There has been a pattern that I have been seeing in cosmologies that I study recently. I find it really fascinating. This is a thread that I want to share with all of you. FIrst, I'll have to gintoa little bit of a background. We will recover some of the information I've shared before but in a new way. I have always loved this song by Angels of Venice. "Awake inside a Dream." If all the Cosmos is the dream of the Creator this makes a lot of sense. I've covered what awakening might mean. I stumbled across this song in the late ninties- way before "Awakening" became a popular term although Buddhisim has taught the concept of awakening for thousands of years. I think it sets the tone and I will come back to this in the conclusion. This is going to go very deep very fast so hold onto your seat. I hope you can follow here I'm going because while it appears very simple in my mind it becomes complex when I attempt to write it out. So I'm going to lay out the various bread crumbs. As Above So Below, As Within So Without This is a very common saying. Yet, the more I delve into different systems of comsomology I see the reflection of it in many ways. Some say to know God you must first know yourself. This idea is that we are a reflection of the God. In another way of saying it, this is something John Van Auken says, we are all made up of stars. Physics and Scientists confirm this with the idea that everything that composes our bodies once emerged from star in a great explosion. Each of us, as Asaf Braverman states which also reflects this idea, is our own cosmos. God is the outer cosmos that we can perceive but we have an inner cosmos. I'm going to include a video from Beperiod.com and this will help you understand it (although you may wish to go through all of the short videos on Youtube as the video I will be discussing at the end of this blog will make a lot more sense that way). The God Reflection I've explained this before but I'm going to reiterate it...and this one was a big epiphany for me. I see this reflected in all spiritual teachings. There are three aspects of God. The unmanifested God (this is the part of God in which all of the Cosmos exist or the one we would call the sleeper- as the cosmos is it's dream). In Hindu he is called Brahman, the Dogon call him Amma, and in Egypt he was Atum. From the Unmanifest God came "The Word." In Egypt this was called Ra. The Christians concepts of this is "the Logos." This one was capable of perceiving itself. From him came the Seven who created "the millions." Scott Mandelker expresses this best as envisioning a three sided pyramid with a ray of light entering it and emerging as a rainbow (much like the Pink Floyd alblum cover). In Humans we find this exact same pattern. We have a three fold existence- Body, Mind and Spirit (or in the system we will look at today Body, Mind and Heart). We have seven energy centers or chakra's (wheels): Crown, Forehead (third eye), throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and root. Entanglement Remember when I explained Edgar Cacye's take on why we came into Earthly existence? If you don't, here is a very short version: the little sparks of spirit that we were came down into this world, saw animals and began to push themselves into matter. They became entangled with the experience of being in matter. According to this idea it is this entanglement with matter that keeps us here. When we are in the form of matter there is an illusion of separation from the Source. Now, the interesting thing is that in some of the talks that I've been listening to by Scott Mandelker mentions when talking about the Buddhist concept of Sotapana, or stream entry, is that naming activity is stopped when one reaches detachment. Here is a quote from a worksheet about Sotapana by a Buddhist monk named Thaniassro Bhikku: "The four levels of Awakening are defined by the extent to which they cut the ten fetters by which the mind binds itself to conditioned experience." You can look up this worksheet here: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/into_the_stream.html#fetters The fall, then, becomes a story of entanglement with the material reality and the resulting fear/belief that we are separate from Source. While this is impossible and is a false belief it never the less affects the way many view reality and how they perceive themselves. I would even go so far as saying that it was the ability of some souls to perceive themselves as separate from Source that was 'the Fall'. This is what lead to an entire group rebelling and experiencing this sense of disconnection. This Fall isn't a sin. Nor is it entirely bad because I believe it gives our souls a fantastic way to test ourselves in ways that souls that never experience that separation cannot. In fact, it may be an accelerated way to help the Source with it's own sense of self-perception of which each of us are an element. Self- Awareness Laird Scranton described this in one of his Facebook posts that I can't find but I'll do my best to describe it here. First, there were orderly energetic waves in a sort of