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"What is the sound of one hand
clapping?"
This kõan from Zen can in many ways stand as a header for this treatise because
my aim is to encircle the metaphysical properties
of sound and music.
Metaphysics means a level above the physical, which applies to matter. So this
little treatise is about inaudible sound, about the silence underneath the
music; the silence deep inside oneself where God resides.
I had in my young days a
strong encounter with nature and mother Earth, when I was visiting Greenland.
Standing by the inland ice, I heard for the first time the sound of silence. It
nearly struck me to the ground, so strong was the pressure. I felt so
insignificant.
Then a quiet tone from the depth of myself began to fill me up, and slowly the
sound within made me feel alive and strong again. Some say that it could
be my life song, I heard. It surely made me so immense alive yet appalling
alone, but in the same time in communion with some mighty powers. I found myself
chanting and my feet seem nearly not to touch the ground, so light hearted I
walked.
In other words, I will try to grab something
with symbols and letters, which are incommensurable with what I am writing
about. A singer and musician such as Van Morrison, e.g. is a level higher in
terms of adequate language to express this dichotomy.
Here I will focus on man in regards to music
and sound. In this context man is considered as an entity with a cellular body,
a mind (molecular body) and a soul (electronic body) as a triad. How do the laws
of octaves and harmonics apply to that being? What does music and chanting
actually do to a human's body, mind and soul?
One can study musical theories, acoustics
and hearing as I have given a briefing in The
Creation of Musical Scales,
but it does not actually explain why music and chanting effect our emotions and
in some blessed moments our soul.
By saying so I indicate that humans are rarely complete or in a state of their
full capacity. We are shut down in a sleeping mode where we are unaware of our
enormous potentials. Music, chanting and meditation can remind us of that
quality and in some blessed moments open our hearts to our dormant potentials.
I will quote a short statement by a Sufi
musician, Hazrat Inayat Khan, from his marvelous book, "The Life of
Music":
"Music should be healing; music should uplift the soul; music should
inspire. There is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher
towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection than music, if only it is
rightly understood."
Some pieces of the puzzle about the magical
power in music will be pulled together with the aim to melt spirituality
(consciousness) and scientific data into a broader picture than
mainstream science can provide.
There are many ways to perceive
consciousness. This essay will give an idea of what consciousness is, what
meditation can do to consciousness and how different forms of music and chanting
can be a tool for opening a gate to a multidimensional
world in which man, knowingly or not, belongs to or is a part of.
I will try to formulate some pieces of
evidence from many different areas of research, such as pendulum motion,
harmonics, bio-acoustics, thermodynamics and information theories, and view them
in the framework of sound and music, especially in regard to ancient music
systems.
These do not in any way stand for scientific
proof. My aim is to make a bigger picture than science can produce and hope that
this puzzle will tantalize your brain and give you a broader perspective in the
amazing realm of music and sound.
Here are some key words to the table
of contents:
- Levels of consciousness, levels of
reality
- The Hologram - Natures information
storage
- The Cosmic octave
- The pendulum and its strange behavour in
rest positions
- Time traveling on regular basis
- The Platonic Year (The Pythagorean Great
Year)
- Music can shape the mind and alter
society
- Dimensions and Scales
- The Music of the Spheres
- Brain waves - octaves below musical
octaves
- Some mathematical characteristics of the
4th
Dimension
- The human brain as a multi channel
holographic biocomputer
- Thermo information theory can measure one
channel of the awareness in the brain
- The mystic of Pythagoras’ Comma, the
Calendar and measurement of space, not time.
Self-reference
One distinctive feature about the
human mind is its awareness of its self. We are bound to understand
oneself by means of oneself, namely by self-reference.
This paradox was first formulated in western
culture by the ancient Greek philosopher Epimenides', who came from Crete, and
formulated one sentence, that has haunted logical thinkers since: "All
Cretans are liars". There are others versions such as "I am
lying", or "This statement is false".
Those having read Douglas
Hofstadter's bestseller "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden
Braid" may better understand the meaning of mentioning this violation of
the language system by self-reference. Professor Hofstadter points out the many
loops that operate in our language – and thinking system.
By stating "I am conscious" we are
dealing with a similar problem of self-reference. One has to ask what is
observing the "I" that claims it is conscious. It has to be an
"I" on a higher level outside or above the "I" that states
it is conscious!
