The Significance of OM/AUM

Since the 3rd or 4th Century B.C., in some parts of this world, the symbol of OM and it's associated sound, pronounced AUM, were considered sacred.  Its use began as a fundamental exercise within the science of yoga.  How does a person gain some benefit by repetitively intonating OM?  It is a way to raise the energy of the body from the pelvic region to the brain so that spiritual energy, hidden within us, can flood and then open brain centers as they receive more energy.  The proper way to enunciate this is by using a deep tone/low vibration to begin when the A is pronounced, which matches the low frequency of the pelvic area, then gradually raise the pitch until it's as high as you can create to resonate in the cranium.  The continued sound production should take several seconds, and with frequent repetition can induce a connection between your unconscious and conscious minds.  As you intonate the deeper sound of A to stimulate the 1st chakra, keep your mind on the lower part of the pelvic area, feel that deep sound vibrate there, and then as you transition to the sound of the U, pass through the second lower abdominal chakra and the third upper abdominal chakra in the stomach area, keeping your mind focused on these areas and feel the sound vibrate there as it passes through those points.  Then use the transition to the M sound as you feel that sound energy passing through the heart and throat chakras, and then use the final M sounds at the highest frequencies to get through the sixth forehead chakra and then the seventh crown chakra at the top of the head.   In this way, you can assist the reunification of your conscious and unconscious minds.  Recall that God also has a conscious mind, but our Paradox 6 states that God's conscious mind is it's creations, so when enhancing the connection between our conscious and unconscious minds, we assist God's conscious development.

Lately, recognition of the importance of the vagus nerve has become popular.  The vagus is the main communication conduit between brain centers and the abdominal viscera.  Intonating OM stimulates the vagus nerve as it passes superficially down through the throat area, thereby facilitating the brain/viscera, No. Pole vs. So. Pole, conscious and unconscious unification.  This action is an important part of raising kundalini energy, when the entire consciousness can function once again as one.  Here's an interesting aspect:  when the poles begin to unite there can be flashes of light leading to a cascade of light streaming through the consciousness, which is the beginning of spiritual enlightenment.  OM can be an important part of initiating this process.

Where is the Limit to Health

Suppose all tissues, organs, and glands are working without any type of hinderance.  No interference from any source since all mental and physical trauma has been resolved.  There is a pure compatibility, learned from experience, between the food which is converted to the fuel to run our bioelectrical system and the genetic foundation.  This covers all genetic and epigenetic factors. Some would say this person is functioning at 100%, perfect harmony, pure positive homeostasis.  

Sure this person would be feeling great, happy body in all respects, happy mind, but is that the limit to health.  Not entirely.  A division occurred at birth, when the conscious mind arose in order to make sense of the outer world.  The special senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste gather information from this outer world so the newcomer feels a part of it.  Notice how a baby uses one sense after another to explore this new world.  There is a point in this journey that might bring this person to the point of pure positive metabolic homeostasis.  The next step to take is to reunify the conscious and unconscious minds.  When this occurs, called the end point, there occurs a blissful state.  And after that, the person would be like the sun unconditionally radiating rays of light giving off energy in which all life can bask and be nurtured by it.

A Marriage Vow Made in Heaven

 For better or for worse, in sickness or in health, whether rich or poor, I take my unconscious as my lifelong and inseparable partner, to hold close in this journey until once again we shall become one.  

As I was in the beginning, and now moving closer toward being reunited, life is feeling more real with all of it's wonders all the time.  

The Win-Win, Let's Reach for it Again

The cancers which our bodies create are a function of too much of something playing upon our genetic base (which some would argue is tantamount to Karma);  so too our societal cancers, the foci of entropy,  serve to undermine cohesion and caring, promoting self-aggrandizement at the expense of everyone else.  This is the antithesis of perceiving life through the win-win, where individuals produce a product/service so society gains and they are compensated without excess-- value therefore accrues to both sides.  

Companies should also follow this ideal, BUT instead, because the suits which head the companies are NOT followers of this altruistic win-win, they'll suppress competition, use subversive tactics to squelch freedom, spin information to slant favorable outlooks their way at the expense of others.   

Taking this to the broader historical story of countries taking over other nations via resource competition or imperialism, instead of the win-win approach, where they could trade giving at least equal value so the relationship could be mutually beneficial, countries sought to subjugate the indigenous populations taking value and leaving little in return.  Again, it's those in power who decide who's to gain-- it's always been thinking of only their side.  