mother womb (which is identified as the Goddess Neith in the Egyptian cosmology). Second, there was an act of perception that caused these waves to become chaotic. The waves were then reorganized resulting in our physical world. This can be seen as a story of the creation of matter. This is reflected in the bible in Genesis especially if we sub Earth for Cosmos taking into consideration that many interpreters and perhaps the first writers didn't perceive that anything beyond Earth existed 1:1-4: "The (cosmos) was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God Said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness." The Different Sources Now, we've established a basic thread that I can perceive in most of the worlds cosmologies. We have looked at the Macro level of this phenomenon. Now let's look at a curious aspect of this that I see in many of these cosmologies on just how that reorganization of those waves occurred. Genesis I think that we are all familiar with Genesis 1:5 "God called the light "day" and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-- the first day." Then there is Adam's turn to name in Genesis 2:19 "Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name." (There is a progression in that last line that might be a hiding in plain sight teaching. I will go deeper into this once I finish my research on the Egyptian Neters.) Egyptian Book of the Dead "Also in the Book of the Dead the 'self created' God is asked, "Who is this?" She answers, "It is Ra who created names for his members and these came into being in the forms of the gods who are in the following of Ra." (John Van Auken, Ancient Egyptian Mystiicism, 1999). (The Egyptian Book of the Dead definitely deserves a more detailed examination. The person who has passed on and that the rights are being performed for are all considered Horus. The Name Horus can be switched out for the name of the person that they are performing the rite for and can be male or female. The important part is the symbolism that Horus represents that I will go into more deeply later on). Hindu/Buddhism This is called Namarupa- Vyakarana. Here is what Wikipedia says in explaining this idea: "Refers to the process of evolution of differentiation into names and forms i.e. to the unfolding of the primal state into the manifest world prior to which unfolding there was nothing that existed. A Video I'm going to attach a video next and then we will examine different parts of it because it is really interesting. All of these different religious systems seem to represent a particular aspect of the the Divine as it came into being "naming it's parts." In this video we hear it occurring on a human level a tutorial about it that is the opposite of what we have seen int he examples above. We see Braverman use examples of it on the human level and use Separation and Naming to bring order to the chaos of the common human perception of existence. Should the video not appear below click here to watch it on YouTube" https://youtu.be/6RfNdKalf-A
Examination of the Video
Okay, so you watched the video. You might be confused. Don't worry. There is a lot of information packed into this video. I'm going to break it down and examine it. After reading my little examination you can re-watch it and feel free to let me know what you think. Now, first let me explain that Braverman identifies what he calls three minds, which we could also call "centers." These, he says are the Body, the Heart and the Mind. This is much different then what I expressed in a previous post and in the above section titled "Reflection of God." In the Ouspensky quotes the Mind is the "Intellectual Center," the heart is the "Emotional Center" and apparently the "Moving Center" is the body. As God has three aspects so do we and much as God is all three aspects, balancing each to form the Cosmos...We have the same system occurring within ourselves. This is one of the ways that we co-create with the divine. What is interesting is this statement, "The fall was into identification with the moment." This does jive with what John Van Auken says about the fall into the material world. We identify ourselves as the person in the moment, as the emotion that we feel, with the group label we feel best describes us. Yet, we are none of those things and that's one of the reasons our little divine light remains 'trapped' with this obsession with material existence. "Separating our mind from identification through naming." This is an interesting concept. Because if we can name something, as he states in a previous video, it is not us. This is an important step in realizing that we are not the material, we are not the mind, or the body, or the heart...but a divine spark. This is how we become in tune with that aspect of ourselves, the small clear voice that connects us back to the Source and with Unity. "Movements and forms are the language of the Moving Center (body). Ideas and Concepts are the language of the Intellectual Center (mind). Pictures and stories are the language of the Emotional Center (heart)." On an interesting side note a