Is that higher "I" outside the brain in the person that makes such a
statement? Or is there some kind of a loop here?
Self-reference is a loop because it refers
to something inside the system, the person itself by that person.
Is the person who states "I am conscious" in imagination or deceived
by wishful thinking? Probably but not necessarily - it depends on that person’s
level of consciousness.
This is the critical question that does not
refer to how this higher level of consciousness is built but only to the crucial
question: is there a level of consciousness that exists "above" or
"outside" our brain that thinks it is conscious?
The PC I write this on is a
very faint and weak copy of a human brain. The highest level on Windows is the
desktop.
The next level is outside the PC in another dimension, namely my brain
processing the symbols on the screen.
If that is the case there is a way out the
trap, the self-reference, the loop. My answer to this is my above-mentioned multidimensional self.
Of course one can ask, what observes the next level of consciousness? In the end
we have to say God, The Absolute or the Universal Consciousness.
The meta-meta symbol level may in my
understanding be located above the actual brain in another dimensional body. You
have to raise your attention above the system, and elevate to a macro level, in
order to observe that system.
There are different names for those fields around the body, that could serve as
a connection or an intermediary to higher worlds, such as Auras, Astral body,
"the higher bodies of Man" or chakras above the 7th.
These are meta physical terminologies. Others such as Soul and Spirit could be
in that category too.
But we can turn to a more scientific
terminology. We can look into the oscillating fields, that surround our
body.
The electromagnetic and electrostatic fields making op and shaping our body are
relative strong and serve to hold our atoms and molecules together. They weaken
as they move outside our body.
There is a relative strong field about 4 inches outside the body. Then it weaken
strongly and fade slowly out to 20 inches. The strengths of the field
depends much on the vitality of the person. If the vitality is low by sickness
or depression, there will be practically no field at all.
Actually, it is a electro dynamic field caused by the motion of the
body. The heart/aorta system is the main supplier of the pulsing motion of
the body. It is between 6.8 and 7.5 Hz. This motion is spread to the whole body.
Even the brain oscillate a little.
Here comes an interesting phenomenon: if a person is able to meditate properly,
the breathing becomes so gentle, that the metabolic rate of the body slow down
and the heart beat too. The blood flow in the heart/aorta system reach a state
where the usual interference by the resistance in the aorta change into a
resonant mode. The whole body will stay in a coherent motion about 7 Hz. It
seems that the natural frequency of the normal body lay in the same range, so a
nice resonate system is working with a little effort and the amplitude of the
electro dynamic field increase by factor of three.
Nature has a tendency to choose energy
saving systems. In regard to oscillating bodies with frequencies in the
same range, the vibration of the bodies will begin to work together in the same
pace, rather than continue with different frequencies. This phenomenon is called
rhythm entrainment and can be observed in many
different cases.
If we stay with our meditating person, who
is spreading a fine tuned signal out to the world. Other meditating people are
sending a similar signal and there is a chance to come in rhythmic entrainment.
The Earth itself has an electrostatic field which lay between the surface and
the ionosphere, a cavity in which a resonant system produce a standing wave with
a fundamental frequency at 7.8 Hz. It is called Schumann
wave after its discoverer.
Though the size of a human and the Earth
differ a lot, we can suggest a tuned resonant system, that can couples well to a
person in deep meditation and an exchange of energy can take place.
This is occurring at a very long wavelength of about 40,000 km., or just about
the perimeter of the planet. So now we have signals from a meditating soul, who
can be in touch with the whole Earth in about one seventh of a second through
the electrostatic field in which we are embedded. Such a long wavelength have no
obstacles and its power does not weaken much over long distances. Telepathy
seems to have a good chance to be conveyed. So do mass hysteria!
This example is meant as an illustration of
the potential of our body. There are ways where the level of consciousness can
move above the physical, vibrating body.
Usually we could look at our brain as a highly sophisticated bio-computer that
process and store information's needed for orientation and survival in
life.
Itzhak Bentov suggests in his elevating
book, "Stalking the Wild Pendulum", that our brain is not the source
of thoughts, but an amplifier of thoughts. The tiny
impulses are magnified by the brain, and only then they become a thought. The
thoughts does not originate within the brain. It is our field outside our brain,
the astral, mental or causal bodies, that receive the tiny impulses and implant
them in the brain, which amplify them into thoughts as we know them.
