that matter any manmade contraption) if my above surmises are anywhere near correct. If they do succeed in isolating a particle called Boson, then it may not exclusively be the God particle that they are expecting it to be; everything in creation is nothing but God in manifestation! It is even like the Dalton’s atomic theory which states that atom cannot be split after identifying one; in stead, if he had only stated that the last indivisible particle may be described as ‘atom’ the theory would have stood the test of time! -the reason for this assertion being that the God and Creation are one and the same, and one cannot be isolated from the other. The Consciousness that recognizes both is the Single Consciousness in its dream; the seemingly fragmented individual consciousnesses which form differing opinions about it are the reflected consciousness of the Jivathmas. The objective creation or the Universe is God’s form and the total energy is the Energy of Parasakthi. They are inseparable ever. It is one big dream of Consciousness; it may come into manifestation or it may not according to its own will & desire and no subservient part of the dream can alter this!-much less objectively perceive it to prove/disprove it.

13. Gnanis of any religion or belief who claim to have witnessed God, do so from mere illusion, as the apparition is a Manomaya creation or their own mental projection; any statement that liberated Gnanis witness god is also incorrect as there is nothing other than their own Self to intuitively witness, for them; Gnanis liberated even while alive see the entire creation as nothing other than their own extension, just as if in a dream; even this vision of the Self vanishes when it becomes Sahaja Nirvikalpa. This (in italics) is an assertion made by Sri Ramana Maharishi, and those proponents of Advaitha who have been liberated while alive.

14. This description makes one wonder whether their observation of the Universe may be similar to a semi tuned TV picture tube where the picture is hazy in dots/pixels; as an extension of their own body which is also seen as pixels and part of the total observed entity. When abstracted they may also see the entire creation in all entirety of Sthula, Sukshma and Karana Sarirams in pixels and in motion of interaction! If so, this description fits that of the scattering matrix theory of modern scientists.

15. As regards Dark Energy envisioned by the modern scientists, the Goddess Kaali (Black or Dark female form) with her cavernous mouth swallowing parts of creation, wearing human skulls as necklace and carrying deadly weapons and parts of freshly severed organs in her hands totally fits the bill. The recent pictures of Dark Energy ripping galaxies apart and swallowing them could not have resulted in a better description than that of Kaali, in the intuitive imaginations of the Rishis of yore.

16. There is a great likelihood that the string theory postulated by scientists, may actually refer to the Kundalini Sakthi (explained as a string with three and a half turns) and now said to be sleeping in the Muladhara Chakra of Jivathmas, in Yoga Sastra. It is mentioned therein that the Parasakthi separated from Sadasivam residing at the thousand petalled Lotus called Sahasrara (brain), came down the Sushumna Nadi inside the spine and established various Devathas and principles at the different Chakras and finally ended in the Muladhara; there she established the remaining Devatha Lord Ganesa and some of the remaining principles and promptly went into yoganidra*. Whatever energy she exudes at this stage is the energy of the Jivathma or the human. In involution she wakes up and gathers all the Devathas and principles from the various Chakras and returns to the Sahasrara only to be united with her beloved Sadasivam, which act is termed as Liberation or Mukthi. According to Ramana Maharishi even this does not lead to Self-Realization or Moksha. The Sadhaka has to attain knowledge of the self by further enquiry which will then take the Sadhaka thro’ the Satya Nadi from the brain to the heart. This is termed as the final step of Liberation, by him.

Once he arrives there and gets established, there is nowhere else to go, no activity to be performed, and no new knowledge to be gained. He becomes one with Sadasivam or has attained Singularity; this realm is called Liberation or Nirvana.

*Yoganidra mentioned above invokes the Blue figure of Lord Vishnu lying on the thousand headed snake Adhisesha, or the figure of the most beautiful blue hued Krishna lying on the Alila. Both signify the male form of Parasakthi or particularly Kundalini here, and envisages a desire for creation to be maintained!- maintenance of status quo and not ready for liberation. While thinking about Adhisesha, what can be the balance at the beginning of anything? – a kind of brought forward account balance from the previous accounting year, signifying those Jivathmas who were not liberated in the previous creation.