Each one of us is far greater, far more advanced, far more consciously aware, far more intelligent than we conceive of our selves as being. Within each of us is a central law pressure place, a quiet center, in which we can learn to live eternally. Just outside of this quiet center is a cyclone, the rotating storm of the ego, competing with other egos in a furious high velocity circular dance.

In the quiet center we are untouched by the cyclone, but as we leave it, the roar of the rotating wind deafens as we join the frenzied dance of our ever more busy lives. Our centered thinking, feeling and being is in the quiet center, not outside in the busy world. Our pushed, pulled and driven states, our antiSatori modes of functioning, our self created hell, is outside the quiet center. When in the quiet center we are off the wheel of karma, outside the busy details and dramas of life, rising to join the creators of the universe, the creators of us. Here we find that we have created They who are Us

Major philosophical puzzles are concerned with the existence of self, with the relation of the self to the brain, to the mind and to other minds, with the existence or non-existence of an immortal self. Powerful beliefs have evolved about these areas of thought.

There are two aspects of the self. There is an observing self, the observer, and a doing or participating self, the operator. The whole self is the observer and the operator. Depending upon circumstances, the observer can be observing external events, or internal events, or both. The operator can be participating in external events, or in internal events, or both. In the external reality the operator uses the body to do things and participate. In the internal reality the operator uses simulations of reality, which are concepts, beliefs, meta beliefs, intentions, distinctions, and so forth. These internal images or pictures of external reality are not real, they are simulations of what is out there, as we perceive it. Simulations of the same external event can vary widely among people.

No matter what you are doing, the the self and observer and operator is always immersed in the internal simulations domain. Even when engaged in external events, we are simultaneously engaged in watching and acting in the internal domain. The two realities, internal and external, interact in a two way feedback relationship, internal reality to external reality to internal reality to external reality and so on endlessly.

Like a scientist, the self observes, which involves consciousness and control. In the science game, the scientist is expected to be always conscious, aware and in control of his thinking, to be rational, and in control of the processes that he is examining. This is not always the case. When in the void space and isolated from sensory stimulation, it can be discovered that there are many states in which the Self is not in control but is being programmed by forces very much larger than self.

It is as if the self were a victim, being coercively persuaded of another belief system not one’s own. Most of us have been aware of such an experience at one time or another, especially as children. The passive observer and the active operator both disappear under these conditions. Interlocked with forces, with beings, with entities far greater than we are, the self does that which it is programmed to do rather than to operate by our own initiative. We are forced into participation by external forces. We do not sit still and watch, as a scientist would.

Words, language, logic and mathematical descriptions are not adequate expressers of either the inner or outer aspects of reality. Somehow, all descriptions of reality are sterile. They tend to play word games that cleverly juggle with ideas in intricate patterns as if meaningful.

There are protocols for how to think objectively about outer physical, chemical and biological realities. Equally important is to develop ways to think objectively about the inner realities. But we lack tools to conduct a truly objective philosophical analysis of who we are on the inside.

Realization of the lack of any limits in the mind is not easy to acquire. The domains of direct experience of infinities within greater infinities of experience are sometimes frightening, sometimes awesome, sometimes blissfull. Franklin Merrell-Wolff, who feels this lack of mind limits in his own experiences writes in The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object: Reflections on the Nature of Transcendental Consciousness:

1) The first discernible effect in consciousness was something that I may call a shift in the base of consciousness. From the relative point of view, the final step may be likened to a leap into Nothing. At once, that Nothing was resolved into utter Fullness, which in turn gave the relative world a dreamlike quality of unreality. I felt and knew myself to have arrived, at last, at the Real. I was not dissipated in a sort of spatial emptiness, but on the contrary was spread out in a Fullness beyond measure.

The roots of my consciousness, which prior to this moment had been (seemingly) more or less deeply implanted in the field of relative consciousness, now were forcibly removed and instantaneously transplanted into a supernal region. This sense of being thus transplanted has continued to the present day, and it seems to be a much more normal state of emplacement than ever the old rooting had been.