"Thoughts" exist below the threshold of recognizable
thoughts.
This theory support the many phenomena of isolated scientists, who worked on the
same discovery, (or the hundred monkey syndrome).
The Hologram - natures information storage
If we drop a few pebbles in a little pan
with water, we will soon see a complex pattern of waves interfering with each
another. Let us say that we can freeze that interference pattern very quick, so
we will have a sheet of ice with the pattern. If we illuminate the interference
pattern with the same light under which the information originally was recorded,
an 3 dimensional image of the pebbles appears in space.
The ice sheet has stored the information about the pebbles that has caused all
the ripples.
If this ice sheet or lens breaks into pieces and one piece is illuminated the
same way as before, we will still have a 3 dimensional image of the pebbles-
though it may be not so clear.
We know that the waves from each pebble crossed the face of the whole pan,
naturally, they must have interacted with each other across the whole
surface. As each wave can be traced back to its source, so will a piece of the
whole also preserve information about the whole.
This is the essence about hologram.
There are evidence that our brain store
information in a holographic form. This is a very compact way of storing
information's. The genetic code carried in our chromosomes could be another
example. Each cell in our body carries all the information's needed to produce a
copy.
A key element in the process of storing
information as a hologram is the orderly behavior of the waves in the system.
They must be consistent both in velocity and in wave lengths. Otherwise there
will just be chaos.
This is where coherency comes in - an order of a certain kind. In this case it
will be coherent light without which good holograms can not be made. The most
common source of coherent light is a laser. It produces light of just a single
color - monochromatic light, and the light is emitted in an even,
"flat" form and extremely fixed phase. This makes it possible for
laser light to stay in a narrow, even beam over very large distances.
The coherent laser light is necessary in
order to create holograms. There has to be a coherent reference source similar
to the source, that illuminate the object so an interference pattern can be
recorded and recreated in the same way.
A simple way to make a holographic picture, is to split the light into two
components by a half mirror - a semi transparent mirror. This allows part of the
beam to continue undisturbed, while part of it is deflected to another mirror,
which is guiding the beam to the object, we want a holographic picture of.
We have two beams; one is going straight to the film. That is the reference
beam. The other beam is lead to the object, which the light will illuminate and
interact with. The disorganized reflected light from the object will then reach
the film and form an interference pattern with the reference beam.
When the film is illuminated with the reference beam, a holographic picture is
created.
We notice the importance of the reference
beam, the pure, virgin and untouched source, which serves as a baseline for
comparison. Our whole life is a constant struggle making such comparisons. Our
senses, which describe our reality to us, are making these comparisons all the
time. Unfortunately, our senses, having no absolute reference line, must
generate their own relative base line. In general we perceive information's and
adapt them in relation to their differences only. We have no absolute measure of
anything, as far as our reality is concerned.
Hermes Trismegistus
If
we for a moment give up the common notion about sound as air waves the ear can
hear, and extend it to a member of the universal family of vibrations, we will
open up for the Hermetic Principles that tell us about the Universe is nothing
more or less than an endless number of vibrations and rhythms from the atoms to
the stars.
Hermes
Trismegistus, Thrice Great Hermes, the scribe of the Gods, as the ancient Greeks
named the mystical Egyptian God Thoth, was said to create by the sound of his
voice alone. The sacred writings of the ancient mystery Schools over the world,
were attributed to him as mediator of divinely revealed wisdom.
While there are many mystical and
spiritual paths, the Principles laid out by (the post atlantian?) Hermes Thoth
seem to be incorporated in all of these paths. There were Seven Principles
upon which the entire Hermetic Philosophy was based. Describe in ”The
Kyballium: a study of Hermetic Philosophy” these are:
1.
The
principle of Mentalisme: "All is mind"
2.
The
principle of correspondence: "As Above, so Below".
3.
The
principle of Vibration:" All is in vibration".
4.
The
principle of Polarity: " Everything is dual".
5.
The
principle of Rhythm: " Everything flows".
6.
The
principle of Cause and Effect: " Everything happens according to Law".
7.
The
principle of Gender: " Everything has its Masculine and Feminine
Principles"
As
the ancients seemed to know, everything in the Universe is in a state of
vibration.
If we use a scientific language of this age,
we first have the subatomic particles, which have properties such as: charge,
a spin, magnetic moment and "charmed", "colored" quarks.
