So Far So Near

ADULTS periodically have to remind their children “you can’t have your cake and eat it too”— it’s a parental stock-in-trade.

But for physicists studying quantum entanglement, it’s pig heaven—because for them electrons can be in two places at once.

Everything changes at the sub-atomic level where, to Science’s limited perception, atoms are mostly just “empty” space. It’s a seductive place, it seems, where one can free-fall into the unknown fields of an inexplicable universe.

Near-Death experiences (NDEs) can be seductive too, and life changing — but there’s more to come on this subject later.

God is Hiding

Some think of this invisible field as the ultimate “god-space.” Dubbed the “God particle” by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, the Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle which, like divinity, dark matter and dark energy, are all pervading—but still undetectable.

Same Problem, Different Particle

Einstein said it best:

“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.”

With huge atom smashers like CERN and Fermilab, scientists around the world race to find this clandestine particle. Hey, just maybe the mother of matter is hiding somewhere other than in a man-made machine? Ya think?

The ancient teaching as given in The Secret Doctrine:

The “Parent Space” is the eternal, ever present cause of all — the incomprehensible deity, whose “invisible robes” are the mystic root of all matter, and of the Universe.

… the “Robes” stand for the noumenon of undifferentiated Cosmic Matter. It is not matter as we know it, but the spiritual essence of matter, and is co-eternal and even one with Space in its abstract sense.

The Hindus call it Mulaprakriti, and say that it is the primordial substance, which is the basis or vehicle of every phenomenon, whether physical, mental or psychic.

The materialistic-reductionist scale of CERN’s projects are more expensive, and more unbelievable, than a top Hollywood sci-fi. The international center hopes to recreate the “Big Bang” they assert created the universe.

Self-described as “the world’s biggest machine,” the LHC is out to discover in the process of “how energy became matter“— (as if energy-matter are somehow distinct realities!)

The LHC will be smashing particles together at the speed of light, then examining the “debris” hoping to find “the smallest building blocks that make up the universe.”

Higher States of Being

In the previous post, A Fiery Life, it was shown that a biological version of an attractive force (bio-gravity?) clearly exists, but, mysteriously, no magnetism was detected when these so-called “human magnets” were tested.

Question: When are we going to stop violently beating-up on atoms and particles, trying to extract their secrets—we know nothing about these kingdoms, and for all we know they are conscious entities in their own right?

Consciousness is Everywhere

Everything manifested has its origin in a universal mind or consciousness. This is the “one absolute Reality” spoken of in The Secret Doctrine, “which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being.”

Says Occult Science:

“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.”

“We men must remember,” H. P. Blavatsky wrote, “that because we do not perceive any signs — which we can recognise — of consciousness, say, in stones, we have no right to say that no consciousness exists there.”

And further:

“There is no such thing as either ‘dead’ or ‘blind’ matter, as there is no ‘Blind’ or ‘Unconscious’ Law.

These find no place among the conceptions of Occult philosophy. The latter never stops at surface appearances, and for it the noumenal essences have more reality than their objective counterparts.”

In the recent post, Everyday One, we noted this Reality is described by H. P. Blavatsky as an “Infinite and Eternal Cause—the rootless root of ‘all that was, is, or ever shall be.’” It is not a personal god, she says:

“It is ‘Be-ness’ rather than Being.”

Very Near-Death

The direct conscious experience of God, or “Be-ness,” which is reported by experienced Eastern meditators, monks and yogis, is a rare event for Westerners—but Near-Death experiences (NDEs) are experienced by many “ordinary” persons.

It took a life-threatening aneurysm, and risky surgery in which her heart was stopped and the blood drained out of her brain and body.

As the surgery began, Pam Reynolds had a powerful near-death (NDE) experience of the be-ness state. The extraordinary event provided incontrovertible scientific evidence for the existence of mind outside the brain. Pam’s case, probably the ultimate in human superpositioning—was like “having one’s cake” come true.

Pam’s NDE: Chapt. 1 -”The Aneurysm”

Excerpt from the BBCs
“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

“Be-ness”

“The Theosophists are the first to recognize the intrinsic value of science. But when its high priests resolve consciousness into a secretion from the grey matter of the brain—and everything else in nature into a mode of motion.

We protest against the doctrine as being unphilosophical, self-contradictory—and simply absurd from a scientific point of view—as much and even more than from the occult aspect of the esoteric knowledge.” - H. P. Blavatsky

At one point in her NDE, Pam recalls her realization that she is “standing in the breath of God,” perhaps the quintessential state Be-ness.

Theosophical pioneer Helena Blavatsky sided with Lao-Tze who taught “The Tao which can be expressed in words is not the eternal Tao,” and she also rejected the personal god idea. Instead, Blavatsky coined the term “Be-ness,” in The Secret Doctrine, to describe the Absolute.

“There is one absolute Reality which antecedes all manifested, conditioned, being,” she writes. “This Infinite and Eternal Cause — is the rootless root of  ‘all that was, is, or ever shall be.’

“It is of course devoid of all attributes and is essentially without any relation to manifested, finite Being. It is ‘Be-ness’ rather than Being (in Sanskrit, Sat), and is beyond all thought or speculation.”

“Bee-ness”

Who better than bees to understand “be-ness?” Because each individual insect is one with nature, and with each other, bees never lose their way! The results of their unusual bee-ness seems, well, bee-utiful. Enjoy this out-of-hive (OOH) experience!

“I used to believe that we must choose between science and reason on one hand, and spirituality on the other … Now I consider this a false choice.” -Larry Dossey, M.D.

“Scientists using only materialistic methods are in no position to deny out of hand the possibility of such higher states of consciousness.”

What else might they discover along the way? Maybe what they are imagining is Leibniz’s “Monad,” and will undoubtedly find that the atom’s spiritual source is not directly detectable in the electromagnetic spectrum.