2) Closely related to the foregoing is a transformation in the meaning of the “Self” or “I” Previously, pure subjectivity had seemed to me to be like a zero or vanishing point, a “somewhat” that had position in consciousness but no body. So long as that which man calls his “Self” had body, it stood within the range of analytic observation. Stripping off the sheaths of this body until none is left is the function of the discriminative technique in meditation. At the end there remains that which is never an object and yet is the foundation upon which all relative consciousness is strung like beads upon a string.

Our conduct naturally shapes itself according to the ideas in the mind, and nothing contributes more to success in life than having a high ideal and keeping it constantly in view. Where such is the case one can hardly fail in attaining it. Numerous unexpected circumstances will be found to bring it about, and even what seemed at first to be hostile may be converted into means for its continuance.

By having a high ideal constantly before the mind one is always ready to take advantage of any favoring circumstances that may present themselves. The mind subconsciously molds itself around the prevailing mental image or attitude, and then proceeds to draw upon the outer world for material with which to build in accordance with the plan. Not only is one’s character built in this way, but the circumstances and incidents of life follow the same rule.

It is well known that the few who have attained high degrees of development make use of this idea in order to help the race. Many a world movement has been directed by the minds of those advanced souls who were able to see the ideal of evolution and by concentrating upon it in meditation actually hastened its progress.

Some have used similar plans to further their own selfish personal ends often without fully realizing just what they were employing, but this simply illustrates the fact that the forces of nature may be used rightly or wrongly. And it is all the more reason why those who are desirous of advancing the race and assisting in the evolution of the world should make use of the power of meditation in their work.

Many are beginning to understand that thought manifests itself in action, and that thought attracts to itself the things, persons and circumstances in harmony with itself. The life of our race is entering into a new stage of development and evolution, and in the years to come mind will be seen more and more clearly to be the great principle underlying the world of material things and happenings.

Cells are individual conscious entities that participate in collective consciousnesses at various levels. There are many varieties of one celled beings who do not live in cell communities but spend their lives free and self regulating. When cells join in cooperative association they do not lose consciousness any more than a fish in a school. There is a body of evidence indicating that there is more to an organism than simply chemical reactions.

Dr. Harold Saxton Burr spent much of his life experimenting with electrical fields that envelop all organic forms. We need to keep in mind that all form is of a field nature. When we put iron filings around a magnet we see the shape of an immaterial field. When we examine matter we see an atomic field that assumes many forms. The nature of form is that it has boundary. Organic forms have the familiar material boundaries that we see and then there is an electrical envelope outside this boundary that has been studied by Dr. Burr.

This envelope is an extremely weak, direct current electrical field, extending out less than an inch. This field exists around all organic forms. There are also other energy fields such as the alternating current fields of electricity extending out from various regions of the human body, but none of these encompass the whole body. Dr. Burr was interested not so much by the fact that such a field exists but by the fluctuation of energy potential in these fields, which resonated with terrestrial and extraterrestrial events.

By monitoring the direct current field around living things, Dr. Burr found that the change in potential energy of this field correlates with specific events both internal and external to the body. This energy field that Burr studied is the same as the energy field that is monitored by the lie detector. The lie detector monitors fluctuations of the emotions. It is important to note that the field of electricity itself is probably not the emotion but a byproduct of its functioning. The symptomatic fluctuation makes it possible to monitor the actual phenomenon.

By his study, Burr found that each of us is a participant in the metabolism of the solar body through this field. Fluctuations in energy potential of this direct current field correlate with the lunar cycle and the sun spot cycle. He also discovered that by monitoring the field, the ovulation of the human female could be determined exactly, a matter of extreme importance to the human family. The electrical monitoring indicates an immaterial force that both controls and is controlled by the material. It is an integrated whole.