Stepping up in size, the are atoms made of a nucleus and electron shells. The
electrons are rapidly orbiting the nucleus while at the same time rotating about
their own axes. We are talking about vibrations in the category of a million
billion times a second (1015 Hz).
The next level is molecules where atoms are bound in groups, which have a much
lower vibration due to the larger mass, but still in the category of Gigahertz
(109 Hz).
If we look at an aggregate of atoms in a crystal, we find at they vibrate about
their fixed position in the lattice of the crystal. At this level we still find
the two kinds of motion: a circular spin like motion and a reciprocating, to and
fro motion at relatively fixed points.
Concerning large molecules the atoms are
confined to relatively fixed positions. Any free branches will tend to exhibit
pendulum like movements and rotations or resembling the movement of a
stretched vibrating string.
The organic cell, the building blocks of all
organisms, is a further step down in vibration (kiloHz) due to the many
molecules tied together in a complex order. The movements of simple organic life
such as plankton, we find only one kind of motion: the reciprocating or to and
fro motion much like the swing of the pendulum. The spin we have seen for the
atoms and molecules are gone.
Looking at the specialized nerve cells,
neurons, linked together in a nervous system, nature has made it possible to
translate a sensory input into a "Morse" code of action and rest, that
can adapt the fast vibratory rate of molecules into an acceptable frequency
response of the cell.
Our sensory system operates by means of electro chemical substances
creating a pulse or spikes by simulations.
Action comes when the neuron fires a spike. Rest arises as the cell is
regenerating. Out of this action-and-rest code our brain translate the sensory
input into a perception of our reality.
Throughout the animal kingdom we find that
the reciprocating motion prevails. There are almost no spin in living organic
bodies. The heart beat and the pulsing blood flow make a pendulum like or
oscillating behavior.
When we reach into the next step in the
hierarchy of sizes to the celestial bodies, the movements of orbiting and spin
reappear. Our planet system behaves in that double motion, rotating about their
axes while in the same time orbiting around our sun.
The Cosmic Octave
Humans are living on the surface of Lady
Gaia (the earth) in her biosphere, the thin film of organic life. I would like
to give a very short introduction to a portion of the Gurdjiff-Ouspensky system,
that display the universe as one descending octave, the Ray of Creation, since
it is the study of that system, that made me start the study of octaves.
The
passage of Forces
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The Ray of Creation
shows the passage of forces in the decending Cosmic Octave. It
begins with the high do as the Absolute. The interval, do-si, is
filled by the Will of the Absolute, unknown to man.
The tone si represent All Worlds, the tone la contains All suns,
the tone sol is our sun, the planets in our solar system is
represented by the tone fa.
Between the planets and Earth, in the fa-me interval, the passage
of cosmic influence formed as interacting triads of active,
neutralizing and passive forces, are stopped. (The active force is
called Carbon, the passive force is Oxygen and the neutralizing
force is named Nitrogen.)
Therefore the planets can not pass their influence direct to
Earth, so in order to make a passage, a special contrivance was
created, which we call the organic life on Earth. In this scope
humans can be considered as sensitive nerve-ends of the
Earth.
So humans are tiny little receptors on the surface of Earth for
the cosmic influences and can fill out the link in the great
"food chain".
(See Octaves
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Octaves inside the octave
One of the faculties of an octave is the property of having octaves
within the octave. One tone in an octave can branch
off into a new octave and so on. In the Cosmic octave there is such an
example in the lateral octave.
Organic life on Earth is created in the form of a lateral octave, where
the Do is our sun, Si the planets and La, Sol, Fa
the organic life on Earth, which bridge the interval. Then Mi in this
additional octave enters into the Earth and Re into the Moon.
After the tone re the cosmic octave has its low do, which is also the
Absolute. One Absolute is All, the other is Nothing. But there can be no
two Absolutes, for by its very nature, the Absolute is One. Therefore
All includes Nothing and Nothing includes All.
In our subjective, dualistic perception of the world, opposites can not
be grasped as actually being One.
This dichotomy is one of the many, we face when we are dealing with the
big questions in our existence.
The pendulum
In the following I will - with assistance of
Itzhak Bentov and his book Stalking the Wild Pendulum - explain why the simple
movement of the pendulum convey an astonishing account of our existence and
reality.