What’s “missing” is the esoteric doctrine of Occult Science. And that Science asserts, notes Blavatsky, that

“every atom in the Universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it, and, like the Monads of Leibnitz, is a Universe in itself, and for itself. — It is an atom and an angel.”

When are we going to ‘get it’—that we exist in a living multiverse, superpositioned in a superhologram—and each dimension has its own population of beings and states of matter and consciousness?

And in each of those other states or worlds, as Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine:

“… atoms enter into new forms of existence, undreamt of, and incognizable to, physical Science.”

“A person experiences life as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.”

-Albert Einstein

Pam’s NDE, Chapt. 2 – “The Breath of God”

Excerpt from the BBCs
“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

How was Pam able to keep from losing contact with her all but lifeless bodily form during hours of brain surgery? And when, during the time she entered spiritual realms, and confabulated with people she once knew now living in the light, and then stood in the “breath of God,” how was she able find her way back?

The fact is, according to Theosophy, none of us “go” anywhere—we are at all times, each of us, safely tucked in our individual “Monadic Field.” All experiences, in or out-of-body, occur within our field, even “breathing God,” which is only a finer layer or state of consciousness in that field. We die into our field, and are reincarnated from it into another baby body.

For more information on the latest discoveries about bio-fields please go to: The Inner Ruler

The Omnipresent Reality

“The evolution of the God-idea proceeds apace with man’s own intellectual evolution.”

-H. P. Blavatsky

“The fundamental Law in that system, the central point from which all emerged, around and toward which all gravitates, and upon which is hung the philosophy of the rest, is the One homogeneous divine Substance-Principle, the one radical cause.”

It is called “Substance-Principle,” for it becomes “substance” on the plane of the manifested Universe, an illusion, while it remains a “principle” in the beginningless and endless abstract, visible and invisible Space.

It is the omnipresent Reality: impersonal, because it contains all and everything. Its impersonality is the fundamental conception of the System. It is latent in every atom in the Universe, and is the Universe itself.

Pioneering medical geneticist, who once headed the Human Genome Project, Francis S. Collins wrote “The Language of God” in which he argues that we should look to our biology for God not invisible particles. He proposes that our complex DNA code is a script written by God.

Pam’s NDE, Chapt. 3 – The Scientific Evidence

Excerpt from the BBCs
“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

In Science and the Akashic Field, philosopher and scientist Ervin Laszlo believes this mystery space is the ancient “Akashic Field,” proposing the oneness of creation in an “Integral Theory of Everything.“

Says The Voice of the Silence:

“Before thou standest on the threshold of the Path [of wisdom], before thou crossest the foremost Gate, thou hast to merge the two into the One and sacrifice the personal to SELF impersonal..”

Some neuroscientists believe that our physical consciousness is hidden (received) somewhere in cells of the brain, and computed somehow by the tiny microtubules (SEE ABOVE) which form the substratum of cellular architecture.

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

-William James

A Deepened Life

In sociology, as in all branches of true science, the law of universal causation holds good. But this causation necessarily implies, as its logical outcome, that human solidarity on which Theosophy so strongly insists.

“If the action of one reacts on the lives of all, and this is the true scientific idea, then it is only by all men becoming brothers and all women sisters, and by all practising in their daily lives true brotherhood and true sisterhood, that the real human solidarity, which lies at the root of the elevation of the race, can ever be attained.” - H. P. Blavatsky

Confessed ruthless entrepreneur and financier, Gordon Allen, experienced the “god-space”when he had an NDE. Previously, any spiritual experience he might have reported would have been selling God as a brand name to members of his church of mammon. After his NDE, he went from “CEO of The Year” to selfless “Tycoon of the Decade.”

Gordon Allen’s NDE – A Changed Life

Excerpt from the BBCs

“The Day I Died: The Mind, the Brain, and Near-Death Experiences”

“That the mind is located in the brain is just a hypothesis.
It’s never been proven.”
-Pim van Lommel, M.D.

“Accounts of NDEs, shared by the people who experienced them, are analyzed by researchers and skeptics alike, providing a balanced look at a theory of mind that, at least in scientific circles, has previously been all but unthinkable.” (Near-Death.com)

Occult Scientific Methods

Why, as ancient seers have done, do we not look with spiritual eyes into the living universe for answers? Here’s how The Secret Doctrine describes the scientific methods of exploration in prior, more enlightened periods of evolution:

“The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: But such is the mysterious power of Occult symbolism, that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets to marshal, to set down and explain…are all recorded on a few pages of geometrical signs and glyphs.”

This knowledge is not the “fancy of one or several isolated individuals,” she says, but rather “is the uninterrupted record covering thousands of generations of Seers.”

“The flashing gaze of those seers has penetrated into the very kernel of matter, and recorded the soul of things there.  But modern science believes not in the “soul of things,” and hence will reject the whole system of ancient cosmogony.”

They tested and verified, from their own experiences, the oral traditions of earlier teachers, she says. And for ages these “Wise Men” (rescued from the sinking Atlantis,) “passed their lives in learning, not teaching.”

“No vision of one adept was accepted till it was checked and confirmed by the visions — so obtained as to stand as independent evidence — of other adepts, and by centuries of experiences.”

How did they do so? It is answered: by checking, testing, and verifying in every department of nature the traditions of old,” by visions of great adepts. These Adepts were “men who have developed and perfected their physical, mental, psychic, and spiritual organisations to the utmost possible degree.”

“The body of the Yogi becomes as one formed of the wind; as “a cloud from which limbs have sprouted out,” after which — “he [the Yogi] beholds the things beyond the seas and stars; he hears the language of the Devas and comprehends it, and perceives what is passing in the mind of the ant.”

-The Voice of the Silence

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