So why do individuals, companies, countries just act according to their own lot without regard to the plight of others?  Why is there no attempt to incorporate the win-win outlook at any level?  Because there is no consideration of the element of time, how the choices made now create the future for us all.

Not all is lost- there's reason to be optimistic, for even at the subatomic level a condition occurs where there's an equal sharing of energies.  This is the goal of the human mindset of living in the win-win way.

What it Means to Savor

To savor is to deeply experience, to the utmost, at every level, a sensation, or a feeling.  This allows the special uniqueness of the moment to have maximum impact on one's consciousness.

It could be the eating of a carrot, sensing on the molecular level the smell and taste, peering into the energy of it by concentrating on the feeling derived from observation of all of it's basic elements, and the feeling of it's texture as it is ground into tiny particles for maximum absorption.

When savoring a moment, such as the sight of a sunset, it would be difficult to fully appreciate it while driving in traffic, since attention is split between the task of driving and the sunset.  But by pulling off the thoroughfare, enjoying the colors present, the radiant energy as it falls away while the Earth spins, can increase the delight in the moment and allow one to fully relish in the sight.

To be able to savor any point in time, the health of the individual is necessary, otherwise, the senses are not capable of fully engaging in the moment.  One has to be there, in total, to fully enjoy, to savor, life.

Why religion is important?

Isolated by themselves, religions are bunk, but seen as a part of the process of mankind's yearning for the truth of our existence, they play an important part.  Whenever a new civilization/culture developed, a religion, a belief system in some higher power, would also be created.  After all, religion derives from the word to reconnect, i.e., to reconnect with one's Creator.  It is mankind's quest to answer questions about life on this planet.  It is inbred for humans to ask this question: is this seen world all there is?

Many peoples' first exposure to the unseen aspects of life is through the religions.  A problem develops when thorough indoctrination chains a person's consciousness so they only see life through the narrow-angled lens of their religion, failing to see the BigPicture of the human desire to know our Creator.   This narrow view of religion develops clashes between the various viewpoints, since each has been taught and believes their view is the correct one.  They have been indoctrinated to believe that if they have faith in their view, they will be saved according to the teachings of their religion- from what, death?

There is very little probability that the powers controlling the world's religions will ever give up their entrenched hierarchy.  So for the foreseeable future there will remain pockets of humanity which can see through all the divisions which all the separate religions have induced.

Where has spirituality gone?

There has always been those who have been attracted to the unseen aspects of life.  Those people may have been born with an inquiring mind, or an innate feeling which draws them toward God and religion, or they might be first introduced to subtle energies from an experience that told them there is more to life than what is seen in the material world.  These are the people searching for answers to the many whys of human existence.  It's the seen vs. the unseen;  some are interested and drawn more to one side than the other.   However, the personal experience of the energies of the spiritual world can only be accessed through the unseen world.

In simpler cultures, it was never difficult to set aside some time to separate oneself from the material world and search for answers.  But in this fast paced modern era, ushered in by advances in technology within the digital age, the primary focus has been to maintain one's presence on the physical level.  In technologically advanced cultures, it's never been more difficult to maintain oneself financially so that is the emphasis for most people.  There are few refuges in the Western society where one can devote the energy to investigate the unseen.

Let those with an inborn yearning to experience the spiritual energies unfold in their own time and place, not under the direction of other distracting forces.  That is why so many in ashrams/monasteries and the like fail to achieve progress in fusing their conscious and unconscious minds- those institutions do not allow the necessary freedom to find the correct path to become whole once again.

 

The Spiritual Anatomy of Mankind

The physical structure of mankind is well documented.  However, the spiritual side of humans resides as a hidden force in the background.  The spiritual side is what allows us to get in contact with our Creator.  This will be a quick overview.

The axial skeleton houses the brain and spinal cord, which is the core of our bioelectrical system, the body's electrical grid.   The 2 poles of this grid are the No. Pole residing in the midbrain, and the So. Pole situated in the sacral plexus.   The CSF acts as the battery fluid which helps to maintain the charge on this battery.  

With proper meditation on the No. Pole, brought to bear on the point between the eyebrows, the charge differential between the 2 poles is exaggerated and this pulls electrical energy up from the So. Pole to the No. Pole. 