There seems no mystic in the old-fashioned pendulum in the clock. The laws of
classical mechanics tell us that it is a simple harmonic motion. At the point of
rest the acceleration of the weight is maximum. The potential energy is maximum;
its velocity is zero; and the time required for changing the velocity of the
weight is zero.
Peculiar things begins to happened if we look at the zero point with the point
of view of quantum mechanics!
We have to scale down below atoms -even elementary particles -level, down to the
quantum level, and watch the micro movement as it approaches the turning
point.
When we go below the distance of Planck, which is 10-33 cm, we enter
a new world, where time and space become "grainy" or chunky.
Planck's length represent the smallest region of space that can be described
meaningfully. Juggling the fundamental constants in a different way yields one,
and only one, fundamental unit of time: the Planck's time, which is about 10-43
sec.
By combining the fundamental constants of gravity, Planck's constant (E=hv) and
the speed of light (the three constants of physics), it is possible to obtain a
unique basic unit of length and time. (John Gribbin in "In search of
Schrödinger's cat")
This distortion of time and space at the
quantum level means, that a pair of events would occur in either time or space,
the pair not being connected casually, but by a random
fluctuation.
Suppose, that a material point can traverse space without necessarily requiring
any chunk of time for the process. If so,
a chunk of space has been spanned without any time elapsing. That tiny piece of
distance divided with zero time yields infinite velocity - no matter over how
short a distance.
I have to continue a little more with
quantum mechanics in order to fully understand the oscillating behavior. There
is a principle in physics that states that any event that is not prohibited by
the law of physics should happen. So what happens really to the pendulum in the
point of rest, the split second where it shift phase? All the points on it
behave the same way, therefore all of it must for a tiny fraction of a second
move at infinite velocity. Can a physical object move faster than the speed of
light?
We have to turn to another pioneer in
quantum physics, to Heisenberg and his principle of uncertainty. This principle
states that in trying to measure two parameter of a particle, for instance, its
momentum and its position, we find that the more accurately we measure its
momentum (mass x velocity), the less we can know about its position, and vice
versa.
If we know the exact momentum of a particle, then its position is completely
unknowable, and vice versa.
We know when the pendulum is in the changing
point, when it is at rest, its velocity is zero. But the momentum, at low speed
at least, is equal to velocity multiplied by mass. We know the velocity is zero,
so when we multiply any quantity with zero, we get zero.
According to Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty, the position of the pendulum
at rest becomes diffuse and completely indefinite.
In other words, the pendulum can be just about any place
in the Universe for just a tiny fraction of time with infinite speed.
The rapid disappearance of the pendulum into
the Universe is so fast, that we can not detect it in our level of existence and
reality.
The reason we have used the swing of a
pendulum as a showcase is because the pendulum represents any system that
oscillates or move back and forth, whether such an oscillator pulsates
concentrically, goes around in orbits, or turns about itself.
From the standpoint of one observer, there are always two points at which either
of these systems appears to be at rest. To be completely at rest means that the
movement has reached the point where it change or reverse direction.
That point of rest implies somehow a disappearance of matter in a infinite or
almost infinite velocities.
Infinite speed and total rest seem somehow complementary. Again
we face a condition where extremes meet its opposite. At our level of reality we
can not be aware of the atoms in the pendulum, that oscillates at a rate of 1015
Hz. and come and goes at that rate.
What is reality?
It has something to do with movements
and with relativity. At the sub atomic level the world is made up of a void, a
vacuum, which is filled by pulsating, oscillating electro-magnetic fields, that
in turns move between two points of rest. The point of rest is reached through a
period of motion. We have seen how weird the pendulum behaves at that level,
which is called the objective reality.
When we reach the level of human in the hierarchies of motion, we are limited to
the subjective reality by the total sum of impressions conveyed to us by our
senses. The nervous systems translate the objective reality for us into a Morse
code of action and rest, which are oscillating electrical states of our nervous
system.
There is a common factor in both realities,
that is connected to what I will call the meta physical notion of being
"real". Itzhak Bentov's definition of "real" means there has
to be a change or motion occurring between the two states of rest to create
reality. It is the motion
that forms the reality. If there is no change, there is a state of
perpetual rest, and a state of perpetual rest means no perceptible
reality.
The tangible reality exist for us only as long as there are movements. When the
movements stops, matter and "solid" reality become diffuse and
disappear into the void of rest.
