Going Within (11 page)

So, since both scientists
and
mystics claim that harmony is the natural order of life, I try continually to remind myself that I have the right and indeed the Divine inheritance to reflect that harmony in myself. It’s not easy in a world full of suffering and anger and anguish, but I am learning that if I work on myself to attempt to achieve an internal reality of harmony, it alters my physical reality.

It is now possible to monitor and correlate how a change of consciousness affects physical reality. An individual capable of this is manipulating his or her physical reality by manipulating his own electromagnetic fields of energy. And he does that by consciously orchestrating his patterns of thought. The resulting manifestation of the thought patterns alters the physical reality. Thus, we begin to see how it is possible to create one’s own physical reality with the use of thought and higher conscious awareness.

Instrumentation now makes it possible to quantify these phenomena and therefore observe the biological and psychological effects. As a result of these observations, some members of the scientific community are now saying we need to factor in consciousness in our scientific studies. The behavior of that which is being observed is directly altered by the consciousness of the observer. There is no separateness. We each have an inextricable effect on everyone and every thing around and beyond us. Each
and every cell in our bodies is reacting to electromagnetic information from the universe at every moment.
We are all, everything is, connected.

This was a truly profound understanding for me, particularly in a sociopolitical sense. If our bodies, made up of vibratory patterns, resonate to the “information,” or the “field,” of the entire subatomic world, and each individual vibratory pattern moves toward harmony, then when we are in touch with that harmony we are more peaceful. Suddenly I could understand how spiritual awareness included relevance to politics and society as a whole. The more aware we made ourselves of our own electromagnetic fields, the more integrity of harmony we would have within ourselves and with the rest of the world in the harmonious universe. The more unaware we remained, the more randomly chaotic our lives would continue to be. Each one of us is different because we each have accumulated different libraries of stored information in our experience. But we can become more aware of our personal libraries with techniques of breathing, meditation, exercise, and visualization. In the solitude of these practices we not only become more in touch with our own accumulated information, but in doing so we can more easily exchange and share with others and their experiences, making it very much simpler to relate to and understand the differences in reality that we each perceive. Thus, we would more readily understand ways to achieve peace with those who perceived reality differently than we
do. Spiritual technology and Soul Physics were becoming politically and socially pragmatic to me.

Science now says that the DNA molecule is in effect an antenna and that each coding has its own electromagnetic wavelength. It is believed that the DNA code carries within it racial memories of the collective unconscious and that we create the physical dimension with DNA codes. If this is so, then I can understand why past-life recall is possible. Again, I realize how the Eastern systems of thought have gone within to find the source of our human truth, while the Western systems of thought have pursued the puzzle of origins through the sciences of technology.
Both systems are valid.

Science makes a set of hypotheses, makes its observations, then experiments to prove or disprove. When there is a large enough consensus on the result, it becomes scientific fact. The Eastern mind would say the scientist is creating what he is observing and therefore what he wants to believe anyway. The Western scientist has to concede that the electromagnetic patterns of his thoughts are a field of energy that directly affects what he is observing.

Each warrior of truth has a separate path. Scientists and mystics are inseparable, though, each motivated by the search for the creator of the grand design of which we are a part and to which each of us is a contributor. For simplicity’s sake, some of us call that grand design God.

When I change my consciousness to include my
self in that God-creator, I change my external reality. And I find that the more harmonious I am in my spiritual consciousness, the more I can be tolerant of others, peaceful with myself, and capable of allowing myself to feel the natural principles of integration and harmony with everything in creation. If I’m out of alignment with my spiritual nature, nothing much goes well for me and I am unhappy and frustrated to boot.

As soon as I understood the positive logic in accepting the God energy within myself, it didn’t seem so blasphemous to me, so outrageously ridiculous to others. My limiting education and narrow systems of thought had actually prevented me from understanding the deeper and more real possibility of harmony and peace. I don’t mean to say that now I feel peacefully harmonious all the time. Far from it. But whenever I really get out of balance I look for silence. Silence is necessary to perceive the truth of our God-selves inwardly. We could take the mystery out of mysticism
and
out of technology if we allowed ourselves to find the time and the silence necessary to access that eternal God energy within.

This is not what I would call a “cult of self,” nor is it selfish, self-indulgent, self-centered, or self-aggrandizing. It is what I call survival. It is evolution. It is basic pragmatic functionalism. It is necessary to growth, progress, and a more humane technology. It would help us clarify our intent and galvanize our purpose. It would more fully enrich our lives and
inspire our work. The more peaceful and happy we are individually, the better work we produce. The more angry, chaotic, and out of touch with ourselves, the more the work reflects that state of mind, that negativity.