Now imagine the spinal cord and brain being like a light bulb.  An ordinary light bulb has a stem with a bulb at the end, and the electrical input from the electrical connection at the bottom causes the light to shine.  In the human body, the input to produce enlightment, which is the flooding of the brain centers with the extra spiritual energy, is brought on by the constant work of the reproductive germinal cells as they are transmuted into this spiritual energy.   This action gives rise to super hearing, super sight, super sensitivity to all of the surrounding energies.  Very few have achieved the ability to sustain this goal in the history of mankind, yet that is in the future.  For now, women create a new physical presence on this Earth, while men have the capability to bring about a new spiritual presence.

Those that have accomplished this feat performed many hours of spiritual exercises, but in the future, for those who have followed the Natural Laws of clean eating, a modicum of exercise, and keping a positive attitude, it will come naturally.  For the temple of the spirit, the body, has to be in excellent shape, balanced in all regards, for this process to be successfully completed.

 

Cleaning Your Karma

Emotional baggage can inhibit positive action and restrict freedom.  Who wants to carry a bunch of emotional baggage on their shoulders?   

Often times there are incidents which happen to us over which we had no control, but we're back in the driver's seat when we center our attention on the now and future.There is no such device as selectively forgetting trauma to the nervous system.  As a matter of fact, the more you try to forget a problem in the past the more it gets ingrained.   This process occurs because in neural networks, those patternings reflecting an emotionally charged situation fire in an attempt to understand the full results of what happened, why it happened, and possible solutions;  they thereby become facilitated and more ingrained in our memories.  Forgiving is a mental exercise, forgetting is letting it go, so counseling and contemplating the issues may actually create more strain on the attempt to let it go.  The purest way to release yourself from the past is to keep your sights on the distant future, your goals, your fulfillment, the 5, 10, 30 years from now you.  The past can not be undone, it is written in the wiring of your brain, but in order for those memories to lose their power over you, there have to be plans and goals to keep your mind forward thinking, not backward thinking. This process lets the past recede into the dark (neural abatement) as you shine your light forward.  This is an important step in developing clean karma;  you have learned as much as you are able from a negative encounter with others or an error in judgment and now you are moving forward.   Now when you meet others you can have a positive attitude looking forward, and you will no longer be letting the past stand between you and your future happiness.  Thus, in this way you will free yourself of the past.

 MAHANANDA'S MOTTO (1975)

I love that existential emptiness-

That realm of the Beyond

   In which I've placed my heart-

The great void which Being can only fulfill

It is that womb of warmth,

Nourished by the flame, IT'S pure love,

In which we were created and to which we return.

                                         

Or feel it, the stagnant pool of a Self-made

Spacetime trap, drowning away hope,

               Which only you can create and which you can destroy.

Listen to the reverberating pleasantness of existence itself,

After all the tantalizing delusions are left behind.

 The Crown of Creation

This is why I consider being human to be a wonderful and beautiful experience;  indeed, I believe humans are unique in this universe and have a special purpose.

There are countless galaxies in our universe, each of them could have hundreds of billions of stars with their planetary systems, yet is there another one with the same size of our sun, with a planet the size of Earth averaging 93 million miles away which has a companion moon the size of ours, and sibling planets distributed throughout our solar system the same as ours?  Without these conditions, with the same electromagnetic influences, I do not believe that life could have developed as it did on our planet.  If there is intelligent life besides ours, it would not be DNA/RNA based. We are the chosen ones, to spread consciousness and to act as the conscious mind of our Creator.  That's right, our Creator's conscious mind is in IT'S creations.

So why are so many acting like fools, trying to maintain an elevated consciousness by feeding their bioelectrical systems with polluted fuel.  While taking in poor quality energy, divorced from Natural sources, it is hard to appreciate, experience the wonder, and feel positive about this gift of life.   Don't let the little challenges of life detract from the beauty of it all, see the Big Picture.

A Win-Win for Everyone

What would our world be like if everyone behaved so there would be no winners or losers, a place where people acted for the benefit of everyone involved instead of solely in self-interest?  That would be a shift in personal consciousness bringing into focus a broader perspective on life.  Have you ever envisioned a world where no one tried to gain advantage over another, or a world in which a person's decisions take into account that of others who are involved, that they would benefit equally? Not just determining or believing from a single view that someone would benefit, but a mutual agreement that the exchange is of equal value for both parties.  If this decision is on a social level by a spokesperson for a group, that would mean that those forming the pact on behalf of others would put others before themselves.  The deterioration of our social contract to live peacefully together begins with the attempt to advance oneself ahead of others.