This description of the tangible reality is
not new. Actually, the old Tibetan Buddhist masters states, that "the
tangible world is
movement, not a collection of moving objects, but movement itself. There are no
objects 'in movements'.
It is the movements which constitutes the objects, which appear to us: there are
nothing but movements". (Alexandra David-Neel and Luma Yongden from their
book, The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects).
Subjective time or expanded
consciousness
It is generally known and experienced that
in moments of present, actual danger time "slows" down and the
impressions are received at a much higher speed. The nervous system switches to
a faster mode, to a much wider band of information. In terms of telephone
systems from analog cables to light cables. (See Information Theory)
Even higher speeds in consciousness are recorded in the near death experience,
where ones whole life is presented in seconds, (as one is taping into the
Akashic record?)
The slow down of time can be experienced in
a less dramatic way, if one master the art of meditation, or is trained by
biofeedback to produce theta brainwaves. If one can obtain such meditative state
and at the same time is able to watch the second hand of a clock, the are
chances to be surprised by finding, that the second hand has come to a stop! As
soon the intellect discover what has happend, the second hand will accelerate
into its normal pace again, unless one has long training in meditation.
Time-travelling on regular basis
The only time travel mashine so far is the
human mind. I avoid mentioning the body, since mass as Einstein has showen, will
increase by an astronomical size approaching the speed of light.
Shamen and mystic's have through time demonstrated time travelling. Nostradamus
and Edgar Cayce are known examples in our culture. The trick is to leave the
body for a while. The technique might be diversified, the aim as well, but it is
possible for an entity that correlates and make sense of the information
submitted to it by the brain, to be absent and far away.
The out of body experience has been well documented by Robert Monroe in his
books, which are highly recommended.
A more secret aspect of out of the body preformance, was conducted by the US
defence forces during the cold war under the name, "remote viewing of
natural targets". According to Discovery channel the most skilled remote
viewers performed very high accuracy in the controlled tests. The interesting
part in those tests was, that they viewed the random moving target in advance
of time. The saw the target a hour before it was there.
In the following I, again, will relate to
Itzhak Bentov, an American engineer, who practised life long meditation, which
was the base for his book, Stalking the wild Pendulum, because he present - in
my view - the most consistent theory.
In the analysis of the pendulum we have
found that the body also oscillates in a pendulum like fashion about 7 times in
a second. Each time the body reach the point of rest about 14 times a second the
"observer" or the entity having no physical mass, expand at a very
high speed into space.
Where does the observer goes in those split seconds of perpetual rest when the
natural boundaries of space and time collapse?
No only to the end of the rainbow, but everywhere in the universe. For a very
short moment it becomes a "star" - Miss Universe - with mighty
ommipresent. It is an awesome expansion of consciousness. A shame we are not
aware of it.
Or maybe somewhere deep inside a tinkling little voice says, I know! The
intuitive gut feeling, knowing the harmony with the universe.
Space/time diagram
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The fastest action in the physical world is
natuarally limited by the speed of light. In a four-dimensional space/time
diagram the vertical direction stands for time, the horizontal direction
represents the three space dimensions. A 45 degree diagonal line indicate the
boundaries between space and time representing the speed of light. The cross
secktion is the "now" point.
In the advanced physics
there are some hypothetical particles called tachyons, which can move beyond the
speed of light. Suppose that the tachyons travel at almost infinite speed, which
implies that they are moving practically along the horizontal space axis without
much regard to the vertical time axis. In no time they can be everywhere. They
behave space-like, not time like.
They have omnipresence.
Concerning mortals beings the objective
coordinates in the space/time diagram are still representing the time like
universe as we know it in normal consciousness, so the subjective coordinates
overlap or stay parallel.
In case of the higher meditative state of
rest where the out of body observer fill the universe in a space like behavior,
the situation change dramatic. The subjective time/space coordinates separate
from the objective and rotate about the "now" point, the common
center. The subjective time line has gained an arbitrary angle to the objective
time line. Projecting with a parallel line to the objective time line we see,
that the subjective time is longer than the objective time.
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The more the subjective time line angle approach the space axis, the more
subjective time is at hand and consequently an increasing space like manner. In
an altered state of consciousness, we are rapidly expanding into space.
An expansion of consciousness leads to an expansion into space.