Burr’s research led him to the discovery that by monitoring the energy field he could determine the longitudinal axis (spinal column) of an unfertilized salamander egg. As he monitored it after fertilization his monitoring of the immaterial guiding field indicated that the spinal column remained congruous with the electrical polarity throughout its development. That is, the guiding field was there before fertilization and remained there as the guiding field, as the biological form unfolded. Burr went further and demonstrated that the guiding field not only participates in guiding the development of form but also is always at work with the living organism.

Burr also found the cosmic fluctuations of moon cycle, sun cycle and sunspots caused changes in the electrical potential of field, thus giving us evidence of the intimate connection of our bodies and emotions to cosmic events. In addition to being simply another piece of evidence that everything is connected, the Burr material shows an interaction between a force field that can be monitored by its electrical side effect and the physical organism. It suggests even further that important aspects of the control of the material form exists in this field.

Student and colleague Leonard Ravitz carried Burr’s work forward. Ravitz focused especially on the human dimension, beginning with a solid demonstration of the effects of the lunar cycle on the human energy field, reaching a peak of activity at the full moon. Through work with hypnosis he demonstrated that changes in the energy field directly relate to changes in a person’s mental and emotional states. Ravitz stated, “Both emotional activity and stimuli of any sort involve mobilization of electrical energy, as indicated on the galvanometer, hence, both emotions and stimuli evoke the same energy. Emotions can be equated with energy.” Most intriguingly, Ravitz showed that the energy field as a whole disappears before physical death.

When one looks out into the heavens at night, one sees points of light. This light is the transmission of pure energy striking the cells in our eyes. We know intellectually that the universe is full of pure energy going in all directions from those stars, but sometimes we cannot perceive that the light is something that is formed by the same source that has created us.

Cycle and balance are the basic processes of the universe. Events are circular, cyclical and vibrational. They travel from one pole and back around to the other. We are born into cycle and motion. From the time that the reproductive cells are formed in each of our parents, we are in motion. When we are later carried in the womb, we are in a sea of motion. After the cycle of gestation, we are finally born out of the body into a world of motion where winds blow, seasons cycle, and cycles of our own growth occur.

Each of us has been born onto a sphere travelling in space called the Earth, which is spinning around the central sun. The central sun with its planetary companions travels in a circle within our galaxy which itself is moving around a supercluster of galaxies. From the moment our first cell is created, we are part of the whole, and we never cease being in motion. 

We are a part of increasingly larger processes. There is no such thing as linear expansion toward some static security. The motion we experience is not random, but is cyclic. The circles of the Milky Way Galaxy, the solar system, our earth and the moon around us, occur in cycles so finely balanced and timed that they may be computed exactly, far into the future or into the past. 

These invariable motions are the Law. These impeccably tuned, harmonious cycles are imposed upon us by forces so powerful that there is no question that they are Cosmic Law. Within these celestial cycles the planet spins in a constant cycle of sunlight and darkness that is functionally a day night alternating current. Each point on the planet’s sphere is saturated with energy, then shadowed from it in precisely timed measures. 

Within this cycle and the energy cycle of the seasons, organic life on earth proliferates. The life of the earth was able to grow and develop because it remained in a state of dynamic balance. There is certainly change in the earth’s life but this occurs within a context of balance. If the earth tilted even a few more degrees or if there were any deviation of the earth’s orbit around the sun, the life of the earth would be greatly altered or non-existent.

The earth, this complex blue and white speckled egg, is alive, and its life processes vary constantly as it spins. Its colors change with the seasons, its cloud layers whirl and circulate in rhythmic cycles. Not surprisingly, an Italian chemist, Giorgio Piccardi, has discovered that the speed of the chemical reactions varies according to a number of planetary situations.

Uncountable numbers of organic events occur each second on earth, conditioned by celestial events within the body ofthe solar system. Everything is in relationship, everything flows in cyclic adaptation according to its nature and place in the universe. Organic events such as the metabolism of plankton in the oceans, the migration of salmon, the growth of forests, the annual migration of caribou and innumerable other events all are influenced by cyclic forces completely enmeshed in a flowing whole that is intricately balanced.