And all of it comes down to the belief that we each contain and hold the God-spark within us. Our humanity toward one another directly reflects the humanity we feel for ourselves. And that humanity is directly related to self-love. If God is love and each of us possesses God within us, then all of us would be happier and more peaceful with one another, recognizing that the more we try to
express
as God, the more harmony there will be in the world.

That is the basic principle of the New Age. And science agrees that harmony is the natural order of the universe.

Begin with self; recognize the God within, and the result will be the recognition, with tolerance and love, that everyone else possesses God within as well. In other words, we are each part of God experiencing the adventure of life.

7

A Rainbow of Expression

What we are
What we experience
What we can be
Is the reflection cast
by the human rainbow.

I
n the course of my spiritual investigations I learned about a specific power of aligning with certain energies within, which has altered and improved my concept of internal harmony ever since. A consistent and ancient belief held by man down through the ages is that the physical body is but the reflection of a series of more subtle bodies of energy within, and that these subtle bodies of energy reflect the vibration of the God Source.
That
vibration is the vast energy at our disposal if we know how to access it.

The Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the North American Indian and African tribes, the Incas, the early Christians, the Hindus of India, the Buddhists of Asia, and today’s metaphysicists and mystics everywhere in the world share, to some degree, a common belief: that the body is only a physical manifestation of energies that together create an entity beyond that
which can be seen only with the naked eye, and that those levels of existence, those energies, that entity, reflect the nature of God and the universe.

The correlation between man and God has been the subject of the most profound of all wonderings. The ancient schools of study focused this correlation on esoteric systems of energy located in seven centers of the human body. These centers are called
chakras
, translated from the Hindi to mean “wheels of energy.”

Just as there are seven levels of consciousness, seven ages of man, seven colors in the rainbow color spectrum, and seven notes on the Western musical scale, there are seven primary chakras in the human body. We cannot see the soul or measure the aura of human energy; nor can we measure these centers. But we know they exist.

The chakras represent the subtle anatomy of human beings just as the physical organs represent the gross anatomy. The subtle and the gross are connected. There are seven endocrine glands, which correspond to the seven chakras. Therefore, our bodies (the vehicles through which we express ourselves) reflect the balance or the imbalance of subtle and gross anatomy. As I was learning I was continually reminded that when and if the spiritual is out of kilter, ignored, or misused, it will show up in the physical—
not
the other way around! The physical (gross) is a reflection of the spiritual (subtle).

Western systems of thought, dedicated to “rational”
provability, to the measurement of progress by the wonders of technological development, have lost recognition of the chakra wheels of energy. In fact, I don’t know if we were ever aware of them. But the ancient Oriental masters were adept at this spiritual technology. Happily, this knowledge and understanding are finding new recognition in the West. Here is a summary of what I learned in my travels through India, the Far East, and the Himalayas.

According to the masters, the soul creates the body in accordance with the laws of the earth plane, in order to provide a “house” for itself in this physical dimension. The physical body thus gives the soul the opportunity to be focused in time and space. The chakras govern this physical reality because the seven centers of consciousness are the areas through which the human personality experiences itself. The chakras, then, are both a communicative, and a controlling link, connecting the soul entity (the Higher Self), the personality, and the body that the soul has created through which to express itself.

Since this human personality is the medium through which we communicate with one another, recognition of the chakras and the various energies they hold and connect to is essential to an understanding of what human expression in the physical is all about.

It was helpful for me to think of my body as a musical instrument inside of which were seven notes, seven different rates of vibration, and a spectrum of seven colors. If I played only one note or focused on one color all the time, my instrument would be monotonous and boring. But learning to work with all of the notes, colors, and vibrations created a harmonious, kaleidoscopic work of art. I learned I could work with my musical instrument and play harmonious music for myself.

The seven chakras of energy are not in need of opening. They are always open, spinning, and in complete harmony. It is our minds that are closed and don’t recognize their harmonious importance and existence. Therefore, we don’t work to open the chakras, we work to open the mind to recognize the chakras. That is why the basic steps of meditation are so important.

Our personalities become a product of the recognition allowed by our minds of chakra “language,” or energy, and are rich or limited, open or closed, to the degree of that recognition. The more we work with the spiritual dimensions of our beings, the more we are conscious of the chakras, the more attuned and centered as human beings we become. When we attune the conscious mind to the spiritual energies of the chakras, the mind itself begins to expand with an awareness of its own higher consciousness. So it is through the chakras that we fully integrate mind, body, and spirit.

Our physical sciences look to biological and physiological patterns of data as the source of the human personality, but when we align our chakras we are integrating a memory of our soul’s experience, which allows our personality to manifest—make visible—the aspects that make it unique. The human personality then emerges as an expression of the soul: the body is merely the vehicle, or temple through which the soul incarnates and expresses itself.