We have to remember, that the observer as an entity with no physical mass
can slip through the velocity of light barrier. However, the observer is still
tenuously linked to the physical body, and the physical senses still relay
messages to the out of body observer in an undistorted form.
The values of the
subjective/objective time ratio increase rapidly as we go beyond 89 degrees. The
ratio is over one million at an angle at 89,9999 degrees. The subjective time
becomes infinitely long at 90 degrees, because cosine at 90 degrees is zero.
Level of consciousness
From the above we have describe a person's
level of consciousness by the ratio of his subjective time to his objective
time. The range of these ratios is very broad depending of the ability to hold
an expanded state of consciousness.
It starts as small wandering of attention as the example with the clock, where
we was able to slow down the second hand for a brief moment. A step further
could be hypnotic time dilation, or dreaming, which is in fact an altered state
of consciousness. It is first in deep meditation or trance by trained people
that the ratio can be significant and persistent. The angle does not close or
become zero, but fluctuates at some distance from the objective time axis
The consciousness index is: subjective time
/ objective time. E.g. 4 seconds / 1 second = 4.
The subjective time coordinates rotates
together with the subjective space axis, so the subjective time stretches as
well as the observer expand into the subjective space. The space axis approaches
the objective time axis. The "time like" subjective space is becoming
objective time. This means that the observer travels in what is supposed to be
the space, but actually is moving through his own and others peoples objective
time. Depending of direction it means traveling in the objective past or
future.
Clairvoyants often use the term, "I am
going into your past", describing the movement though time. Time is space
for the clairvoyant, who might even give some predictions of ones future, but
since the future is made up of probabilities depending of human free will, such
travel into the future should be vague and uncertain.
Untrained people are not aware of those fast
out of the body experiences. They do not reach the normal conscious thinking
level, but remain in the subliminal level. Trained observers who can stay at a
high level of consciousness for a while and stretch the subjective time, managed
to be imprinted with impressions from other dimensions and realities.
But what is actually going on with the body.
We have to imagine the huge amounts of atoms we consist of. They oscillates at a
rate of 1015
Hz. and disappear and reappear at their own rate and we have no chance to
notice such rapid phenomena. Further more it is very unlikely that all the atoms
in our body vibrate synchronously or coherently; presumably only parts or areas
are blinking on and off gradually.
The key to higher consciousness seems to consist in coherency - to be one.
Spiritual masters from different traditions have stated the necessity of being
one unit. The language may differ, but the meaning is to bring the legions into
one army.
If total coherency occures in the body, as may be the case for ascended masters,
the whole body will blink off and on as a unit, and truely miraculous events can
take place.
Two aspects of consciousness
Let us examine some basic premise about
consciousness by expanding it to apply to any being or matter. We can say that
an atom have consciousness because it can respond to sitmuli. Since all physical
reality is constructed of atoms in a smaller or larger aggregates, we can say
that a given mass contains a certain amount of consciousness. The percentage
will vary in quantity and in quality according to the diffrent evolutionary
level.
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There is a certain relationship between the
number of responses per simuli, or the quantity
of consciousness,
and the level of quality. We will express the
quality of consciousness in terms of frequency response. The higher the quality
of consciousness, the higher the frequency response range of the system.
So quantity of conscoiusness is given in terms of number of responses a system
is capable of as a reaction to a simulus.
Quality of consciousness is the degree of refinement
or intelligence of such responses and their range expressed in terms of freqency
response.
Each frequency range stands for a certain reality band.
The ladder of evolution
In Nature we have a spectrum of realities, each occupied by a population having
a certain level of consciousness.
Each band or step of the ladder has its own range of frequency response (quality
of consciousness), which could be the vertical line. The horizontal line display
the range of information handling capacity of the
(nervous) system (quantity of consciousness).
In the bottom of the diagram we have an atom. Next step could be a virus, then a
plant, next an animal, then a human, and above the human reality band, the realm
of astral or emotional reality, further up the mental reality, then the
"causal" or intuitive reality band, and above some spiritual levels
approaching the maximum energy exchange level with the universe and control over
the nature, e.g. changing water into wine.
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The point in such a diagram is to give a
picture of different level of realities. This spectrum of realities do not have
sharply defined boundaries, but to some extend reach into each an other.
An example of the
consciousness of a plant is described in Carlos Castaneda's book, The Teachings
of Don Juan, where the spirit of the peyote plant, Mescalito, was a very
powerful one. If the book is a fraud, it does not take away a vivid display of
the reality of a plant.