lot of people believe that the seat of the soul is the heart. Hence, why we are in Spirit we see symbols and stories in our dreams. This might be our natural state when we are outside of the body (hence in the spiritual realm, crossed over). "...organs of perception. Harassed to the aim of acquiring self-perception." Now again, this is interesting because as in Laird Scranton's take on the creation of matter there is the suggestion that it was the act of self-perception that disorganized the original waves of the deep. So, here we see the reflection of that story on the every day human level of existence. "Left unattended, however, they each produce random "I''s that lull us back to sleep." Again, here we have the concept of awakening and being asleep. This is explained in an earlier video. That video explains the different "I"'s that arise within each moment. The Hungry I, the I that answers a text message, etc. Each of these is not truly our divine core self...but what Braverman calls "Random "I"'s." The sleep he refers to is not being conscious of the underlying principals we are using to create our reality. "Thus our cosmos is constructed so that the three brains (heart mind and body) that cast it into chaos (when we are asleep) are the same three brains that can restore it back to order." Now, this is really interesting. Here we are finding how this chaos, caused by perception of self, are put into order again. Much like our creation story of matter that Laird Scranton has put together based on the Dogon cosmology. Again, as Within as Without. "Chaos is their natural state. Order comes only with Knowledge and Effort." So here too, we find that perhaps our divine spark or soul are a result of that chaotic stage in matter. Remember how the tree from which Eve ate the fruit was that of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Again, there is the perception of something that did not know chaos (Eve), taking the fruit and eating it (creating a state of chaos as there is a concept of self-perception of being separate from the creator) and through Knowledge and Effort creating an Internal Order. This, again, reflects that primal pattern. "Since we have more control over our Mind (intellectual center) we begin untangling ourselves from the state of identification using the mind." Alright, well here is a reflection of the Buddhist concepts of Fetters that keeps the Spirit infatuated and trapped in matter. Now, we know what both of these systems aim to do is remove this entanglement. They just employ different but similar methods of how to do it. "We achieve this through naming." By naming what we are not we can realize what we are...it's really that simple. We can also start feeling a detachment from what we have named because we no longer identify ourselves with that name. We no longer build our own personal concept of ourselves by identifying with that name. "My identity, normally rooted in the three brains, begins to withdraw. I begin to observe my cosmos as God observes his. My sense of "I" slowly moves to it's rightful place: to the Master....the journey to the Master begins with Separation and Naming." Now, as I said Buddhisim and Hinduisim and this method all are different ways to achieve this state. I used another method that I can't put into words or a particular set of steps to help me achieve this State of Observation. This is something I've only recently achieved in my own life and I sort of stumbled over it. Yet, sense discovering this State of Being I have found validations such as this one. Conclusion While it seems convoluted all the different spiritual practices and methods reach and reflect the same idea. The system can be as simple or complex as we choose. We are a reflection of the outer cosmos and possess our own inner cosmos. The process that we are undergoing is similar to that which God underwent to create the cosmos we can perceive. The reflection of this is in everywhere and in everything. These ideas are hardwired into the very universe that we inhabit because everything is a reflection of that one divine source. Now to connect all of this to the video that I shared at the start....Laird Scranton shared something interesting recently. He explained that the Dogon Houses and the houses he examined in Skara Brae Scotland reflect a Sleeping Goddess. This was before the inversion, where "God" became a singular male God. We know from the Egyptian cosmology that the 7 issued forth from the one that self perceived itself. However, they are called Netters because they all come from the Goddess Neith. The Goddess Neith is the void, she is the one that existed before this self perception within our cosmos. Hence, it is all occuring within the mind of a sleeping Goddess not a God (although, I don't believe that there are male/female perceptions in Spirit). Just a little thought. I hoped you enjoyed this little journey of the spiral. I look forward to sharing more with you in future posts. I will leave off with Godsmacks Awake which is a little bit more angry.
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