22 April 2009

Crossing the Event Horizon: Our Dialogue with the Cosmos




In a comment following Daniel Pinchbeck’s essay, The Big Takeover, (from the site Revolver.net) he brought my attention to Nassim Haramein, a Swiss self-trained, self-styled scientist and theorist:


Therefore, it seems possible that if a subset of humanity attains a higher level or grade of initiatory consciousness (as Nassim Haramein discusses in Crossing the Event Horizon, this would be a merging of feminine and masculine, mind and heart), a deeper unveiling of technology and energy may become available to us.


In this sense, what has happened up to this point is a kind of overlapping other or next dimension that is merging with ours perhaps, but is not quite in phase with us yet (Pinchbeck. Comment, March 27, 2009).


In Haramein’s two hour video presentation, Crossing the Event Horizon, one of the concepts he points out is how we can interact and influence our reality through participation –– that we are the resistors in a feedback loop within Reality, a sort of electronic resistor, our influence in our world and Reality limited only by our capacity to conduct, or pass through, energy and information as we encounter it.


We’re involved, to the degree we’re aware and able to participate, by the amount we’re able to feed back into The System –– directly related to the amount of information that can come into ourselves as resistors. The more we can open ourselves up to receive and be aware of, the more we can offer up an interactive dialogue with the Universe in all its dimensions. The Universe is an interactive constantly changing system.


Personal, spiritual, esoteric initiations of growth dissolve boundaries and increase or expand our awareness –– and thus that capacity to offer our feed back as influence in an ever changing and growing Universe.


In Richard Tarnas’ Cosmos and the Psyche he suggests:


If our intellectual self-awareness now requires a further evolution, perhaps the first step is to recognize that our engagement with the universe would be more deeply fruitful if it more resembled a genuine dialogue. When the cosmos is assumed to be fundamentally incapable of purposeful communication, of depth and complexity of meaning, then no communication at that level can possibly take place. Such communication is excluded at the very outset of the inquiry. Yet in any authentic relationship –– that is, in a relationship of true reciprocity –– the potential communication of meaning and purpose must be able to move in both directions, in this instance between self and world. For this to occur, a patiently developed sense of intellectual and imaginative empathy –– of receptive, respectful, trusting observation ad analysis, inward and outward –– is essential (Tarnas 484-485).


So if we can work toward openness and vulnerability . . . trust . . . in our participation in Life and our dialogue with not only others, but in our ongoing understanding and perceptions of our dialogue with our entire sense of Reality –– while we work on right motives –– we can be positive influences for change. Tarnas goes on to say:


Not only reason and empiricism but depth of self-honesty, inward receptivity, richness of imagination, openness to beauty, steadfastness of passion, faith, hope, spiritual aspiration all play a major role in constellating the reality we seek to know –– as do fear, prejudice, mistrust, stubbornness, egocentricity, greed, impatience, lack of imagination, absence of empathy (Tarnas 485).


And so as we participate in our interactions and dialoguing –– in the expansion of our capacity and influence –– let it be that we come from compassion, love, healing and growth in our union with The Great Experiment.


Thanks to alicepopkorn for creative image used under Creative Commons License.

25 March 2009

Shiny Objects from the Imaginal Realm of Sacred Mind

Article Published in Metaphysical Journey, December 2008

Follow the subtitle link above (Read Article) to an investigative article I wrote, published in Metaphysical Journey, December 2008, discussing visionary art and reality––the mission of art and artists, intention, inspiration, nonordinary states of consciousness and the imaginal realm, and the medium of visionary, or sacred art. Includes excerpts from Alex Grey, Christopher Bache, Ken Wilber, Daniel Pinchbeck, Jean Houston, Aldoux Huxley, Clifford Pickover and Rick Strassman. (PDF format)