In Robert Monroe's book, "Far Journeys", one can find a very
interresting account of the astral world. I find Monroe's writing about his out
of body experiences highly reliable.
Stanislav Grof, the Czech/American pioneer and research worker in human
consciousness and trans-personal experience, has a long row of books border on
this subject, especially in "The Cosmic Game", Explorations of the
Frontiers of Human Consciousness..
Looking at the diagram as a whole we see
that the relationship between the quantity and the quality of consciousness is
given by a curved line. As this line is approaching to top which we can call the
absolute, it becomes almost parallel, meaning accumulating all beings. In other
words, the absolute contains all the consciousness there is in the universe.
It is the source of all consciousness.
The "sea" of the absolute
Earlier we have stated that our reality is
coded in terms of movement and rest. When an oscillator is in a state of rest,
it tunnels into a space like dimension, which implies infinite speed that are
equivalent to a state of rest. It becomes omnipresent.
It has attained a state of just "being" for a very short period of
time. As soon the oscillator gets into movement, everything is back to usual. We
are dealing with two components of reality: movement and rest.
We can make a bold comparison: this state of "being" can be compared
with the absolute, since both imply no motion,
no action, just total rest - just "being".
At the same time, it is a state of high potential energy, because the state of
rest is equivalent to infinitely high velocities. Further more, the two
contrasting concepts of movement and rest, become reconciled in the
absolute.
The bottom line is, that this state of reality, can be an absolute
reference line against which all in the world or in creation, can be
measured. The absolute is an ever present baseline for all the other realities.
This sounds as a the master hologram, where
we have the undisturbed reference beam, the absolute, and a experienced or
modulated out of phase beam, the relative reality.
The absolute can be pictured as a boundless
deep sea. The surface of the sea is very calm and so smooth, that it is
invisible and not in existence but contain the potential of any
existence.
Ripples or waves break up the surface and makes it visible. By analogy, when
motion or vibrations appears in the absolute, it becomes visible or manifest,
and we call it the relative or physical reality.
From the consciousness diagram we have a
display of levels of realities. We can compare the size of the ripples or waves
to the different realities, but the "deep" layers of the sea will
never be disturb; a state of eternal rest will prevail.
The different type of ripples will correspond to the level of consciousness.
Some will have a low quantity of consciousness and a low frequency response,
while "fine" high frequency ripples will correspond to the highest
level below the absolute.
Mind over matter business
We have earlier stated that matter
"contains" more or less of consciousness. In view of the above
mentioned it would be more correct to acknowledge, that matter, being made of
quanta of energy, is
the vibrating, changing component of pure consciousness. It is all made of the
same "stuff" in different forms. Water, e.g. is still water either in
form of ice, liquid or in steam or vapor.
Realities are made up of two components, one
is the steady reference line or immutable background. The other is the dynamic,
vibrating aspect of the same thing. So mind and matter are both made of the same
basic stuff. The difference has to be found in the composition of vibration or
ripples. Matter belongs to larger and slower waves, which implies that
it possesses less energy of the absolute.
Mind is made op of much finer ripples, which indicate that it contains more of
the consciousness of the absolute. So the common concept of mind over matter
should be formulated as mind "over" a different aspect of itself.
It may be a comfort to realize that no
matter how relative or remote we are from the absolute, we are still made of the
stuff of the absolute. (This make me think of the phrase: we are all made of
dust from the stars.)
To sum up this extremes business about the
absolute, one can say, that the absolute is an infinitely fine relative, in
which the size of the waves is so minute and the frequency so high, that they
are invisible.
Movement and rest is fuse into one.
In this state the energy is tremendous high and is full of creative potential,
plus full of intelligence. This stands for a self-organizing capability to any
entity in creation.
Our reality is a
vibratory reality
- from sub nuclear to atomic, to molecular, to macro levels. Every thing is
oscillating between two states of rest. Everything is producing a
"sound".
This has been a brief tour into the world of
the wild pendulum. Itzhak Bentov has more to offer in his "Stalking
the Wild Pendulum", but here we will leave his pendulum and continue with
other metaphysical aspects of music and sound.
To be continue in part II of The
Sound of Silence
Thomas Váczy Hightower, 2003.
Index page
The Musical Octave.
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